Confucius say butcher who back into meat grinder get a little behind in his orders. 🍑
Proud of myself! I’ve been craving fish & chips, but it’s getting to the stage where it’s costing over $100 for the five of us! And sometimes it’s not that great. So after work I bought some fish from the local market. I bought school shark because it seemed like a good price and gave me sufficient quantity to have a couple of attempts if I messed up, but everyone loved it! It was a huge success! I’ve always been a bit scared to do it because I’m not 100% on what to do and was afraid I’d screw it up. So I looked up wikiHow, lol. My chips were tasty, the fish was delish and it cost me $20, which is a massive saving. This is a big thing for me!
A candy/fry thermometer can be used to keep frying oil at heart friendly temperatures. Burned oil isn’t the best choice for health.
I’m pretty careful with my oil (I do homemade chicken nugs quite regularly) but a thermometer might be a good idea, take out the guesswork. Actually while browsing Bunnings I came across this and I quite like it
I use one like this https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/255613038690
awesome 😊
Started a new antidepressant today. Haven’t been on one before so I’m curious to see what happens.
I do hope it does something. I’d hate to go on the medication merry go round to find something effective.
many hugs,
Good luck. It can take a while to adjust. I found the serotonin based ones work fast for me (lucky I guess) but I always feel wonky and a bit sedated for a while, while I get used to having a quiet brain. If they work they are a game changer. Fingers crossed you are in that bucket
The one that works for me is desvenlafaxine/Pristiq - it’ll take a bit of time to work, but be patient and if you feel really off or even a bit suicidal, please talk to your doc asap.
Good luck, friend!
I disliked Pristiq, some of the side effects never went away for me.
I’d still strongly encourage people try it though as it got me through a really rough time and I’m truly grateful for that.
If I needed something again it would be my first choice.
Fingers crossed for you. Been there, had awful side effects and none worked. SNRI landed me in emergency ☹️
Good luck, and do reach out if you need any interwebs support ❤️
As you can see a few of us have been in your shoes from a medication perspective before.
Update on the new meds: I actually feel great. It’s called Wellbutrin and apparently is used to quit smoking (bonus!) and for weight loss also (2nd bonus). I just feel kind of motivated? And have a lot more energy.
Early days yet, so we’ll see.
Just got hacked at work. Can’t do emails, ordinary work or access the accounts program. Up to date on everything else. They were pretending to be Windows Defender.
Twiddle thumbs afternoon coming up. Ho hum.Uh oh. They get even the most vigilant. And that’s only the stuff we hear about.
Anyhoo, how have you been?
Hanging on in there. How you?
Not too bad. Trying to have a chill day, but was nigh impossible with some works going on in my complex, so fresh air and sunshine it is. Hope all has been well otherwise. ✨
They were pretending to be Windows Defender.
I’ve recently has someone pretend to be Norton
Am bored at work, so here is dad joke for Monday - A Grandfather tells his Grandson, “When I was a boy, you could go into a store with coins in your pocket and come out with a loaf of bread, lunch and a bottle of milk.” The Grandson replies, “You can’t do that anymore Grandpa, there’s too many cameras now“.
dad joke
that’s a dad’s dad joke
I don’t normally post things like this. To the old lady in that big mf ute thing, who took 7 goes and 2 different parking spots to reverse park and could barely see over the steering wheel jfc. Go park down the back.
or get a Barina.
I’d joke and say she’s probably got a Barina in the back, but the trays on those things are shorter than a bloody Falcon ute, so they’re useless even in that regard.
(Let the hate commence)
Bip-bip bip-bip yeah!
Coffee was so good I’m pretty sure I made my O face. I definitely moaned. 10/10 has saved my day.
Gah. Was meant to catch up with a friend for coffee and lo and behold my car wouldn’t start :(
Have called out roadside assistance to have a look, I suspect it’s the battery.
I hope it’s only flat and doesn’t need replacing.
Pray for me.
🙏
Roadside came and gone.
Confirmed to be a dead battery. :(
I’ll need to sort that out tomorrow or the day after.
They’re often on sale for 30% off if you have a look around the main car stores.
Had a look around but I’m not too confident and have little knowledge of car batteries.
It’ll be ok. I can sort it out tomorrow or the day after, one of my friends is going to help me get sorted.
The old battery or the manual should outline power required (CCA - cold cranking amps). Supercheap, Autobarn, Repco, Bursons, RACV, will all be able to check what battery suits your car too.
Thanks.
RACV will sort me out later in the week.
I did have a look at Supercheap as all you have to do is enter your rego online and it checks for you.
How old is the battery?
I’m not sure since it been awhile. I’d put it somewhere in the 4-7 year range.
That’s a good run! They usually last about 3.
Oh well guess I got lucky but maybe I’m blowing it out since I don’t really remember when I last replaced it.
