Old man changed the aircon remote language to polish somehow. So, had a crash 2min course in polish and now I'm fluent and can fix all your accidental language changes from polish to english. But seriously, that is a severely difficult language.
I've had a few Polish friends over time and when I have a go at saying things, they all say I speak Polish like a Russian. They've not said it unkindly, but..
Have made a gingerbread dough and it's chilling in the fridge. Miniest made me do it 🫡 I'm sure she likes to eat the dough as much as the finished gingerbread, it smells like Christmas. I just realised I don't have a gingerbread emoji, so 🫚🍞
Not hungry this morning. Have made a large jug of peppermint tea which is currently cooling on the countertop prior to being put in fridge.
Some essential shopping only this morning, then I'm going to sleep the day away. Punctuated by peppermint tea over ice. Cool change is due fairly late tonight so not looking forward to this afternoon.
Not hungry here either. Just going to get a blood test done, pop over to IKEA, then hunker down and snooze for the rest of the day aside from doing loads of laundry then taking them to the laundromat dryer (unbelievable in this heat - but no outdoor drying areas here).
Maybe assemble my bed frame. I need a day of solid rest, today's probably the best day for it.
Walking in the drizzle listening to music is one of my favourite activities. Fuck yeah.
Edit: Tonight was a good night. Have been feeling extra isolated lately. Saw some friends and just had dinner and chatted. Grateful they came to hang out.
Not so bad outside as it's overcast rather than skin-peelingly burning hot. Wait for blood test took an hour but at least it was air conditioned inside so I caught up on my crosswords. Grabbed some Argentinean empanadas for lunch on a whim (yum!!!), and a late coffee... Apt has stayed pretty nice and cool so far. I've been running the extractor fan in the bathroom which I think is kinda sorta helping to suck cool air in from the lounge via the bedroom?
Cringing a bit at how much drying I'll need to do at the laundromat. I've put the towels to air dry a bit in the bathroom until I'm ready to go so there's less paid drying involved. So dumb to have to use a dryer on a day like today. I won't be here long enough to warrant buying a dryer for the unit, either... once I've opened up more space here I'll look into some strategic clothes horse positions for drying work clothes and the like.
I will say there is something about living within walking distance to SO much stuff and activity (but not having to hear most of it at home). It's like being on holiday in a downtown airbnb.
I can definitely appreciate how you feel, it's how I felt when I first came to Aus and the first few years were all in deep suburbia where i couldn't fathom the way of life. I can kind of see why Richmond rentals attract a premium compared to say the equivalent in Hawthorn, simply for the vibrancy and density. Still overpriced IMO and no longer my thing but I can try and enjoy it while I'm here (while trying not to spend too much... none of this fun is for free)
I have shouted at people standing very close behind me at atm and registers. ( this is not like me but when people wont listen to soft words said 5 times I will shout ) Even when you tell them they just don't understand personal space.
I'm incredibly impressed with your mental fortitude if you resisted. But if you didn't, I completely understand. Especially with the pineapple. Oh boy.
I am so far still fine. The buses are air-conditioned and cooler than home. Hopefully the trains too. The next challenge is getting food from the city, then getting to the venue by tram.
I've got the opposite problem of working in a large non air-conditioned factory kitchen. It gets stinkingly oppressive "I can't do this anymore" hot. Both extremes of temperature suck. My sinuses play up with too-cold aircon. But I'm thinking of bringing in one of those misting fan cooler things that you put iced water in the top of. I'll wear it lol.
Out and about. Took some serious self-convincing. Overcast, but still feels like burning face off weather.
So many of my favourite chicken sandwiches available I have no appetite for it. Also, weirdo I am I still have hot coffee in this weather… Somehow I have received an iced one. I must look like I need it.
Just got through the first season of Happy Valley. For all the typical story beats, dang is this well acted and the dialogue tightly written... Sarah Lancashire is amazing. And I absolutely want to murder Tommy Lee Royce.
Also strikes me how much technology had changed in ten years. None of the kids are glued to mobile devices...
