said hi to orion
saw a bat flying towards dawn
😴😴😴🥱😫
Last night I dreamt that I crashed my ex’s dad’s football games, running laps around a track there and bumping into some people from primary school who I did not gel with very well.
Brain weird. But at least time it wasn’t a nightmare.
“Bring me the toes of a parking inspector”
Things to do today.
- New glasses
- NDIS admin
- back pay rent (there’s a recent screw up I need to fix)
- gym
My day
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Dr appointment for blood test results
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Prepare some documents for approvals at work (kind of a lengthy process)
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Performance review/update for one co-worker
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Submit 3 job applications. Saw some interesting roles, so why not
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Stretching
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Evening walk
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Things to do today
- Start on my assignment
- Find some urgent cleaning that I’ve been ignoring for months but definitely needs to be done now
- Get back to my assignment
- Extra long dog walk. It helps me think and is not at all an attempt to avoid writing my assignment. Really. Honest!
- Get back to assignment. Reinforce with extra coffee
- 73 additional toilet breaks caused by additional coffee
- Make dinner. Plus desert. Sugar is good for the brain, right?
- Get back to assignment. More coffee. Doesn’t need to be submitted until midnight and I can stay up late.
- Half arse finishing the assignment. Contemplate whether 5% late penalty will be offset sufficiently by benefits of another day to edit.
- Submit assignment
- Sleep
My day today.
- Try and wake up from trying to fix my internal flock
- Survive the day at work covering for someone who went home sick
- Visit to the chemist
- Supermarket
You have an internal flock? Is that the sheep we are supposed to be counting to get to sleep? I don’t have one of those, I thought people were talking about imaginary sheep. My insomnia is now explained.
Oops! Meant to be clock but I suppose flock is pretty accurate as well.
Got to get the herd under control.
On other note I’ve been making so many typos lately, it’s been horrible.
I love a good typo.
I work in a job where we are all working simultaneously on a shared computer system, which has no ability to edit once you hit enter. So we see lots of typos, which are an endless source of entertainment.
Few days off so:
- head down the bellarine
- Weed / dig over chilli patch
- Find seaweed at the beach
- Swim
- Add seaweed to chilli patch
- Plant chillies out
Noice!
- Get Seagoon_ back online
- Work
- Call Christmas Holiday booking place
“Don’t send that document until I’ve reviewed it” followed a day later by “Why haven’t you sent that document?” “… because you told me not to.” “No, I was talking about something else!” “You might have mentioned that when I emailed you asking for the review.”
This place fucking sets me up to fail.
It sounds like they have too much on their plates to know what the heck they’re doing.
Oh, for sure. Way too much on the plate. And tried to shift some of it and they just ended up with more.
I got a “I didnt know I was set up in X system today, can you please send the link?” I just replied to the original message in the SAME THREAD just a few days earlier and @'ed their name. stuff sending it again.
lamb shanks were mid. Veggies were nice but the mirepoix based sauce was TERRIBLE. And the lamb was dry so must’ve been too small for the time I cooked it… Ah well. trying my slow cooker mushroom beef thing that you were all sketch on last time. Will see how we go.
Also brought kiddo a decent sized ball, huge hit. He loves it. Forcing him to walk more too so that can only be a good thing. He can absolutely walk, he just decides it aint worth it a lot.
Let’s unpack this. Did you put water or stock in there with the shanks? Did you fry the veg first? Did you fry the shanks off?
Ps. I was not sketchy. I was the one saying go for it.
Followed this almost to the letter. https://www.recipetineats.com/slow-cooked-lamb-shanks-in-red-wine-sauce/ But in order of questions asked Stock, Yes and yes. And I know you werent. Everyone else was.
Oh dear. I don’t know what went wrong but in my experience of slowing cooking I have learnt not to over complicate the the liquid because you can always adjust that at the end to balance out flavours.
She says not to use an expensive wine. That’s wrong because chefs/cooks will tell you to use a wine that you enjoy drinking. Using the wrong wine can leave it tasting like vinegar.
I don’t know why the lamb would be dry if you used a slow cooker but if you used the oven then yeah that can happen.
Forcing him to walk more
See it as training for when you chuck him on the lawn mower in a few years and you’re kicking back with a beer in hand saying 'you missed a bit buddy".
ahhh fuck just busted my lovely massive 3l canteen . Trying to find a replacement is a fucking nightmare, has the world just abandoned water storage??
The beast in question. Try and find one. I dare you.
All goals listed earlier have been accomplished.
What do now?
I’ve still got a few things left on mine. Maybe you could do a couple of them?
- Start on my assignment ✅️
- Find some urgent cleaning that I’ve been ignoring for months but definitely needs to be done now✅️ (well, I did some washing I didn’t really need to do)
- Get back to my assignment✅️
- Extra long dog walk. It helps me think and is not at all an attempt to avoid writing my assignment. Really. Honest!✅️
- Get back to assignment. Reinforce with extra coffee✅️
- 73 additional toilet breaks caused by additional coffee
- Make dinner. Plus desert. Sugar is good for the brain, right?
- Get back to assignment. More coffee. Doesn’t need to be submitted until midnight and I can stay up late.
- Half arse finishing the assignment. Contemplate whether 5% late penalty will be offset sufficiently by benefits of another day to edit.
- Submit assignment
- Sleep
You got this, keep going.
I have managed to complete a first draft which is good. Now I need to shove in a few references and cut out about 300 words. Which considering it is an 800 word assignement might be a bit of a challenge.
Cheeky work day wank?
Best done at home though. Bit gross in the office.
It was considered but family is home now and I need to be stealthy
Cake
Was advised by GP to reduce sugar and carb intake…so perhaps not
World Domination
Takes effort, not a huge fan of that.
no pain no gain
The little stuff that’s been accumulating until ‘when I have more time’. Your underlings will hate your guts but that is what they are for. Their hatred is your validation.
I’m cleaning up the ‘rats and mice’ of my tasks. Whatever takes more than 10 minutes goes into a list for tomorrow morning. I’m ahead work wise so this is the perfect time to just clear our the shit.
This is the way.
Watch the peregrines on YouTube.
Kind of boring…
new distiller came todaaaay! It’s actually FOR water, not ahem like my other one, so a 10 hour job for 4l is now 3. Plus its sexy red. Yes I am stupid adult excited about appliances, deal with it
Been trying to track down info about this because it really rather threw me - in the Northcote area yesterday, there was a whole bunch of laminated signs on posts up and down All Nations. I glanced at one and it looked like antivaxx propaganda, but no one else online has mentioned it. Anyone know what that was?
During covid there was a bunch of anti-vaxxers active in that area - including a lot of hairdressers for whatever reason. Might be that mob has gotten active again. Don’t know though.
Some days I have a pep in my step, today there is no pep. Feel like I’m just dragging myself around to do the things I need to do and no motivation for work.
This mood calls for happy songs playlist and a nice walk in the sun.
I’ll do tomorrow’s thread now.
Ok no worries. I got distracted and was a little late at getting to it.
No problems. Just had an internet outage too, so wasn’t sure if this thread was created properly. Seems to be OK now though.
It’s crazy how nice it is today. And tomorrow will be 31c!!!
Fuck yeah!
Gym ✅
Pulled muscle in my back five minutes before gym 🚫
Survived workout anyway. Medicinal honeycomb Nippy’s acquired 🙃