Did they check your alternator too (the thing that charges the battery)? Or have you already tried charging the battery manually?
Good luck. I hope you got your car running and managed to get out for your coffee.
My #Jimny is getting its 2-year service and I am hoping I don’t have any nasty surprises.
Spent the day in the local town, visiting cafés and parks, waiting for the Phonecall with quiet optimism.
Thanks it’ll be ok. I have nothing urgent that needs going for so I can wait it out the next day or so.
Fingers crossed for you too and your 2 year service. If there’s anything you’d think warranty would cover you.
Erp. Woke up at 11am. Gonna carpe whatever is left of the diem
today can carpe deez nuts.
Exactly how my day’s gone as well.
I’m just grateful as fuck for my meds helping to keep my mood and energy buoyant, and able to get on with cranking out difficult emails/doing some research rather than dwelling on how I’ve started the day off “wrong”…
You didn’t start the day wrong. Society is out of sync with real people.
What a lovely start to the week. One of my bosses messages on Teams group chat wishing me a happy birthday for yesterday. 20 minutes later, she sends me an email saying I won’t be eligible for the bonus that all other staff will be getting for the team exceeding Q2 performance for the most bullshit reasons (the real reason being, they asked me to leave and don’t care to pay me anything extra, even though I contributed like everyone else). Together with some wank about how she wanted to tell me in person but the time of year makes that difficult. Spineless individual.
Planning to resign within the next month and it cannot come quick enough. Thinking another sickie between now and then too.
That sounds like workplace bullying and depending on the size of the bonus might be worth a call to fairwork.
Happy birthday and fuck these people.
Planning to resign within the next month and it cannot come quick enough. Thinking another sickie between now and then too.
then call this crap out. You got nothing to lose.
Wow. That’s horrendous.
Happy Birthday for yesterday.
January (and late December, early February) birthdays are unrewarding. “Sorry we didn’t get you a present, we re still broke from Christmas”.
Good luck with getting a redundancy and payout, as long as it doesn’t come at the cost of any mental health.
Happy belated birthday and may you get to yeet these ungrateful fucks out of your life asap.
Unfortunately Melbcat does have a bacterial UTI. She’s been prescribed banana scented antibiotics. Some cats like the taste but I had to chase her through the house to dose her when we got home. She’s had her Solensia too which should help slow the arthritis as well as manage pain. The monthly vet bills are gonna be steep…
And just now I found out that this new antibiotic is amoxicillin which she’s allergic to. I wish I’d noticed sooner 😬 Sorting it.
gentle hugs for you both
It’s so hard looking after pets because they don’t speak. If only they could tell us what is happening with them we could help them so much more and they wouldn’t get stressed either
I do wish she could talk. I’m usually very good at picking up issues almost immediately (called the cystitis before seeing the blood) but the non-bacterial inflammation ones are kind of the norm so I tried that approach first.
I got onto the vet in time and managed to emergency uber there to get a different medication before close. Somebaby just got fed a crushed up tablet in water and is not happy… 💊
After a great deal of measuring and deliberation I have put through an order to Ikea. There will be many flat things arriving that I will have to turn into not flat things.
It should be a good improvement for my sewing storage area, which has had a mix of random cheap storage solutions including wire cubes that don’t really work that well. It’s an awkard spot to get things to fit - I think it was originally a wardrobe, which the previous owner tried to turn into a bar, by putting a bench across the middle and putting an arch in the wall at the front to match an arched doorway in the room. Which means there is a really deep cupboard at the bottom which is hard to reach anything in, and the archway on top partially blocks access to shelves. I have bought the deepest drawers I can find to fit in the bottom, plus a couple of narrow trolleys on wheels that can be pulled out to get access. And some wire shelves to go on the top section that are about half the width of the bench.
I am frying onions and my apartment smells so gooooooood. It is making my air purifier very excited though.
I’ll never forget the time I batch cooked about 30 huge onions down into a spicy caramelised onion dish in my little dorm room in Japan (for a food festival) and probably fucked up the stove hood as a result. It was so good but the smell wasn’t so great the day after and it took about 3 full days to air the tiny place out completely.
Yikes that sounds like weapons grade onion warfare.
My most intense onion story was the time in my first apartment when I bought 3 onions and left them (forgot about them) in the back of the pantry for… who knows how long… and then one day suddenly the apartment STANK and I was hunting for the source of the smell. Turns out the onions sort of melted into a dark sludge which dripped down multiple shelves. I can’t remember how long that smell stuck around but it was a while. When I think about it I can still kind of smell it.
Oh yuck. Rotted onion is a particularly nasty smell.
Annual performance bullshit completed. They still have no idea
that all the work was done by cat, paid with 🥖
He’s certainly attended enough meetings to deserve payment
Start of a new week, let’s hope I can get off my arse and go job hunting instead of enjoying my break from working.
