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I take this medicine which is an opiate blocker. It's kind of a "in case of emergency" sort of thing.
My doctor fucked up the injection. Badly. And it reduced the efficacy of my anti depressent to zero. Which is a bad time. A real bad time.
I've just started feeling normal again tonight.
As much as it fucking sucked the last few days, it's nice to be normal again.
just take care π€
The nearby social housing residents are really acting up this week. Screamy guy was yelling incoherently at the neighbours with the disabled moaning kid a couple days ago and had a few flare ups. Loud exhaust guy has been around. And tonight there's some male voice making repeated monotone "aah, aah, aah" sounds that have been so consistent that I thought it was a frog for a while. Mixed in with screamy guy. In a way I look forward to the cold when I can close my windows all night and not have to hear all this...
The gym can be a fascinating place. Today I saw a species I haven't seen in a long time:
The "wander around flexing guy"
This particular species generally uses light weights to squat, then does a loop of the gym huffing and puffing. In what I assume is an attempted display of domination. When no one pays any attention to him, he may repeat the loop and extend his arms out to assume a larger stature.
This character also never puts his stuff back.
Oh I saw their sister species, the "do laps of the block revving the engine" guy last night.
This particular species, generally drives a fancy car they definitely can't afford, although they have occasionally been spotted in Holden's, usually red in colour. They usually slam on the brakes at the first sight of an orange light just for another opportunity to rev their engine until it sounds like it's on the verge of exploding. Other dropkick behaviours including (but not limited to): cat calling women, speeding, blasting doof doof, running red lights, cutting people off, and trying to run pedestrians over had also been observed in a large portion of them.
This character almost always drives either a red or yellow car.
Oh I went to high school with that sub type. It's amazing to see them grow up and still act the exact same way.
I remember I was walking around with my white girlfriend and one of those guys yells out "pick a white guy next time".
Classic.
"Thanks for the advice, but you aren't my type!"
The less said about their behaviour towards cyclists the better. In my youth, the car to be afraid of was a yellow Merc driven by a fat man smoking a cigar. Or any car driven by someone wearing a hat. Does this still apply?
I'm using up the last of my tomato harvest to make soup. The recipe is made up as I go, and at the moment it's oven roasted tomatoes, garlic and onion, simmering away with some vegie stock from the freezer and a bit of bacon for pizzaz. I have no idea what it's going to end up like but it smells sensational.
Fully approve of oven roasting the toms before soupifying them. They lose water and the flavour intensifies amazingly. When can I come over and do some quality control testing ?????
I am a grown up, responsible human. I also just found two skittles underneath the couch cushion and ate them.
Not too bad a day today. I faffed my speech but eh, it was flipped at the last minute so I can now see it wasn't really on me. Plus first speech and all that. I was summoned onto the stage with a bunch of other "young consultants" as they call us and had to accept a scroll and a purple monkey, although I didn't need to speak (thank goodness) then we left.
We went down to Belair...
Then up to Gawler...
And then into the central Adelaide station...
Then we went to this cool little yank burger joint in the city, coincidentally called "yankee burgers"...
Although on the whole I've found Adelaide people to be more respectful and quiet than Melbourne, drunk people don't really care about norms and social expectations, so there was some gronk in a noisy red Holden and blaring music who was looping 3 blocks for about an hour, and all the drunkies yelling at each other below.
Then we went to Glenelg and did a Ferris wheel ride, apparently the last one of the night before they closed...
And yeah, I definitely get st Kilda vines from glenelgy, except I do not like st Kilda do I'm gonna say glensy is better
One more sleep and then I'll come back to the dark side (only quarter joking). See you soon, Melbourne heads!
Also, apparently despite a few unsavoury antics over the last few days, the Vic group was actually really well behaved. There's been a shit ton of rumours, but on confirmed behaviour, we haven't actually done anything. It's been the other states running amok. It's pretty much become state vs state. One of our group was even practically exiled for buying into the rumours. I am really happy to go home and not have any more drama though! Gossip and stupid drama is a solid 85% of the reason I despise school. At least I'll have a clean room though I guess
Sorry I haven't been very present for you guys recently - I've been trying to keep up on what's happening with everyone, but I haven't replied much
Thank you so much for posting your adventures. We are lucky to have you. π
I made fried rice on my teppanyaki plate that I've had for about 20 years but never used it until now. The rice was fantastic. The only problem was the bacon trying to escape. I have an oily clean up now.
I'm far to messy to attempt cooking on something without sides!
That is a work of art.
We're back after an anti-nausea shot and painkillers. The alternative was to hospitalise her which would be expensive and I don't think she needs it. I'm really hoping I have enough energy left in the tank to manage a visit to the regular vet this week.
