Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
I got the job!!!
Oh thank fuck. Thank absolute fuck!!!
Uber eats for me, and the super fancy cat treats for Gibson!
Congrats!!!
Yay! Go you!
Congrats fluffy butt!!🥂
so many hugs and a happy dance 🤗🤗🤗😊😊😊
Woohoo! Nice work!
CONGRATS!
Congrats!
Bloody wonderful
Huzzah! 🎉🍾🥂
Congratulations 🥂
Late to the party on this one but I congratulate you and Gibson on your impending lifestyle creep! 🎉🍻🎊
I know perfectly well that I shouldn’t eat all the cherries on the first day of cherry season (well, the first day I have cherries, same thing). They’re soooo good. But my gut might not thank me later.
Yasss love me some cherries!
Much sauce has been turned into many sauces.
One sauce was also turned in to dinner.
Going by the number of bottles, safe to assume this isn’t your first rodeo with too many sauces. Also, what sauce and how delish is it??
Bolognese, very delish.
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My goodness that’s a lot of sauce.
40.5 serves 😁
I’m pretty chuffed with myself if I manage three serves of something for the freezer!
The nice thing about really big cookups is that the workload does not increase in line with the servings - and it becomes worthwhile pulling out the food processor to do things like dice the onions so I don’t need to do all that by hand. And I now have lots of nights where future me has a quick and easy meal ready to go 😁
Had a fam dinner last night and my daughter’s granma was there .
I didn’t let gran eat off my plate 🙄🙄🙄 and the evening went down hill from there. Again.
Wait. An adult person wanted to get something off your plate (also an adult person), you rightfully refused, and this caused problems?
Gran needs a lesson on entitlement and table etiquette.
She calls it sharing. She also wants to choose what I order and says it to share , and gets miffed if I order something for myself she doesn’t want. 😂
She’s nuts, and very entitled. Can you order something you like that she doesn’t?
E: just realised you mentioned she gets miffed… hope you don’t have to see this person too often
I’m feeling a lot of 2nd hand rage here. I suppose her ordering what she wants is out of the question?
‘I’m feeling a lot of 2nd hand rage here’
Oh, me too…
she hates me, always has. She is angry that I won’t go away and that other fam members like me
She gets to order for herself what she wants
Did you fork her?
No. She expected me to put my plate in the middle of the table, so she could have access, I had it front of me.
How dare you expect to eat your meal on your own. Shame on you. 😂
she spent the rest of the evening provoking me
Christmas shopping is awful. Everyone is getting book vouchers or chocolate.
Your buying folks presents?! everyones getting a firm handshake this year.
Gosh… changing my sheets makes me realise how disabled I actually am. Jesus Christ.
But hey, the summer sheets are on, though this week it’ll be cold so…
Not disabled, dodgy back. The fancy mattress that is comfy to sleep on weighs a ton, changing sheets isn’t easy and I sure as hell can’t turn it myself.
I mean changing sheets suck no matter what. I just wish I did it earlier. Oh well, that’s my fault.
Back in Melbs from the Bellarine.
Already miss the ocean :( There’s something calm but also panic inducing about being alone, 50m out, getting dark… the mystery of what’s below. Could be a giant squid, a horny dolphin… If something went wrong no one would know. But that has nothing on the shitshow that is southern x station just after 5pm.
It’s another world, or should I say a part of the world that isn’t ours.
I think today is perfect weather to cook the big pot of bolognese sauce I have been planning on. Unfortunately this means I will need to physically go to the shops myself to acquire onions. I guess if I have to go I might get some cheese as well. You can never have too much cheese.
I didn’t get to buy myself a present for my birthday this year, but now I have this new role, I’m dreamily browsing for a new piece of music equipment lol and fancy cat trees of course.
Do it.
me: yoo I need a teamviewer access for about 5 mins to update your firmware. Normally I could do it without you even noticing, but this one actually disables our tunnel software as part of the process, so I need a fallback. Won’t take long, very quick.
chain A: Bah too much hassle, send me entirely new units for these sites
chain B: Why? This is metro. Send a tech out
ASK ME AGAIN WHY TECH STAFF HATE PEOPLE.
