Daily Random Thread: Taco Tuesday 4 July 2023

These my new kittens Carl, Donut and Mongo. They are basically one cat with three bodies. I think they are a swarm cat.

Edit: As requested, here's the rest of my fuzzy friends.

Little Munch and Baby Bear protect the dirty bird from Dixie Cup

Lil Munk

Baby Bear

Dixie Cup

Shadow Pup

Thought I'd join the masses over here...it's a lot busier, haha!

Spent the past 30 minutes talking shit with two workmates (good shit, not bad shit).

Just joined a meeting and someone asked me something. I was still in a shit-talking mindset and replied 'sorry dawg, ain't me'

FUCKING KILL ME RIGHT NOW

Cutest thing just happened.

I work from home, in the garage most of the time. I just left the garage to come into the house, and the fluffy little dude meowed at me, walked to the bedroom and meowed again. I followed him and he jumped up on the bed and meowed, so I sat down and he went straight onto my lap! Totally made my day, he's not a super outwardly affectionate cat very often.

After posting my dinner I realised I may have been insensitive to the fact that some people might be struggling right now. My apologies if I have caused any discomfort. So thought I might share some of my cost saving secrets because I like you guys. We are on a one low income so I know how it feels. Here we go.

We have never ordered ubereats. If we get take away my husband goes and gets it. We eat from local take away or we get specials from fast food. We have cut this down from once a week to once a fortnight. We eat out on special occasions.

I go to the local butchers for my meat. If I don't eat red meat I feel fainty due to low blood pressure so I spread my meat consumption of the week. Most meat I buy is the cheaper cuts plus one special lamb product (that's why we had ribs tonight). Sometimes I'll see a two for deal at Coles like sausages or hamburgers and I'll freeze them. Every 6 months I have to defrost my little freezer so we live off whatever is in there, defrost it, fill it back up.

The vegetables I have in my freezer all the time are peas, beans, broccoli and corn on the cob when it's available. Everything else I get fresh from the market when in season.

The things that I have in my pantry all the time are pasta, rice, cous cous, chickpeas, canned tomatoes, baked beans, tuna, corn.

I check for half price specials every week. I only buy them if I need them. No point having 6 bottles of shampoo in my cupboard. Also on shampoo and conditioner, I buy pump packs when they're $6 each. It's shampoo and conditioner it's all the same.

I try to make the evening meal serve 4 so my husband has lunch the next day or I'll make enough for 6 meals so we can have leftovers for dinner the next night.

I freeze bread. You can't beat toast. Ever.

I can't think of anything else right now but if you want me to answer any questions I'll be happy to answer them.

My dinner

From top left clockwise: Aldi's potato scallop, peas, sauted mushrooms with chives, marinated lamb ribs definitely not burnt just well done, mint jelly. Corn on the cob not pictured.

Please note that the plate is small. (26cm in diameter)

My husband made an observation. He said "I noticed that the smaller ribs did not make the photo but ended up in my lunch". :)

Recieved a disappoining pay rise for the new FY. Despite my employer saying they weren't interested in negotiating the amount, I am asking for more anyway. Worst that can happen is they say no. And let them - so when I leave, they know their tightassery is to blame.

Does anyone else see a B next to my name. It looks like a badge, have I been classified as a bot

E: in your profile setting, if you check “Bot Account” then this badge will appear. Looks like I accidentally classified myself as a bot

What we have here is a failure to launch. Dammit.

It has to be a problem with the date, bot won't work after midnight. It's eather Cinderella or a gremlin. Next attempt will be before midnight, if that posts it will be a stopgap solution at least while I work out the issues. Maybe I can check the dark web for bot viagra.

Day 10 of my exercises completed. This morning I snuck into my MIL's back room, which is like a sun room/family room, and did them there. So much space! I think I will continue this from now on. She isn't up early so I'm not disturbing her, and she's said she doesn't mind me using the space.

Yesterday I set a target of 2500 steps and we were busy at work so I ended up doing 6129. It won't be anything like that today because I'll be standing at a bench hand stretching pizza bases and cutting dough.

Have a lovely day!

OK, bot has now been given a process management system to help run continually and not crash completely if there is an error. Not sure if it will help with the not posting at/after midnight issue, but it can't hurt and will give me a bit more information.

I have instructed the bot to post at 11:55, but after past failures am much less hopeful it will actually work ☹️ I've added in a few more test posts elsewhere at various intervals to try and get some more information about what is going wrong. At the moment the theory that the cat is sabotaging it seems as likely as anything else. It is very frustrating that every single test I do works perfectly, and the actual post doesn't.

