Broke some new ground with singing tonight. Did a specific warm up for 10 mins and I learned a song I'd been desperately trying to learn for years in 20 mins.
The Goddess of Quanitity is smiling upon me today. The soup I made filled exactly the right number of jars to completely fill my canner (17 jars) with just enough left for a small bowl for entree.
It is a chicken & tomato soup, with lots of vegies, like zucchini and capsicum. A lot of the vegies are from my garden, including a few kilos of cooking tomatoes.
A woman we know that has A Lot Going On recently posted she got baptised into the Church of Latter Day Saints. That's the Mormons for the more common terminology. We knew she was on a bit more of a religious bent, but I thought that would just be liking fake bible verses on Facebook. I don't even know how she got caught up in it
Certainty, even a false certainty, has a deep attraction for the troubled or lost or otherwise disconnected. Under those circumstances, it really wouldn't take much to get sucked into a religious (or other) social vortex. I hope all goes well for her - the Mormons are not the worst, though I find their attitudes to femininity to be not very wholesome. And they do do a lot a doorknocking etc.
She's had a lot go on in her life so I'm not surprised she has gravitated towards something like this, it's just odd she ended up at the Mormon church of all places
I want to know what kicked it off, or what steps led up to this. She's Italian so I'd have thought her family would at least be performatively catholic
I'm thinking of moving to Melbourne this year from Sydney, and I've just started doing my research into the different suburbs etc. to try and narrow down on places to live. I'm currently looking at Coburg, Thornbury or Preston.
Any advice? Places to avoid, places to check out? Thankyou ☺️
I live in Brunswick on Syndey Road, have been here for 6 years. Avoid street level residences, aim for an apartment. This will keep you up off the street, as Melbourne (particulaly the inner suburbs) have a meth and homelessness issue. You'll hear them yodel around at odd hours, and verbally cuss themselves out lol, but staying off street level means it's just entertainment (dark humour sorry).
Otherwise I love it here. Everything is walking distance, close enough to the CBD without it being a hassle, Sydney road street party is great fun, always something artsy or niche to attend, lots of gigs, trivia nights, foods, etc.
Preston is weird. The western part is and has been predominantly residential and pretty nice. However, East Preston is still industrial and also has a lot of 'social housing', so pick which bit carefully. The border betwen east and west runs down the railway line pretty much. It's close to places like Northland if you like big shopping malls. It also has ongoing environmental pollution issues due to past heavy industry and chemical spills etc. So if you are purchasing, consider getting soil tests done. Parts also have some issues with termites but the council has been getting on top of those pretty well over the last 10 years or so.
Welcome to Thornbury! That is, if you decide to come here. I like this suburb a lot and live here. Great public transport, good food shopping/dining options, entertainment options, health care providers, and Merri Creek is pretty much a linear park from the city out to the outer suburbs. Good bike options too. But I am biased.
Thankyou! From what I'm seeing online, Thornbury is definitely pulling ahead for me, and rental prices seem pretty reasonable (especially in comparison to here in Sydney lol)
Some of Footscray/braybrook/maidstone has drug & related issues. As does Coburg/brunswick. I wish I could have afforded Seddon, which is close enough to problem bits to lob a tennis ball at. 🤷♀️
how is it there are so many loathsome people in the world
Was it always this bad? Maybe cities are now so big peer group pressure is non existent and it's hard to get intervention so the bad people act out without consequences
Forgot to mention earlier - the first horse mushrooms are appearing on the nature strips of Thornbury. They look like the bought ones but aren't as edible.
After many days of slothfulness after feeling a bit unwell I am back onto Doing Things.
A new veg box arrived yesterday, so I'm doing a final clearout of some of the older stuff. Primarily finishing off some soup and doing a tray bake of vegies for meals over the next few days at work. Plus I'll do a few salads, for lunches and/or side dishes for dinners, depending on how much stuff I end up having.
Big day today. Did the munnel. Went to Footscray. Went to Watergardens and bought some Skechers.
I've tried boba tea about 4 times now and I find it hard to navigate the balls. I know they're in my mouth, I try to swallow, realise they're too big so I start chewing and they still won't go down. It's such a weird sensation to chew the drink.
I have been listening to the audiobook "Chasing the Scream" by Johann Hari.
😐😐😐 The drug war was started by a government as corrupt as the trumps, the Harding admin took cash from the mafia to make drugs illegal so the mafia could have a new prohibition market. Part of this was striking off many thousands of doctors who were caring for addict patients. They drove pharmaceutical companies into the ground. Prices went from pennies to dollars. Treatment became illegal. Crime soared.
