New band audition Friday!
Goodnight all ❤️
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She is definitely plotting something!
We ran out of her favourite cat food so she had to slum it with a cheaper one.
I'm a dead man...
I experimented making a cola drink tonight. Yesterday I had to make a thing called browning syrup for it, because it's hard to buy Parisian essence these days, (and Parisian essence these days is just colour 150). Today I made the actual cola syrup and it's cooling and developing in my fridge. I always thought cola was made out of cola nut, and maybe it once was, but according to wiki it's made of lots of different things like citrus peels, star anise, cinnamon, vanilla, cardamon and other spices. Huh, TIL. The Minipeelers were keen for me to make Nuka Cola from the Fallout Cookbook Elder got for his birthday. Surprisingly it tastes like cola! Plus I saw the soda stream pepsi syrup at the stupormarket which had a horrific amount of numbered additives. Like, is it even food at this point. And 1.25 litre coke varieties were $4, surely they're taking the piss at this point! So I made my syrup and couldn't resist trying it early.. you pour it in a glass and top it up with fizzy soda water. We were all pretty amazed. Can't wait to try it tomorrow with the flavour all finished developing.
How brilliant. I never would have thought this could be made at home, I just assumed the flavour was artificially made. I’ll have to look up some recipes out of curiosity!
That’s so cool. I’ve heard about Open Cola and wanted to make it without caffeine or artificial sweeteners but it seems like a bit of an undertaking!
Let us know how it is
First day of school today.
Classes were boring. Hopefully the ones later this week will be better. People were interesting. So was getting lost on a new campus.
little first world problem dump from a lost bean
I'm so torn on what to do with careers. I know I'm never stuck, but there's that part of my mind that needs an answer. Do I get a generalist job, that will teach me many skills but might not allow me to make the impact I want, or do I do more study, having wanted to do well in the past, but failed to live up to my potential? One of the many things that have attracted me to teaching is the less apparent corporate greed and not sitting at a desk all day. Although, part of me just wants to "surrender" and get a job so I can GTFO of this house. A job that will mean I won't have to take work home.
I've got my parents and sister in one ear, with one saying don't do teaching because I'm going to get abused by "shitty kids" and cry and not know what to say when a kid tells me to fuck off. Plus the workload.
I'm going to try living in the present more. See how I go after prac. I am trusting that I will know with time. That's what always happens. Now it's time to do some tolerating uncertainty exercises.
My friends who are teachers love their jobs, one primary one secondary. The primary teacher has it tougher, so they switch to being a specialist teacher every couple of years, then back to the classroom for a few. It's a good career choice and they live a reasonably comfortable life styles as single people.
I’ve got my parents and sister in one ear, with one saying don’t do teaching because I’m going to get abused by “shitty kids” and cry and not know what to say when a kid tells me to fuck off. Plus the workload.
What do your friends, teachers and classmates say?
When you're itchy do you scratch under your clothes or on top?
Definitely under, I hate the feeling and sound of scratching through clothes. And it's never satisfying.
ffs, now I'm itchy.
Nits nits itchy scalp nits
Depends if I’m out in public or not.
Under, unless it's in the nether regions. Scratching over clothes makes it worse.
Under. No matter what lol
Yep same. I use a back scratcher.
I start out on top but then I get under and really scratch the skin 😬
Depends if it's an itchy bum
Cheeks under. Crack over.
10hr day with more urgent desktop stuff to do this evening, but pretty good day out even though I was in a really foul mood in the am after realising either I or someone else fucked up majorly and I started in the wrong location wasting a previous few hours. all good now. I got to see these little cuties too which was lovely.
House looks like a dump, I have a full day out tomorrow plus a bday to go to in the evening, REA comes for inspection on Wed am... guess I'll try to tidy as much as I can now and do some frentic cleaning early Wed morning.
Prolly should've done it on the weekend but oh well!
Gibsons got some special treats and is sitting in her cat tree.
I'm on the couch with a fancy pizza and my new favourite drink, gatorade.
Peaceful and daggy.
Perfection.
Any Severance fans also seen Dollhouse? 'Cos goddamn.
Yuppp
When I went looking at houses in Seaholme I went to the beach too and found some pieces of coral. Seems there are big reefs off the rocks close by. Might be nice to go out and take a look one day. 🙂
here's the bits I found, it's a type of pavement coral, common name Green Coral.
Watch out for certain 🔵💍🐙 ! When I was a kid growing up near there they were often seen in those rocky bits there, don't know about these days though.
😧
I'll be careful.
Bamboo cotton sheets.
I feel like I have to have shower before I have a nap lol
Also fake tax time.
Make sure you sing the dango song every time if it's a thing in this game as well
No canteen yet or food.
Might have to finish a couple of quests before I get access to it.
My lenovo smart clock fell and the power cable snapped right on the metal barrel. It's a 20 volt power supply as well so I guess it's just trapezoidal ewaste now.
Maybe I'll get one with the wireless charger as ac replacement so I get a bit more convenience out of these things if they're going to spy on us
ended up purchasing that campervan over the weekend. Gotta wait a couple of weeks to pick her up cause they towing folks have a bit of a backlog, then will probably empty it, clean it all up check for anything that needs work maybe give it a service and we pick a destination and give it a try!
If you like any good camping spots that work for caravans/campervans let me know. I cant keep going to tidal river all the time.
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ETA for afternoon tea: 15 mins. Iced fruit bun, highly anticipated yummyness.
Edit: yumminess aquired.
Gibson's welcome home day is today, and the ten years sobriety.
A good combo lol.
Just chilling today, weekend coming up will nice ❤️
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OK.
I have bought some fancy sheets.
Now for the nap.
The AFL really needs to get its shit together.
To allow the opening game to happen with the cyclone over in QLD is pure insanity as much as I want to see my team play.
Move the opener to round 3 where the bye for the teams are or move it locally and tell people early so that they don’t make a dangerous trip to Brisbane.
Anyway that’s my rant for the day.
Yes, they should move that game to round 3. But also what even is this half-arsed 'opening round' nonsense? Just play a normal round of footy.
It’s so stupid. Just make it round one for starters and maybe have a game in Melbourne.
They think they’re capitalising on the NRL being away in Vegas.
My finger had an intimate argument with some bluestone / basalt yesterday whilst moving it. Feeling that today.
Spoke about gravity, savlon and poor judgement. Basalt won.
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Noticed all my nasturtiums were gone… ran the tape back and a workman whippersnippered them. Forget even trying anymore.
Maybe that’s what happened to the marigolds too (despite bright flowers)
maybe next time cordon off the garden bed with some string and sticks
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