My cat had her annual check up today. I’ve had her for just on a year now. She has taken a long time to warm up and relax. Unfortunately today I think she lost a bit of trust in me. She saw the cage and just knew what was coming. It was an experience getting her in the cage.
And the hisses she gave the vet during a clip of her nails were impressive! This was after the vaccination and general checkup of spine, joints, eyes, ears and belly so I guess she just had had enough. Totally understand.
So after some alone time she will now come to me for scritches but not close enough where I could pick her up. And her side eye game is impressive.
Ah well… Three steps forward; 1 step back. I’ll take it.
This is Mavis.I have cats that were literally born into my hands do the same thing, let her be pissed. She’ll get over it
Good girl Mavis. You’re lovely
Mavis is beautiful! Time for some Trauma Treats. Churu and temptations stat!
You’re very cute Mavis ❤️
Mavis is gorgeous ⚫️⚫️⚫️
Hi Mavis, you are brave and beautiful. 😘
Mavis has seen Things. Poor voidling 🖤
Aww she’ll warm up again!! Slow blinking helps a lot to rebuild trust!
She’s so pretty!! 😍😍😍
More alcohol than I planned, but a good night
Cheers AJ 🍺
Haha! My LJ just turned 18. Not logging to those evil Terms of Service you bigoted fuckers.
What’s an LJ?
Lo these many years ago, there was Livejournal
And it was Good. Until it wasn’t. And everybody fucked off to Dreamwidth for about 2 minutes.
Oh. Was it a public or a private thing? I’ve never heard of this.
By default public, but you could “friends-lock” things- either individual entries or the entire blog- to limit it to a selected audience
People varied in how public they wanted it to be. Mine was very private.
Oh. Like a personal diary. Until someone found it then it become public and everyone laughed at you.
If you don’t know, you can’t afford it
When I saw LJ I thought Torana but the rest didn’t make sense. Curiosity then came upon me.
My first taste of performative social media. Huge “Let me tell you what I want you to think I’m thinking” vibes. And one friend doing a PhD who was actually interesting.
People often ridiculed me for having so much tape… They could well be wrong.
The boardies will live on I have high hopes for this. You can’t have 4 different tapes and just give up on sunset swims.
Let’s hope the tape holds up and your ball bags don’t get snagged on something in the ocean. 🙏
don’t you have a stapler?
Utilising the utmost of self control to not watch today’s episode of Severence until after I get back from dinner out with some friends/work contacts this evening.
Because if I watched it earlier I’d just be thinking about the episode all evening.
I’ll be watching it tonight hopefully!
Ok fuck it. Everyone is talking about it. Time to hit the torrents lol
Edit: got season 1
Do tell me how it goes. I am equally as intrigued.
I am watching now as a result of this thread, I’m up to date and hooked!
Done deal!
It’s a very interesting show.
I went into it knowing nothing about it and the mystery and intrigue kicked in after a couple of episodes and I couldn’t put it down so I binged all of it.
Now the weekly torture of waiting for the next episode.
WEEKEND FUCK YEAH!!!
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eco247 bog roll arrived…I have vastly underestimated how much 48 rolls of toilet paper is.
Well, we’re set for the rest of the year…
The boxes make great cat cubby houses. Just saying.
We have one petcircle box upright with the bottom unfolded in another one. Cats freaking love it, it’s their pirate ship
So wild how hot it’s been these past few weeks, that now it’s under 30c I need to wear a hoodie 😆
Stuff it, going to the pub
Got the Chanel 10 news on in the background, don’t normally watch it. Seems the newsreader is slurring her words? Does she always do this or is she having an episode? Bit jarring to listen to.
She got on the Friday beers early lol
Lovely Ann Sanders (C7) sounds breathy these days. Like she’s gasping for breath after every sentence.
Asthma? Bad air-con?
Maybe.
Unclogging a slow draining bathroom sink was fun… I have no idea how it got so clogged when I don’t even brush my hair at the sink anymore for this reason. I got most out but not all so I might send down some drain cleaner tonight. Maybe. It’s draining fast now.
Try a whole bottle of el cheapo dishwashing liquid first. If you have a plunger, that really helps dislodge clogs after dousing with dishwashing liquid. Learned this from a plumber - first choice for unclogging is dishwashing liquid. After that, you go for the commercial drain cleaner if still needed.
Yeah, I was going to use the dish soap but the plunger and the bristly stick got a lot out.
There was a lot of physical matter like hair and lint and cat fur which is why I thought to use something to break it down.
Actually I still might hit it with the dishwashing liquid since there’s a bottle in there. Maybe anything further down might slide along down the pipes
That’s the idea.
I’ve ensoapened it so hopefully it’s running nicely
give it a bit to soak, then plunge the crap outta it to agitate and break up everything, then hit it with hot water
I’m always unclogging the bathroom sink and will try this next time. Usually just use the plunger and an old toothbrush… yuck
I’m also told that zip ties are good for dislodging clogs. Haven’t tried this, but it sounds sensible.
You can buy these long wires for cheap at bunnings. Similar to the old coat hanger trick except these have Velcro on bottom. The trick is not to vomit while pulling something out that looks like a mouse.
I used a bendy bristle drain snake, a plunger, the snapped off pick from a floss pick and a crochet hook.
It worked well and is draining fast but I couldn’t get quite everything
Got home in 23 mins compared to my morning drive which was almost 10.
Some really stupid drivers out there.
One was changing lanes without signalling and then there was a new one.
Someone signalling to change lanes but went in the opposite lane to what they were indicating. That one was particularly dangerous.
Anyway survived the drive home.
Time for a relaxing weekend :)
Yup yup. Relaxing already!
It’s such lovely cool weather the next few days I might go on a train trip to Ballarat tomorrow. 😊
Another 2 resignations today.
And so it goes.
How many left standing?
It doesn’t matter. Everyone ive spoken to is either interviewing or about to resign lol
I have so much work I’ve started triaging what work is a must.
Fuck em.
🍿
Indeed lol