( The Harding admin caused /oversaw the Gilded Age and the Great Crash, just like trumps )
millions and millions of people have suffered or died because of appalling government corruption
i might never have believed it until I saw how corrupt the trumps are
Broke some new ground with singing tonight. Did a specific warm up for 10 mins and I learned a song I'd been desperately trying to learn for years in 20 mins.
Also, something bad is about to happen to me
Punishment snuggles I reckon.
That's the look why am I so hungry 😢
Beep Beep 🚚
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Pretzels & pate & pickles please chef.
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Oooh yum! Thanks chef.
Pie with a hidden pea please
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A tray of triangle sandwiches please.
📐📐📐📐📐📐📐
Thanks chef
Various snacky bits and a can of lemon sparkling water please
🥨🥓🍟🍊🍎🍒🍋🛢️
French vanilla ice cream with Vegemite caramel swirled through and a long black. please and thank you.
🇫🇷🍯🍨🍯☕️
My luck with Marvel Stadium seating continues.
I'm in the fucking rafters
The Goddess of Quanitity is smiling upon me today. The soup I made filled exactly the right number of jars to completely fill my canner (17 jars) with just enough left for a small bowl for entree.
It is a chicken & tomato soup, with lots of vegies, like zucchini and capsicum. A lot of the vegies are from my garden, including a few kilos of cooking tomatoes.
Happy Saturday to all those who celebrate
Praise Saturn
Mars is bright tonight.
they are alright tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7eJEXj8QNA
That place has reminded me I made this 6 years ago in the midst of lockdown baking frenzy
That looks pretty awesome
what was I doing?
I made over 300 face masks
A prodigious effort! And I recognise that cat print
That's so cute and so well made. 😍
Eh, It's a modification. De-branding a coffee merch item from an event Boyo worked.
It's really good. 🙂
Heheheh couple thousand ear savers printed and dispersed here
What are ear savers?
These babies
A dragon with kittens?
Eggs & a coin hoard if I recall correctly
Smaug?
A woman we know that has A Lot Going On recently posted she got baptised into the Church of Latter Day Saints. That's the Mormons for the more common terminology. We knew she was on a bit more of a religious bent, but I thought that would just be liking fake bible verses on Facebook. I don't even know how she got caught up in it
Certainty, even a false certainty, has a deep attraction for the troubled or lost or otherwise disconnected. Under those circumstances, it really wouldn't take much to get sucked into a religious (or other) social vortex. I hope all goes well for her - the Mormons are not the worst, though I find their attitudes to femininity to be not very wholesome. And they do do a lot a doorknocking etc.
She's had a lot go on in her life so I'm not surprised she has gravitated towards something like this, it's just odd she ended up at the Mormon church of all places
it happens slowly
I want to know what kicked it off, or what steps led up to this. She's Italian so I'd have thought her family would at least be performatively catholic
the most likely scenarios are she had a friend who was mormon or she was recruited on line on social media
Ask them about their weird undies!!
I'll keep an eye on her when we run into each other at the childcare centre and see if she dresses differently
Hii everyone!
I'm thinking of moving to Melbourne this year from Sydney, and I've just started doing my research into the different suburbs etc. to try and narrow down on places to live. I'm currently looking at Coburg, Thornbury or Preston.
Any advice? Places to avoid, places to check out? Thankyou ☺️
I live in Brunswick on Syndey Road, have been here for 6 years. Avoid street level residences, aim for an apartment. This will keep you up off the street, as Melbourne (particulaly the inner suburbs) have a meth and homelessness issue. You'll hear them yodel around at odd hours, and verbally cuss themselves out lol, but staying off street level means it's just entertainment (dark humour sorry).
Otherwise I love it here. Everything is walking distance, close enough to the CBD without it being a hassle, Sydney road street party is great fun, always something artsy or niche to attend, lots of gigs, trivia nights, foods, etc.
Thanks for the advice! Will definitely keep that in mind about street level
From your list I'm guessing you want affordable, decent PT, and close enough to Things to Do? Consider Niddrie. Nobody has ever heard of it
Preston is weird. The western part is and has been predominantly residential and pretty nice. However, East Preston is still industrial and also has a lot of 'social housing', so pick which bit carefully. The border betwen east and west runs down the railway line pretty much. It's close to places like Northland if you like big shopping malls. It also has ongoing environmental pollution issues due to past heavy industry and chemical spills etc. So if you are purchasing, consider getting soil tests done. Parts also have some issues with termites but the council has been getting on top of those pretty well over the last 10 years or so.
Thanks for the heads up on Preston! The more I look into the place, the less I want to live there lol
West Preston is great. East Preston, not so much.
Avoid the West.
Coburg is great.
Piffle! I've been West the entire time I've been in Melb. It's streets and pocket areas not whole suburbs and regions that have issues.
Your end is nice. My end is fucking awful lol
Why avoid the west?
