Hobart is 4 degrees warmer than we are. hrmm.
That should be a federal crime
Cat and general rambles
Antibiotics finishing soon… relieved. With the normal routine of mixing meds into wet food morning and night, adding 2x daily antibiotics could have been easy.
Unfortunately bumping the pain meds to 3x daily for the uti spaced the doses out awkwardly and Melbcat stopped accepting medicated food, so I’ve been having to catch and wrestle her 5 times a day.
I have an appointment tomorrow so will be too tired then, but I plan to declutter and sort the bathroom next. The shower stool was a good idea in theory but is actually more of a space hog and a trip hazard.
The shower stool was a good idea in theory but is actually more of a space hog and a trip hazard.
put the stool in the bath and have one of those small shower heads on a hose , it’s what I used to do when my leg was plastered up
and hugs for you and Melbcat, hope she gets better real soon
I don’t actually have a bath. I did try using it but feel safer/more stable on the shower floor and find the stool a bit of an obstacle.
I hope so too. She’s getting heaps of cuddles and the vet has sent her info over to the specialists for if she needs more help
Woke up in sweat from a bad dream. Now the wind is keeping awake. I think the bad dream is a manifestation of some catastrophising I’ve been been doing lately over an issue.
Same. I wonder if the wind itself is adding stress.
My dreams and sleep have been bad lately too.
I woke up crying.
Aww man 🫂
I used to have lots of bad dreams which were realistic and traumatic. I’m the sort of person that regularly uses reverse psychology on myself, or turns things on their head. So one day I thought, “you know what these are Sheila? FREE MOVIES!” and decided I was going to enjoy the free entertainment provided by my apparently fertile imagination. Promptly stopped having dreams.
Hugs and, uhh, chamomile tea
I had a bad nightmare that ended up like that yesterday. Didn’t need to be up until 9-10ish, and ended up sleeping at 1:30-2, but woke up at 7. I tried to get back to sleep and ended up with a pretty disturbing nightmare, and more sweat then I thought I could produce
I wonder if constant strange weather is going to effect each of our psyche’s and well as national mood.
it’s known hot weather and windy weather effects us, what if strange weather was a constant
I think it definitely will. If nothing else, wetter, windier days (and longer periods of them) lead to more accidents, disasters, and general chaos. And hotter and hotter days lead to a bigger strain on the power grid, and tougher conditions for the vulnerable and people who can’t afford to run air conditioning. Although, at least recently, that seems like it’s been happening more in the northern hemisphere and we’ve been mostly copping the colder and wilder weather
With the weather getting crazier, I wonder if the gen alphas might find it easier to adapt to, having been born into a pandemic and worsening climate change. I wonder if everyone else, millennials and prior especially, will find it trickier to adapt to, having grown up in more consistent weather.
All in all though, I think the cost of living crisis and the lack of housing affordability is going to be the biggest and most immediate burden on everyone’s mental health and wellbeing in the future, rather than crazy weather and climate change
BOOM
Blergh. Damn wind.
I’m really sorry if my mood lately is affecting anyone else. I used to tough things out, macgyver my way around problems or distract myself with projects but life has been really difficult for a long time now and I am struggling severely.
If I seem really fractious, getting upset at what seems like small things, or oddly rough/blunt in my manner it is not at you.
Melba, please stop it. You’ve got so many horrible things happening at the moment, and as you said yourself the other day, can’t seem to catch a break. Nobody expects you to be all happy and upbeat
And I haven’t noticed you being short, rude, or disrespectful to myself or anyone else. So keep venting as you need, and when things improve, you can shout us brekky at Bacon’s food truck :)
It’s okay Melba, I havent noticed you being blunt or anything :) besides, being fractious is understandable with having to deal with your health and melbcat’s, and the stress of it all.
We love you, I don’t think you could do anything to turn us against you :D
^^ this. I have never thought you were whiny or otherwise antisocial. Please vent away. You are going through shit and we are here for you. I like to hear your updates, and I feel good when you have little wins.
-big hugs-
Thunderbolts & lightning, very very frightening.
The cat is hiding, the clouds are out, my plan to go get brekkie supplies is cancelled
I’ve just got distant ominous rumbling here, it looks on the radar like the storm is passing to the south of me.
I had been hoping to attack the laundry backlog.
The Void has discovered that he is actually athletic enough to get to the top of the fridge. The house parkour range has been noisily expanded.
Come over for a parkour play date.
