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day 1 of IVF. wish us luck on making a science narwhal
Good luck 🤞
thankies!
Sending you all of the good vibes Narwhal and Fam!
we are soaking them up!
May mini mes spring from your loins!
sending you many many gentle hugs and positive thoughts
thanks!
Good luck! May you be graced with a MiniNarwhal!
🤞🤞🤞
Sending good vibes 🍀
Sending you so much love!
Good luck. Wishing you the best!
Someone needs to open a business called The LaundroCat which combines a laundry and cat cafe. Have a coffee and cuddle a cat while you wait for your laundry to be done. There is a lot of potential for extra sales in the cafe as no one would be able to leave because the cats would immediately sit on the freshly washed clothes.
I’ll invest for 40% of your business.
Ok this is actually genius.
I’ll be there immediately even though I have my own washing machine. Legit
I’ve reached a stage in my life where new kitchen gadgets are a source of excitement. Bought a blender yesterday that also heats/cooks the food as it is being blended. Think of all the possibilities…
I watch those late night infomercials just for the food porn. The exercise ones bore me but the cleaning and food ones excite me.
Have you seen come dine with me UK? It’s camp and bitchy and the food is ok. Watching soccer was worth connecting the aerial for, sbs food is worth keeping it connected imo.
Oh yeah. They love a good old fashioned banoffee pie the poms.
And fish. Always fish.
Also did anyone you know get one of Multi Level Hippie Marketing thermomix things? They were like 2 grand at the time. They have imitators now for much less, they were pretty good, but so fucking woo it was like a wannabee yoga gurus must get object in 2012 or something.
Nah because the people I know make big motherfucker batches of shit.
Hu-fucking-zzah! For anyone following my utterly tedious work sitcho, it is finally SIGNIFICANTLY better after some feet were solidly put down at today’s meeting. I have time frames! And $ figures! And direction! And managed to tell our overbearing yet thoroughly incompetent admin/“HR” to (a) stop patronising me (not in those words) and (b) that her particular processes might be protecting the business, but if she was so genuinely concerned about my well being then her officious way of doing things and dragging them out 1000% didn’t help (almost in those words).
Definitely much better work life balance coming up, I CAN LET GO OF MY OLD PROJECTS FUCK YES, and I can genuinely taste the freedom to finally start moving on, whether it be here or elsewhere. Now, if only my rent wasn’t so high - but at least it won’t change until next April. Feeling p good right now. I’m much happier with the uncertainty (atm) of the next chapter vs the dread of staying on.
Until then… Hectic couple of weeks before the role change!
E: soxcat tax as it’s her last night here. She’s been an exceptional kitty the last few days. Love this little bunch of fur and cuddles.
prrrr
Hooray!!
Only a few more weeks and when the change happens I hope that everything starts to feel way better for you!
Woohoo !! Finally something really positive, congratulations.
Well done!!! I actually had a very similar meeting today so sending you all the vibes! Also kitty is adorable :)
bought a little 12" ooni fyra the other day and gave it a kick in the guts last night. pumped out a margherita and a pepperoni pie. each pie took a little over a minute to cook.
i think i focused a little too much on getting a high temp, something difficult to do with my other pizza cooking options. first one came out with a bottom that was burnt evenly across the whole bottom (though the carbon layer was very thin), the second one i dropped the temp of the stone about 50c and it came out much better, but i probably need to drop it a little more, and let the pies cook for a little longer. the dough was fully cooked, but some of the toppings (like buffalo mozzarella chunks) didn’t have time to melt fully. the pepperoni did cup though.
i think i also need to blend my pizza sauce (usually i like it chunky) but on a small 12" pie cooked super fast it can lead to a bit of unevenness, and makes it harder to get the sauce much closer to the edges which i also need to do (with the cheese too), as large rising edge crust caused the ingredients to shift towards the middle.
after 2 pies we were full (puppers also got a slice each, and the cats got some pepperoni), but i reckon next weekend i will do much better. still, they were fucking delicious and pretty damned good for a first poke. apologies for unappealing torch-lit pizza pic, gets dark early these atm.
the machine itself is pretty easy to operate, just runs on hardwood pellets, though it can only store about 15 mins of pellets at a time, so you need to keep topping it up. getting pizzas into and out of the small aperture is pretty easy too. seems like a pretty good contraption, and i reckon it wont be long before i have a technique down to pump out ripper pizzas.
Something inside my brain twitched whenever I read “pie” as a term for a pizza. American?
That second pic could be a promo pic in a catalogue!
not american, i just find pizza pie fun to say. thanks!
Those pizzas look AWSOM!!!
I love it and would use it at least twice a week for all manner of cooking. Not just pizza pies and naan. Tandoori chicken and lamb kebabs here I come 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
yeah i also did some garlic bread in there, but i do plan to do other stuff.
Great pics!
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Just looked up the brand, pretty cool that it’s portable too. Did you pay the full RRP of $549, or get a deal?
Pepperoni isn’t great for cats though, too much salt and fat, plus any garlic involved can be toxic. Our kitties love a bit of pizza cheese :)
i got a deal here for $440 delivered.
the amount of alliums i give to the cats and dogs (who are sensitive to it too) is negligible and always cooked well which breaks down quite a lot of the thiosulfate within, but i do appreciate the warning, some pet owners might not know.
his lordship got himself an ooni a couple ears back. Careful, those things are gateway drugs.
also fantastic for taking to local parks for australia day pizza parties
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i’m not even sure there is garlic in this pepperoni. the ingredients list “spices” and “vegetable powders” but nothing clearly listed as an allium.
at any rate, i am aware of the issue with cats/dogs and alliums.
