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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Many years ago I grew and birthed a baby. Today I did it again. π Feast your eyes on my loaf
Image of a loaf of bread
Update will happen when I saw into the thing.
Image of loaf with two cut off piece. One buttered.
Verdict: Lovely crust. Soft inside. Maybe a little under done but still edible. 4/5 yum yums.
Note to ones self: Do not eat the whole thing before the roomies come home.
https://www.recipetineats.com/easy-yeast-bread-recipe-no-knead/
Apparently it's International Cat Day. I'd say make sure to spoil your cat, but mine's very spoilt already.
Cat tax: a tabby cat sunbaking his paws through the window
The Herald Scum are at it again. According to them firefighters are being offered a "whopping pay increase". 12% over four years - which means 3% a year. Wow, less than half the current inflation rate, how outrageous. π‘
Exercises for this morning were completed, and to my surprise the Elder Minipeeler asked shyly if he could join me! It was a good teaching moment about not going at it too hard when you're beginning with exercises so you don't hurt yourself and get disillusioned, and doing 10ish minutes a day is a good habit to get into no matter what age or ability you are. He also showed me some exercises he's been taught at school!Let's see if he joins me again tomorrow or starts his own thing!
This is so adorably wholesome!!
Had a chat with my boss, and I apologised for listening to things. He said that it's fine to listen to things, just not to have my phone out. So podcasts and music are back on the menu boys!
Shout out to daycare for being a pit of germs. He's been in 1 bloody day and Im already fighting off some stupid cold thing.
Your immune system is about to see shit it hasn't ever seen. Best of luck, stock up on hydralyte and panadol.
In 12 to 18 months you'll be invincible.
New fave baby age unlocked: heβs 9 months and when I put on a silly voice for a toy he thinks the toy is talking to him π₯²π₯²π₯²
Curse my stupid healthy sleep routine for making me miss the cool ~~alien~~ space junk. I'm feeling awake and refreshed, but at what cost?
It's okay guys. The prawns were NOT on the counter. They were defrosting in the fridge. The years are getting to me and I can't remember shit and now I can't find my glasses. God save me.
I'm always saying to myself, "If they're not on your face they're in the case" to get me to put them back in the case when not in use. Doesn't work, I'm often leaving them in some random place!
There was a legitimate big bang about 40 mins ago and I heard it hooray. Apparently something entering the atmosphere.
Videos people got are pretty impressive.
I don't have anywhere/anyone else to show this to, but I caught a shiny Magikarp in Magikarp Jump. I named her Audrey.
If I killed 3 people and seriously wounded another accidently with my cooking my face would be puffy from crying and my body would be so incapacitated that I would not be able to move from the couch.
Just don't go scrounging around for mushrooms to munch, and you should be safe lol
Current pet peeve: Repeated doorbell ringers.
I'm not talking the "press button, wait , try again" kind, I'm talking about the utter bastards who will press the button, then if you have the temerity to not IMMEDIATELY open the door to their vaunted presence will hit the button again. And again. And again. And again.
My desk is less than 6m (EDIT: I just measured with my rolling tape for shits and it's actually 4.785m from my desk, to the office door, out the door and then back down the hall) from the front door. If you ring the doorbell more than once in the time it takes me to get from my desk to said door I should be legally permitted to beat you with a chair.
So since we are a very international mob here let's share some good and bad flying stories.
I think my fave flight was flying on xmas eve/xmas day, London-Singapore-Melbourne. The pilots came on board dressed in santa suits and we had xmas dinners and got gifts! Surprisingly the plane was half empty.
Another time, this was before 9-11, I arranged for young Miss Seagoon ( age 15 ), and her friends who were travelling with us, to visit the cockpit. They were allowed to experience the landing into Singapore, they sat in the cockpit. . ( and that's a lovely airport at night , the harbour is so pretty with all the lights )
my dad worked for a multi-national so i travelled a lot growing up.
i remember flying business class on Malaysian Airlines in something like 1987 or so. It was our family and like 3 other people on the whole top floor of the 747. The flight attendant came up to me and asked how i would like to be addressed (i was 9), i said your majesty as a joke....they referred to me as your majesty for the rest of the flight.
