Hampton red rooster is an absolute fucking shitshow. I ordered three items and they couldn’t get a single one right. Satisfryer was missing chicken, pineapple and drink (and chips were wrong size), popcorn chicken entirely absent (about which my cats are pissed ) and flayva was a bbq. Which i did not order.
Straight to chargeback ya cunts.
I’ve found more and more fast food, the people making it just don’t care. Even my local HSP place will put the cheese on top if I’m not in store to correct them during construction. These days I tend to only get hamburgers from maccas because they’re $2ea and simple, the still get stuffed up - sauce on the side, pickles falling out - it’s not hard, they’re the most simple burger.
I told the man if he insists on keeping The Beard during Winter, then atleast trim it away from the top lip because sitting here whilst enjoying my dinner, I have seen some disturbing things.
do not make leek soup
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Sent off an email to the general manager to have a meeting face to face next week about the police check.
I expect to lose the contract, but I still have a little hope that I won’t.
Also I have a migraine😔
Goodnight everyone ❤️
gentle hugs and a cup of tea
I feel guilty about spending money on self-care sort of things. My group training gym is kind of exxy, but from that, I have started to cook for myself and found a supportive community. I am likely starting piano lessons soon and I also wanna buy a guitar for fun? Then on top of wanting to travel and only having a small window to do so because of study, and everything necessary, it’s like should I just not do the music lessons, even though they will give me a sense of achievement and something else to do other than doomscroll all day?
There’s the saving for a house part as well. I’m very lucky to still live with my parents.
@LowExperience2368 @Seagoon_ piano and guitar? At the same time? Soprano ukulele fits in overhead luggage.
Eugénie Grandet by Balzac sheds a satirical light on the folly of hoarding your wealth. It’s not a long read and probably well out of copyright. If money isn’t for self care then what is it for?
Existential crisis 💫
(She gets half a roll of toilet paper for her nest every week after I clear away the old stuff. Thankfully, she just likes laying on it. No idea why)
Memories of being a kitten in a paper nest with her mum?
The things we do for our cats 😂 she looks so happy!
Paper is warm and dry like dry leaves in nature
I feel like I just saw a hot air balloon disappear behind some trees and land in Edinburgh Gardens. That can’t be normal.
Why? They land all over the place. The pilots do an amazing job of steering them, but are still at the mercy of the winds as to where they can go and can’t plan exactly where they will end up.
It was more in my 6 years of living this apartment I had never seen it before. More concerned than anything.
They used to land there (and take off) quite frequently. Mostly the open ground to the west of the park nearest to Queens Parade. My parents lived in Rowe St just up the hill - and their dog went crazy whenever the balloons showed up. High frequency noise I expect.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
One soft serve cone and a slice of pavlova please.
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Delicious, thank you.
If you still have those egg yolks available a nice apple crumble with custard would be appreciated.
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Bacon and eggs on toast with tea please Bacon.
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🍞☕️Thanks. Eggs are getting harder to find so I am very grateful.
Squid rings and chips, but instead of rings can you make them into cute shapes?
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Kawaiiii 😻
Help me hivemind: where have I hidden the double sided tape? It is not in the tape drawer (yes I have one of those)
I too have a tape / sticky thingos draw. I thought I was alone.
Also in the tape drawer club. It’s between the screw and nail draws.
Mine is on top of my stationery holder thingy.
I do too. Well it’s a stckly/attach things drawer. Has glue and picture hangers and stuff too.
I split those. Tiny glue tubes go in :Tools, pins, plugs. Hangers go in: Hooks & dodads Full size glue is mostly with paint.
Interrogate the cats. They know something.
I think I’ll head to the border for the night so I can smash out another 6-8 hours of my audiobook (Pet Sematary read by Dexter’s Michael C. Hall). I’ve been meaning to check out Yackandandah for a while so I can go by there as a detour on my way home tomorrow.
Plans: sorted. Well… nearly. I need to see if I can find a room up there.
Edit: sorted.
He’s got such a great voice! Enjoy the drive 🙂
For some reason I have Handel’s The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in my head this morning and I just imagine… cats. Specifically, a glossy-maned cat of regal bearing sauntering into a room on an overhead ledge and looking down on us unworthy humans. I am a bit cat-starved. I have much more freedom to adopt a cat compared to past years, but wondering if it’s a good time when I might need to cut back on work for a year to finish my studies…
Queen of Sheba
Eee that was my old abbys name.
She also enjoyed heights to the extent she’d make sure you were looking and jump off the roof (2nd floor) for sport.
There is fostering rescue cats - limited time commitment, big expenses paid for, and you get to help a cat learn that hoomans are good companions.
Logistics wise, unsure. But! A cat is the best study buddy. Mickey helped me heaps when I was at UniMelb, and prolly will again when I start TAFE. They just make it that much easier, even when sleeping on the laptop, pressing keys, or swatting all your pens. Good motivators but also good to remind you to take regular breaks, even if it’s a moment to pat them. Idk, it depends on your situation of course, but my mental health is so much better with a furry familiar
Oh, the mental health boost would be 1000000000000000000000000% there. But I know that on top of regular food I need to have an emergency fund for vet visits, etc, and just wondering if it’s a wise financial decision if I’ll be cutting my earnings (reducing my work hours) to study, not long after a period of already eating into my savings from unemployment and then travel and a car.
I also am not home a lot of the time and wonder if that’ll be good for the cat. At least having a WFH setup means that now even if I need to do a late day at work I can come home and finish off what’s needed and still feed kitty on time.
I will see what study leave options I can utilise at work to balance it all out. The truth is, on a single income, it’ll just take a rent hike to throw a lot of these plans in disarray. As much as I love cats I do not want to touch my savings again in order to afford having one…
The meat is finally in…
Ferociously hungry out of nowhere. Already had some jackfruit and cauliflower and two frozen fish fillets and I might end up having two more fillets. I kinda wish I had some chips in the freezer for days like today but it’s too cozy at home to bother going to the shops. Watching the first episode of The Gentlemen (tv series) but not really getting into it. Too much Guy Ritchie posturing vibes, lead actor is cardboard, and which idiot goes to a deal without a heavy? Eh, I’ll try one more episode
so tired, could barely sleep and strange dreams
Same. My father was in my dreams, so a bad mood waking up.
Heading to a dnb/jungle/dubstep gig tonight. Gonna see how many lemons I can give away.
Just some rando handing out lemons to randos.
Used to do it in the before times and they all went so keen to see if that still holds.
In this cost of living crisis, they would have to have clinical brain damage not to take free lemons.
It’s a dnb/jungle/dubstep gig - clinical brain damage not ruled out.
As much as I want to feel offended you’re quite right :)
Was not trying to directly imply the quantity of psychoactive substances ingested to refuse the offer of free citrus ;)
We’ll start with January’s numbat photo.
I reckon the Creator had some help from a graphic designer when he/she/it designed these. Same with loons.
loon