I managed to potter around and get the house respectable. Tidied, clothes away, dishes washed, light vacuum. Need to wipe down the bathroom but I will do that when I have a shower.
Took all day because of an accidental naptime - the sun was streaming in on the bed and I had no choice but to be a cat.
Also what a gorgeous day out there.
I hate that feeling of the blues when you have no reason to feel that way…
I used to blame my hormones …🤭
I’ve found that strangely, I tend to get that way on Sundays. Not Mondays, not Saturdays, only Sundays. I’m better these days, but a couple of years ago, almost every Sunday I’d feel like shit and really depressed. It didn’t matter what I was doing, even if it was something I really liked, I still felt sad all day
I think it’s Sundays for me as well. It feels like saying farewell to another week of my life. Bittersweet in a way.
I think it came about from my school anxiety. I only remember it being a thing not long before my school anxiety peaked
@Baku how did you get out of it?
I don’t really know. I did move into a better, more peaceful, and happier situation, but I still get it to a lesser extent
@Baku hopefully will find that peace one day
Due to some conspiratorial misdirection, you will not find “ice” tea in the tea section. Nor will you find “ice” coffee in the coffee section.
One would hop there was no ice in the supermarket at all
The customers bring it in.
i couldn’t find ice cream in the cream section
Did you check for ice magic in the magic section?
Where’s cream section? Hidden away like aisle 43 at Bunnings?
@Seagoon_ Wanted to head out today, but ended up staying in.
Still have a blocked nose and want to rest up.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Let’s eat Grandma!
You have a cavalier attitude to expiry dates I see
sniff test
Only if she’s rich and builds a very expensive house.
🐺
May I please have a raspberry smoothie and a SpaceFood stick
🎈🥤🧈
Well I shan’t be needing lip balm for the rest of the day
Rice with fried egg and sardines please
🍚🍳🐟
People who do this shit should get eaten https://www.domain.com.au/news/200m-project-australias-most-expensive-ever-residential-build-chittering-western-australia-1281253/
Australia has such a terrible gambling problem.
It’s shameful it’s been allowed to happen.
If we wish to save the planet “eat the rich” is definitely the right dietary choice.
That was a fun read, some of the players commitment to getting their tag target was legendary!
Walked to Moon for some cruller treats and stopped at Eddy gardens for some dog watching on the way home. Surely this makes up for rotting in bed all day yesterday?
Yesterday was Lucha Fantastica day and we absolutely loved it! It was at Collingwood town hall and we got there early, so first we went around the corner to Raphs for a coffee and snack, a nice tiny cafe that Mr P said did a great moussaka.
The kids could get right up close to the wrestling ring and my eldest (the keen wrestling fan of the family) was particularly enthralled. He was very interested in inspecting the setup of the ring and how it was put together. I never thought I’d spend a Saturday enthusiastically cheering a wrestling man dressed as a giant taco but there I was. Captain Chipotle chugged Valentina chilli sauce from the bottle. Chico was a crowd favourite, throwing lollies into the crowd throughout the show. I hear during the later adults show it’s tequila getting poured into the crowd ringside. One dude was wrestling dressed as an alien 😂 Mr P was happy there was Mexican beer and a margarita which was surprisingly strong, it really slapped. It was the kind of light hearted entertainment I’d been missing. At the end they had a couple of pinatas for the kids to have a crack at (some of those kids were swinging for Australia lol). An all round excellent day.
That sounds like so much fun actually
Eerrrrggghhhh. Late to the party this morning. We had some excitement opposite me in our street last night - 3 am firetrucks and cop cars. Cops carefully saying nothing, but the firetrucks were all hooked up to the water supply, and lots of firies everywhere in gas masks. The houses opposite and me and my next door neighbours all got woken up and asked to leave for a safe space up the street. Presumably a gas problem/leak of some sort I reckon as no smell of fire. After an hour or so they let us back home and the trucks packed up and left. PSA: Oodies and ugg boots are fantastic for evacs of this sort - pocket holds all sorts of things and very very warm. They did offer us blankets but I didn’t need one with the oodie.
Ugh! As somebody who doesn’t typically clothes at night this would be very extra. Upset cats stuffed in boxen and no pants. 😝
I’ve always been worried that the one night I tried to sleep without clothes, my house would catch on fire. Or I’d get up at 2am for a dunny run really tired and forget I’m not wearing any clothes
Watched the other two Wong Kar-Wai films in the supposed trilogy. I think because I watched them back to back they feel closer together than In The Mood For Love.
