Dear Boomers,
It’s ok to have negative/empty space. You don’t need to fill everything up with shit.
Empty space makes a statement in and of itself.
if i had my way every inch of my walls would have a picture on it
maximalism?
yes
I think I actually flinched reading that. Some pictures are ok, but excessive volumes of pictures means it’s hard for any one picture to really shine.
Of course you could what galleries do and rotate their pictures (ie replace one with another at regular intervals.
It wouldn’t be random .
Even so, negative space can draw your attention to a piece in a way that other methods can’t.
Bare walls mean it’s easier to see if there is a spider there. Bookshelves/pictures just create hiding spaces for those eight-legged freaks.
This Gen Xer has to subscribe to the law of flat surfaces or every part of my apartment becomes home to wooden toys, fidget and stress relief items, small musical instruments, penguin statues, polymer clay creations, children’s completed school projects, collectables, antiques, piles of books and art.
this past year I’ve reduced stuff on surfaces by 50%, just gotten rid of it
I prefer to have stuff in cupboards and glass cabinets
My desk is usually the first flat surface where clutter starts to creep in. Always feel so much better after I’ve dealt with it.
Fuck that I’m filling everthing with dim sims and I’m not boomer.
That doesn’t seem hygienic.
Someone here a while back recommended Klean Air for split system air conditioner cleaning.
They responded to my initial inquiry but have ignored my “I’d like to go ahead with it” email and one further follow-up.
Has anyone here had a good experience with a different company?
Yay I made it. Good night.
Good Night. 😽
Toddler woke up screaming, woke the cat. While im settling the toddler cats giving me this look of death. I said sorry. He replied by going to claw the shit out of the armchair
I’m sorry man but that’s a hilarious scene lol
Kitty redirected well and did not claw the shit out of the direct source of annoyance. Good kitty.
Kitty is likely ambivalent just hide car keys, title deeds… shoes… probably the knife block you’ll be okay.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Pineapple upside down cake please
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One mandatory breakfast please
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Eggs florentine and coffee please.
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Thank you. As colesworth is now putting limits on the purchase of eggs, I will particularly enjoy this.
You will be excited to learn I invested in a bottle of hot honey, and it is an instant winner. I feel like all honey should come in this kind of squeezy bottle too.
I make a marinade like this for roast chicken. 👍
I’ve had this low-priority to-do in the back of my head for years - “Learn Python”. I’ve just never needed to get across it for any reason when there are other languages I’m more familiar with.
But now my oldest is leaning Python at school. First coding lessons stuff. They’ve got some Logo (the old turtle drawing basic scripting thingy that I learned in the 80’s) module they load and then they’re combining Python and Logo code to draw stuff. It’s actually pretty fun. I find myself debugging his code though. Which is a problem when I don’t know the language syntax.
Watching a complete novice approach a simple problem, I’ve really, really taken for granted how to think like a coder. No wonder people think nerds are from another planet. The problems coders face literally require you to think differently.
So anyway, I’ve started learning Python. I hope I find real uses for it beyond helping the kids with homework.
I’ve been meaning to look at it as well. I’m interested in how I could automate things with it.
Have a look at the game engine Godot as well. Its programming language, Gscript, is based on python. It might be a good way to keep your kids interested in coding
I learnt logo as my first language as well. It introduced so many useful concepts for later on.
Something strange just happened. From the corner of my eye while watching TV I saw a flash in the sky. Thought it was lightning. About 20 seconds later all of my house lights quickly flashed off and on.
Looking at the radar there’s no thunderstorms around. So what was that? 👽
Huh. This post timing lines up with my lights flickering, guess that’s what that was. Didn’t see a flash though.
Possum electrified on the power lines, is my guess. The flash was it turning into a marsupial barbeque lol
more TW: vomitting
Finally got into the hotel. Unfortunately when we were all of 5 minutes away (the train drops us off at Maryborough and coaches being us to Creswick) I threw up again. On the bus. Fortunately I brought rubbish bags from the train (they had no sick bags but did have rubbish bags), and I’d double bagged them before I got on the bus. I was doing alright, if nauseous, until we started going over pothole after fucking pothole.
I don’t think I’m going to be up to taking the train back to the city tomorrow. The organisation that runs the lead tenant place has an after hours support line who could probably organise a lift for me and my worker back to Melbourne, but they might not get here until 2 or 3 in the morning or whenever someone is free. Or if I wait until 9 when the program coordinator starts, I can call her and she can arrange something. But I really don’t want to be on the train for another 12 hours while I can’t hold even a few sips.of water down, and I don’t have much faith that I’ll be better in the morning.
