it has been a rough few weeks, team. I kinda wish I weren’t off the booze, which means it’s probably a good thing I am.
edit: before anyone’s concerned, I’ve been off the booze all year, I’m just saying
As an occasional drinker, I can vouch it make a bad time way worse to deal with. It’s a momentary relief, a way to check-out of our brains, but doesn’t solve anything. Not really.
You have made the correct choice and continue to do so! Despite it all, you are strong and awesome. A kind and beautiful person! (Just wanted to pass on some love 💜😁)
oh, I’m so pleased I gave up. for me it was a sleep issue, but it has helped in so many other ways. I still drunk occasionally, but I absolutely notice it when I do
Hugs mate… Ikwym about the booze, I have days where I think “I’d have been blind by now if I still drank.”
yup - giving up has been a great choice! mostly I don’t miss it, but an extremely hard few weeks makes a glass of red in the bath sound very tempting. Here’s a herbal tea cheers to you (or whatever your muddle aged person drunk of choice is!)
edit: drunk of choice was a totally appropriate typo so I’m leaving it
edit edit: props to you for giving up, for whatever your reasons were
Thanks! My drunk of choice is herbal or matcha tea actually. I gave up for a few different reasons, basically the kids, the money and the health. I’d been using it as a coping mechanism for too long when it wasn’t working, the kids deserve to see better role modelling and every other adult person in their lives drinks so somebody has to not. I don’t begrudge others a bevy though.
Good on you for not drinking when things are tough… it’s an easy way to end up with hard problems sometimes.
Not a traditional birthday cake but we don’t do traditional in this house
I’ve always admired your culinary expertise. You make it look so effortless.
I’m no half job Harry.
That looks delicious. 😺
They are so good.
🙂
This reminds me a bit of my grandfather’s 80th birthday cake. Well you just try putting 80 candles on a cake, any cake. So Mum put a 75w light bulb in the middle and 5 candles around the edge. Grandpa didn’t know whether to be amused or offended. And he was easily offended.
That’s genius. I feel like after 21 it doesn’t really matter.
The kid got a candle stuck in a macaron and a speedy happy birthday song in the middle of Brunetti’s. Her friends loved it.
My girlfriend has finished her first day of her final placement. It would be great if she got a job out of this. It’s a more chill childcare centre because it gets direct government funding and it’s a 5 minute walk from our place.
She could be out the door at 8 and home at 4. Unbelievable living for an outer suburb like this
I tried my best. I hope I didn’t let anybody down. The competition was ferocious tonight but I’m happy to come out with a silver medal in competitive… gin rummy. 🥈 🇦🇺
Team leader spent the first five minutes of our group meeting talking about poop
Sounds about right for your workplace
4 days later and my toe is basically better. Still can’t fully move it, but it’s definitely muscular rather than bone-ular… Also massively overstretched my calf and shin muscles in the incident, which is the main source of discomfort now. Always tuck your backpack straps away people.
bone-ular
hehehe
I read that in a 90s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles voice.
Love is when you give your prized possession to the one you love…🎤 and they have a great time.
oh god I didn’t get time to get a coffee before this god awful meeting. Send help.
☕☕
My new drivers licence arrived! Relief. I’ve been waiting for that to submit my stuff to my new job’s third party ID/police check company which I just did. Also pretty nice to have unexpired photo ID for the first time in three years.
Now I just need to hope they don’t have an issue with the murders I’ve committed.
I’ve had the same licence photo for 13 years. The years have not been kind inbetween that and my passport photo that makes me look like a hardened criminal.
Nah, your evil twin did the murders. You’re golden.
Booked Mickey in for his next set of vaccinations (I forgot to do it last year 👀😭💀) for next Monday, and booked myself in for a CT at 7:30AM!!
I hate myself for saying yes to such an early appointment ugh. UGH! UDHDHSJKSCIBNSOpa(";';'7#92+383!$@)0{®=€}¢
-BSOD-
Get it over and done with while the day is young.
