Melbourne area
Min 11 Max 22 Showers increasing. Possible rainfall: 0 to 6 mm Chance of any rain: 80%
Partly cloudy. High chance of showers in the evening. Light winds becoming south to southwesterly 20 to 30 km/h in the morning.
Fire Danger - Moderate
Sun protection recommended from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm. UV Index predicted to reach 11 [Extreme]
Weather roller coaster coming up for next few days. 19 tomorrow then 40 on Boxing Day.
Crisis averted, I spent the entire late arvo and evening sans phone thinking I’d left it in various places, got home just as Marge hit and still couldn’t find it, major panic thinking I’d need to retrace so many locations in the dark and rain - thankfully I could whatsapp someone on my desktop to call it and found the damn thing sitting on the top of the loo. Honestly!
I’ve done a shit tonne today including sneaking into the office to use the dishwasher for the collection of takeaway boxes I’ve accumulated in the last 4 weeks and doing 2.5 hrs of work while it dried; I’m so tired now and need to put new sheets on but God, if this evening wasn’t a message from the universe to stop procrastinating and set up the new phone already… urgh!! Shops, sheets, dinner, phone, sleep. I got this.
BTW it says 13C outside, still feels like a stuffy 23C in my unit despite windows open all day, goddamn this stupid heat box.
BTW it says 13C outside, still feels like a stuffy 23C in my unit despite windows open all day, goddamn this stupid heat box.
Yup. Love that uninsulated apartment living 🙄
Very glad you found your phone! I lose mine at least 3 times a day lol; it’s black and so is a lot of my furniture, so it camoflages well 😅
Ugh and is yours carpeted as well? Haven’t lived in an almost fully carpeted joint for ages and it’s driving me mad.
My new phone cover is bright red precisely to reduce the likelihood of this happening. My new phone that I have still yet to set up… and might not get done tonight as I’m only just having diner and frankly need the energy for work.
If your phone is advanced enough for voice activation you can call out to it and ask where it is.
Or if you’ve got a smartwatch many of them have the ability to electronically ping the phone from the watch.
I tried asking my phone where it is just to see what would happen, and it started talking about the history of my suburb and then said it’s the only phone linked to my account
I say Hey Siri, where are you.
She’ll reply with “im here”
I guess the history of my suburb is a lot more words than that, so probably more helpful. But I’d probably expect it to play the lost phone chime like it does if you log into find my phone and click play sound
Perfect weather for an early night.
I'm le tired
That’s not a bad idea. Pat the cat to fall asleep lol
So have a little nap… and fire off ze missiles tomorrow, is okay.
I’m so annoyed I can’t do dairy anymore. Thankfully generic bricks of soy milk are available and taste ok but everything else costs a fair bit more for less.
I miss those big tubs of basic home brand icecream and bulk yogurt. Also I would have liked to use the containers to plant in.
So sorry this happened to you. It’s hard when you crave a food you can’t have. But if it’s any consolation, you’re not missing much with the icecream. Enshitification means some of those ice creams have so little dairy in them they are not even allowed to be called ice cream anymore. It’s ’frozen Dessert’ or similar phrases.
I really miss the coffee and grand marnier ice cream
Grand marnier ice cream? Tell me more. Where would one find this icecream?
Wow the wind behind the rain is quite chilly. I got the rain-protected windows open to let it in the house. Inside temp dropping rapidly.
Marge is here! Thank goodness.
yes, the garden has been so dry
and we need it to put out the fires
Rains! The Marge is here!
Hmm smells like smoke outside
Did you want to do tomorrow’s thread, melbsy?