Tomorrow’s the last day of the trip, so it’s kind of a conflict about whether I suffer through it for just 12 more hours and finish the trip, or go home and miss out and the last little bit of the trip. Really, I’ve seen all of the last leg before, so I won’t feel sad about missing anything, but at the same time there’s only 12 more hours of the train and then I can say I’ve done it in its entirety.
Being sick when you’re travelling is the worst. Don’t try to push through to complete your trip if you might be able to get home more comfortably, it’s not worth it. Try for the lift.
Hang in there.
That’s a tough one. Sometimes vomiting clears up after a day, but I couldn’t think of much more miserable then being on a train for 12 hours feeling like that.
I would probably try to get some sleep and make a call early morning. If you are feeling crap then bail and call the program coordinator.
I don’t know but maybe it’s worth talking to the after hours support person tonight - maybe they have some other advice.
Hope you are feeling better tomorrow.
but I couldn’t think of much more miserable then being on a train for 12 hours feeling like that.
Yeah. I was feeling nauseous from when I woke up at 5, although it only started getting really bad around 10/11. So it’s been an absolutely miserable day. Honestly I wanted to bail yesterday, but Mildura is way too far away to get a lift unless I was really really bad, but the only other way back was a packed night bus to Melbourne. I probably wouldn’t have been sick if I caught the night bus, but it would’ve still been pretty hellish. And if I was, people would’ve been a lot less understanding, plus the whole making other people sick thing.
Just based on my past experiences with being sick, usually days 2 and 3 are the worst. The first day’s just tiring, the 2nd day is usually slightly worse than the 3rd though. I think I will just call the program coordinator in the morning, after hours won’t be able to do all too much except organise a lift tonight. But if I go home tomorrow, that’s one more day to get better before I have to meet the new kid (I don’t think throwing up every 2 hours from the moment I walk in the door is a great way to introduce myself)
That sounds like a good plan
Peach cake is in the oven.
Ooh yum.
Actually had some energy today, so I tackled some washing (including sheets and doona covers!) as well as doing a grocery order. Ran out of steam about 4.
Also, I get what y’all mean when you’re talking about knives in the throat. 😖Movie review. Crimson Peak.
This is a difficult movie to review on account of I’m not sure what it is.
I think it’s world building, a beautiful dangerous strange world of the main character’s mind. I think it was described as a fever dream. But there is a reality in it all and the main character, Edith, has to sort out dangerous reality from scary but harmless dreams, to trust her judgement and determine her own fate.
( Fever dreams and hallucinations used to be a much more common phenomenon . Caused by the fevers of TB or malnutrition or poisoning by the environment or contaminated food. )
4 hobbits, will have to watch again
Crimson Peak is a gothic romance / drama. The mistake a lot of people make is thinking it’s a horror. If you do that you will be sorely disappointed.
I did get that.
We kept a bit of apricot chicken for kiddos dinner, and honestly? It was a lot better the second night. The flavours have all blended together rather that the kind of offensive flavour of last night.
Still wanna find some other Dutch over chicken thigh recipes though.
I had too many stimulating things yesterday and couldn’t sleep till 2, felt like a total wreck this am and absolutely couldn’t get out of bed until 1pm - wasted a whole glorious morning of sunshine to do the laundry 😭 let alone go for a walk.
Hurriedly doing it now on a short cycle to get even 2-3 hours of sun in, scarfed down some lunch and gonna try move as many of the plants as I can before Terrible Weather descends on us from the wee hours of tonight. Will NOT beat myself up for the total lack of energy and motivation to get out of bed and embrace life.
I had that kind of day yesterday. It happens. Good luck with the plant moving. I rearranged all mine today (indoor in a sun room so just moved to make the most of the sun). Sometimes sunny days are for sleeping and chores 🤷🏻♀️
The place is not the level of clean I like yet but much better. It’s only the main kitchen bench (saving that until after dinner) and the bathroom (it will survive). I feel much calmer and under control.
But I have done a good declutter on my bedroom cupboards (should help to have spaces for things) and a big rearrange of my weird sunroom so the plants get their winter sun. Have split it up so I have a little spot to curl up and read, my mediation corner is neat and clean and I have a cleared a spot for the clotheshorse.
Le tired.
Also next medium-big purchase is a bean bag type thing for said reading nook. Any recommendations?
I’ve gone off bean bags after realising that they’re incredibly hard to get out of and also my back sometimes hurts after using them D:
you should see my place, 😭 time to get a cleaner/help in
Yep. You need your rest (I understand the frustration though) Outsource that beeatch!
I did this the last time my back was bad. Worth every cent.
