Retreating to bed cause it’s fucking freezing. Fortunately got the electric blanket on in preparation so beds nice and warm at least. Reckon I’ll leave the electric towel rail on tonight too just so don’t freeze my junk off when I get up at 6am.
bit cool next morning
Holy fuck that’s cold.
Wish I could explain to the cat that she’s allowed under the doona:
Lie on side - raise top arm and possibly knee to create cat tent with doona - she may go under and then you can possibly slowly lower the doona down over the lower half of her body.
It might be more effective with a heat source to tempt her in.
Maybe Melbcat is unusually cuddly for a cat though
This is the way. I never met a cat that could resist the call of the “cat tent” and it’s emanating warmth. Especially being claustrophiles as they often are.
One cat really didn’t like being confined and would lash out (a neglected runaway I eventually got back to his owner - * the confinement was only gently herding him into a corner to dab on flea and worm treatment, nothing else was forced on him) but with patience he started to spoon with me over the covers on his own. He would allow me to pick him up.
If he’d crashed for longer than a few months I might have built enough trust for the cat tent
Poor thing. I’m glad you were able to soften him up a bit.
He was so happy to come inside and sleep on the bed. I had to give him back but still wonder if he’s doing ok
I better put the chili pots in the warm part of the garden
Thank you! Will give it a go tonight.
put doona over her
I usually do and she accepts it but then the doona is covering my head 🙁
I do not like that forecast. I looked at the predications for the next week and the coldest mornings are all the ones I’m working (which means 4am wakeup). Two days -1, one day 0, and a pleasantly warm 2 degrees for the other. There should be an extra penalty rate or allowance for early starts in below zero temperatures.
Holy crap. It’s going to get down to 0?
It’s already 5.5c here
my forecast says -1
Wonder if my car will be iced over in the morning.
⚒️
i should stay warm in the fridge
Miniest wants me to wake her up so she can experience that temperature. She likes it 😆
Blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah BLAH. blah…
Blah 👍
Thank you for agreeing to our terms. The deal is sealed.
Blah?!
Yes. You have chanted the Oath. Welcome Brother.
Excuse me, but I think you meant blah blahblahblah blah blah.
Possible job offer.
Reference check being conducted.
If they require a police check, which they probably will, it’s 50/50 that they withdraw the offer.
Fingers crossed, 🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾
Edit: nervous that the recruiter hasn’t reached out to my references yet. But we’ll see.
Got your back on this no matter what happens
You’re an absolute legend man. Seriously ❤️
Crossing everything for you!
Thank you! If there is a police check, I’m going to request a meeting with the general manager who I interviewed with and see what she’ll say.
Got a survey call today. It’s the first in a long time becausebmy phone usually filters them for me.
I’ve received some weird emails recently too. I bet it was that damn property expo I registered for
Mmm. I love how my brain is deciding to dwell on mortality. It really helps with everything.
/s
hugs
it bothers me too
and I admit it wouldn’t bother me as much if I felt we had a stable country that actually cared for it’s people
3 degrees here. Cold air was very sharp taking the rubbish out. I think it’s gonna get colder than the predicted low overnight. Be prepared for a very frost morning.
I better pull my plants in…
The predicted low is -2 here, it’ll be interesting if it’s much colder than that!
It’s a bedsocks kind of night.
I’ve accepted that my curry leaf plants and chillies are gonna look pretty shit tomorrow and not get any better until late September at least. I’m just thoroughly enjoying my warm living room, but better roll out of it and into bed soon before the bedroom oil heater goes off its timer.
To protect from frost, if they are in the ground you can cover with something like tarp or sheet, if in pots bring inside or a sheltered location like garage. Good luck little plants! It’s gonna be a tough week for the frost sensitive ones.
They’re in pots, but trapped in an inconvenient part of my narrow balcony where bringing them in would mean moving half my plants around (and tbh the curry leaf plants are big fellas that I don’t really have space for indoors any more, I used to bring them in in past years).
If I was organised enough I’d have acquired a bit of geotextile or something to drape over the plants but I’m just going to hope they’re protected enough in their awkward corner with the brick wall and partial shelter. 🤞 I doubt anything will die, except maybe this chilli plant that’s been hanging in there for over 3 years.
Doesn’t have to be geotextile - an old towel or a sheet folded double will do perfectly well to protect them. Sheets are lighter and don’t squash the plants as much as towels.
Hope all your plants will be ok.
I’m the furthest thing away from being a green thumb so I have no idea what’ll happen to your plants if they’re outside and it gets that cold.
temp predictions have been revised down ☃️
I don’t like having the heater on at night as it’s a bit noisy but I think I might have to.
Oh I’m definitely keeping the heater on tonight.
Absolutely freezing taking the bins out just now. Driving home a couple of hours ago my car was saying 3 degrees when I got to my hood, so it’d be close to 0 already.
Trying to be kind about an email from a friend, where they have linked me a seek job posting for… A sales rep.
When they know I’m changing careers and have spoken to them about it. That I won’t be going back to call centre shite.
Ehhhhhhhhh. EHHHHHHHHHHH
Such beautiful weather out today! I wish I wasn’t stuck in an office for most of it. Tonight is gonna be froooosty, I’m STOKED that I can roll outta bed late tomorrow. Have a meeting on campus at 2, plan is to try and finish all my work off by noon and quietly clock off after that. Would love to have a stroll round campus after if tomorrow’s as beautifully sunny as today.
