Melbourne

Not been feeling too well lately, resting and watching old stuff.

Shows like Extreme Cheapskates are just fake rage bait. Yeah, a woman with a full face of makeup, false lashes and an entire set of false nails is so frugal she uses dryer lint for makeup removal. She drives an SUV to the supermarket to beg for meat scraps. Pull the other one!

I hope that episode of Adults Adopting Adults was faker than it looked though. I’m aware that these shows are very scripted and heavily edited but Danny was seriously concerning. I actually feel like that situation was one of the rare ones the camera didn’t overplay.

Opinions wanted.

I'm looking to live right by the seaside but it's hard to get a place.

Is it better to get a bit of a shitty place in a wonderful location ( the place I'm in now is a disgrace so it's not like I would be going from a good place to a dump, I'm already in a dump )

or a better place in a worse location?

I reckon I can fix up a place to be more comfortable but I can't actually move a house to a better location.

My mum sent me a video where they described a study that found that ADHD symptoms improved when parents stopped giving their kids food with red food dye in it. I consulted the literature and couldn't find the aforementioned study, but some studies say there is a link, but still lots of unknowns.

I wish she didn't take health advice from random people on the internet. The psychiatrist they mentioned in the study is known to be a bit of a snake oil physician.

Good Golly Miss Molly

spoiler

Pate knives on a small cake stand? Don't know where it came from but I do know it's not going back in my cupboard because I don't have room for ugly.

What's more embarrassing is I've got an unopened bottle of Hennessey I haven't touched yet.

Hmm should I consider buying some chicken dim sims this week?

Never eaten before, I usually go for beef.

Also considering trying out some of the Aldi shape biscuits.

So I won't be so easy with the treats anymore. It makes fluffy tums sore.

Melbcat still takes her breaks in the other room and cuddles a lot but she seems to have perked up a bit. She’s often finessing me for treats and I think she can see them - I shook out a few crumbs which she ignored but when I placed a full treat in front of her she went for it instantly.

She also jumped over a small box to go look out the screen door.

work has been so busy that i’m in bed right now going I DUN WANNA before i inevitably get up to go to work

edit: i am outside

Knackered after a 7am start and lots of driving but at least I was up where the air is fresh and the views are scenic. I feel kind of bleah coming back to the city after all that. Oh well. At least I got to escape too much tedious talk in the office before coming home.

Gonna make a mushroom and pea curry tonight thickened with blitzed, soaked cashews... and use all the implements I need, for I do not need to hand wash most of them💃 yayayayay

Got my nylon string and bass back from being fixed. Yeeha!

Poor Melbcat cringed sideways into an avoidant curl and stayed frozen like that when she saw the meds coming. Even for a good minute when I got back up to get the food chaser I’d forgotten.

It’s both funny and sad. I wish I could explain why I was doing this. And that the meds cocktail is getting so large because I can’t be sure she’ll eat medicated food. If she doesn’t reliably eat the wet food even the tasteless stuff has to be added to the oral syringe

Civics quiz this time!. It turns out, I'm smarter than a 6th grader - 100% for me. 😃

Sigh. The zucchinis never did go wild like I hoped. So far I got 4 fruits from 4 plants which I gave to a friend. I wish there had been more to donate to the community pantry. Maybe if I’d kept the original 12 that sprouted!

The issue of course is limited money and space which meant planting them in salvaged pots that were too small, and limited energy/ability leading to not enough fertiliser applications.

I’m still going on that string bag but can’t seem to concentrate enough to get into an automatic groove.