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I have managed to complete a first draft which is good. Now I need to shove in a few references and cut out about 300 words. Which considering it is an 800 word assignement might be a bit of a challenge.

I've still got a few things left on mine. Maybe you could do a couple of them?

• Start on my assignment ✅️
• Find some urgent cleaning that I've been ignoring for months but definitely needs to be done now✅️ (well, I did some washing I didn't really need to do)
• Get back to my assignment✅️
• Extra long dog walk. It helps me think and is not at all an attempt to avoid writing my assignment. Really. Honest!✅️
• Get back to assignment. Reinforce with extra coffee✅️
• 73 additional toilet breaks caused by additional coffee
• Make dinner. Plus desert. Sugar is good for the brain, right?
• Get back to assignment. More coffee. Doesn't need to be submitted until midnight and I can stay up late.
• Half arse finishing the assignment. Contemplate whether 5% late penalty will be offset sufficiently by benefits of another day to edit.
• Submit assignment
• Sleep

I'll have one platter of everything fried, and another platter with everything containing excessive amounts of sugar please. Plus a large pitcher of strong coffee.

I love a good typo.

I work in a job where we are all working simultaneously on a shared computer system, which has no ability to edit once you hit enter. So we see lots of typos, which are an endless source of entertainment.

You have an internal flock? Is that the sheep we are supposed to be counting to get to sleep? I don't have one of those, I thought people were talking about imaginary sheep. My insomnia is now explained.

Things to do today

• Start on my assignment
• Find some urgent cleaning that I've been ignoring for months but definitely needs to be done now
• Get back to my assignment
• Extra long dog walk. It helps me think and is not at all an attempt to avoid writing my assignment. Really. Honest!
• Get back to assignment. Reinforce with extra coffee
• 73 additional toilet breaks caused by additional coffee
• Make dinner. Plus desert. Sugar is good for the brain, right?
• Get back to assignment. More coffee. Doesn't need to be submitted until midnight and I can stay up late.
• Half arse finishing the assignment. Contemplate whether 5% late penalty will be offset sufficiently by benefits of another day to edit.
• Submit assignment
• Sleep

Miss Meow is remarkably good at balancing while I roll over.

No, but I have a cat that likes to lie on top of me in bed. Does not help me sleep. Especially when purring loudly into my ear.

It absolutely is - it also needs to be paired with the ability to cook and menu plan well.

A lot of people have the basic skill set of being able to choose a recipe, buy the ingredients and make a meal, but don't have the ability to reverse the process and create something based on which ingredients are available. Which works well for me, I have often ended up with things like trays of meat left over from events because people don't have any idea what to do with them (or have a mental block against "leftovers").

I think my budget was $50 a week, but that included odds and ends like toiletries and magazines as well as food. It also included meat, although not huge amounts. My staple meal was stir-fry, with lots of rice and veg and a small amount of meat (about 60-80g per meal). I would cut up the meat into strips for the freezer (I had a bar fridge with freezer space designed to hold a couple of trays of ice-cubes!) so something like a single chicken thigh would cover a few meals.

I also had a butcher that would sometime have whole wild rabbits for a couple of dollars, so I'd use the meat from those for a stew & make a soup from the bones.

Always good to involve everyone in the budgeting. I learned from an early age to keep an eye out for specials, compare by unit pricing etc. to keep the overall food budget down - if you get the cost of the boring stuff lower you have room to add in important stuff like lollies!

When I moved out at 18 I discovered that most of my peers had no idea how to stick to a budget or prioritise their spending - an alarming number would run out of food entirely before the end of the fortnight, then when they got paid they'd waste it on expensive stuff and start the cycle again. I was really surprised, I'd been shopping on a budget and planning ahead with my Mum for years.

Letting himself in when you are not home is probably a best case scenario. When I used to work at Legal Aid they had a case where they were doing an urgent Intervention Order for a woman who had woken up in the middle of the night to find the landlord and his son in the bedroom.

Mine was produced in house, much cheaper

Anyone else having pizza tonight?

Edit:

That's a relief for you!

I have accounts with a couple of banks for that reason. I've considered starting an additional one too, but I'm not sure if that's overkill.

Looking good. I've started weeding my raised beds which got a bit overgrown over winter and found a few volunteer tomato seedlings have already made a start for me.

I think Orange1 is on another lemmy instance, so maybe something has gone wrong and it's gone through the process to try and create a new account elsewhere.

Maybe try logging out and making sure to be signing in as Seagoon_ on the aussie-zone page?

Edit: maybe need to clear cookies in the browser too?

Miss Meow was missing from the lounge room tonight, and I thought she might have been hiding in the sewing room. Nope, she was having a lovely nap in the wardrobe. Apparently, my underwear is quite comfortable.

I made baked ricotta & veg pasta. It was absolutely delicious, I'll definitely do it again.

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta/baked-ricotta-veg-pasta/