Daily Discussion Thread: Sat 22 Jul 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Sat 22 Jul 2023
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
I'll try not to spam this, but please, DT, don't sleep on tinned fish. It has a strange historical bad rap. But holy shit.... As a recent convert.... It's insanely tasty and consistent and CHEAP. Sardines are literally a superfood you can get from Coles for next to nothing. Give them a fucking chance. Herring too. But the main point is to give tinned fish a chance - i truely believe that were currently in a time where it is undervalued, underpriced. Get ahead of the curve friends. I'll share basic recipes if you like, but I pretty much just eat them with chopsticks over the sink
Am now full of capricciosa. I could get to like this feeling.
I love this time of year when the garden just starts coming to life again. Enjoy some photos from my garden just now:
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ID: photos of new green shoots on a maple tree, the first baby daffodil of the season, some white jonquils, white and orange poppies, and a bee munching getting drunk on poppy pollen
Finally took the plunge and made the decision to block an overbearing friend on social media (he was spamming me with memes, getting angry if I didn't respond, declaring that he would leave me alone forever, then spamming me with memes the next day). I guess I felt a bit bad for him as I know he doesn't have many friends, which is why I never cut him off completely...but he's really worn that down (and I'm really worn down by this as well).
So things have calmed down today.
Health issues are still there though. I really need my tax return to come through. Wish they processed and refunded on a weekend.
My partner’s going to need some surgery sadly and we’re going to need to purchase something that prevents an artery transfer from being rejected.
Trying to sort out some stuff think I’ll sell some of my video games to try and make up the cost difference.
Alright, this is normally way, way more plastic than I would normally tolerate but I've been tired and trying to save money. So with a couple of good markdowns and a few 50% specials (get onto the Half Price app, people!), I'm pretty happy with...
this haul for $37.82
And here is dins made with the veg (except spinach) and the indulgent vegan mince (which took up 21% of that spend!!!) - a big mess of everything thrown together. Cost $7 without the mince, $15 with it
Dog successfully walked. The cat was gracious enough to move from my lap, and has now taken over my spot on the couch as compensation. Given the gentle snores I am hearing she is quite settled.
Plan for the day: scrambled eggs for breakfast. Some study on my housing module. Salad for lunch. Outdoors in the garden to do a couple of assignments for my gardening module, with some bonus weeding. Maybe plant a couple of things. Second dog walk this afternoon, of course. I might do a roast for dinner, I think there is a small piece of pork in the freezer I can pull out. Today is looking to be a rather nice day.
Very excited that a comedian I really enjoy is performing 2 nights in Vegas when I'll be there. Snagged myself a ticket to that! $130 AUD it ended up being (it started as advertised $59 USD + fees, damn our feeble dollar) but that seems pretty on-par for ticket prices here I guess, except I did get the cheap seats in the back.
Edit: OMG another comedian I love is on too! My evenings are filling UP!
I'm cold and tired, I think it's time to go to bed. Tomorrow is the last day of freedom before work on Monday ☹️
ugh, had a climate change nightmare, dreamt there was a hurricane coming and there was already some flooding
I had a packed big van ready to go, but MiL would rather die than take my help or advice, husband kept on lying/sabotaging and BiL would do the opposite.
Even tho it was personal I can see it explains wider society really well.
oh well, I may as well just eat this cake I baked yesterday for lunch
What’s for dinner?
Mr Omoikiri is away so I took the opportunity to just steam some veggies with a miso sesame dipping sauce
After a bit of a slow start I got some good study done today. One quiz and two non-assessed activities done for the housing unit, a pH test and soil analysis done for gardening. A couple more things to do over the next week, but moving along fairly well.
Husband told me after I had finished cooking it's now a xmas in july thing and his fam wants xmas dinner. There isn't a fleeting commercial trendy fad they don't follow. They want to be trendy . 🤬 S'pose I better buy a big chook ( can you even get turkeys or geese in July? Anyway, not enough people, chook is enough , I'm not stuffing it, I think I might buy some pre-roasted )
Just had a nice long shower and serenaded my apartment neighbours. One benefit of apartment living is the hot water seemingly never runs out so I'll get out when I'm finished singing and no sooner. Now to go serenade the Westgate and Western freeways.
