It's my irl bday today.

To celebrate I'm going to attack more jasmine. Then dins with the fam (w/ bro / SIL oh no). P's are heading off early to Qld tm morning so just doing Indian takeaway. They have a nice dining room so it seems silly to go out. 5 of us and the local Indian takeaway joint does a good deal for 4 for $99. Bro and SIL are getting half portions.

OMG happy birthday BR!
I got duped into paying 60 bucks last time I went for indian :(
- Thanks Baku! $60 for one!?
💋🎂
- Thank youse xx
Happy Birthday! Give that jasmine a right smacking!
- Thank you :)
Happy birthday mate 🎉🎂🍺
- Thank you CEO :)
Happy birthday wishes!
- Thanks Eagle!
so many hugs and kisses 😽😽😽
may the coming year bring you happiness
- Thank you Seagoon :)
Awesome.
Happy birthday!
More than happy for takeaway at home for my birthday!
- Thank you. Takeaway just seems a lot easier for everyone.
Happy birthday pumpkin
- Thank you sweet potato :)
🦛🐥🦜
- Thanks! I'm on win 7 so they come up as squares. After pasting the squares into google it comes up as Hippo baby chicken parrot which honestly is a very sweet thing to say.
Happy birthday!
- thanks Dan!
Happy b'day! I gift you a hedge trimmer
Hey happy birthday bottom!
Happy birthday, hope there's no nastiness with in laws and the weekend erases any yucky things from this week! Make sure you don't get a half portion. And if it's good I wanna know where it's from.
- Thank you :) Thankfully they were chill.
  It was very good food from Kew curry house. Used to be called Aachis I think.
Happy birthday! Hope you’re having a fabulous day! 🎂
- Thank you springchicken :)
Happy frikkin birthday dude!

Little one bought home her fathers day gift which was a 'all about her dad' poster and she has successfully made me sound like I'm an alcoholic.

Which is super impressive because I don't even drink alcohol, lol.

My dad loves books and drinks 📙 🍷
I've had My mum loves food. Correct ✅
lol 🍻
hey, if shes calling you Dad and not Mumma consider that a win :-D

Meeting to decide my future with my current workplace in 12 minutes, send me loads of positive vibes! I just need to not cry!

Edit: Good news is that I still have a job. I just need to be… a little less shit at it.

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Good to hear and I know the feeling. I hope everything works out and they give you the support you need

Um, we're having TWO Thursdays this week? Does that mean 2 paydays????? Please please let this be true. Or is this a fiendish plot to prevent our Friday overindulgences?

Two Thursdays is just unholy. When i am god i shall ban Thursdays altogether
- So, you won’t be Thor then.
I overindulge on Thursdays as well. places monocle
Yo dawg, I heard you like Thursdays...

There is something blackly hilarious about how many vegans are insisting they should be able to feed a cat vegan diets if they really really want to. (Blowup in outoftheloop)

Those people need to own rabbits. Or preferably no animals at all because they lack any sort of clue.
- And if you disagree with them on the viability of vegan diets and cats you're 'emotionally invested in them being wrong'
  Just...dude. Don't own a fucking cat. Millions do it.
It's like they don't care about the fact that cats are obligate carnivores.
Edit: in fact, they don't even know what 'obligate carnivore' means.
- There's slews of 'em going 'but supplements and this single study that mostly looked at dogs said it was ok!!'
  Like....jesus. They're trying to force an animal to go against its nature to suit their personal preferences and they do not see the hypocrisy. Get a fucking parrot you twonks
They're the types to give vegans a bad name.
Hi! I'm the mod that started this all! I think everyone who uses the phrase "obligate carnivore" is outing themselves as a complete buffoon since it has literally 0 application to whether or not it is possible, which would be obvious if people looked up the definition.
But of course, that would be expecting a lot from people :)
- 🍿🍿🍿
- ...nah mate. You're literally putting your desires over the animal's needs. It's the same egotistical "animals must serve the desires of man" schtick that veganism arose in rejection of.
  Miss me with that bullshit.
I can't believe how much outrage there has been over this. It seems to be making rounds on the entirety of lemmy every couple days

I have done everything to not have to buy disposable vapes, but the run around and scams with the doctors and pharmacies is an absolute joke.

First you have to pay 90ish bucks for a script, which only allows you to use it at the chemist they are linked to. So every doctor has basically started their own little chemist to dispense the products.

And so if they happen to run out of stock, we'll, you need to pay for another script so you can access the product at another pharmacy/store.

