Goodnight everyone. From the home of the unfinished cat tree ❤️
Lol do you want me to come over and help you this week? I’m great at building IKEA stuff! Half my furniture is IKEA lol
Can you distract Gibson while I desperately try to finish it?
Can diddly do!
Haha I was going to offer as well though I’m on the opposite side of town.
We’ll go together haha
Dude, ikea fail?! Such disapoint.
I’m so ashamed :(
Big weekend for him, doggo sleep now.
Ladies and gentlemen, enbies, kitties and potats…I am going to clean up from dinner and go to bed. I don’t even care how early it is. I am stuffed. Night all
Ninigh. You gotta do what you need to to recharge. That’s often more important than the "should"s we tell ourselves to do.
I’m gonna watch Fisk at 8pm and then call it a night too and do most of the cleaning tomorrow.
I have some work to finish up before tomorrow but I am seriously thinking of just having a shower and going to bed. I am so tired today.
Same. I’m going to eat and read in bed till I fall asleep.
Now earwigs want a piece of my seedlings… unfortunately for them I employ an organic pest control system called ‘yeet’
So nice to have Fisk back on as a cozy Sunday night treat. Just lighthearted and relatable and low key. The North Melbourne trams are like their own character. Also: I have been guilty of steaming milk so loudly it sounds like a pig being slaughtered 🙋♀️
Looking forward to Aaron Chen’s character’s grandma next week.
Speaking of other cozy shows I binge-watched Ludwig over the past two nights; nice little romp as well. Recommended if you like David Mitchell.
Shrinking S2 is on too and I’m looking forward to that on Wed/Thu now that Slow Horses s4 is over.
I really need to watch Fisk.
I Love Kitty Flanagan.
💛 Fisk. We just watched a heap of season 2 episodes to get the OH up-to-date for S3
I finally got to see GardenWorld in person (been an online customer for years)
...my GOD
It’s farken insane. 10/10 highly recommended
I love garden world!!! It’s amazing!!!
I’ve been a customer for years - online. I thought it was a bog standard nursery, not this wonderful insanity!
Oh it’s a fantastical fairy garden; the geodes and rocks and minerals and fossils and all the cacti and exotic plants. It’s a wonderland!
I love Garden World! The pink orchids there are my phone wallpaper!
No one warned me about the geodes!
It’s fantastic.
Cooooooooool!
Nice day to be out & about
This looks identical to a photo I took of the elephants almost ten years ago!
🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘<3
Is this their new digs at the Werribee zoo? 😃Glad they’ve got more room now.
Nah that’s happening next year; this is still just at Melb zoo :D
Had some stuff done a few months ago on the roof. Turns out the dudes just cut the downpipe and used a brick to keep it in place without reconnecting it. I only worked that out the other day after that rain.
Was wondering why the rose next to it was having a great time:
Should be an easy fix (was just gonna use PVC glue and that PVC rubber tape stuff) but jeez a bit of a poor effort. Getting people in for such small jobs (or getting them back to fix their fuck ups) is hard today.
Stunning rose, but caused by the bane of all our existences: the slacklustre tradie.
Don’t even need to glue, could just cuff it
okay I’m looking into this thank you :)
omg thank you that’d work.
Does anyone here own a weighted blanket?
Was thinking of one with the idea that it might help me sleep at night.
Does anyone here own a weighted blanket
yeah but instead we call it existential dread. Still weighs heavily but it’s free.
I might give the dread a pass.
Does seem to come with a few negatives I’d love to avoid.
No, but I have a cat that likes to lie on top of me in bed. Does not help me sleep. Especially when purring loudly into my ear.
I can see the upsides but I think having a cat tends to put your body into an immobile state.
Miss Meow is remarkably good at balancing while I roll over.
she is singing you a lullaby
used to have one but it felt too heavy, ended up with melatonin
Oh ok.
I do like the additional weight. More worried that it might get too warm or something.
You can buy weighted ones that are designed for hot weather, they woven out of massive threads with large holes for air flow.
Edit: but I think there are some now that are cooling too, if you search for ‘Australia hot weather weighted blanket’
Like this?
Yeah like that!!
That sounds like what I have.
It’s woven like thick rope in a cross code pattern and there’s large holes with the way it’s woven as well.
I do. It has worked at times, but not always.
I am a heavy layers/blanket peep. I tend to find I sleep better with a bit of weight.
I think I prefer the weighted blanket if I’m not feeling great, or maybe for a nap. Even after owning it for a few years, I’m still trying to figure out how it works best for me.