E: that pizza absolutely hit the spot too, perfectly greasy and salty and spiced and faux-meaty. I'm ready for bed soon I think.
To make up for not feeling hungry this morning I now have a horrific craving for greasy sausages. I wonder if the Coles nearby has the brand of vegan snags I like. But after this morning's jaunt and then the boiling hot laundromat journey I'm not going out again. Ikea and the lot can be left to tomorrow.
...although, despite my recent extravagance^, I think I'll go for that pizza dinner. They do a mock beef Mexican, i have to try it.
Gonna have to work extra hard over the next few weeks to make up for some of this.
^ (and also eyeing off a $750 phone to buy on sale to replace my device bricked by the 3g shut down)
I loved those, and the Eaty brand - both disappeared :( then vEEF brought in some nice ones but they then proceeded to be constantly sold out at the Woolies near my old place
Why do they do this‽ They stock a ridiculous amount of veggie burger patty type of things, the kind of things that are crazy easy to make yourself, but not sausagey things which are not easy to make at home 🤷🏼♀️
I feel kind of dumb for staying up until 3 to finish a negroni I made where I overestimated the quantities. At least it has been a good day to stay home and do nothing
The cool change has come across at just the right time. It has cooled down enough that I could take Mr Woof for our after work walk, and we are done in plenty of time to avoid the rain.
ugh, trying to do a crossword and the clues just keep moving up and down, forcing me to keep looking for them and messing with my head and eyes
think I'll drop that one
seriously, reminds me of early tv when they would use special effects just because they could even tho they looked shit and had no actual artistic purpose
There’s a Viet place - doing banh mi et al - at the back corner of A shed, in one of the permanent brick shops. They’re lovely people, and will do you as much ca phe as you desire
I finished The House on the Borderlands yesterday. It was ok. Not as engrossing as The Night Lands but still very imaginative and having all the elements of a gothic novel.
I've read the Poe short stories just a few years back in a lovely edition called Steampunk Poe, so I might skip them for now.
Gormenghast? It's been quite a while since I've read the trilogy, I find the characters and the world engrossing. 🙂 Greatly recommend. I think I'll do this, then Poe novels and some HP Lovecraft. These are all rereads of course, oh god I did so much reading in my 20s and 30s,
various renditions of Titus Groan have been sampled, the audible version is best and has been bought 👍
I already had some cardboard I’d sealed with water based gloss medium, intended for painting on. And a bunch of brushes. So I picked the largest flat brush and painted a thin layer of dark yellow. When that’s dry I’ll do another and then a few layers of light yellow.
It bugs me to be using up my paints (especially one colour) but having a practical need did lead to actually using it.
I knew cardboard would be a terrible canvas (hence attempts at sealing) and only for early practice but wow. Even with the layer of medium underneath it basically drank the paint. Which I knew it would but not to this degree.
::: spoiler Paint rambles
Despite trying to coat thinly and smoothly it was impossible to avoid streaking and brush marks because the acrylic Anko paint actually started drying while I was still working and I had to use much more of it at once to spread it.
What I should have done was mix in some of the clear medium so it wouldn’t dry so fast. It would have been less pigmented which is bad because it took thick layers to even show up, but it wouldn’t have looked so rough. Upside is I won’t mind that this is disposable. But it took most of both my tubes of yellow. I should have just ordered poster paint.
:::
I’ve been trying not to feed them as much but one of the magpies approached me when I went out to rinse my brush under an outside tap. Flew right up close and looked at me. It looked like a female maybe. Broken top beak. I nipped inside to grab some of Melbcat’s pet jerky and threw the magpie some crumbled pieces.
I’m wondering if I’ve done a bad and made the magpies too dependent and trusting of humans. Also worried about whether this bird can eat properly. But I’m not going to be able to catch it for treatment.
for spreading maybe use a piece of plastic or card , not a brush which is too slow ( I have been reading many books on painting lately , I painted the furniture and am doing watercolours too )
Melbcat keeps licking herself in the exact same place and has made an itchy hotspot…
I can’t find her cone of shame to stop her and it’s a hassle to buy a bib but I managed to get a baby onesie that might fit over her upper body and stop her accessing it.
