Well, I opened my mouth a bit to soon. It appears kitty passed away sometime in the night on the couch nestled among the pillows. Had to wake the poor housemate up and give her the news, and she is not taking it well.

R.I.P to the little man himself.

Just wanted quickly pop in and say thank you all for your words of condolence this morning, they were much appreciated. It's going to be a bit sad for a while, but all will be well again soon.

Housemate has decided to have him cremated (he was technically theirs), and I've secretly called the crematorium to have him upgraded to an urn that looks like a sleeping cat, so he will look nice amongst their little fancy knick knacks shelf.

At the local shops saw a bloke with a 'Vote No' t-shirt. Held my stare a bit too long and he saw me shaking my head.

He got a bit fired up and asked me if I disagree with his opinion.

I told him that I was actually wondering why he didn't buy one in his size, cause his gut was hanging out of the bottom.

He called me an 'abo cunt' and a few other choice words while he stormed off.

I love people sometimes :)

Lookit my birthday babies, 11 today!

My wife really knows some really simple recipes that are delicious.

A few days ago she prepared some chopped up tomatoes, shallots, seasoned with a bit of salt. Loved it.

Last week when I asked her what she wanted for breakfast, she responded with rice and bacon, nothing else. Also loved it.

I won. It pays to hold a lot of random shit in your brain.

For the love of God they're rewatching the match 🙃

I've come to feed my friends cats and I don't know why I'm speaking to them like they're little kids.

Welp that's the rest of my weekend fucked. I was ok with not going anywhere too far and once a day popping over to my friends place to look after her cats while she's interstate but this morning as I was taking her to the airport I got a phone call from my dad's friend saying dad's sick and he's asked if I can come and stay at the house. So I'll have to drive from Melton back into my place in Docklands, then scoot over to hers to look after the cats (no parking at hers) then come back here to Melton.

Dad has taken up residence in the lounge with a spew bucket so I don't want to be near that. I've just taken myself to a back bedroom where I've just got my phone to keep entertained, ready to be called in when he needs something.

I guess that means I could get a Buddy's pie for lunch though. I better not catch whatever dad's got or I'll be PISSED.

Today my evil plan to mow the lawns while the GF is on may have to be postponed due to hot weather (not good for lawns). So I'm going to start up the mower at 8.30 am precisely to wake everyone up so that they can get ready for the GF or whatever they plan to do. It's a public service really.

As I will soon be having my own kitchen (for the first time in 2 years) and I want to continue my healthy eating/losing weight, does anyone have some good websites for healthy dinner recipes? Trying to get on top of it so I don't get junk food under the guise of 'I just moved, you deserve it'.

Plus I am excited to learn to cook.

Handing back bboi butters to SIL today.

He's had quite the adventure.

So glad nothing bad happened to him. Objectively every time I look after him it's just mind boggling how intelligent and clever he is. I thought my old abyssinian was up there but this thing is a few steps beyond that.

Bit of a relief handing back really. No type of door will stop that cat.

Looks like dad may have just had food poisoning, he's feeling a lot better now so I've been released into the world. About to head back to the city but couldn't resist my curiosity for one of these local sausage rolls before I go. They must be good because they're the only thing sold out but they're making more, but I gotta wait.

Continuing my evening of decadence, I just ate some apple crumble that I got from a nearby Vietnamese bakery and omg it was a mouth orgasm.

Always takes more time to cook in an unfamiliar kitchen and especially one that is cleaned so meticulously that you're conscious of keeping it spotless when you're done. Anyway, at long last, dinner is served. I posted more about the Mexican rice and the jackfruit side on Food Australia here. and after that post I put together a red cabbage and carrot slaw using this recipe.

And just like that a Trailing ice plant appeared

These flowers close at sunset which is trippy.

i just want not collingwood to win

I may have eaten too many party pies. It will be a light dinner tonight for sure.

I have made a new post in Food Australia for Minimal effort required recipes so if you have any please share them there. Cheers

https://aussie.zone/post/2521658

Ate a bit too much and now stuck in a stupor. Have picked up groceries to cook for tonight and the one thing that snapped me out of feeling lobotomised was the outrageousness of paying $3 for one of those stupid little plastic trays of coriander - not even a whole bunch but a few measly leaves. I felt dirty paying for it because I had nowhere else to get any nearby. Coriander: definitely one of those things totally worth growing if you can.

