I can haz decaf
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Gratitude thread :)
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Saw my friend from Sydney last night. She gave me Jesus soap and put some in our friend’s shower for shits and gigs.
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going to a trampoline park today which hopefully should be fun
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my aunt told me she’s getting a puppy in two weeks and I’m so excited to meet her
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also I found out who the girl was from work yesterday. Turns out she sometimes goes by a different name to what she introduced herself as. I wasn’t going insane :D
Yesterday
- I learnt how to use a lighter (I don’t smoke and I’ve generally not been able to have candles or incense, so I’ve just never learnt how to use one).
- I fell asleep really quickly.
- I got a new laptop charger to replace my old one which was a cheap knockoff that wouldn’t stay in the wall (it would fall out).
Today:
- I woke up at 8, but was able to get back to sleep and stay asleep until 11
- Amazon put my favourite brand and flavour of rice crackers back in stock so I got them for a 60 cent discount compared to the supermarket
I am grateful I have no responsibilities today and can go to bed at 8pm if I feel like it.
Also for early 80’s transformers cartoons.
And Gibson as per
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Worked out that riding my m’cycle to/from work is a great self-regulator, even with getting annoyed in traffic. (Pls no fines this week.)
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Great banter with people who get you right off the bat… It’s not often, so I do forget how much it fills my tumbler.
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While not invalidating my gripes, I 100% know how good I have it. Not really for want of anything, roof, warmth, bed, friends, acquaintances, privilege of engaging in most desires and hobbies and a little bit of work if I want that little bit more. Can’t have it all (right now?), but what I have I am entirely grateful for. Even when I’m being a brat.
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I am grateful I never need meet my in-laws. Stories like Seagoon’s hit hard. Blood Family is not immune from general bastardry and does not deserve anything automatically.
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wind’s howling
God, it was so strong last night! Thought the tree was gonna fall over…
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
A bowl of delicious vegetable soup with crusty bread and a nice ripe camembert to smear on it. With coffee please Bacon.
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Yum. Thank you.
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RISE AND SHINE 🐛🪱
the birds are still in bed
Blinis & sour cream please
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A pigeon pie pls.
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A nice salmon and cream cheese bagel would do the trick, plz chef. And a latte, because Melbourne. 😂
Has anyone got a nice simple puff pastry recipe they use and can recommend? I made homemade sausage rolls today and my filling was delicious, but I’m annoyed at the bought pastry I used. It was awful! I’ve tried every brand of readily available bought puff and it’s all awful, I’m over it.
You can’t go wrong with Julia Childs’ recipie - many heaps of vijos on youtoob. This is the old school classic, and takes a fair bit of work and time. The good side is that the raw pastry freezes well, so making a large batch and only using the portion you need for one use, and then for the next use 90% of the work is already done - at least until the stash is used up. Recommend using unsalted cultured butter for the authentic flavor. The original and best.
For quick pastry, I like using the Womens Weekly Rough Puff for savory recipies - so quick and easy and the results taste just fine though the texture is not quite as flaky. Again, one zillion recipies on youtoob. You can play a bit fast and loose with the proportions for this recipie depending on what you have available, so it’s a very user friendly method. The only real secret is using chilled water to mix and resting the dough before rolling out and using. This weather is perfect for pastry - it’s a pain to make in hot weather.
I totally forgot The Bear s3 is out now. I hear it’s not as great as the first two seasons as it was filmed alongside s4 so it feels more drawn out, but that’s fine by me because holy hell the first two seasons were so intense I felt like I needed two weeks and a few therapy sessions to recover.
Time to get the fried rice out and fire up Stremio.
I wanted to get into that but just couldn’t for some reason. Only watched the first few episodes, but I feel almost certain that if I can make it past the first season it will probably become one of my favourite shows. I’m just weird like that
quietly loads up deluge it was kinda an eye opener watching with His Lordship - especially the christmas ep. I could literally hear his sphincter clenching from across the room once tgey got going - but his family is functional. Mine? Well lets just say my anus remained unclenched.
Miserable weather today. The car was getting very low on fuel but I didn’t really want to stop. I’d seen petrol this morning at 193c so made a bargain with myself that I would stop if it was below 190, but otherwise I would put it off. Damn petrol station had 187c. I was very affronted by its refusal to cooperate in my attempt to avoid stopping so decided to make a stand and refuse to fill up at such a rude and uncooperative petrol station. Home has now been successfully achieved and petrol can wait for another day.
I was running a bit low to risk an airport run yesterday so I put in $15 worth at a 7/11 doing 1.84/L, I think. It was a very short stop… but it’ll get me through another week at least.
The fuel light’s not on yet so I don’t count it as urgent… I don’t need to go anywhere much so I can probably manage another week on a few fumes but it is definitely not something I can put off too much longer.
I’m trying to hang on until prices are below $1.75 before doing a full tank… the cheap BP on Heidelberg Rd is at $1.79, can’t be long now.
Do you have an RACV card by chance?
I have a lovely gold one, why?
You can scan it and get 5 cents off petrol at an EG Ampol.
