Melbourne

Hooray good potato cake.

So they've lowered their prices to $2 but I'll completely understand if they're up at $2.50 again come summer.

Haven't been around for a few days as I've been racing around Doing Things.
Anyway, cutting to the chase - Zoom interview for a job Monday morning, cross fingers for me!

Here's what being raised by awful parents does. They make every feeling, every trait, everything you do seen thru a lens of negativity. They never once encouraged me or gave praise or showed interest. I had to do everything on my own and that is how I became.

I say this as I just today reframed how I think , and thus feel about something.

So Mr Seagoon is a pretty interesting man. 💗 He does some pretty cool stuff , the sweetest thing is he writes cute stories , and they are good too. I love them.

And I am so into what he writes and him. Negative me was telling myself I let myself be distracted from doing things myself, I go down rabbit holes. ( Which I would then feel guilty )

Positive me tells me he inspires me . 💗

That's not to say I don't enjoy his work or the rabbit holes. I Do. No more feeling bad or guilty. Only happiness.

Finally moved into my house and finally got to cook in a kitchen for the first time in 2 years. I made a honey chicken stir fry with brown rice and added some jalapeno sauce to the marinade. Delicious!

Now I need some quick and easy and healthy ideas for tonight...suggestions?

Had this sudden feeling that I need to go home and see my family. Asked boss if I could work remotely (from another country) and she's all for it. Need to get approval from HR before I can work remotely now. 🤞

Never felt home sick before and not sure if I am, but I need mum and home

I want to go to bed, but have a cat on my lap. She is purring.

Edit: I am now free, Miss Meow headed off to her own bed. It would be funny if she was sitting there thinking "I really want to head to bed, but my human has provided this lap and I don't want her to think I don't appreciate it. Guess I'm stuck here until she goes to bed."

I managed 5.3k this morning. Coming down my block, doggo sees a cat in a front yard, pulls on lead. This causes me to miss a lifted section footpath and trip....cue me, desperately trying to not fall flat on my face running cartoon style with doggo chasing cat.... Managed to dodge the ground after about 10 or so momentum filled close calls, stand up, get doggo back (still on lead) - and of course from across the street a tradie starts chuckling and saying jeez that was real close there bud, you nearly bought the farm for about 15m...me, huffing and puffing, and adrenaline pumping can only manage to half yell CAT..... Then the old man back kicked in, and I limped off. Good times.

that little bugger has been so much effort the last couple of days, us been sick and him being sick. But today is the first day we've been apart in like, 5 days? And I miss the freaking CRAP out of him. He is getting a bear hug when he gets home from daycare.

Ohhh mushroom lady is arrested!

i had a bet with the p's and even though it's in poor taste I'm very close to that $10.

And to break that mood.

You may mow all laugh at my predictable bathroom woes after such an excess of food colouring.

:)

Whoa. News just in Erin Patterson aka Lady Wellington has been arrested. More to come later.....

Just had a chat to my brother no one believes me but we are heading into drought. No one seems to remember 1997 -2009. It's coming again (maybe at least to an extent) and here I am feeling like the weirdo in the corner with the Thomson at 100%. I'm not apologising.

Could people stop ending themselves by jumping at trains please? It is your utter right to exit, but do NOT make somebody else the mechanism.

Looks like nature is healing but it's a bit too soon to see if it's permanent.

I love seeing my fellow desperately single people out late-night supermarket shopping with our carry baskets of sad groceries and chocolate.

A random tangent to add to thread is that watching Elemental last night reminded me of the beautiful, warm feeling of falling in love and I want that again, so I'm gonna start putting an effort into the dating apps and dating in general.

I'm about to drop a few dollars on overpriced $2.50 potato cakes.

It will be at the beach and I'm honestly not going be too upset. I know people here have been buying expensive shit recently my usual psychological barrier is like $2.20

We shall now commence a lesson upon the intricacies of either or, or neither nor. Presuming teh auto duck does nors fornicate somebody

oops napped for 4 hours

Me: hey auspost why the tit-flapping fuck did you mark a delivery by auspost from auspost to an auspost parcel collect as "INCORRECT ADDRESS" and return it to sender?

auspost: INQUIRY RESOLVED

I'm gonna peel my fukken face off and wear it as a mask.....

Well, check out that weather forecast. 18 today, 30-32 when I get back! I was worried I'd struggle with the weather when I return but maybe not ..

Many thanks to baconmash for the motivating breakfast. I have now solved an ongoing email/webhosting issue that has been a problem for ages. Kicking goals today!

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Oof I must be tired.. I almost fell for a phishing email this morning. No danger of me clicking the links in it (I can never be THAT tired) but I almost called the bank to complain they're still asking me to confirm my details when I've already done it - which was an actual thing the bank did recently via their app - hence the fooling.

Went back to look at the email and noticed that 1) it actually came from some random onmicrosoft account address and 2) it arrived in the 1 of my 3 email addresses which isn't registered with the bank lol

Stay vigilant, folks. And obviously never ever click links from emails unless you are expecting that email.

The house we moved into a few months back still had the original (low quality) oven, it's about 17 years old and inefficient AF. Ordered a new Bosch unit on Tuesday and it's being installed this afternoon. whoohoo! Next up will be replacing the gas hob with induction but I don't know anything about those so will have a chat with the oven installer. Does anyone here have induction?

Shout out to my dog, who I growled at last night for not being on his bed. This was his response.

I found full seasons of old-school Iron Chef on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtbMv4lXX2muRNwSb4DU_DNQo5r_T5AHA&si=N3lyKE7ru5XlBJz7