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Hambam has had enough.
Took him to the dog park at 9am so not hot it’s now 3pm and he’s been in this state since we got back trying to find new patches of cold floor. Threw 3 balls chased them well enough, then he wandered off chasing another dog so had to go get him, twice (he doesn’t care if you call him back, just in his own world). All up about a 3km walk. Intensity of the walk out of 10 would be a 1.
I love him.
He’s hopeless.
He gets a lot of compliments.
But he’s hopeless.
Heart of gold so he deserves a good life.
I got a new dog recently (not a puppy). He is even more stupid than my previous dog, and that says a lot. I didnt know it was possible for a dog to be entirely uncoordinated. Hopeless doesnt begin to describe him.
He is the very best boy.
We might need photographic evidence of this Very Good Boy…
I too demand evidence :)
hey, fellow kids. Been a while. How are we all? I see we are all making serious food decisions…
Finally found a gap in the packing/unpacking/cleaning schedule to redye my hair. Feel a zillion times better for not being a faded out drab! The grey eyebrow bits still have much to answer for.
that one time i decided to dye my eyebrows at the same time, just a gentle smear of dye , right?
half an hour later I looked like groucho marx
after I finished my hair I got to work on forehead and eyebrows, I got it all off but it was so red from all the rubbing ( stop laughing ), was so embarrassed to go out
i just pencil them in now
If you ever do decide to tint them again, the 1000 hour one has worked well imo. I’ve used other dyes and they all turn out way too bold.
Thanks for reminding me, I do the 1000 hour one when I remember, I should get the black one tho
Realised that not only I didn’t leave the house today…I barely left the couch.
In other news Yakuza pirates of Hawaii is fun as heck
Have you done the Kaho side quest?!
Not yet. Don’t spoil it please.
I’m only up to Kiwami 1 though I have finished 3 when it originally came out on the ps3
I have a long way to go!
First one I played was like a dragon. Did 0 decently, finished Kiwami and infinite wealth (so good)
Not sure if I can manage all the old ones.
My son played them all and digs them.
I’m a huge fan of the main characters.
Got a soft spot for Ichiban
I’m stuffed being out late arvo/evening, saw a movie with some of my favourite people! I have much to ponder, the movie was extremely awesome and thought-provoking!
I have a big day with the fam tomorrow in the SE. Gonna give dad those photos for him to scan with his scanner. He was stoked! He just forgot to reply and I so overreacted 😅 so it will be good to try and date the photos with him, based on my age, and location!
I’m making a cherry tart to take to my sister’s place for dinner tonight. It uses 1kg of cherries, but I still have tons left in the freezer. How one little tree so badly attacked by cherry slugs that every year I expect it to die can produce such abundance I do not know.
I keep refreshing the BOM app thinking 29.3C at 11pm must be an error :| fuck me. So grateful for air-conditioning.
Really glad I took a break from fieldwork today, just chilling at home all day - although I’ll have to go out during midday again tomorrow - and then a full day of work fieldwork on Tues and Wed 🥵
Still 26 :(
Last bougie breakfast for the hams today. Kibble w/ egg and basil topped with some parmesan lol. Actually ate the basil.
Probably the most polite dog I’ve met with food. Set it down in front of him and he just stands there for a minute looking at you wondering what the catch is.
Here he is wondering if there are seconds (hopefully vid works this time):
spoiler
I have never seen a video work here. 😔
Same, always have to open in browser.
I use a browser exclusively 😔
Ahh he’s so damn glorious!!
aw, and he is so loved, so many dog toys , looked how beautifully he’s looked after 🥰🐶
Today I am aiming at packing ten boxes and staying cool.
At last! A diet/nutrition article that talks about the ‘burden of decision making’ in the context of diet. One of my pet peeves is that this aspect isn’t given enough weight.
"On any given day, humans make an estimated 300 decisions about food’.
hrmm that seems like a lot…
Good article though.
It’s one of the things I like about meal prep. If I make a dozen chicken curries, a dozen chilli and a doz apricot chicken, that’s a months worth of meals if I eat at least one every day. Pita salad protein wrap for another meal. Suddenly my food decisions are way down. Fruit and nuts for clean nibbles. Ice creams on a stick, two biscuits or PBnJ for dirty nibbles. Water or protein shake for drinks. That’s most of the thinking taken out of it. Every few weeks I crave something I haven’t made myself which is usually banh mi, hsp or pizza as that’s what’s good around here.
I always buy tomatoes, cucumbers, green leafies and a salad mix weekly then all I have to do is think up a protein to have with them for those days when I can’t be bothered to think.
