The candle wax has melted enough to make contact with the table! Happy days!

YATTA!

The previous melting candle. There is a LOT of extra melted wax build up on the side of the candle, but not much progress has been made to connect with the table.

We've had significant action, just not much downwards progress. Soon though. Soon.

A leaning candle on a restaurant table. The wax is dripping off the side and is about 3/4 of the way to connecting with the table.

The tension is killing me. When will we achieve full connection??

They got away. I bumped into an old colleague as I got up, and but the time I'd finished catching up, they'd left.

Probably for the best.

We're in dangerous territory. I've had one cocktail on an empty stomach and a table of older people at the restaurant I'm in have finger whistled THREE TIMES for a member of staff (approximately 10 steps away) to come over to them.

My outrage is through the roof. My confidence is alcohol-boosted.

What a good idea! Excellent influencing. You'll be the bean king on TikTok in no time with tips like that.

That sauce looks THICK. 10/10

At the time, bladder, however knobhead cat is definitely being a piss-bag right now as he's in the process of clearing my bedside table in protest of not having his catering needs met in a timely manner.

A 2.7kg beige butternut squash photographed "standing" next to a crooked 600g beige butternut squash, leaning on it

Who doesn't remember Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in the 1988 movie Twins?!

Damn it. Went to bed, worked on a crossword for a bit, cat came and snuggled up, finally ready for sleep, now my bladder's woken up.

TOO LATE, PISS-BAG, WE'RE ALL FAR TOO COMFY NOW.

I have implemented a new house rule: Excessively boring questions will be vetoed.

My husband asked me what kind of lightbulbs I'd bought for a new lamp. I asked for clarification, as I didn't understand what info he was after.

"Oh, you know, long-life, etc?"

I'm sorry, what?? No. Far too boring.

Photo of a notice on a box that says PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE MOON

Some sensible advice for the crew of the Artemis II

What a missed opportunity!

Phase 4: spend 15 minutes trying to remove said glue from hands.

The floor was almost immediately repaired in the bathroom, just not the ceiling in the living room below. I was not prepared to test the strength of our relationship with a toilet peephole. (Although dropping things (not poo) on his head unexpectedly was a fairly appealing prospect.)

The same but of ceiling but with patches over the holes. It still looks very unappealing at this stage.

Phase 3: try to glue the non-adhesive wall hole patches to the ceiling and hope for the best.

Phase 2: stick self-adhesive wall hole patches over the holes. (They lied and did not in fact self-adhere.) ❌

A photo on my living room ceiling with a large area of plaster scraped off. There are now 4 small but distinct holes in the ceiling.

Phase 1: turn one small hole into a significantly larger disaster area with four small holes. ✅

A picture of my partner's smiling face looking up from downstairs as viewed through a jagged hole in the bathroom floor.

It's been 3 years and 9 months since knobhead cat put his foot through the bathroom floor / living room ceiling. I've grown quite fond of the hole over the years, but I have decided the time has come to repair it.

Mum's parents were Gran and Grandad First-name, Dad's were Grandma and Grandad First-name. (Although I eventually discovered that both grandads' first names were in fact not their actual first names!)

A screenshot of a congratulations screen from LinkedIn puzzles. There's a name badge that says Hello my name is Genius. Under that it says Smarter than 99% of Debs.

So close.

A screenshot of today's Wordle puzzle. I have successfully avoided finding ANY correct letters after 4 tries, but I have got one letter in the wrong place 4 times, thus leaving only one option remaining for that letter.

I don't want to toot my own horn, but I'm fairly confident I know what the first letter is. I can only assume the remainder are exclamation marks or something.

Haha! No, but that is extraordinarily close to something I do though! I'm mildly devastated whenever the person occasionally does better than me.

How pathetic. I'd like to imagine that that would put voters off but no doubt some will find it not just acceptable but amusing even.

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HAHA HOLY FUCK

I would like to be less irritable, but I keep noticing the things that are happening.

a black and white sign that says no black to on it Alt: The opening lyrics to Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones. "I see a red door and I want it painted black. No colours anymore, I want them to turn black."

My phone update today gave me ability to make all the app icons the same colour, and the relief I immediately felt turning them all black and white was IMMENSE. I didn't realise how much the chromatic chaos bothered me until it wasn't there anymore!

Bit gutted to realise that Jam Night at the pub features significantly more music and up to 100% fewer conserves than I'd assumed.