I haven’t watched this much film for ages. Something about it hits different than my bouts of voracious consumption aka binge watching. I had to pay attention.
The Steven McCurry Icons at Seaworks is definitely worth a visit. If you go in the evening make sure you’re rugged up. It’s a giant shed so it gets bloody cold.
I am over the worst of the cold but pretty fatigued and have a lovely hacking cough… I am getting really depressed about the state of my home though - haven’t had the energy to tidy/clean/cook much or generally adult all week.
So give me your best tips for focusing and moving and cleaning when you don’t feel like it!
(and I will rest but the mental health impact of the clutter is bigger than the physical illness plus I think moving will help clear the snots)
Pick the thing that’s making it feel the most messy, eg kitchen. Then do the dishes and wipe the benches and make it tidy. If you have no more energy for anything else doesn’t matter, the worst is done and the place will feel enormously better.
Close your eyes, click your heels, and say ‘I wish the goblins would take you away’
Will that make David Bowie turn up too? I could live with that
That’s a separate incantation involving red shoes and dancing the blues
Those pants and a set of washing up gloves would be quite the outfit
My 🧠!! Under pressure, Queen vacuuming, David in rubber gloves, a high power water washer…
that’s probably my fave Queen video. I want to break free
Now add the scarlet YSL codpiece from Word Up
As per PeelerSheila - sort the problem. My prioritised list would be - kitchen (including washing up and countertops but not floors), bathroom, bedroom then living room. In short, do small bits with big impact, then work down through the list. The floors can wait, the washing up can’t due to microbiology. A big area like the living room - find a dump zone (eg tabletop/sofa), then put all clutter there. Then straighten up the furniture (and floor if you have the energy) then depopulate the dump zone item by item into its proper place. There’s a hundred ways to do this - it’s finding one that’s doable for you right now.
First I would have something to eat. Next pick up any rubbish and dispose of that. Then dishes. Then I would tidy the lounge room because that’s where I spend my time when I’m sick. I just do a bit at a time.
My washing machine runs for about an hour. I pop on a load and then use it as a timer: I’ll clean until the washing’s done. Might not work as well for a slow front loader!
Some upbeat music or an interesting podcast helps too.
I use this tactic too. Doesn’t matter how shit I feel, if I have something else running in the background (washing machine, dishwasher, even the rice cooking) my brain will be more likely to get stuff done in between. Music also helps.
I think the inertia for me comes from this sinking feeling that the work is unending. having an inbuilt timer in the form of the background machine activity, and the music, helps me trick my brain.
When I’m super super sick, it pays to differentiate between “untidy” and “dirty”. Deal with “dirty” first, and take frequent rests. “Untidy” can be done any time after that.
I’ve accidentally learned to play piano.
So, I use a keyboard to play melodies on my PC to make songs. Usually playing one finger on each hand, like how some people type lol
Tonight I wasn’t really thinking, just noodling away and realised I can play with all fingers on both hands!
Still awkward, but it blew me away.
That’s a very dirty look!!’ My cat is terrified of my piano. Feel guilty when I start to play and she runs out of the room
Hey, I’m one of those people that only types with one finger on each hand :(
So is my GP. It concerns me
My GP is a fucking machine when it comes to typing. He has to type at like 200WPM
I blame phones though. I learnt to type on a phone, and it’s a bit awkward to use more than 2 thumbs typing on a phone (at least with the size of them these days), so I think I just sort of applied that logic to computer keyboards but with my pointers instead of thumbs
I am now at a point where I have lived more of my life in the 21st century than the 20th.
I knew it had to be close to that point and was thinking I should have a “half life” party to celebrate the occassion, but apparently it was nearly 2 months ago so I missed it.
Am never going to make it until I get a telegram from the king.
Which King though? Sausage fingers seems unlikely to last.
With boyos in the next generation and the one after that, bound to be one or other of them. I’m not fussed as to which.
If we are lucky we will be a republic. 🤞
I hit that achievement approximately a second after I was born. You’ll get used to it /s
You just need to find the secret of eternal youth and then you can celebrate yours some time in 2101! or hang on, is that 2201? math hard.
Oh crap what a great idea. Except I’ve missed mine too (about 18months ago apparently). That’s wild.
Three years to go!
Are you counting from January 2000 or 2001? I remember there being debate at the time over when the century starts. Either way, I have a bit to go.
TIL there’s a mini metro/motorways knockoff called mini airways. It looks quite fun, if you’re one of those weird people (like me) that enjoy games that raise your BPM by about 300
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2289650/Mini_Airways/
Playthrough: https://youtu.be/DnT2SvFaVlY