Yeah it started during cleaning for an inspection (she hates cleaning and I’d run out of zylkene) and it’s persisted for some reason. She’s back on the zylkene but a lower dose than previously
Old man changed the aircon remote language to polish somehow. So, had a crash 2min course in polish and now I'm fluent and can fix all your accidental language changes from polish to english. But seriously, that is a severely difficult language.
It's an insane language! I just cannot get any pronunciation right at all with Polish 😭
Sounds like when I bought a phone from overseas and it was set with Chinese as the default. That was a fun experience.
lol, sorry but lol
I've had a few Polish friends over time and when I have a go at saying things, they all say I speak Polish like a Russian. They've not said it unkindly, but..
And then have German with their super long words.
Have made a gingerbread dough and it's chilling in the fridge. Miniest made me do it 🫡 I'm sure she likes to eat the dough as much as the finished gingerbread, it smells like Christmas. I just realised I don't have a gingerbread emoji, so 🫚🍞
Home made gingerbread is the best!
It really is, and the smell of it cooking is unlike anything else!
First batch is out!
Flat didn't drop in temperature overnight. Pray for me.
Damnit Satan, you had one job!
Not hungry this morning. Have made a large jug of peppermint tea which is currently cooling on the countertop prior to being put in fridge. Some essential shopping only this morning, then I'm going to sleep the day away. Punctuated by peppermint tea over ice. Cool change is due fairly late tonight so not looking forward to this afternoon.
Not hungry here either. Just going to get a blood test done, pop over to IKEA, then hunker down and snooze for the rest of the day aside from doing loads of laundry then taking them to the laundromat dryer (unbelievable in this heat - but no outdoor drying areas here). Maybe assemble my bed frame. I need a day of solid rest, today's probably the best day for it.
I'm looking forward to the rains lol I hope it turns into a storm because a summer storm would be lovely
Today is an inside day. Going out for some drinks when it cools down, but otherwise, just going to chill/zonk out 😎
Paws out means "I'm not moving" lol
Walking in the drizzle listening to music is one of my favourite activities. Fuck yeah.
Edit: Tonight was a good night. Have been feeling extra isolated lately. Saw some friends and just had dinner and chatted. Grateful they came to hang out.
Can't wait to move closer to civilisation.
Not so bad outside as it's overcast rather than skin-peelingly burning hot. Wait for blood test took an hour but at least it was air conditioned inside so I caught up on my crosswords. Grabbed some Argentinean empanadas for lunch on a whim (yum!!!), and a late coffee... Apt has stayed pretty nice and cool so far. I've been running the extractor fan in the bathroom which I think is kinda sorta helping to suck cool air in from the lounge via the bedroom?
Cringing a bit at how much drying I'll need to do at the laundromat. I've put the towels to air dry a bit in the bathroom until I'm ready to go so there's less paid drying involved. So dumb to have to use a dryer on a day like today. I won't be here long enough to warrant buying a dryer for the unit, either... once I've opened up more space here I'll look into some strategic clothes horse positions for drying work clothes and the like.
I will say there is something about living within walking distance to SO much stuff and activity (but not having to hear most of it at home). It's like being on holiday in a downtown airbnb.
What you're describing sounds like heaven to me at the moment.
I cannot wait to leave this area and side of town. It was a giant waste of time anyway.
I can definitely appreciate how you feel, it's how I felt when I first came to Aus and the first few years were all in deep suburbia where i couldn't fathom the way of life. I can kind of see why Richmond rentals attract a premium compared to say the equivalent in Hawthorn, simply for the vibrancy and density. Still overpriced IMO and no longer my thing but I can try and enjoy it while I'm here (while trying not to spend too much... none of this fun is for free)
Great. That’s all I need.
I think the split system using AC is leaking into the roof and wet spots and stuff have appeared.
Only noticed it today.
No proof that it the AC but I can’t think of any recent rain that could have caused it.
Dammit :(
From experience get on top of that asap. trust me.
I’ll have to.
