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  • The Cat allocation system struck us today. Welcome Pepper

    • New kitty?!?! So pretty!! I look forward to tales of Pepper's hijinks

      • Her hijinks started with being found under a car in an airport hire car terminal. And then getting Turkey sandwich for lunch.

    • Hello Pepper! You're beautiful!

      • She is. I just need her to stop hissing at her new brother and sister. They're friendly and trying, but she's not having it!

  • LATE NIGHT CHEESE TOASTIE TIME!!!! 🧀 🍞 🍳

    e: I am reliving my late teen 70s prog rock obsession and rediscovering how unbelievable Yes was (RIP Chris Squire the most insane bassist ever).

    e2, 3:42am: we have now moved to Jean-Michel Jarré. Garlic powder is a game changer in cheese toasties BTW. Also this decaf tea is pretty awesome. I feel awake but not hyper. Calm, even. I could go to sleep on it if I wanted to but it's also keeping me awake

    e3, 5:54am: looks like it'll be a rare true all nighter. And also, I have vastly underquoted for this project.

    e4, 6:24am: fuckit, that's the best I can get through right now, a damn good set of data and maps that was crafted through an absolute mess. Time to get a few hours sleep before the psych appt.

  • Falling asleep at the computer but I have a very hard deadline of 9am tomorrow to get this thing out. Drawing on those last reserves of self belief and confidence to trick myself out of how pointless this is and that in fact I am awesome at being succinct and presenting data in an elegant and concise manner. I've broken out the emergency matcha Quadratinis from overseas.

    e: in happier news my shakti mat should now be arriving by Thursday or Friday. Come sooooon 🥺 🙏

  • I refuse to let this Monday get me down as it’s persistently trying to. The Sun is shining warm and bright. Friends if you can go outside for at least 15 mins, get your dose of Vitamin D. Shine on and hope the rest of your Monday turns out better! ☀️

    • That's the way. I hope your day gets better. ☺

      • Thanks I’m heading home now. Got frustrated because I had one final thing that tried to mess me up and at first my mood was that’s it i’m going home, digging a hole and getting in. But on the way home, my mood changed and now I’m going home and chill with a tv series I’m almost finished

  • Rest day from exercises today but tummy exercises completed. T-shirts look different now, look strangely stretched like I just pulled the pillow out from there!

  • My dinner tonight was really good. Cheers all round

    Image of a plate with a vegetable slice named All in brawl, corn relish, a lettuce leaf, a couple of baby cucumbers and some cherry tomatoes.

    Could I have made it more pretty? Yeah
    Could I be bothered? Nah

    • Nice. I have my own version of All in Brawl in the oven now - it took longer to make than I planned for, so it is going to be a late dinner. I also made more than I was expecting, so will have lots of extra servings. Hopefully my version works as well as yours.

  • I went outside to have a quick look at whether the beetroot seeds I planted had sprouted, and ended up doing 45 minutes of weeding. It's beautiful out there.

  • Looks like some of us collectively caught Mondayitis today. Today can shove it. Everything has gone wrong since I’ve woken up. I’m ready for Tuesday

  • A list of things I've done so far instead of my assignment:

    • Cooked peanut butter noodles - the sauce was nice but I added too much spice
    • sliced potatoes too thick and cooked them in the oven with garlic and Parmesan, they really saved the day
    • Chopped up and cooked vegetables for a frittata
    • Made said frittata - I added lemon myrtle to the mixture, now waiting for it cook and to see if the flavour is okay
    • sat down to eat twice
    • now just sitting for fun and assignment avoidance
    • listened to 3 podcasts

  • I just watched a HBO doc series on obesity . The scientists and doctors talk about all the changes in society that have caused this new epidemic. They describe our food environment as hostile!! The food we buy now is different to what was sold 30 years ago, it's much higher in calories.

    Watching the series of course led to self reflection. I'm over weight, about 15-20 kg overweight. So how did I get this way. I grew up eating very little junk food. We never ate out, treats were rare, snacks were generally healthy.

    I pretty much do the same. I rarely eat out, cook healthy meals at home. So little junk food. I do get lollies sometimes. ( I used to buy treats at least once a week ) I bake a cake once a month. I do like creamy yoghurt , have it once a week. I think I eat too big portions, and that is something the documentary talked about too.

    Just for the record I have never been to kfc, to subway, to hungry jacks, to pizza chains, haven't been to maccas in a decade and then it was just to get an icecream, no taco bell, I've never had a hsp or bahn mi. Local fish and chip shop once a month and I wouldn't over eat.

    Yet I'm fat. I've cut down portion size a lot, say no more often, I don't buy trouble. Hope I lose weight.

  • The cat is licking my sock. Sock-licker, window-licker, powercord-chewer. Smol demon.

    • Young Miss Seagoon used to have a cat that would stick her head in people's boots. So to subdue her for brushing we placed a shoe nearby, she'd stick her head in it, then we'd brush.

  • Surely it's Sunday and bot has made an error. Surely

    • As someone who had to work on the weekend but now has three days off I am very grateful that it is not Sunday.

      You do have my sympathies though, I still remember the horror of Mondays from my times with standard work hours. Two days off is not enough.

    • It is Monday 👔👖👞🎩💼 🥔 off you go

  • I was too busy stuffing my face to take a picture, but breakfast this morning was supurb. Waffles, caramelized pears and thick greek yoghurt. As a bonus there are six more waffles to go in the freezer for later.

  • After being inspired by Force's sardine sushi, I will try to get over my distaste of canned/tinned fish and make some this week.

