Chicken is quite an affordable lean meat but could you occasionally mix it up? A steak with low cal mustard sauce or something, or salmon if it doesn’t stink up a small flat. Salad with vinaigrette on the side. Just so it isn’t identical meals forever
What would you do? A partner’s sibling having a wedding an another State assigns you cake duty. This means buying a weddin-ish cake, getting it to an airport, lap flying it for about 2hr, a 2hr train ride, and something more to venue.
Bugger the weddingish cake. Ask them straight out if there’s a colesworth handy where you can buy a packet of lamingtons before getting to the venue. You won’t have a kitchen, the transport will be extremely anxiety inducing, and you’ve got no idea what facilities are available at destination for assembly/decoration. Not to mention the microbiology aspect of transporting food over such distances. In quantities appropriate for a wedding. This is a bloody thoughtless requirement loaded onto you. Lamingtons, packet lamingtons, is all they deserve.
That seems like an inefficient way to go about it, and inviting disaster. One knock could smear or crush it, if it doesn’t fall victim to turbulence or get dropped. Also after all that the freshness might be questionable.
Why not have a caterer or bakery in the same state deliver it?? Or at least them buying something there. They should choose and organise their own wedding cake so they know they like it.
Unaddressed mail is wild. I just opened a letter addresses to our address but with no name, not even a return name (although strangely, a return address). It’s in cursive and I can’t read cursive but I’m pretty sure it’s some sort of conspiracy theory. All I can decipher is something about new governments and children of God. They also addressed this letter as “dear neighbour” even though the return address is 9 suburbs away
Even stranger - it’s a proper letter, like with stamps and an envelope and all the works. But the letter is a page ripped out of a ruled notebook
Edit: I searched the address and it seems to be some sort of weird gated Jehovah witness community thing. Absolutely wild
Unfortunately I did tear it, so I’m gonna save it til halloween then write some incomprehensible scribbles on it in red ink and stick it to the housemates door 😂
Dishwasher leak identification step 1 has been completed. I have a puddle of water on the floor after every wash and I was concerned it was coming from a leaking hose connection behind the dishwasher, so I pulled it out to check. No sign of any water there, so it appears to be coming from the door. There is a hole where a screw is supposed to attach to the cupboard which was not used so I’ve put some tape over it just in case water is getting out there. There is no sign of any wear or damage to any of the door seals so I’m not sure what the next step is.
CBM advertisement. I am totally not admitting to just buying several kilograms of milo. They also currently have cheap period knickers if you are a size 12, and a metric butttonne of truffle stuff.
I wore out my old gown. 😞 Was a real good peter alexander one too. Bought a new gown yesterday and I felt guilty, like I betrayed the old one. It’s cute tho, it’s thick velour and has dalmations
Rest is a kind of work , even tho we aren’t moving our limbs doesn’t mean we aren’t working. Rest is letting your immune system focus on fighting bugs and rest lets your body repair itself.]
I cried with frustration at having to lay in bed 23.5 hours a day for 8 weeks, but it was the only way my vertebrate would mend, only way my spine and nerves would reduce swelling. Rest. Let the body repair.
Today on audible I am listening to* Stolen Focus by Johann Hari * read by Johann Hari.
irl I listen to, watch or read the video/movie/documentary or book 3 times if I want it to stick.
In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.
the main one is trust your gut, you know when you are doing something you shouldn’t and you know what to do
of course , that doesn’t make it easy
I know I’m really weak, that’s why I have close to zero apps on my phone, I don’t use phone banking nor do I use any email. No shopping apps, no myki, no reddit and i’m not on any other social media, I don’t look at news, nothin’ . If I go out away from my lap top I’m away from all the computer stuff. I’m using my phone even less now that I got myself a lovely new watch.
My focus is still not great but that’s a ptsd thing and a loss of practice thing.
I’m pretty confident we’ve hit the point where Tinyest is trying to talk to us not just saying words because he can. You can see him actively trying to communicate. We got “Ta” very clearly last night for the first time so we’re up to 3 clear words.
Its a real shock when they go from “baby” to “toddler” in your brain.
I went to a poor school that didn’t have electric beaters so we were taught to dampen a tea towel, twist it, make it into a circle, then secure the bowl on top and beat away.
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