It’s appeared in strange spots but I’m not sure how the piping was down and is actually causing the wet spots
Just trying not to stress about it but I guess I am and it’s coming out in really bad ways right now
No man in banh mi shop line, standing super close behind me will not get you served faster.
That really icks me.
Some people literally have no self-awareness.
I have shouted at people standing very close behind me at atm and registers. ( this is not like me but when people wont listen to soft words said 5 times I will shout ) Even when you tell them they just don't understand personal space.
Fart loudly
I may have honed my ability to mimic very wet and juicy fart noises with my mouth for such situations.
I thought I was being responsible when I decided that 5 hours sleep was enough and I should get my lazy ass out of bed.
Bup bow.
Edit: about to kick off nap #3
dinner has been cooked and eat. I had a shake and one thai small chicken skewer with onion and capsicum, no sauce on it.
There is also pineapple fried rice.
num, skewers
::: spoiler spoiler :::
I rilly want to eat some more
I'm incredibly impressed with your mental fortitude if you resisted. But if you didn't, I completely understand. Especially with the pineapple. Oh boy.
weather is body temperature, plus fan forced eh? alrighty heading out now let's do this
I will bring a palm leaf following in tow ready to fan you and feed you mildly cold grapes if the wind dies down.
I am so far still fine. The buses are air-conditioned and cooler than home. Hopefully the trains too. The next challenge is getting food from the city, then getting to the venue by tram.
I had I think, 4 naps total today lol
Same. RIP
i'm tired now but still have a few chores 🥱
🙌🏼
We are so hot 🥵
Okay, now I need to watch The Fifth Element again.
It's on SBS On Demand, super green!
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/the-fifth-element/643564099829
Oooh, nice, thanks for the tip! That sounds like a great plan for a lazy Saturday afternoon 😊
That cool change is 💯
I wish! Here in Thornbury the temperature has dropped, the wind has dropped, but not the rain. Yet. Sticky and not pleasant rn.
Far too hot.
There is also about a 50% chance that the air conditioning at work will end up being too cold at some point today, so I have brought in my cardigan.
I've got the opposite problem of working in a large non air-conditioned factory kitchen. It gets stinkingly oppressive "I can't do this anymore" hot. Both extremes of temperature suck. My sinuses play up with too-cold aircon. But I'm thinking of bringing in one of those misting fan cooler things that you put iced water in the top of. I'll wear it lol.
I can’t decide what movie to put on
Do you like action and comedy? I saw Bullet Train recently and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Shrek
The Mummy!!!
Has to be the Brandon Frasier one.
It's the only one that matters!!
who even thinks anything else?
The Road. You'll feel cold.
For people watching this, you must watch it until the end.
and make sure your schedule is clear for the next few hours
Walkabout.
Paris, Texas.
Still waiting for the rain here.....come on sky gods.....let me have it!
pounds fist WHAR RAIN
🤷♀️
Neeeeeed rain. Plz
looks like the rain is going south
Radar says rains in Colac.
Any time it's stupid hot, or raining really hard, people forget how to drive 😭😂
Big breakfast devoured. Now I don't need to leave my apartment again today
Been sweating? Might be craving the salt
I’ve hurt my foot. Not sure yet how bad it is but it was a decent one
today is a good day to rest 🫂
Out and about. Took some serious self-convincing. Overcast, but still feels like burning face off weather.
So many of my favourite chicken sandwiches available I have no appetite for it. Also, weirdo I am I still have hot coffee in this weather… Somehow I have received an iced one. I must look like I need it.
27C inside is a perfectly fine temperature, Tropical Meat thinks.
Arctic meat finds those sorts of temperatures are a prompt to lie on the floor and cry
It is not advised that you further deprive yourself of water and electrolytes .
It would help me die quicker, which at high temperatures is pretty much what I feel like doing.
Fortunately the work air conditioning is cranked up. I might need to put my cardigan on.
These overcast skies are blueballing meeeeee
Just rain already ffs!!!
this is tropical. and let me get to more permanent shelter first please
Just got through the first season of Happy Valley. For all the typical story beats, dang is this well acted and the dialogue tightly written... Sarah Lancashire is amazing. And I absolutely want to murder Tommy Lee Royce.
