boi is starving, dinner time any minute

Spent $35 AUD taking cabs to the cinema (can't drive, high), was enjoying what must be the best cinema I've ever sat in. Was going to rave about it on here once the movie was finished but 3/4 through the film the projector died. Got given a refund for my ticket ($5) but overall I'm taking an L today.

I did get a free donut from Dunkin' so it's not a complete bust!

Oh and I saw this place which pleases me:

Office is out of normal milk so having to drink low fat milk. Thots n prayers for me plz🙏🙏

Update on the car situation. Not good. Gotta spend about 3k to just get diagnostics done. Initial quotes for repairs (assuming what we think is wrong with it is wrong) 20k. And that’s parts alone. So yeah, facing the very real prospect of selling it for parts and writing off a 17k asset for like maybe a grand or 2.

My dinner tonight

Prawn stir fry with garlic rice and a side of kimchi.

Sometimes the emotional release from a really good, dense therapy session is just... The whole body feels it. Something has been unblocked and is moving... but there is no fucking way I'm going to be able to do much else today. I arranged to meet up with a friend tonight, I would've asked for a rain check if it weren't for the fact that I will probably have to give back the car in 6 days and I might not see her again for another 3 weeks until I finish housesitting, and all things considered it's better for me to stay connected in person. (I don't need to cook anything at least as I'll be heating up premade food).

Think I'll lie down and nap for a while - I feel like I'm giving into maladaptive procrastination by giving myself permission to put off everything else till tomorrow, including work.

But: it's nothing mission critical, nobody else is relying on me for it, and I need to remember that nobody is going to be severely damaged by my doing that. On balance, this is a wise and intelligent and responsible thing to do given the bigger picture. Good afternoon. 💤

Work inbox is overflowing due to utter stupidity of some co-workers.

Time to take some tactical sickies next week to let them sort their own shit out.

Our local council (Kingston) has released an app to tell you what bins to put out depending on which collection week it is. The app is called 'Binston' lol

I feel like this is a solution to a problem nobody has

have been having an overall shitty week, but made myself a beautiful, colourful veggie stir-fry for lunch, and took the dogs I'm looking after for a long walk, so am overall feeling positive. Is it the weekend yet?

Flying solo tonight, Mrs_Owl is in the city for farewell drinks. I've got pizza dough going in the bread-maker ready for some free-range salami and cheese, and a bunch of limes for a cheeky Margarita or two.

Mainsplaining amirite? I've been told regularly to expect to meet sick people in AA. I'm sober, I'm not a fucking desperate loser though. I have everything I need. I've achieved some amazing things in my life. I need to work through some issues sure, but I'm in a very good position to do because I worked life my way and set myself up to be in this position. I'm so over the gay men though in AA. Absolute pigs most of them. Then someone questions my misandry and who? A man of course. Sorry guys, we're feminists because we have to be.

I'm pretty sure I'm leaving this place too pretty soon. Subtle transphobia I'm supposed to police? That's what the mods are for right? The more we need to deal with transphobia alone, the more it harms us. Reliving traumatic events perpetuates them. Being told (by a man) not to speak my mind, cos hey, it might not be nice and I signed some oath to be all flowers and love. I was basically told by a mod not to stand up for myself, which is 100% my natural response. I understand this is supposed to be a nice fluffy space but we're all here because we lack some connection and need places to be able share what's deeper going on as well. It's just so fucking easy to dismiss female and trans issues because that's the status quo right guys? We've been vilified in the press for many years and it's getting worse and you expect me to be the person who should point it out to you? Sorry, like I said, my misandry grows. I don't want it to, but it's a natural response to being marginalised and diminished by men every damn day.

Exercises have been completed. I've finished another 30 day exercise challenge! Trying to be cool with myself about my diminishing but still there belly. I'm a middle aged woman whose parents were morbidly obese for most of their adult lives. I'm doing pretty well all things considered. Lots of birthdays at work at the moment, therefore lots of cakes etc, which aside from a social sliver I've managed to avoid. Gonna be hard for my 50th though, coming up in a month and a half or so. I have no plans, not very excited or enthusiastic about it.

urgh, why are people selling second hand used books for ridiculous prices? We need an australian version of thriftbooks.

Welp I guess it’s a beer for dinner 🥴

So a job that I applied for back when work shit was hitting the fan a few weeks ago, called me this week and I had a phone interview with them yesterday. Some how made it through even though I felt like a complete imposter. Today I have to do a psychometric test and not sure what to expect. The company is one that is a ethical employer and has a solid reputation, so i think the psychometric test is to make sure I would be a good cultural fit before the actual first round interview. Arggggggh so nervous.

Eating Kettle chilli chips with a mouth ulcer. Fuck yeh.

Stressing about the reliability of the electrical grid this summer.

The reason being I’m not able to regulate my own body temperature properly.

I had plans to have a tiny solar car battery to at least run some cooling or keep phone charged in blackouts or brownouts but I haven’t had the energy to troubleshoot low output or fix some wires that got damaged. And even it might not even be enough power to run cooling.