Miss Meow is booked in for her vaccinations next Monday too, it must be a good day for it! I don’t imagine she’ll be pleased about it though.
We will be commencing day drinking soon. Not too many because the third wheel has school tomorrow. Apologies in advance anyway because there will be soju involved. 🍺
Medicare: Please upload invoice Also Medicare: please manually enter all the details from that invoice you just uploaded.
For fucks sake!
That’s like upload your CV, now input all your work history and education history separately into our application form.
🦫Now Wynona took her big brown beaver
🦫And she stuck him up in the air
🦫Said, "I sure do love this big brown beaver
🦫And I wish I did have a pair"
Primus sucks man.
Yep! That slappy loose bass is so irritating. Beaver song can get in the bin.
Heeeeeeee…a…heeeheeheee…🎶
INGREDIENTS-
4 lb. Beaver Leg and Back Meat, Cut into 1 inch pieces
8 oz. Smoked Bacon, Chopped
1/2 C. Morel Mushrooms, Chopped
8 oz. Onion, Diced
12 oz. Celery, Diced
12 oz. Carrot, Diced
1 C. Tomato Juice (or a chopped whole tomato)
2 C. Water + 2 t. Beef Base
6 oz. Salad Oil
1 oz. Chef Depot Wild Game Seasonings
1 t. Dry Parsley
1/2 t. Salt
1 t. Black Pepper
Flour, As Needed
Method -
Soak the beaver meat in a brine solution of 4 cups water, two teaspoons salt and two teaspoons of cider vinegar for at least 1 hour, drain brine and reserve. Soak the morel mushrooms in a cup of hot water for 10 minutes. Dice onions, carrots and celery and reserve. Toss the beaver pieces in flour. Heat oil in a heavy pan until very hot, and beaver pieces and cook until brown, place on a sheetpan. Pour off oil and add bacon, cook it almost crispy and add the vegetables and morels, cook until onions are transparent. Add all remaining ingredients and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 60 minutes, or until tender. Serve it hot with warm bread!
**served with microwaved bait on toast
Each time I get my tax info from the ATO, there’s a breakdown of where the money is going.
About 30% of my paid taxes goes to aged care. I’m not saying we shouldn’t take care of the elderly and we have an aging population, but imagine if we actually invested a chunk of that into our future and education.
I know that aged care employs a lot of people and provides good services, but the proportion just seems massive.
Honestly, I think I vent about this every year.
About 30% of my paid taxes goes to aged care.
My concern is more if THAT much is going into it why are some of them living in such squalor? I’ve 0 issue looking after the aged care, they should live like kings after paying taxes all their lives. But I have a massive issue with paying that much for what were getting. Imagine you spend 100k on a new BMW and the dealer delivers a MG and pockets the rest.
The mixed model of private and public aged care has a lot of answer for.
Midsommar cult has the solution
That would have to include pensions and other welfare instead, I think actual aged care is about 8% of govt. expenditure.
A lot of the problem is that aged care is just really expensive, especially as we are able to keep people alive for longer with higher needs. We also have a system which sucks a lot of money out into the hands of private providers, which is not something I can see changing as long as the dominant cultural opinion is that Govt. services = expensive bureaucracy, and that private providers = efficient, competitive services. The reality is generally the opposite, especially when services are being provided to vulnerable people who are not able to advocate for themselves. A system where elderly people who are struggling to manage on their own are expected to compare providers and shop around for the best deal is ridiculous, but that is what we have. And instead of the scams and rorting by providers who overcharge and mismanage the care packages being addressed, they are adding in more restrictions on what elderly people can actually receive. A top level home care package can provide $60k a year in funding - about $21k of that goes directly in management fees to the package management company, then more gets sucked out through fees with the agencies that actually provide the staff, high profit margins on supplies and equipment etc.
Housesitting this week which means I have a backyard momentarily. Am making to most of it and working outside in the sun. Need to find myself a good spot near home in the sun/nature that I can go to work sometimes because this is nice.