I seem to be a bit of a cat magnet lately. We went past an orange one that didn't run away... I was a bit concerned about his eyes, skinniness and rapid breathing but he got up and gave me a sniff so seemed alright. Then the black cat was outside warming his/her bum on the water tank.
Cat rambles
Edit: I'm still thinking about that orange cat. The reason I was worried is that his (I'm assuming most likely his because orange) third eyelids were showing which is a health concern, and his eyes looked squinted and red. He was breathing a bit fast. And he looked skinny. His fur looked great but I didn't see a collar.
Unfortunately I've barely got enough physical ability right now to look after myself and my own cat. And doing anything would possibly involve bundling an unknown cat into my own cat's carrier (potentially contaminating it plus risking being bitten and scratched) and walking my exhausted disabled arse back to the emergency vet or getting a taxi to the other place to get him checked for a microchip. I really don't feel that I have the physical energy to do that right now and get my own cat to the vet.
When she's sorted and once I've recuperated from this demanding time I might walk around the block to see if he's around and if his eyes have improved... I'm hoping he has an owner.
Edit 2: It's highly possible that it's conjunctivitis from cat flu and highly contagious so I'm gonna wash my clothes he sniffed and the bedding I just lay on. If I can remember which house he was outside I might slip a note in the letterbox wondering if he's theirs and asking them to take him to the vet.
The fucking F1 cars have been at it since 7 π it's basically in my back yard and it's louuuuud
The Grand Pricks.
I'll be honest - I've always thought the GP and car racing in general are kind of stupid. I don't like most sports and similar events, but I wouldn't go as far as to outright call most of them stupid, except the GP. Seems like such a waste of everything. But I suppose it brings in those tourist $$ so it'll be what it'll be I guess
Well without these races we wouldn't have the safety features that modern day cars now have. Thats what I understand of it.
I'm 7 kms away on the north east side of town and I can bloody hear them from here!!!!
Oh thank God it's not just me. I thought I was going crazy here in Fitzroy North. I thought surely that can't be what I'm hearing.
I don't know why I cared enough to do this but I figured out how to split my mp3 audiobook out into chapters then merge them back together into a proper audiobook format which supports chapters. Now it looks like the real deal in the app! Literally does not change anything about the way I listen to it. The app already remembers where you left off etc but now I have β¨ CHAPTERS! β¨
Need to find my big fat red pen and go for a second walk. Local church is advertising βstripping of the alterβ π
I love how much skinnier I look after a long sleep in!
this actually might be true
our spine elongates when we lie down and sleep and we get taller
Ooo I'm a celebrity get me out of here is on tonight. I love watching idiots eat sheep dick and maggots for cash while I'm munching on my twisties.
Have a good sleep everyone. π
Everyone in my house is sick to a degree and coughing. The kids aren't too bad. But Mr P (the worst hit) has taken to wandering out to the kitchen, forgetting why he's there and coughing wetly all over the place. I've taken to hovering around there so I can chase him out lol. If you're sick and you need something, ask! I'm taking my favourite herbal sachet things (Sido Muncul Tolak Angin Flu in the blue packet) as a preventative (works for me) but nobody else likes them. Admittedly they are pretty full on, but I like that sort of thing.
In other news I made waffles.
Yes, I know FB is a general plague, but WTF is with getting tagged in Everybody posts of groups I left years ago? Some sort of residual data thing that is very not ok.
Well, I was an idiot. Forgot about the GP and got stuck on Lygon. Thank goodness it didnβt take too long.
Still a snot block. If I donβt kick it this week, might be anti-biotics for me. I might not have had them since I was a teen?
Hereβs to hoping I donβt have toβ¦
Feels like I'm getting sick. No idea if it's just from being pushed into a flare (which I definitely have been), allergies, or if it's something caught on the bus. I avoided risks for so damn long but needed something and it was too far to walk... I was stupid to forget my mask.
I've put a cloth mask on around the cat just in case. She's still seeming painful, I heated her wheat bag and am trying to get her to rest her ear on it. Guess I rest up until Monday, do a RAT, and then if it's negative with no text back I'll see about getting her back to the vet myself
Edit: Yeah she's vomited again. Repeatedly. I've applied through the website for them to ring me about making an appointment and will ring to check how busy emergency is after handover.
I can't believe it's the day before the bad day that went quick!
Soo!! we need a rave choon..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIelfwl46tE
Also the BoM forecast is interesting. 3 days of low 30's again here we go :) Chillies will be losing their shit over this. It has been a good season.
Maybe I'll get a few more ripe jalapenos to volunteer for my chipotle plans.
I need my manzano to hurry up and do its thing because otherwise I suspect it'll be holding onto big green chillis through all of winter.
