Miss Murderface
❤️ the white bits!
Cat - You smell bad.
“These are my pegs and I have claws so they’re not your pegs”.
Those little feet 😍
Things I’m particularly grateful for today:
- a job where I feel safe and supported, wanted and not alone
- a good friend I could call and mutually share what’s troubling us, someone who totally understands anxiety and is honest and genuinely shows up when asked
- having the motivation to cook from scratch and relieve some of the bodily anxiety
Yep, it’s another big batch of Hoppin’ John tonight, healthy, cheap and delicious. I’m going to eat dinner in bed now with the OMITB finale on. I’m going to be OK…
I’m so glad to hear there was a bit of good stuff in your day. I am grateful I just found out about Hoppin’ John - just googled it and I think I might try a batch on the weekend.
Sounds yummy 😋
Yes I first found out about it years ago when I was wondering what to do with black eyed beans. I make it with vegan sausages scrambled up separately and added in at the end. Plenty of onion and garlic. And eat it with basmati rice and lime pickle. If you do try it I’d be keen to know how it goes.
Yumm
I used to make similar with sliced Spanish chorizo instead of bacon.
I should make it again, it’s easy and delicious and very satisfying
Glad you’re ok, and the Hoppin’ John sounds like a dish that really nourishes the soul.
Edit: tired shit spelling
It is really earthy and wholesome. It’s a bit of a pain soaking the beans but would be perfect for an instant pot. I’m so glad you’ve had some wins as well esp on the health front!
hugs , those are good things to be grateful for 😊
Pumpkins are carved. Hopefully they last till Thursday cause we’ve got no time to do them between now and then.
That is fantastic. You can roast the seeds as well.
comPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST
giant bed dug out, time to fill it with rotting veggies and compost soil and half rotted wood and old shredded mulch and worms hit and chicken poop and humus plus and all sorts of wonderful things so I can stuff my banananananna plant in
If my sister can grow banananananas in Jacana, then you can too where you are. Hers even ripened and were edible if not quite as good as Qld ones. That was last summer, which wasn’t ideal weatherwise. Best of fortune for your banananananas.
I grew some bananas here in Carlton. Just make sure you have the right kind of banana, not all are edible.
oh I know I can grow banannanas down here, been doing it since 2017. finally able to bed up the beast instead of potting it
Hit dat bed with the good things!
party time for all the little worms
Sky pretty. Little wisps of pink and gold - lovely.
pretty but it’s cold out there
I want to go to bed, put the doona over my head and pretend I’m somewhere else
I actually did that yesterday (WFH). Told them I’m taking an hour for lunch (I worked back), put my headphones on with some trippy lofi and a blanket over me and a towel over my eyes and just disappeared for a bit. It did help. Hope you get to burrito yourself soon
You ok man?
Thanks for checking :) Just a shit day all round. It’s OK, it’s over now.
Everything alright?
Just one of those days. I’m all good.Thanks for asking :)
Glad the day has improved for you. Sounds like a shitty client might’ve been part of it. Hope you get to sleep off some of it and that tomorrow will be much better for you!
Me too.
Solidarity.
Bath, cat brushies, some music and bed.
Goodnight everyone, and here’s to a better day tomorrow ❤️
I’m so sorry to hear you had a crappy day today.
I hope that tomorrow is a fresh start to a better day!
Yes, what goes down must come up!
(Is that the saying?)
New workplace takes absences seriously. Needed med cert for my single day off (needed for one day off if absence is Monday or Friday). Also had a “RTW” chat with manager who asked why I was off, am I okay now, any ongoing issue, anything they can do to help, etc. Quite invasive and definitely serves to dissuade me from future sick leave where it’s not absolutely needed - which I suppose is why they do it.
Ayup. Welcome to the wonderful world of corporate ‘care’. Jobs not done till the paperwork has been filed.
Do you have a workplace agreement or something in place that details exactly what you need to do and when if you need a sick day or carer’s leave?
While this isn’t quite the same my workplace is majority female. I once told a story that when a manager here was being quite full on with asking why someone was away they got a detailed recount of the menstrual cycle and their period.
That manager stopped asking people why they were off sick.
It’s even more fun trying to communicate the full breadth of menopause to a 30 something male manager.
In our latest EBA they asked for menopause leave, government said no 😑.
It’s shameful how 40% of sick days are on Mondays and Fridays.
This doesn’t seem remarkable as stated given 2÷5=40%
I think that’s the joke 🤣
I hope so!
That’s funny 🤣 I know our EBA did specify Mondays and Fridays were mandatory med cert so that’s no issue. Wasn’t expecting a 15m chat with manager asking about it though
That grinds my gears
I don’t think they’re meant to ask why. Do they have the right to do that? :/
I googled it afterwards. Looks like they can ask, but can’t ask for any reasons on the med cert. You can refuse to give them any info I guess but they might not receive that warmly, even if you’re allowed to. My last employer wouldn’t have asked any of this so it’s new to me
What happens if you’re a carer and not the sick one? Do you take your kid to get the medical cert?
Relevant here, as I took the day yesterday looking after a sick kid. Getting to a doctor would have been a challenge as he was in no shape to ride and my wife had the car.I get a carers cert from the doctor. Usually telehealth. Or stat dec it.
Good question. I’m not sure if Telehealth scripts work for carer’s leave - it’s what I used yesterday and it was fine, no mention of it being a lame type of cert or insufficient in any way…
New glasses day. It will be nice to not have a perpetual headache!
Today was one of those “if everyone is an asshole, you’re the asshole” kind of days.
I’m glad I realised.
I had a nice morning getting some weeding done in the front yard - having the cloud cover and not having to work in full sun was definitely nice.
I have quite a few patches of self-seeded poppies coming up which is nice, they have been flowering solidly for months and the red works really well with the primarily blue/purple flowers I have in the garden. They work particulalry well with a volunteer borage that is in full flower at the moment too.
I keep listening to podcasts to help me fall asleep. Then I wake up in the middle of the night with an earbud either in my ear or underneath me. Good times!
Valaris 107 is already leaving the bay, I wish I hadn’t come into the office for this afternoon. I find them so fascinating (on a purely what the fuck can humans build?! kinda way) and always want to get as close as I can, but it’s a bit difficult. I figured watching it go through the heads would be the best way.
Did some quick reading about it due to your comment, very cool. 9696 tonnes. Seems to be doing “plugging and abandoning” work as a result of decreasing offshore mining for gas and oil in Aus waters
Watching Coraline tonight
to procrastinate my overdue assignmentSomeone told me it was their favourite movie and really built it up. As a child in 2009, it seemed scary. We shall see now.
It really is scary and I’m an adult 😵
I’ve got a dilemma.
Order and pay postage from Amazon or drive and picking up locally which would potentially use up 30-40 mins of my time after work.
I vote drive after work, only because I dislike Amazon lol
Bleh! Haha.
What sucks is that I need to order stuff from a specialty shop and that shop doesn’t have everything I need else I would have ordered everything in one go :/
