#lunch time walk

[dansnaturepictures]

01/11/2023-Phone photos in Winchester of Peninsula Barracks, autumn leaves, flowers and view at the River Itchen, autumn leaves and views near the cathedral.

It was great to see a Peregrine and Mute Swans again at lunch time, with Carrion Crow and Feral Pigeon enjoyed too. Ivy-leaved toadflax, yellow fumitory, vervain, some rowan berries clinging on still with the tree quite bare at the river, stinking iris berries, House Sparrow seen intimately and well passing the hedges of the Lakeside allotments on my commute this morning and Collared Doves at home this morning were other highlights. It was nice to see Jane Austen's house in Winchester at lunch time which I'd not seen before in a bit of exploring.

#peregrine #photography #birdwatching #mute swan #mute swans #river itchen #2023 #earth #nature #happy #walking #walk #winchester cathedral #birds #flowers #ivy-leaved toadflax #outdoors #lakeside #lakeside country park #lunch time walk #europe #hampshire #england #uk #river #views #berries

[raiiny-bay]

sleepy morning with the boys

#ts4 #simblr #ts4 edit #ts4 render #sims 4 #myedits #kelly #dhestyn #i apologize for the long post #this originally had 6 photos for a grid format but #i don't really like the other 3 so. yea. #full disclosure it is actually very rare for kelly to wake up at the same time as dhes #kel is literally a cat. he will sleep 16 hours a day if dhes lets him #& dhes gets out of bed at like 4:30/5 every morning #he'll cook a full breakfast & do a load of laundry & go for a jog before going to work #he also usually feeds duder bc if he doesn't she will yell & bother kelly until he wakes up #kel has to be woken up gently or he'll get cranky lol #he tends to wake up later in the morning & pick up lunch for everyone at the shop before walking to work #then the boys will drive home together at the end of their shifts #dani kind of just lets them come & go whenever they want. they mostly make their own hours #she doesn't care as long as they show up for work at some point

[unpretty]

Wait wait what did your boss do with the sweet potato??? I'm trying to imagine how you'd eat a raw sweet potato, they are so solid. You could shave bits off I guess??? Did they microwave it?

he slowly sawed it in half with a plastic butter knife, put one half back in the lunchbox (presumably for tomorrow) and then microwaved the other half

#original #this isn't even getting into the reused mcdonald's promotional cup for the movie maid in manhattan #it wasn't a special cup or anything it was just a giant mcdonald's cup with the maid in manhattan poster on it #that movie came out in 2002 #he has an enormous stack of giant mcdonald's cups in his office that he fills with a mix of fanta and some kind of cheap fruit punch #the butter knife may also have been from mcdonald's. i don't know and i don't want to know. #zero waste icon i guess but also that sounds like a great way to be full of microplastics #i need you to imagine the experience of eating your onigiri bento and your boss walks in #sets down his maid in manhattan mcdonald's cup full of fanta juice cocktail #reaches into his lunchbox with the name of a pharmaceutical company on it bc his wife got it as free swag #and pulls out a single whole raw sweet potato #i just had to sit there frantically googling when maid in manhattan came out trying not to make eye contact as he sawed through his potato #it took like ten minutes #i take my lunch at a different time now so we don't overlap

[macksartblock]

Well that felt apocalyptic for a minute lol

#being in the line of totality was freaky #anyway hope everyone who was able to see the eclipse had a good time lol I was walking to get lunch and everything felt WRONG #fun but wrong in a good way

[grapejuicegay]

BAD BUDDY EP 1 OUR SKYY 2 BAD BUDDY EP 1

#i don't really have a quote for this one but instead a series of observations because I Am Just Like This #this is another set of not exactly mirrored parallels #but in a really fun way #the ep 1 interaction happens after the fight where they settle the current issue between their faculties #the os2 interaction happens after the 'fight' that has set off some bad blood between the faculties #like pat mentions over lunch he can't give up the auditorium now because it's a matter of pride #not his pride but his faculty's #the first punch hit pat because it was the first time patpran had been conspiring together in 3 years #the new one happened because pran is focused on the work they both have to do #'it was not the time to be lovey-dovey' because he was thinking work #(also why he pushes pat away from the mosquito net kiss) #(if they start being lovey dovey now they're not going to get anything done and pran knows it) #the first one ends with pat walking away after a bit of teasing from pran after they share a moment #the new one ends with pat walking away after a bit of teasing from pran because their moment was ruined #but the one similarity #'happy now?' both of them ask #and both times the answer is 'kind of. but it's not enough. not yet' #parallels my beloved #bad buddy #bad buddy brain rot #bad buddy series #our skyy 2 #our skyy bad buddy #kk.gifs #pdribs #uservid

