An early good morning to all. Just want to let you know I really appreciate this place. The banter, support, friendly advice, cute animal pics, all of it. It really is a wholesome corner of the internet. May you all have a superb weekend.
2nd doggo walk done.
Still hopeless.
He does attract the ladies though, just not when he’s passed out under a table with his face in a puddle of drool.
aw, what’s not to love. 💖
Zzzzzz 💧
Public Service Announcement for people who use drink bottles with straws in them: you need to get a brush and clean inside the straw regularly. If you use the bottle for liquids that are not water you need to clean them every day. If the bottle has a built in piece that you put inside your mouth you need to clean inside that too.
I’ve just been cleaning up some stuff from lost property so it can go to the op shop and some of those bottles are really nasty inside, with algae and mould growing inside the straw and mouthpiece.
So true! I use those little brush thingies that come with reusable straws and then put the straws and the tops through the dishwasher. The bottles have to be hand washed because they’re stainless steel and can’t go through the dishie. I’ve learnt the hard way that some bottles have these overly complex flip out parts and whatnot that are just ridiculous and not worth buying because, while kinda cool and fancy, you just cannot clean every part of every part.
Also important is to let them dry out thoroughly before the next time you use them. I’ve got a collection of them which I rotate. Be prepared to replace them every few months. Man, the bottles I’ve bought over the last 13 years 💸 It’s like pegs: when you’ve got kids you need 2 or 3 times as many as you think you’ll need!
Ewwwwww
But thanks for the psa!
Migraine + cat purr = relief
Edit: It actually worked. I thought I’d be bed ridden again today.
hope you feel better when you wake up
❤️
smoothing out those errant alpha waves with cat purrs or classical music really works
Miniest wanted to go for a walk today. I really didn’t feel like it but went anyway. Then while we were at the local park some relos turned up with their girls and we were there for much longer than I wanted to be. I wasn’t in the mood to be social but I willed myself through it. I’ve been so tired lately, on the weekends I feel like I’ve got just enough to push through the laundry and cook a meal or two and then anything else feels like an imposition. My social battery seems always on about 50% or less. I try to do something with the kids every weekend otherwise it’s not fair for them, but I’m sick of having to push and force myself through everything.
From what you post here, I think you’re doing an amazing job with everything that’s on your plate. I think it takes an incredible amount of strength to do everything that you’re doing. Truly ❤️
Please try to take some time for yourself. You need it and you absolutely deserve it. Easier said than done I know, but if it goes on like this for a long time it’ll take more of a toll on you.
Maybe for the next couple of weeks, you can take the kids out on the weekend on alternating weeks?
I don’t know if that would help, but maybe it’s worth a shot? It would at least recharge your social battery for a while.
Thanks Gibson, you’re very kind to say that. I’ve got to think of a strategy for energy management lol
so many hugs
time to ask husband to do specific things if he’s up to it, to ease some of the burden
Of course you’re tired. You’re working a job plus doing all of the housework and all of the childcare by yourself. :(
Lamb roast is already done for kebabs tonight 🤤
Yum. Lamb is my spirit animal.
So when is dinner?
Save me some. 🙂
You got it 👍
weight loss continues, I think I’m getting my face shape back, it’s supposed to be oval, not round 🫠
Unfortunately my face shape changes very little, I just grow extra chins. This happens with disappointing ease as a result of having been an obese child in late primary school.
I’m loving your gradual weight loss; it really is the only way to get it off healthily and keep it off. Go Goonsy you good thing! 💪🏼
Thank you. 😘
It’s pretty wild how face shape changes with with weight loss! I look back on photos of me from 5ish years ago and I can see the difference now!
Clothes suddenly become baggy/looser, jeans aren’t tight! Belly becomes more loose skin than fat.
I’m so happy for you that you’re feeling more comfortable in your skin on this journey!
Thank you. 🫠
Belated Happy Equinox.
Equinox… equine ox… a horse-like cow.
This has been today’s That’s Definitely Where The Word Comes From, No Need To Look It Up.
Nah, its “equi+nox” = nuts that split in half. Or possibly serves of poison (like in noxious).
Also wrong. It means Equine (horse) Nox (not) - literal translation: Not Horse (Day). Traditionally this was a day that farmers would let their horses rest, and the humans would perform the laborious tasks normally left to horses. Such as, pulling ploughs, taking hauls from the market home, etc.
That actually listens. Its (almost) opposite end of the year to Melbourne Cup Day, when horses work harder than usual. So it all balances out. I like this theory.
now you bastards have made me look it up
directly from Medieval Latin equinoxium “equality of night (and day),” from Latin aequinoctium,
A common misconception.
I’m going to start saying this a lot more to annoy people.
Thank you. …lol
Packing continues. Onto the kitchen now. Finishing packing clothes, just leaving enough out for a few days.
