Feeling better today anxiety wise. A couple of jobs popped up on seek that sound pretty chill so I applied for both and now about to put some nuggets in the oven for lunchie munchies. Also having a laugh at the expense of the greek family next door renovating the rental that they own. They are having the most mundane, polite conversations but speaking to each other in a tone so aggressive that they sound like they're all about to have a punch on.
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porterhouse steak with mustard seeds mashed potato tonight
Yum yum. Haven’t had steak in ages.
I have a whole pizza to myself tonight.
I'm knackered today. I keep walking into a room going "why am I in here again?" but I'll plod along.
to make instant coffee
I've had 3 already and that's not what I walked into the laundry for.
Seems like a chill kind of Sunday, today.
For some reason, I’ve taken a liking to motor inns recently. Something about budget, no frills you pretty much get what you expect is… comforting?
I’ve had the fortune of staying in nicer places, but they always seem to be… I don’t know maybe the higher the price the higher the expectation and the I don’t find they quite meet in the end.
Anyways, how is everyone?
Doing as well as can be. Staying warm and recovering from some physical ailments.
It’s been a lazy day I have to admit.
I have been fed with frankfurts I recently found in my fridge (still good) and now have a cup of large coffee here with a hot water bottle in front of the tv watching footy.
How are you doing?
Sounds like you’ve had the perfect day for you! Just hanging out a little out of town and doing a bit of window/online browsing. The sun was glorious this morning so soaked up a bit of that, but otherwise good/grateful for sure!
I've been mostly staying at motels when travelling these days - honestly all I need is a clean bed and toilet/shower and a halfway decent mattress, and a quiet night. Plenty of motor inns that don't do even that, but plenty others that do for a reasonable price especially off peak. Best compromise between a hotel/airbnb and camping.
Been a bit headachey and blah earlier but better now after going out to get some Brussels sprouts and pruning the curry leaf plants, and a bit of reorganising around the house. The friend I was supposed to catch up with today had to reschedule because she's got a cold and I'm secretly relieved because I'm really enjoying a day of no commitments.
I love a good motel. You can get a nice room for under $100 in lots of country towns, so a spontaneous weekend away can be pretty affordable.
And you don’t have to empty the bins, bring linen, fumble with a key safe and all those other Airbnb chores. Just basic accomodation with a dash of nostalgia.
Thanks for making the DailyThread cuavas 👍 the bot must be asleep
It looks like the bot was just having a Sunday morning sleep in. No errors, it just shut itself down for no obvious reason. Thanks cuavas for filling in.
Batdog made it through the night. Fought strong and self soothed with a heartbeat bear and a blanket from his litter.
Still very clingy and not interested in food, but loves lots of cuddles, head scratches, and belly rubs.
I slept for about 12 hours and still feel tired, but not in an oversleeping kind of way. Also my legs are melted from my long walk yesterday and I also got bruised from how I was sitting on the bus back from Bendigo
Still, that was a fun trip and I'll do it all again one day
A teacher at my son’s high school apparently had no choice but to resign after displaying racism while teaching a class. It’s a very multicultural school, I didn’t expect this. But given the amount of racism I get from random strangers in Melbourne, I really shouldn’t be surprised. Looking at threads over on r/melbourne, the introverted and unwelcoming attitude that permeates the city is really obvious. Rationally, I know it isn’t everyone in Melbourne, but God damn these people make sure you notice them.
So I uninstalled BG3 and am reinstalling from scratch. Fingers crossed that it gets past 92% this time, but I won't know until tomorrow.
Least the download speed is jumping between 1.6MB/s and 3.0MB/s. Much better than .01.
I just want to fuck the bear ffs
The balcony looks a bit less sad. Took out a lot of dead stuff and crispy bits.
very long garden rambling
Happy to see the hot lips salvia has bounced back vigorously after a prune and having a saucer placed under the pot a month ago. Being right on the edge of the balcony, it did need all the water it could get to battle all the sun and wind.
Chucked one of the scotch bonnets that's been ripe and on the plant for weeks, into the pulled jackfruit that's been simmering on the stove for 5 hours now. Not sure what to do with the myriad other SB and prik noom chillies that are going to start drying up on the plant - way too many to use fresh or even frozen as whole chillies as they are all HAAAAWT - I wonder if I should have a go at making homemade chilli sauce, or chilli paste that can be frozen.
Manzano/rocoto still going OK despite more yellow leaves from maybe 10 days of no water and bitterly cold winds. Two green fruit fell off, I'll let them ripen on the table; I don't know if the others will do the same. Been there for well over a month now.
The dwarf lemons look nearly dead. I've given up on working out how to make them thrive. Tried everything I could think of :(
The jasmine is doing well despite the tips regularly being burnt off from being on the hot railings. Lots of flower buds appearing so I'm really excited to welcome some lovely blooms in the next few weeks! I'm wondering if I should leave it behind when I go depending on how much it's twined around the railing.
Snowpeas and sweet peas have germinated but are slow. So is the coriander - despite a good amount of sun. Maybe it's the wind. No doubt as the days get longer they'll start kicking off. Being in pots with a water reservoir I reckon I could set and forget for almost all the time that I'll be away through Sep and they'll keep going.
Gave all the curry leaf plants but particularly Big Boi (who's almost completely leafless from being left in the cold wind for too long - sorry my friend) a heading prune, even as I could see new leaves unfurling from the top, because the last thing I want is leggy plants - which curry leaf plants tend to become without a good chop to promote side branching, especially in cold areas where they might lose heaps of leaves every winter.