Also strikes me how much technology had changed in ten years. None of the kids are glued to mobile devices...
E: that pizza absolutely hit the spot too, perfectly greasy and salty and spiced and faux-meaty. I'm ready for bed soon I think.
Great show
I'm sold. 🙂
Hired a goget car to do Saturday stuffs. Now waiting for train. It's hawt.
Lost another Wicket.
This could be over by tomorrow afternoon.
Also we’re not even halfway to India’s score.
Market shop complete. I have procured
You've got me craving ocean perch as well tonight! Nice bit of grilled fish with spinach, potat and an orange dressing...
I must be out of sync, I did grilled fish last night. Snapper, not perch though.
Oh man. I wish I lived somewhere I could set up a hammock outside and chill out with a book
it's a little warm, egg nishna has been switched on
To make up for not feeling hungry this morning I now have a horrific craving for greasy sausages. I wonder if the Coles nearby has the brand of vegan snags I like. But after this morning's jaunt and then the boiling hot laundromat journey I'm not going out again. Ikea and the lot can be left to tomorrow.
...although, despite my recent extravagance^, I think I'll go for that pizza dinner. They do a mock beef Mexican, i have to try it.
Gonna have to work extra hard over the next few weeks to make up for some of this.
^ (and also eyeing off a $750 phone to buy on sale to replace my device bricked by the 3g shut down)
I used to love these but my local stupormarkets don't stock them anymore 🙁 They had a black bean and beetroot flavour I liked too.
I loved those, and the Eaty brand - both disappeared :( then vEEF brought in some nice ones but they then proceeded to be constantly sold out at the Woolies near my old place
Why do they do this‽ They stock a ridiculous amount of veggie burger patty type of things, the kind of things that are crazy easy to make yourself, but not sausagey things which are not easy to make at home 🤷🏼♀️
Ugh, i know right? I basically never use the patties but the snags really hit the spot especially for breaking. I shall go suss it out tomorrow
I feel kind of dumb for staying up until 3 to finish a negroni I made where I overestimated the quantities. At least it has been a good day to stay home and do nothing
The cool change has come across at just the right time. It has cooled down enough that I could take Mr Woof for our after work walk, and we are done in plenty of time to avoid the rain.
Good ocean swim. Needed that.
Blerrghhhhh
Come on rain. Come on!!!
hold off until all my washing is dry ...lol 🤞
It's coming!
Fuck yes!!!!
Im heading out in about an hour. Would be good to know whether to take my jacket or not.
The wimd is definitely picking up
Somehow my comment disappeared into the ether.
I am out with the masses after a late dinner of wagyu beef roll wirh dipping gravy. Om nom.
What dis weather, though.
Humid and ambient heat seeping through the pores of the city.
ugh, trying to do a crossword and the clues just keep moving up and down, forcing me to keep looking for them and messing with my head and eyes
think I'll drop that one
seriously, reminds me of early tv when they would use special effects just because they could even tho they looked shit and had no actual artistic purpose
I have stuff to do, made a kinda list. I suppose if work thru it slowly it's still done, eh 🤷♀️
mmkay, two things crossed off list, the searching thru boxes to get european art papers
I am hearing the rains
Going out for an early market run before it gets even hotter. Anyone want anything?
Hmmm how about supplies for an English breakfast?
🍳 🥓 🫘 🫘 🫘 🍞 🍅 🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃 🍄🟫 🍄🟫 🌶️ 🧄
Much appreciated :)
I need a bag of Charlie Carp fertilizer pellets...
An iced coffee would be great too - does anyone at the market do a Vietnamese coffee?
There’s a Viet place - doing banh mi et al - at the back corner of A shed, in one of the permanent brick shops. They’re lovely people, and will do you as much ca phe as you desire
I finished The House on the Borderlands yesterday. It was ok. Not as engrossing as The Night Lands but still very imaginative and having all the elements of a gothic novel.
