Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
I got the job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh thank fuck. Thank absolute fuck!!!!!
Uber eats for me, and the super fancy cat treats for Gibson!
Late to the party on this one but I congratulate you and Gibson on your impending lifestyle creep! 🎉🍻🎊
Had a fam dinner last night and my daughter's granma was there .
I didn't let gran eat off my plate 🙄🙄🙄 and the evening went down hill from there. Again.
Wait. An adult person wanted to get something off your plate (also an adult person), you rightfully refused, and this caused problems?
Gran needs a lesson on entitlement and table etiquette.
She calls it sharing. She also wants to choose what I order and says it to share , and gets miffed if I order something for myself she doesn't want. 😂
She’s nuts, and very entitled. Can you order something you like that she doesn’t?
E: just realised you mentioned she gets miffed… hope you don’t have to see this person too often
I'm feeling a lot of 2nd hand rage here. I suppose her ordering what she wants is out of the question?
she hates me, always has. She is angry that I won't go away and that other fam members like me
No. She expected me to put my plate in the middle of the table, so she could have access, I had it front of me.
How dare you expect to eat your meal on your own. Shame on you. 😂
Much sauce has been turned into many sauces.
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One sauce was also turned in to dinner.
I'm pretty chuffed with myself if I manage three serves of something for the freezer!
The nice thing about really big cookups is that the workload does not increase in line with the servings - and it becomes worthwhile pulling out the food processor to do things like dice the onions so I don't need to do all that by hand. And I now have lots of nights where future me has a quick and easy meal ready to go 😁
Going by the number of bottles, safe to assume this isn't your first rodeo with too many sauces. Also, what sauce and how delish is it??
I know perfectly well that I shouldn't eat all the cherries on the first day of cherry season (well, the first day I have cherries, same thing). They're soooo good. But my gut might not thank me later.
Christmas shopping is awful. Everyone is getting book vouchers or chocolate.
Your buying folks presents?! everyones getting a firm handshake this year.
I didn't get to buy myself a present for my birthday this year, but now I have this new role, I'm dreamily browsing for a new piece of music equipment lol and fancy cat trees of course.
me: yoo I need a teamviewer access for about 5 mins to update your firmware. Normally I could do it without you even noticing, but this one actually disables our tunnel software as part of the process, so I need a fallback. Won't take long, very quick.
chain A: Bah too much hassle, send me entirely new units for these sites
chain B: Why? This is metro. Send a tech out
ASK ME AGAIN WHY TECH STAFF HATE PEOPLE.
Jesus tap dancing Christ. Who the fuck wants whole new unit costs just so they don't have to hand over TeamViewer deets?!?!
Someone who thought they wouldn't have to pay it. The 8k price tag per unit magically made a zoho login appear
Gosh... changing my sheets makes me realise how disabled I actually am. Jesus Christ.
But hey, the summer sheets are on, though this week it'll be cold so...
Not disabled, dodgy back. The fancy mattress that is comfy to sleep on weighs a ton, changing sheets isn’t easy and I sure as hell can’t turn it myself.
I mean changing sheets suck no matter what. I just wish I did it earlier. Oh well, that's my fault.
I think today is perfect weather to cook the big pot of bolognese sauce I have been planning on. Unfortunately this means I will need to physically go to the shops myself to acquire onions. I guess if I have to go I might get some cheese as well. You can never have too much cheese.
Back in Melbs from the Bellarine.
Already miss the ocean :( There's something calm but also panic inducing about being alone, 50m out, getting dark.. the mystery of what's below. Could be a giant squid, a horny dolphin... If something went wrong no one would know. But that has nothing on the shitshow that is southern x station just after 5pm.
It's another world, or should I say a part of the world that isn't ours.
Much sauce has been created. #singlepeoplecooking
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A few taste adjustments to go, dividing up into individual jars and and a stint in the pressure canner to go.
Pressure canning? Gun gardening? If the world goes to hell in a haycart I want you on my side!
It's fancy schmancy instant noodles with curry sauce again except this time I added some frozen vegan chicken in and added a bit of garnish.
appetising
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I'm amazed that I focused on work quite serenely for 8 solid hours today and remembered to take the necessary breaks, etc. Need to see how much time allowance I've used up for this project though. Taken way too long on one section so gotta cut back on some others.
i would like to thank hans zimmer for writing music that gets me to CONCENTRATE when i want/need to
Do you listen to the individual scores? Or just make a greatest hits playlist? Personally, the Gladiator score is my go-to focus music.
commented to the wife we were running low on baby Panadol as I was getting a dose ready for an unhappy kid, only to drop the bottle and spill everything everywhere. Turns out the next after hours chemist is like 20km away from my suburb, so that was fun.
Bit of dirt from the floor won't kill the baby. Three second rule and all.
Does anyone have any proven methods for stopping mosquito bites from itching? A few of them are now massive and I scratched two of them so hard that I bruised the skin beside them.
All this because I put insect repellent on my arms and neck for my zoo based Christmas party but didn't think about the exposed skin from my ripped jeans and they had a FEAST.
This is the only solution I think. Amputation of both legs above the knee. Solves the problem of my sore feet too.
https://www.amazon.com.au/MUHI-IKEDAMOHANDO-Mopidick-s-Lotion-50ml/dp/B07BYR9LDB this changed my life
There's a piezo electric mozzie zapper device which is the same thing as the click-starter on a bbq or gas hot water system. Gas stove's have them too but they're often mains powered. If you see an old gas hot water system on the nature strip you can extract the clicker/zapper without tools. Then you zap the mozzie bite to help with the itch. Or, and maybe TMI, zap your partners bits while blindfolded but consenting. It's a pretty mild zap, as young teens we'd collect them to torment each other.
e: first I found without much searching: https://www.amazon.com.au/ZAP-Mosquito-Bite-Relief-Scratching/dp/B00CG3CM6Y?th=1
e2: This is what I pull out of hot water systems - https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/203034603706
I DO.
But it doesn't make much sense.
Dig your fingernail into the bite location pretty hard, rotate finger 90 degrees and push in hard again so you're basically making a little cross right in the middle of the bite.
(clean hands beforehand obviously and chuck a bit of antiseptic on bite after).
*This is not medical advice
I did the antihistamine and unfortunately didn't work. So I'll have to obtain some calamine lotion instead.
