Today’s weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 17°C, max - 37°C. 100% chance of no rain

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    Father dead. Zero clue what to do with this information. Boyo no help would be celebrating demise of his.

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      Condolences. Now comes the hard part - being kind to yourself and your immediate family. Which will be damned hard. Take time to process your feelings - either positive or negative. I found both. The one true purpose of funerals/memorials is that organising them helps to process those feelings. Be aware that other family members will have different feelings. The damned part is being patient with them and validating their feelings as well as your own. Don’t shortchange yourself in that department. Take whatever time you need. Sending vibes to help when the feelings ambush you. Which they will do - usually when least convenient. Been there and done that myself. I found a grief counsellor helped me a lot after my bloke died during covid. The language of grief/relief can be grimly humorous too which I found to be an unexpected bonus.

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      I’m really sorry. Take as much time as you need to absorb, it can be complicated

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      I’m really sorry. Even when you know it’s coming the death of a parent is really hard. Know that it’s OK to not be OK for a while, but that you will be OK again. We’ll all be here for you and do whatever we can to support you in our limited way.

      Thinking of you ❤️

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      I’m glad for you all that his stay in pall care was not prolonged, and I hope that his comfort and care were exemplary. Grief is a funny thing, and you are among friends here. ❤️

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      Oh catfish. He went into palliative not long ago, right? My condolences, hugs and hope for all the next steps to be as peaceful and easy as they can be. But right now your job is just to breathe and feel whatever you have to feel for a bit.

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      I’m so sorry. I hope it was as peaceful as possible. My thoughts are with you and I’m sending hugs 💛

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    Sunset tonight will be spectacular. All those wispy bits of clouds will light up I reckon.

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      Would have been lovely to see. I almost tempted to go the beach late this afternoon.

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    Yeah… there’s soap powder residue on my cutlery so I’m having to rinse everything under the tap again before use. Hopefully it’s only because it was in the rapid cycle but there’s nowhere to put rinse aid in this machine and it’s not very convenient to load. I’m also having to put things on a dish towel or dish rack to finish drying.

    Buyers regret. Like I am happy the dishes are getting done because it’s my hardest task but it’s also creating more fiddly little headaches. Pisses me off because of the money.

    Guess I’ll use it in the meantime but will start saving up again and this time actually get something better, something I can see in person. When I get another one I can ask if anyone I know wants it or donate on Givit.

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        I can but I’m really picky about residue and there’s no extra rinse option

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      how about tablets that include rinse aid and cutting the tablets in half for small loads

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            I’ll probably still have to. It’s still full of standing water for roaches because you have to keep the door open. (It’s either fully open right down to the bench or shut. You can’t just crack it.)

            And I know at some point someone else is gonna use it without knowing and serve me a coffee full of soap.

            I dunno, I’m tired and upset and something that was meant to help out is only aggravating me.

            If drastically reducing the soap doesn’t work I’m just packing the thing right back into its box so I don’t end up drinking it

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        It was the Big W Midea. It looked ok for my needs but I’m getting kinda annoyed actually using it

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          Big W sells dishwashers? I’ve never seen one when I’ve popped in.

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          use finish liquid cleaner. Powder never fully dissolves in a benchtop. Our sheffield is twice the size of that and still fucks up on powder / tablets. Use about a third of the liquid and you’re golden.

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              Also worth noting that catch and the reject shop also sell this much much cheaper than colesworth

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    I had a sneaky late night choc cross buns. Bleh. The ones I get from Aldi have something chocolatey inside. The woolies ones I got don’t, they just put cocoa powder into whatever mixture they used and got rid of the fruit

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      Fluffy cats melted in the heat united!

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      I must say, you’ve got some neat lighting at your place. It always looks like there’s a filter over your photos

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          Ah yep, used to have one of those. First smart light I ever owned. I moved to brilliant bulbs when I moved to the last place cause the genio died. Think I got it for like 5 bucks on clearance from Officeworks. I still have it in my lamp, and in the 2 big lights in my house that still have normal fittings, I put in Tapo bulbs. Including the one in the shitter! Imagine telling someone from the 20th century you can change the colour of the lightbulb in the dunny!

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    Shadow box completed.

