Melbourne

My dinner tonight was fabulous

Image of a plate with Mediterranean chicken drumsticks, lebanese rice, hummus, toum,spicy roast pumpkin and a piece of lebanese bread. 5/5 yum yums.

Yup I'm definitely in middle-America...

I have and could have taken so many more photos of stuff like this

I have a throat infection or a cold or flu and man it is fucking me up baaaaadly. Tomorrow is eofy work dinner at a really nice place. I just want to be able to go.

So my wife just told me that shortly after I went to the office, one of the cats parked herself on top of her.

With her butt right up her face.

Apparently she also just took a shit moments before.

And then she just stared at my wife like there she didn't do anything wrong.

Tried to convince my manager that we should shut the office for the afternoon and go for a trip to one of the chocolatier places as a team bonding experience. It didn't work today... but I'm sure I'll try again tomorrow.

15 years in prison for Malka Leifer somehow doesn't seem enough

Oh it's breakfast time so I can show you all my breakfast from this morning. Humungous breakfast burrito from that same diner I went to last night. Fork for scale. That's their home made "green chilli" on the side, which was not green but was delicious.

Been to pub. Mildly inebriated (this word took me three attempts on the phone keyboard)

Hi kids. I’m about to start work and I don’t want to

Din dins tonight - pork shoulder chop marinated in nostimini, mashed spud and brussells sprouts dressed in dijon mustard and butter.

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more floofiness , Oscar ( blue himalayan ) with totoro

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Hoping today will be the last day I need off due to sore throat. Can't work with no voice. Can't risk making throat worse until it's healed. Feeling better today but still sore and swollen lymph nodes. This week has sucked

Chicken and cashew tonight.

With that magical bull's eye carolina reapr hawt sauce. only a few mls left which makes me sad.

Brains trust. I somehow have inherited 5 heads of broccoli that I need to use this week.

Recommendations? (Other than soup which is sorta my last ditch option...)

Everyone's got that one co-worker who doesn't bloody listen, right?

TWICE today I've tagged something as "need to discuss with team lead, leave this alone and I'll come back to it when I have an answer"

Twice today he's ignored that tag. He's done the work as though I hadn't said anything...and his answers have proven to be the wrong ones.

Twice today I've had to go back and fix his mistakes, on work he shouldn't have been doing because I specifically said I was investigating something about it and needed to confirm I was right.

DAMN IT, DUDE, STOP TOUCHING MY STUFF

The crash of the Aussie dollar means buying books from the US is now very expensive . And no, most of what I want ( non fiction technical books ) are not available here in dead tree nor available on audible

Ordered a home delivered rat test. Fingers crossed it's not covid...

So I'm still thinking about that planner, I probably will get it and do it on afterpay since it'll be like $25 every two weeks (I also want some pens from the shop that I really like, Zebra Sarasa!). But I went to see if I have a notebook available so it can tie me over until 2024, and I found my 2020 Bullet Journal, I did Bujo-ing since like 2016 maybe 2015 so I was in the deeps with this thing. But because 2020 was well... 2020, I stopped using it because there wasn't really a point to it. But around March I started journaling essentially, and I'm reading through my thoughts and I'm so thankful for past self doing it because, yeah. Though the ADHD really shown through in 2020 because I'm talking about my stint with rollerskating (I wanna get back into it but chronic pain 😭

But in April, I said "I'm not too sure what else to put here. Most of days are at home but I guess this is for me when I'm older, if they look back at it. To you, I hope you're safe <3" and I cried. Sorry this is so long, but I have a lot of feelings.

Arghhh I decided to be all healthy and go for a walk last night, but unfortunately the circuit I picked out took about 2 hours when I was expecting it to only take about 30-40 mins. But by the time I realised, it felt pointless to start backtracking so I kept going. It's been a while since I walked that much, and it was nice, until I ran out of energy 😭

Final night of night rotation and then it's back to the land of the living, thank goodness. Thinking of doing a spot of antiquing this weekend, I need to find another nice tea set for the tea party I'm throwing.

Goddamn it I hate it when podcasts fade an interviewee in and out and you only hear about half a sentence before the host starts talking again. My brain is working overtime trying to follow what's being said with such an unnatural alternation of voices

My culinary experiment today was very successful. I took one microwave sausage roll, heated it as per instructions, then took it out of its sleeve and air fried it for 5 minutes. It went from a 3/5 yum yums to a 4/5 yum yums.

(Please note that 5/5 yum yums is reserved for homemade sausage rolls only).

Pleasure! I'm often at Woolies so I can check them quite frequently.

Enjoy!

Edit: dammit, this was meant to be a reply to Force about Kippers. Not sure how this happened.

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I went to Aldi for some groceries today.

Bought a little bit too more than I bargained for and had to cut back on some stuff.

No party pies sadly. Their single frozen sausage rolls are 1.99 each. Almost tempting but I went for t-Rex chicken nuggets and guess what I found?

Hash browns! Mislabeled and all but I grabbed a bag of those too. 1kg for $4.69.

Also frankfurts went up by 40 cents a pack :(

I think I’m getting crook again. I’m not even completely over the last one. Somethings clearly doing the rounds.

I think I need to bake something tonight (not myself). I want to make lasagne. Or cupcakes. Both! All of the things.

Dinner for me tonight.

Potato salad and air fried southern seasoned chicken.

Chicken and potato salad

Yum yum

I've got a massive zit where one would have a moustache if one should choose that lifestyle.

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Disco music is becoming a real dirty pleasure of mine lately. Started with the movie The Martian of all places. Feel strange walking around listening to a bit of Boney M.

Slept like a log, but ground my teeth so my jaw hurts and I have a slight headache ugh

I'm being quite whingy but I'm not overly bad off, just extremely bleeeehhhhhhhgghgghhhh

I’m so annoyed that I don’t have the energy or appetite to cook anymore.

I’m still going to look at your food pics and chime in though

Bring on the warm weather, I am sick of wearing jumpers and ooodie.

- the amount of times I look at my watch and I see this is bizarre. And, no, I don't mean once or twice a day...like, I don't see it's 1:23 or 3:45 all the time...