Happy Lunar New Year everyone 🐲 🧧🧧🧧🎉
Fancy going into labour in the mosh pit of a Pink concert.
She’ll have a good story to tell the kid!
Well that’s annoying. I woke up super early (for me anyways) to go to Echuca on the train for the day and 10 mins before we got to Bendigo they told us the Echuca has been cancelled and the train will terminate at Bendigo with a coach to Echuca
I don’t really want to do the coach but they said it’s at least 20 minutes away anyway
I ended up coming back to Melbourne and just station hopping until 5ish. I’m about ready to pass out (yay 3 hours of sleep), but 15 individual train trips, 407 new photos/video and at least 400km traversed!
Six places on the list viewed (plus two not, but they’re out of my price range so they don’t count), four boxes and two pictures dropped off at the op shop and a quick Aldi run done.
I think I’ve earned a prosecco.Anyone here old enough to remember when Rage would debut a new “unplugged” show?.. I used to tape them, both on the VCR and cassette for my Walkman. Currently listening to STP Unplugged - I remember thinking Scott Weiland was so classy sipping that huge glass of red through the set, in hindsight it was probably like 3/4 of a bottle in that glass.
Edit - thinking about it, I had a DiscMan at that point but no way to burn cds. Hence the Walkman - with the auto reverse magic.
It was time to upgrade the Xbox One, so I took the Nintendo switches (which haven’t been used as much as we all thought they would be) plus games and traded them in for a new series X. Ended up costing me $126 with the traded stuff, so I’m pretty chuffed about that. Not as chuffed as the Elder will be on his birthday when he gets it! The switches were just not as enjoyable to use as the 3DS was.
I have a ps4. I would love to upgrade…perhaps this is the year.
I’m the opposite. I gave the kids a switch for Christmas, and ended up buying a second hand switch lite for myself. I am loving it.
I have a Skyrim campaign in my pocket. Have to sit around for an hour while the kid has Tae Kwon Do? No biggie. It’s a wonder I don’t see lots of these things on the train. I would use it if I had a longer commute.
The kids use theirs on the TV 90% of the time, but they have upgraded from an Xbox (original one) with wired controllers.
This just gave me the mini butt kick to get rid of my Switch! Also, was definitely not into it as much as I thought I would be considering I’ve owned a fair few Nintendo handhelds, I kinda blame game prices.
Er, I need a new dock if you’re getting rid of it.
It has been enlightening listening to a spine specialist , McGill. Really changed how I think about my back, the pain and what happened. There is no such thing as an achy back, there are injuries and aggravating weakness.
seems I have stress fractures of one or two L vertebrates and a touch of a disc hernia on my left side. Ten hours a week of walking on hard footpaths, walking thru pain, with hard shoes will aggravate a weakness from prior injury or re-injure.
They seem to have been learning a lot about both the spine and pain management in recent years and a lot of the more recent information is quite different to the traditional advice. A lot of the pain seems to be caused by things like bracing in anticipation of pain, which means that learning to react differently can have major benefits. So it is not “all in your head” as it is real, physically based pain, but learning to think about the pain differently can change your physical responses and reduce the pain.
don’t worry, I’ve had a medical diagnosis on which vertebrae
Resting with the cat. She loves being in bed all day. She’s the little spoon, being cuddled like a teddy bear. And when I rustle for a peppermint she’s instantly alert to get her own treat from a packet.
We’re a pair of tired oldies who sometimes share a hot water bottle
I was born in the year of the snake so yeah that’s about right. 🐍
I’m a goat. Does that mean I’m the GOAT?
Yesssss.
My imposter syndrome disagrees!
Year of the Monkey here. Also accurate.
My kid. Year of the pig. The universe got that right I can tell ya.
Year of the dog checking in
Ditto. Us dogs are the best!
Sssssame. My mother used it to say nasty things about me when she was mad.
🐍me too
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Fire snake here. I think boyo is a water rat which tells you something about how useful a concept this really is…
My husband is a wood rabbit. I am a fire snake. Everything works well as long as he agrees with me.
🔥🐍 represent! Me too
Weird, im a fire snake too but my husband is a wood tiger, I have no idea what that means but the app I use to track birthdays tells me what we all are. 🤔
A wood tiger is honest and trustworthy and as a result has little to worry about. (According to Google). I think you’ve got a keeper there.
That actually seems accurate.
Or else we eat them for breakfast
Whole
🌊🐂
I am a horse. Apparently I will remain single but there will be many avocados in my future
Green. Very lucky colour.
The Fire Pig 🔥 🐽 has chosen to go into the city so I the Fire Snake 🔥🐍 and the Wood Rabbit 🌳🐰 will go and deposit some bottles 🍾 and do something with the rest of the sunny☀ day while the Water Snake 💦 🐍 runs around outside barking.
I’m having so much fun with this. 🌳🐰 isn’t. He assures me he is indeed a 🦁 and he’s sticking to it.
According to the Vietnamese the year of the rabbit is actually the year of the cat. And a lion is really just a big cat, so I think the claim is justified.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Happy Lunar New Year!