Watching Star Trek TNG 🖖

Do I really have to go to work again today? Surely it's the weekend.

Dad's birthday tomorrow and i hadn't thought of gift ideas....... So i may have just ordered a couple hundred dollars worth of Scottish meats and treats to be delivered. Min order was $150 for free delivery so i had to order some for him and some for me :P

So while all you intellectuals are discussing social media my simple brain is thinking about dinner. Airfried marinated lamb ribs with peas, aldi scallop potatoes, sauted mushrooms and maybe corn on the cob. I cannot wait.

Another day of waiting to see how badly the RBA is gonna blast me in the arse this time.

Honestly, my favourite path of the month these days.

Just want to vent a bit about a really horrible experience trying to go out to trivia in Brisbane tonight. I’m up here for a work conference and didn’t want to go to the costume dinner thing they had, so booked a table at a local pub thinking I’d see if another team wanted a solo extra. First off the pub was super seedy and gross, the stickiest place I’ve been to in years. Then the only thing on the menu I could eat (recently developed awful reflux that I think is triggered by onion and garlic) was the pear and rocket salad and you guys, it is in my top 5 worst meals of all time. It was genuinely inedible. Then the trivia host ignored my three separate times as she went table to table. Genuinely ignored me waving and saying excuse me. At that point I just said fuck it and left. Now I’m sitting back in my hotel room eating yogurt and an apple as the saddest fucking dinner because my anxiety is through the roof. Fuck me. Plus it’s raining so now I have wet jeans that might not dry in time for me to pack them in my suitcase tomorrow.

Fever might not be over. I’m sitting under the heater with slippers trackies shirt and hoodie plus a blanket and I am FREEZING!

Shoutout to the headache gang. I had a joyful one at work and it’s still kind of lingering. So frustrating. Alas, I’m an uncool kid, so no tacos for me this Tuesday. It’s pasta, cheesy garlic bread and whatever else I can wrangle. I’ve also been cheeky with my chocolate cookie and chocolate bar this evening. You know, dessert before dinner.

How is everyone?

Got called into work today, did some shuffling of things to make it work. Good call because it was crusiy as and great crew of people today.

Also means I'll get a 4 day weekend this weekend pewww.

Also, went to doctor Saturday morning cos throat was still sore and I was miserable after 2+ weeks. Doctor was awesome. Swabbed my throat which I got a text today was all clear and gave me some super grunty anti biotics and anti inflammatories.

Immediately felt improvement and now by day 3, the pain is gone, swelling is gone down and I'm feeling normal again! Soooo glad to be past all that.

Apparently had covid and also throat infection simultaneously. Really sucked haha. Do not recommend.

I got some kinda sad news today. So CP wanted me to move out and into lead tenant on the 15th, and I said that was way too soon and I'd want a longer transition to at least early August and proposed August 1st s my official move in date. They said no and that the best they'd give me is the 24th and I should be happy they compromised at all

I mean I guess I am lucky they compromised because usually they dont, but it's just kinda giving me flashbacks to all the random days they've told me I have a few hours to pack my bags and then they ship me off to some new house. I mean, it's still 20 days away, and I have been wanting to move out for the last 4 years, and it's only a week earlier than I was hoping for, but it kinda sucks I don't get to control my own timelines

Also the lead tenant place hasn't even given me the address yet. They gave me the street and suburb, but no number until after the 3rd meeting. I also had to pick out furnitures for my room despite not even knowing how big my room is, so that's fun

Hmm it’s 3pm and I haven’t been tagged in one single food/taco pic 😔

Which makes me think everyone is too poor to afford food. So free tacos for everyone!!!! 🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮

So last night I plucked up the courage to call my dad out in a relatively respectful and well rounded manner about some of his recent behaviour and his response was a atrocious, he was genuinely quite horrible to me and it was really hurtful. I responded to one nasty message, but after the second petulant message, I left him to it. Sometimes I think the universe got it a bit topsy turvey and maybe I should've been the parent.

Well since I’ve dubbed today specifically as taco Tuesday, if anyone does have tacos today, whether purchased OR make it themselves and provides a pic with a description (because you know inclusiveness) and tag me. I’ll reply with a Sun infused star 🌟 in lieu of there being no awards on this site.

