Submitted 1 day ago by melbaboutown@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
Melbourne area
Min 11 Max 22 Showers increasing. Possible rainfall: 0 to 6 mm Chance of any rain: 80%
Partly cloudy. High chance of showers in the evening. Light winds becoming south to southwesterly 20 to 30 km/h in the morning.
Fire Danger - Moderate Sun protection recommended from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 11 [Extreme]
Tonight was a very interesting experiment (and unfortunate lesson). The males of the house wanted Hungry Jacks, but Miniest wanted ravioli. So I ordered the takeout and got to work cooking the ravioli and making a simple Napolitano sauce to go with it. Her ravioli was ready and eaten with dishwasher loaded while the dasher was still waiting for the order. Then when the order arrived it was missing half of the items! Mr P’s burger was soggy and cold and his drink wasn’t cold. Had to reorder and wait again. A lesson that so-called “fast food” ain’t fast at all sometimes, and you’re better off with even a simple thrown together home cooked meal than that garbage.
I’ve gone off the whole uber eats thing. If it isn’t cold, missing items, the driver put his dirty fucking hands in my meal and started snacking on it.
I’ve decided if we’re going to have that kind of thing then we have to eat it there, seems to be the only way they don’t stuff it up. Too much disappointment for the money spent.
The boys need their head checked for wanting such rubbish when you make such delicious food (and you offered - not like they’re demanding home cooked meals from you at all times even when takeaway would give you a break).
Boyo is quite Uber Eats-pro after a single male life, but whenever he suggests it I’m like “okay, but we could just do x instead” and it always turns out better than when I’m lazy and go “sure, get that.” So very few things are worth getting delivery, no matter the app. Burritos are absolutely the expcetion.
I’ve got the big three drive throughs nearby at spaghetti junction so I’ll just go and get it if I’m eating it. I only really go if there’s a good deal in the app which I can’t uber anyway.
Last day of work before Christmas is over, yay! Due to my work schedule my family is celebrating a day early, so tomorrow is Christmas Eve for me. Then back to work for real Christmas Day. It always feels slightly odd to be on a slightly different timeline from everyone else, but it is the time spent with family which is important, not which day it is on.
Marge is here! Thank goodness.
yes, the garden has been so dry
and we need it to put out the fires
Rains! The Marge is here!
And cute!
That’s not a bad idea. Pat the cat to fall asleep lol
So have a little nap… and fire off ze missiles tomorrow, is okay.
sky ugly
Sky ugly crying.
Sky weeping
It was pretty before. Pink halo around orangey pink sun.
Sky over here has been smoking
I’m so annoyed I can’t do dairy anymore. Thankfully generic bricks of soy milk are available and taste ok but everything else costs a fair bit more for less.
I miss those big tubs of basic home brand icecream and bulk yogurt. Also I would have liked to use the containers to plant in.
I really miss the coffee and grand marnier ice cream
Grand marnier ice cream? Tell me more. Where would one find this icecream?
So sorry this happened to you. It’s hard when you crave a food you can’t have. But if it’s any consolation, you’re not missing much with the icecream. Enshitification means some of those ice creams have so little dairy in them they are not even allowed to be called ice cream anymore. It’s ’frozen Dessert’ or similar phrases.
Wow the wind behind the rain is quite chilly. I got the rain-protected windows open to let it in the house. Inside temp dropping rapidly.
Potentially doxxing where I work but I’ll be out of there soon, I don’t really care. Christmas always brings out the crazies.
Customer: you should be stopping everyone who exits the store like they do at Costco. Me: I’m trying my best but our exit isn’t set out like their one. I can’t stop everyone. Customer: well you’re not doing your job properly. Me: OK Another customer: this is a 17 year old girl and she’s doing a great job, don’t listen to her (I’m quite a bit older than 17, time to start the anti-aging so I look 17 for as long as possible?) First customer: calm down, you sound so angry. I’m a clinical psychologist that works with children. I wanted to say and probably a shite one at that.
customer returns a pair of thongs and I go to put them with the clothing returns Customer: I can put those away Me: no, don’t worry about it. We can put them away Customer: scoffs I do it all the time for people at Coles and they love it. This is the first time someone has said no. Let me do it, I like being helpful. Me: thanks but you don’t have to, besides, they don’t have a hanger on them Customer: raises voice why are you picking at me? I put the hanger away in a specific spot in the store, let me put them away. Me: gives up She ended up actually putting them back. The register people said she had to be served at register 1 and not any of the others because she has a thing with numbers.
