Lucky for some. Number 13🍀
Next month I turn 32.
One year closer to returning to pure star-stuff.
✨Star stuff gang✨🙌
✨fwoooosh ✨
I got sober when I was 33. I wonder if that had anything to do with it
You are already pure star stuff.
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It’s such a lovely, cool, rainy morning.
My bins are full so I have to hide some recycling before the inspection.
Update to inspection: She didn’t even check the downstairs rooms. She barely even checked anything lol
Sounds about right lol, just there to see if you put any holes in the wall or shit next to the toilet instead of in 😂
I don’t think she even wanted to check that. I think her idea is that if she doesn’t know about an issue and we don’t report it: It doesn’t matter.
This place is falling apart, so it’s 100% being torn down to make apartments when we do move out. She doesn’t wanna repair anything.
Sounds about right, typical REs and Landlords. I suspect mine won’t renew this year, because I was late with rent ONE time out of my 14 years of renting 😓
What ever happened to renting a livable home from a responsible owner/RE? Ugh! UGH! Starting to think that’s a pipe dream now.
I hope, when and if you move, you can find a more habitable place!
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You’d shut the door real quick on that.
It is lovely. I have to pop down to Coles so not to be picky or anything if it could stop for a bit when I’m ready to go would be great because I don’t like getting rained on while opening my gates to drive out.
ranting about Adelaide
I don’t think I like Adelaide. Why is their metro card system so rude?
When I visited I was 15, so I wasn’t eligible for a child ticket (once you’re 15 or older there you need a South Australian student ID). Today I found my metro card so was going to register it, but you can’t register your card if you’re under 18
Then in their terms and conditions they seem to be very set on a “NO REFUNDS” policy. Okay, I lied, you can actually get yourself a refund for whatever money you load onto it, but their policy is you have to die first. If you die, your “authorised representative” can go to them with a copy of your death certificate and a letter of administration. Are they really that desperate to hold onto the few measly dollars tourists put on their cards and don’t use?
And their main train station makes me feel uncomfortable. I can’t really describe why, it just makes me feel unwelcome and sketched out:
Other things I found weird, rude, or foreign about Adelaide:
- you swipe your card on the train, rather than at the train station
- they still take paper tickets on the trains, but you have to validate it by putting it into the metro card reader thing
- they do take bank cards but only on trams, but then I think the trams are free so you don’t need to anyway?
- only some readers take certain types of tickets - on trams the front reader takes paper tickets and metro cards, but not bank cards. Then the middle reader takes bank cards and metro cards, but not google/apple pay. Then the back reader only takes metro cards
- you have to buy a ticket for your bike
- the penalty for fare evasion there is almost 5 times what it is here ($1,250 vs $280 here). And I think you get fined the same amount of you don’t buy your bike a ticket
- they don’t call fines “fines”, they call them an expiration ticket or something?
- they put birds and shit on all their signs reminding you you’re in South Australia, which ends up feeling like you’re in papers please or another Soviet game based in the 70s/80s
- also I think if you get an expiration notice they put in on your police record and then you forever have a criminal record and a $1.2k fine because your bike doesn’t have a ticket
- they put angry warning signs on literally everything. I don’t understand how their signs feel like they’re yelling at you but ours don’t, but it seems to be the way it is
- their bus stops have terms and conditions
How can you hate Adelaide when The Fringe is on!? I just got back. Go see Colin Ebsworth’s show Me, My Cult & I, and then Reuben Kaye’s show Apocalipstik. Both were excellllllent.
Who’s the fridge
I love this, Adelaide is the worst lol. I went in 2011 or 12 and it sucked then. Not surprised it still sucks.
Readers on the train sounds good to me. It works on trams just fine.
It sounds like you really want a smart ticket. I went to Radelaide for a long weekend a few years back, I suppose I just used paper tickets on the train. I don’t remember. I don’t remember hating the train system, either though.
I love your rant, and how much you care about stuff. But yeah, I go about the world utterly oblivious to that sort of thing. I wouldn’t notice terms and conditions on a bus stop, for example.It actually wasn’t meant to be a full blown rant, I was actually just going to complain about how you have to die before you get a refund from them, but then I started remembering all the other odd things they do.
Readers on the trains can work at first, but they’re a dumb idea in the long run. It was probably deemed the cheapest option when they were rolling it out, but eventually they’re going to need new trains. And every train has anywhere between 2-6 readers per carriage X 3 carriages (with the possibility of doubling to 6 cars in the future), so it would end up being cheaper to just put your 4 readers at each station. Also they have full blown top up machines on the carriages, which is nice, but takes away seats and standing room
Wow even this became a rant :/
I went on Bumble BFF to make some friends and I suspiciously have 40 matches in one day.
I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s not just friends people are looking for…
They deffo are sorry to report.