    The distaste is from living with cats all my life; their wet-food smells like tinned fish lol

    • Now not that I'm saying sardine sushi wasn't amazing, but it's perhaps not the best reintroduction to tinned fish. Maybe just try with crackers first

    • I like to do tuna that has the add ins (so like mayo and corn or lik|e sundried tomatoes) with rice as like a sushi bowl kind of thing.

    • Like the fish king said crackers or my preferred buttered toast.

  • I made a huge batch of pasta for lunch with the idea to take some to work tomorrow. I ate it all instead. Now I'm too full, and sad.

    • Turn that frown upside down friend. You might not have any pasta for work tomorrow. But just think that food tasted so damn good you couldn’t help yourself. Next time maybe cook double the pasta (literally just the pasta) so you can eat your fill and have left overs. I’m always happy if I can finish my food all in one go. You’ll just have to find something else for lunch tomorrow. That’s ok

  • So be my muse baby, hush enough talk,
    \ Come swim in my rivers, occupy my thoughts.
    \ I want to feel you baby, your hand on my face,
    \ As you kiss me softly floating in outer space.

  • Morning dog walk has been completed. The food cupboard yielded some zucchini noodles and potatoes, so I am going to do a zucchini/potato/egg bake, and an experimental zucchini pickle.

  • It's probably one of my weird little things, but when ever I watch anything set in the 1930s I always get a little sad knowing they have no idea how the whole world is about change.

  • It's my Saturday and I know I should get out of the house but I really don't want to. Being back in the office for shift work just makes me want to spend my weekends in bed, which is just not healthy.

  • What could I have had,
    \ If I was dealt a different hand
    \ What could I have been
    \ If I played them differently
    \ Between the starlight and the sea
    \ Rolling waves crashing over me
    \ Tossed around endlessly
    \ What could I have had
    \ If I spent my life working hard
    \ What could I have been
    \ If I was someone different completely
    \ Love me or leave me
    \ It makes no difference to me
    \ This is who I am now
    \ Between the starlight and the sea

  • I sensed something weird with the bacon once it went in with the stir fry noodles and decided to pick it back out. It smelt fine in the packaging but once it got into the wok it just smelt a bit...funny. Hopefully I don't die from this. I also regret forgetting to put in the other protein - egg.

    • if i smell off i'm no good. thank you for not making me kill you

      • Straight in the bin you go but one day I will get you again and put you in the freezer so you'll never ever go.

  • Online Orders 1 Week Delivery Challenge update: order 1 of 4 has arrived today. Off to a good start!

    New Ray-Bans from Myer (via Sunglass Hut apparently) have arrived. My existing ones, which are exactly the same, have gotten so manky from years of use that I forgot how nice they used to feel/look. I think the thing which really did them in was taking them near sea/ocean water a bunch of times. Salt water and sunglasses are not friends.

  • Did manage to get back to sleep and slept until something after nine, I think? Only got up recently because Sammi decided I needed to stay in bed and be her pillow.
    The CBFs seem to be in evidence and I'm not even working yet unless you count the executrix stuff. Alas, I will have to go out for cat fud at some stage due to the felines developing hollow tails over the weekend.
    Edit: who the fuck downvoted this?

  • In today's episode of Cooking Adventures with a Sardine Enthusiast we will be experimenting with Sardine Sushi 🐟🍣

    To start, cook some rice. I used Coles white long grain and cooked it on the stove with a bit of salt. Then you want to pour in a little bit too much vinegar, and the olive oil from your can of Sardines (discard any non-olive oil, disgusting), and mix. Wait until your rice cools a bit (I didn't, ow), Spread out your rice onto a sheet of seaweed as shown. Press it down a bit. Add some hot sauce in a neat line like so. Arrange your sardines like they were confused and swimming in opposite directions of each other (they don't do this in nature, but that's okay). Roll it up. If your not experienced or don't have a sushi mat it's okay, just mash it all together and it will kinda work. Voila!

  • I want to preface by saying I understand, I'm annoyed but I understand.

    One of the things I've enjoyed about my job is I can listen to my own stuff. I find total silence annoying so being able to do my own thing while doing my job is great. However, I just got off the phone with my job provider who said how my boss and her spoke and that I shouldn't be using my phone to listen to things because it's distracting. Which I'm annoyed about because it's accommodation for me.

    So she suggested that she'd get a radio, and I replied saying that I find it distracting to listen to music with lyrics in them. And she said how "there's probably a classical music station" which fine, I don't mind classical music, I still hate it. I asked for a Bluetooth one and she said she'd look into it but yeah.

    I'm just annoyed, like I enjoyed the fact that I could listen to my own stuff but having to listen to my boss chewing or snorting is going to be absolute hell on Earth. And it's not going to make my concentration better. I just, ugh.

    • Wait, so you're not allowed to listen to music through headphones but having a radio that everyone can hear is deemed okay?

      • Like at the moment it's just us two, but he talks on the phone to clients and freelancers. So it'd be annoying having to talk on the phone with music playing.

        Did the last hour of work W/O listening to my own thing and he was talking to a freelancer and I was about to bash my head into the monitor.

    • That sucks, what an archaic way to look at things. I constantly have something playing on my phone (a podcast, a TV show I've seen 100 times, music) as background noise, it drowns everything else out and it's a lot easier to sink my teeth into my work. People function in different ways and they should at least try to understand that.

      • Like I appreciate the offer to get a radio, but what I listen to doesn't affect how I work. I'm just annoyed and frustrated. Might actually commit to that mental health day off sometime this week.

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