Today’s weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 15°C, max - 29°C. 100% chance of no rain
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Good morning
Goooood morning. Such a lovely day. Mega shopping trip for household staples, and maybe a cheeky brunch on the way back planned.
I have to shop for cat toilet products. Yay.
I was wondering what you meant… then the cascade of neurons (both of them) firing in my brain arrived at the conclusion you’re picking up a cat bidet. So, there’s that.
My fluffy one could use a bidet…
Imagine.
litter and pee pads
Morning. I will get up now. Eggs. Coffee. Saturday quiz.
If you like cooking shows/competitions, check out Culinary Class Wars on Netflix. It’s in Korean, amazing chefs, really high production value. I’m five episodes in and have been hooked from the start!
Memories of watching iron chef stoned suddenly float to the surface…
Iron Chef was peak
I’ve been watching iron chef since I was a little kid and it was on SBS at like 8pm - I love this shit!
Sitting around with my mates absolutely smashed cheering in front of the crt TV is a memory I hold dear lol
Goodnight everyone. I hope you all have a great night ❤️
I love this little community. 💜
Ditto!
This is pretty much one of 3 websites I look at. It’s incredibly sweet here.
My favourite corner of the internet!
So funny how people lie, in life and on the internet. It’s not even hard to pick up on, they always get something wrong, be it their age or the timeline of events, symptoms of a disease or mental illness, their work or experience, even what they do day-to-day. Even how they talk or type.
There are so many valid reasons to lie, I certainly do. I lie to my family about being okay because I fear trauma dumping, and I’d hate for them to blame themselves.
But to lie about illness or experience? I find that so weird. I have to imagine they feel lonely or unvalued, unworthy, unless there is something “special” or “unique” about them. A deep desire for validation that twists their initially good intentions into a gross facsimile of the reality.
I find it foul when “influencers” lie about having a mental illness I have. They always get something wrong about it, the details don’t make sense, the symptoms don’t match their behaviours. They dupe the naïve into giving them money and sympathy.
Tik Tok is the worst for that shit, Facebook, IG, Xhitter, reddit too, even lemmy. Any social media platform really. It’s a performance and it shows.
/Endrant
can I just rant about the special/unique stuff. ( this makes me angry too )
behind that belief is a belief that everyday people are beneath them, that everyday people are inferior , not worthy
it’s not the same as recognising that individuals have personality and interests , these people who think in terms of status, in terms of superiority and inferiority, seem to lump all those they deem beneath them as the same.
I think we can all be different while still being equal in spirit.
And yet irl when people show real symptoms of real mental illness, mental injury or disorder often the public has no idea what they are looking at. ( I’m not talking about meth users )
I have to imagine they feel lonely or unvalued, unworthy, unless there is something “special” or “unique” about them.
so many conmen and conwomen out there
I had the same issues with LiveJournal 25 years ago.
Thank goodness someone said it. I was a kid/teen then but there were certain accounts that really rubbed me the wrong way, it was the nascent beginnings of the current culture linked to outrage/cancelling/extreme “sensitivity”/whatever you want to call it. So much narcissism and cult building around being “special”, duping vulnerable kids who feel misunderstood. Only later did I realise the lies.
I agree. Using the emotions of innocent people to keep a bizarre fantasy alive is honestly sickening.
People are a strange bunch.
That Vukic tennis match was absolutely crazy. My nerves are shot. Time for bed.
Kinda crazy it’s almost month 2 of the year. I, for one, hope we maintain this velocity
time flies
Depends on the scale. When I had nothing to do, individual days seemed to go for weeks, while weeks went by like seconds. Now the days usually go by at a decent rate, but the weeks feel long, while dates are flying by about as quickly as somebody whose new year resolution was to run a marathon. I just get by by jumping from event to event though. Everything is just a lead up into the next thing that happens, good or bad
Pretty happy that I didn’t succumb to screens for too long this morning - woke up feeling better (probably less dehydrated…) and after about an hour of increasingly distracted scrolling I snapped out of it, changed clothes and hoisted myself to the Gleadell St markets. Proud of myself for walking 15 mins there, and then back with heavy bags rather than driving - saw not one but three! kitties, two were spooked by these scary dogs just behind me but I got to pet this friendly fluffball:
First time at this market.
ramblings and haul
It’s ok, I don’t think I necessarily saved much relative to quality (except on the capsicums - Toscanos always has rapacious prices) and I’ve always wondered how much actually goes back to the farmers with these inner city markets. Don’t think I’d make it my primary source of veggies.
But, it’s a good supplement that’s close by and a nice change for when I want to be around people and enjoy the experience (incl futzing around with cash). The back streets are lovely too… fun and diverse architecture, lots of lovely shade trees, dense but not overwhelming, diverse people. Just have to not think too hard about how I could never afford any one of those places 😂
I did get a couple unusual things this time at least - a huge 2kg daikon radish longer than my forearm, and a bunch of fresh amaranth leaves! I’ve been yearning for stir fries these days so I’ll definitely do a big daikon stir fry and maybe wilted amaranth with garlic or ginger.
Today’s haul for $26.50:
- generous 1/4 pumpkin
- one big beetroot
- two medium capsicums (red & green)
- one huuge daikon radish
- one bunch amaranth
- one ear corn
- one bunch slightly holey Bok Choy
- one head garlic
- half cauliflower
- two punnets strawbs (500g total)
- one small head broccoli
- four rope bananas
Still craving snake beans and tempeh though… Maybe I’ll head to Laguna later today or tomoz. Thinking what to do with all that daikon. Stir fry a good chunk with carrot, pickle a small amount, and maybe do a Chinese style braise for the rest.
A much needed and very lazy morning. Not even out of my PJs yet, but shopping to do and boyo’s family to visit soon. Meant to be having dinner with a friend tonight but struggling to bring myself to confirm it with them.
Yeah, I woke up and then decided to go take a nap basically immediately lol
Minor market update - the QVM Donut Van has moved. It’s up the back of B shed for the moment as there’s some building happening
Also, that’s my shop done. I find myself in possession of
- spinach
- cucumber
- tomatoes
- capsicum, red
- pea shoots
- brussels sprouts
- broccolini
- raspberries
- blueberries
- cherries (free, Benny my fruit bro gave them to me)
- brown rice
- interesting breakfast cereal I’ve never heard of
- bread
- milk
- cheeeeee
- jollof rice, chicken
- Polish salami, mysterious
- rissoles, garlic + herb
- sausages, lamb, honey + rosemary
- asters, bunch of, purple
I really need to go to QVM one of these days and stock up on those delicious African ready made meals. Their fish stew I had a few years ago… I can still taste it! 🤤
That’s where I got my jollof. Kunle is a good bloke
I’m a recovering addict of the biltong they sell
Motorcycle man strikes again. That’s two 5am wakeups in a row from the starting & revving. It sounds like a chainsaw is going off.
Feeling like crap from lack of sleep but trying to enjoy the day. About to go for banh mi / viet iced coffee and then a swim afterwards.
Bike service time. Get this sorted and I might do a few days to the new job on the bike. It will be a 30km round trip instead of each way
Beep Beep 🚚
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I woke up feeling really sad and bad today. I don’t know where it came from, I was okayish last night
