Glenrich st house warming

Fun flash back to my previous house as Phoebe Antonieff Mitchell and myself were invited to the new people's house warming.

Fun sunrise was seeing others I knew and also seeing lots of unknowns from their other parts of life. 

Saw : Rob D, Chris, Robyn, Tom.

Fri - First aid

Work paid for any staff who wanted to do first aid to do a course.  I went with Jesse and Jeremy on Friday.

Last time I'd done a St John's course was (I think) about 30 years ago with the church and possibly at West end and took two days.   My memories was it was really dragged out with lots of war stories and pictures of gore. So I'd avoided st John because others did one day courses.

This course was back to one day.  One thing I liked was all the getting up and putting on bandages or practising CPR.  Even though it was an effort to get up it did on the whole keep me awake. 

CPR

30 compressions 2 breaths. 

120bpm

To the beat of "Stayin alive"

YouTube Micro habits

https://youtu.be/DJBZRfibicE?si=FmLS70G_MQnXAFHR

 

1 - 10 seconds of sunlight upon waking up 
2 - Drink 2 glasses of water first thing in the morning 
3 - One line journaling - Brief daily writing - One sentence - Something observed or felt 
4- The visualisation, spend 60 seconds imagining your day going well
5 - Intention statement, write down or speak out loud what you want to achieve today 
6 - Two minutes start up, just do something for two minutes to avoid procrastinating 
7 - Single tasking window 
8 - Two slow deep breaths buffer before responding to emails or texts 
9 - The End and What chain
10 - Movement 
11 - Every day give one genuine compliment to one person 
12 - Use person’s name
13 - The assumption check 
14 - Gratitude anchor, attach it to something you do every day 
15 - Micro kindness 
16 - Cold water exposure 
17 - Read 5 pages of a book per day
18 - Week evaluation - reset
19 - Bed time routine 
20 - Never do nothing, do at least something 

 

Before we get into the positives of the above.  In the modern way of enshitification, the mobile YouTube  app does not allow you to copy text so I had to open the URL on my PC and copy this list and paste it into my blog.

Pumpkin Soup Recipe

PUMPKIN SOUP RECIPE 

No potatoe 

I'd always made pumpkin soup with essentially potato and pumpkin in almost equal proportions and a chopped up onion.  With the new desire to go carb free, potato's are off the menu.  Luckily Phoebe came to the rescue with a recipe below that has no potato and is dam good.  By a lucky coincidence, cream (but not milk) is on the approved list. 

1/2 pumpkin in chunks

2 onions diced

4 cloves garlic chopped up.

1 golf ball ginger chopped into small bits.

1 leak the pale bit. 

Chicken stock carton 1L

Some butter in saucepan

Put everything except pumpkin into a pot.

Fry a bit "sweating " but not cooking. 

Add some chicken stock if needed. 

Pour in all the chicken stock

Add pumpkin

Simmer until pumpkin cooked.

Mix it. 

New Italy

BP EV Charging

BP EV CHARGING

Still a ways to go with EV charging. Pulled into BP to buy a coffee and observed a charger. Phoebe went to buy coffee while I attempted to get the charge going. Despite the short form instructions saying "tap your card", the only way I could get it to work was to download the BP EV charging app. That took time. 

I'd tried to see if I could pay through charge chargefox to no avail. 

Surely they could have a tap and go option on the charger. 

South West Rocks - BNE Drive

A couple of days ago decided to go to South West Rocks to see Phoebe's extended family including her brother Kim who's recovering from a fall. 

Friday morning though started with a pre commitment in the form of rowing.  It was not a bad row. In an eight with one new guy - Hugh in 5 seat. 

As soon as the boat was away I high tailed it home and just after 7 we were on the way.

 Maccas on Ipswich Rd provided a couple of coffee's, a sausage and egg mcmuffin and for Phoebe, the worst cheese and tomato tostie.

Lost an hour as we crossed the border to NSW.

A couple of stops to charge along the way.  The range is just too little. 

Most of the way out was raining very heavily. The car is very heavy so unlikely to aquaplane but still the rain made visibility very poor and consequently we had to drop the speed. 

Arrived at South West Rocks around 3:30pm. We'd missed the family lunch. 

Dropped into see Kim and he's doing great. 

Penny met us and guided us to our accommodation. It's two shipping containers done up with a covered area. 

Early dinner of fish and chips at a local pub.