Was a bit nerve wracking and I kept apologising to BB, but he's come back so many times from absolutely nothing, that I have faith he'll get through this as well, especially with such a robust root system. Please may you all become nice and bushy and I can start giving a couple of you away. There's another rescue from a near dead plant that's doing very well and hardly lost any leaves, I think it might be more cold hardy so might give that to a cousin in Ballarat.
bonus awkward salvia pic
Chicken tikka masala for dins. Marinade smelling gooood. Going to be served with heavily discounted store bought frozen samosa that tend to fall apart mid-frying with coriander chutney for the full quasi-experience.
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I slept in much like Botbot but I don't feel refreshed. After being in a house in the burbs for a month, being back in an apartment has not been relaxing. The minor traffic noises of cars driving past even at night have been making me feel tense, let alone the downstairs neighbour's Sunday morning bass heavy music, the upstairs neighbour vacuuming, and random talking from the garden next door... Honestly it's making me feel like curling up in bed all day wanting it to stop. It sounds so silly and irrational that I don't feel safe in my own home from perfectly normal noises? I really don't think I can live in an apartment for a while 🙁
But I certainly can't afford to rent a townhouse or house in most of Melbourne and moving is expensive. If I'm going to move I'm honestly leaning towards just having a new start interstate...
I think this realisation is adding just that extra bit of fire towards making those big life decisions around work, study, family, etc... Luckily I'm cat/housesitting for a month again in a freestanding house, from the week after next. So I'll have more time to let those decisions fall into place.
Maybe consider playing some white noise to help drown that out? I sometimes play rain or ocean wave noise to help me fall asleep.
Yeah, I've got a good online radio station on backup for that at night. I'll manage. But it was just a bit of a downer realising how sensitive I was to that noise and of course it didn't help in the morning... Plus there's just this physical feeling of being unmoored that I can't shake off
Ate too much junk last night, but the coffee has got everything moving today 🚽
instant coffee has been achieved ( delicious and satisfying ) , also pb toast ( sans beurre because I'm not a savage )
Loose bits of tobacco litter my desk;
I don't think about why I'm not at my best.
A pleasurable pain that fills up my chest,
I won't think about why I'm not at my best.
Losing control of this ship in distress,
Stormy seas drowning this vessel under duress.
I'm fighting my mind for my life in this test,
I don't think about why I'm not at my best.
Day 18 of exercise program was completed. Looked for a quiet place in the house to do it, as I generally don't like exercising in front of people. Settled on the formal living room in my MILs part of the house and started, then she came in and chatted briefly and was about to go when Mr Peeler came in and started chatting as well. I felt a bit like an exhibit but continued regardless.
MIL is looking into her family history and we found out some really interesting stuff about an ancestor of hers who was a Baron, engineer, philanthropist and published expert in lighthouse optics among other things.
Miniest Peeler is not well, was coughing a bit this morning. I can tell because she suddenly starts sleeping during the day, something very unusual. Funny how when some people are sick they sleep a lot, and others (me) find it hard to sleep at all. I'm keeping an eye on her and will give her a RAT test when she wakes up. Probably caught something from the Petri dish, oops I mean primary school.
Dinner is served. Again, two new dishes.
8 hour stovetop jackfruit in some storebought pulled pork jar sauce (mostly pear puree and smoked paprika??), with Carib flavours (allspice, thyme, two scotch bonnets from the garden added whole) and other bits (cinnamon stick, couple cloves, bay leaf, stock powder). The pot sucked arse so there's a whole bunch of burnt bits.
Plus steamed Brussels sprouts in butter with a sprinkle of sumac and salt, and basmati rice and a side of spicy fried fish from a jar
dinzzzz
the steak packaging has a sticker telling me to remove all packaging before microwaving
excuse me i am not microwaving a porterhouse steak
umm.. so it's time to check in for tomorrow's flight and just out of curiosity I hit the "change seat" button, mostly to see if the only other seat it let me pick was available, but now it shows several seats to pick! Including the exact seat I actually wanted (front row, window).
It is next to a bassinet seat which is also showing as available, so I'm taking the gamble and I've switched. My bid for an upgrade to business class still might come through anyway but if it doesn't, at least I got the seat I was hoping for now and I can cuddle up against the plane wall rather than potentially a passenger.
Pray to the flying spaghetti monster with me friends that no baby is in the seat next to mine..
Finally got approval for work to pay for my first aid renewal, hell yeah!!
So the chicken tikka masala (nagi's) was really very good. No photo though :(
I suppose I should start cooking dinner now. It's gonna be chilli with macaroni and melted cheese on top
I have bought 2 different coffees from 2 different McDonald'ses today, my usual order, and both have tasted like hot milk. They're coffee coloured but I cannot taste coffee in them at all.
This is where someone tells me I've probably got COVID for the first time ever, 24 hours from my flight to the US.
More likely explanation is the McEmployees making McCoffees today McSuck.
Strongly advise staying away from the city today; RMIT Open Day has everything at a standstill, it's pandemonium out here
White light needs to be banned, my eyes are turning to putty and my little noggin is going to explode.
Still mildly sick but if I take another day the powers that be will start to get annoyed, so it's unto the breach. Honestly, just another reason why they should have left us at home, I'd have worked the last two days if I could have done them from the couch.
just another reason why they should have left us at home
But... but... muh propoteh values and cafes :(
Risky move of having a hojicha latte at this hour. Hopefully I can sleep.