[todayisafridaynight]

based off of real words my brother said to me

#rgg #ryu ga gotoku #ryu ga gotoku 7 #yakuza series #yakuza like a dragon #ichiban arakawa #masato arakawa #snap sketches #he stole the bottle just for him and he wont even let him make silly game references :( #Real Talk i had just finished that comic comm from earlier today and so i went out for lunch with my bro #and i wanted to get some sake- or some plum wine this time i guess #and i got a new brand to try and when i walked back to the car my bro was like. 'that makes me think of a potion bottle :)' #and i just UU Dawg...... #speaking of that wine tho i usually only get sake but i decided to venture out. plus its still a japanese kind so w/e #i got this plum wine and it's REALLY nice #like think of your standard red wine but with a slight sweetness to it #like a pear taste. i dont really like pear but it goes well with this since its p subtle and otherwise its p tart #ok enough of my wine sommelier moment bye im callin bestie

[moeblob]

Right's right. She does want to see it (but they refuse to tell her what it is because Right thinks it's best left a surprise).

#my characters #thinking about these guys a lot again lately #i really love right and brent and their dynamic with each other bc right just reads him really well #so he can identify things karen doesnt pick up on and so shes completely unaware that brent enjoys spending time with her #because he always looks so blank when interacting #but brent really likes interacting with karen esp as a time passer when theyre bored #like i was rereading a thing i wrote where right returns to the station and sees the other two just sitting around her desk with a paper #and hes like wow you two sure look busy #and brent says he refuses to play another game of hangman and she says they arent going back to tic tac toe #so right walks over and looks at the piece of paper which is in fact a game of hangman #and then shortly after that interaction karen invites herself to go to lunch with the guys and theyre like okay?? sure? i dont object #basically wow finally giving karen some focus and she deserves it after like 100 pages of being more minor #time to doodle a second part to post on my oc blog i guess cause i think karen deserves to see the thing

[innytoes]

Help I can't stop thinking about the Dark Fantasy Fae AU.

There were a lot of things Ray could have never imagined when he married Rose. Moving out of their shabby little apartment into their house after a series of in hindsight rather telling instances of good luck. Their two amazing kids, who were so smart and talented and kind, who seemed to take all the things he loved in their mother and made it their own.

Losing her so young, he'd never imagined that.

And he really couldn't have predicted the four children that landed in their garage through a magical mushroom portal from a fairy realm.

Still, all things considered, Ray thought he was handling things rather well. He did have a very long phone call with Rose's very ancient grandmother, who told him she knew that when he took her name, he'd do the Molina family proud. Abuelita didn't know how much was myth and how much was family legend and how much was real, but the fact that the fae existed was pretty hard to question after the whole magic portal thing.

He stopped overwatering the plants overnight.

Now, the hardest part was helping the kids adjust to modern day life. Reggie was the easiest, considering he'd only lost about twenty-five years. He was a sweet boy, though a little jumpy at times. Alex was from the 1920s and while he still struggled a little with modern slang, he mostly seemed very grateful at the strides that had been made by the queer community, that allowed him to be who he was and love openly.

Luke was a bit trickier. He was distraught at losing his family, of course. He seemed to take to some aspects of modern times like a fish to water - the first time Julie showed him an electric guitar, Luke looked like he was having a religious experience. But Ray had had to pull him out of the road several times already to make sure he didn't get run over by a car, and then there had been the whole Tinfoil In The Microwave experience.

Willie was the trickiest. Ray had no idea how long he'd been in the fairy realm, given that he'd been switched out with a changeling at birth. But he had no real concept of how the human world worked, save for what he'd picked up from the other three boys. But some days, he seemed more fae than human, confused that Carlos couldn't just levitate to grab something off the top shelf, or that other people couldn't teleport short distances.

Which was what made this conversation so difficult.

"Fix, please," Willie had announced, before carefully settling a dead bird on the dining room table next to Ray's laptop.

The dad part of Ray's brain was already making a list of what needed to happen - get Willie to wash his hands, thoroughly clean the table- when the rest of his mind caught up with the request.

"She flew into a window," Willie said sadly, gently stroking the feathery head, and Ray felt a pang. This was going to be a very difficult conversation. One he remembers vividly having with Carlos when he was four (it had been a torn ladybug) and Julie when she was five (when Flynn's grandmother passed away).

