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!
WOOHOOOOO CONGRATS on the assignments!!!
We told you you had this :)
I cried a little haha!! That last one took a good solid 9 hours of research and work 😮💨😭 BUT IM DONE!!!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!! 🙌🏼💜🙌🏼💜🙌🏼
yesssssssss
Yay Spud! That’s fabulous, and such a relief! 🎉🥂
yay for Spud for passing
we all knew you could 🍾🥂
Congrats. And you can do it. Get on that cleaning and enjoy your stress free tues
Conga Rats! 🎊🐀🎊
Congrats Spud 🎉
Fuck yeah!!! Well done!!!
Fuck yeah! Congratulations 👏🏼🎉
👨🎓✌️✊💯🥇
Well done!! I knew you could do it and had it all under control!
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$40k! 😭😭😭 Brütal af.
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎉🎉 I KNEW YOU WERE A TOTAL SMARTIE!!! TREAT YO SELF 💜💜 WHOO HOOO!!!
Congrats 🎉
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.
Ravens. 🙂🐦⬛
One half arsed congrats 🎉 and one half arsed good luck with the next assignment.
HELL YEAH!!! I’M SO PROUD OF YOUUU!!! WHOO!!
💜🙌🏼💜🙌🏼💜
Nice!
Yay. One more to go!
You can do it!
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.
please post if you are deaded from the pate
Will do and I’ll also haunt your arses. Oogeddy boogedy.
eek
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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!
Full disclaimer: the line is about as long as the line to the jam donut stall at the queen Vic markets on free donut day. Seriously, I walk past it fairly often and the line is almost always like 40 people and stretches half way down the block
Can recommend the cafe a few mins down the road, six points though, I love their bloody Mary eggs Benny. They mix a little bit of siracha into the hollandaise and it’s surprisingly good
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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.
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constantly amazed by the speed at which crafting and gardening communities go from zero to toxic cuntishness
Ditto for some new mothers’ groups, in my unfortunate experience
I have the opposite problem. Not a mother = incomprehensible alien.
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
Yeah. Not even sure my sewing class realises what they are doing. Very tempted to not go back.
Nooo… I was thinking about joining some again
How are artists, are they snobby like the stereotype?
the groups start off good, but then they start getting weirdly cliquey, then it’s like high school all over again. Insane
It seems like that with everything I join. Getting pretty over it
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.
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.
Yes you did
:(
I fix for you :)
Still sealed from the shops, yep. Open a week or homemade and it’s a dog treat.
It was unopened
No hesitation.
Agreed
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
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).
tarasamalata
That’s the first I’ve ever heard of or seen that word I think. The food itself looks way up my alley 😍
Aldi make a nice one. The smoked one is shit but the plain one is good. A good deli also make it.
Yummy. The Aldi one is good, the Piedmonte’s one is fantabulous.
Not sure. Maybe one or two days at the most as long as texture, taste and smell was ok.
Pate? No.
I probably wouldn’t.
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
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.
I wish I could still drink a beer without feeling weird and sick. Getting buzzed might help me deal with the dishes
Looks like the fan I bought 2 weeks ago stopped working. Lovely
That didn’t last long. Can you return it?
Ehhh more effort than its worth I think, and I didn’t keep the receipt
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Well you could say at least that model didn’t blow you away.
You know, it’s pretty scummy to buy fans; much more ethical to earn them lol
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
Meals on Wheels? Delivery? If he’s a professional, then maybe the $$ aren’t an issue yet.
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.
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.
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?
I genuinely don’t understand “can’t” cook. Like beef Wellington or soufflé, sure, but basic pasta or jar sauce curry? Fuck off.
yep. Weaponized incompetence. Imagine being brave enough to say “I have 0 interest in skills that would keep me alive”.
Exactly. If your arse can’t heat a can of soup and make some toast you need a Guardian.
On top of gender roles just not making much sense to me in general, what really weirds me out is that the idea of a woman working in a kitchen was downright blasphemous (even more so than regular work), but the idea of a man cooking at home was just about as “wrong”
Like why?
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.)
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
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.
Ahaha, nice to know I am not the only who partakes in nekkid domestics.
It’s the only way it’s bearable in weather like this! Plus no dirty clothes to worry about, win win!
I wish I wasn’t always tired and stressed out. I wish it was easier to get stuff I need and get things done independently.
Life sucks to the point of meaninglessness sometimes but I want to take great care of Melbcat and grow heaps of healthy food for people that can eat it.
I’m of the belief humans are as intelligent as they are because we’re meant to be protectors and guardians of this planet, of all flora and fauna.
That’s life’s meaning for me, it shouldn’t matter if there’s something more after we die, as long as we do our utmost to take care of animals and plants. I think you are meaningful, because you’re trying to grow food, and looking after Melbcat.
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Maybe doing good things is the meaning. 😘
I had a MyGov message yesterday that my account was locked because of too many attempts to sign in. It wasn’t me, so I assume it was a hacking attempt using data leaked from somewhere else. I was able to unlock the account and discovered there is a setting that stops you email or phone being an option for the username, so they shouldn’t be able to try again.
I didn’t even know that was an option. Maybe my mygov account is so old I created it when you could only use a random string of numbers they assigned you. I guess that’s the on upside to an inscrutable, completely unrelated username
That’s the username I use, but the email is in the settings as an alternative option. I presume someone had a list and was trying all my known passwords with the email - it wouldn’t get them in (I use unique random passwords for everything of any importance) but trying over and over gets me locked out. It might be worth checking your settings to see if it is enabled.
I had that recently too a couple of weeks ago and it locked my account and I turned off being able to use my email as a login for it.
Was a royal pain in the butt.
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Yep. About 2 weeks ago for me
I didn’t even know you could get usernames, I’ve only ever signed in through email. Happen to know where I could find my username by chance?
There’s an option to have them email the username to you. I did it recently and it’s all in the same area of mygov security settings. Worth it because if your mygov gets breached I’ve heard they force you to make a new one.
It also displayed the username in the same place in settings as the option to remove the email and phone number as login options.
From what I read if you are forced to make a new login you also can’t reuse the same email address without phoning up and doing something to release it. Just unlocking it from the temporary lock I needed the correct password, answer to a secret question plus an SMS code which was stilll a bit of a nuisance.
Thanks both! I’ll see if I can work out what my username is
Ooh, I didn’t know about that setting. Had the same too many attempts thing recently so I’ve turned those off too. Thanks.
I only learned about it yesterday when I was looking up how to unlock my account.
I need to get back into mine. Codes not arriving so I’ll have to sort id then delete and remake :(
Thank you Seagoon! 💜💜
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That looks like mine too except it’s every 10 mins for me, what it takes to wake me up is horrible.
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
This was how I did mine last Monday
As well as the ominous “LEAVE NOW”
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We actually ended up leaving closer to 5:30, and also, I hadn’t packed the night before
The alarms were mostly about telling me what stage of the process I had to be by what time, I ended up waking up half an hour before my alarm anyway
