hi everyone it’s ceoofmyhouse’s daughter. mum had one too many tequila shots so she asked me to make this post, hope you all have a good weekend!
Sounds heard from my balcony this week:
- tram dings and trams accelerating
- train horns
- a man playing saxophone from a nearby balcony (I call him ‘The Sax Man’)
- distant general construction
- The Office (US) theme song from a neighbouring apartment every half hour or so
- hooting and screaming from the social housing next door
- helicopters
- neighbour’s dog barking
- birds tweeting, mostly lorikeets and pigeons
- nearby general construction
- skateboarders laughing and skating below in the alley
- ambulance sirens
- two tradies arguing over something to do with their EWP
- sounds of glass smashing and people laughing at a nearby venue
- a group singing Happy Birthday and cheering
- cars on the road
- drunk people laughing in the alley, on a pub crawl
- general construction on my building
- neighbour’s cat meowing
- planes flying above
- police sirens
- the garbage truck
- the motorcycle my neighbour drives and revvs in the alley like a hooligan (she is so lovely though 🤔)
- the downstairs restaurant changing their kegs over
- trash being put in the dumpsters
- the downstairs door beeping, opening, and closing.
- real estate agents in the alley having dumb conversations during the workday
This is a sound picture. Lovely. Life happening all around you, and you can choose to engage or choose not to.
It truly is my favourite place to live, I love the sounds so much.
so many hugs
this is city life at it’s best :)
Beautiful! A much richer variety of sounds than I hear at my joint!
Wooo road trip to moe. With a fellow ASD of a fellow age with a wonderful alignment of music and conversation lengths and topics. Quite looking forward to it.
Found a lovely seat in the shade to enjoy my fancy pie. I should be so lucky.
Took the bottles and cans to the nearest deposit place only to discover it’s got an electrical problem and isn’t operating. Piled them all back in the car and Mr P scraped the front of the car on those yellow bollards on the way out 🤦🏻♀️ So we went up to the depot in North Coburg & got $24 from it. The outing cost $34 in snacks and Slurpees. Luckily the kids chipped in with their pocket money (I’ve told them that I’m happy to supply essentials and some treats when on special, but if they want junk food etc from a 7-11 or similar, they’ve got to pool their resources and pay for it themselves).
3 loads of washing and a batch of bolognaise sauce bubbling away on the stove, and we had an “inside BBQ” (where I cook sausages on my cast iron grill pan inside instead of sweltering outdoors). I’ve got tidying and junk on the table to sort through but I’m feeling 🦥ful.
Furniture has arrived. I’ve assembled two trolleys so far. One of the trolleys I have three already that are nearly identical that I’ve collected from various hard rubbish piles.
Update: Shelves now assembled as well. Three drawer units to go, then I can start on the hard bit - sorting and putting away all the stuff to go in them.
Got my beard trimmed today. The barber complemented me in a very heavy arabic accent as follows ‘My friend, you have very nice and soft skin’
Thanks?
What a lovely drive. Ended up fanging a left at Harcourt instead of going all the way to Bendigo, cruised the A300 through to Daylesford. Chucked another lefto and headed for Ballan to get on the Western. Stopped in Bacchus Marsh for cheaper fuel and wash the front of my car (I have dubbed my windscreen Mothsbane, Scourge of the Skies. The Cabbage Splat Kid. Breaker of Wings.) and then ended up in Melton where I bought supplies for some snags in bread and a 10 pack of Beam Blacks.
My parents have taken off with their caravan up to the border for a couple of weeks so I’m going to take advantage of their split system, comfy couch and spare bed for the evening.
To your health, Prost!
So about two months ago I bought new sheets. They were a lovely teal colour.
The problem is they don’t seem to be particularly colour fast. There’s already fading and lines across them from where they were hung on the washing line. How disappointing.
Maybe the moral of the story is to not buy coloured sheets? Or maybe I just chose the wrong brand.
Wrong brand. I have various coloured sheets and they’re still holding their colour after years.
Look it’s hard to tell with sheet quality sometimes unfortunately. I have two sets of linen sheets, both expensive organic whatever… the navy one from Elkie & Ark bought in Dec 2020 started not just pilling but, to my frustration, leaving tiny, pilled fibres on the mattress under where I slept and it’s been impossible to get them off. The other one, an olive green set from Bed Threads with two extra ochre pillow cases bought in Mar 2022, has had no issues.
Neither has faded though.
