Submitted 1 week ago by Baku@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
Today’s weather forecast (to come later, I wanna watch the fireworks not check the BoM)
Made a fren at the beach last night:
Don’t really see them there. This one was very unsure of me but still curious. Then some dick rode past on a petrol motorbike (which I’ve also never seen before) and it flew away. Pretty sure riding a motorbike on the beach is illegal. Anyway I hope his bike corrodes.
And here’s my main homegurl:
She’s started to worble with cheese (with CaCO3) in her mouth which is very impressive. I always thought they’d have to move their beaks to change pitch and loudness but apparently not. I presume it’s either a ‘thank you’ or ‘that’s right mf what took you so long’.
Love this. Stealing it for work group chat tomorrow
OMG that is adorable 🥰
The face plant loaf. So furry and gorgeous
My dear son wasn’t interested in staying up till midnight and also wanted someone to sleep with him. I volunteered as tribute. At 10pm.
His bed is not good for my back. He smacked me about in his sleep by accident (I think). I woke up every 2hrs and took ages to return to sleep. Around 3am he mumbled a “sorry” to me. But I think he was dreaming.
And now he is rejecting my pancakes.
I’ve had worse New Years. I’m gonna go eat pancakes.
Big day today. We got into Carlton early and had second breakfast at Brunetti’s, went for a walk where the boys pressed all the pedestrian crossing lights, then went into the movie.
Plopped the boys down and the new Wallace and Gromit was great. They pretty much sat and watched the whole thing. Anything longer and it would have been a struggle. It’s a direct sequel to The Wrong Trousers so good to refresh on that first if you want to watch it.
Then home and to a friend’s place for early dinner. We did a lot today, but it doesn’t feel exhausting, which is a nice feeling for once
Sounds like you all had a lovely day. 🙂
Sounds like you all had an awesome day!
Besties for life now.
I’m standing in a field near my house. There were fireworks going off literally in a 360 degree circle around me 🤣
Happy new year everyone!!!
Here’s hoping for a great year for us all ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
It’s the only time of year I wish I lived in a rougher area. I don’t have a view of the city, so some illegal fireworks might be nice. Where are all the ferals when you need them.
Someone did illegal fireworks in the last place (yuppy area) at 2:37am on the 6th of January last year. There’s always hope. Scared the shit out of me because I was watching a scary(ish) movie
(It went for a few mins but my phone died)
That looks very yummy. I have an egg delivery on Friday, I may have to take inspiration from you for a few breakfasts once they arrive.
Yum. I partook in nutrition but failed to capture it in a photograph. I had 250g mince sauteed with mushroom, zucchini, broccoli with paprika, chilli, cumin and turmeric! Back to one low carb meal a day for me (with reasonable accommodations made for eating out).
Looks lovely. What will you be having?
A selection of par boilt proteins on carbohydrate
Yum yum! What is that?
I see poached eggs but can’t make out the rest.
Pumpkin toast, bacon, chilli jam
Happy new year all! I’m a happy drunk tonight, the best kind.
Bit of a bummer, I know, but I want to spare a thought for the 172+ fire trucks, and probably at least double that in firies, currently still battling the Grampians fire. It’s grown to 76k Ha now
I have a bunch of lame pics from Geelong and my garden. I often forget to take photos when I’m out. Too busy looking with my eyes.
Enjoy. 🙂
On my way to Spencer street went thru Melbourne Central and saw the Omega 13 device. Looked awesome.
Geelong pelican. Big.
sea monster
an exciting museum. ( truly, this was probably interesting but I wasn’t going to find out for $12. I grew up among farms and have seen factories too. So nothing new.
but what I noticed about Geelong which really *is great * is that it’s very wheel chair friendly and I saw many disabled people enjoying a holiday .
night time flowers
happy snail light
“Too busy looking with my eyes”
I’m the same. I try to be present in the moment, where a lot of people live their lives through a viewfinder. Nice pictures. It’s been years since I’ve been to that part of the world.