And thanks! I'll continue to look around Coburg. Any opinions on Thornbury?
Welcome to Thornbury! That is, if you decide to come here. I like this suburb a lot and live here. Great public transport, good food shopping/dining options, entertainment options, health care providers, and Merri Creek is pretty much a linear park from the city out to the outer suburbs. Good bike options too. But I am biased.
Thankyou! From what I'm seeing online, Thornbury is definitely pulling ahead for me, and rental prices seem pretty reasonable (especially in comparison to here in Sydney lol)
Some of Footscray/braybrook/maidstone has drug & related issues. As does Coburg/brunswick. I wish I could have afforded Seddon, which is close enough to problem bits to lob a tennis ball at. 🤷♀️
Ah thanks for the heads up on that!
The heinous bitch next door is attempting to kick out her daughter. TheVoid peed himself in fear of the ruckus. Finger hovering on police button...
it's a difficult one
a woman like that would blame the daughter for having the police come and abuse might intensify when police leave
She's doing it. There's a pile of garbage bags and backpacks out the front
so the daughter is leaving of her own volition? How old is she?
This is awful.
No. The mother chucked the stuff. Maybe 20? Unless it's the one in year 12 instead. Suspect not.
I fucking loathe these people.
how is it there are so many loathsome people in the world
Was it always this bad? Maybe cities are now so big peer group pressure is non existent and it's hard to get intervention so the bad people act out without consequences
Gawd that took all day :(
Whoever put that in a few decades ago went so deep the concrete had fused with the clay and then bedrock about a metre down 😶
My back isn't built for that.
Would've taken someone who knew what they were doing probably an hour lol.
Or 5 min with a jackhammer?
lol probably :)
That is a very impressive effort. You'd pay a personal trainer lots of money to make you work that hard, so you've saved money on two things.
Good work. Digging clay sucks. Consider getting a massage when you're done.
Due to parenting stuff....went to bed late last night and had to get up early today.
All good. Had a productive day.
Was looking forward to a nap and managed 15 minutes. Nothing woke me up, that's just how long I slept.
Korean food for dinner.
Had a few drinks and had a few puffs of the devil's lettuce
Great fucking Saturday
I don’t normally buy eggs, but am craving omelette-adjacency
Osaka Bench has omurice that is top notch
Morning. It is Market Time
Could you pick me up some yuzu and a buddha's hand please. I have enough rhubarb. If it's no bother, that is.
🍋 🕉️✋
Thanks! Preston market was completely out of buddha's hands yesterday, and there's a recipie I want to try.
First parkrun in a while, with a cold, almost died. This song came on with about 1.5km to go ....
In the face of evil - magic sword
...finished the run feeling like an 80s movie hero
Cats fed.
Gym done.
House clean.
Time to play the new Lego batman game.
Forgot to mention earlier - the first horse mushrooms are appearing on the nature strips of Thornbury. They look like the bought ones but aren't as edible.
After many days of slothfulness after feeling a bit unwell I am back onto Doing Things.
A new veg box arrived yesterday, so I'm doing a final clearout of some of the older stuff. Primarily finishing off some soup and doing a tray bake of vegies for meals over the next few days at work. Plus I'll do a few salads, for lunches and/or side dishes for dinners, depending on how much stuff I end up having.
good t hear you're doing better 🙂
Big day today. Did the munnel. Went to Footscray. Went to Watergardens and bought some Skechers.
I've tried boba tea about 4 times now and I find it hard to navigate the balls. I know they're in my mouth, I try to swallow, realise they're too big so I start chewing and they still won't go down. It's such a weird sensation to chew the drink.
awful week, still tired and headachy but am getting bored
mr seagoon has been an angel
I have been listening to the audiobook "Chasing the Scream" by Johann Hari.
😐😐😐 The drug war was started by a government as corrupt as the trumps, the Harding admin took cash from the mafia to make drugs illegal so the mafia could have a new prohibition market. Part of this was striking off many thousands of doctors who were caring for addict patients. They drove pharmaceutical companies into the ground. Prices went from pennies to dollars. Treatment became illegal. Crime soared.
( The Harding admin caused /oversaw the Gilded Age and the Great Crash, just like trumps )
millions and millions of people have suffered or died because of appalling government corruption
i might never have believed it until I saw how corrupt the trumps are
Time for a coffee and lunch. 🙂
There's a metal gig at the bendi probably no one will go to I'd like to check out if the kids and energy line up
Good night everyone, sweet dreams 😘
dinner tonight will be chicken cottage pie, I will make enough for 3 or 4 nights
We're looking at cheese toastie and tomato soup. Simple yet pleasing.
that sounds really delicious, gruyere toasties are my fave 😢