I live for this cool breeze ony face, through my hair, as I’m on way home home from work in a tram that seems to be going just a bit too fast
Just saw your comment otherwise you could have listened to this on your headphones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZaZYwaJeCk
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Fried chicken with rice and an orange juice please
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A coffee for you ☕ 💜
thank youuu
Battenberg thanks
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Operation Increase Kiddos Chilli Tolerance Without Them Knowing continues to be a success, with tonight’s meatball mix having a good swig of yucateco.
Good! I’m so sick of hearing about this nuggets only bullshit. Unless the kid has ARFID or something, feed them food not pap.
Yay, managed to get one overdue garden produce/kitchen task done - basil pesto (the damn things were flowering desperately and might not have lasted another week without harvesting. I had to chuck out about 20g of spotty/yellowed leaves…).
I have no parmesan or nutritional yeast, so I peeled extra garlic and quickly shallow fried the cloves in oil, added that with toasted sunflower seeds and a bit of extra salt - verdict: it’s delicious! I don’t miss the cheese at all. Cheap and easy. Just put most of it in an ice cube tray for future re-use. Somehow it’s ended up a lot darker green this time, but I don’t mind!
The other overdue job I really need to do tomorrow, before it warms up again, is give the curry leaf plants a big haircut (timing is really pushing it). Gonna make a big batch of South Indian-style curry leaf sambol/chutney with coconut and fresh green chillies also from the balcony, then freeze most of it. Might hunt down some frozen coconut since I think my dessicated stuff is getting kind of old, and I want this to be a smashing sambol
Ughh. Had a long hot shower to try and manage pain. It’s a huge waste of water and the least environmentally friendly habit I have but unfortunately it’s not going anywhere.
This is self-care, nothing to be judgy on yourself about 💜
I hope there is some respite for you, and relief. 💜
Thanks
It’s not a waste, it’s treatment, it’s quality of life care.
hugs
Not a waste, needed for your wellbeing. Besides, Melbourne water storage is at 92% and Summer’s over, rainy autum and winter ahead. There’s no need to ration water right now. Any excess just gets released out of the dams.
Kmart pakige arrived.
The magnetic laundry shelves stick well but the baskets are teeny tiny. They won’t hold a few of the items I wanted to put in there. Photo mildly misleading. Still it’s better than the suction cup hook I had holding the hand towel. The art supplies look good.
Can you use a heavier bowl for the water? I have an old shallow ceramic serving bowl which has been given a new life as the garden birdbath. Maybe you have something lurking in the back of a cupboard you don’t use anymore?
Ladies and gentlemen…
I did it. My bowls are free. And neither of them was sacrificed to the Great Smash
Jesus fucking Christ. It only took trying every-fucking-thing, on and off throughout an entire fucking day
Hallelujah sister. 🎉
Now for fucksake put a piece of paper towel inbetween each one.
What finally worked?
Complete submersion in almost scalding water, and (as soon as it cooled enough to get my hands in the sink) a knife gently levered between the two bowls to break the seal all the way around.
It must have been very nearly airtight!
Woohoo! What was the winning technique?!
Tell the bowls they were being very naughty.
Yes. This is the stuff.
You are a god and I bow to you
#BowlGate
No cicadas this year. It just doesn’t feel hot unless I hear cicadas sing.
Seem to be a few here inner east.
I remember as a kiddo early 90’s I used to find heaps of their shed skin things on trees all the time but I haven’t seen one in ages.
They were everywhere down on the Bellarine. Kept finding them in the house after dark too.
One Christmas, a few years ago now, when my family and I were camping at Seymour*, all the grubs decided the time was right to emerge as cicadas.
They covered the trees and everything. It was hot, but they would pee on us. It felt like rain, and while ick, wasn’t entirely unwelcome. It was basically just water lol.
TL;DR: cicadas golden showered my family for Santa.
*Edit: I wrote Seymour, but it may have actually been Heathcote now that I think about it…
Dinner is being made for me tonight and I wasn’t gonna look but I did and now I had to move to another room because I couldn’t stop laughing.
Please elaborate.
It’s hard to explain so I’ll show you pics later when it’s made. 👍
Today’s project completed: one large tote bag to carry my meals to work. The fabric is designed for outdoor furniture, with a lining of the type of fabric used for packs and sportsbags. This should mean it will last well - the old bag got quite manky because of the condensation formed by ice bricks. It did make it hard to sew though, both because of how thick it is and because the lining fabric was slippery. Miss Meow did her best to assist. Spoiler: it didn’t help.
Damn. That looks amazing. Is there anything you can’t do?
Many things. Drawing. Sports. Remember people’s names…
What about separating two bowls stuck together ?
Please. For the love of god.
The only solution I’ve got is variations on the hot/cold theme, generally heat the bottom bowl and cool the top bowl. Are they ceramic and could have absorbed a tiny amount of water? Maybe try some dry heat, like in the oven on low for a while.
That is very uncanny.
Today I was going to buy a bag that is very similar, same shape and size, heavy tapestry in the same colour palette. I just wanted it for the fabric, to repurpose as chair upholstery, so declined at the price .
seriously uncanny
