It’s the man’s birthday on Monday so I’m thinking about making him a giant chocolate mousse, like in a trifle bowl, instead of a cake.
i’d wife my mrs again if she did that. Shes already my wife so not totally sure how that’d work. But when they say the stomach is the way to a mans heart: for me thats Chocolate Mousse!!
It’s gonna be about 8 decent servings.
I mean, sure, if your not committed. I reckon I could do a whole trifle bowl in 2.
Hahaha.
Don’t worry. He’ll give it red hot go.
Chocolate mousse is a worthy birthday cake. You could even decorate with sprinkles on top.
Nah, he’s not into fancy extras just a bit of whipped cream on top.
That sounds legendary 😋
He’s worth it
I travel into Melbourne for work. About an hour and a half drive.
I used to come in via Sunbury Rd near the airport but that route has shit itself getting in or out since roadwork is increasing. So I’ve started using the Calder and Ring Road near Keilor.
I thought the Sunbury Rd area was dangerous. Jesus Christ, if you decide to ever drive on the Ring Road you’re really just hoping you don’t die. Just the short stretch to get back on the freeway out of Melbourne is basically a suicide run.
Has it always been like this?
I kind of feel Melbourne’s endless roadworks has made that inevitable.
Yes. Clogged with tailgating trucks, aggressive drivers, people who don’t know indicators exist, debris on the road, short on ramps, etc. The roads north and west of Melbourne are the Mad Max zones. Source: commuted on these roads for many years, glad I don’t have to do it any more.
They are also quite terrifying when you don’t drive them very often - there are a bunch of intersections that are pretty much impossible to navigate if you are not familiar with them. You get in the wrong lane and end up on a freeway going in completely the wrong direction.
It feels like just trying to get anywhere in melbourne completely sucks. I’d say for the last 10 years but probably longer
The ring road is hell. All roads leading into Melbourne actually lead to hell.
I’ve been driving in for nearly 3 years from Castlemaine/Bendigo area but avoided the ring road until now. I’d only heard stories…
Ugh, up early gang. Was going to make myself sleep, but dropping back into my sleep cycle will only feel worse when the alarm goes off.
These Winter afternoons have been gorgeous. I am looking forward to this one.
For your reading pleasure, I present mole rats (with a squick alert):
Happy Tuesday Morning… 😂
…look exactly like they were sewn together from the hand skin of a very old person.
😂
Like lil’ sentient ball sacks awww
is it just me or does everyone put faces of people they know on the moles
what nasty horrible creatures
Just you, moles are cute af
Moles are cute, mole rats, ick.
Moles are so cute, one came up in my uncle’s yard and I picked it up and held it. They hate the light and go for shade or dig again. They are very very soft and so tiny.
farmers don’t like them because they undermine fields and make holes that cattle or horses can put their foot in and hurt themselves
also, I was making a pun
Well, that was a read 😂
There’s something magnificently primal about javelin throw.
The javelin looks fun.
I got a bronze medal at the British National Championships in Birmingham for under 11 in 1990 by lucking out on my first throw. 2nd throw, foul. 3rd throw, foul. 1st throw good enough to get to final round. 4th throw, foul. 5th throw, foul. 6th throw…foul. Bronze awarded first my first throw.
Brother won an archery regional by being the only age category entrant. Egg donor notified the newspaper 🙄
😂
There was a story from my old high school. One kid launched one a bit too well and went through an umpire’s shoulder. He pulled it out and put it where he thought it was meant to land then went to hospital. Suffice it to say that was the last javelin event at that school.
Oh shit!
My school story the javelin went straight through another kid. The wood shop one with a drill press was kinda worse.
So I just found out my local Maribyrnong councillor has died of unknown causes in her home. This is quite shocking.
Dinner tonight with a friend who has (to his utter shock) just managed to buy a house. He wanted to talk solar. All the solar. ALL THE SOLAR. And he got a very very pleasant surprise when we went over the paperwork and he realised just how little a 6kw system could cost him. In fact i had a quote from when we got ours installed for a 6kwh and even factoring in the 2 years inflation, i believe the noise he made was w00t!
I have absolutely got pathologic rejection sensitivity of some description. The way my stomach turned just now because I noticed a specific person had unfollowed me on Instagram is crazy.
worth exploring that with a professional.
It’s on the list!
Me too. I don’t use instagram anymore and it’s made a world of difference for my mental health. No need to keep up with people I hardly know.
I think being aware of the rejection sensitivity is awesome. Know that your feelings are valid. That initial sting is probably unavoidable :(
Some people blow it out of proportion and use those feelings to guide behaviour. I once met a guy who said I made him the most depressed he’s felt in five years because he asked me on a date and I rejected him. It has helped me pinpoint the rejection sensitivity, self-soothe and remember not to catastrophise.
