Aww! Just came home to find this hanging from my door handle. The other doors on my floor have the same.
I'm going out tomorrow night to see if I can find my "I have no family either" soul mate at a hole in the wall bar. Who knows right?
Good luck mate. I hope you find fun people 🤞
Someone on reddit is doing a Lost Souls xmas from 4 pm tomorrow - might be worth a look in.
Day 70/70: Final day of week 10 weigh in:
Down a total of 8.1kg for the 10 weeks.
I was dropping roughly a kilo per week until the end of November, when there were too many parties breaking the diet. I only dropped 400g last week.Most importantly, my running pace has improved. I managed my first 10km in under 50 minutes for the first time since my accident. More than dropping weight, this was the main purpose of the diet.
I'll try not to go too crazy with the food over the next few days, I don't want to put 8kg back on. 😃
I stopped on the way to Anglesea at the Waurn Ponds plaza because I remembered they had a shirt I wanted in stock at their Target. Got a park 1 spot away from the entrance immediately. Bought 2 shirts without waiting in any lines. Walked right up to Donut King and got 2 cinnamon donuts, no line. Drove to Anglesea and got a park immediately in front of the shops.
Even got a free surprise chip!
Today is going pretty well!
Yum yum.
Sounds like you’re having a good day today.
Enjoy the nice weather!
Chores and shopping done. Hopefully now the only reason to go outside in the next week is to enjoy the sun and/or eat myself silly with others.
Sore back is sore.
Oh no. Hopefully it's only temporary.
temporary 👍😊
Hey is anyone old enough to remember when TVs had Teletext? I used to like fiddling around with it when we first got a tv with it ( I was about 10 or 12 maybe). There was a stock market page that was insanely busy.
I accidentally pressed the button and got stuck in teletext on an older TV the other week.. buggered if I could figure my way back out of those options, but it’s still there.
I remember getting stuck too! I did something which made it split screen with Teletext and couldn't fix it quickly enough for my parents liking, who were heightening my fumbling by shouting angrily 😂
sure, I think that was in the mid 90s
Survived a social day. In reviewing today's play I can only see 1 overreaction and maybe 2-3 oversharing moments.
No anxiety though which is amazing. And didn't cause a scene (mind you, i generally tend to avoid those). Bloody exhausted though.
I was there 3000 years ago when the interwebs was just starting
and trolls were seen as trouble makers who would post to get people riled up and arguing . They thought it was fun and they liked to disrupt.
Now legacy newspapers and tv are trolls, posting bait to rile people up to get hits. They don't even believe half the shit they post.
It's not good enough, we deserve better.
Choose your news sources carefully.
I had to go to the shops (full shopping centre) and it surprisingly wasn't as bad as I expected, but I am very happy I have decent noise cancelling headphones. While there's kids melting down, people yelling at the underpaid security people, checkpoint alarms going off everywhere all I can hear is
🎵Do you like pina coladas
And getting caught in the rain
Are you not into yoga
Do you have half a brain🎵
Over-cater, me? Never!
🧀!
Looks amazing!! Cheese list, please?! I woke up at 5am thinking about cheeseboards.
Truffle Brie, jarlesburg, Mersey summer fruit, feta, havarti, 1833 cheddar
Fabulous!
Being an absolute Nana and crawling into bed mega early to read and pass out before things don't stop for 48hrs.
Psa. If you are having trouble with log ins and replies and such it's not you it's technical stuff going on. Don't make me explain in more detail because I couldn't possibly. Details are on the home page.
Just braved highpoint to grab a click and collect. That joint is chaos at the best of times. Stupidly grabbed a few more things and now I've got bulky items to carry home🤦🏻♀️ At least I bought myself a treat: The Body Shop vanilla eau de toilette and a white musk deodorant roll on. Love those two fragrances and haven't bought anything from body shop for myself for about 30 years. I will wrap them and put under the tree as gift to myself.
I’ve been using that deodorant for years. Love it.
Sister just sent me the pics she took. Me, hubs, niece A all sitting nice and grinning...and niece B rolling on the couch on her face with her skirt up around her ears
First attempt at making pad see ew. I tripled the sauce recipe as I made a bigger serve, but I only needed to double it. Maths fail. This is very saucy! Will make again tho, much simpler than I expected.
I have braved the market for Christmas errands. Now I wrap.
I’m going to fuck this up but good
Anyone braving the shops today best of luck.
heading to the city right now
Good luck 🤞
Times like these I'm glad our family never did xmas. A relative in the 'Rat has invited me this year though so I got something for the little kiddo months ago... nobody else gets anything though.
I've got to bring a fancy salad though, and I almost never make them. And it has to be disassembled so it can survive a 2hr drive tomorrow afternoon to be reassembled on the other end.
I will have to steel myself and tackle the fancy grocery today.
I went to Costco on a rental scooter (not going near that carpark.. Costco weekend parkers are ALREADY bad enough) and every register had decent lines even 20 minutes after opening. Wasn't too painful though. Glad to have that done, was getting the last part of a xmas present. No more shopping required now, it's all leisure all the time!
Think I might pick up some of those Hard Solos on my way back from my drive today and give them a whirl later on. I hear they're pretty decent and taste just like regular Solo.
Highpoint. Ouch!