One good friend of mine is a hard core Collingwood supporter. Another good friend of mine passionately supports Brisbane. Both want me on their side today. Today’s Grand Final will be…something I have to carefully negotiate. Help!

Finally finished my last assignment for this trimesters unit. It was a group assignment. 4 in a group. 2 did nothing. How is it fair my grade suffers because of them?

Group work sucks. Online group work is even worse.

Happy Game Day people. Should be interesting with the wind picking up.

Went out rental scooting after taking care of the cats. It's lovely out. Missed a phone call from my nan, she leaves a voicemail message "it's not important, just wondering how your dad is" (no idea why she didn't call him) so I keep scooting. She calls 4 more times in 5 minutes. Leaves another almost identical voicemail message. Old people.

Am I the only one that doesn't care about the game today? XD For me it's just a normal Saturday with chores and gym (but killer weather!)

2% of Melbourne was at the MCG today.

Carn the Pies

So glad work was quiet today. Stopped off at coles on the way home and I've never seen northcote plaza so quiet. It was also great for autistic butt to be able to shop at coles with barely any people. There should be grand finals every day. Also, I don't follow footy at all but may Collingwood die on the field and suffer in their jocks for eternity. I want to drink their miserable tears and gain sustenance and power from their grief.

Putting my new aircon to the test tonight for the first time. I'm feeling absolutely decadent and positively Marie Antoinette- esque.

Trying to psych myself up to crawl over to the shops for catfood, milk, and coffee. Ughhhh someone roll me over there.

What’s up with this halftime show? Bit of a snooze-fest.

booooooo

Good news. I'm winning at trivia. Bad news. I need to brush up on my golfing knowledge.

Welp, my day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable.

AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I don't enjoy knowing hot weather is coming. I do not like the sweaty time of year.

I have eaten well today. Half a plate of fries and 2 meat pies and now have a fresh brewed coffee.

I’m actually still pretty full at the moment.

All while watching the grand final.

Brilliant and bright out in Brisbane today, gonna go to GOMA, have a nice lunch, stroll around and try not to get burnt, then get the hell back before all the afl excitement shenanigans potentially start.

It's worth noting how brown the grass is and how much earlier the jacarandas have come out.

I actually own a Collingwood scarf from back when I used to watch the game with my best mate and his family who were Collingwood diehards, it was more fun to follow with them. Especially when they won a grand final and we all got real REAL drunk and sang and cried and hugged. It was a good time. I haven't seen him or them for about 9 years. I should really get rid of the scarf because I feel nothing that they won just now.

No one realises this but either way dentists still win.

Glaze took 5-6 hours to process 4 small images on medium and just returned an error on my favourite one... Fuckkkk. But I can post the landscapes now (as late as it is). The picture of Melbcat can be posted tomorrow.

Keep in mind that while I did traditional art as a kid I've been art blocked for a long time. I'm also new to digital, this was done on a phone screen half the size of a hanky and also in the first few weeks of having the app. So I was and am still learning to use it. (If this post is still being weird - there are three pieces of art.)

This is the chronological first one. It's so intensely blue because it's meant to be at the 'blue hour' of dawn or dusk. I like the colours I randomly picked by eye but it's overall it's a bit dark to see well at smaller sizes. Opening it in a new tab helps.

I don't like these colours as much. I picked from a premade palette and the colours are a little samey. It's early morning and breezes are kicking up hayfevery pollen.

Same deal, premade palette. To be honest this was just done acting on a simple piece of advice for breaking art block. "Draw a cactus."

Help!?

What on earth do you get a 12 year old girl you don't know well for a birthday present? She isn't close to my son and he's totally clueless as to her likes and interests.

Edit: Thanks so much everyone, I went from having no idea what a girl gets for a birthday to debating options with my son. I was set to get her the beads, even had them in my hand and he was certain that she wouldn't like them - instead she'd like a basketball. Which is what we ended up getting. I'm saving this thread though, there are more 12 year old parties on the horizon. I need to investigate Typo. It sounds like it fills the hole left from growing out of Smiggle.

18C overnight? I don't know how to process that.

Ooh we get another day of weekend tomorrow. Even if it is slightly shorter than usual. It feels like Sunday night BUT ITS NOT!!

Not in a great mood but we're gonna get there people we're doin the thingos!

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