Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Put an offer in on a house today. Pray for Mojo.
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Is this the fixer upper you mentioned yesterday/day before?
Nah, decided against it, as much as I liked it, there was just too much uncertainty behind it on how much needed to be fixed up. This one is smaller but recently done up. Huge backyard I can plant fruit trees, treehouse for little one, etc.
Sounds great! Land tax if and when you get it. No, not the gubbermint land tax - our land tax.
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I still want to be Mackenzie Arnold when I grow up
I’m older than most of the Matilda’s and I still want to be them when I grow up 🥲
I always laugh at the serving suggestion on like leggo’s tortellini, ravioli extra. Serves 4 apparently. I assume that is children and not a grown-arse man
Oh yeah. The suggested serving sizes of dim sims or whatever it is.
I feel bad when I eat 6 times the suggested serving size.
As if I’m going to stop at one hash brown!
That’s like Allen’s mixed lollies. 3 lollies = one serve. Um no it doesn’t. Not even close.
Made some nachos. I think stuntman Mike would approve.
Looks amazing but like… you enough sour cream for two chips there
Nah. At least 5 chips.
Yummy but what are the others having? 😂
Lmao howling at the comment I just read under an actor interview that said “she just does it for the money”. My guy I hate to break it to you but everyone needs to be able to pay the bills, no ones rocking up for anything that time consuming just because.
I’ve just realised it’s Wednesday, not Thursday. Goddammit.
look at it this way, you have an extra day of life. 👍
I think I might have a drink tonight while watching the game. The question is do I sink a couple of beers, g&ts or pull out the big guns and make margaritas? Big choices.
Tequila shots or GTFO
It’s a week day cobber! But maybe a shot for shot ⚽️ 🥅 👍
Except for penalty shoot outs.
Maybe shot for goal,
except if it goes to penalties. Shot for shot might get messyBeat me to itMy house mate and I drank a carton of beer one morning watching a world cup game. Every yellow or red card or goal was a full beer down. So yeah, 12 of them. I have no recollection of who played or the score but there were a lot of professional fouls. I staggered to bed at about 10am. Fucken ell. Almost feel hungover just remembering.
I’m hungover just reading it. Chugging beers gets me fucked more than doing shots.
I’m glad you’re still with us after that ordeal
It was laid down in text as an idea for anyone watching tonight, who has no plans tomorrow and doesn’t mind a drink. I don’t drink anymore.
A written accord? That’s classy and super derro all at once. I fucken love it!!!
penalty shoot outs is when you need it the most
Margs! Margs! Margs!
It’s so tempting ngl.
I vote criminally strong g&ts
I think this might be the way. I’ve got a crook back atm and last night my egg exploded in the microwave so today I need to clean it more thoroughly. I am not impressed. I need to medicate.
Margs all the way! We’ve got some fresh lime juice in the fridge and a couple of whole limes in the fruit bowl. Very tempted. Very.
Just devoured this.
Most of my fizzy drink gone.
I am content.
Pizza!
Chips to come soon after resting while watching the Matildas. Come on, you can this!
I swear to God the gardener at work gets some weird satisfaction revving his petrol leaf blower. It’s the most annoying, infuriating sound that makes me want to go all Liam Neeson on his ass.
Probably similar to people who like the rev their cars to feel the power.
Pretty annoying as leaf blowers are super loud.
Funny enough I said the exact same thing today. Do we have the same gardener?
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I just woke up. I came home and collapsed in bed and straight up went to sleep for 3 hours. …And I’m going to have dinner and drug the cat and go straight back to sleep I think. Sorry Tillies ;_;
Same. Night. Good luck Matilda’s 🥱💤
Night night.
Hope you wake up to some good news.
Please post your pre game meals, snacks, drinks, platters etc tonight. You’ll make me very happy 😊 Go Matildas ⚽ 💛💚💛💚💛💚💛💚 ⚽️
Tea and biscuits
Munching on a blood orange that is so good it should be illegal.
My favourite orange out of all of them.
I was worried they’d be a bit shit this year because of the “mild” winter but actually seem the best I’ve had in a while!
Will do though nothing fancy.
