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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Got two old wisdom teeth removed this morning (not impacted, just decayed).
Total time spent in dental chair.....28 minutes.
5 minute chat explaining what's what
20 minutes of injecting local anaesthetic and waiting for it to kick in
3 minutes of the smoothest tooth extraction I've ever had.
Now the suffering begins
I had mine out under a general aesthetic. Went private. Sent me home with the good drugs. I was high for a week. Didn't feel a thing.
Gelato is your friend.
Only four hours of restless sleep, because the cat was a fucking monster last night.
So many bite marks up my arm 😭
Edit: the asshole in question, the most adorable agent of chaos. Must worship Tzeentch or Khorne
Oh Mickey what a pity
You won't go to bed
When you're biting on my arm all night
You're messing with my head!
I cacked so hard 😂😂😂 this is brilliant!!!!
We've taken to given our cat his own bedroom as night because he drives us up the wall, leaping on the bed at all hours and howling for food from 3am. At first I felt like a bit of a monster, but last night I noticed he was hanging out in "his room" while we were getting ready for bed, so that made me feel better and we're both sleeping soooo much better.
Sadly, the layout of my apartment impedes the ability to give him a room to chill in. Plus, he has bonded to me considerably, and at 3ish years old I don't want to cause him more anxiety lol, he's so needy already.
I'm going to try and play with him more before bed, so he's tuckered out. In the long term, I want to get him a big cat wheel to work off the energy. As a top floor apartment, I don't want to keep running around to wear him down and annoy the neighbors by stomping 😂
But this is certainly a good idea! I'll think of ways to implement this within the environ.
And then they have the cheek to sleep all day.
I made this.
Kind of like a smores but with stale anzac biscuits, marshmallow and raspberry jam so more like a warm Monte Carlo. It didn't disappoint.
I'm pretty confident we've hit the point where Tinyest is trying to talk to us not just saying words because he can. You can see him actively trying to communicate. We got "Ta" very clearly last night for the first time so we're up to 3 clear words.
Its a real shock when they go from "baby" to "toddler" in your brain.
Today's going to be a good day. I declare it so.
So that $25 Android Auto Wireless adaptor I got from AliExpress.... Totally works @TinyBreak@aussie.zone 😳
What would you do? A partner’s sibling having a wedding an another State assigns you cake duty. This means buying a weddin-ish cake, getting it to an airport, lap flying it for about 2hr, a 2hr train ride, and something more to venue.
Bugger the weddingish cake. Ask them straight out if there's a colesworth handy where you can buy a packet of lamingtons before getting to the venue. You won't have a kitchen, the transport will be extremely anxiety inducing, and you've got no idea what facilities are available at destination for assembly/decoration. Not to mention the microbiology aspect of transporting food over such distances. In quantities appropriate for a wedding. This is a bloody thoughtless requirement loaded onto you. Lamingtons, packet lamingtons, is all they deserve.
Depends on how much I like the soon-to-be sibling in law.
If I like them, if try to find a local place that does wedding cakes and I would try to get there a day or so early to pick it up before wedding.
If I don't like them, I'd tell them to take a long walk off a short pier.
lol what? Surely you wouldn’t hand carry a wedding cake that far?
“Place all metal objects, laptops, and wedding cakes in the tray!” 😂
I bought the kitty's Zylkene. Buying higher doses and dividing the capsules works out cheaper.
She's good on food and litter for now, I just try to always stock up if I spot deals.
Art book rambles
I think the issue I'm having is lack of focus. Random art tutorials and tips really do help but there's not really any framework there. No plan of attack. Man, physical copies of respected art books are expensive.
I found 'Drawing For The Absolute Utter Beginner' on eBay for like $23 Aussie dollars from the UK. The ones in Australia are more around the $40-50 mark. But if I'm depressed and struggling with motivation/regular practice, maybe I'd be buying something that would just add clutter and gather dust. Hmm. I'll leave it in my cart and think about it. Edit: Wait - the cheap one actually has a hefty postage that works out to more.
There's a copy of 'How To Draw' by Jake Spicer for like $25 citing damage but the listing doesn't say how bad it is - it's listed as new with no defects, and the description says cosmetic wear. I don't mind if it's very tatty or has a few small rips, I just don't want something unusable like half torn or missing pages.
The Morpho books are free online via Google Drive but I know those are still under copyright. I could dig up Andrew Loomis books too but they've been taken down from a few places. Plus I don't want to click random links or download from unknown sites.
I'd borrow books from the library and scan them for private use only except I got rid of my scanner years ago - also the cost of ink.
Oh well. For now I've got a few genuine public domain books I'm reading in the browser. I might try a fineliner to avoid the ink streaks and blobs I've been having from the biros, and find something engaging to listen to while I build up layers of lines.
My cat snores. Always learning new things about this fluffy little thing.
Mmm food and coffee.
that's a lot of fungi.. there isn't mushroom for many more
Noice but why isn't that bread toasted.
Toasted very lightly. I like my toast ghosty.
I feel better now. My apologies.
Day 37: The chicken, it haunts my dreams. The rain is gravy and underfoot; broccoli and green beans.
So it goes.
Chicken is quite an affordable lean meat but could you occasionally mix it up? A steak with low cal mustard sauce or something, or salmon if it doesn't stink up a small flat. Salad with vinaigrette on the side. Just so it isn't identical meals forever
I remember a couple of years ago, I burned my immune system to the ground doing sport and gym, and caught pneumonia.
So what did this genius do? Not wait long enough before he went back to physical stuff and caught it again a week later.
This is what I remind myself of when I'm getting antsy sitting around sick now.
Rest is a kind of work , even tho we aren't moving our limbs doesn't mean we aren't working. Rest is letting your immune system focus on fighting bugs and rest lets your body repair itself.]
I cried with frustration at having to lay in bed 23.5 hours a day for 8 weeks, but it was the only way my vertebrate would mend, only way my spine and nerves would reduce swelling. Rest. Let the body repair.
Just rest.
I've now pulled out my old rotary beaters. Infinitely variable speed and a free aerobic workout with every bowl mixed!
Instructions unclear, tongue stuck in beaters
Instructions unclear. Beaters slip, bowl ends up on the floor. Swearing commences.
You appear to have seen me cook somehow
CBM advertisement. I am totally not admitting to just buying several kilograms of milo. They also currently have cheap period knickers if you are a size 12, and a metric butttonne of truffle stuff.
It’s cold today.
Got a dressing gown on and a hot water bottle on my lap.
Hardest part of my day is going to be taking out the bins today.
Unaddressed mail is wild. I just opened a letter addresses to our address but with no name, not even a return name (although strangely, a return address). It's in cursive and I can't read cursive but I'm pretty sure it's some sort of conspiracy theory. All I can decipher is something about new governments and children of God. They also addressed this letter as "dear neighbour" even though the return address is 9 suburbs away
Even stranger - it's a proper letter, like with stamps and an envelope and all the works. But the letter is a page ripped out of a ruled notebook
Edit: I searched the address and it seems to be some sort of weird gated Jehovah witness community thing. Absolutely wild
Today on audible I am listening to* Stolen Focus by Johann Hari * read by Johann Hari.
irl I listen to, watch or read the video/movie/documentary or book 3 times if I want it to stick.
In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.
