Calm before the storm..

A lot to think about from yesterday (and thank you all for the responses). The links that melba posted yesterday (peoples' experience w/ care giving) were eye opening, was up until 3am reading them.

I think I'm going to withdraw and tone it down a bit.

I will do food and the basics but the meltdowns are going to be largely ignored.

If bro and SIL and bub are coming down this w/e I will not be doing anything extra. I don't even care to ask if they are.

I suppose this is what emotional burn out is. Had it before w/ work but this is a different beast.

Psych appointment today then interview a couple of hours later.

Enough time to get a nap in between.

BP monitor has been returned. Rather unpleasant but not too bad. It did wake me up a few times overnight but I managed to fall asleep quickly after so I'm feeling ok. Now I need to do new blood test before meeting with Dr for results. I'm no expert but it seems like my resting BP is like 155 over 85 at the moment which is no good

Got done by an April Fools before 8am 🤦‍♀️ (at least I hope it was a prank)

Arrived at work on time to find my most disliked truck driver had blocked most of the car parks because ???

Am cranky pants. Need coffee. And moar sleep.

Ok the emergency services are doing well today: Mandatory carrot rations

Wombattery

Bin chicken survey

Horse rescue cart

Hot air balloon division

Oodies for pets

Sandwich gun

Traffic directing geese

(Non-joking, serious answers please)

I’m considering a cheap carpet cleaner or steamer and going over options… Kmart has a multipurpose steam spot cleaner around $150 plus some other options and Bunnings and The Good Guys have options around the $200 mark. Which is maybe a doable savings goal.

Anyone have experience with using carpet cleaning machines in this price range? Were they terrible? Any advice or budget recs?

I’m tossing up between something shampooey to get rid of the stains and grubbiness and potentially using an antifungal cleaner/actual disinfectant in it to kill ringworm spores. Or maybe I should choose something with steam to help kill the spores and also kill any future moth, flea, or bedbug infestations.

I was thinking of buying outright because hiring the Rug Doctor machine is such a hassle without a car, has a time pressure, and is $50 a pop when ringworm reinfestation is likely.

PSA, it's smoke alarm battery day. You don't want the dreaded pips at 3am

Psych appointment went really well which is great. Got a lot of old crap off my chest that I usually ignore.

And I've hit the rebate limit so it only costs me 40 bucks for the next 7 sessions.

I have an interview as an actor next week.

I have never been an actor.

This should be amazing lol

Fuck you soundcloud. I'm not listening to ads just to hear my own uploaded music.

Off to bandcamp I go.

Goblin cat just came inside, checked out the back room, took one step onto the bed and tried to jump on a visitor’s lap 😳 He definitely is or was a pet.

I had laundry and other things that were moved into the back room (which I normally keep closed) so I’m going to be washing and sanitising all of that again plus the carpet in there. God I hope adequate food and parasite treatment helps his body kick this suspected ringworm on its own. Because the cream isn’t reliably applied and I can’t get the prescription pills. Trying to think if he’d let me sponge him with lime dip twice a week. Probably not.

The carpet foam is ok, o-phenylphenol… which is antifungal but I emptied the can on one application and that wasn’t even a full room. And phenol… that might be toxic to cats. Edit: Oh shit it is. It was dry when he walked on it but no more of that.

I’m just going to buy the Kmart steamer I can afford right now. It has good reviews at least. https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/kmart-anko-spot-cleaner

I just hope it has the ability to vacuum the water up repeatedly to dry it, or a strong vacuum so it doesn’t leave much. Really not wanting to overwet the carpet.

Salt gun update: Baking soda mixed in with the salt did the trick. Thanks for the tips.

Change of plans on the Anko steam spot cleaner, I returned it after seeing that you couldn’t use the steam function with the long telescopic attachment and the larger nozzle. That’s only for spills on hard floors and windows which are not what I needed it for.

Machine looked great for the price and I expected to have to put some extra time and patience in using something labeled as a spot cleaner. I might have kept it even using the little brush nozzle. But I wasn’t doing the entire carpets hunched over with a tiny handheld.

I got a cheap HEPA vacuum because my cheap stick is starting to fall apart, and will just have to constantly vacuum until I sort out and save for a proper steam cleaner.

Fuck, I just realised this video I was meaning to edit is just a series of photos. Instead of shooting a video, I just took a photo - twice. The iPhone camera app always defaults to photos after locking your phone, so now I have nothing on this video I was planing to do.

Boyo has yet again delivered present super early. I really don't understand this compulsion. These gifts are not temperature controlled or the size of an elephant, stash it in the back of a bookcase for a week?!?!

FYI the Brunswick sardines in Aldi with lemon chilli & garlic are legit. Centre aisle only. Also, I noticed that the supplies of rice in Aldi were very low - virtually no plain white rice available. There was still some sushi rice, brown rice and basmati still on the shelves, but NO plain white rice. Northcote store.

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Bought myself a Purple off aliexpress because for $75, why not?

Purple

Pretty impressed with it already. Feels nice, the dock also has the dongle in it so you can just plug that in to charge/play.

The dongle makes it feel more response than my old controller, and the dongle also means it works no matter what when dualbooting.

I also forgot it has switches to turn the triggers from analogue to digital, which will be a big help in Nightreign. No wondering if you've pulled a trigger enough to do an attack now, you feel the click and know it happened.

And I'm going to program the macro buttons to some annoying button combos for Nightreign, and maybe unassign sprint from the left stick because I kept accidentally pressing it on the old controller

So I am off to the local cinema , yay 😊

Another IT problem solved after much stress and swearing under my breath. This time the website enquiry form wasn't working. The form submits on the website but wouldn't send an email to me with the details. A possible new client called me asking if I had received their website enquiry.... sent through last week! Another problem caused by switching email providers. Who knows if I missed any other enquiry forms in the time it wasn't working, great.

I tried almond milk for the first time and I didn't hate it.

Tired, achy, sore behind the nose… I checked and the pollen count is low so I found and used a Covid test that expires this July. No sense in wasting it. It was negative but yeah.

I’ve been slack but really should start masking again. Especially as I’m using laundry sanitizer so I can just throw cloth ones in the main load and especially as a particularly nasty flu season is coming. I wonder if my doctor or the chemist has the new flu shots yet, the ones against Super K.

back from cinema , it really is a beautiful movie

because of transport stuff ups I got there 20 minutes late, no prob, just means I won't see the trailers and some psa's and will miss the starting 10 minutes

desk clerk pushed me to get a later showing , I insisted

So I get in this giant theatre and I'm the only one. They start up the movie for me and yes, they started it at 15 minutes in because there are later start times to accommodate

So why is Rocky so relatable . Because he is personalised.. He has the Erid versions of tattoos and markings, He has mannerisms and habits. He has language and abstract thinking and he is a social creature.

and everything in the audiobook, which I know well, is in the movie, just in different ways.

There is so much that is good in the movie. 😊