I can’t believe I’m saying this. I’m running out of tealight candles.
How is it that I’m obsessed with art right now but can’t buckle down and practice. Am I stuck somewhere or is it just struggling with pressure/focus 🤨
(I am practicing, cross hatching with a pen. It’s just hard to stick at.)
it just takes hours and hours of study and practice,
for example, sometimes I do calligraphy for presents, I will study their name, get a nice translation, choose characters, choose the materials and style . All that still takes hours.
Football game on Anzac Day really seems disrespectful to me. War is really sad and distressing, and can’t comprehend football being enjoyed on such a somber sad day.
Footy players make sacrifices too you know. /s
Yay: car! public holiday! picked up some goodies today with ease thanks to both of these factors
Eh: insurance is a bitch to sort through.
Nay: my friend who drove me down to the seller’s place last night tested positive for covid this morning 😭 haven’t tested myself yet but after an OK start to the day, definitely feeling poorly this afternoon, so I’m fairly certain I’ve got something…
Yay in the end: the goodies I picked up today were premade meals, I have enough to last me til Monday. Was gonna put most of it in the freezer but now I’m just grateful I have ready made delicious and healthy food to get me through the next two days so I can rest up.
Tomorrow is a sickie I reckon. Fuck that its obvious
Yay. Beer o’clock starts early 👍
Apologies for giving you Covid
Well I’m actually legitimately sick now so you can most definitely borrow my sickness to take an extra day off.
@Force_majeure123 @Seagoon_ @melbourne That’s a nasty cough you got there, Force majeure. Sounds to me like a severe case of fakenitis. You don’t want that spreading across your workplace. Time to see Dr Howlong to get the day off, I say…
Who’s gonna help me turn the wheels of progress?
i desire salt & vinegar chips
Shops are now open. Chips ahoy!
I am finally taking advice from here and getting out of my relationship.
The boyfriend is doing exams. I didn’t initiate anything for a few days. Heard nothing from him. Couldn’t even fit in a five second text message in his day or a five minute phone call. It’s like the relationship didn’t exist. He knows how much consistency means to me as I have told him countless times. I understand being busy but totally disappearing off of the face of the Earth and me getting worried is not fun. I thought I was being unreasonable but I have needs and wasn’t asking for a lot? My birthday is soon and watch him not even send me a message then as well.
I call him out and explain how I feel (over text but still - he lives kinda far). He replies saying he doesn’t have time to deal with me and wants to put the relationship on hold for two weeks until he can see me again in person. Also that if I messaged him, it could only be bare minimum stuff and light-hearted. Great way to make your partner feel like they can’t talk to you, particularly when they’re constantly anxious! So I am detaching and treating this like a breakup, and then when I see him in two weeks, it will officially be over.
Exams are serious and it’s not as easy as taking five seconds.
it’s not easy because he has to stop what he is doing , change his thinking, then try to pick up where he left off
I suggest you , or he, set a time, the same time, everyday or every second day , so he can plan around it.
also, waiting for calls to come all day because it’s random sucks, it creates worry
set a time so you can stop worrying
How would you have coped before telephones? You had to trust.
big hugs
he doesn’t have time to deal with me
To me I’d have to say I really wouldn’t like that.
it could only be bare minimum stuff and light-hearted.
I wouldn’t like that either.
Bored, so I decided to have a look at my old Reddit comments. Hard to believe it’s almost been a year since rexxit.
It also made me remember how damn negative Reddit is. So many of my comments are either at 0, negative, or have a little controversial icon next to them. And the ones that aren’t (outside of the DT at least) are mostly just upvoted because I was being a dick to people who were getting downvoted.
Maybe I was just aligning myself with bad crowds, but that feels like it was a common theme on Reddit, I noticed it almost everywhere. Also their new web UI is disgusting and clunky and I don’t understand how anybody is able to use it
The place reeks of negativity. Even when I go there to browse these days, I feel myself getting sucked into the void of shittiness.
choose nicer subs
I am in illegallysmolcats, lotrmemes and some hobby subs
I was in most of the cat subs, as well as a bunch of snake and rat subs (cute animals tbh), and it still seemed like every second comment was someone being rude about something minor.
My hobby subs were even worse. I joined one of them in the early days before it became popular and got to “enjoy” the sub slowly become fuller and fuller of elitists. I ended up leaving because I don’t like the whole gatekeeping and anti beginner sentiment thing they had going on
Have you tried r/CatsStandingUp ? Many cat pictures and I can guarantee you won’t find any negative or nasty comments there.
