Today’s weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 15°C, max - 23°C. 80% chance of no rain
Big day today. We got into Carlton early and had second breakfast at Brunetti’s, went for a walk where the boys pressed all the pedestrian crossing lights, then went into the movie.
Plopped the boys down and the new Wallace and Gromit was great. They pretty much sat and watched the whole thing. Anything longer and it would have been a struggle. It’s a direct sequel to The Wrong Trousers so good to refresh on that first if you want to watch it.
Then home and to a friend’s place for early dinner. We did a lot today, but it doesn’t feel exhausting, which is a nice feeling for once
Sounds like you all had a lovely day. 🙂
Sounds like you all had an awesome day!
This is the contented face of a boy who got some salmon for tea.
Besties for life now.
Me too fluffball. Me too.OMG that is adorable 🥰
The face plant loaf. So furry and gorgeous
So the big clean up is still happening. I did a vicious prune of the pot plants, but it feels so light and airy now at the front door.
I didn’t finish indoors, but I managed to do a light carpet clean of the dining area and set up the table for a lovely cheese and gin evening for NYE.
I’m still slightly weirded out by following the conventional layout meaning the couch is right in line with the front door, but I cannot deny how crazy spacious it feels after all this time. And the relief on my eyes. Being further away from the idiot box has really helped.
Right now it’s:
- Culling all cables to go to Officeworks recycle
- Moving some old camera bodies on
In the pipeline:
- Sort out misc crap
- Hard clothing cull
- Finally get rid of old HD that I was only keeping to sort old photos (very stupid, it takes me ages to get to the decision I should have made at the start).
- Unused items to the op shop
If all goes well, next clean out will be the storage.
Nice work!
It’s done.
Finally, the gardening project I’ve been working on since the start of December is complete with everything I have available (still waiting on two citrus trees).
120+ plants (of which ~90 are chillies). At least a couple of hundred meters of piping have been laid for the irrigation system. Also then extended the irrigation system to also include the two garden beds and solve a pressure problem in zone 1 with an additional output.
So many hours. Now I just need to tidy up, but that can wait until the New Year right?
Edit: forgot to add that as a renter and not technically able to make holes etc the project had significant additional complexity (I should also add our landlords are lovely and defo wouldn’t have minded some drilling, but I know they’d have been round helping do everything if I asked about drilling holes)
Tried to make cupcakes. Split the cupcake mixture everywhere. Lost the lid for the milk and while trying to find it spilt about 500ml all over the bench and floor. Burnt my cupcakes. Burnt my wrist trying to get the cupcake tray out of the oven.
E: oh and I also dropped and broke a cup while I was trying to measure the milk
E2: I realized I forgot to make the icing so I went to wash my measuring spoons. It slipped back and flipped soap and hot water into my eyes
Sometimes it’s just not meant to be. It doesn’t matter. Write it off and try again another day. Cupcakes should not cause stress.
Unfortunately they’re already made now. I can hardly write them off. And the stress horse has already bolted
Eat the stress cupcakes then and enjoy. And then maybe get some sleep.
Eh, it happens. Been cooking for a long time and sometimes the mishaps all stack together and the whole process is kerfuffle from start to end. Hope the Kerfuffle cupcakes tastes good anyway.
Ugh!! Insta is grossssss 😭 it’s ads or old classmates from HS. So many posted their “influencer” new years eve stories, about their mlm “success” (pfft), getting married, having babies, filtered videos and pictures of baby feet and food and A E S T H E T I C artsy things.
It just feels all so fake to me, idk. Maybe I’m just a loser stoner still finding my way, but I’d rather be this than them. I can’t imagine going to cool places and posting about it on a platform like that where people like, know my real name and it’s all super filtered. I dont understand the appeal, who is the performance for? Idk. I’m just out of touch I think.
I only use insta for cats and some fan accounts of my favourite bands.
Here here!
The finer things in life!
Lol that’s fair, if I cared about SM then perhaps I would bother to to do a mass unfollow and refollow, teaching the algorithm that I want cats. But I don’t think I care enough haha I guess it’s just occured to me I like getting the memes from mates because it means they saw it and thought it would make me laugh. I appreciate that I think lol.
I’m the same, I’ve kind of gone off platforms where everyone is low key competing/maintaining an image/comparing themselves to unrealistic standards and anybody could find you. It’s healthy I think
It’s weird, and like posting their newborn or toddlers on there too in like a weird grey-beige aesthetic like their child is some corporate jargon that marketing it’s trying to peddle to the call centre monkeys. What happened to primary colours and fun cartoony wallpapers in nurseries. I get maybe the whole not assuming the gender of a baby is a thing at play, but the beige-grey shit is just so… Boring. Like they’re not even excited about having a kid or something.