I often combine it with fuel voucher discount from Woolies if I get a big enough shop.
https://www.racv.com.au/membership/member-discounts/motoring/fuel-vouchers.html
Watching petrol prices fascinates me so much, since I don’t have a car. It’s $1.80 one day and then a week later it’s $2.03? But then you can get it for $1.90 if you drive to the other side of the city
The price increases tend to be one sudden jump upwards and then a slow slide downwards too. The different stations used to be fairly synchronised but they are all over the place these days.
I have the Petrol Spy app which tracks the prices at different places and it has a graph which shows the average prices over the last couple of months for each state. The different price pattern between them are crazy. We currently have price cycles that go up then back down over about a month, Perth apparently has dramatic weekly fluctuations. I’m pretty sure Melbourne’s price cycles used to be a lot shorter, it would be interesting to have comparison over time as well.
All the petrol stations on Plenty road are the same price from the ring road out to Mernda, regardless of company. Then the first petrol station south of the ring road is 15-20c cheaper. Very interesting
It’s the grand opening of the new dinosaur exhibition at the museum this weekend.
One of my boys is a bit scared of dinosaurs but we’ll check it out anyway. He can join the dino dance at the end if he needs to get away from things
Your boy who is scared is smart, if I saw a dino in real life I think I’d wet myself, and I love dinos. I get nervous with hissing cats
Naaaw that’s so cute
I may have overindulged with my grocery shopping today.
I have an odd mixture of stuff and not really a solid plan but needless to say I have a lot of chicken drumsticks and a lot of sausages.
Also bacon prices went up I think. Also getting too expensive to buy :(
I’m new to buying bacon as I have been making leek and bacon pies. Those pies are the most expensive to make. No idea how expensive bacon is meant to be. The bacon bits, while convenient, didn’t seem to be good quality so I buy big packets of Aussie rashers. $11 for 400 g, . I think that’s $2 a slice 🤷♀️ But those pies are real good and I make about 8.
I bought 1kg for 12 from Aldi today. Short cut variety.
Going to be using them in sandwiches with eggs. Maybe onion too but I need to keep the onions for the curry.
It’ll be all worth it though.
oh fuck, i forgot to order onions in my shopping
In my jimmy jams at 5pm 'cos i spent all day reorganising and wiring lights in the basement
I haven’t even got out of mine. Put a bra on, yes. But the child’s clothes are sorted and 3 bags of outgrown clothes are ready for the OP shop.
Just woke up from my 4pm nap. FML.
Hi friend it’s me your twin. Just stay in bed 😪
Had a productive day: caught up with the real estate agents who sold me this place and checked out a place that had been suggested but came onto the market too late to suit. (This one is definitely better.) Then started tackling the boxes of kitchen stuff that are still unpacked as well as reorganising the kitchen. Then felt like a break and a bahn mi so I got that via another OFI in the block of units where I made my first offer and got pipped at the post. And had no trouble walking at a medium pace three times for about 15 minutes, so yay!
I like dogs but the fact is I’m allergic to them. And my allergies to cats are exponentially worse.
For some reason I’ve been blessed with a hyperactive immune system. Spring as you can imagine is a real bitch. But I must say my symptoms are not nearly as bad now as they were when I was a kid.
husband’s folks are coming for dinner, I checked with him, i called them “your folks” , first time I ever called them that. Thing is they treat me like crap, always have, they truly are not my folks
treat me like crap
Get them to do the washing up, sit there silence judging them :) With your eyes “that’s not where that goes”.
I will do it, they break things accidentally on purpose. Also, after that I can just ignore them and do some embroidery. Tired of entertaining them.
Got any toddler bowls and cutlery around?
Oh wow. That’s unreal that they break things on purpose.
I’d never have them over for dinner in that case. Sounds like it’s just going to be an unpleasant time.
izza job is how I look at it
Can you outsource things and go to a restaurant when you have to see them, instead? At least they wouldn’t be in your house that way
I don’t think they’re putting as much carlo in the monty’s anymore. There’s quite the gap, it used to be all the way to the edge.
Bastards
I’ve virtually given up on bought biscuits. They taste like disappointment and cost too damn much for my liking. For years I told myself, “biscuits only seemed bigger when I was little because I was smaller,” looking at you Wagon Wheels and Golden Rough. Now I can no longer deny, the shrinkflation and overall stinginess is real. It was literally just a few years ago that I’d buy a couple of packets of biscuits per week on special as a treat for the family. Now each packet, on special, costs what those two packets combined used to, and I’m getting less? I’m going to have a crack at home-made
That’s what I thought when I bought a burger from maccas one time.
I thought maybe I had a bad memory and had grown up but I’m pretty sure the burgers has shrunk in size over time.
Look, everyone says they want arnotts cream assortment but a big ol’ ice cream tub full of Anzac biscuits does just fine.
Use white s sugar instead of brown and you get chewy instead of crunchy.
So true. Homemade is better. I tend to only make small batches and they’re all gone by the end of the day with no evidence to show for my labours 😆
Hahaha i made a batch of anzacs that the husband was all “I won’t eat any” yeah guess who just made a tentative request that maybe wifey make it a thing to bake winter biscuits he could have some of pretty pretty please with oats on top?
