A friend brought me some xs men’s trackies that were on clearance. They are a bit big but they fit more comfortably than the women’s /shrug
Melbcat has been refusing her wet food for a few days (still eating treats and biccies). I’m going to have to give her meds directly and then feed the wet food after. Also a bit worried about her breathing and might have to return to the twice daily puffer.
It feels way too early for hayfever to set in but seems it has
I’m not overly fond of the colours women’s trackies come out in, they tend to be weird seasonally trendy colours which I don’t like, whereas in the men’s section it’s all black, grey, navy, khaki. Much more practical.
Yeah, I prefer the more classic colours
I’m so annoyed at myself. Was supposed to do a fasting blood test this morning but I stupidly didn’t put a reminder to not eat on my phone… And I rarely eat breakfast, but I’m WFH today and well, wouldn’t today just be the day I go “oh! Leftover pasta, I’d better eat that” and I remember the blood test RIGHT as I finish eating… fuck. now I have to wrangle getting tested at 8 tomorrow before heading back to work.
Also very annoyed at uni who in their infinite wisdom have centralised all standard extension requests (NOT special consideration), and noooo a drs. cert isn’t enough, they need to file a fucking special form outlining exactly how the illness hampered your ability to study. It’s enough for my workplace that actually pays me money but it’s not enough for a course that I’m paying to do?? Fuck these guys man, I will be glad to never deal with them again once I’m done with this course
I had to take one of those once. I ended up fasting for too long. I thought I wasn’t meant to eat 12 hours prior, so ate 13 hours before the test, but apparently it was actually8 hours prior, but not over 12
Melbourne Pathology has ‘supercentres’ that are open from 7.30 am. I use the Northcote Plaza one, but there may be one closer to you.
Do they bulk bill if the referral document has another pathology provider’s form thingo? I once went to a different pathology chain than the one on my referral and got stung with out of pocket fees… I’ll call and ask maybe. Thanks for the heads up.
I think they take referrals from ALL providers. Dunno about the fees, I’ve never been asked to pay.
Turns out there isn’t a super clinic near me that opens at 7 :( But the tip is much appreciated. The Melb Pathology places closer to work (and me) are open at 8 which would work better logistically.
I think the time I had to pay was because it was an ECG and I went to a pathology clinic at a hospital and billing was all convoluted and confusing. Looks like it should be ok with a standard blood test.
Was the leftovers good at least?
I think it was a bit off as I had a bad bout of the runs after (though I think it was partly in response to the coffee I then had). So none of it was worth it :(
Thats an all round disappointment.
Went to Soi 38 for the first time after work. It’s a Thai restaurant in a parking garage that’s been around for ever and is super popular. I feel like I got punched in the face with flavour … so sour, salty and spicy. So delicious.
Almost nearing the end of this retaining wall. my new best friend is a cheapo ozito corded drill. Had to get some screws through pretty thick metal fence posts which the way more expensive cordless one couldn’t and it worked. So satisfying seeing the sleepers snap in flush when the screw goes through the post.
Can’t believe I haven’t fucked it up yet or injured myself (not including back) which is amazing.
How goods some of those cheap shit ozito tool ey. The heat fun and the multitool especially get a shout out.
I’m watching Fantasmas and this is the most bonkers thing I’ve watched all year.
rambling
Despite wanting to have nothing to do with the modern world at times this feels like the most cathartic TV series ever. Like someone compressed all my millennial stray thoughts and anxieties and imagination and feelings into an insane fever dream of interwoven comedy sketches. There is really nothing like this out there at the moment.
It’s the writer of SNL’s most famous sketches like Papyrus and Wells for Boys doing an entire season of wack which is like a dream come true (okay, I see he’s done another TV show that I have to track down).
I’m glad TV like this gets made; and I’m glad it isn’t as insular and navel-gazing and obnoxiously value-signalling as I feared it might be. There’s an endearing, lovable heart behind the turbocharged surreal/ironic humour.
Worth a watch if you feel like it’s time for something completely different… and want to process life a little differently.
