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  • 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.

  • 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. 😂

    • Did you fork her?

      • 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.

  • 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.

  • i would like to thank hans zimmer for writing music that gets me to CONCENTRATE when i want/need to

  • Onions have now been aquired. Time to start on the sauce. I will need to decide whether to use the big stock pot or the really big stock pot.

    • if you use the really big one we can all come over and help you with the leftovers

      • I'm only making 36 servings, nowhere near enough to share 🤣

        I will actually be canning the sauce, so this batch will last me a year or two.

  • 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.

    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.

  • Reading His Dark Materials after watching the series and can't stop thinking about the sort of daemons* Australian's would have. Like how many people are wondering around with huge arse kangaroos and koalas or the random arsehole with a full-blown cassowary. Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.

    *Daemons are a physical manifestation of the human soul in animal form, they are not pets/animals and can speak and have their own thoughts and feelings, though you feel everything they do and vice versa (to an extent).

    • Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.

      On the other hand, they can shapeshift, and their chosen form is usually one that fits you personally, so I doubt that someone who ends up with a weird bug would mind too much. At least until someone tries to relocate the weird bug outside, or accidentally treads on it.

      It's the clumsier people accidentally slamming their daemons in doors that might have a worse time. Getting your finger or hand caught is bad enough, injuring a physical manifestation of your soul probably hurts a lot more.

    • Very similar to indigenous 'totems'. Which can be almost anything. Interesting programme on the abc a couple three years back, I think off the top of my head it was Conversations with Richard Fidler. A woman with fertility issues went to stay in NT due to husband's job. She was bored and started talking to the local people. They took her swimming at a secret women's business waterhole, and she felt something wriggle inside. Shortly after she discovered she was pregnant, considerably against the odds. The local women assured her that her proto-baby had a totem - which was a striped leech and that the waterhole had given it to her. Never heard about any followup, but I think maybe this sort of thing might resonate with your comment. I have no information about how true this story was, but the abc are usually pretty good at fact checking. So probably not a wish fulfilment thing.

    • and someone would have a white butterfly

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  • Annnd I have the worst buyer’s remorse… The level of it is a surprise. I haven’t not bought wanted not needed items before, but this…

    (There is a little bit more to it which I think blew it up. I somehow bought the wrong side (there is L/R and I clearly stated which side when I arrived) and no one picked it up, including myself until I got home.)

    I think it’s because I wasn’t 100% and I overrode myself. I’m also usually super fussy as hell and was a blasé.

    Lesson learned. I should have stayed with my gut.

    • Can you exchange it?

      • We’ll try today. Downside is that it wasn’t immaculate when I took it and I didn’t think to actually ask, which is not like me. And if I had of, it would have been picked up.

        It’s not 100% the end of the world, but it’s definitely a downer.

      • Ooo, managed (not me) to get it exchanged! I see some sunshine and am feeling better.

  • Got my socks wet on my way to work this morning and they've still not dried even though I've stuck of to the loo to try dry them under the hand dryer a million times.

  • Well now that FRL is officially cancelled I suppose I should find something to do this weekend...

    • Oh damn.. I just looked into what this is and listened to some of the groups in the lineup and that seems like a good vibe. I might keep a note of this one. Sorry to hear it's cancelled :(

      • It's been running for over 15 years but it seems like Council and this new cop in Wangaratta decided to shut the whole thing down less than a month out. It's been chaotic with the emails and backchat. The organisers are famously disorganised and prone to magical thinking as well though haha. At least all the money has been refunded

    • Aww man. We were probably going to head up to that... Council forced organisers to cancel apparently? Any idea why?

  • This Conference isn’t a patch on last year’s. Let us see if day 2 improves…

  • #Worldle #675 5/6 (100%) 🎉 🪙 📷 #WhereTaken🌎 #274 3/6🎉 ⭐⭐

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