"I- I'm afraid I can't do that," he said.

Willie's face twisted into a confused pout. "But I said please," he pointed out. They'd been working on... well, not so much manners as human mannerisms.

"Yes, and that was very polite," Ray said slowly, trying to figure out how to formulate this without being too harsh. "But I am unable to fix a dead robin."

"Please? I'll do all the cooking and the dishes for a whole..." Willie's face screwed up. Time was another thing they were working on. The entire concept of it seemed to upset him. "Year?"

"Willie," Ray said, gently herding him to sit down. "It's not that I don't want to help the bird. This isn't a deal you can trade for. There is nothing left for me to do to help the bird. Humans cannot fix death."

"Death?" Willie echoed, his voice small and uncertain. Ray nodded sympathetically.

"I'm sorry, there's no fixing the bird," he said slowly. "When something is dead, it cannot be brought back."

"No!" Willie wailed, distraught. "She just made a mistake! It's not fair!"

"Oh, mijo, I know it's not," Ray soothed, pulling him into a hug. "Death often doesn't seem fair." He let Willie cry, rocking him slightly. The sound summoned Alex, who took over, pulling Willie into a hug until they were sprawled on the floor, Willie curled up in his lap.

Ray tried not to focus on the dead bird on the table. He wanted to get it out of the house as soon as possible, but right now, Willie's feelings were more important.

"We can hold a funeral for her," he promised. "Bury her in the garden. That way, she can become one with the earth again, and help the plants grow." He thought that idea might make Willie feel a little better. The boy looked at him with big, not-entirely-human eyes, his lower lip trembling.

"It's the circle of life," Alex agreed. "Remember, like that song from the movie Julie and Flynn showed us."

"A funeral means burying her in the garden?" Willie asked, looking between them.

"A funeral is a ceremony to honour someone's life and say goodbye," Ray explained. Willie understood ceremonies, at least. "We can say a few words, and then bury her."

"Luke can sing a song," Alex said. "Birds like songs, right?"

Willie nodded, sniffling.

Ray squeezed his knee, and stood up. "I'll go get a nice box to bury her in." That seemed to upset Willie, and he shook his head fiercely.

"No dark rooms!" he insisted.

"How about some nice soft paper towels?" Alex suggested quickly. He also looked a bit nauseated at the thought of a dark room. Sometimes, Ray thought he'd never get to the end of the horrors those boys had gone through. He nodded, and went to get some gloves and a whole roll of paper towels.

Alex and Willie stayed on the floor, Alex gently rocking them back and forth while Willie ran his fingers through his long hair. "You're not allowed to be dead," Willie told Alex seriously. "I can't fix you."

"I'll do my best not to die," Alex promised. "I'm never going to leave you."

"If you do die, you have to come back as a ghost," Willie insisted. "No burying in the garden. We will be ghosts together. Like in Carlos' videos."

Alex smiled softly, and Ray tried not to tear up at the all-encompassing love and tenderness he saw in the boy's face, so young yet old and wise beyond his age. "Yeah, okay."

#julie and the phantoms #willex #willie throckmorton #ray molina #alex mercer #best dad ray molina #kidnapped by the fae au #fanfic #right in the feels #I wrote a thing #I thought about this while walking the dog and wrote it on my lunch break you're welcome #I've only had creepy changeling willie who isn't entirely human anymore for 15 minutes #but if anything were to happen to him etc etc #the funeral is lovely and they all take it very seriously and Luke does indeed sing a very old mourning song that has been lost to time #everyone cries #ray is not touching the 'if fairies are real are ghosts real' thoughts with a ten foot pole NOPE he has enough on his plate #listen Luke can't be blamed for all of the times he nearly got hit by a car those electric ones are fucking SILENT

[dansnaturepictures]

20/02/2024-Lakeside and home

Photos taken in this set are of; a hanging basket out the back, daffodil in the garden, views including bright blossom at Lakeside, Mallards, Black-headed Gulls and Canada Goose at Lakeside and flowers and bush out the front. A cheery chattering ground of Siskins and Goldfinches at Lakeside, splendid views of Long-tailed Tits, colourful periwinkle at Lakeside and a beautiful earthworm out the front were other highlights today. I also enjoyed seeing nesting Great Crested Grebes at Lakeside, Greylag Geese, Herring Gull at Lakeside, Carrion Crows seen well again including flying onto a wet area at Lakeside, bee, daffodils at Lakeside and Collared Doves at home today.