Sitting at the airport. Why do I have to be here 3 hours early according to Qantas? Been here since 10:15am as recommended, flight doesn't leave till 1:15pm. Ah well, home soon!
I. Am. Buggered! I survived the kids birthday party, shopping challenge and saw Elemental, got lost on the way out of the shopping centre and finally caught a bus home with Miniest Peeler almost falling asleep on my shoulder. I moved tomorrow's rest day to today instead but ended up doing over 8200 steps with an increasingly sore foot and boy am I feeling it now!
Watched the Wham! doco last night and now it's a non-stop Wham! party in my house. Think the doggo is getting a bit sick of me doing the Wham! rap to her.
Forehead, meet desk.
head meets desk
Edit: head met desk and has concluded we are not compatible with life. Into a hole I shall go, like a small hobbit. Don't know why I ever left the Shire in the first fucking place fuck fuck fuck
Eye test done. I'm like one notch higher in my script. But they don't have my glasses in stock. So I have to think about either getting new glasses or find my old ones and getting new lenses put in them.
MMMM made fry pan jaffles for breakfast containing some delicious otway ham and a sharp mersey valley cheddar. sheer perfection.
Scrambled eggs consumed. I have decided to bribe myself with food to do study - once I have completed one assignment I will have a chocolate chip caramel iced scone (I think that's what it is. It was unlabeled but yummy.)
I have to go into the city today to buy a couple bits n pieces and I really don't wanna
Urgh. This little cold I’ve had for the last week and the dry winter has gotten the best of me. I was sitting in bed reading last night and got a blood nose in one nostril. This morning the other. My nose is snotty and I really need to blow it but every time I do it triggers another blood nose 😫
Having a days rest after a busy week. Saw the Barbie movie last night which was actually great overall. I loved it. Had some very clever, very funny moments.
I just finished moving and spreading 1m3 of mulch using a green shopping bag. I neglected to remember our wheelbarrow had gone to the tip on account of rusting out. Would not recommend.. To quote Bandit, aww me back!
Holy. Shit. Cypress Hill did a Tiny Desk Show - https://youtu.be/tUApO77uUUk
Now I'm back in an office for night shift I've returned to my aimless night wondering. Sadly the building we are in now has no ghosts or stories so maybe I'll go hunting.
Have no appetite again :(
First proper road trip with my wife today. A round trip to Wonga Park. It has some rdr2 vibes to it.
Trip was mostly uneventful, apart from being tailgated by utes and SUVs most of the return trip, and then drove around in circles for 15 minutes looking for a parking space after some muppet decided to illegally park their Mercedes in the rental car's permit zone spot.
https://youtu.be/vgeZEdbv_m8 - Tom Waits - You Can Never Hold Back Spring.
How does someone write something that feels timeless, and like it's existed forever?
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Called in for work tonight because I woke up this arvo feeling extremely tired, but now I'm starting to think I have the weird little sickness that's slowly been decimating my work section.
Winter cooking is so hard mostly because by the time I'm done I just want to inhale everything. I need a bib and I start getting angry that the food isn't already in my stomach.
Ancient Immigrant Trellis removed, chonked down, binned. Well, the wood parts. Gotta geta new cutoff wheel to deal with the curtain rods, used the stock blade up carving down the aluminium sheeting compost heap
Such a shit sleep. I had a farewell party yesterday with a bunch of the workers from here, it was good. When I tried to sleep it all started replaying over and over again in my head and I completely broke down realising that was probably the last time I'd see most of them, including people I've known for 4-5 years. I couldn't recollect myself so I ended up watching some tv for a few hours until I'd calmed down
Then at 8 today they had painters in painting the vacant bedroom next to mine, and that woke me up. Then at 10:30 he left so I was going to have a nap, but then one of the other kids got angry over god knows what and had 4 tantrums in the span of 2 hours and also decided I'd done something, so she broke 4 plates, 2 cups, and a toaster by throwing them at my door