I really want to do one of those whole room cat runs at picture rail level, with the steps and stuff.
Nice little weekend project for you
After the whole buy a house part…
Oh Lordy!!
Fell back asleep after waking up early for the first time in a long time. Thankfully I’ll only be like five or ten minutes late to work, coulda been a disaster
Exactly why I have 3 alarms set on two phones each, all of them snooze enabled and spread out across a 40 minute period prior to the final deadline for waking up.
New car day, yay!
Aww yiss! What is this new car?
Scored an i30n, very fun zoomy car!
Oooh, they have those cars at most child protection or NGO offices! They are indeed very zoomy
It was funny doing the drive up to eildon with a crazy worker in the little zipbox. Also did the great Ocean road in a Kia carnival which was funny, but it’s not as fun when it takes like 10 seconds to go past 40!
My brother has one and they are a lot of fun. Set everything to comfort and the exhaust to Sport Mode and you can sound like a feral beast just driving around normally
Ooooh, good tip, thank you!
The powder blue colour?!
Nah, it’s white (for now).
206 killer wasps?? Zoomy INDEED!! Enjoy!
Sah excited for the zips!
Off for a drive in the country today. Fingers crossed I can still get petrol at under 190c this afternoon when I need to fill up. I do have a lock on 180c at 7/11, so if it has a massive jump I can at least get the 25c discount. These 40c+ jumps suck.
Use petrolspy!
Got it for $1.59 last Friday in Truganina. Well, not me, but a support worker I was with. She had a 4 cents off at Ampol so decided to go to that one which was at $1.59, rather than the one down the road at $1.58, since the discount thingy should bring it down to $1.55. But then they told her they didn’t accept them at this store! Ridiculous
/Rant
I’ve seen under 170c per litre around lately, I’d be re-locking. Just used my app, found 164.9/l. When I was in NZ petrol was almost $3/l! We have it good.
Is the average teenage population really have a lack of respect?
Appointment booked for 7.30pm last night. Quick c++ basics lesson and homework help as a favour for my wife’s classmate’s kid. I never used c++ by trade so I spent some time getting familiar with it, and how to play Farkle.
7.30pm comes and the 17yo just bails and says they’re having dinner, no apology. Wife and I were like, fuck it, dumped the appointment and went to sleep at 8pm.
Sent another message this morning reminding them to be there or cancel 4hr before, some notes and a reminder that they don’t have enough time now, and don’t chicken out. Straight up says they promise, no greetings.
You won’t have manners if they are not taught to you.
I was traumatised to the point of enforcing them lol.
“The beatings will continue until
moralemanners improve”
Lack of consequences is also part of it.
If they got charged for not cancelling in time they’ll learn real fast.
Sent another message this morning reminding them to be there or cancel 4hr before, some notes and a reminder that they don’t have enough time now, and don’t chicken out. Straight up says they promise, no greetings.
Nope. Message 'em back and say “Sorry no longer able to assist you”. If they ask why just be blunt “Mate, you were disrespectful as heck, I was helping you as a favor, if your gonna be rude then I dont have to do shit”
This is the way.
As the owner of a teenager, I second this
They did go through a few years of covid that probably fucked them up in ways like this. You could let them know their tone seem unappreciative of being given a tutoring favour. Mind you, I’d’ve thought there was enough online about learning C++ in a self directed manner so maybe the kid just isn’t interested. Don’t measure all 17yo’s by Baku’s level of maturity.
I didn’t directly use Baku as a reference.
But I did have Overwatch friend, so mature I thought they were 25, until they mentioned they suddenly mentioned that they were 15 at the time. So that was the baseline I had since then.
How do we even know Baku is actually 17 🤔 lol but yeah some teens are just… Something else. I think most teens are like normal and respectful, they just test boundaries, it’s what growing up is about lol
I’m onto the second dreading true crime video of dumb pam smart.
nothing is easy for a psycho, they always give long complicated reasons
the incredible thing about her testimony is that all the other members of the conspiracy independently confessed and it is so obvious she is just making shit up
Oh my word… so I have all of the flavours of shakes from https://healthyweightforlife.com.au/ and this morning I’m having “tropical banana” except I have been a little cheeky this morning and made it with milk instead of water, but still blended in some ice too.
It is legitimately a good shake. Not even ‘good for a meal replacement shake’ it’s actually good. It tastes like a Barney Banana.
next time I am bedridden with sciatica I am def doing this
It tastes like a Barney Banana.
Well I’m sold.