I find sometimes having the camera enhances the moment. It helps me to focus on details and look at things from different angles, thinking about how/if something can make a good photo. I also like to put photos together into sets, so I will be thinking about things like how the detail on different old building compares, or finding all of the individual flowers in a garden as well as looking at the overall view. Then when I get back home and go through all the pictures to put together an album for the day it both helps to solidify all the memories and gives me a nice reminder to look back on.
I think the problem is that a lot of people take a photo instead of really looking, just as a way of ticking off a box of “I went here”. Or they are just focussing on taking pictures of themselves, and wherever they are is just a backdrop.
lol, it was hard to explain. I’m looking to have an experience, not looking to take great shots.
And most of what I see is so common and banal anyway taking a pic for other people to see rarely crosses my mind.
Nice pics!
I like taking piccys but it’s always liberating to just enjoy the experience. But being honest, I never go back to look through old piccys. Basically just taking them for the hell of it.
Is that a Bella Donna? My mum was a nurse, and once told me about one of her patients who went blind from eating it for ‘entertainment’. Luckily for them the blindness wore off after a few days.
I am pleased to report that my finger has not been hurting as I feared, and the tenderness around the splinter site has mostly gone. Although it is a touch ichy, which is annoying. Especially around the injection points from the local anaesthetic for some reason.
I’ve been adding up all the bills, and my finger cost a total of $340, plus whatever subsidies the govt. gives the priority care clinic (including the tetanus shot they gave me which didn’t have any charge). About 2/3 of that was paid by Medicare, I only paid around $130 out of pocket. Which I would have been happier spending on other things, but in the scheme of things is not too bad.
It’s done.
Finally, the gardening project I’ve been working on since the start of December is complete with everything I have available (still waiting on two citrus trees).
120+ plants (of which ~90 are chillies). At least a couple of hundred meters of piping have been laid for the irrigation system. Also then extended the irrigation system to also include the two garden beds and solve a pressure problem in zone 1 with an additional output.
So many hours. Now I just need to tidy up, but that can wait until the New Year right?
Sine absolute fuckwit is letting fireworks off now. At 4am.
Fuck this piece of shit suburb and fuck the people that live here.
6 weeks to go.
Dishwasher running, washing on, flat tidied. I have reset, and can start 2025 on the right footing
How are dad & step mum doing? Have they recovered from the covid?
Well done. I have some washing on, have mopped and will be doing some tidying up in the kitchen and doing some meal prep shortly. A nice clean start to the year.
Happy New Year, may this one be good to all.
ee we all made it hny :)
I’m gonna admit my biggest blunder of the year (so far): I’ve been really confused about wtf “hny” stands for. Honey? Took me a solid 8 minutes to work out it’s meant to be happy new year
Brought in the new year as I’d like to spend it: sleeping soundly
I’ve done nothing except leisure stuff since xmas. I think tomorrow I’ll kick off productivity. Maybe.
Hopefully.
Better than my approach of “chip away so it looks like you at least tried but ultimately achieve nothing” aproach
Same. I have eased back into it today with a little clean but now it’s book time… tomorrow I might do two things. Who knows. Don’t want to overdo it !
I did some food shopping, and I’m in music mode. I’m with you regarding tomorrow lol. I’ve got till the 13th of Jan but it is moving quickly.
Happy new year all!
Happy 2025! The future is here!
Welcome to the world of tomorrow
The early bird catches the worm, but the early walker catches the spiderweb across the face.
So the big clean up is still happening. I did a vicious prune of the pot plants, but it feels so light and airy now at the front door.
I didn’t finish indoors, but I managed to do a light carpet clean of the dining area and set up the table for a lovely cheese and gin evening for NYE.
I’m still slightly weirded out by following the conventional layout meaning the couch is right in line with the front door, but I cannot deny how crazy spacious it feels after all this time. And the relief on my eyes. Being further away from the idiot box has really helped.
Right now it’s:
In the pipeline:
If all goes well, next clean out will be the storage.
Nice work!
Ugh!! Insta is grossssss 😭 it’s ads or old classmates from HS. So many posted their “influencer” new years eve stories, about their mlm “success” (pfft), getting married, having babies, filtered videos and pictures of baby feet and food and A E S T H E T I C artsy things.
