How was your day? - Part 5

[November]

I cleaned the kitchen too! Problem with having a such a sparkley clean kitchen - I ended up cooking all day yesterday. Now I have another load of dishes to do. Apple pie, apple puree, Bacon and cheese quiche, fried rice and jelly. My freezer is restocked. Unfortunately oats for breaky gave me heartburn and now all I want to do is eat chicken burgers.

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

Ah, a little drama at Costco. I wanted roast chicken, therefore I went to fetch a couple. While we customers were waiting for more chickens to be put out, I struck up a conversation with an Irish girl. (We were both tatted and tall, so of course we noticed each other immediately) It was really boring to just stand there waiting for those chickens, so we began making VERY rude, politically incorrect observations about Prince Harry's social-climbing, grinning idiot wife, and soon we were consumed with hysterical giggles. It was just too much fun. (Both of us have a fondness for Harry, and neither of us want him to end up terribly hurt by Meghan the Skank) Anyway, two other women decided to approach us and say that our comments were hateful and that we should change the subject. I kid you not. Both of us just stared at them for a minute, in shock; then told them exactly how we felt about their opinion. And their appearance. And their probable lack of a fulfilling sex life. 😂 Neither of us had been seeking trouble, we were just there minding our business and waiting for the yummy chickens! But those two women just HAD to mess with us.

God, this current social climate encourages idiots to do stupid things. (A few years ago, it was EXTREMELY rare for complete strangers to "correct" you. It's sad, unbelievable, and just plain infuriating) Anyway, for some reason those slags decided to walk away. 😇 My new friend and I were simply gutted about that. 😛

 

[ILLYRIAN]

HoppyHippy,
I am completely disgusted by what you cooked if cooked can be considered the right thing to say, but as you wrote it, fried rice and jelly. I bet even Ambers new found friend would think that is odd.

 

[Nix]

Had a weird day so far and hoping it ends well. Been bargain shopping for Christmas presents on a budget! Now waiting for an important call.

 

[ILLYRIAN]

Can't you just imagine what is on Amber Bunny Slippers Christmas list?
Plenty of offers to people of packets of Sweet F.A.'s (that is empty sugar bags to the uninformed)
Or to receive them thoughts of happiness and joy.
Mind you, to see Nix going the bins at the back of some Oxfam shop or to use her words:
" bargain shopping for pressies already on a budget ".

Maybe I should have waited to get my gifty before saying that.
Thoughts of what Gnarl said of his gifty!

 

[Ethan Reigns]

Nov 15:

Nov 16:

We have had a couple of days of meltback so much of the snow is gone. Where's that global warming they promised us?

 

[November]

Just in time with the leaf machine!!!

I am raking and raking and watering and raking and moving alll sorts of things around the garden in prep for fire season. I did want to start a thread on climate change but am not sure how much of this has happened before in this region! Its raining flecks of ice, but they evapourate as they hit the hot ground!!

 

[ILLYRIAN]

How to ensure not enough people have a job get big machines.

RANT
I hope that neither of you were not being serious about global warming meaning is going to stop the snow.
Global warming might just mean the overall temperature is getting warmer, so be glad that it does snow as the alternative is that Canada becomes like Australia, a land of fire each year.
But not like America, America is still in its infancy learning how to combat bushfires.
It'll be a while before the snow stops altogether when the temperature does get that way the hot parts of the world won't support life. All of a sudden crops will fail, water will be hard to find and expensive. Millions or even billions of people will die, and all that could have been stopped if all the politicians had learnt a bit of common sense.
END OF RANT

 

[November]

I had a great time in the garden today! A more breaks than usual and even more productive! The weather is mental. Its going from freezing flecks of ice to blazing hot burning sun.

I sewed up the last bits of my fruit nets, trimmed a bunch of natives, did another panel on my chook run, raked the driveway, loaded another bunch of hay and leaves into the sinking bed and hoed along the whole front bed. I am now covered in dust on a rainy day. I still have 2 hours of sunlight but have achieved a lot today. I am gathering bits to use in my diy aquaponics system. Very early days on that.

I had heaps of bb breaks which was lovely. The trucks must have been coming from a nearby farm today as they were running frequently. I am pleased to report that the few that stopped, turned off their engines when they saw me in the garden 🙂 I am a weirdo and I find the bustle of harvest this year much more thrilling than last year. The little old farmers on their tiny tractors picking up coffee are so cute!

Yeah shower time now. Then I'll clean the bunnies run. Miss Anyanka demon is in a mood. They're both grumpy it got cold.

 

[Ethan Reigns]

I had a great time in the garden today! A more breaks than usual and even more productive! The weather is mental. Its going from freezing flecks of ice to blazing hot burning sun.

I sewed up the last bits of my fruit nets, trimmed a bunch of natives, did another panel on my chook run, raked the driveway, loaded another bunch of hay and leaves into the sinking bed and hoed along the whole front bed. I am now covered in dust on a rainy day. I still have 2 hours of sunlight but have achieved a lot today. I am gathering bits to use in my diy aquaponics system. Very early days on that.

I had heaps of bb breaks which was lovely. The trucks must have been coming from a nearby farm today as they were running frequently. I am pleased to report that the few that stopped, turned off their engines when they saw me in the garden 🙂 I am a weirdo and I find the bustle of harvest this year much more thrilling than last year. The little old farmers on their tiny tractors picking up coffee are so cute!