PS Bibo is my favourite character. angrysound.mp3
Cool. This is definitely on my watch list. 👍😎
I have a feeling you might hate it hahaha. But it’s a fairly quick and breezy watch
Had a new client assigned yesterday and one shift proved it wasn’t going to fly.
The co-ordinator was so quick to agree that I shouldn’t go again (and wanting to know what happened in detail) that I suspect this isn’t their first rodeo with her.
As I said to a friend, I’m too old and not getting paid enough to deal with that BS.So great the coordinator has your back there
I made chicken burritos for dinner. 🌶️🌶️🌶️😵💫 it was delicious
I made speghetti bolognaise.
I cooked probably more pasta than I needed but I’m stuffed!
not possible to cook too much, just put left overs in fridge or freezer 👍
Oh I ate it all 😃
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Lol, the ABC’s doing 1am Wednesday quizzes now.
Are you smarter than a year 9 student?
9/10, I got the 24hr one wrong. But in my defence, it’s 2am and I’m in bed about to do sleepy-doos. Apparently I’m in the top 36% of quizzers, which I guess says a lot about the average person taking a random quiz at 1am on Wednesday morning. Also, seeing as I barely passed year 9 and didn’t take the NAPLAN, I count that as an absolute win. Go me.
Australia doesn’t hyphenate, nasty American habit.
I got that one ‘wrong’ too. Ugly construction of question, not entirely correct, and very outdated. The rationale is to connect all the adjectives that describe the noun ‘train pass’. Which contains another adjective - ‘train’. So why didn’t they hyphenate ‘train’ and ‘pass’? I wouldn’t call their ‘correct’ choice as normal usage here in Aus. Maybe hyphenate ‘twenty-four’ cos this functions as a single word but the ‘hour’ surely doesn’t need it for clarity any more than ‘train-pass’ does. Bad question really.
Question 3 is deliberately misleading and wrong. It should be ‘24 hour ticket’. I wouldn’t hyphenate at all (see Goonsey) and no-one writes out time like that. In fact the classic “elements of style” which is a writing bible says you should use numerals for numbers greater or equal to 10 and write them out in words less than that.
That question is some stupid twat adult getting their kicks by making 14 year olds squirm. Or an adult who doesn’t know their grammar.
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Completely agree with you.
I-got-one-question-wrong-can-you-guess-which?
I love that we’re all in the same boat here
Spotify brought out a musical generation thingy
Apparently based on my musical taste, my musical generation is 99% not my generation, 1% my generation. Love that
How do I find this out? I couldn’t find it anywhere, but it might be because I’m using the cracked client…
Probably. It just popped up when I opened it for the first time at midnight. Never got anything like this when I had a cracked client
Mine is skewed thanks to the child using my account…
As a millennial I don’t know why this surprised me
How do you do, fellow zoomers?
I got the same one, but it doesn’t make sense. Are they only “analysing” our most recent listens, or all of our playlists? Because I have a lot of playlists comprised of 60s, 70s and 80s music, but have been listening recently to that Finnish musicians Käärijä and Erika Vikman lol
Also got Gen Z. I’d love to know how this works. Is it based on when the music was released? If the artist is from a certain generation? I don’t get it.
Lol, no idea. Käärija and Erika are both millennials, but their music has been released in the last 5 years. Maybe it’s based on release date and most listened to playlist?
According to apple music I’m a: Shut Up and Give Us Money! Well, gotta appreciate them being honest I guess.
So I got sent a link to view the ct scans of my face, from the radiology department.
I have never seen the inside of my face before, it’s super wild! I can scroll up and down through the ‘slides’ and like, move back and forth and up and down these scans of my head.
I feel a tad ick, all the nerves in my face are tingling now that I’m aware 👀 but it’s also really cool!
It also confirms what I have long suspected, that my skull is quite empty and cavernous.
Yeah nup, dont like to be reminded I’m made of flesh and calcium.
It is extremely unsettling, because we shouldn’t normally have that view. But from a science lover perspective, it’s really cool!!