I've read the Poe short stories just a few years back in a lovely edition called Steampunk Poe, so I might skip them for now.
Gormenghast? It's been quite a while since I've read the trilogy, I find the characters and the world engrossing. 🙂 Greatly recommend. I think I'll do this, then Poe novels and some HP Lovecraft. These are all rereads of course, oh god I did so much reading in my 20s and 30s,
various renditions of Titus Groan have been sampled, the audible version is best and has been bought 👍
also, art books 🥶
we've had the rain, a small shower and now it's past
🙏
Drat this weather, I want a punk rock Snorlax!
Wait wait wait what?! PokeGo?? runs to Google
Yes. Shiny Snorlax with a jacket. I can't quite reach the gym from home and am NOT going out
Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
I'll have one of those gelati cones with all the flavours please.
🍧🍌🍇🐟
A bucket of biryani pls.
🍚🐟🥦🥕🥒🪣
🥭🧊
A bucket of frozen grapes and a slingshot please
🍇🪣🏗️
I already had some cardboard I’d sealed with water based gloss medium, intended for painting on. And a bunch of brushes. So I picked the largest flat brush and painted a thin layer of dark yellow. When that’s dry I’ll do another and then a few layers of light yellow.
It bugs me to be using up my paints (especially one colour) but having a practical need did lead to actually using it.
I knew cardboard would be a terrible canvas (hence attempts at sealing) and only for early practice but wow. Even with the layer of medium underneath it basically drank the paint. Which I knew it would but not to this degree.
::: spoiler Paint rambles
Despite trying to coat thinly and smoothly it was impossible to avoid streaking and brush marks because the acrylic Anko paint actually started drying while I was still working and I had to use much more of it at once to spread it.
What I should have done was mix in some of the clear medium so it wouldn’t dry so fast. It would have been less pigmented which is bad because it took thick layers to even show up, but it wouldn’t have looked so rough. Upside is I won’t mind that this is disposable. But it took most of both my tubes of yellow. I should have just ordered poster paint. :::
I’ve been trying not to feed them as much but one of the magpies approached me when I went out to rinse my brush under an outside tap. Flew right up close and looked at me. It looked like a female maybe. Broken top beak. I nipped inside to grab some of Melbcat’s pet jerky and threw the magpie some crumbled pieces.
I’m wondering if I’ve done a bad and made the magpies too dependent and trusting of humans. Also worried about whether this bird can eat properly. But I’m not going to be able to catch it for treatment.
Nah, a one off won't do damage. But it does mean you're unlikely to get swooped
I was feeding them a fair bit before. (High quality high protein nutritionally complete cat food from a bag Melbcat didn’t like.)
A bit worried if this bird is ok
fast drying happens on these too hot days
for spreading maybe use a piece of plastic or card , not a brush which is too slow ( I have been reading many books on painting lately , I painted the furniture and am doing watercolours too )
I do have some expired Myki cards
Melbcat keeps licking herself in the exact same place and has made an itchy hotspot…
I can’t find her cone of shame to stop her and it’s a hassle to buy a bib but I managed to get a baby onesie that might fit over her upper body and stop her accessing it.
if it's stress, I got misha one of those fake fur spreads from the reject shop and she obsessively grooms that when upset instead.
Yeah it started during cleaning for an inspection (she hates cleaning and I’d run out of zylkene) and it’s persisted for some reason. She’s back on the zylkene but a lower dose than previously
I have a faux fur blanket but she doesn’t lick it
🐟
🐩
🐁
Anyone around Fitzroy + surrounds know who stocks Honest Eggs?
Beach walk and quick shopping trip done, now to hide inside for the day and plan/book a trip. Cool thoughts to you all!
The leaves of my zucchini have tiny bugs on them and the interbutts tells me it’s whiteflies.
Guess I’m about to be mixing a soapy water solution and painting paper strips yellow to make sticky traps with Vaseline and dish soap.
Edit: ok apparently soapy water is harmful to plants
just wipe them off by hand
Crushed a few by hand but they fly away fast
The rain has not yet arrived. Can it hurry up I want the hot day rain smell.