Yeah shower time now. Then I'll clean the bunnies run. Miss Anyanka demon is in a mood. They're both grumpy it got cold.

You've opened a barbershop that caters to aboriginals?

 

[Taake]

I got an email from my favorite online store: ”Do you have your perfect birthday outfit picked out yet? We have some recommendations for you!”

And it’s Pj’s, aaaalll pj’s!


I’m so moved.You know me! You really know me! 😛

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

I did laundry earlier, then made a double cheeseburger. I was soooo hungry! My body is still a bit weak; all I want to do is wrap myself in a robe and not move.

For the love of God, make it stop!!! I just can't resist!!! 😛

 

[November]

There are too many trucks passing for me to play in the garden today. The last thing I want is to trigger a migraine and lose the little muscle tone I have gained back since the last one. Today I am writing and planning aquaponics. I dont know enough about it yet to see if it is viable here. I just want fresh noms for the buns and can no longer trust the soil!

I have a bunch of bills to pay and a house to clean. Plenty of activity available to me indoors. I'll probably have be on BB frequently today. Town is super noisy everwhere and the weather is cool again. I almost went on a bushwalk this morning after checking the mail, but didnt have my phone on me and that is tempting fate with snakes right now.

My good trackies have holes in them. Clothes never last long enough! They arnt made for working in anymore. I may see if I can fit some shopping into the budget.

I had a super awesome dream last night. Seems the blue crystal brings out the best dreams! Sometimes sucks to wake up in painful reality. I dont want to be sitting down as much as I suspect I will be today

 

[HowiMetdaSlayer]

Had a rather easy day. Half day of classes. Now no class till Monday! Plus off work today, tomorrow (Thanksgiving here) & Sunday. So that means 2 whole days off! Yay moi! 🙂

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

I went to Amoeba Records up on Sunset because I really needed a CD and I didn't want to wait any longer. I haven't been in Hollywood for awhile; I'm not talking about the touristy part, I mean the real Hollywood. Where the tattoo parlours and dodgy bars are. I'd forgotten how completely comfortable I feel there! I was totally relaxed because everyone is very similar to me. And when I got to Amoeba, it was like heaven. It's a huge building, filled with every kind of music you can imagine. The vast majority of people were wearing mostly black clothes, like t-shirts with metal bands on them. Lots of silver jewelry on display (real metal heads don't wear gold) tattoos/piercings, and black silver toe boots. My people. I felt so at home, I didn't want to leave. Everyone was so friendly, and I got to talk about bands I like, etc. Totally forgot what it's like to be amongst my own. I didn't want to go back to the normie world. But yay, I have a new CD! I'm pretty happy.

 

[ILLYRIAN]

So Amber Bunny Slippers, thems is so very similar to you is they, how many of them are members here?

 

[November]

Slow day today. I possibly went a bit overboard on the undertrimming. I have room for a new summer flower bed now 😀 If I ever get around to planting anything. Turns out, I hate baby plants as well. I kill them frequently.

The clouds rolled over and the rain is here, its lovely and will rinse all of the dust off the leaves for me. My neighbours had their fires going early, but I haven't got that far. I figure its not worth trying to heat the place unless it gets under 4C and its not supposed to drop below 8 tonight.

 

[Taake]

I had a Buffy-related dream last night! Thought I'd share.

The whole Scooby Team and AI team are in some loft together celebrating Christmas, then they're suddenly caught off guard and attacked viciously by a host of demons.
Jenny (apparently alive) and Herzen (a character my mind clearly made up. My mind dragging up Alexander Herzen?) are run over by Santa on a lawnmower. It is a vicious blood bath.

The Scoobies manage to make it outside but they've been turned into a group of tiny turtles, toy turtles - the kind with a key on their back to wind them up, and they're huddled together, tottering down the street in great fright as they're being pursued. BUT! Rescue is near! A carriage pulls up, driven by Angel (who's been turned into Wile E Coyote), and the Scoobies huddle inside and make their escape just as fire starts to come out of the house behind them...

… then I woke up. I'm kind of bummed because I want to know where my mind was going with this.
Anywhoo, that's my day so far.

 

[Puppet]

God, this is just the worst. I went to bed 5 hours ago, and just lay there, staring and tossing and turning for, well, 5 hours! I couldn't handle the heat, but couldn't turn it off because I'm sick and don't want to get sicker. I can't breathe through my nose and I usually sleep with my mouth closed. However, the really strange part is that I'm not even as sick as I was back when I was a smoker (this is my first cold since I quit smoking earlier this year) and yet I never had a problem sleeping in the past. It wasn't easy, but I always fell asleep.

Finally, I just had to get up, lying there and doing nothing was driving me insane. So now it's 2 in the morning and I haven't gotten any sleep...

Did I mention that I hate being sick? And it's like fricking clockwork every year around this time, cause it gets so damn cold on this side of the world.

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

I made a pot of garlic cream cheese mashed potatoes and corn. Lots of butter. And a bagel with cream cheese & strawberry preserves. Probably the yummiest thing I've had in awhile. I'd forgotten how how comforting a bowl of mashed potatoes can be! The first taste was DIVINE, honestly. I was so relaxed I didn't go anywhere today. I smell like garlic and butter. 😂 I'm just so happy there's a lot of potatoes left and I'm ECSTATIC that I put cream cheese in them! They tasted so good, I felt like a little kid at a restaurant.

@Taake As for strange dreams, I dreamt I was in Las Vegas, wandering around a casino for some reason...and playing slot machines. It was just...weird.