#daffodil #greylag goose #siskin #long-tailed tit #photography #great crested grebe #birdwatching #2024 #lakeside #lakeside country park #lunch time walk #beautiful #february #canada goose #mallard #home #birding #birds #wildlife #hampshire #england #uk

[beansnpeets]

Jon: buys a project car

Also Jon: is mad his project car needs work

#personal #why is he like this #he came home for lunch RANTING about his latest project #he always does this #he is a walking shocked pikachu meme #he gets involved in something and then is shocked every time it turns out to be less than perfect #its so annoying #and im lying in bed trying to nap and relax #and he comes in madder than hell and angrily ranting #nothing i say calms him down #usually that just makes it worse so i have to just listen #which isnt fair to me

[renee-mariposa]

I’m ready to walk out of my job.

The last straw was, this week they cracked down on overtime. This was the last straw for two reasons:

1. Normally (pre-COVID), our patient volumes are lowest in summer. This year, we’re having winter-flu-season patient volumes (flu season is always the busiest time in the hospital). We now have the second busiest ER in the metro, seeing hundreds of patients per day (we’ve reached a thousand per day several times this year!!!) in a 25-bed ER. This is coupled with the fact we’re operating at 30-50% (a third to a half!!) normal nurse staffing, and have been doing so since 2021. There isn’t a staff member in the hospital who is twiddling their thumbs for a second. I heard tonight that the hospital is trying to end all their contracted labor early (and I assume we’re relying heavily on contracted nurses to fill staffing shortages!)

2. Because of this patient load vs low staffing, it is literally impossible for us to finish all the tasks we are assigned each day. But we still have to meet our metrics and are chastised/penalized when we don’t meet them! Worsening the situation: instead of asking each ‘problem’ staffer why they’re always clocking out late, my department management emailed all the problem people with “suggestions on how to leave on time”. Suggestions that are bullshit because they don’t address the actual reason the person gets overtime consistently.

So this whole perfect storm is coming together to convince me that corporate expects us to work off the clock. Which I’m about 95% sure is fucking illegal.

#it’s been a long time since I’ve been this angry #I feel helpless and trapped #we need to go on strike but I don’t know how to get the nurses involved #our sister hospital just kicked out their nurses union :( #I quiet quit months ago #now I’m fucking ready to riot #the corporation lost a lawsuit about 15 years ago regarding making people come back from lunch #and not paying them for that time #denying their lunch break #I got some money out of that suit #I want the corporation to pay for this insult through the fucking nose #and also denying staff COVID boosters #but that’s a whole different rant #I fucking hate this place #I need a new job but I don’t know where to go #and this corporation owns half of the hospitals in the city #I will fucking walk out of my job before I work off the clock #is there somewhere I can report this shit??? #I can’t believe they’re getting away with this

[nicistrying]

Sun 29th October

Up and straight out for a rainy autumnal walk with Maggie this morning. Despite the pouring rain I really enjoyed it, it was peaceful and so pretty 😍

Worked out after getting us both dried off. Did a good leg workout and really enjoyed it!

Did all my strength stuff then went downstairs and did 25 mins on the bike. And just as I was getting to the end the period cramps fired up 😂

Got my pyjamas back on and roasted up all the pumpkin flesh and made soup. It didn't turn out as sweet as usual bc I forgot to get a sweet potato 🤦🏼‍♀️ but hey it's hot, healthy soup and I blended some chickpeas in to give it some protein. Just had some for a late lunch 😋

And now Mags and I are snuggled up I'm going to drink my tea and have a cosy afternoon nap until Matt gets home from work. We're going to visit his grandma this evening. It's been a good Sunday 🥰

#i love when i get to spend all day with my baby #she's such good company #sunday #fitblr #health blog #fitness blog #personal #health #fitness #workout #food #lunch #soup #pumpkin soup #personal fitblr #leg day #walk #outside time #Maggie #cuddles #cosy