Meanwhile, I've seen more cigarette smokers in the last few weeks, than I've seen in years. And that's not hyperbole.

Everyone is buying disposables, because the system that the government set up is an absolute sham.

So now I'm risking buying stuff from overseas that might get seized at border control, because the disposables are really fucking bad for you. They affect your breathing in a negative way almost instantly.

I've tried the patches, the inhaler, even the medicine. It didn't work for me, because it's really hard to quit something you've been taking for over 20 years on a daily basis.

Well done federal government.

Meanwhile, I've seen more cigarette smokers in the last few weeks, than I've seen in years. And that's not hyperbole.
I've also noticed this, as a smoker, that there are waaaaay more people smoking than previously. Young people too, when before it was just older guys usually (and the two old ladies outside the massage and tarot reading joint 😂)
- Exactly! And kids are getting ciggies from the same places that sell disposable vapes! They're usually cheap black market smokes from China
Meanwhile, I’ve seen more cigarette smokers in the last few weeks, than I’ve seen in years. And that’s not hyperbole
YEP. and people walking through crowds smoking. Or taking it out and having it in your mouth (unlit) waiting for the train doors to open so you can spark up immediately.
- See that's weird. I have never rolled on the train, nor had one ready when I exit lol. How stressed by the train are these dudes?
- It's a return to the old days of smokers out the front of offices again.
do the patches, do more of them if you must but please stay away from disposables.
- Thankfully my order from the pharmacy came today and I didn't have to resort to disposables. I honestly can't believe how bad they are for my lungs. Literally 1 puff and my chest feels heavy. Teens would have been better off using refillable devices than the disposables.
  Theres shops everywhere selling them. I don't see anyone stopping them.
  This fucking government has been such a let down.

Meant to be another after work drinks put on tonight but I am too knackered for twice in a row. This place is going to turn me into more of alcoholic than I already am

Swans!

Everyone stopped :)

They're so pretty but awkward looking!
- Such gigantic necks. Like water giraffes

lol I think nearly all of us can relate to that
Hell I don't even need to go that far back...
- Wouldn't even need to switch am and pm for me.
Facebook reminders remind me of this all the time (to which I delete them). God I was a fool.
If you don't look back on your past self and cringe, then you didn't grow as a person.

Cat pretending to be Orange. Got his head stuck in a tissue box.

Long day but much more satisfied today and got a wee bit of walking in... plus my favourite aunt confirmed she WILL be available when I want to go see her after all - so I have something to look forward to at the end of September!! Yay! That's really lifted my mood 🥰

Yay 🥰

Biscuits done.

The chilling time before rolling out was a bit too long I think, the dough was a bit too hard initially. The embossed roller worked fairly well, but I could probably use some practice to get it a bit more even. I also played around with a bunch of different cutters so have a variety of biscuit shapes and sizes - I'll pick the nicest looking to take to work tomorrow and the rest will be snacks for me.

I'm also taking advantage of the oven being hot to make pizza for dinner.

Jesus Christ.
- I think he's more of a wafer.
- Amen
I preped ginger mice for latter decoration
- What is going on here? I want to shower in everyone’s baked goods 👄🫦
Semi chill, print, chill is the way with these I believe. Nice job though!

Well that was a light speed pakidge!

Last day of winter!!!!!^wooooo

And tomorrow the first day of hayfever season!
That reminded me to start up my rhinocort again.
- Hayfever season started for me like 3 weeks ago. I AM READY!!!

This wind fucking sucks lol can't sleep

Almost Friday guys hang in there

- I missed the joke, disregard

are we not doing a friday? I can do one if people want.

Nah it's Groundhog Day.
- They say we're young and we don't know.......
Don't worry about it. Seagoon will change it when she jumps on.
- it's fixed now, 😐

Fallout Classic Collection free on Epic this week.

I was going to comment this too. Not everyone got fallout for free on GOG 10 years ago like I did

Two quizzes for two of my theory classes have been completed with 100%

Phew, now to review my prac assessments, submit those, and finish up the quizzes for the other two theory classes.

So 2 down, 6 to go! Whoo hoo!

Awesome 👍
After they’re done then it’s celebration time!

Thursday again already? Where does the time go?

Well, you know how the cookie monster steals all the cookies? The time monster steals all the time

Well done to our paralympians overnight snagging 4 medals. 🇦🇺

Woo! Friday snuck up on me.

