I sneezed. Chaos ensues.
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she's so adorable
Cleaning rambles
Cleaning out the fridge. Threw out old dried up bottles of girlie’s medication, the homemade broth she didn’t finish and kitten formula she didn’t want… the open wet food and pumpkin baby food are already in the bin and the opened bag of her dry food has started being fed to the black scallywag before it expires. The plain yogurt she didn’t like anymore can go. :(
Old bags of flour. Bin. Cordial I won’t drink. Out to whoever takes it. Cocoa powder that might be stale. Bin. Cat milk mini cartons. See if vet or shadowy visitor wants. A freshly opened tin of powdered kitten formula with a condensation damaged label that probably wouldn’t be accepted by a shelter… Move sealed tin to freezer in case of random surprise kittens I guess?
Going to run the emptied containers through the dishwasher twice because it doesn’t clean some things well but I’m not up to hand washing everything. It doesn’t rinse very well either. I used a utensil without rinsing it extra under the tap and the soap residue burnt my tongue.
Then I’m going to have to wipe this fridge out and give away stuff from the freezer.
Almost enough ladders, gutters and downpipes for today. One more thing to do.
Not a chore if there's a view
They let me go.
I know why, but under probation they don't have to give a reason.
Got a few interviews this week so that's good.
Gotta keep moving forward.
Sorry man :(
make sure they pay out all your entitlements. Fuckers.
Let us know if you need anything to help out
Thanks man, I really appreciate it ❤️
hugs
it can be very unsettling to be let go, even by people who weren't really treating you well
So I bought a salt rifle for the flies as recommended here. Lots of fun. One problem: Every time I go to use it after a few days the salt is too moist for it to work properly and I have to clean it out and use fresh salt. I am using Coles cheap iodised salt that I have on hand. Does anyone have a tip on how to keep the salt dry?
I don't have that problem. The things I do are: Not to have it cocked so there's no salt in the chamber and I lay it on its side under my coffee table away from sunlight. Laying it on the side prevents it from entering the hole. I use Aldi's table salt and I don't know if it's different from the Coles table salt. I wouldn't put anything else in there. I hope that helps.
Edit: Maybe try decanting some salt in a jar and throw some silica packets in there and only use that for your gun.
different from the Coles table salt
It's all NaCl I wouldn't worry about that.
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Interest in a games specific catch up? My place doesn't do big groups well, but things that by nature spilt into 3or4...
Pass from me. Not that I don't like a good meet up, but games as such are a bit beyond me.
Poo. Some other time 😺
Indeed. Would welcome a pub meetup and book discussion at some time. I have a sneaking suspicion that we share a taste for speculative fiction. Particularly the more unhinged variety of the genres. What are your thoughts on werewolves? I have a great fondness for werewolves .... Vampires not so much.
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I'm keen!
Splendid! May the 4th isn't a weekend. No other named dates spring to mind
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had more sleep 👍 I needed it
off to the beach for a long hike , might find shells, first time since knee bumps
then home for some light housework and gardening
cooking already done last night
so an easy day 😊
I lost laundry roulette
AW YEAH IT'S ALL COMIN' UP LEYA
Lentils are so good.
And my new freezer cube meal prep is paying off. I had some extra tomatoey marsala gravy from a previous curry and so I froze it and some leftover coconut cream from previous meal.
WFH day today so lunch was cube of marsala gravy, small portion of the coconut cream, portion of onion-celery-carrot mix, portion of frozen spinach. All dumped in the instant pot with lentils, a stock cube and water. Served over defrosted rice portions.
So so yum and so easy. Thanks past me!
Everything sounds grand except the rice. I've always found frozen rice to have a weird unpleasant texture. Have you a trick?
Not really. Brown rice slightly undercooked, then drown it in yummy lentils so I don't notice the texture 😎😎
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Back on OPERATION DOWNPIPE CLEANING FURY.
I am determined to foolishly not pay anyone to do this or fall off the roof.
Starve the beast.
I have to cut the bum off one of ours and direct it into a tub with a 12v bilge pump (weirdly I actually already have all these parts and the battery / panel ready to go) because it turns out it goes absolutely fucking nowhere .
We're gonna smash up that pathway and redo it anyway as it's rooted to shit, and put in a proper line and drain then but still. Annoying.
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the flies down at the beach are driving me crazy lately, I think they are march flies, they stick
I seriously feel like Pigpen while I'm down there
apparently they like denim, ok, I will wear light colours and see what happens
It's the talk of the fly gun made me wonder if I could use one ...lol
Be careful carrying one around outside the house because they may fall under imitation firearm
It's March. March flies are allowed. Come April then we can complain about them.
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This pit in my gut,
Like carrying a thousand kilos of air;
Unbearably heavy but nothing is there.
Fart like the hindenburg babe! Preferably outside
🤣
Tomorrow I have to fill out my UnKaos schedule, so I can use my time wisely , to remind me of goals and work toward these goals.
also, I m so ready to go on a diet, totes sick of cooking and eating
Had a dream that Jisoo from Blackpink helped me fuck over an unnecessarily rude person by buying her house and turning it into an AirBNB farm stay. The house was in an abandoned school at the bottom of a mountain and Jisoo owned a 5* resort of the top of the mountain.
I know most of these words
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10 drops of rain and now it's sunny again
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