All is well! Vet rang. I pick her up at 2:30pm.
May as well use this opportunity to open the windows lol
Btw does anyone here play Destiny 2 lol
All is well! Vet rang. I pick her up at 2:30pm.
May as well use this opportunity to open the windows lol
Btw does anyone here play Destiny 2 lol

Tha patient is out of it.
๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃI wish she was more stoned cuz she wiggled out of her suit and I just had mortal kombat with her to get it back on lol
Just caught a wattle bird on the spring onion going into seed:

Going to feel weird being at home by myself. Going to the gym and trying to stay outside the house as much as possible.
My absurd candle order arrived.! The house smells amazing and I've not even lit anything ๐ธ
I had that with a candle I bought for my girlfriend. You didn't even have to light it, you could just open the lid and smell it since it was so strong.
Also, I remember reading a guide on how to burn a candle years ago. It sounds like a silly concept but it was advice on how to stop the wick tunneling into the wax so it was actually quite useful
These are just 100% beeswax, no added scents. Ideal burn time is a thing, you'll waste them lighting for too short a period.
Running the figures. 1kg of wax needs 8kg of honey, so 130kgs of honey for 16kgs. Say you put 10g of honey on toast that's 13,000 slices of toast w/ honey (!).
Ooohh!! What did you get? I LOVE candles. Is the brand still going? Anything you recommend?
It's Queen B. They are currently closing down. I recommend everything! I got 16,5 kilos... oops
Last week I started getting off the tram earlier and earlier on the way home and walking the rest of the way. Today I decided to just walk the whole way, took an hour on the dot. It's about half an hour using trams. It felt good! Can see myself doing this almost every day I think (weather permitting). My GP will be happy if it lowers my blood pressure.
I think about this with riding the bike. It's 10 minutes slower than driving. I could see that as 20 minutes of exercise a day instead of wasted time getting to and from work
this is true, walking and other mild exercise does lower blood pressure
I think Mickey is going to fare better in the cattery than I will being around 3 children under 5 for 3 weeks.
At least the woman who runs the cattery is a massive Cat Woman; she isn't great with people but amazing with cats.
I am not amazing with children, it's very difficult to censor myself or not say something inappropriate (it's a My Family Surname issue ๐คฆโโ๏ธ). I guess I will just do my best to take an interest in what they want to talk about, though I'm sure they will be rather preoccupied with each other rather than the adults.
So maybe I can sneak off for my durries, joints, and beer without too much fuss ๐
Also, stupid question I could Google but I'm very lazy: I have a number of Sally Hansen insta dry nail polish, can I take that on the plane? Either carry on or the other thing where they store big bags (words espace me, I'm hungover, sorry)
yes, you can take nail polish but not nail polish remover
cargo hold
and you will do fine with kids, just treat them like adults with special interests
ok, a miss seagoon story
when Miss Seagoon was 3.5 she went to her grandpa and step grandma's house to stay for a weekend. Step grandma was a very prim and proper person. My parting words to Miss when her dad drove her over was , "don't say any rude words like fuck. " I had friends over and they laughed when they heard the goodbye. We all swear a lot.
I have Christmas with my friends family and just give the kids $20 each for my swearing when I get there now.
I'm not that rich for that to be sustainable mate ๐
It's three kids once a year. I mostly do it because my mate is in town so I crash their family xmas and my removalists tongue sets off the swear jar comments. I grew up with looser parents who just swore around their kids.
I read it as every time you swear ๐ my bad lol I was like "bruh, I'd need 10x $50s just to cover me getting up in the morning" ๐๐
And yeah same, dad swears quite a bit and mum's as bogan as they come so there was no hope for me ๐ many a detention spent picking up litter at lunch for saying "fuck" in primary school ๐ฌ
They're $5 a swear so I just pre-buy some credit. I still need to watch my language, it's good practice. I've just been so shitfaced with my mate I forget that his more conservative family is at the table with us. They're lovely people but they've never snorted drugs off another human.
Ha ha, Erin got a non-parole period that's as long as I am old ๐ couldn't have happened to a better person tbh
Well. So hereโs the thing.
Gibson doesnโt like to wear things. And after several rounds of Mortal Kombat (and antibiotics for me and a tetnus shot tomorrow) we had to go back to the vet for the cone of shame.

There are padded puffy alternatives to the cone. You might be able to overnight order one.
Oh dear. Poor Gibson has had a day. If you're home and observing she might manage without the cone. In the past I've connected the cone to a separate collar to make it easier to get on and off too.
The vet will call me tomorrow and we can see if I can take it off. Iโm going to be out a lot of the week for interviews but I have to admit she accepted it a lot better than the suit.
Any idea which bowl is best for water?