It just feels all so fake to me, idk. Maybe I’m just a loser stoner still finding my way, but I’d rather be this than them. I can’t imagine going to cool places and posting about it on a platform like that where people like, know my real name and it’s all super filtered. I dont understand the appeal, who is the performance for? Idk. I’m just out of touch I think.
I only use insta for cats and some fan accounts of my favourite bands.
Lol that’s fair, if I cared about SM then perhaps I would bother to to do a mass unfollow and refollow, teaching the algorithm that I want cats. But I don’t think I care enough haha I guess it’s just occured to me I like getting the memes from mates because it means they saw it and thought it would make me laugh. I appreciate that I think lol.
I’m the same, I’ve kind of gone off platforms where everyone is low key competing/maintaining an image and anybody could find you. It’s healthy I think
It’s weird, and like posting their newborn or toddlers on there too in like a weird grey-beige aesthetic like their child is some corporate jargon that marketing it’s trying to peddle to the call centre monkeys. What happened to primary colours and fun cartoony wallpapers in nurseries. I get maybe the whole not assuming the gender of a baby is a thing at play, but the beige-grey shit is just so… Boring. Like they’re not even excited about having a kid or something.
Thanks for listening to my TedTalk irrelevant opinion as a childfree enby 😂
Getting off insta was great for my mental health.
I got off it for that reason. I absolutely cannot stand when people take photos so they can post them on social media, and then curate their profiles so they can get validation from others. I don’t see the point of it at all. It just screams low self-esteem and fake to me.
I have a friend that curates her photos to be colour-coordinated or something, but I don’t see the point of any of it at all. It just screams low self-esteem and fake to me.
Yesss same! Some of them had like this theme going on on their profile where all their pics made a bigger pic, or were posted in 3s. And for what? For who? For the millions of bots that plague insta and twitter and FB and whatever?
Maybe it does help them feel connected, but like, they have partners or husbands and go on campings trips or whatever, it’s weird they still need validation from old HS classmates, strangers, and bots.
I’m probably just getting old and shitty 😂😂
I’m doing a new year fridge cleanout, and apparently I should have done it a while ago. There are a few vegetables in there that are now liquids.
Oh man it happens so easily. Especially when you consider the storage of items before we get a chance to buy them. Like if you’ve ever grown lettuce, picked some and put it into the fridge, it surprises you with how long it lasts! It’s truly eye-opening. Then you buy shop lettuce and it lasts an abysmal short amount of time and you think, hang on…
Very true. Most of this stuff has come from the food waste market, so it is already on the precipice. With Christmas and a finger injury causing delays a bit of stuff just didn’t make it.
On the positive side, I’ve now got some pumpkin and zucchini roasting (to be frozen for future grilled sandwiches), I have enough for meals for the next few days to get me through until the next market, and I’m about to get onto cutting up some peaches and apricots for the freezer and to go into some overnight oats. That should use up pretty much everything and leave me with a clean slate.
I’ll be doing my clean out tomorrow.
I forgot about a tub of yogurt I had and it wasn’t looking so good. Be tossing that tomorrow and a few other things sitting around.
Hopefully the couple of oranges I have haven’t disintegrated yet.
Same. I’ve been away so the fridge was pretty empty but I did give myself permission to toss a few freezer mystery items.
Quite a few fires in the city: emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/
Especially the west lol. Putting the fire in illegal fireworks
The traditional 15 minutes of chaos for the fire service every new year.
Yep that’s not surprising considering how many fireworks i saw down here.
🎉 🎈 🎊
Happy New Year to all you lovely people in this daily thread ❤️
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Happy New Year! Love you all dearly, this community means so much to me, the knowledge, the kindness, the friends I’ve made here. You have all encouraged me to pursue my dreams in one form or another, and I am eternally grateful to you all for everything you are. Not just for what you mean to me, but for what we mean to each other.
Love you all, and sending you all good vibes for 2025!
💜💜💜