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A 2050-post collection

Tuesday, Physio, Patreon, and HALP!

::Singing:: Everything's falling apart and life sucks! (jazz hands)

My phone battery is inflating. My laptop is misbehaving. There's a threat to our economic stability that may or may not happen and our dear government is planning to make life more complicated and expensive for MeMum.

Hooray.

The laptop drama really got going yesterday when I dragged it and the keyboard to make it go to some Experts in Brisbane to see about a blood issue [I'm fine, my dosages just needed a tweak] but when I got there, the screen went completely black.

Fun.

I tried the old Hard Reboot [aka: turn it off and turn it back on again] but the power button would not register my pressure on it.

Yay.

I spent a good 18 hours believing my lappy was really most sincerely dead when, in the morning, I decided to lean on the power button until it did something. Hard reboot accomplished. The most important button on the laptop is not always operational.

Huzzah.

I'm hoping it was a once-off heat issue, but... keeping the tech limping along is worrying to say the least.

And now I haul my arse off to physio to get myself at least a little further unfucked. Braving the Crimbo TRAFFIC all the way there and back.

....yaaaaayyyy...

UPDATE

I took off super early, arrived super early, and spent more than a bit of a while trying to fix an error that was essentially a butt dial.

Spoilers, I haven't figured out what I did or how to undo it.

Called the cavalry on that business and hoping for the best. Googled it and got the thing to fix it. Yay.

Monday, Backups and Appointments

I have one eye on my (decaying) phone so that I know when I should take off for the medicos in the middle of Brisbane. Tomorrow, I'm offski for a Physio appointment. At least it's not too far to wander for that.

BUT I also have to wander into the zombie hordes in order to acquire a small something-something for Beloved.

And I need petrol. Bleh.

'Tis the season to be expensive, alas.

We will survive this. It just feels like I

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Sunday, Streams and Stuff

I shall be dividing up the spoils of the bikkie baking betwixt recipients, today. It's the last day I can do it.

There's also streams to attend and stories to write. Fun to be had with my assembled bits and bobs and making sure everyone gets a fair share of the spoils. With a few concessions regarding likes and dislikes.

Minimum of two of a specific type so the recipient can sample them and see WTF I was talking about.

I'll hide

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Friday, UNFUCKING and other things.

The spare room needs a solid joosh. The house needs degarbaging and we missed rubbish day this week. So it's a derecycling.

And the day after tomorrow, I have to sally forth just to pick up kitty litter. Because Costco was out when I went to pick up other stuff and things.

Bleh.

I have put some laundry on, I have stripped the bed in the spare room and put some of that in the wash. At the expense of my sinuses.

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Thursday, Shopping and Nonsense

We're running out of other stuff and I have to brave the pre-crimbo crowds just to get it.

...halp...

I have no idea how exhausted I'm going to be by the time I make it home, so if I am, the story for today will become part of tomorrow's twofer.

And on top of everything else... I need to make bread. Again. That will be starting tomorrow with the Grand Pre-Crimbo Unfuckening so MeMum can stay over for the big day.

Getting

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Wednesday, Baking done with and Rant PLNs

I am DONE with baking for the meanwhile. Thank grop. The kids were left unsupervised with the second batch and accidentally invented something cool because they wouldn't listen to or didn't remember the original instructions.

The original plan: Dip the tops of some bikkies in treacle, then test to see if icing sugar or cornflour stopped them being sticky thereafter. The kids did the dipping and then covered them in caster sugar. AKA table sugar.

The end result is not sticky. Yay.

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Tuesday, Mor Bikkies, Patreon, and Technical issues

So... my laptop is dying and I know it. My fam has become aware. Even a friendo on the interwebs knows that when I use a laptop, I have to use an attached keyboard with the loud tikkatakka. And even that has moments of fail.

Meanwhilst... I got logged out of my Auspost account and I can't remember the email I used for it.

I got the second batch of crimbo bikkies going off today. We have some experiments in order today,

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Monday, Backups and Bikkies

The backup reads are on later today, I have collated all the ingredients necessary to make the crimbo ginger bikkies. I just need to wait for a few things. Like for the butter to thaw.

At least there's loads of eggs so I don't need to worry about that for a bit.

I can hope.

They've started into the new bread, so I'm glad I got flour for the next bread. Yay.

I'm waiting for the butter to soften before I start

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Sunday, Stream, Eggs, and Supplies

I am getting two firkin platters of eggs this time. It seems we run out every other day. I'm kind'a sick of going. And because we are close to Crimbo, I'll stock up on a few other things.

Once the stream shenanigans are done with, of course.

I shall attempt to get the story done soon. Distraction has me in its grip, alas.

My knotted shoulder has moved up to a knotted neck. Warmth and Deep Heat aren't doing much and I

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Saturday, Gradual Improvements

We've cleared most of the floor in the laundry room. I've cleared a patch in my bedroom. We will eventually nibble all the issues in the household to bits. Not in time for Christmas, but it might be the new years' new thing.

I'm baking and doughing today. Baking tomorrow, and getting started on the crimbo bikkies the day after that.

Time is getting closer to the big day. Mum's anxious. I'm anxious. Weather bureau says rain in the afternoon of... It's

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Friday, Mor Bread and Further PLNs

We're down to the equivalent of one loaf [the kids started a new loaf without finishing an earlier loaf] and that means I gotta make more bread. I also PLN on baking the crimbo bikkies on the 15th.

Dough today, baking and dough tomorrow, baking on the 14th... and different baking on the 15th.

Yay.

At least I have the gift wrapping sorted.

Apart from the gift labels. I'll stop by a dollar shop soon enough and get something.

Story whenever I

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Thursday, Physio and Shopping and Fun

I have physio this morning, the household has PLNs to unfuck the interior. With one day reserved to do one thing as much as possible. I started by putting on a load of washing. I got Chaos rounding up some of the more offensive debris in the laundry room so I don't risk breaking my stupid fucking ankle to put another load on.

There's only a few things I need to get today, so there's a passing chance I can actually save

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Wednesday, Rant Due and Other Errands

Mayhem ran through the eggs in the effort to make mayonnaise with the wrong oil (: So my agenda today includes an emergency shopping trip for even more eggs, some bulk olive oil, and more firkin wholemeal because the fam is definitely powering through my bread supply.

I may be cooking Crimbo bikkies and bread if I'm not careful. I'll see how I go, closer to the teens of the months.

Fingers crossed.

Meanwhile, I am attempting to do the things I need

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Tuesday, Patreon and FML

Breakfast was delayed this morning because someone used the last of the olive oil and didn't inform me about it. So I had to send Chaos up to the local Woolies for some more. Turns out Woolies overcharges for oil.

If Mayhem complains, he can go down to Aldi and get a big tin on his own money.

I have things to send out to my Patrons today, the offerings to gift fresh to my audience, and perhaps some free time to

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