The manager that was on decided to close the door 10 minutes before closing. It had been dead for the past half an hour. They aren’t supposed to do that but anyway. We all go to clock off and leave at closing. There was a customer behind the door. Customer: your website said you close at this time. Why is the door closed? Manager: incomprehensible Customer: this is ridiculous, I should get the item I want for free. Manager: you can’t get it for free but I’ll let you buy the item.
OMG eye twitches
I’m sorry you had to go through that :(
I don’t know how you survive this crap day in, day out - thank goodness you’re leaving soon!
Happy birthday to me 🥳
Happy birthday!!! Whatcha doing to celebrate?
🎂
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! 🥳🎉🍾
Happy birthday!
Happy happy birthday! You 100% deserve to be lounging around with a book today too
Happy b’day!
Happy birthday to you 🎂
WOOH happy birthday!!!
Yay. 🎈🎁
Happy birthday! 🍰 🥳
Happy birthday 🎈🎂
I just had such a beautiful morning. Met up with my chess buddy at what has become our regular cafe in Prahran, got a nice spot in the sun. Had a lovely cheese and egg omelette with avo. Played for two hours and didn’t feel bad for taking up seats for so long because it wasn’t that busy. Walked back to her place to meet her foster catvwhi was very shy.
Then I decided to walk home instead of tram because the weather is PERFECT. Did some shopping on the way, and because I felt amazing I decided to buy a scratchie and won $17. Walk home took about 1h15m and I feel amazing right now
Hmm smells like smoke outside
In your opinion what is the worst alternative milk out there? For me it’s coconut milk. If you add that to hot chocolate it does not taste like a Bounty. It tastes like Reef sun tan oil.
Bad idea to get some fresh air about 15 mins ago.
Have made holiday to-do list for jobs around the house. Feeling too hungover to make a start on anything today, so doing the list makes me feel like I’m accomplishing something. It’s a pretty aspirational list and I feel tired just looking at it. If I knock off a couple of the harder tasks I’ll be happy. Especially the painting jobs, they have to get done. I haaate painting.
Nomination for most commonly said phrase in this house: Get out of the cupboard.
That NBN box thingy hasn’t moved from sunshine West since it was scanned there for the 12th or 13th time on Friday. Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing. It could be good, cause they might have already dumped it at wherever the local delivery facility is ready to be scanned in tomorrow morning, or maybe they’ve sent it back to Adelaide (it took 3 days to/from Adelaide, so it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a scan at 2:30 this morning through Adelaide again)
In any case, if it doesn’t arrive tomorrow, I’m just going to call up the ISP again and ask for a new one and then return this one to sender whenever it does eventually arrive
Was up at 4am for another spew. Drinking on Saturday really messed me up. I can’t go hard like I used to. Didn’t help that I didn’t have enough water ugh.
Got some decent sleep last night though, the cat came and snuggled with me after my toilet trip which was just blissful. He nudges the doona with his head and paws my face to ask me to make him a cubby. Best friend in the whole world.
So feeling a lot better today but still unwell. Tested negative which is good. But going to be a very lazy day.
Nooo. Listening to my audiobook and the sweetest character, Fuschia, died. Gormenghast is such a good book that I get invested in the characters.
So, I didn’t realise that the place I work at does annual reviews not 12 months after you start but at the end of the calendar year for everyone (when I was booked in for a “review” along with everyone else I thought it was just an end of year chat). It went really well - I got a bit of a pay bump in addition to CPI increase which was a really lovely way to end the year 🎉 after how things went down at my old workplace it is really nice for a change to feel appreciated in a meaningful way!