Alarm went off during a nightmare, one where you knew something terrible was going to happen but it hadn’t yet dropped yet. Certainly puts a downer on the day.
I had absolutely wild dreams last night. First part of my dreams consisted of evacuating a high rise when the fire alarms went off, but I said “yeah nah fuck off I’m 47 stories up” and took the lift. Second dream consisted of being in Frankston for some reason, and there were SES people putting out a fire and removing a downed tree from the road. But they found illegal fireworks, and they took them home and set them off that night. But they screwed it up and blew up the entirety of Frankston. Third dream consisted of random bugs killing each other, it was really weird and uncomfortable, but not a nightmare
Mine was about a fire too I think, or something was going to explode. And you knew everyone was gonna die but its like it was stuck on rails and you couldnt change the outcome. Deeply disturbing.
After my little mini rage on Monday, they pushed child protection along and got the security upgrades happening. The 4 things they promised were:
- a gate on the driveway (which is currently the only unprotected entrance)
- security cameras around the property
- proper locks on the side gates (currently 2/3 gates are just a simple latch with a padlock hole I’ve put an unsanctioned padlock in)
- a deadbolt on the front door
- replacement door frames to fix all the damage old mate inflicted with his little knife episode
Apparently all except the deadbolt have been approved (they’re still trying to come up with a solution that doesn’t violate the fire code thingies, although I guess technically the screen door is a deadbolt, since it can’t be opened by sliding a knife into the lock and prying, which is all I really wanted. A dude came out today to measure the door frames, apparently they’re going to replace all the doors as well. Interestingly they’ve actually used a local tradie instead of the idiots from mcpeake.
Mcpeake are the previously unnamed idiots that do stupid work that I mention almost weekly. As I understand it, they have the contracts for fixing, upgrading, and maintaining all public housing and out of home care properties in Melbourne. They seem to take it for granted, or the department is locked into a long contract. they don’t provide timeframes, they usually rock up unannounced (a problem because I’m not allowed to let them in, or approve/sign off on any work, that’s all the property managers job), at least outside of emergency works. They also do shoddy work, are staffed exclusively by arseholes (their google reviews are hilarious btw), and usually don’t even finish the job right.
But it seems that people above the property manager have been stressing the importance of getting things done in a timely fashion, and they ended up finding local tradies to do most of the work.
Oh good! You shouldn’t have had to rage to get repairs and safety features… hoping things look up for you soon
Me too. Last night and the night before were difficult sleeps. I slipped into some sort of weird state where I was asleep but it was more like I was just resting with my eyes closed, very shallow “sleep”. Melatonin did not help, and neither did trying to get some exercise and sunlight in yesterday
Even just resting with your eyes closed helps
Can confirm it did not. Made it worse
Chef has not fully recovered yet 📜
Help yourself 🚚🐟🧠🧊
Poor chef! It’s important to look after yourself after tirelessly looking after others.
Please accept my humble offerings. 🪤 🗽🪺 🛸 🥎 🫧
Chef, would you like a hot honey lemon drink with maybe some brandy and some raison toast?
Sweet, free van!!!
But in all seriousness, hope you’re feeling better soon! Chef must rest!
mortals are not capable of wielding the van
Thank you!
That would explain why it tried to bite me!
so far today I’ve done all the washing, designed and printed IMMENSELY satisfying just right fitting compartment boxes for my toolbox for bits and bobs, run the first lot of distillate and done a 10 walk. Very niiiice
Test is negative! 🪩💃🏼 And I can taste more things! I didn’t realise until I bought some mixed donuts for the Minipeelers and Elder asked what the yellow ones were and I took a bite and said, “pineapple” lol. Spent most of the day cleaning in the lounge room, which hasn’t had a decent clean in a while. Four long haired people in a place really take it’s toll in terms of fluffage in the carpet and upholstery. Now I’m going to make some schnitzels and maybe a quick curry. I’m back baby 👉🏼😎👉🏼
Fantastisch!!
All hail the return of the Queen! 👑🙌
