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 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 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.
Three years to go!
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. 🤞
Oh crap what a great idea. Except I’ve missed mine too (about 18months ago apparently). That’s wild.
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.
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.
Saw a woman at the butcher spend $250 dollars on wagyu steak, and bought another 2 kilos of lamb cutlets. Not everyone is feeling the pinch!
A kid in Miniest’s class at school wants to be a butcher when he grows up. No wonder!
I don’t even buy meat. Only exception being homebrand cat food for my pet
Wow. How much steak was that?? There’s a dude at my local farmers market that does four grass fed porterhouse for 30 bucks and that plus a pack of snags or some mince does me for a month or more (I am mostly vego).
I suppose when we start eating the rich we will know they were well fed at least…
From memory it was something like 6 pieces of wagu steak.
I could go some wagyu-fed, free-range billionaires right about now. Got my tummy grumbling!
Christ. And here am I decided on 6 sausages instead of 10…
10 sausages, how profligate of you 😜
I might rewatch Soylent Green this week.
Wise people of the information super highway: any tips on making hiccups go away? I keep getting hiccups every time I eat or drink anything, even water and it’s lasting an annoying (but probably not concerning) amount of time. Drinking water didn’t work, holding my breath didn’t work, laying upside down didn’t work, and controlled breathing exercises didn’t work and I’m out of ideas
Holding my breath generally works, but only if I do it like this:
- breathe in and out as normally as you can
- take a big breath in, big big. Fill your lungs alllllll the way up
- hold for as long as you can
- do not exhale suddenly!
- when you cannot hold any long, let the air out slowly, shape your mouth as if you’re whistling to do so. Like an small o shape.
- nice and slow until you’ve exhaled completely.
- repeat if required, but make sure you take normal breaths as per step one so you don’t hyperventilate
This helps me, as generally hiccups are caused by the diaphragm spasming. The full-lung breath-hold helps to like, reset it. And the very slow exhale is to stop the diaphragm from starting again from the shock of a sudden big exhale.
Thanks Chud, this fixed it. I guess I wasn’t holding it for long enough. The first time I held it for so long I could not exhale slowly, it was all or nothing. The second time I held it for a little less longer though, and a third time managed to fix it
Hiccups happen when your diaphragm gets out of sync with your breathing. Most of the effective methods force these to re-synchronise. Drinking water out of the BACK of the glass makes you bend over forwards, which temporarily halts your breathing and when you straighten up to swallow, you start breathing again in sync. Usually. Also you might like to slow down the rate of eating, as gulping air along with food can set off hiccups. As a survivor of a boarding school where food happened in a lions on the kill fashion, I learned to bolt food as fast as possible. This caused quite a few issues that I had to learn how to slow down eating to fix. Hiccups was only part of it.
I don’t think I really eat that fast. I used to, when I was at the last place I pretty much had no choice but to down it as fast as possible, but these days I’m much slower and more calm when I’m eating and drinking. I certainly didn’t eat any faster than usual today, but my diaphragm evidently was just not having a good time!
I did also get them as soon as I woke up (in fact they were actually what woke me up) so I wonder if falling asleep with my electric blanket too high may have broken something
Testing out a double walled travel mug with some off.
Found it in the cupboard when I was looking for some stuff and was still amazed it was wrapped out.
I might regret making a coffee this late in the day but I must test this out!
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
The cold is finally gone. Can’t wait to do some physical activity tomorrow. It’s been almost two weeks between injuries and being sick.
I need my happy chemicals stat!
Also, bedtime 😴 goodnight everyone!
This is what we call the squint of approval
This photo of her being super pissed off, is my absolute favorite of all time
Help, the cat is rolling me out of bed
When I go to the other end to sleep she follows me and cuddle-shoves me out of there too
It’s such a cold night.
Stay warm everyone.
Melbcat is tucked in next to me with a hot water bottle. lol
Ha I managed to avoid most of it. Fell asleep at 9ish with the electric blanket on high. That translated to my dreams taking place in northern WA with the temperatures hitting 49°. It was fantastic. Although I did wake up with hiccups and feeling like I hadn’t consumed any liquids in about a week
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.
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
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
Anyone seeing any Eta Aquariids out there?
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
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
🍚🍳🐟
Let’s eat Grandma!
Only if she’s rich and builds a very expensive house.
You have a cavalier attitude to expiry dates I see
sniff test
🐺
It’s taken me a while to get here, but I’m sat in front of the computer now about to research shit I need to get done for this trip. Sun streaming in the windows, Nujabes’ Modal Soul playing, looking forward to work this coming week. Trying my best to channel the good feels, which I can’t seem to hold onto very well…
hugs, here is some travel music ✈️ 🚄🌸🍒 ⛰️
or maybe 🦁 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
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.