Hmm ok sounds like I was very unlucky with my choice then. This is a lesson to me to do more product research before buying.
Also, if you have doubts, you can wash items BEFORE use with salt in the water instead of soap powder/detergent. This will fix the colour - even for very cheap dyed items. Dosage is 1 cup of pure cooking salt (not iodised) per 10 litres of water in the machine. Rinse with clean water as normal. This also cleans your machine quite well.
Interesting, thank you might give it a crack next time.
Go for koo.
They seem to be quite cheap price wise, and they have remained colour fast? I’ll admit I’m surprised.
Have a bunch of vivid colours coming up on 10-15 years old now, very colour fast
Ok wow that is a very good innings!
Dye is so finicky sometimes… I used to dye my own clothing at home and had to be careful of it running. (I didn’t have any of the special product used to remove the last loose traces either.) I used cold water washes, salt, air drying inside and sometimes detergent meant for dark colours.
There are also dye fixatives that I’ve seen now - I haven’t used them before but if you were interested in giving that a try RIT at Woolies seems the easiest to get hold of.
Edit: It could very much be a quality issue with the sheets too but unfortunately I don’t have any advice on which are good. I just gave up and buy very cheap white cotton sheets which can take a beating or some bleach.
Jeez the sound of the surf this morning sounds rough.
I was cleaned up fairly hilariously yesterday by a triple wave (where 3 waves sort of turn into one). Seen 2 waves do that before many times but not 3… I was not ready for that ~3m wall of water.
I think that was my first real encounter with a rogue wave. Usually diving under waves is no biggie but it certainly did not work with that one.
Good reminder that the sea can f you up even at ‘safe’ beaches
edit: and hrmm, another drowning this morning just down the road at Barwon Heads apparently a boat overturned :( It’s rough out there today so if you’re planning on swimming on the surf coast over the w/e take care.
I wanted to leave a second google review for this place I love it so much, but apparently that’s not possible so I’ll hype it up here. “Pasta Khan Dolan Uyghur” not far from Melbourne Central. I first went about 4 weeks ago, since then I’ve been about 10 times, including 3 this week. Extremely good, authentic Uyghur food (excuse the clumsy rebranding to ‘Pasta’). Every dish I’ve tried has been amazing. It’s hard to choose a favourite. Pics below are Big Plate Chicken (for two), ‘Chefs Special Spaghetti - with lamb’ - please note is not spaghetti but hand pulled Chinese noodles. Lamb neck with flat noodles in spicy sauce with Szechuan peppercorn And a very spicy one with Chinese celery, capsicum, onions etc.
If you’re near Melbourne central and don’t know where to eat, give this place a try, you won’t regret.
pics
:::Oooh, have to try it! Looks yum.
Dooo it! I didn’t even take a pic of my of my favourites which is lamb skewers (incredible) served with cold noodles that are dressed in a soy/chilli/garlic/vinegar dressing.
Oh hell yeah hand pulled chinese noodles. Very filling!
So this is like the world’s biggest first world problem, but it is a pet peeve of mine that Grammarly can be so impressive and yet it fails to register a quote in my work, even when using quotation marks. It constantly annoys me that it keeps trying to correct grammar errors in quotes. Is slowly driving me insane the more I write.
Two totally different front yards side by side. I know which one would be mine.
In other news, it hot 🥵 Definitely not going anywhere tomorrow. Cocobella coconut water is half price at woolies, imma stock up on like 8 cartons the way back so I don’t need to lug it around in the heat. Thank goodness it doesn’t look like a humid night
Deciding to play Sims or The Last of Us.
Kitty still has the uti. Debating whether to give the first dose now or wait til supper
Edit: Ok, I’ve had the 5 minute rest. I’m giving it to her now. It’s close enough to her dinner time that I should be able to give the next dose in the morning. It’s with food though so I hope she still eats her medicated dins Edit 2: It’s once daily so that is totally fine.
Toni Childs!
I don’t think she had dreads. Lovely voice though - Many rivers is a favorite of mine.
Yeah I was wrong about that bit. Impressive wild mane, but not dreaded.
Another very weird dream overnight but involving a lot of childhood friends and a weird alternative version of the country I grew up in. No details today because it was very personal and at one point weirdly sexual and I’m still feeling pretty weird about that…
I think my brain is still processing the fact that I’m really here for good now after over a decade of uncertainty. There was a sense that I was very much a visitor over there and I liked that I had somewhere else to return to.