Home brand cheese corn chips, bottle of homebrand orange drink and my bargain of the day, a 700g of smoked ham for $2.80.
I went crazy and ate about 1/2 of the ham already.
I’ve got a whole pizza as well in the fridge ready for game time.
chips and drink
That’s alotta ham for $2.80. who’s your hook up?
It was just at Woolies on the clearance section because the use by date was very close.
I had a bowl of air fried cooked brown rice. One half desert spoon of olive oil and half a teaspoon of vege real gourmet stock with about a cup of cooked brown rice. Ten minutes air fry, its crunchy and tasty like potato chips, but cos brown rice / olive oil, super healthy. For game snacks its rice cakes and promite. I’m keen on keeping this figure.
Have just been enjoying seaweed rice crackers and hummous. Will be getting some pizza for the akshul game. To be enjoyed with a light sweetish but not sugary white wine. Bugger health - I need comfort fuud tonight!
Seaweed rice crackers are the tops imo.
No argument here. My favorite also.
Corn chips, generic brand Pringle type chips, salsa and some dips. We already ate the party pies and sausage rolls. Also home brand soft drink. Tea for me.
You know, I just might need some snacks…
I’m not fussy. Anything will do!
chicken schnitzel on rice with tomato and onion
salt&vinegar chips with some kinda sweet drink
I am having some sweet chilli and sour cream chips. Will be having bean and beef burritos with guac and coriander sauce and a side of rice.
Yum. We’ll be having nuggets, little boys and chips with cheese and gravy. Assortment of sauces and dips to go with.
So in preparation for the Matildas match tonight I’ve decided i might splurge a little on some comfort/junk food tonight.
I’m thinking maybe chips and a bottle of soft drink for tonight. It was also suggested that maybe I do a hot chocolate as well.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions, preferably not too expensive.
Seconding soda water + cordial. Soda water bottles are under a dollar, and Bickfords cordial lasts ages.
Open the soda water bottle and drink a little bit of it, to make room, then add the cordial to the bottle. Voila!
Healthier too I reckon, as it’s mostly angry water with a bit of flavour and sugar lol but honestly, a bottle of Coke is unbeatable.
Treat yourself, friend, you deserve it!!
You can always add a bit of grog to the soft drink to kill the germs.
I’ll have to have a look at that and see how it goes. In truth I am saving for something next month where i’ll be able to treat myself to something a little bit more substantial.
Been doing occasionally the homebrand/Aldi fizzy drinks as well so they’re good enough for me.
Hot dogs. Get them from the deli section at the supermarket. Get the rolls from the bakery. Cheap as. Or just get cocktail franks.
Cocktail frankfurts and tomato sauce.
This is a brilliant idea for snacking!
Also looks like Woolies raised the price of cocktail frankfurts to 3 dollars for their homebrand packs now :(
Bastards. Get them from the deli counter. Much cheaper.
Really? I always thought the deli was much more expensive than the homebrand 500g packs.
deli is always cheaper
Deli normally cheaper for fresh chicken too (eg chicken breasts/thighs/pieces). And bacon. And … everything?
$9 a kilo at Coles. I don’t know about Woolies because I’d have to travel 5 minutes extra and I don’t want to.
Oh ok, thanks for checking.
I think from memory Aldi is 2.29 for 500g and right now at Woolies it’s $3 for 500g which is cheaper.
Oh wow there you go. That is cheap.
Soda water and cordials often cheaper. Soda water by itself is actually pretty good too! But the Aldi cola is not a bad substitute for real coke.
I’ll have a look and see how the combo works, never done soda water and cordial and might be a good one if I can get cordial that I like.
Yup, I don’t mind the aldi versions of the fizzy drinks either.
Lots of nice cordials around. Buderim ginger cordial. There are fancy schmancy elderflower cordials too. The Bickfords range is huge. My all time favorite is the Bickfords Lemon Lime & Bitters. I used to be a fan of Schweppes Lime cordial but I don’t like the taste now - too fake sweetener and nothing like what it used to be 20 years ago.