Thanks for listening to my
TedTalkirrelevant opinion as a childfree enby 😂
Getting off insta was great for my mental health.
I got off it for that reason. I absolutely cannot stand when people take photos so they can post them on social media, and then curate their profiles (PROBABLY) so they can get validation from others. I have a friend that curates her photos to be colour-coordinated or something, but I don’t see the point of any of it at all. It just screams low self-esteem and fake to me.
I wonder if it’s because they want to share things with a larger circle? Maybe it helps them feel connected to the world?
I have a friend that curates her photos to be colour-coordinated or something, but I don’t see the point of any of it at all. It just screams low self-esteem and fake to me.
Yesss same! Some of them had like this theme going on on their profile where all their pics made a bigger pic, or were posted in 3s. And for what? For who? For the millions of bots that plague insta and twitter and FB and whatever?
Maybe it does help them feel connected, but like, they have partners or husbands and go on campings trips or whatever, it’s weird they still need validation from old HS classmates, strangers, and bots.
I’m probably just getting old and shitty 😂😂
Nah, you’re not getting old and shitty, you’re leaving the matrix :D
I’ve done nothing except leisure stuff since xmas. I think tomorrow I’ll kick off productivity. Maybe.
Hopefully.
Better than my approach of “chip away so it looks like you at least tried but ultimately achieve nothing” aproach
Same. I have eased back into it today with a little clean but now it’s book time… tomorrow I might do two things. Who knows. Don’t want to overdo it !
I did some food shopping, and I’m in music mode. I’m with you regarding tomorrow lol. I’ve got till the 13th of Jan but it is moving quickly.
Made a fren at the beach last night:
Don’t really see them there. This one was very unsure of me but still curious. Then some dick rode past on a petrol motorbike (which I’ve also never seen before) and it flew away. Pretty sure riding a motorbike on the beach is illegal. Anyway I hope his bike corrodes.
And here’s my main homegurl:
She’s started to worble with cheese (with CaCO3) in her mouth which is very impressive. I always thought they’d have to move their beaks to change pitch and loudness but apparently not. I presume it’s either a ‘thank you’ or ‘that’s right mf what took you so long’.
I caved and bought the mini countertop dishwasher because it seems like staying on top of the dishes is really hard for me.
Hopefully the generic Coles dishwasher powder works in it. I need to tighten up on money again
The Coles powder will work great in it.
The aldi stuff isn’t bad, tablets or powder.
Someone was telling me to get liquid as apparently these don’t dissolve stuff well
Yay! I don’t know what I’d do without the dishwasher
I feel bad about it because it seems like such a luxury item. But I want to keep my kitchen hygienic
Edit: At least it might save water and mean I don’t use disposables
In the long run, it will probably save you time that you could be doing anything else.
I wish I didn’t need it but yeah it will help save time and energy for the other jobs
I was one of those people who used to let the dishes pile up and switched to a dishwasher. Problem was then I found that I would just treat the dishwasher a cupboard and pile up dirty plates on the side until the dishwasher was mostly empty and then reload it when i needed clean things. Rinse, repeat.
What fixed it for me and I don’t know if you’ve tried is: when cooking, constantly clean. It means that by the end you only have your plate / cutlery to go (plus maybe 1 pan) which should be done immediately after finishing eating. It makes it a ton easier as you’re already busy cooking anyways so might as well be cleaning too.
Edit: also lol, there was a period where I exclusively used paper plates and disposable cutlery to solve your problem 😂
Yeah I’ve used paper plates but expensive and wasteful. I don’t really cook, this is more to keep up on pet bowls and spoons/saucers/mugs
generic dish powder works fine
just wash the filter of your machine every week and it will work great 🙂
Love this. Stealing it for work group chat tomorrow
so tired
good night everyone, sweet dreams, luv you all 😘
g’night :)
Night goontron
My dear son wasn’t interested in staying up till midnight and also wanted someone to sleep with him. I volunteered as tribute. At 10pm.
His bed is not good for my back. He smacked me about in his sleep by accident (I think). I woke up every 2hrs and took ages to return to sleep. Around 3am he mumbled a “sorry” to me. But I think he was dreaming.
And now he is rejecting my pancakes.
I’ve had worse New Years. I’m gonna go eat pancakes.
I’m doing a new year fridge cleanout, and apparently I should have done it a while ago. There are a few vegetables in there that are now liquids.