The cats are enjoying the sunny day out on the terrace. 🌞🐈⬛🐈⬛
I just dropped my soup, and my attempt to catch it just meant I threw it against the cupboard door instead of having it go directly on the floor. I called Mr Woof hoping for some assistance, but he just looked at it like “I don’t see how your floor soup is anything to do with me” and walked off.
On the bright side you didn’t break the bowl, at least I hope not
It hadn’t even made it into the saucepan yet. I did actually catch the jar it was in so that didn’t even get dropped. It’s just unfortunate I caught it upside down.
I’m sorry but this made me laugh lol
I’ve done that exact thing thinking I’m magic and somehow going to catch it.
I miss the people from labouring jobs so much :(
Can you reach out to any of them?
I had a dream I was doing labouring again. It was fairly realistic and I woke up missing the hell out of the people and the atmosphere.
The work itself fucking sucks.
For the third time a so called friend has scheduled a belated birthday do on my actual birthday. That will be a Regrets, none at all.
“Sorry can’t come, doing stuff for my birthday” is a valid reason not to go.
Fuckers.
Heeeeeeeeyo
I had a glorious time today wandering around Clunes at the Booktown festival and buying second hand books.
It’s continuing tomorrow if you fancy getting out of Melbourne.
Clunes is a really nice town.
Give me your most overrated actor that somehow is critically acclaimed.
Mine is Sean Penn. Apart from being an arrogant douche that beats women, his acting is pretty shit.
Dude just mumbles his lines and acts surprised at random shit.
Gal Gadot - she can’t act, every line is said without feeling, and she has no emotion. It always feels like I’m watching Gal, and not the character she’s portraying.
If it has to be a male actor though, then Brad Pitt. He says his lines with emotion, but I can never see the character he’s meant to be - just Brad Pitt being Brad Pitt
No arguments about Gadot. If she wasn’t a knockout, she’d be nothing.
Brad Pitt is interesting actually. Perhaps his fame has overshadowed his acting, cause he’s got some chops.
I think he’s great, but not Oscar calibre. I do enjoy his movies though.
And he can take the piss too (Deadpool 2)
No lie, Brad Pitt has been in heaps of my fav movies (Interview with a Vampire, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, Ocean’s 11, World War Z, etc), but I always just see Brad Pitt - it’s hard for me to see past the actor.
He’s good at what he does (even if he is a piece of shit human), but he doesn’t melt into a role the way, say, Gary Oldman does.
Gadot is a god dam plank of wood. Treated pine at best.
Fkn ey!
I don’t know what the deal with George Clooney is. Apart from Ocean’s Eleven I can’t think of another good movie he’s been in.
Yo what?
Syriana
The Descendants
Out of sight
Burn after Reading
Monuments men (I loved it)
From Dusk Till Dawn.
I didn’t care for it but ER catapulted him into fame.
Hard disagree. His acting is boring. His characters are boring. His movies are boring. The dude is overrated.
George is very popular because he’s handsome and a really nice guy.
I liked him in Solaris.
I respect your opinion but disagree.
Gotta love freedom of speech 😁
I respect the fact that you can see something that I can not. 👍
Artistic opinions are 100% subjective.
Disagreeing and respect are an amazing part of being human.
Let us all enjoy what we enjoy.
Very true.
Dwayne the rock.
j. Statham to an extent
Julia Roberts to an extent (probably won’t win that argument though).
I mean… Rock and Statham play the same roles each time. And neither are really acclaimed as actors.
Roberts is interesting. I think she’s great but hasn’t done anything significant since the late 90s, acting wise.
However, she’s a solid performer.
neither are really acclaimed
Heh that is true.
Could lump in Vin Diesel with them too lol!
oooooh I have a soft spot for Pitch Black (2000). Probs the only one he’s in though heh. Filmed mainly in aus too!
I love Pitch Black! And I have a big soft spot for Chronicles as well haha
Anthony Hopkins.
he did one really good role where he actually seemed to do some acting, Dr Kellog, and he was passable in Elephant man. Everything else he was very ordinary.
Al Pacino. I just don’t understand the hype.
Wow.
That’s controversial as hell, and probably justified.
His Hannibal lector was great, and honestly he was great as Odin in the Marvel flicks.
World’s fastest Indian was a treat too
Apart form that I can’t remember seeing him in many flicks, but his performances have always been memorable.
Great pick for this silly question.
His Hannibal lector was great,
ordinary
it’s easy to play a killer but he did not play a psychopath, he didn’t give the creeps at all
it was a movie with great stills and a few good lines
memorable lines just means a good writer
ok, he was ok in 22 Charing Cross Road.
Anthony was real good in The Two Popes as well!
The only good film I’ve seen Al Pacino in was The Devil’s Advocate
spoilers for The Devil's Advocate
He does The Devil extremely well!