    Lego

    Now on to the Avengers tower 😁

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    Whoever signed off on the wedding dress outfit in Mario Odyssey was a goddamn genius.

    replaying the boss fight and having the cutscene of Our Hero ™ kicking the door in and interrupting the wedding with Mario as a spurned bride is fucking peak comedy

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    3 things that make me lose my appetite

    seeing people who eat with their mouth open

    not washing hands

    licking fingers and hands

    just sayin’

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    I am at the stage of flu recovery where my body is exhausted and my brain is running and I can’t sleep. Guess it beats last night’s fever but I want to SLEEEEP. UGH.

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    In Albury for the night on the way back. I’ve definitely had my cup filled (but already missing being out in nature all day and all night, and physically very tired from various tasks). It’s an absolute oven outside. Thankfully the AC was running at my accom before I arrived so I’m just chilling for now (got a free upgrade to Queen, score!).

    Debating whether to get a proper meal for dinner or just some ready-to-eat stuff from Woolies… Might splurge on the meal tonight and get some crackers and dip for breakfast and the rest of the drive home tomorrow.

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        It’s a chapter about honeyeaters and habititat. The pics are different flower shapes they get nectar from.

        The subject I’m doing is “Backyard Biodiversity”, about primarily about creating habitat in your garden for a range of native species.

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    FWIW when I make jelly, I put a bit of citric acid in the mix to sour it up a bit.

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      get ascorbic acid, and dip granny smith slices in. Delishhhh

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    Shops done. Missed Kmart though, so an excuse to go window shop tomorrow ig

    Fuck shopping centres that half shit down at night time for no good reason. I went in the main entrance, as one does. That was open, but half way down was closed. Had to do a 10 minute detour around to the other side of the building to get to the supermarket entrance

    I realise they probably try and justify it by arguing about all the closed shops, but it’s really just ridiculous. It’s such a car centric way of thinking

    This happened at highpoint too where they closed the entrance from the bus bays and I had to walk about 20 mins iirc to get to the other side, and part of it didn’t even have a footpath or the footpath just ended. It’s ridiculous.

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      Had to take the Minipeelers to a birthday party at highpoint and it finished with a movie that finished after the most of the joint closed. It was a weird feeling walking through the place, a real liminal space kind of thing.

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        I went to see a late night movie with the old LT a few months ago, too, and hard agree. We did a bit of a cheeky and went somewhere it was implied (but in our defense never stated!) we weren’t meant to go. Lights dimmed, escalators off, etc. super odd feeling. Pretty sure I took a video cause it was just so unusual feeling

        The supermarket was almost empty today, and they were playing the butter sweet symphony. That’s an interesting feeling listening to in an empty supermarket as well haha. Reminded me of that hey there Delilah in an empty shopping centre video from the states that went viral some time ago. Slightly sad but also somewhat nostalgic song in an empty place that’s usually busy created an interesting atmosphere

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    Dammit. I have a split mail on my finger. Think I made it worse after snagging it on some clothing.

    Got a spplit right on the side and about my probably 2 or 3mm long.

    Put a Band-Aid on it for now so I don’t make it worse.

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      glue part of an teabag paper to it.

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        The split is vertical from top to bottom for context.

        It’s been trimmed back as far as it can go.

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          yeah I do that off and on, shits me up the wall.

          I cut a small oversized square of teabag to go over the split, tiny lick just to make it adhere, then dop nail glue / cyanoacrylate a tiny amount on top to soak through and adhere. let it dry, then you can trim the excess and even file it. If you do a lot of typing it will last until the split grows out

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        I am looking for advice though. I was trying to look up nail glue but a bunch of them seem to have very poor reviews and also not really for split nails, I think they’re for glue on nails.

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          They’re all super glue. It’ll work. If it continues to split you can get an acrylic manicure on that nail so it grows past the splitting point.

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            Oh ok well tried looking for super glue but I can’t find it so if I was starting fresh and had to buy something what should I get?

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              Cheap super glue from coles/woolies will do. It’s about $3 for a twin pack. You’ll only need a drop, so line up all the little repair jobs you can find before the tube dries out.

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                Oh ok. I might duck out quickly to grab some and see if I can do a quick repair job.

                Do I need to worry about putting too much glue on or getting too much of it on my nail?

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                  Try to use as little as possible, just a drop to start with and you can always add another later if you need. It’s a pain in the bum to remove if you use too much.

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              You can also apply clear nail polish, stick a small torn patch of teabag paper or tissue to the wet polish over the split, and then once dry paint a few coats of polish over the top to seal it. (Drying fully in between.)

              It might not be strong enough if the split is large but can provide some reinforcement while it grows out

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                I sort of don’t have those things. I have absolutely no nail products.