So angry at the fuckwits that kept refusing and blocking renewables because coal was more profitable. Now we’re left scrambling and as always the elderly, very young, poor or disabled will cop it hardest.

Have had my swim, and am now going a bit vintage with curried sausages. I’ve got two sausages and some curry powder to finish, so I’m going to combine the concepts

I’ve cooked the lamb mince just as it’s ticked over to the expiration day.

A little worried but I had put it immediately into the coldest part of the fridge on arrival and it was there 3 days until I had spare energy. It then got cooked thoroughly.

Once again blown away by a whole kilo of chicken drumsticks costing $5 at Aldi.

Meat guide said it’s fine to cook meat the day of expiry, so the lamb mince is good to go. Chilled overnight and what the cat didn’t eat now has been frozen.

Melbcat is going nuts for it. She’s just kept asking for more.

(If you’re asking why a cat gets mince? The food she needs is $2.40 for an 85g can, where the same amount of the mince is $1.27. Chicken would be even cheaper if she could have it. Neither of those are nutritionally complete but her dry food is and I can add taurine and vegetables if needed.)

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I know I've screamed about it before and I'm just screaming to the choir. But God, the groceries getting more and more expensive is actually doing my head in. For a company that bemoans about stealing sure makes a lot of profit...

Cutting back down my work at work days to 2 days a week. 3 days a week was too much and I don’t need to impress anyone any more (been at the new job for 3 months and I figured that’s long enough to show I can fit in the team and do my work )

Footy tickets acquired! Yes!

I had plans to finish my gardening assignments today. What I actually did was sit on my arse playing Stardew Valley all day. oops.

Sorry about this dinner photo. I decided to add a hash brown for curiosity’s sake and boy, what thing this stacked. I had to press down hard on the jaffle maker to get it down.

Was so hungry and couldn’t wait to dig in.

This one is a cross section of a jaffle.

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Knocked off work. Contemplating a swim

Apparently you can buy blood pressure monitors from Aldi?

Okay sir, I'll see if I can reimburse you for your supermarket shop.

Was looking up mould as a medicine and found this website - looks almost as much fun as wikipedia as a workplace timewaster - owlcation.com - articles look sound and a good place to find names to search further.

Barking dog was barking so instead of trying to sleep through it, I decided to get up and go for a walk before starting work. The sunshine was lovely. Tired but a nice start to the day.

Grey clouds loom overhead, in my head.
Rolling, rumbling, fill me up with dread;
Melancholic dreams as I lay in my bed.
Dread looms overhead, in my head.

Can we keep faith in what is said
When all the news fills me up with dread?
I turn away but clouds loom overhead,
Melancholic dreams in my head.

The end of the world happens in my bed,
Every night they fill me up with dread.
Intruding thoughts wonder if I'm dead
As grey clouds loom overhead.

I am thicc and juicy
Sweet but mostly spicy
Tingle on my tongue
Chase me with spiced rum
I promise I'm delicious
No need to be suspicious

My recycling bin didn’t get collected (it was out) so I let the council know… it’s remained uncollected for days now. I’ve been wheeling it out each day and chucking other people’s rubbish back out before wheeling it back (if I don’t it will helpfully be filled with literal garbage or dog poop by dickheads).

If it’s going to be collected fortnightly then please don’t miss… At this point I may either need to go Karen or give up and wait for the full month

If you:

1. Have an eligible concession type/Centrelink/DVA card, and
2. Get your electricity from an embedded network

You must apply for the Energy Bill Relief Program manually, from this Monday 4th September. You will receive a $250 bank deposit or bank cheque.

I'm planning father's day meal. I'm thinking crispy airfried chicken wings with a honey hot secret sauce, rice and maybe corn on the cob. Of course things could change. Might end up eating crumpets.

TIL of Spectrophilia…sexy ghost time.

I got my first Temu order yesterday. The kinetic sculpture looks better quality than I expected, I got some nice decorative solar lights and a few little decorations to hide in the garden. Also got a set of solar mushroom lights which look awful, and a decorative plastic stake that was squashed and broken. Rather happy with the return process - I put through a return for the broken item and mushrooms, immediately accepted with no need to actually return.

Can it be Friday 4:30 pm now? Please.

Fuck me Itzhak Perlman is good

Have the unholy urge to have a clean shave even though I know it'll make me terribly unhappy once I've done it.

My house is just a chorus of people coughing atm.

Lying on the couch playing mobile games,
I'm fumbling every one of interactions.
I don't know if I want you to feel the same,
But I'm paralyzed by fear of rejection,
Projections, predictions, predilections.
You dont message me like you once did,
That's okay, I know I'm extraordinarily mid.
I'm average cloaked in silly rhyming prose,
You think this poem is about us, I suppose.

stares sadly at window box

Sproot? 🌱

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vSso4hhr7OM

God people claim some weird shit on their health insurance. Today it's mould. Prescription mould.

My kyboar is ying.

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