Seems about right for me:
Go buy tim tams; NO Go buy tim tams; NO Go buy tim tams; NOI solve this by not going to the supermarket in person and not even looking at or clicking on the biscuit or junk food pages on the supermarket website
if i do buy lollies or biscuits while I am out I eat a few then throw the rest away. I find much of the enjoyment is in the buying not the eating so buying and throwing away I still get some enjoyment
I used to do that with cigarettes. I’d leave the pack with the bartender as a tip. Someone in a bar always smokes. I haven’t smoked any tobacco since early covid times, and that was just a joint that made me throw up. Also ruining the mood for the uhh catchup.
so many kudos, smoking is incredibly hard to give up 👍🙂🥰😘
I know diets are really hard. I know will power is a big issue and that I’m not weak, I’m normal. If dieting was easy there wouldn’t be an obesity epidemic.
This is why I love the shake meal replacement. I have no prohibitions to make opportunities for failure and to feel bad. All I have to do is eat way less of what I normally do and have a meal shake instead. I am doing something instead of not doing something.
And it is really easy. I don’t have to cook anything special, just the same , just much less. ( and I cook pretty healthy anyway, I have always added 3 x the amount of vegies to a recipe and don’t often use premade dishes)
I’m finding giving up bread really hard. I have reduced my intake but fresh Vienna from the bakery is holding me back. I will not lose sleep about it, instead allow my self to enjoy the occasional slice or two.
I have 3 slices max a day. It’s easy and I like it. Occasionally have some raisin bread , which I know I shouldn’t.
Which meal shake brand(s) are you liking?
I like the aldi one , am using the csiro one at the moment but not using milk as I really want to reduce my intake of dairy because intolerances
Depressed/struggling
I am really struggling. I have a sink full of half washed dishes and am unable to complete (or really start) anything of any kind of hobby.
The idiots online are outweighing the couple of chill friends I have and one of them has actually got fed up and dipped, deleting a lot of their posts. IRL I’m surrounded by unstable dipshits. I no longer have the energy to draw.
Medication doesn’t help me (resistant) so all I can really do is keep pointlessly slogging on.
Do the dishes tomorrow. They can wait.
Log off and ignore the stupids. It’s hard but worth it.
Give melbcat a hug.
Give yourself a hug.
Find something comforting to watch or listen to and just sail of mentally.
You got this.
Thanks. I’m just plowing through them quickly so I can have clean dishes (cutlery went in the machine because no way) and will be buying more disposables.
The problem is logging off from the stupids leaves me with emptiness and the extra special stupids irl.
I’m feeding and medicating Melbcat and will probably have to just Restavit the crap out of myself tonight to get some sleep.
The emptiness can be filled. Just need other distractions. It’s not easy for sure.
So what’s best for yourself.
We appreciate you.
Yeah! I’ve got independent hobbies but brain no working for some reason
Thanks. I’ll do my best
Getting back to yourself after depression or being knocked for a loop takes time. Remember: you can just stop anything you start, whenever and pick up whenever. Yes, even halfway through.
I don’t think there will be a ‘back’. I’ve tried everything for decades and nothing has worked. Just some days I can white knuckle it more convincingly than others. That’s all.
My cherry tart is complete, now I just have to work out how to get it safely to my sister’s place. I’m also not sure if it is going to be safe to take it out of the tin - the filling rose a bit high and has stuck to the sides a bit, trying to remove it could lead to a total collapse. At least the jar of vanilla custard should be stress free.
Leave in tin for transport - then get someone else to remove it from the tin so it’s their fault if it collapses.
Cut in half, put half in a container and the other half in your belly.
Problem solved….
Or I could just make another one tomorrow for my belly - I have plenty of cherries!
Leave it in the tin during transport. Put on plate when ready to serve.
I think this will be the safest method.
Got the storage wall of the garage twintrack up yesterday, today was moving the bench we salvaged from the laundry, putting the doors back on and stocking tools.
Was. I very rapidly realised i was hot, pissed off and very very overloaded. So i went full ASD and grabbed my giant crate of screw packets and tubs and sorted sorted sorted while blasting DS9 in the lounge. Did i wash my hands way more than i “should”? Yes, but fuck should, today was about pandering to me.
And now it is brie and fat cats and ds9 s4. So there
Thank you Brion
Good Night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘
I dreamt that I crashed at an old friend’s place and woke up to her cooking breakfast listening to Bauhaus while dressed all the way goth’d up. I was thinking in the dream if I should mention how good her breasts looked with the corset, bolero and little mesh covered cleavage window they created. The girl and I were friends 15 years ago but drifted, we had an honest friendship where such things weren’t inappropriate, she was doing a science PhD.
Then I changed dream channels and went back to school as mature age, and an uppity Indian mean girl gave me shit for my daggy backpack but it turned out that she was my Indian friend from high school’s kid so I snitched to him about his kid being a brat. I’d also bought new boots and class was being held on tablets with rainbow lead pencils for notes.
Dreams hey.
