• StudSpud The Starchy
    English
    20·
    6 months ago

    Psyching myself up to clean the house for the inspection on Wednesday.

    Ughhhhhh UGHHHHHH I don’t wanttt tooooo but if I don’t do it today I know I’ll be rushing around tomorrow doing it. Which is good motivation but also not how I want to spend my Tuesday. We’ve done the spare room, but I still need to vaccum and do the bathroom, and stove top. Tidy up a bit.

    But I’m not moving the cat’s boxes. They can walk around them, he lives here too dammit

    Edit: in other news, all 9 of my assessments this term have been marked now - and I passed!! Now I don’t have to stress until Feb! Yay!

  • Rusty Raven M
    14·
    6 months ago

    It must be results day - I passed the assignment I half-arsed. One more half-arsed assignment to go and I can see the back of this subject for good, yay! The other subject is much better, the next assignment I get to spend time counting birds in my backyard.

  • CEOofmyhouse56
    13·
    6 months ago

    Update: I ate the pate. I ate the pate before I posed the question in fact. Tomorrow, I will let you know if it was a good idea or not.

    I also ate some cottage cheese that was opened more than 5 days ago and some tasty cheese that tasted not quite right (I tossed that) so eeny meeny miny moe.

    • just_kitten
      3·
      6 months ago

      Ok, you have me sold on the mock meat bahn mi. I don’t travel that way regularly any more but must make the visit next time I’m it area!

    • dracs@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I used to live opposite the one in Reservoir and it got me through lockdown. They’re opening a new location opposite Melbourne Central soon. Can’t wait to be able to grab it for lunch regularly again.

    • BakuEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

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  • CEOofmyhouse56
    11·
    6 months ago

    Question: Would you eat pate that is one week (use by) out of date?

    CAUTION: DO NOT mansplain the difference between use by and best before or I will be forced to severely downvote you.

    • Bottom_racer
      10·
      6 months ago

      DO NOT mansplain

      I’ll bite.

      Best before was when I was in my 20’s.

      Used by was probably before that.

      edit: I deserved that.

    • StudSpud The Starchy
      English
      7·
      6 months ago

      Um, ackshually it isn’t mansplaining if I don’t identify as a man. Ah ha!

      Nah all jokes aside, If it’s unopened, go at it! Pate was made so it would last longer than it’s ingredients by themselves.

      If it’s opened then forgeddabowtit

    • dumblederp
      7·
      6 months ago

      Still sealed from the shops, yep. Open a week or homemade and it’s a dog treat.

    • TheWitchofThornburyEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Yes. If I trusted the purchase point to store it correctly before purchase. I know my fridge keeps it’s cool properly, but swoopermarkets are another thing again. The whole point of pate is to put a highly perishable food into a format that does keep a bit longer. Refer liverwurst. And potted shrimp. And tarasamalata (I think I’ve spelled that understandably, if not correctly).

      • Force_majeure123
        4·
        6 months ago

        tarasamalata

        That’s the first I’ve ever heard of or seen that word I think. The food itself looks way up my alley 😍

        • CEOofmyhouse56
          4·
          6 months ago

          Aldi make a nice one. The smoked one is shit but the plain one is good. A good deli also make it.

    • Duenan
      5·
      6 months ago

      Not sure. Maybe one or two days at the most as long as texture, taste and smell was ok.

  • StudSpud The Starchy
    English
    11·
    6 months ago

    Where’s the fucking raaaaaaain?!

    It’s so hot in this fucking apartment, but I’m vaccuming, tidying up, all while drinking a beer.

    Idgaf

    • just_kitten
      6·
      6 months ago

      Is coming but looks like more from 9pm onwards. Later if you’re out east. Mad props to you vacuuming in this weather, beer truly lets you do anything hey.

    • melbaboutown
      4·
      6 months ago

      I wish I could still drink a beer without feeling weird and sick. Getting buzzed might help me deal with the dishes

  • TaleyaEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    constantly amazed by the speed at which crafting and gardening communities go from zero to toxic cuntishness

      • Catfish
        4·
        6 months ago

        I have the opposite problem. Not a mother = incomprehensible alien.

        • anotherspringchicken
          3·
          6 months ago

          I’ve got the ‘am a mother but STILL an incomprehensible alien’ thing going on over here, lol

          Taleya’s spot on - it was like being back in high school and trying to join the bitchy girls’ clique. So nasty

    • Catfish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Yeah. Not even sure my sewing class realises what they are doing. Very tempted to not go back.

    • melbaboutown
      4·
      6 months ago

      Nooo… I was thinking about joining some again

      How are artists, are they snobby like the stereotype?

      • TaleyaEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        the groups start off good, but then they start getting weirdly cliquey, then it’s like high school all over again. Insane

        • melbaboutown
          3·
          6 months ago

          It seems like that with everything I join. Getting pretty over it

  • StudSpud The Starchy
    English
    10·
    6 months ago

    Ending up stripping down to just undies for the vacuuming, so hot!

    Got pizza for dinner though, with plenty of leftovers for the next few nights.

    Place is looking gooooooood

    Time for a big fat glass of ice water and a cold shower. Then tomorrow, I tackle the balcony and bathroom.

    • Llabyrinthine
      4·
      6 months ago

      Ahaha, nice to know I am not the only who partakes in nekkid domestics.

      • StudSpud The Starchy
        English
        4·
        6 months ago

        It’s the only way it’s bearable in weather like this! Plus no dirty clothes to worry about, win win!

  • Bottom_racer
    10·
    6 months ago

    Have to head down the bellarine tm. Bit of an issue cause the ol’ boy can’t cook. Huge mistake by that generations’ parents not to teach the dudes how to, even the basics. A few of his buds can and very well, but honestly all that old school gender role shit can get in the bin with this (mums) problem. I know cooking isn’t for everyone but fark me that’d be really handy right now. At least have a go at it.

    /rant

    • Eagle
      7·
      6 months ago

      Light and easy are well received by some of my older clients. They have seniors meals available. Might be worth it just for the peace of mind that there is food available if they want it. Or Ranahans do texture modified meals.

    • ThornburywitchEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      Meals on Wheels? Delivery? If he’s a professional, then maybe the $$ aren’t an issue yet.

      • Bottom_racer
        5·
        6 months ago

        It’s just the expectation that someone’s doing it for him. He should be doing it for her now. She was doing all of it, managing two kids, career, house stuff, the guy whilst very good in his field can hardly put peanut butter on a crumpet. The mind boggles.

    • anotherspringchicken
      6·
      6 months ago

      My dad would have been a decade or 2 older than yours I reckon, and I remember mum being in hospital when we were kids. All he could cook was scrambled eggs, so we ate that for every meal but breakfast, for 3 days

      Also, there are quite a few ok microwave meals around - maybe you could stock up on a few of those for your parents?

    • Catfish
      6·
      6 months ago

      I genuinely don’t understand “can’t” cook. Like beef Wellington or soufflé, sure, but basic pasta or jar sauce curry? Fuck off.

      • TinyBreak
        7·
        6 months ago

        yep. Weaponized incompetence. Imagine being brave enough to say “I have 0 interest in skills that would keep me alive”.

        • Catfish
          5·
          6 months ago

          Exactly. If your arse can’t heat a can of soup and make some toast you need a Guardian.

    • BakuEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

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    • melbaboutown
      3·
      6 months ago

      Yeah it’s weird. Massive assumption that everyone would be straight and getting married so no need to be self sufficient :/

      Surely he can swing a sammich though or fry an egg. Latina ravioli is pretty good, just boil in water and add sauce with a bagged salad. Bachelors handbag with coleslaw and rolls.

      (Sorry if I sound unsympathetic. Due to these old school gender roles I was cooking for my family at 16 but was not taught any of the ‘dude’ basics and had to learn completely alone with 0 upper body strength. Still managed though there are things I won’t attempt to learn unsupervised.)

    • melbaboutown
      3·
      6 months ago

      Not asked for but maybe something like this could help your dad? https://www.menskitchen.org.au/

      It mentions having to take over the cooking and disabled wives so maybe it could be a source of support for him as well

    • Duenan
      5·
      6 months ago

      That looks like mine too except it’s every 10 mins for me, what it takes to wake me up is horrible.

    • StudSpud The Starchy
      English
      5·
      6 months ago

      Lol! Looks like my alarms! Every fifteen minutes, though I think I have to change the sound now, because I’ve been sleeping through it

    • BakuEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

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  • just_kitten
    9·
    6 months ago

    Absolutely loving the assignment result theme today, so chuffed to see highly deserving people being rewarded for their hard work :D

    Nearly everyone was on leave today and there’s a huge pile of due-todays and overdues, AND I got lobbed a site inspection from someone who decided to work tomorrow instead of today last minute. Proud that I got through a pretty good chunk of it without panicking. It helped that the only other person in today is very chill and calm. Though they were besieged by tech issues.

    About to return home to The Furnace and wfh a bit more so everything is done and ready to be checked tomorrow am. Grateful to past self for getting pizza on special for an easy meal tonight

    E: annoyed however that psych practice didn’t tell me the 2nd referral hadn’t come through despite my doing days in advance. And they said it wasn’t their responsibility, well whose is it because I don’t have a spare $200 out of pocket to casually afford like that. Also, it looks like our bins have not been collected. Possibly because there’s a parking spot right out front. I suspect they haven’t been collected for weeks, which explains why they’re overflowing. I’m gonna have to ring the council to ask about another collection. Sigh