🧧good morning and Happy Lunar New Year to you.🧧
Did you enjoy your bat steak and pear yesterday? Perhaps you’d like the thickshake version.
Was thinking peaches and herb today.
That’ll be interesting. With a little bit of freshly squeezed nut juice.
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Thank god, may your followers be ever sacrificing 🙏🏻
For you bacon 🧧 bring many good fortune.
Thank youuuu! Good fortune to you too!
Moon cheese please 🧧
Thank you!! 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀
I’d like to share a cup of tea with a dragon before they start their duties looking after this year
☕️🫖🐉
Thank you. Happy lunar new year 🧧🧧🧧
Thank you!!
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Thank youuuuu
Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧🧧🧧
Thank youuuuu
I’m playing Mass Effect 2 and being evil. My god some of the lines are hilarious!!!
I forced a shop assistant to give me a discount by standing outside the store and yelling about how they were discriminating against me because I was poor 🤣
Watching some telly before I get a little rowdy tonight, and one of my favourite costuming tropes is when a character out of their depth goes to the tropics/a hot place (it doesnt matter what they’re there for) they must have a huge hiking pack paired with some sort of plaid shirt and singlet, for men you can throw in a henley, for women it must be a skin tight spaghetti strap singlet.
Bonus points for inappropriate footwear, khaki cargo shorts (cargo booty shorts of the ladies), some sort of head wrap, they gain a collection of “handcrafted” bracelets during their tropical/hot place adventure.
and they sit on logs, drink from streams and touch everything 😲
My fave movie about this Arachnophobia.
This show is about doctors in a “jungle”, so them touching everything is extra hilarious! Especially since in the first episode one of the conventionally pretty doctors goes “oh I specialise in infectious diseases”.
Edit - a word. I can assure you the tv doctors are not juggling.
Tropics = parasites 😲
Good example from the 80s - https://youtu.be/_rKHc5rCno8?si=XdfKBFPwCGD008rv
Edit - found a better link
Holy shit! I Haven’t watched that movie in years!!
Pretty sure I had the same thought I’m having now when I first watched that scene, those shoes would now been making her feet sit at some wild angles.
Watch it… It still holds up, in a pretty corny way. Completely missed this as a kid though - https://youtu.be/Pwr8cLl9_-I?si=VSznB9NNikUOOk6Y
LMAO back in my “stoner” days I definitely remember that scene giving me a right chuckle.
Instant Pot Bol sauce on so I have something easy to reheat and put with salad for next few days. Plus I have chopped back the monstera and am now feeling very guilty. She was magnificent but was sprawling everywhere. Now I can get her growing upwards with a moss pole and can get back use of that part of the balcony.
So, with instant pot recipes for pressure cooking, what do you do with the cooking time if you want to say, double the recipe?
I am still learning but basically it depends more on the density. I have a small 3L one and I cook mince sauces for the same amount of time as in the 6L. or say one chicken breast is the same time as two. But a chopped up chicken breast is less time then a whole one
Someone in the street has a very noisy car exhaust. He revs it. He idles it. Turns it off. Starts it again. Revs it, idles it, turns it off. Repeat throughout the day. When he does take off it backfires repeatedly down the street. I hope it blows up.
I taken to pointing at them as they drive past and making the “I’m wanking” gesture with my other hand.
😂
I want them, specifically them, to know my thoughts on the matter. I do it to Harleys and other bikes with loud pipes too. Noisy fucks.
I have a ‘mechanic’ neighbour. That’s his way of tuning cars.
Oh that would shit me up the wall. I think this dude’s a visitor. To find out I would have to climb on the step ladder and look over the fence and that’s too much effort for me to care. I just want the motor to die.
It gets a bit much sometimes. He does it less now thankfully.
Jam a potato onto the exhaust pipe. He won’t be able to start the engine. It may take him some time to think of checking the exhaust as its a long way from the engine. Does no damage and gets the point across.
I seem to have misplaced my debit card. Searched high and low and can’t find it at the place I’m housesitting, my own place, or the route I walked to the shops earlier today (the endpoint at which I realised I was sans card). Nobody’s used it in the past 6 hours either.
Found out I could put a temporary lock on the card and I’ll try looking again tomorrow. I really don’t want to get a card replacement, so many things I’ll need to change 🫤
Normally I would feel panicked or frustrated but I still feel numb (not necessarily comfortably).
I do have a mysterious craving for salmon and pizza that’s come out of nowhere though. None of the pizza places here in Preston seem to do in house delivery :( not having a car sucks like that. Old Kodak it is. And just a marinara pizza with garlic bread.
Further edit - try Plain Jane’s Pizza in Miller St Preston - they will deliver.
Check your wallet - it might have been put into a slot that’s already occupied by another card, only behind it not in front. I’ve done this more times than I can count.
It’s definitely not in my wallet because the last place it was at was in a slot on my phone’s flip cover. Stupid, stupid place to put it because it has fallen out from there before…
Are you near High st? Takeaway Pizza is excellent (not sure if they deliver though)
I loooove their pizzas and would’ve gone for that but no delivery sadly. Not that I could see on their website. True to their name