If you tag me with food (because I like food) and it’s not tacos I’ll also give a Sun infused star but a different one ⭐️

Let’s make taco Tuesday a fantastic day

My raising suspicions about a medication I was prescribed resulted in my pharmacist discovering a "serious" and potentially "life-threatening" drug interaction with another regular medication I take.

Not sure if I should be shitty that both my GP and the pharmacist didn't pick up on this before dispensing the drug? Thankfully I hadn't started taking it yet.

PSA to check your hot water bottles for leaks. I got into a wet bed last night and realised mine had wet itself. Thankfully I actually didn't refill it last night so it was left from the previous night and must have just seeped through some very minor crack in the rubber.

This is most Mondayist Tuesday ever, granted it is my Monday lol

I bought new slippers at a market at the weekend, proper sheepskin ones. It's like having fluffy clouds on my feet. My old ones were so worn out.

How bloody good is ibuprofen and Panadol? I was shaking under a blanket and now I’m just back to “meh”

Bleh. I’ve got a headache today. Not too bad at the moment but it does hurt some.

On the phone on hold at the moment and I think the hold music is hurting my head.

Another cold day today. Time to rug up!

After my machine broke from trying to wash my oodie I managed to finally get my oodie dry with a combination of constant wringing and keeping it in a warm room.

I’m embarrassed to say my hands do hurt from all the wringing.

There’s a frightening lack of potato on taco day. I’m getting worried. Maybe we get the goods when Chief makes the Aldi scalloped.

I actually hate Tuesdays more than Mondays. The fatigue sets in real fast. Where my other Tasmanians at. I can't be the only one here.

With Reddit's changes (albeit I think more people thought it things would be more dramatic than they have been), and Twitter's continuing shit show, alongside Facebook's shadow of it's shadow of its former self... do we think we're seeing or are in the middle of the end of social media in a large sense?

Hard or soft shelled tacos?

In my opinion? If it's a taco, I'll stick it in my face.

Thanks sun goddess.

Is it really taco Tuesday or tight-arse Tuesday? That's the big question.

I've noticed that when you post a comment there's no line on left only when you reply. I like it.

Panadol and ibuprofen finally got me feeling semi human. Good god this has not been fun!

Is there some kind of unofficial hierarchy when it comes to the length of tradies' shorts? I mean there's a lot of construction happening around here and some of the older blokes, even in the middle of winter, are wearing shorts so small they may as well be hotpants.

My reference is being a slow piece of poop, so I sent them a nice text about how nice it would be if they could check their frick-fracking email because I need money ffs

ID: A close up of Homer Simpson screaming; indicative of how I feel within.

Theory: drivers in utes and SUVs are less likely than regular cars to give the thank you gesture if you let them through on a narrow road, even accounting for the frequency of each vehicle type on the road. Does this hold out for you?

ikea came with thegood at 8.30am, my left lower back is still fucked. still lots of resting.

The beautiful wattle (? Yellow fluffy) tree outside our house is giving me horrendous allergies I’m so sad

Little Man has absolutely kicked my ass all day. My partner was sick, so I gave up trying to get work done, and essentially followed a mini tornado around the house while doing chores...I have a splitting headache, tired and starving. Once we've gotten around to dinner, I've got soooooo much work catch up on. sigh

Talking of tacos, there's a new Mexican joint in Mordialloc and the food is really good, although the sides (rice, beans) could be served a bit warmer. That's three places here now that does Tex-Mex, and another one about to start construction.

In other more positive news, I have my initial ADHD assessment via Telehealth on the 15th! This place is much cheaper, the only drawback, though bearable is that I have to wait until November for my official diagnosis. So please manifest are sooner cancellation for me.

Newest Covid booster is absolutely mental. It’s kicking my ass! I feel almost as bad as if I had Covid the first time.

Lying down on the couchafter a couple after work drinks. Got up and had a most impressive burp. Shame no one was around to witness

Today has been a great day! Got 3 sign ups at work, and the last Mass Effect book I needed came in (a week and a half since my birthday, but that's fine), and I'm getting a bonus of $33 from Centrelink tomorrow. Gotta wait almost a week to get paid from work, but that'll be nice. Tomorrow I need to buy comics (I also need to pay for 2 comics I picked up two weeks ago because I forgot to tell mum they need to be paid for) and also some more yarn for my knitting project.

Everything's coming up landsharkkidd!

Doggo caught the Frisbee 3 times tonight! He's getting better.

Hungry. Stomach does not approve of late lunch today.