There’s lots of good reasons people unfollow, eg grew appart, or they are going through some life events, cutting back on social media, etc. When you unfollow someone, do you expect them to feel the same? Might help with the perspective. Meaning, do you think it’s ok for you to unfollow someone but don’t like it if others do the exact same?
Oh totally, I have no issue coming up with a hundred perfectly reasonable explanations. It’s the initial sting of rejection – rational or otherwise – I can’t seem to avoid ;)
it’s totally normal to feel that way , no one likes to feel rejected and a normal person blames themself but like Cake said, you just don’t know so don’t take it personally
sky pretty
first beautiful delicate blues of dawn now tinged with purples and pinks,
Still waiting for packages ☹️
I have done some random tidying, a load of washing and some sorting of shoes - insoles in one pair, and relacing with elastic for peak laziness in another. I might try walking Mr Woof and hopefully we will return home to packages.
What a real good luck-bad luck rollercoaster. Got to leave work early and had a good run of traffic… stayed too long on High St while at MKS and got a fucking $200 fine… ugh
This afternoon is playing all the LPs I haven’t listened to yet.
This one I bought without knowing what or who but it just looked interesting. I lolled and lolled when I heard it. It’s old tv music.
Huh. For years I’ve wanted to know what that piece was!
It’s also the theme to the Red Skelton Show. I grew up watching that. 😊
Sometimes I get super stressed about buying a house, as in I never will. But then I read about people getting their deposits scammed away and I’m kinda okay with being relatively poor lol
I’d feel so so bad if I got scammed out of a $500k deposit, so I’m just gonna enjoy the little things I have that bring me happiness haha
The thing no one tells you is if you buy an established house, everything breaks within the first 12 months. Oven, heater, hot water, it’s a never ending money pit. Being a renter sucks no doubt, but you can always breach a landlord if they refuse to fix shit.
I’d rather that and call it mine, than feel like I’m a roach in someone else’s house haha
I’d trade roaches for my rodents. Probably.
…no? And our house was built in 1962. Also getting a landlord to fix anything is increasingly an exercise in futility
You got lucky by the sounds of it, almost all of my mates had a similar experience spread out in the outer east/southeast.
Moorabbin here, so stolidly SE
Guessing they bought new builds? We deliberately avoided those for very good reasons
Mine’s early 2000’s. A mates was 80’s I think. Another was 90’s.
it’s actually been interesting looking at stuff. There were some places that the sellers should have been shot for their asking price - talking cracks to the outside you could fit a small child into, rampant mould, fire hazards. Then there were the places that were basically “set and forget” and obviously hadn’t been updated since the owners got their retirement payout. Our place is old, but the hot water was replaced with instant at some point, the kitchen hasn’t been done since the 80’s except the stovetop and oven, which are models from the early 2000’s. The ducted heater died, but we were expecting that, it was from 1979 and we were replacing it with reverse cycle to give us aircon. It lasted our first winter, so win there.
Meanwhile a place we rented for 16 years literally had the side rotting off in something we’d been warning the owner about since 2008. Cunt.
The other thing they don’t mention is that even if you buy a new house or do a full renovation, all the big things like kitchen and bathroom renovations and replacing decks, roofs etc - they all need doing about the time you want to retire. So just planning to pay off your house before then is not enough, you need to plan to also have enough to do some major work on it.
The timing is something that worked fine when you could buy a house by 30 and take 20 years to pay it off, you had plenty of time to then pay for extra work on the house etc. after the mortgage was paid, but when you push back the age you can purchase and extend the loan period it makes it a lot more difficult.
I would make it my life’s work to get justice/revenge/money back
Removing and rebuilding this 10m long retaining wall is a bit harder than I thought. 1m down 9m to go!
Digging a metre down found a bunch of mysterious old ceramic pipes (which seriously don’t move) that would’ve been there since 1914 (when the place was built). This place used to be a double block and had a tennis court before it was sub-divided waay back (1950’s-ish). Starting to think it was part of the plumbing for a little bougie tennis viewing / outhouse thing.
Sort of conjures up romantic images. Sunny Sunday arvo in spring, everone dressed in their finest cheering on, looking crisp, sipping champagne.
These days though it’s someone arse up in the air, coinslot not leaving much to the imagination, digging dirt out of a ditch with their hands (too tight for a shovel) trying to get shit level wearing trackies and a t-shirt.
Er have you heard of tool libraries?
Nevermind, I read that as the wrong tight
Does anyone have any idea what to use a really tiny funnel for? I apparently misjudged scale on these ones and they are about the width of my fingernail 🤣. I have three of them!
Could you use the, to decant your perfume/EDT/cologne into a mini spray bottle, for use on the road?
Make 3 tiny little tin men.
Filling very small bottles. Can’t think of any other use.
filling spice jars
They would fall inside the jar!
😯