Gosh, I could have sworn it was still Thursday...
- Nobody does Thursdays anymore. It’s sooo five minutes ago

winds howling

Aroooooooo shakes jowls
- 🎶 Werewolves of London 🎶

I managed to sleep well after feeling like crapola yesterday night, and crucially, got out of bed at 7:30 instead of lolling about... got to work early to sit down and eat a proper breakfast 🍽

Today's wordle was mean, I had to give up and use a solver.

Alright, time to crack on. The sun outside is delightful but bom says more wind tonight... and over the weekend.... meh.

I didn't know anyone still did worldle, or any of the other *le games
- Hell yeah we do. I’m on a 241 day streak on Wordle.

How can a fence builder get it so wrong? Our front fence failed footing and final inspection - the posts are higher than the plan, and the concrete pads don’t go deep enough into the holes. We’re at a loss…

Don't you know, plans are just suggestions. It's all about the vibes these days.
Hope you didn't pay them. Fence builders aren't a regulated trade. Margins are tight cause materials are pricey...so the work suffers
Hope you get it sorted mate

Can hear all kinds of things banging and flapping in the wind. Sounds like someone's gonna lose a bit of shed roof if this keeps up.

Operation sort shit is going well. I have been getting rid of stuff and now have empty gaps and nothing that needs to go into them, which as a previously over-cluttered person (aka recovering hoarder) is not something I am used to experiencing. I'm doing lots of labeling today, as well as attaching a bunch of little stick-on drawers to the bottom of some of my shelves to hold smaller bits of stationery and sewing supplies. I really should do an op shop run too, the collection of stuff to go is getting quite large.

Stay warm and safe and may your house not blow away. 😘

Cheers little gremlins 🍺

Bad news about the doors confirmed. They can't temporarily install my old door handle or lock onto this new door because it doesn't meet modern fire safety requirements. Apparently the new locks will be the same locks we had in Resi - a simple latch that can be very easily opened, and they're going to place a metal plate over it to prevent people slipping cards or things to open the lock from the outside

I guess that's a solution, but it feels like yet another step towards making the house feel exactly like the place I was at before. I guess on the bright side, I'm only 6 months away from turning 18. Once I do that, I can GTFO if I want, although practically I'm almost forced to stay for another 6-12 months until I can move elsewhere.

I suspect once the opportunity to book hotel rooms opens up, I'll take a lot more spontaneous Mildura or Adelaide trips

- that is a great expressive pic
- Ikr. Apparently the requirements only apply to new installations. Interestingly though, they replaced my last deadbolt lock with the same type of deadbolt lock after the other kid had shoved a pair of scissors into my lock, and it didn't silly then, despite the fact that that was put in the bin and replaced with a new lock
  As I understand it though, the deadbolt locks aren't the problem. The problem is that they often require a dual action (unlocking the lock then opening the door handle). Don't ask me what they can't just not install a door handle - they won't elaborate. But that's what I've been told

How's our no snacks after tea (nsat) gang going? Getting a better sleep? The fucking wind not helping. Give it some time and you should be sleeping better.

Not good but my meals have been taken at irregular times so that’s not helping.
Nothing big though. A Monte Carlo or some orange for dessert
going well 👍
I bought no snack on my errand
I also have been having decaf only after 4
I'm a bit like Duenan in that my mealtimes have lacked regular timing. But I still have not snacked.
- So proud. Little steps yeah.

It's 2003 and you can only have 3 cds in your car. What are they?

Supertramp - The Very Best of

Talking Heads - Once in A Lifetime The Best of

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of Thr Moon

Evanescence - Fallen
The Corrs - The Corrs Unplugged
Nightwish - Once
- Ohh yes The Corrs probably
Knowing me at the time I would've had:
Regurgitator - unit
Radiohead - ok computer
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
- Oh I forgot about ok computer. Why is it only 3? I had a CD stacker!!!!
- You are a cool mamma because my daughter says ok computer is the best album of all time.
- Great selection!
I will carry Bad Religion to my grave 💅
- Are you a 21st century digital boy?
Classic Queen (or gratest hits)
Offspring - Smash
Pearl Jam - Ten
- Oh jes. I have all those albums. Ten tend to be a bit meh at the end but still a great album.
Tool - lateralus Rage against the machine - self titled nine inch nails - the downward spiral
Grinspoon - New Detention Foo Fighters - One by One And probably Triple J hottest 100 vol 7.
It wouldn't matter what they were, my car in 2003 didn't have a cd player.
- I couldn’t even drive
George - polyserena
Aqua - aquarium
Can't pick a third
- 😂
It would have been mum's car, because I was 11 in 2003. So it would have been:
Multiple Enya CDs
\ Multiple Celine Dion CDs
\ Paul Simon - Graceland (if dad was driving or mum was feeling gracious to my request lol)
- Every single week we play Paul Simon. Love him ♥
(I have to edit because I chose something too new )
the audibook of lotr
waiting for the sun- the doors
Best of Carpenters - Carpenters
I would choose different things next week
- The Doors has a special place in my heart always. The Self titled album i used to play over and over as a teen. My ♥️

I just serenaded the song Nothing's gonna change my love for you to the whole family but changed the word you to youse. Such fun.

