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  • It's all happening here this morning. We've survived an attempted invasion from Next Door's Cat. She came into the backyard and Looked at us through the back door.

    Luckily Tommy the brave resident GuardCat was on the job and dealt with the situation by crying loudly and pathetically.

    I banged on the door, and went out and shooed her back over the fence. And then congratulated my brave hero on scaring away the intruder. He would definitely survive in the wild.

    Image: a fluffy tabby cat all curled up and not looking at all savage

    • Beautiful burnt sienna boy! Look at that terracotta nose... Yes, hate those pesky wandering invader cats setting off homecat alarm bells 😔

      The cat I'm looking after has a frenemy/outside invader who's almost a doppelganger for her - just about 20% slimmer and with much more of an attitude. I nearly panicked yesterday when I came home and saw frenemy coolly hanging around the front door - thought the indoor cat had escaped and also miraculously lost a bit of chub in a couple of hours.

      This cat simply is anxious most of the time, instead of even pathetically meowing. If I let her have supervised outdoor time she is almost scared of stepping on grass. 100% born to be wild.

  • Made taiyaki for dessert. It was so enjoyable

    • Wehhhhhh I want

    • Omg that's adorably cute food!

    • want

    • Fishies!!

      What do they taste like? I never had one of those before.

      • Taiyaki are basically just pancake batter filled with whatever. Traditionally red bean paste. This time I did red bean paste, chestnut paste and Nutella. I also really like filling them them a crème patissiere or yuzu curd if I have enough time/foresight to make it ahead. Because you cook them in the special mold, they get a nice crispy outside. People tend to have a preference for eating the head or the tail first. I personally like to go tail-first 😈

  • Really wish people would keep their dogs on leash in areas where it literally says to keep your dog on leash. Some dog runs right up to mine not even 50m away from said "dogs must be on leash" sign. I don't wanna hear "ohhhh sorrrrrryyy about that", I just don't want your dog to run up to mine smh

    • I have a fear of strange dogs. the fucking cunts who get their noses out of joint when you tell to control their bity fucking animals where the sign says to are as bad as they come. I used to walk my housemates huge staffy ridgeback, on a lead. he was known to bite other dogs. trying to explain to these fucking hipsters in footscray having a picnic, this isn't even my dog, so I can't absolutely control him and here's your bouncy labradoodle snapping at it cos you want it to be "free". people have no common sense.

      I'm hongohones, and this is today's what really grinds my gears.

      • I hear ya. My dog was attacked as a puppy on two separate occassions from off lead dogs, and as a result he's not great with dogs who run up to him suddenly while he's on a leash (which he always is because I don't trust other people or cars lmao). I also don't walk him where I know there's gonna be lots of dogs just in case, cause people suck - so that generally rules out all the nice dog-friendly places we could go. He hasn't actually attacked another dog, but I don't wanna take that risk because I've had friends whose dogs were perfectly trained with no prior negative experiences, and have still ended up going another dog in certain situations. I just want my bebi to be safe, especially since going for super long walks with him is one of my favourite things to do :(

    • Bring a walking stick. 😊

  • I didn’t get a chance to take a pic last night. So here’s the recipe for Maple-Mustard baked chicken i have been making this for years.Super easy, Super fast to put together and Very tasty

    Photo from recipe

    ALTTEXT: an amazing looking bowl of cooked chicken

    • I've made this and it was just far too salty for me. I haven't made it again but I think if I do I would use mustard powder and mustard seeds and add a little light olive to make the marinade smooth.

  • Toast with peanut butter and coffee made, trying to relax now and wondering what I should do.

    Still recovering and trying to keep things under control but as much as my mind might think it’s under control I think my body’s reacting to the stress.

  • Studying is going dreadfully today. I know what I want to say, but words are really not cooperating. It probably doesn't help that I've been procrastinating on it for the past week.

  • I had a very long and intense dream last night about a month long high school exchange trip to China gone very awry...

    It's now nearly 7pm and I can't shake how subtly unsettled it made me feel for absolutely no reason at all. And the smell of laundry powder just brought it all back. Like I actually went through that? Something in me feels like I really should've done something about the situation but it makes no sense.

    • Eeeerrrrrkkkk. Not nice. Sending reassurance and hope vibes over the aether to you. I hate post-apocalyse dreams too. Doesn't stop me reading post-apoc sci fi though. Damfino why.

      • Thank you kindly, accepted with a hug. I find myself morbidly drawn to similar stories or reports myself - sometimes as a way of feeling something very intensely so that life makes more sense again. At some point the brain probably needs to flush out or resolve some of those vicarious experiences....?

        Fwiw, I have actually visited China once, on a school trip in the late 90s, and the schools we visited were still relatively impoverished despite being in Beijing (I won't forget how their minds were blown by good quality graphic tees and sparkly pens and butterfly clips). But we had a great time being put up in hotels and travelling around in air conditioned buses. I hardly think about that trip though. Or China for that matter. I wonder if it's some kind of deep internal guilt trip thinking about how the world seems to be inching closer to conflict and instability? Dooooooom...