DAILY THREAD: DAY WALKER

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ABSENCE OF AUTOMATON EDITION

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/wiki/charities/

support link for helping Ukraine , these charities have been vetted and are safe

I just bought two food aid packages for elderly people living in harsh conditions

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Lazy kinda day, lots of cat playtyime, aa stuff and a dentist visit. I've got some work needs doing and I'll be down a grand but I haven't been since 2019 so it serves right. Still come out about even but I really need to start being a lot more serious about flossing. Favourite comment today, "oh girl, you're such a lesbian", from my bestie. She's phenomenal. I'm so blessed she popped up out of nowhere this year after ten years of the odd catch up every year or two. Got an unexpected last week long service leave week's pay also which instantly gets eaten by the dentist but I'm still pretty happy overall I didn't need fillings or extractions and the money is there to pay the bill. I also saved myself from needing dentures, another year and I'd have been fucked.

People probably think I'm weird for saying aa has changed my whole perspective on spirituality and my future, but I love the fellowship. Talk about reliable, caring, loving and sober people. Having shared lived experience is where I'm at with my new peers, both trans and alcoholic. I needed wholesome people in my life and I'm starting to build a whole new circle of much better friends. Between that and the comaraderie here in the aussie zone, I'm feeling a really authentic sense of connection. My feelings of loneliness and isolation are basically gone. Everything's coming up hones.

Dinner will be the two $1.20 salads I bought from woolies discount bin with some mayo ketchup.

It's still squarely mid-Monday over here in the States but I am in fact having tacos for lunch today. Today is a good day. Crack a Foster's for your boy and I'll join y'all in Tuesday soon enough. 🤙

chilli cheese bread is being made, sewing kit set up to sew badges on my fluffy jacket ( I have a Ukraine Che Burashka badge, buying things from Ukraine is one way to support them 🐻🔫 ) , calligraphy set to do one page of practice in purple ink , tv on but I'm not really paying attention, fighting russian trolls on the newspaper in progress, tab open for doing some reading

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Inspection is done. Now I won't have to see her for another six months. But last night we found a crack in the ceiling in the bathroom and you can see the stud pressed against the ceiling. Possibly happened during an Earthquake.

Expecting some kind of fight over the leave I've requested. It's during a projected busy period, but it's not my fault they have a resource issue and will be overstretched if they do what they (management) are wanting to do.

oh god every time I vacuum now I get the Cars "You might think" stuck in my head

(the way the Dyson cycles up and down reminds me of that riff from Depeche Mode's shake the disease and part of that then seagues in my head into the do-do-do-do-do from you might think. Send help. The earworms are rube goldberging)

Outlander be like, beautiful Scottish scenery and costumes, but first softcore porn with a side of sexual assault. I won't lie, I don't mind the show (well the first couple of seasons), but I feel like it really could've done well if it had dropped certain things and picked up on others.

Does anyone know/remember this CD? My Dad had a copy when I was a kid (90s/2000s) and I was able to buy this from the VicPol Blue Ribbon website (which I was stoked about). Anyway, if you're able to get a copy, it has some of the best covers :)

Even the currawongs sound miserable this morning.

It's so cold, I don't know how anyone exists in this weather

Can't sleep, appear to be wide awake. But as I typed that, I yawned.

Mmmm tacos., 🌮🌮🌮

Ren - Hi Ren - came across this over at @music@lemmy.world (I think). I had not heard this before. It's good.

Where's your guys' favorite tacos to get?

Saw the new spiderverse Spiderman. Was fun but I think the first one had better story. However animation was excellent all the way through, loved all the different styles, which I think is the point of it more than the story.

I went to buy my frozen cheesecake ( thanks @useless_modern_god@kbin.social ) and I headed for Sara Lee, spotted a Coles lemon curd one and my fingers hungrily grabbed that one.

Before anyone says they're really easy to make I know I know I know. I have made them before.

I certainly will!

The Weis inspired limited edition Mango flavoured Weetbix is just delightful

life protip: A vicious application of DJ Keoki's Speed racer is quite successful at murdering The Cars

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Has anyone organised a utilities account transfer for a deceased estate?

Short story is I'm handling it for my grandparents, both live in the same house but one passed. The one that passed is the only name on the account.

I'm going to be switching providers anyway to the other g-parent, would it just be easier to let the new company handle the transfer instead of having to close the existing account? Also the current company never set up a concession for the eligible deceased owner, any ideas whether they'd be able to retroactively apply it now to ease the financial burden?