Got woken up by the wind blowing a gale and remembered the cats' fuzzy bed was still on the line, so dashed out to retrieve it.
Just as well as the side door to the garage had blown open.
Back to bed, hopefully to sleep...

Alas sleep was not had - I was finally drifting off when Zooks hopped up for snuggles and Feed Me, Bitch demands.
I'm doing the zombie shuffle at the moment so I'll just take it easy today and try and get a nap in before tonight's social thing.

I ended up putting a box in front of my door so it would stop flinging open (yay uneven floors), and ended up getting a decent enough sleep. Woke up at midnight with all the wind, bloody hell it was rough, couldn't get back to sleep for about an hour

I heard the bin man collect a bin, I sure I hope the others didn't blow over...

I had it in my head that all of the Victorian Carl's Jr location closed immediately a few weeks ago but apparently only a couple of locations closed and Melton remains alive.

Got breakfast from there for one last time because I didn't think I'd get to again. It was meh. It can die now.

Wait, they didn't? I drove past one the next day that had its doors shuttered and lights off... I thought they were all dead
- The one in Altona North shut its doors the day the news came out about them going into administration but yeah Melton is still open as well as 4 others

I'm supposed to bring a plate to work tomorrow and I am completely lacking in both inspiration and enthusiasm.

- You, get in the bin!
Malicious compliance it - bring only a plate.
Fairy bread.
- Easy to make, but I'm completely out of fairies at the moment.
Wotcha got to work with?
- Primarily treacle, a bag of dates and lots of rice noodles 🤣
  I have actually now found enough enthusiasm to start on a batch of shortbread biscuits. The dough is chilling, after a bit of a break I will roll and bake. I bought some embossed rolling pins recently, so hopefully they work ok and the biscuits look nice and fancy.
Brings empty plate "Ok, where do I fill 'er up?"

I've finally made it to a local show and I'm surprised how few people are here. I must still be tapped into the Australian metal scene that I can go to a sore that's a big deal to me and it's still half empty by the end of the second last band

Nothing beats local metal gigs
- There was a very respectful circle pit. Two guys got angry at each other but then they hugged and made up. It was heartwarming to see

It's bin day for us. I'm guessing lots of the bins in our street must be tired, when I left this morning many were laying down having a nice nap :|

Our garbo will deserve a bonus by the time he's finished today!

I think my bin got a bit hyperactive with all the wind. I put the green waste bin out with only a bag of food scraps in it, this morning it was completely full of weeds. Obviously it was feeling a bit under-utilised and went out to do some weeding.
- I do consider bins on the road already fair game (for the correct contents!) but it’s not uncommon for people to post requests for bin space in the local FB group
Ours are still standing, but full several hours after typical pickup. Might be a mess further down the road?
- Ours were still up too thankfully (and not yet emptied), but further up the road I saw the garbage truck stopped as the driver was cleaning up a mess. Poor guy is going to have a long day :(
Ours are still up, thankfully. But I don't think the ones in my area do chase after rubbish or pick up knocked over bins. A few days ago I was coming home and a lot of people's bins were tipped over and still completely full, about 11 hours after pickup in that area. It was a similar story last week

🕸️

ferris wheel 🙂
- now spinning like a centrifuge due to the high winds

Roses are red and violets are blue, honey is sweet but not as sweet as you... Dum de da de da, dum de da de da, COME PICK MY ROSES 🤘🤘🤘

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I have a knife....
Get in the van
- Noooo. Baddd.

The door man got back in at 8 to start sawing some wood and started ripping out the rest of the doors at 9.

We also have sparkles here now, because apparently our house has light switches on some door frames, which means old mate can't just take a crowbar to it like he did the others, so they called sparkies to come relocate them.

Sometimes I look at the decisions these guys make and wonder why their pockets are so deep, yet they insisted on pinching every single penny when that kid moved in which blew all of this up in the first place. Certainly an expensive mistake. Expect a moderate increase in your taxes next year 😂

Day off work which meant errands and housekeeping.

