Mum’s in the ED tonight after her fall 6 days ago (well 2 falls in two weeks). I’m super worried. Delayed concussion ABI IV (she only has vision in one eye and now the other is gone) this is not good.
Her life is about to change drastically and it’s going to be an awful adjustment for her and I just feel so sad.
i’m not sure how to go about this.
An unsurprising day (mostly) offline. It’s been good, but I still make choc chip bikkies at 9:30pm, so probably says a lot about my state of mind. They didn’t even turn out that good. Went shopping but everything I bought (mostly sparkly makeup) I already have similar stuff to, but I’m taking it as buying things that bring me joy.
Cried when I went into my bedroom earlier, just thinking the little dog would have lifted his head as I turned on the light. It’s gonna take time to break these habits, that muscle memory.
Maribyrnong: Anglecised version of “Mirring-gnay-bir-nong”, which translates as ‘I can hear a ringtail possum’.
That made me laugh so fucking hard 😂😂😂 like it’s just an apt name for the area holy shit 😂💀
Source: apparently my own council website lol https://conversations.merri-bek.vic.gov.au/renaming/names-melbourne#:~:text=There are 31 councils in,Yarra River Melbourne - History
Well I fucking nailed that Butter Chicken. Both kids had seconds. That never happens lately. Put it in the oven for 15 minutes and managed to crisp up the chicken perfectly.
My illustrated edition of the Hobbit did turn up and my god, I can’t believe I got so much book for $16. It’s got gold on the cloth bound hardcover, it’s nice and thick with glossy paper stock, and it’s full of drawings.
Independent book stores could sell this for $36, saying it’s marked down from $70 and they’d move so many units.
Book Photos
Alright. Pizza and Ps5 let’s fucking gooooooo!
(as soon as I get out of bed after my nanna nap)
Unwinding to some Quincy Jones tracks (so much MJ!) as is the theme across so many PBS programs this week…
I’m NOT going to think about packing or selling items tonight, I’m just tapped out.
Got a friend coming over tomorrow to help work out this couch bizzo and provide some distraction from all the packing and culling.
Wonder what movie or tv series I could blank my brain out with this evening.
E: I’m thinking of Poker Face or maybe Happy Valley, never watched that most famous of UK cozy country cop shows
Truthseekers is a great fun series
Today I’ve had 4 coffees, 1 slice of cake, a few mouthfuls of Twisties, some challah, 3 chocolate chip cookies and a can of tuna.
Now I need to decide what to eat for dinner.
Um, time to give some respectful attention to vegetables I think.
What is this vegetable you speak of?
More than one for best results. Maybe a green one and a red one? Protein and carbs appear to have been sorted. I don’t want to cramp your style when it comes to vegetables.
Anxiety has been bad today. I’m not even thinking about you know what. It’s just there with the rest of my life and everything is making it worse.
I forced myself to quickly go out for newspaper to line plant pots but they didn’t have any. Some dodgy characters around but luckily nothing came of it.
I’ve planted two of the largest zucchini seedlings out but ran out of potting mix and energy because those pots were pretty big. I don’t eat much or exercise enough for physical work like lifting and shoveling so now feeling kind of shaky… but I kind of had to move and do something.
Also they’re growing fast and I don’t think I can keep all of them.
I wish you could get smaller size seed packs or a bundle with like a few seeds of each type. Maybe a seed library could sort me out but I think that’s enough ‘outside’ for now.
Why isn’t frozen mirepoix a thing? In convenient sized sachets? We can purchase frozen everything else, why not that? It’s just finely diced carrot, onion and celery. There’s a marketing opportunity here - a sachet of mirepoix and a bag of good chook stock in the same pack - would save so much hassle assembling and chopping etc.
Okay my bad, I read mirepoix as “mirepox” and had a moment of “is that zoonotic?” 😅 Bloody infection control and procedures class has stuck in my head 😂
They must have this for commercial kitchens, surely!
I’ve never seen it. And it’s fundamental to french cuisine. Jacques Pepin would be whirling in his grave I’m sure.
You might have just become a billionaire
I look forward to the day when McCains or similar get their act together and provide this.
I’ve got the mic plugged in. I have a charming/ atrocious singing voice. What should I wake the neighbours up with?
Blind Melon - No Rain.
Def Leopard - Pour some sugar on me.
Divine - You think you’re a man.Oh thank you for reminding me of Blind Melon. Time to listen to Nico
This is the way
White Town - your woman
Good song 👍
Something Beach Boys, just to be different.
We’ve done Beach Boys. Love em. Fantastic.
Walk like an Egyptian!
My culture is not your costume /jk
(I’ve always wanted to say that hahaha)
😂😂
Do I need to do the actions?
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
Great song. My favourite STP.
If your voice is atrocious or not, you must sing this
🤘
Depends on what you’re into? Either way have fun belting it out!
Rock, punk rock, grunge, old rock. I can “sing” them all. I have words on the big screen to help me.
Rock on mate 🤘
Daughter - Pearl jam
I can also “sing” and can do screamo and very much into your exact music tastes, so I challenge you to try do something a little left of field and do either of these solo (failing that I can give you a fuckton of punk to try):
Or hey, nothing – The Sink (live)
Also🤘 till the end.
Sugar were going down - fallout boy
Cool song. We’ve played Fallout Boy today but for you an exception.
Done.
✊🤘👨🎤
🤘
That is such a fkn banger I love old fallout boy.
Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet is my favourite - Ceo: sing that one too pls!!
Edit: second thoughts, don’t sing this
That course I got a massive discount on? Given the total class numbers, yikes. And I can tell who the other not full price person is. Bad data handling.
I’m sure you know allll about the Privacy Act… I’d be so suss 👀
Not exactly, more I know enough to know what I don’t know. But yeah,they shared things they ought not.
Ah yes, I am so very, intimately familiar with that Act 😅
If look into making a report to the institution, as I believe that is the first step. If emails are not BCC (as in the teacher/institution has sent an email to students, and only cc students, every student can see each other’s emails; BCC stops that, as an example), then that is a breach.
If identifying information of a student/students has been revealed in an email to multiple people, also a breach.
Again, first step is usually reporting it to the institution, some places do have an email to send privacy breaches to specifically, so a google for ‘privacy breach report’ + ‘institution name’ it may bring up that contact info.
This page is also helpful and may have different info regarding reporting: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/notifiable-data-breaches
Ate too fast and burping like a mofo. Really enjoying the first episode of Poker Face even though Natasha Lyonne’s voice annoys the heck out of me
If we’re doing music, here’s a fun song I found a while ago:
Mood: The Summoning - Sleep Token
Mmm, what to eat for dinner…
That’s pretty cool. It’s like a Fear Factory/Meshugga cross with a slightly better vocalist
They fall into the horny metal genre to me, right next to Deftones. I think it’s all in the vocals
It’s sensual haha
Oh god, yes! 😂
Love me the Deftones. Was thinking about them today.
They’re an interesting band. I do prefer their heavier stuff, but really dig how surprisingly diverse they are.