Jesus tap dancing Christ. Who the fuck wants whole new unit costs just so they don’t have to hand over TeamViewer deets?!?!
Someone who thought they wouldn’t have to pay it. The 8k price tag per unit magically made a zoho login appear
i would like to thank hans zimmer for writing music that gets me to CONCENTRATE when i want/need to
I love hans zimmer so much
Do you listen to the individual scores? Or just make a greatest hits playlist? Personally, the Gladiator score is my go-to focus music.
Once upon a time in America is my art work music
I have multiple lists. Top Gun is currently mine.
Much sauce has been created. #singlepeoplecooking
A few taste adjustments to go, dividing up into individual jars and and a stint in the pressure canner to go.
Pressure canning? Gun gardening? If the world goes to hell in a haycart I want you on my side!
be there in 5
ooohh that looks so yum!
Reading His Dark Materials after watching the series and can’t stop thinking about the sort of daemons* Australian’s would have. Like how many people are wondering around with huge arse kangaroos and koalas or the random arsehole with a full-blown cassowary. Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.
*Daemons are a physical manifestation of the human soul in animal form, they are not pets/animals and can speak and have their own thoughts and feelings, though you feel everything they do and vice versa (to an extent).
Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.
On the other hand, they can shapeshift, and their chosen form is usually one that fits you personally, so I doubt that someone who ends up with a weird bug would mind too much. At least until someone tries to relocate the weird bug outside, or accidentally treads on it.
It’s the clumsier people accidentally slamming their daemons in doors that might have a worse time. Getting your finger or hand caught is bad enough, injuring a physical manifestation of your soul probably hurts a lot more.
I am clumsy people lmao
Very similar to indigenous ‘totems’. Which can be almost anything. Interesting programme on the abc a couple three years back, I think off the top of my head it was Conversations with Richard Fidler. A woman with fertility issues went to stay in NT due to husband’s job. She was bored and started talking to the local people. They took her swimming at a secret women’s business waterhole, and she felt something wriggle inside. Shortly after she discovered she was pregnant, considerably against the odds. The local women assured her that her proto-baby had a totem - which was a striped leech and that the waterhole had given it to her. Never heard about any followup, but I think maybe this sort of thing might resonate with your comment. I have no information about how true this story was, but the abc are usually pretty good at fact checking. So probably not a wish fulfilment thing.
That sounds interesting, might have to go have a look for it.
Might have been Sara rather than Richard. Can’t remember but it was def pre-covid.
and someone would have a white butterfly
Onions have now been aquired. Time to start on the sauce. I will need to decide whether to use the big stock pot or the really big stock pot.
if you use the really big one we can all come over and help you with the leftovers
I’m only making 36 servings, nowhere near enough to share 🤣
I will actually be canning the sauce, so this batch will last me a year or two.
Covid seems to be taking turns around with the staff at work these recent weeks. I wonder how many people it’s going to go through before we knock off from work for Christmas.
I’d say a fair few. I think a lot of people will have symptoms that they’ll just write off as being tired/time of year/allergies and there are some people who don’t get symptoms at all. So unless it hits like a ton of bricks and one might be in an industry that needs to be a bit more careful, it’s unlikely people will bother testing.
Trams have also been packed more than a sardine can. Masks and sanitiser. They don’t hurt to have if one is concerned and there are more viruses like RSV that can spread and be an issue to older adults/immunocompromised. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah, I was working offsite from my normal workplace and I overheard a conversation about someone taking a RAT test but she only took it for one day and had a negative result and didn’t do anymore and she came into work with symptoms.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she was positive at that point and was spreading it around like wildfire at that workplace.
Yeah, downside is that it can take a few days to come up after exposure.
I’ve been masking as I don’t want my scant few days off wrecked due to illness. Covid is taking turns hitting people at my workplace.