another business class flight around the same time (give or take 5 years), coming into land at Kuala Lumpur when there was a tropical storm happening, pilot tried 5 times to land, each one more turbulent that the last. me aged ~7 or 8 throwing up progressively louder and more violently with each touch&go.
also through a perk of my dad's work, i got to fly on a private jet (Gulfstream i think) Melbourne to Wellington. Sat in the cockpit from takeoff to landing with a headset on. was cool
for the record, i have not flown business class since the 80s.
edit - oh yeah, and that time i flew to Argentina and the plane had an engine failure 2 hours after we'd passed NZ. I was sitting window seat over the wing, and was watching out the window. saw something that looked like that vapour like you see on take off and landing sometimes on a cold day, all wispy-like...then it got a bit thicker and blacker. then there was a small bang and little puff of extra smoke. then the seat-belt lights came on and the pilot very very causually told everyone that we had had an engine failure and would need to turn back to NZ.
Ugh, mornings. Should be illegal
I had a little nap. Woke up 2 hours later. We ate bread for dinner. No more bread left.
Good morning to all you lovely people and pets.
Good morning from Pepper, who is grateful she didn't have to spend last night hiding in the airport carpark, and instead sent purrs and hisses and little tiny growls all around my house.
Since I've gone down a size or two I'm getting rid of the too big clothes and last of the stuff I don't wear anymore. π two bags of stuff for the op shop
Had my alarm set for 6 am to do some morning Yoga. Even fell asleep before around 11 to get my normal 6-7 hours. Woke up a minute before the alarm, turned it off and closed my eyes for one second.
Next thing I know my missus is waking me up at 7:30.
Who can I blame for this?
I've discovered the magic of Slow Rail Journeys and now I just reallllllly want to go on one. Unfortunately it's out of my budget for the foreseeable future, but God if I ever happen to just have a casual $1000 I don't need, I'm 100% going on one
I've officially gone insane. I'm listening to the entire Tornado album by Yes. Look, I have a brand new appreciation for the legendary Squire/White combination, but even the cat is worried about me
Really want late night potat. Just remembered I have potat gems and access to a Phillips xl air fryer. Problem solved.
Making glacial but gradual progress on work. Half way through 1 of 6 discussion sections with images. My ability to concentrate is totally shot atm. I kinda wish I did have that psych appt yesterday after all. Maybe meds might've helped.
I really hate that when I try to study, I fall asleep. Holy shit, so inconvenient. Any suggestions for how to ease it?
hmm i cbf today
finish cooking, do the dishes, a little walk, and then i'll get back in bed
I have steak and veg for dinner. I'm doing a tray bake of the veg, and I have so much I'm not sure how I'll fit everything on the plate.
I can hear a singer playing an acoustic version of Faith by George Michael. Such a lovely evening π
God, I am feeling... dead. I wish to take today off but I also want a long weekend, so I'll just have to grin it and bare it until Friday.
Well... that was a very circular and unproductive discussion with the boss and admin person. I'm left absolutely no clearer about where things are going and the business still wants to throw everything into my court without providing me enough information to make a decision. I guess that alone is information in itself. I'm so sleep deprived it was probably not the best frame of mind to understand what they were getting at anyway.
Part of me is so over it all I'm tempted to just jump onto fb marketplace and start selling off all my stuff NOW and get away and get out of Melbourne within a month for a clean break and reset.
Buuuut okay, first things first. Start with today. ~~Make toastie.~~ ~~Eat toastie~~. Drink water. Do the image-insertion thing that I said I'd do (that'll be about 3 hours of mind numbing shit). Meeting at 3:30. Enter timesheet. Feed cat. Then go the fuck to sleep.
Itβs surprisingly warm atm so you know what Iβm going to say. Get that Vitamin D in right now if you can. Go for a smoko? Idk 10 min break if youβre in the office. Whatever get that Sun and warmth. Who knows how long itβll last. I canβt enjoy it as Iβm about to go into an appointment. Have a bloody good day everyone!
Sunshine being enjoyed as instructed.
Image is of a ginger cat, a black cat and a Jack Russell terrier enjoying the sunshine in a garden.
Is reddit melbourne starting to become a lot like whingepool? It's like the vibe has changed over there.
i am getting up
it is better to pack a random bag of dirty clothes to the laundromat and miss a number of items than not do any laundry at all.