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devon is pretty good tho. did he reckon it was worth it?
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ouch big fight with fam.
butters puts up a better fight we’ve been here before.
Oh no. Is this about your mum slowly losing her facilities
Yep. I’m trying to navigate this I’m not doing too well at it. hm
I think you need butters to come back as a mediator.
(…fr though my heart goes out to you. It’s not an easy conversation esp with stubborn parties.)
little bboi would have the whole thing sorted by now he’s a professional
Sox would come in for the aftercare
! I think if sox and butts were friends none of us would stand a chance.
Hugs, and support. This has to be one of the hardest things ever imo.
It was a bad night tonight and your support meant alot. Thank you.
Got dinner from a pizza place called The Gusher.
There’s only one choice of drink for the occasion…
What kind of pizza? Was it good? Did it gush?
A double whammy there. Love it.
it also has slot machines!!
at least we don’t have every cafe and pizza joint here have slots yet
Slotte
ye olde slottes … 😂
The dude who runs the dodgy laundromat I’m in paid for my machine because I’m wearing a Raiders cap and he is too. He doesn’t know I just wear the hats because I like them, I don’t follow NFL at all.
do you have a plan if he asks you any questions about sportsball? just abandon your washing and scram?
“Did you see that ludicrous display last night? What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early? The thing about Arsenal is, they always try to walk it in!”
Finally after 26hrs I can now take myself to bed and sleep, I think I can taste sounds at the moment.
Being growled at by a pre-teen certainly feels great first thing on a Monday.
my spicy puppies love to growl at me in the morning, and leap about on the bed like lunatics while play wrestling. one is about 30kg, the other about 40kg. sometimes it hurts, but generally i love it.
Don’t worry, soon they will be an actual teen and you’ll struggle to get them to event grunt at you in the morning.
Really hoping the local woolies has sweet potat noodles (the glassy type).
I had a dream about japchae last night. Specifically it was an intimate macro close up sesame seeds.
I know I’m going to be disappointed. One didn’t just dream, I really did so plz universe I need that japachae.
i don’t know why i’ve been craving japchae these couple of weeks too, but now i crave nasi lemak more so i’ll get that when the shop opens on wednesday
Nasi Lemak with Beef Rendang 🤤🤤🤤
nasi lemak
ooh having an interwebble squizz need that (!)
I love japchae…
Now I think that’s what I’m going to eat for dinner.
Ha. Posted that “Awful Aspects of Spring” Leunig cartoon to the Book of Faces because I found a copy of it during Operation Sort Shit and it seems to have gone down like a lead balloon.
Dear me.he’s no longer the darling of the virtue signalling upper middle classes , eh
it’s like they never took any real notice of his cartoons at all , if there is one thing he hates it’s them
I am so happy there are some here who agree with me :)
He lost me before he went full cooker - he disappeared up his own arse and became neither interesting nor amusing.
That one, however, made me laugh just as hard as when I first saw it - good grief, it would have been in the eighties.
Please post here. I’m optimistic.
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Sorry it came out tiny! Caption is “Awful aspects of spring: the new dog digs up the old dog.”
Oh my god that’s horrible (I love it!).
Oh dear. Reminds me of the time I visited my parents with my old dog, and she brought us the body of one of their chickens she had just dug up. After being buried for about a week it was definitely not in good condition, but she was so incredibly proud of herself. I told her she was a good dog, swapped it for a dog treat and the chicken was re-buried in a less accessible place.
We had a big party at one of my old share houses, so there were a few dogs. We’d buried a dead possum a week before but I can’t remember it’s fate. Probably road kill knowing that place. We had a giant backyard as our place backed onto council land and a creek. Dogs dug it and fought with it for a while well before anyone noticed. It was in a lot of places by that time and of course, the dogs stank. I may have been on halucinogens too, so it was yucky but fucking hilarious.
Not disappointed, I’m a cat lover and this brought back a hilarious memory I shared below.
Haha oh god. That’s a good laugh if a little black in humour.
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Thank you dear friend (you know who you are 💜), for our dinner tonight. It’s absolutely delicious. Truly appreciated.
You’re welcome 🤷♀️
I have spent all day looking through housing design magazines and have come to a few conclusions.
- There area a lot more people who can afford really big windows then there are truly interesting or innovative designs.
- All houses look better if photographed with a dog or cat visible.
- Some people have an unfathomably high tolerance for multiple clashing patterns and colours.
- Some people have an unfathomably high tolerance for a complete absence of colour or pattern.
- The design feature I like most is the ability to see outside to a garden. Big windows are good for this, but tall windows or multiple windows at different heights works well too.
- After looking through too many designs they all start to blur together. It is apparently possible to overdose on housing magazines.
There’s another absolutely inevitable conclusion to ‘design’ houses - the people who designed them don’t have to clean them.
Oh yes. The old proverb, “people in glass houses probably employ cleaners”
Be careful which direction big windows face. If they get the afternoon sun in summer it becomes more difficult and expensive to keep your house a comfortable temperature
The house I grew up in had northwest facing windows, I’m still scarred by the memories of furnace-like conditions over summer. It’s probably a large part of my interest in sustainable design, I know how terrible badly designed houses can be!
Same. Some of them would be fine if just built the other way around… but gotta squeeze as many as possible into a lot, sun direction be damned. The people who profit aren’t the ones who have to live with it 🙃
This was the 80’s in a new suburb - the relevant factors in siting the house was which way was facing the street. The main priority behing the design in general was many rooms you could pack in for the lowest cost possible. I don’t think we’ve improved a lot since then, but at least insulation has become standard, not an add on sold by a dodgy door to door salesman.
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