So I have a choice to make about this friday that I need to make today to ask for leave.
Friday’s are usually a light work day 9 out 10 times.
Should I take it off this week or stick it out and just spend the day at work?
If you really need a break, take the day off. If you have shit to do, take the day off. If you haven’t had a day off for a while, take the day off.
Otherwise go in and plan your next day off.
I reckon you need the day off.
New earbuds are great!
Still suss that they’re Bluetooth, but seems fine so far, plus I can charge my phone AND listen to music at the same time
#I’m bi-winning
Win here, win there, win win everywhereHE GOT THE JOB! MY PARTNER GOT THE JOB!
FUCK YESSSSSSSSS AHHHHHHHHHHHH
YESSSSSSSSS
Woohoo!!🎉🎉
Yayyy! Congrats!
Woot and assorted other silly noises!
Congrats to them! 🎉
Seagoon has moved house. UMG has become a grandparent. I’m cooking chicken. Wins all around today! 🎉
Yay!!🥳
Congrats!!!
yay
that is awesome
Congrats!!!
Dumbest thing I’ve done in a bit today.
I went to grab a snack from the lunchroom and ended up with a little biscuit and tried to eat it.
The texture strange and didn’t break up like I thought so I chucked it in the bin.
Couple of hours later I look again at the box of snacks and see in light pen on the lid “Not Edible”.
It now dawns on me that I tried to eat a biscuit made out of plasticine.
I was tired this morning :(
Maybe the real dummy is the one storing plasticine biscuits in the lunchroom though? Just why??
I don’t want to go to bed but I’m tired. Maybe a nanna nap will work.
My mum and I were going to get something from the local chicken shop for dinner, but then I saw I had a $20 off Uber Eats for first time use. So we got a whole charcoal chicken for $5. A steal.
And it arrived warm and unmolested?
There are better fleshlights on the market
Not for $5 there isn’t.
Again with the conking out and waking for meds time then napping some more 🥱
Did a first aid course today. It was way more interesting then I expected (I am scarred by some terrible OH&S seminars). Also a bit confronting. And there’s an app you can sign up to and opt-in to be notified if someone nearby is having a cardiac arrest. So you can hightail it there and help while the ambulance comes. On the one hand I’d love to do that but it also terrifies me
What’s the app? I saw one years ago but it never took off. Good concept, poor adoption.
GoodSAM. I’ve not looked into it beyond being told about it today (Red Cross)
edit: looks like you sign up through the ambos and then use the app.
I hadn’t realised they had widened the criteria to anyone with first aid qualifications, when they started it they just had off duty paramedics and similar using it. It’s a good idea, but it would definitely be confronting if it happened.
I’ve been in a few confronting first aid situations, I keep my head.
Looks like its a UK app, it’s all about the NHS and UK quals.
i hate doing life saving first aid, I get real shook up after
once gave a 4 year old at a kids party a strong whack on the back as he was choking on a big gummy snake, he had blocked his windpipe. He was white, making no noise, making coughing movements, flailing a little. I jumped over chairs and tables to get to him when I saw what was happening. Other mothers at the party looked at me like i was an idiot.
one time getting aid for a stabbing victim lying on the street, other times was just helping with car accident type things
Mine were all overdoses. Mostly heroin or G i reckon.
oh no, that’s awful 😞
I was working at this joint and I had to study for my first aid renewal. The Minister came in with his grand kids to have a chat. This little boy about 4, grabbed the handle of the iron and went to pull it off the ironing board towards himself. Fuck me. I took the biggest step and managed to grab it in time. When they left someone said “You nearly had to use your first aid then. That was a real life scenario”.
Overthebackfence has some entertaining lemon printed knickers
Over my back fence there’s cats fighting/rooting.
Morning
Good morning from my other instance backup account.
dumblederp? Who is dumblederp?
Joey Jo Jo come back.
Correct
Favourite dog treat recipes please. Biscuit type.
I can’t cook an upvote. Doggo needs biscuits since his human declines other recompense.
500g lean mince (lamb or chicken works well-beef/pork can be a bit too fatty and go rancid), 300g rolled oats or oatmeal, 1 375g jar peanut butter, 1 tablespoon salt and 1 tablespoon kelp powder (optional). Mix well, and chill in the fridge for 1 hour. Dough will become quite squishy then firm up as it chills. If its too squishy after chilling, mix in more oats. Form into thumblike logs or roll out to 1/2 cm thick and cut bikkie shapes of your choice. Gingerbread men work well, but any shape that’s not too pointy will do. I used to make deep indents to make it easier to break into pieces. Bake at about 150 degrees C on a parchment lined tray for about 1 hour until thoroughly dried out and crunchy. Might take longer depending on how mushy the mince is, and logs take a bit longer. Logs should snap when bent not go bendy. Store in an airtight tin out of the fridge for up to 2 weeks if kept dry and cool. This mixture makes a couple of dozen bikkies or a dozen or so logs. Can be re-baked in a low oven if they go limp with storage.
Yay! I have a bone shape cutter already.
Forgot to mention - the absolute best mince is kangaroo. Way back when this was super cheap but now is costly as venison (which also works well but I’m not wasting venison on the dog). Also you may get a crispy frill of melted peanut butter around each bikkie when baking - just snap this off and give to the dog as a special treat. There’s nothing in this recipie that’s harmful to humans so if the kids get into them that’s no cause for worry.
I am a grandparent to a Bluetooth baby now.
Uncanny valley.
Eeeeeeee! Yuck spoiler that nastiness please 😝
aldis got a camping sale coming up. If any of you were thinking “man, I’d love to try camping but dont have the gear” this is a pretty good entry point. Kmart is even cheaper (but you get what you pay for there).
ooh thank you! I need to build up my own gear now I’m not with my ex (who was a long time camper and generally stocked up)
Three days into a hardcore diet change and while I know it’s what I needed to do to break some bad habits… ouchhhhh… just a hurdle to get over though!
your still setting the routine. It gets easier when you start to feel better from it and the habit sets in.
Talk to me about these changes. Sometimes it doesn’t need to be hard core.
Boyo and I have decided that this time, yeah, it does need to be hardcore. We keep finding excuses to be lax and dance around the issues, so going all in together to be better supports.
It is so good to have an encouraging partner. My husband is my underpaid PT. But unless one of you has done this before with success, hardcore may not be the way to go.
I wish you all the best and I can’t wait to hear your wins. ❤️
We’ve both done is separately before with great success - and both “fell off the wagon” due to completely reasonable circumstances, so I have a good feeling about this!
Underpaid PT, I love it. I’m sure he’s paid in love and karaoke! Thanks for your support, CEO!
That’s the spirit! I love this energy! Go get 'em girl!
He gets paid in lunches and dinners and yes my enthusiastic Friday night singing.
Steven Wilson released a new album recently and I’m digging it. His last few albums had more of an attempted pop spin on them whereas this one is two songs that go for around 20 minutes each. I don’t think we’ll get another Hand. Cannot. Erase. but it’s good to see a turn in that direction again.
Yeah, I’ve only listened to the new album twice, but it already leapfrogs the last 2 or 3
I can appreciate To The Bone more now knowing he bought a Telecaster and pretty much wrote the album with it, but I love the sweeping prog albums he did earlier and with Porcupine Tree