Didn't sit down to chill until like 2 pm with the new Star Wars Outlaws game....super fun but a tad clunky. Reminds me of the OG Watch dogs in a way.

Overall 8/10 day

-2 points for the old lady at medical clinic that insisted she be the first in line for a blood test. I was there early...took #1 and waited patiently. She was 3rd and was adamant I should give her the first slot.

Sorry sister. No dice.

My test took like 5 minutes tops and the nurse took me in early...so technically the old lady had hers like 5 past 9.

Anyway... bring on the weekend!!

My favourite The Beach Boys song

Fun Fun Fun

Also REO Speedwagon power song

Can't Fight This Feeling

Slept in today up to midway and panicked thinking it was getting late.

Wooshed myself out to get a few errands done then back home for lunch and washing just finished.

I’ll be making a coffee after hanging the clothes up and putting my feet up for the rest of the day.

Phew. What a day already!

U earned it. Crack open a tin for me and enjoy a chill night
- Already chilling. Just need to decide what to have for dinner.
  Playing Just Cause 3 which I’ve never played before. It’s pretty fun just being able to wreck havok.
  Going to be watching the AFL W tonight too.

back from opshop and got a good haul of LPs. First up Yehudi Menuhin playing some beethoven

this is the same album on YT !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjbORaxeqMQ

The Hummel record went in the bin, it is too scratched plus I hate the music.

The Melodya LP of Scheherazade by the Novosibirsk Orchestra is divine. here's pic of the cover all in Russian

Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Fillet o fish burger with tartare sauce and cheese and some lettuce please.
- 🐟🍔⚪️🧀🥬
Quiche & assorted greenery please
- 🥚🥧🍆🥦🥕🥒🌽🥬
Footlong Italian BMT on Italian herbs n cheese. I'll get old english cheddar, toasted please, and all the salads, southwest chipotle sauce, and salt n pepper. No cookies or drinks thanks
- 🍕🥓💪🍅
  🇮🇹🌿🧀
  👴🏻🧀🥗🥗🥗🥗🥗🍯🧂🧂

I bought so many albums. Didn't love Ryan's Daughter, by Jarre no less, not his best work. You younguns might know him from Lawrence of Arabia . It's unforgettable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdFwhhH2x7I

And right now I am listening to Western Movie Themes by Starlight Orchestra, Japanese pressing so I cant read any of the notes. track 2 De Guello ( I love this album!! ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR-KbvXvBd8

So there was an album I was sorely tempted to buy, The Cheam Repertory of some obscure operetta .
Just last night I had listened to the East Cheam Poetry Society and the East Cheam Drama Festival on the radio🤭 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vR07PVBLKc

Why does the man worry when I banana kick an empty tissue box through the door way? It's a sure thing. I maybe a little tipsy but relax yeah.

Ps. He likes protect his tv

Yes there is much music talk,however, did no one see the baked goods? It’s revelatory.

Ok maybe I’m deprived

why you talk about baked goods, now I want to bake shortbread with ginger pieces

Love reading the online catalogues at SLV. The language of certain decades is so well crafted, particularly with advertising:

Oh you’d love some of the stuff I’ve worked on. Social disease, self pollution, public convenience, avoidance of harlotry. The turns of phrase are magnificent!
- Is that building still there in Russell Street?

There's an ice cream/lolly shop here called Cones & Candy and that is the most Melton thing ever. No pretence of it being anything but a blatant euphemism for recreational drugs. The Birdcage (the part of Melton the shop is) knows what it is, and it isn't hiding it.

Hiding in plain sight.
I went in there a few weeks back while waiting for my fish & chips and realised this is the kind of shit lollies my daughter and her friends like. Quickly backed out.

I am chanelling my Anakin Skywalker 'I hate sand' energy for the non stop wind this week.

More stuff going to the opshop, this time a 5000 piece jigsaw i did ages ago. i took a picture of it

oOOH which op shop so I can go buy it?
Be sure to take a couple of pieces out to drive the next person that gets it insane
- When you buy secondhand you somewhat expect missing pieces. Better to add in some random pieces.

I took a photo as I was packing up the puzzle carefully for the opshop. You can see I put it away still made up. There were ten panels like this. The picture was the painting "The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania"

https://www.alamy.com/joseph-noel-paton-the-quarrel-of-oberon-and-titania-painting-1849-image339650316.html

Me Julie - Shaggy and Ali G