I've (foolishly) ended up needing to go to Officeworks to get a photo printed... I'm expecting to be there most of the morning.
I was in my local one about when you posted and it was quiet as - hope you're as fortunate!
I hope you make it out safely.
Preston market is heaving. And tomorrow will be worse.
Already been, I'm using a cinnamon scroll recipe that uses biscoff filling.
Whoa that looks amazing. Can you share some pics when it's done? Very interested.
Sky glowing. Gonna be chilly tonight.
O oh @[email protected] CEO - 2 Duenan - 0. Good luck with the Hurricanes buddy. I love watching Dooley play btw. 🏏
Yeah I missed the end of the last match before due to a nap I needed.
Oh wow. 3 wickets in such a small window. Woot!
Don't worry I too had a nap.
ahahha. ahahaha. MAWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
I have discovered bickfords iced coffee syrup. No carton of milk is safe.
Interesting.. I've been making my own espresso iced coffee at home. I might try this out though.
It's big M/ farmers, not an espresso or 'real' coffee, just for full disclosure.
I was just watching something before about becoming professional mermaids/mermen. Yeah I'm not talking about kids parties but actually grown ups making this a career. Not sure how it works, whether you need a sponsorship or perhaps advertise KFC on your backside but it's a thing. So if you are sick of your office job you too could become half human half fish and somehow get paid for it.
I was contacted through LinkedIn by a recruiter asking if I'd be interested in becoming a full-time merman for a Queenscliff based company, but something about it seemed fishy.
A missed opportunaty there.
Wooo mini Christmas with sis done. Oooh dem kiddies gonna sleep well tonight
I promised myself I wasn’t going to go out again and shop and here I am.
Luckily I could do a click and collect at a less busy place away from a shopping centre.
Parking was super easy too thanks to that but must hurry. Have to get home for the BBL cricket!
I AM HUNGRY
🧀🥒🧀🧅🧀🍓🧀
mmmmmmm cheeeeeeese
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Oh boy these Hard Solos are indeed quite dangerous. If I was served this in a glass I wouldn't know if it's boozy Solo or normal Solo.
Okay, I found a solution to my salad drama. Fennel!!! I freaking love the stuff - if it's roasted, usually, but maybe I can try shaving it very finely... For about 10 months of the year I forget it exists... got some green apple, pea shoots, arugula, Victorian walnuts, have a carrot and if I can find some raisins I'll chuck them in for colour. Amazingly, the fancy grocer had no oranges of any kind, so I've grabbed a lemon for acidity. That should do it, I hope!
Fennel & orange is fantastic. You may keep the walnuts.
I'm going to attempt to jump-start my new years resolution of spending less time on devices and more time with my hands so I'm going to start off by attempting to do honey roasted walnuts.
I also bought a shittonne of green beans as a backup so I am going to painstakingly start cutting them and prepping that now as a light and mildly curried side dish.
slow careful activity all day and my sore back is so much better
Ow my freakin ears. Cricket got spicy.
AI nightmare. You're welcome.
Well that was an interesting last over.
Hope it’s not too bad of a setback.
I was right. My wrapped presents look like eldritch mysteries unto God.
On the bright side, this means no one is going to have a clue what they are until they unwrap them…
The year is 2024. The world's food vendors issue a press release indicating that pickles will no longer be included by default inside burgers. How do you react?
This is another example of shrinkflation isn't it? I bet they're not reducing the price, just taking away our pickles!
Or wait, did you mean the default will no longer be inside the burgers, so you can grab them easier to try to stick them to the roof? That seems like a brilliant idea!
It's to streamline pickle racing down the play area windows
I continue to make my own burgers with pickles.
Carol of the Bells. Original Ukrainian Version with English and Ukrainian Lyrics
A much needed nap was had.
Last of the items in the vicinity of The Incident in the washing machine, and a good whack of earlier loads that I hung out nice and dry.
Now gathering the energy to put together the new vacuum and giving the place a good clean.Just dropped off the last of the Christmas choccies except for the ones I'm taking on Christmas Day. Didn't get much sleep last night (finally dropped off at 1 and Sammi poked me awake at something after 4) so hopefully a nap before I tackle the cleaning. Meanwhile I've washed everything in the vicinity that was on the couch (I had a lot of washing ready to be folded and put away, dammit) and most of it is on the line, so that's done.
For those of you braving the shops, may the odds be in your favour.Oh no @[email protected]. Good game.
CEO - 2 Duenan - 1
Thank god Wade can still bat!
That was a top effort. He deserves man of the match.
Browsing YT, saw an ad for vid from some self help/psych type guy. He was talking about finding your special purpose in life.
All I could think about was Navan's Special Purpose. 🤭 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xLLwERIqXs
Someone recommended something from somewhere in Anglesea to me a while ago but I can't remember who, what or where. Maybe a pie? Or something sweet? It's frustrating. Thinking about going for a drive out that way today mostly to get a few hours of audiobook in but also just to be out and about.
I think it was a fish n chip shop.
Ohh yeah that does ring a bell!
Not quite the best time of year but all I know Anglesea for is the heath...
Who's Heath?
Went to the bakery today for fresh bread this morning only to get what is clearly yesterdays bread - a soft French stick. Shitty overpriced bakery - should have gone to woollies, and that’s sad.
(Eating prawns and cheese with soft French stick ☹️ )
