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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Some family stole my fave table spot (fair enough can't buy a view even with potato cakes)..
So potat cakes were had a few metres away.
They re-did the foreshore / playground / bbq area at point lonsdale a few years ago and it's quite nice to see the place used so frequently now.
It's a beautiful place.
TW suicide
So apparently this is complicated grief. Currently receiving extra support because of the strong urge to surrender the visitor cat and end my life. And the contamination ocd is going crazy.
Seeking help, waiting on grief counseling, bag packed in case of hospital stay, considering a dose of antidepressants that would aid mood, yada yada.
This sucks.
so many hugs
Is there anything we could do? Would you like a visit?
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Thanks, Iβm hoping Iβll be ok.
Honestly: Thankyou for helping yourself. You've given so much help to others and I'm not really sure what to say but I love your presence here and would hate to lose it. Socially awkward of me and I'm not a real huggy person, but I'd offer you one of my awkward A-frame hugs if I was there.
Thanks π«
City adventure today, just cause. Such a stunning day!!
Yesterday my boyfriend and I spent the day together and he cooked for me. Wouldn't let me help. What did I do to deserve this man?
he cooked for me
In the biz this is what we call a green flag.
Absolutely
You being you is reason enough. π₯°
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You know you are housesitting in the burbs when the actual ice-cream van comes past...
We have one of these here lol
I am out near your neck of the woods I think - probably the same guy! I'm having a little bush retreat housesitting in the western 'burbs but it beats paying for a big road trip!
Welcome to the boonies lol The most exciting thing about this place is.....
Huh.
Today was a good day.
Waiting for my home made parma to cool down, maybe play a game for a bit and chill.
My man has been outside all day fixing his whipper snipper. There's nothing YouTube can't teach you.
cool π
I think Good Friday is the worst of the christian public holidays. Everything is closed like Christmas but there's nothing to do. And the thing all non practicing people do is not eat red meat. At least you get to give gifts to people on Christmas.
The best parts of easter are on the other days too, but Good Friday is meant to be the big one
Personally I find it a bit of a sad intitement of our society that we equate shops/services being closed with 'nothing to do'. Are we really that unable to entertain ourselves?
I've always thought public holidays are a great thing because it gives us time to do things together - get together for a bbq or a picnic, play board games, have a movie night, whatever you like. Don't just feed the consumerist machine.
I even mean with events and hanging out with family. It feels like there is more emphasis on family lunch at Christmas even if there's nothing else to do. Whereas there's just nothing on good friday
The local community FB group at my old place was fantastic, people giving away quality stuff like the cat autofeeder my feet give thanks for every morning. The group here has people trying to $ell partially used bottles of nail varnish πΉ
Perhaps it's an indicator of local financial stress? I used to find thrown out working or near working printers in my area, not any more.
we've been getting an influx of "Out on nature strip " and it's like go fuck yourself, I'm not taking your hard rubbish for you.
in some suburbs it really is rubbish, others it's good stuff
I managed to get through my to-do list. It was a bit of an overloaded day, but I did a big batch of cauliflower soup (15 serves!) a batch of yoghurt, a sandwich loaf and a cheese and herb plait, chopped veggies for snacking on, prepped all meals for the next two days, mowed the front lawn, folded the washing, assembled a small cupboard and did my exercises.
Darwin award day.. hot water up a ladder into downpipes.
Good thing I got an email this morning from Ambulance Vic... final notice to renew... good timing.
When I was about 7 or 8yo broke my leg at a park down here at a family thing, didn't have coverage... and that was an expensive activity.
My daughter, almost 2, has thrown up a couple of times in the last 2 hours. Gonna be a rsstless night. Hope shes ok.
Thinking about how to get these ringworm tablets down the black cat when and if I can get them. If I canβt sneak them down in food it may not be safe to forcibly pill him.
Thinking about whether that toxic carpet foam affected him and if the carpet washer will get it out. Whether heβll use the shelter in winter, and as it gets colder if thereβs an eskie with the right dimensions to become an insulated shelter-bed. If he doesnβt I may be forced to let him in again π
spoiler
Lying in bed completely physically exhausted, struggling to stay hydrated and seeing memories of Melbcat come up on my phone. Holding her urn.
The ringworm on my knee is unmistakably back. I donβt know if I can beat this.
I really care about this cat, feel guilty, and havenβt lined anything upβ¦ but Iβm truly not coping with the added responsibilities and feel slight relief that there might be a safe option for someone else to take him and ensure heβs cared for. If thereβs a foster place open and they would accept him.
Iβm feeling it out and sitting with the idea that I may not be able to keep him.
I'd be putting liquid antifungal in the cat food
and painting any ringworm I had with daktarin tincture , the tincture is super strong and works very well
I killed my ringworm with a Thrush pill. Didn't have a reinfection source around though.
in Melbourne we don't get cold enough for an insulated shelter required for survival. I get for comfort, but we're temperate enough he will be ok even in winter
Found cheap SD cards at Jaycar so I'll stick one in and try out these knockoff little cameras tonight. They can maybe be a present the kids can keep this easter, they were interested in the DSLR cameras at JB today so good timing
Shopping done.
Haircut next.
Then the usual suspects: cat, music, reading.
Tomorrow night, bar crawl lol
awww yeah I'm a goddamn genius.
bilge pump + car battery + panel and controller = downspout that goes nowhere now goes into a tub and spits out into the lemon tree instead of eroding my goddamn foundations. And it didn't cost me a penny.
although I am now looking at UV stabilised tubs for shits and hydro.
beach π
Lawn is mown. Soup is simmering. Yoghurt is straining. Bread is baking. Washing is folded and put away. Vegetables chopped into snackable sticks. Why do I still have lots left to do today?