[adashofniallandasprinkleoflunacy]

home from work

#if I speak… #one of the girls walked out yesterday #the best worker we have is on the verge of blowing up on this bitch’s leaders bc since he can do everything quick and efficiently already #they’re putting 3 to 4 ppl’s workloads on him to see how far they can extend his worth and then they’re over his shoulder the whole time #micromanaging him so today he almost lost it and was literally walking around mumbling about his disrespectful they all are (facts) #and how if they don’t think he’s doing it right then they can do it and I know for a fact one of the ladies heard him #bc he wasn’t even trying to hide it at this point and like this dude is cool he has a lot of patience and helps out any way he can #so if HE’S on the brink of snapping then the rest of us don’t stand a chance LMFAO #anyways today was a fucking mess those leaders know nothing about our store yet so they have us making less than what we need until we need #it so we get behind constantly and they made prep a disaster bc again they think they can just prep a bunch of stuff in the morning #and it’ll last the whole day and yes that works in theory but the reality of the situation is every day is different and today #we sold double what we did yesterday so they had to move me to prep to fix their mistakes bc we were running out of stuff 4 hours in lmfao #and I’m the only one left who knows how to do everything on prep bc the other girls had never done it before #we’re supposed to prep 20 mac n cheese trays in the morning for the whole day #we open lunch at 10:30 tell me why I go into the cooler at 12 put more in the oven and there’s only 5 left #it’s been less than 2 HOURS and you’re already running out of macs which means those idiots prepped barely anything just to try and save mo #*money to cut down waste but that gag if you’re losing money bc now you’re short on everything and customers are leaving bc they’re having #to wait a long time for their food #and macs take 40 minutes to cool LMFAO #I get over there they’re out of parfaits they’re out of fruit cups they’re out of kale salads the front is coming in and having to take #stuff as I make it bc they keep getting orders and it’s all just a fucking mess #I have to make a custom wrap and what happens?? those morons didn’t pull the flatbreads out of the freezer like they’re supposed to every #night so now we have no flatbread and I had to run back there and put them in the warming drawer to defrost and we lost an order bc I had #nothing to make the wraps with <3 #I go back there to get more cold chicken SPOILER ALERT they didn’t have anyone make any this morning so now there’s no chicken for the wrap #and salad and it has to be grilled and then chilled for 2 FUCKING HOURS before it can be used #they’re a fucking disaster like 😭 #was the store perfect before?? ofc not but it ran quickly and efficiently as it should and now it’s literally just a mess #this bitch hasn’t even owned it for a full week yet and has already fucked it all up #womp womp!!!!!!

[shitty-check-please-aus]

when will I find a doctor who will send me to the seaside for three to six months to convalesce? I’m tired of going to my job every day and trying to fit in eating well and exercise and everything else into like four hours of free time, I want to take a walk on the beach every day and feel like the fresh air is curing me and I want to have minimal responsibilities the whole time

#could I walk to the lake: technically #but not in the time between when my lunch break starts and ends #I just feel like a fatigued victorian woman but I don't even have the perks

[silenthillbunni]

☁️🌷

#ugh im so anxious and like i think i have more pains bc of it #i overslept bc ever since i got a new phone my alarm is so quiet i never wake up?? this is the third time this happens for this class #but i cant miss more bc if i have more than three weeks absence they'll fail me :< so i hurried and walked to school #i wish i had a bus pass T-T since they introduced civilian clothed controllants i havent dared taking the bus at all i dont wanna get a fine #so yes anyway. on top of that im pretty sure my sister stole my keys. bc they were in my jacket pocket yesterday and today they werent there #and she left somewhere earlier this morning. so now im anxious abt not knowing where they are + will i get inside?? my mom wakes up late af #ummm what else???? idk im just so stressed. i got to class and have been here for 40min now and the teacher left for lunch #i'll leave now bc i cant focus enough to sit here more. my tooth aches too :(( #i just wanna cry tbh #the entire way here i was like i wanna die i wanna die i wanna die #i feel so awful.. and stupd and worthless. why am i incapable of getting a job? or even studying at university? im so bad at everything #im like an anxious wreck who can barely function. everything hurts both physically and emotionally #i dont even wanna walk home im just sitting in my empty classroom bc i dont wanna kove #move* #what's wrong with me? how did i turn into this? i miss school. like i miss being able to actually do my work and talk to the teachers etc #im only a shell of what i used to be. and im scared i'll never be anything other than this :(((( #well i gotta move ig bc the sooner i do the sooner i can get home and lie in my bed & cry over how useless i am :3

[deansandromeda]

watched heartstopper for the first time in the span of like... 12 hours.... all I wanted to do the whole time was pinch everyone's cheeks. I could cry. and i did. cry.

#also the ace rep #i felt so seen #this show is so beautiful for that #him walking around with a book the whole time too #charlie hiding away at lunch #carrying so much in his heart all the time but doing nothing but help others #ME !!! THEY WROTE ME INTO THE SCRIPT!!! #heartstopper #nick nelson #charlie spring #elle argent #isaac henderson #tao xu