How good are eggs? Scrambled, poached, fried, sunny side up, easy over, soft boiled, hard boiled, curried, easter, nest,…
we got some bad news on Punkin on Thursday, there was a lump. With his other health issues what we thought was another year or two dropped to months.
Yesterday we got the blood results. we’re now looking at weeks, possibly days, and having to make some hard decisions
It hurts.
Hugs to you and your Lordship.
The worst and hardest news. You can’t explain to them, and often not to yourself either. Grief sneaks up and bites you when you least expect it. Spoil Punkin rotten for the time he has left. And don’t hesitate to do the best thing for him - which may not be the same as the best thing for you. Hugs to you and His Lordship and other cats.
So sorry.
Gentle hugs for you all.
I’m so sorry to hear that. Same thing happened to our kitty, and we found out very late so she only had a day. Make sure you spoil Punkin rotten, and take care of yourselves, too
Deepest sympathies. Had to do this twice in 6 months a while back. Fuck cancer.
I say this with all the kindness and love in the world: there is no hard decisions. You know in your heart what’s best, and its gonna hurt like hell but you’ve got to do what’s best for him. Its the final kindness we can share, and we should all be so lucky to be so loved that our friends and family cant bare to see us suffer.
I’m sure you already know this, I just know when I’ve been called on to do this in the past (Too many time) I would’ve given anything for someone to say this to me: You’re doing the right thing.
I haven’t regretted helping a little buddy. I have regretted not knowing and not doing something earlier. The guilt of that eats me up. ( poor allie 😭 )
Hugs. It really is the hardest part of loving them.
Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to me
Holy shit I’ve had too many
Time to go to fucking sleep
HBTY 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🛌
Happy birthday to you. Go to fucking bed.
Don’t tell me what to do…even though you’re right
Happy birthday! Hope the day was fabulous!
T’was
Gluten Free Black Forest cake. With Raspberries, because I couldn’t find any cherries.
Happy Birthday!
Posted on the wrong thread. Pre coffee, apologies.
Good morning to everyone except those who don’t take their backpacks off a crowded train/tram in peak hour where everyone is squished like marshmallows
You’re not the only person who did it today. ☕
something funky with how its presenting the threads. I keep clicking on the wrong one.
I’m not having that problem.
Got some feedback from the ABC correspondent. He complimented my writing and asked me to narrow my focus down to moving from sobriety to where I am today.
Also, cat that’s high on brushies:
I’m feeling ok. I am going to the shops for a bit. Wish me luck. 😬🤞
good luck, take it easy out there, very warm outside as well.
I walked as per instructions in the back book. Faster and with arms moving a little. It seems to have worked, I’m not wrecked.
Arms counter balance legs in gait, you probably know that already.
I try not to swing arms wildly
and I obviously don’t know much or I wouldn’t be in this predicament of cracking my vertebrae and crushing my discs n/k
Scrap cardboard might be good to practice paint on. I just have to cut a piece, clear somewhere to work, start learning to mix, not get any on the cat… collapses onto face
Annoyingly I’m interested but just weirdly stuck
Edit: Also I walked in the kitchen and got a tiny piece of broken glass to the heel. Wtf. I haven’t broken anything in a very long time and vacuumed recently so it must have been tracked in from outside.
Edit 2: I’ve done a quick vacuum of the area to make sure Melbcat doesn’t step on any glass splinters. She’s still hiding in the dark bathroom. I’ll let her rest.
Art rambles
I’ve cut a flap of cardboard from a box headed for recycling, torn a piece of printer paper into small strips to swatch paint comparisons onto, and grabbed a paper bowl and a wooden spoon to use as a ‘palette’ and ‘palette knife’. (Sorry. I’m just kind of in a major pinch for energy/physical ability - I am at least trying to avoid plastics.) I wish I had some newspaper or a drop sheet but I’ll do it on the table beside my bed and be very careful.
That’s the prep. If I stop now and pile them onto the cleared side table I’ll at least be ready for next time.
The cardboard is light brown but that’s ok. It’s actually good because it gives a starting midtone. A little light but it could work when making desaturated ‘dusty’ yellows, greens and greys for Australian bushland. And because it desaturated there’ll be a lot of mixing of the same colours into each other, so that creates a colour harmony?
I don’t know. I’m just copying the artist I watch on Youtube.
artists on YT are a great resource 👍
DRUNK ON A TRAM DING DING
Today’s preserving efforts: Marinated capsicum and peach jam with apricot & grape.
Hi. Is this still available? Can you deliver?
Hi, these jars have all been taken, but I found a lost jar of plum and raspberry jam from 2011 in the back of the cupboard if you’re interested.
Time to relax.
Was given a work laptop today but is heavily locked down by restrictions on windows 11.
Been creatively trying to bypass some of the restrictions, now if only I could at my own background image, that would be nice.
I’ll have to do some research to see if there’s a way to override the organisation’s logo.
As someone who looks at doing these brandings and such for a living… why would you want to? Who sits and looks at their desktop wallpaper anyway?
Even if you find a temporary way the changes will likely get overwritten by policy anyway.
If you need to change stuff for your job that’s a valid request otherwise you have to remember that’s not your personal laptop, it’s a work tool.
I like a little personalisation, also the background colour and logo hurts my eyes a little but I managed to make the background black for the moment so that will do.
Just wanted some space theme fantasy planets in the background with some nice colour when I don’t have stuff open on the desktop sometimes.
Nothing more.
Are you me? I love space themed wallpapers, have a few I make my PC rotate through lol. Though my fav is the artwork I have of Gandalf and the Balrog on the bridge laughs nervously in nerd
I totally get what you mean about personalisation!
Hehe well we do have a fair few things in common I’ve noticed.
Planets and space are something I like but dragons are my true love.
The bridge scene between Gandalf and Balrog would actually make a pretty good background, especially when the whip hits Gandalf’s shield.
I like to configure things to my liking, I’ll settle probably for loading a browser theme instead!
I guess the cost of living issues are affecting protestors. They are on a budget!
Ha! Just saw the news and get it now, lol 😂
I was hoping I had enough apricot in the freezer to make an apricot jam today, but I only had a tiny bit. So today’s jam is peach with apricot and grape. Future planned jams are strawberry, mixed berry and peach/plum/cherry mix.
No sonnets written,
Too many rules for rhyming,
Autumn’s haiku time.Time for Tom Waits
Dark chocolate of music
Not for everyone.
If anyone here is playing helldivers 2 on ps5, hit me up!
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I am also endowed with a moon-face.
But I rather this than whatever buccal fat removal does to ones features.
Erin looks like she eats meth for breakfast lol
You should do sonnet about your full bodied visage
‘something’ or ‘sonnet’? Lol
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True! She never really had a true round face to begin with, and she most certainly doesn’t now lol
I mean, my face is so round cavemen used it as a blueprint to make the first wheel. I’m sure you could not come close to the perfect circle that is my own head hahhaha
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Karl Pilkington round?
That is really not going to age well
E: the buccal fat removal I mean, not the round face
It’s going to age terribly, I feel it my bones and buccal fat lol
Stupid midnight munchies ruining my chance at a fasted blood test.