Oh ok. I feel like I kick the light ones off too easily sometimes.
If I was going to get one it was going to be one of those Kmart ones.
I don’t have one but I do layer blankets with a doona for the same effect. It’s hot though, so I do want a weighted one as well. I think it will help you if you like the feeling of heavy doonas
I’ll give that a shot. Got this bottom knitted cotton blanket which is surprisingly heavy.
I’ll chuck that on top tonight and see how it goes.
My winter doona is very nice on really cold nights but too warm to use in spring and summer mostly.
I’m reorganising my National Geographic collection, and I’m missing random ones
Craft prepping for the big Halloween window. Sure hope the theme isn’t too obscure ☠️
Oh that is just adorable!
Going out for fancy breakfast this morning to a cafe near a post office. Nice food and the boys can post our council votes for us.
If I ran a cafe near a mailbox I’d do a post about it to remind people to send off their votes and come enjoy a coffee while you’re at
DEMOCRACY COFFEE
If I ran said cafe I’d have an October long special of some overpriced cafe version of a sausage sandwich for that election day feel
Would you do different versions for each of the major parties or something like that?
People could mention their party affiliation and I could do different options for them. Like vegan for the greens, Mayo for labour, and whatever’s lying around for liberal
The labor sausage, the liberal sausage, independent sausage.
Doesn’t sound too bad to me!
If I could vote I’d definitely get in on this
Imagine if the general public knew you could microwave potato… It would be so destructive to the status quo. Restaurants everywhere would be forced to close, who knows what other repercussions would be
The way things are going they’d probably put them in Al foil.
But why would you want to? Pan fried is so much better
False
Restaurant lobby groups asking to tax microwaves and give them the money
That would make sense tbh
For the few pubs that might still be open, counter meals would be sad. Parma
chipsand salad
My plan today: go to the market. My strategy is to give every member of the household a limit, say $40. The ones who want to spend more will negotiate with those who don’t spend that much and it’s great to see the kids in action making deals with their father and each other over who’s getting what.
Always good to involve everyone in the budgeting. I learned from an early age to keep an eye out for specials, compare by unit pricing etc. to keep the overall food budget down - if you get the cost of the boring stuff lower you have room to add in important stuff like lollies!
When I moved out at 18 I discovered that most of my peers had no idea how to stick to a budget or prioritise their spending - an alarming number would run out of food entirely before the end of the fortnight, then when they got paid they’d waste it on expensive stuff and start the cycle again. I was really surprised, I’d been shopping on a budget and planning ahead with my Mum for years.
Lol same, I lived with people who spent their entire food budget in a few days 🤦🏼♀️I was living on about $25 per week but it was easier then. I’d get a bag of spuds, bag of onions, garlic, big bag of red or brown lentils, some budget cans of tomatoes, dried pasta, rice, a bag of apples, a couple of key vegetables that were cheap and in season and a couple of packets of herbs/spices (thus building a supply of herbs and spices over time available to enhance my cooking). I would combine these ingredients in different ways over the week to try to make it interesting. When it was someone’s birthday I’d lash out on a King Island Brie and red wine. I’ve probably never eaten so well lol.
I think my budget was $50 a week, but that included odds and ends like toiletries and magazines as well as food. It also included meat, although not huge amounts. My staple meal was stir-fry, with lots of rice and veg and a small amount of meat (about 60-80g per meal). I would cut up the meat into strips for the freezer (I had a bar fridge with freezer space designed to hold a couple of trays of ice-cubes!) so something like a single chicken thigh would cover a few meals.
I also had a butcher that would sometime have whole wild rabbits for a couple of dollars, so I’d use the meat from those for a stew & make a soup from the bones.
Budgeting and also knowing good deals and seeing one is an under appreciated skill.
I found a ripping deal on ham this week and bought quite a bit of it and made really nice sandwiches out of them and couldn’t be happier.
It absolutely is - it also needs to be paired with the ability to cook and menu plan well.
A lot of people have the basic skill set of being able to choose a recipe, buy the ingredients and make a meal, but don’t have the ability to reverse the process and create something based on which ingredients are available. Which works well for me, I have often ended up with things like trays of meat left over from events because people don’t have any idea what to do with them (or have a mental block against “leftovers”).
Mix and mash all the stuff together. What could go wrong?
I’m fairly simple so if there were trays of meat you could pair it up with rice, pasta, sandwich, noodles just on a basic level. Nothing fancy or complicated but maybe I just don’t have any good ideas in my head.