    • Urgh. The ‘real’ dreams are the worst. It must have been the night for it.

      There was nothing particularly directly threatening to myself in the dream, and the events of dream itself was pretty mundane, but the sense and feeling that I wasn’t safe just living my life was enough to have me waking up in a sweat.

      • Oh god, it's particularly bad when it hits close to home and you might recognise landmarks around you from the dream. It's that feeling of not being safe that is so discomforting and unsettling, particularly when it's completely illogical but feels so real. It's like your body experienced it on some level and has to process it while asleep?

        I don't know if exposure to traumatic personal stories (or experience of such trauma in families) activates some kind of bodily memory, even though we know that threat won't ever be relevant to our lives because of distance and/or time.

    • Sounds like the Xinjian re-education camps.

    • Your description is vivid, and reading it had a cinematic quality and I felt like I was there.

      • Thank you (?!). I am blursed with very vivid dreams. Think I'm quite overdue for a nice, fun one like flying over the countryside Mary Poppins-style. Hello brain, I'd like to make a firm request...

  • Rewatching The Durrells while I work and it's making me want to be ocean side, laying about listening to the water while a cool sea breeze blows around me.

  • So in today's DT impulse purchases news it's day 3? Of sleeping on the new memory foam pillow suggested by @wscholermann and although I'm no connoisseur of memory foam pillows (I used to hate them) I'm sold - much better neck and shoulder position, lovely feeling of softness and support - I fell asleep much faster. The real test however is trying it out back at my place with no central heating and fancy mattress. I'll find out next Friday.

    I also ordered a goddamn acupressure mat and pillow with the last of my gift card, inspired by @calhoon2005 and a serendipitous discussion of Shakti mats the very next day with the massage therapist. I didn't know it was a bit of a fad item but it seems legit - figure it's far cheaper than regular massages. The items should be here by Wednesday, fingers crossed - I really want to see if it helps with my morning headaches and pre sleep muscle tension.

    • Right on.

      • I just did some half arsed gardening after a very long time (pruning a small row of salvia with small secateurs because that's all I could access, digging up a small garden bed for annuals, fertilising) and I wish that mat was here right now!

  • pie filling is made, it's apple with cinnamon, vanilla and caramel . 👍 just have to let it cool before I make the pies.

  • just saw a YT thumb for movie titled "Saturday the 14th". I might watch that. 😂

    • Not related but I saw a trailer on YT for a movie called Slotherhouse the other day and thought it was a joke

  • Exercises were completed this morning (day 11) but then I took the mini peelers straight off on a shopping trip to search for costumes and ideas and things for book week. Also I needed to buy face washers/flannels (where do they all go?!). Also tbh it was to just get out of the house and away from Mr Peeler, who has had his meds changed and is playing the role of curmudgeon with dedication. On a serious note, it's interfering with his sleep so taking the kids and I out of the house so he can get some daytime shuteye is probably best for all of us. Somewhere in there I fitted in a couple of loads of washing and some dinner and now I'm sitting here looking at the clock a bit miffed that the weekend is basically over.

    • So what’s the plan for book week this year?

      • There are a few options. Most likely for the Miniest Peeler is some kind of mad hatter/Willy Wonka character (possibly a confused mashup of the two) especially as we already have a top hat and purple silk waistcoat. For the Elder Minipeeler we now have in our possession a big Garfield plushy, (purchased with pocket money) so they will go as Jon Arbuckle which would enable relatively normal clothes to be worn and the plushy to go to school as the accessory. One was going to go as Jesus but decided against it because it might cause offence. Costumes were thin on the ground this year, with heaps available for very little children who want to be princesses or superheroes and very little else.

  • If I go out for a night on the town
    \ And call you, wasted and lost,
    \ Could you come get me out,
    \ And tell me you love me most?
    \ Carry me home, I'm lonely,
    \ Just tell me you love me only.
    \ I don't care if you mean it,
    \ Just as long as I can feel it.
    \ Send me your memes, ask what I think.
    \ Send me your nudes, even
    \ This isn't love, this is only a kink.
    \ I don't care if I mean it,
    \ Just as long as you can feel it.

  • You only message when you're drunk;
    \ I only reply when I'm stoned.
    \ I guess that's why I don't mind so much
    \ That we're just so out of touch.

    I'm just myself, but never sober.
    \ I'm just a shell, I can't get over
    \ The way your eyes look endless,
    \ When the disco lights beat in time
    \ With my playlist.

    Tell me you feel the same, even if it's a lie.
    \ I'll pretend I'll believe you until the day I die.
    \ Let me sleep on your couch, I'll drift off with a sigh,
    \ I'll wake in the night, so I can get high.
    \ Let me live everyday until I die,
    \ I'll wake in the night so I can get high.

  • I spent lightyears stumbling to you,
    \ Though no time at all has passed.
    \ I spent lifetimes waiting for you,
    \ Do you think this time it'll last?

    The nightsky tells me it is time,
    \ The stars and planets have aligned.
    \ It is time, what a time to be alive,
    \ Cosmic dust scattered into signs.

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