So, Planet Ark are trying to register an account to join aussie.zone. I would normally have rejected their application, as they are giving the vibe of ‘we want to spam’. So, I reached out to them on their contact form. I thought it possible they had a google analytics alert and noticed us discussing their products recently.
But, that was longer ago than I realised: It feels like we talked about that a few weeks ago. So now I’m back to thinking they want to spam. Gah!
I want answers, but I don’t want ads. I suppose I’ll wait to see if/how they respond to my website query.
Update:
Hi Nath,
No, that email address does not belong to us.
Thanks for checking!
man I cant see a good reason why brands need to be on a social media platform of this size, that’s just my 2 cents.
Businesses routinely have alerts on their brands with Google. It’s quite possible they got an email from Google that we were talking about their products. That part actually makes sense to me.
If they had applied for an account within a week or so of that discussion, and said in their application they were joining the site in response to it - I’d have thought it completely reasonable.
Am I gonna have to use leet speak or completely omit mentioning brands now
Stage one interview done, I feel like it went well. I’ll know in a day or two if I get to the in person interview which would be next week
🤞🤞🤞
I am trying to space out my watching of the Bear season 3 but it’s so hard. You know the show is good when it’s a flashback episode, and you know it turns out ok, but you are still on the edge of your seat the whole time.
Having worked in hospo, this show puts me on edge lol
I’m partway through s3 e9 and I definitely found this season a lot more spaced out and chill than the past two seasons. It seems to be the reason it’s not so popular either, but I like it. More slow-burn character exposés and a great showcase of the acting talent, after the frenetic pace of the last two seasons. I’ve read that they filmed s4 at the same time so it tracks that they’re taking longer with plot developments this time around.
I’m not that far yet. Just finished the Tina episode. I just love the characters and for such relatively short episodes they really pack a lot of depth in. I am enjoying the pace too
Even with the slower pace there’s so much going on in each episode. It’s sort of a beautiful fleshed out epilogue to s2. I loved the Tina episode that way. Also, that long montage of all the service workers in s3e2, that made me feel so connected and proud to be part of a society for a moment
I found watching series one so stressful. Does it get better?
Well…it’s certainly still stressful but I have enjoyed it the whole way through. S2 had a couple of very intense episodes but S3 is more chill (tho I am waiting for something terrible around the corner).
Hungry Jack is dead to me. How dare he.
Welp, time to grab the pitchforks and drive Jack to the border.
Looks good though. It’s only when you receive it do you realise it’s been slam dunked into the bag from the other side of the room. I’d still call it a parma if I ordered it.
Oh no. What gave they done?
That’s sacrilegious!
Let me try one, then I’ll decide
😱💀
Got done by a lemon tree thorn a few days ago. Tiny little prick but it’s really puffed up. Headed over to Dr. google and learnt a new word:
Phytophotodermatitis, where when you get done, then expose it to UVA it flares up. Most common from lemon trees apparently.
Little fucker packs a punch. I had no idea.
I will wear gloves next time.
Wait until you get a rose thorn stabbing, and end up going to the doc for a penicillin injection. Which they administer with a sharpened hose pipe into your gluteus maximus. Rose thorns do gangrene really really well apparently. Learned my lesson from that experience and now wear gloves when I’m anywhere near roses. Never knew that lemons were particularly hazardous - thanks for the info!
TIL
and hugs
Fucking called it!!! Sit down for for dinner last night and the mrs goes “what we we doing this weekend?” “not much, why?” “Well, I got a message from (Couple I complained about yesterday) wondering if we…” “nope! heck no we’re not doing that. Whatever it is, its a no from me.” She stares at me a few seconds “Why?” “We talked about this last weekend babe, we are NOT getting pulled into this shit! the other day was exhausting, i need some space from them”
She goes on to admit the message was very strange and almost like we didn’t have a choice in the matter. I pointed out as adults we very much do have a choice. I so saw this coming, I may not have understood it but I was apprehensive enough to bring it up yesterday I must’ve had a 6th sense.
Yeah avoid that dumpster fire. Life’s complex and exhausting enough without taking on other people’s BS. Especially if they’re in a situation where they could do something about their drama but won’t due to reasons.
or worse, they manufacture the bad situation on purpose and the bad situation always makes other people look bad, not themselves
i am so done with that shit
Your Spidey Sense was tingling for sure.
They’re also adults, so they need to figure themselves out. Don’t burn yourself out with their shenanigans.
I love your comment from yesterday I think, “don’t burn yourself out to keep others warm.” I’m gonna steal it.
I’ve also seen it more dramatically stated as "don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm ".
It comes up a lot on the caregiving Reddit sub, there are way too many people who are manipulated into prioritizing other people’s needs above their own.
The one that really stuck with me from this whole discussion was “You’ve kind of shot yourself in the foot there, can you please not bleed on my kitchen floor?”.
You’re definitely doing the right thing by doing your best not to get pulled into the drama.
All good advice are lessons learned in the flames that chill, rather than burn.
It can apply to many differing situations, but the best thing you can do is look after yourself first and foremost. One cannot do anything for anyone else, if one is broken from lack of self-care.
Short answer: Yeah Nah.
Long answer: No thanks, I can’t help you at the moment.