Yeah ok, it might be a little early tho so I remember or to avoid an accidental double
You don’t have to, I actually kind of enjoy doing it, and don’t mind staying up. But if you want to do it again, I’ll take an early night and won’t bother plotting out the weather etc again
Tonight was a very interesting experiment (and unfortunate lesson). The males of the house wanted Hungry Jacks, but Miniest wanted ravioli. So I ordered the takeout and got to work cooking the ravioli and making a simple Napolitano sauce to go with it. Her ravioli was ready and eaten with dishwasher loaded while the dasher was still waiting for the order. Then when the order arrived it was missing half of the items! Mr P’s burger was soggy and cold and his drink wasn’t cold. Had to reorder and wait again. A lesson that so-called “fast food” ain’t fast at all sometimes, and you’re better off with even a simple thrown together home cooked meal than that garbage.
I’ve got the big three drive throughs nearby at spaghetti junction so I’ll just go and get it if I’m eating it. I only really go if there’s a good deal in the app which I can’t uber anyway.
Boyo is quite Uber Eats-pro after a single male life, but whenever he suggests it I’m like “okay, but we could just do x instead” and it always turns out better than when I’m lazy and go “sure, get that.” So very few things are worth getting delivery, no matter the app. Burritos are absolutely the expcetion.
The boys need their head checked for wanting such rubbish when you make such delicious food (and you offered - not like they’re demanding home cooked meals from you at all times even when takeaway would give you a break).
I’ve gone off the whole uber eats thing. If it isn’t cold, missing items, the driver put his dirty fucking hands in my meal and started snacking on it.
I’ve decided if we’re going to have that kind of thing then we have to eat it there, seems to be the only way they don’t stuff it up. Too much disappointment for the money spent.
Bad idea to get some fresh air about 15 mins ago.
Smoky?
Edit: oh, wet. It has just arrived here. I did not realise we were expecting wet.
So, so incredibly soaked.
As in my skin was wet underneath my clothes :(
sky ugly
Sky weeping
It was pretty before. Pink halo around orangey pink sun.
Sky ugly crying.
Sky over here has been smoking
Nooo. Listening to my audiobook and the sweetest character, Fuschia, died. Gormenghast is such a good book that I get invested in the characters.
Last day of work before Christmas is over, yay! Due to my work schedule my family is celebrating a day early, so tomorrow is Christmas Eve for me. Then back to work for real Christmas Day. It always feels slightly odd to be on a slightly different timeline from everyone else, but it is the time spent with family which is important, not which day it is on.
ComfyAnd cute!
Potentially doxxing where I work but I’ll be out of there soon, I don’t really care. Christmas always brings out the crazies.
retail shenanigans
Customer: you should be stopping everyone who exits the store like they do at Costco.
Me: I’m trying my best but our exit isn’t set out like their one. I can’t stop everyone.
Customer: well you’re not doing your job properly.
Me: OK
Another customer: this is a 17 year old girl and she’s doing a great job, don’t listen to her
(I’m quite a bit older than 17, time to start the anti-aging so I look 17 for as long as possible?)
First customer: calm down, you sound so angry. I’m a clinical psychologist that works with children.
I wanted to say and probably a shite one at that.
customer shenanigans 2
customer returns a pair of thongs and I go to put them with the clothing returns
Customer: I can put those away
Me: no, don’t worry about it. We can put them away
Customer: scoffs I do it all the time for people at Coles and they love it. This is the first time someone has said no. Let me do it, I like being helpful.
Me: thanks but you don’t have to, besides, they don’t have a hanger on them
Customer: raises voice why are you picking at me? I put the hanger away in a specific spot in the store, let me put them away.
Me: gives up
She ended up actually putting them back. The register people said she had to be served at register 1 and not any of the others because she has a thing with numbers.
another one
The manager that was on decided to close the door 10 minutes before closing. It had been dead for the past half an hour. They aren’t supposed to do that but anyway. We all go to clock off and leave at closing.
There was a customer behind the door.
Customer: your website said you close at this time. Why is the door closed?
Manager: incomprehensible
Customer: this is ridiculous, I should get the item I want for free.
Manager: you can’t get it for free but I’ll let you buy the item.
I don’t know how you survive this crap day in, day out - thank goodness you’re leaving soon!
I’m sorry you had to go through that :(
OMG eye twitches