I never used a cone with cats, just observed them and the cats never did anything.
It's an awesome picture. It must have been very exciting to spot a dolphin. I bet it looked huge to naked eye, microscopic in a photo. I try to zoom everything but I don't have a good camera, it has limitations.
And omg, did you get a pic of a live Pheasant Shell? They are so pretty, I've never seen one live.
It's definitely a beautiful world out there. ๐
Today at the beach I saw a Polycheate, a bristle worm. I did not touch it, luckily, as many of these marine animals are venomous.
it's the purple and red worm looking thing with a hundred legs. It moved quite fast when my shadow crossed it. ( it was so brightly coloured irl, really pretty even if it was a monster )

I also saw a sea urchin in a rock pool, it was moving it's spines.

and a cloudy day over the bay, I dressed warmly and the breeze was quite nice

I have bought myself my first mango of the season. Bit worried itโs too early for them to be good yet, but the aroma got me when I walked past them, couldnโt help myself.
Mate the drama of getting Gibson into her carrier. Ended up having to use the jumbo size one :(
Big deep breaths, she's in and there.
I assume the sedative she got was gabapentin otherwise thatโs a suggestion.
Melbcat is usually very good but when she was first getting used to it I would tip the carrier onto its back end and gently drop her in. That sometimes buys you a second to shut the door before they rocket back out. A top-down carrier is also an option.
Another cat I had to trick by putting treats inside so heโd half go in and then quickly pushing his bottom in to shut the door.
So tiredโฆ Melbcatโs med times desyncing isnโt going to be easy to handle. But whatever. Iโm just going to have to follow the alarms and cat nap between doses.
Iโve ordered some supplements that may help her bladder as antibiotics may worsen antibiotic resistance :( And some more oral syringes.
Tomorrow/today I book the home visit for her blood pressure and try to finish tidying up for that. Hopefully the vets bring the medication if itโs ready.
Despite it all sheโs a trooper. Still jumping up and down from her chair by herself, eating her meals, and wanting to look outside.
After passing out at 7pm, here I am at 2.30am lol. Least I might be able to catch some of the lunar eclipse
Did 84 damage in one round with my barbarian at DnD tonight.
Just spending the evening doing some sewing and mending.
It annoys me no end good jumpers are being eaten by moths. I use eucalyptus wash, I hang up moth repellant, I store carefully, I hunt down moths. I still get damaged jumpers. Maybe I should buy acrylic instead.
@Seagoon_ @YarraByte noooo. I'm trying to get rid of the plastic in my wardrobe. It's slow going but I'm getting one or two new op shop finds most times I look. Got the most gorgeous tie-die silk top for peanuts the other week, I had honestly forgot how lovely silk is, been a while since I wore any.
I have vintage silk scarves ( 1950s ) , they are lovely, so light weight
I do like natural fibres but they get eaten
@Seagoon_ I had thought I might have moths eating wool items but so far I haven't eyeballed any and traps are empty, and damage is indeterminate... I had a friend say she thought must have moths but I'm not sure.
spose i better clean up the front porch again, I spent over an hour repotting and cleaning it yesterday only for the wind last night to smash some plants and turn over pots.
Woken up by loud birds. Why sing at 5:30am, why?
What would you make fake sandwich meat out of for a trick cake? Fondant is verboten, chocolate would be doubling up.
sliced apple or potato
cheese slices?
The cheese would probably be choc, so maybe not.
Jam?
Peanut butter?
Crushed pink mini meringues?
Tinted marshmallow fluff or meringue icing? https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_make_swiss_meringue/
Cookie dough? https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/255365/edible-cookie-dough/
Cookie butter?
Halves of pink Oreos like salami rounds?
Fruit leather like bacon?
Slices of pink cake?
Slices of firm jelly or milk jelly?
spoiler
You could add an extra pack of unflavoured jelly to the recipe for milk jelly for an opaque pink sliceable substance. https://www.food.com/recipe/milk-jelly-529101
Or add a can of condensed milk to the recipe for Knox blocks https://www.food.com/recipe/knox-blocks-281669
Hereโs an unholy car crash between the two (creamy blocks) but I donโt know how it would hold up structurally https://momwithaprep.com/knox-blocks-with-1-box-of-jello/
Homemade pink protein bar dough rolled out flat?
Prepare and slice a large pink mochi?
Edit: Saw the other comment. Crepes is probably the simplest and best answer
Hmmm. Not worked with that. Does it sweeten well?
You can also make coloured modelling chocolate out of candy melts https://sugargeekshow.com/recipe/modeling-chocolate-recipe/
Otherwise pink halvah, fudge, or a layer of pink marshmallows (tiny or not)
I found this quite interesting:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-08/coles-woolworths-underpayment-court-judgement-fallout/105747578
I read that too.
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The focus should be on the loss of 1 billion by Australian workers, money taken by employers. " australian workers underpaid 1 billion by colesworth"
the way the article is presented it makes out like colesworth is going to take a loss. NO. They are being made to repay what they TOOK from workers.
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