Oh man it happens so easily. Especially when you consider the storage of items before we get a chance to buy them. Like if you’ve ever grown lettuce, picked some and put it into the fridge, it surprises you with how long it lasts! It’s truly eye-opening. Then you buy shop lettuce and it lasts an abysmal short amount of time and you think, hang on…
Very true. Most of this stuff has come from the food waste market, so it is already on the precipice. With Christmas and a finger injury causing delays a bit of stuff just didn’t make it.
On the positive side, I’ve now got some pumpkin and zucchini roasting (to be frozen for future grilled sandwiches), I have enough for meals for the next few days to get me through until the next market, and I’m about to get onto cutting up some peaches and apricots for the freezer and to go into some overnight oats. That should use up pretty much everything and leave me with a clean slate.
I’ll be doing my clean out tomorrow.
I forgot about a tub of yogurt I had and it wasn’t looking so good. Be tossing that tomorrow and a few other things sitting around.
Hopefully the couple of oranges I have haven’t disintegrated yet.
Same. I’ve been away so the fridge was pretty empty but I did give myself permission to toss a few freezer mystery items.
I have a bunch of lame pics from Geelong and my garden. I often forget to take photos when I’m out. Too busy looking with my eyes.
Enjoy. 🙂
On my way to Spencer street went thru Melbourne Central and saw the Omega 13 device. Looked awesome.
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Geelong pelican. Big.
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sea monster
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an exciting museum. ( truly, this was probably interesting but I wasn’t going to find out for $12. I grew up among farms and have seen factories too. So nothing new.
but what I noticed about Geelong which really *is great * is that it’s very wheel chair friendly and I saw many disabled people enjoying a holiday .
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night time flowers
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happy snail light
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“Too busy looking with my eyes”
I’m the same. I try to be present in the moment, where a lot of people live their lives through a viewfinder. Nice pictures. It’s been years since I’ve been to that part of the world.
I find sometimes having the camera enhances the moment. It helps me to focus on details and look at things from different angles, thinking about how/if something can make a good photo. I also like to put photos together into sets, so I will be thinking about things like how the detail on different old building compares, or finding all of the individual flowers in a garden as well as looking at the overall view. Then when I get back home and go through all the pictures to put together an album for the day it both helps to solidify all the memories and gives me a nice reminder to look back on.
I think the problem is that a lot of people take a photo instead of really looking, just as a way of ticking off a box of “I went here”. Or they are just focussing on taking pictures of themselves, and wherever they are is just a backdrop.
I admit I do try to make nice compositions when I take photos.
lol, it was hard to explain. I’m looking to experience, not looking to take great shots.
And most of what I see is so common and banal anyway taking a pic for other people to see rarely crosses my mind.
Second this. The experience is all imo. Photos can be used to share the moment, but aren’t in any way a substitute for it.
At least photos on a phone are less likely to be used to torture others later - the old slides and videos could be a nightmare for friends and family. For some reason people are generally incapable of culling their collection and only showing the good slides, and most people’s video skills are not that great.
I was at Port Arthur many years ago watching a couple with their video camera. The entire trip was just her videoing him standing in front of different buildings. I imaging their narration when they got home was along the lines of “this is Harold standing in front of an old house, and this is Harold in front of an old building. Was that the Model Prison Harold? I don’t know, it had some sort of name. I don’t know why they called it that, it doesn’t look like a model. There were signs up but I didn’t have time to read anything because I had to stand there with the video camera while Harold stood in front of the building”. The family probably still have nightmares.
If I take pictures of art I also take a picture of the written description , same with buildings if I can
I do that too. The Port Arthur experience was nearly 30 years ago though, so you generally didn’t want to use up your precious film for such things. It would have been possible with the video camera, although I suspect it would have been hand held and wobbly if she did that, adding a touch of nausea to the boredom for viewers.
Nice pics!
I like taking piccys but it’s always liberating to just enjoy the experience. But being honest, I never go back to look through old piccys. Basically just taking them for the hell of it.
Is that a Bella Donna? My mum was a nurse, and once told me about one of her patients who went blind from eating it for ‘entertainment’. Luckily for them that effect wore off after a few days.
4 o’clock flower?
Ah, thanks. There are quite a few trumpet-flowered plants that look similar. Have just been down a very interesting google wormhole and now realise how many poisonous plants there were in our garden growing up, lol.
True, mum had heaps of poisonous plants in the garden when I was a wee one, but only gave a shit enough to remove them when we got her a little dog
yes 🙂
