Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Sauce is now all packaged and ready to put away.
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Oh stocking stuffers for the DT community! What a lovely gesture!
Allow me to recommend banana boxes for storage. With the tops on the boxes, the contents are protected from light, have two layers of cardboard for insulation and stack beautifully.
I've been really good, eating home cooked meals for weeks, and a disgustingly healthy breakfast of red rice porridge with curry leaf puree and coconut milk.
I really feel like I could do with a pizza this week...
E: to add to this, I've been on decaf only since Sunday to reduce interactions with meds. I'm sure I deserve a medal at this point
Sadly, now that I am carless it is also the worst weather to be hand carrying a box of pizza in... and the pizza joint is so close as to be ridiculous to get delivered from. It's just 350m away! But five minutes in the cold and wet is enough to ruin a pizza, I think...
I used to to order pizzas to be picked up fresh and had to walk 10-15 mins in the freezing cold of the night.
Trust me. It’ll last 350m as that’s only a 3-4 min walk and still be piping hot if you get it fresh.
Depending on where you are, the rain might have stopped. I dressed like it's 10 outside and it was surprisingly pleasant.
Took the day off and did my grocery shopping and treating myself out to a coffee today.
Been awhile since I’ve sat out and had a coffee to relax to.
Just said stuff it and spent the money for one.
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Think I’m going to be making pasta sauce with random assortment of pasta for a few days.
Sadly some of the mince has freezer burn so I hope it’ll be ok to use and won’t taste too bad.
Freezer burn is just a bit of dehydration, so sauce is the perfect thing to do with it.
Yup. Easy to make and tasty and comfort food for me.
Forgot the cheese but I’m not going out again.
A Bill and Ted Cat story.
Ted Cat has food issues, he can't seem to control himself, is aggressive and has a tendency to eat anything. Last week he scoffed a piece of corn chip I dropped.
Happened again today but this time Bill showed Ted that he shouldn't eat corn chips, it's not good food. Bill went up to the chip and shied away. After that Ted stopped licking the chip and pushed it away.
Bill is looking after Ted, teaching him things he should know but seems to have miss out on learning when he was kitten.
This is heartwarming. After the initial suspicion, it seems Bill Cat is being 'mother'. So lovely to hear that Ted Cat is being civilised for life in a home.
My favourite thing about cats, is when you pat them sometimes, and they turn around and death stare you, then quickly groom the area you touched.
Dunno why, but it's so funny. I always apologise profusely and give a treat 🐱
Perfect day to have my day-in-lieu; raining, cool, don't have to get wet on the way to work, bliss.
I'm gonna do the dishes, the laundry, and then relax with my mobile games. 😙👌
Awesome. I took the day off too and went grocery shopping and relaxing in a cafe now.
After I get home I’m going to get all cozy and play games all day.
Can U give me some mobile game recs? My new phone can play all sorts, but for the last couple years I've had a total due that was only good for chess
Hmmmm. Good question! I used to play teamfight tactics, Dota underlords, hearthstone which I'll download and play. Not into FPS. More like turn based turn based strategy kind of stuff? PvP is highly desirable
Ok so I am officially nervous.. I have this little tray of roast vegetables which have instructions for cooking in the air fryer. It says take the plastic film off the tray.. great yep.. then put the tray in the fryer. The tray is plastic. I feel like this isn't right.
Ted Cat decided to tell me it's time for second lunch by sitting on my jigsaw puzzle and staring at me
Did he have the look of murdering your puzzle set if you didn’t feed him?
He was swishing his tail, sweeping pieces onto the floor! 😱
( I put on my oodie in case he decides to bite my bum )
It is currently very wet, with a forecast of "rain increasing". I do not think I will be getting any gardening done today!
It is, however, perfect weather to cook the pork roast I have in the fridge.
Everyone should get a free "Get Out of Work" card on days like today. I just want to be tucked up reading a book or watching something cosy.
I’m looking for some new bedroom furniture, and so far am uninspired by what I’ve seen. It’s either from big box stores- dated or boring styles, shitty materials and flimsy, or from designer stores at ridiculous prices. My search continues for my goldilocks furniture. Or maybe I should give up and buy the boring stuff because am tired of looking. So much of it is same same. How can there be so much choice yet so little at the same time.
I found this too when I started looking, it's not easy. The affordable options are boring or made from crappy materials. I have a 3m wall that I'm trying to fit a king bed, means I need a bed frame which isn't super bulky and side tables that aren't huge. Limits the already limited options.
You can mix and match bedroom furnture which can be a cheaper way to do it. Not buying those packages where everything matches. That's all I know.
So much bulkiness! So many super wide bedside tables. I think I'm gonna end up doing a mix and match to get what I like.
Yep, finding any besides less than 600mm wide is hard. And then when you do find them, the matching bedframe is bulky, or it's all cheap materials or ugly. A lot needs to go right to get the right bedroom furniture package. I'm going to mix and match too.
Hit the government auction sites, the larger charity shops like the Vinnies/Salvos. The shops where they do furniture like the one in Trenerry Crescent in Abbotsford and the one in Smith St Collingwood.
I may check it out, but the reason I’m replacing it is I’m tired of the worn out set I currently have and want something nicer that will last me a while. So I think I’m gonna try for new but maybe finding something high quality second hand might work out too.
I got ours from https://www.interiorsecrets.com.au/collections/bed-frames. Got a hardwood since we owned to replace the old ikea malm (which I quite liked! But the mrs didnt). It wasnt cheap compared to idea, but it is nice having a proper wood frame.
it appears marge is leaving soon and i can go become mary poppins for a bit
Maybe a milk tea. I think I still have a couple of those sachets left.
You know we're pretty permissive here. Have 10 and bounce off the walls.
Moved two cubic metres of dirt today. Really glad I didn't get three cube.
That is a good effort for one day's work. Did you not end up moving mud with all the rain?
The rain wasn't too heavy at mine today. Persistent drizzle. Super windy. Not much water. My rain guage is only half full. I had them drop the soil on some old ply I keep around for this sort of thing. They didn't get here til about 11 and it was blocking the driveway so I got to it. Made me think I should buy a Kei tipper and do small access deliveries.
I'll be cooking braised steak and onions today. It's that kinda weather.