Even then, as a single without parental support and years of lower wages/saving due to being on various visas, I still don’t think I can get anywhere close to housing security without being able to save dramatically on rent while working at least 3-4 days a week. Work has intimated that I could work remotely (and they clearly want me to stay on, so keen to be flexible). So in Jan I’m going to seriously float the question to my aunt and uncle about staying there for 3-6 months. It’ll be challenging working fully remotely interstate and living under senior relatives’ roof, but it seems like the only way forward if I want to escape rental hell any time soon. It does feel pointless working towards a deposit when it’s like scrabbling desperately for a ticket to a train hurtling towards an inferno (re: climate change). I’ve accepted I won’t be a homesteader and I’ll be the first to go if society collapses. So this won’t be part of some permaculture self-sufficiency dream. Part of me also just wants to go fuckit and break off, travel for a while… But I also am increasingly wanting a stable home base as I see my parents generation might be gone within ten years, and I don’t want to float forever. Just want some stability before shit hits the fan regardless - without feeling like I need to bust a gut and be shackled to work to make it happen either. Two bedrooms, sunlit and a small garden in a nice enough community - it sounds incompatible with wanting to not be trapped in a mortgage for decades… right? Right? (insert prequel meme)
I don’t know what the calculations would be on making it all happen yet, but I think starting that journey is definitely on the cards for 2025. So many chapters are closing, this represents a way out, something definitely needs to change…
Okay, off to the kids clothes shop to hopefully get this overcharge resolved without any fuss, then heaps of washing, laundromat, and a bitta work.
I’ve got some disappointing news: toasters have been shrinkflated. I bought a cheapy from Kmart which looks identical to the cheapy from Kmart at the last place, but is apparently a newer model. My bread no longer fits. Not ‘doesn’t fit’ as in too chonky, doesn’t fit as in it sticks out the top and requires rotation to stop about a quarter of it coming out raw. It’s only cheap woolies bread. It isn’t anything fancy
No vomit today from Tinyest. I had the shits last night but the gastro stop settled that, and Mrs b is fine. We’re thinking maybe bad chicken or something from Cole’s deli yesterday, otherwise it’s the quickest gastro I’ve ever seen.
I’m really tired now. I might have a nap and let the dog spoon me.
The turkey has arrived. 6.836 kg
Wonder what I should make for dinner tonight.
I have frankfurts that have to be used.
I could just go bread and frankfurts or I could make msg laden 2 minute noodles and have frankfurts with it.
I went shopping and I tried on some pants at Sheike I liked and I went a size smaller and if I wanted skin tight could have gone a size smaller again 😭 It’s so nice to get nice things and not feel like crap when clothes shopping because much too fat 🙂
so I got these, they are soft flowing and cool for hot days www.sheike.com.au/…/bermuda-post-pant-grey www.sheike.com.au/products/sanctuary-pant-print
just_kitten@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
Crisis averted, I spent the entire late arvo and evening sans phone thinking I’d left it in various places, got home just as Marge hit and still couldn’t find it, major panic thinking I’d need to retrace so many locations in the dark and rain - thankfully I could whatsapp someone on my desktop to call it and found the damn thing sitting on the top of the loo. Honestly!
I’ve done a shit tonne today including sneaking into the office to use the dishwasher for the collection of takeaway boxes I’ve accumulated in the last 4 weeks and doing 2.5 hrs of work while it dried; I’m so tired now and need to put new sheets on but God, if this evening wasn’t a message from the universe to stop procrastinating and set up the new phone already… urgh!! Shops, sheets, dinner, phone, sleep. I got this.
BTW it says 13C outside, still feels like a stuffy 23C in my unit despite windows open all day, goddamn this stupid heat box.
StudChud@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
Yup. Love that uninsulated apartment living 🙄
Very glad you found your phone! I lose mine at least 3 times a day lol; it’s black and so is a lot of my furniture, so it camoflages well 😅
just_kitten@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
Ugh and is yours carpeted as well? Haven’t lived in an almost fully carpeted joint for ages and it’s driving me mad.
My new phone cover is bright red precisely to reduce the likelihood of this happening. My new phone that I have still yet to set up… and might not get done tonight as I’m only just having diner and frankly need the energy for work.
Duenan@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
If your phone is advanced enough for voice activation you can call out to it and ask where it is.
Or if you’ve got a smartwatch many of them have the ability to electronically ping the phone from the watch.
Baku@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
I tried asking my phone where it is just to see what would happen, and it started talking about the history of my suburb and then said it’s the only phone linked to my account