You can make your own cordial by blitzing up a punnet of raspberries or blueberries with their own weight in water plus half to one third their weight in sugar (or a bit less), mix in a teaspoon of citric and/or tartaric acid. Bottle and keep in the fridge for up to a week. If it ferments, you now have alcoholic cordial … Or go to YT for a recipie for raspberry shrub which is a vinegar based cordial and very nice indeed and possibly quite healthy. PS. Grenadine is a fancy very sweet pomegranate cordial. Kinda gluey, but essential for a proper tequila sunrise.I’m partial to the Aldi Westcliff Fruit Cocktail cordial. I add a bit to the glass, then add the soda water.
Depending on how much cordial you put in, it goes from tasting like those mineral waters with 5% juice (my preference) all the way up to a full blown Passiona.
NB: I don’t like the Aldi Raspberry Apple or Lemon cordial. For lemon (like a lemon squash), I like the Diet Rite Lemon with soda. Diet Rite Lemon, Lime & Orange is good too.
I think those cordials are about $3.50 a bottle, though. So if you just want a couple of bottles to drink for one night, you’re better off picking a couple of bottles of the homebrand fizzies. Eg WW Diet Orange & Passionfruit is $1.10, and the same price as a bottle of soda water. I haven’t had it, but it probably tastes about the same anyways.
I also didn’t mind the Woolies Diet Ginger Ale $1.10/bottle, but haven’t had that for quite a while. Lime goes well with it, but the real limes are often expensive. You can pick up a bottle of Lime Juice for $1 and give it a little squirt to add some more flavour.
For some reason I keep missing the cordials at Aldi, I’ll really need to remember for the next time I’m there to see what they have.
I’m doing burritos tonight, I have all the fillings ready.
might get some chips and stuff from aldi for special, eh. For special is key, not everyday. 😊
hmmm. yeah, i will get a bag of rice cakes and a jar of low salt vegemite.
Soxcat has been sadly quarantined to the study and bathroom (with all electronics removed as she has once almost sprayed on a laptop…) No comfy couches or the bedroom for her lest she pee on things that are significantly harder to clean. Left out a heated mat for her on low heat for 8 hours though.
Poor girl, she seems to have lost weight - she’s so light! And she snoozed on my lap for over an hour and it hasn’t even been 12 hours since she arrived - that’s record time - but I think it’s because she’s being all hormonal and affectionate.
poor kitty :(
She is in good hands though :)
So good news and annoying news.
I can work from home tomorrow but I have to essentially video chat/screen share the whole time with my… assistant of sorts. Like she’s not an assistant but she does assist me in things. Iunno. Anyways, I’m basically giving her free reign to reply to all the emails I can’t get to. Because the place I work for, one of the websites they look after you can’t have just anyone logging into the emails which is annoying but I understand.
In other good news and annoying news, went to the doctor’s and the doctor didn’t even print of the referral and the poor receptionist was trying to print it off but it wasn’t printing correctly. I got to the doctors at maybe 5:15 or so, and I only left at like 5:35. Like the receptionist was checking all the papers from this doctor and I just go “I have a feeling she didn’t print it off because she thought she could email it to me.” and yeah pretty much. Then I got picked up by a yank tank and I hated it. I hated getting into it, my chronic pain hated it. I just hated every second.
And now I’m overstimulated and I just want to cry and die. Possibly at the same time, maybe one after the other. And then I’ve gotta cook dinner, but I’m excited for dinner. I just… UGH. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk guys.
I feel you. I had to do the whole training/screen sharing thing for new hires in India. Generally I keep it to a 2 hour session and then get them to practise/slack questions in combination of “busy” work to keep them occupied. No way I could do that for a full day.
Luckily I only work 5 hours. But even training her has been draining af.
Some days are just meh aren’t they? At least the frittata looks great.
Yeah like it was a fine day leading up to the doctors. But I just… ugh.
I too hate yank tanks. Just why? Maybe on a farm or something. But why?
So unnecessary…
Trying to look up rules of soccer so I can watch the Matildas with some semi understanding, other than put ball into goals, don’t use hands. Apparently the whole world knows how to play except for me and it’s hard to find a basic video. Doesn’t matter, will be cheering anyway.
I’m in the same boat as you. Elder minipeeler will act as rule remembering person for thee evening because he’s the only one who’s actually played the game recently enough to remember any rules!
The hardest one might be the offside rule.