Well, I just watched this entire thing, mesmerising…
I slept like a log last night, from having finally released so much stress. Now I can start tackling other parts of my life…
Part of me wants someone to just come and do it for me tho 😩
Wouldn’t life be so much easier if I could just hire a bloke on Fiverr to fix it?
You can, it’s called a personal assistant, it just takes more money than a fiver
Someone just help me coordinate all these decisions and also please serve me breakfast in bed so I feel like I have enough energy to go plant out the seedlings I bought 10 days ago
I must be crazy, I enjoy planning, organising and doing things. I’m also really good at it. ( yes, I discuss, take suggestions and act on them and delegate if I have to )
😀😐 just got another insight
Can I just say my sinuses have really cleared up in a tropical climate.
I often find at night in particular in Melbourne I do suffer nasal congestion. It’s like the tissues themselves in my nose swell. And I’ve done all sorts of things to keep on top of it which to be fair helps but it’s not bullet proof.
I regularly change bedding. I regularly thoroughly vacuum. My floors are not carpet. I don’t have pets. My pillows are relatively new. I’ve tried shutting the window at night.
And given this problem has gone away in a tropical climate I can only deduce I’m constantly surrounded by pollen and dust in Melbourne.
But… but… the HUMIDITY?
Yes it’s unfortunate that it comes with an unbearable climate.
Perhaps the universe is telling you to move to a tropical island?
There should be a campaign to change Victoria’s number plate slogan to something along the lines of “allergy capital”
@wscholermann @Seagoon_ my sinuses cleared up when I stopped living in Melbourne most of the time - I still visit very regularly, but I live rurally and the difference has been dramatic. Not tropical, far from it - but I’m originally from Perth, and I developed a few different health issues when I moved to Melbourne. I think it’s unfortunately got pretty poor air quality generally compared to many other places in Australia.
@kudra @wscholermann @Seagoon_ Same here.
Every time I return to Melbourne, I get hayfever within the first week.
It clears right up when I’m away.
I think it’s just the weather and the pollen in the air?
@ajsadauskas @wscholermann @Seagoon_ I think it’s a combination of different things, pollen, dust, weather, pollution: all of which may be somewhat more localised?
@kudra @ajsadauskas @wscholermann @Seagoon_ someone told me that it’s partly to do with the interaction between the prevailing wind from the west and the Dandenong range to the east. also all the evil london plane trees
@luciedigitalni @kudra @wscholermann @Seagoon_ The plane trees makes a lot of sense.
Every time I’m in Melbourne, within a couple of days, I get hayfever. Then when I fly up to Sydney, it clears up within a day or two.
I would be seriously surprised if Sydney has significantly less air pollution than Melbourne.
Sydney has the Blue Mountains, the Royal National Park, and Ku-ring-gai Chase surrounding it on three sides.
So just by process of elimination, that leaves the temperature and pollen from some local plant as potential culprits.
The Young Seagoons have been living in NZ for a while now and have been telling me stories of their visits to Hobbiton. It’s so adorable and awesome. 🤗🧙♂️🧝🐉🧔♂️🧌
It’s on my geek bucket list
I made a casserole recently and it was pretty good… none left for the freezer kind of good. So I was going to make another and bought stuff for that. Miniest wanted me to experiment with a chicken and broccoli casserole, so I bought stuff for that too. With today and tomorrow off I’d have plenty of time, I reasoned. Came home yesterday to a freezer which contained a goat’s leg, a whole skinned rabbit and some duck breasts. Mr P was so proud, you’d think he hunted them himself (a friend of his has dropped it round). No room for casserole 😬. Also not a fan of duck or rabbit. Don’t know a thing about goat. If anyone has any tried and true family ways of cooking a whole goat’s leg I will need to hear them please!
Slow cooking goat is def the best for a 1st time as it’s usually pretty light on for internal fat. Go heavy on the flavourings too. The texture is lovely - a little bit more chewy than lamb but still succulent. I like it baked middle eastern style in yoghurt with spices and almond meal mixed in to the yog. Slow cook to begin with, but for the last hour take the lid off and baste with the liquid which forms a lovely creamy/spicy crust around the leg. The meat inside will be incredibly tender and juicy too.
Rabbit is nice when done well, but it’s very easy to stuff it up. The meat is very lean, and has a distinctive flavour. I like to joint it, wrap each piece in bacon/prosciutto and then stew it slowly in diced tomato (tinned) with sauteed onion etc. The bacon makes the meat go a nice pink color - if you don’t wrap it in bacon or something like it the meat cooks up grey and does not look nice. The I slip the meat from the bones and use as a pie filling - rabbit pie is food of the gods. I would not recommend roasting it to begin with - very hard to get the timing right and you have to baste every few minutes it feels like. Wild rabbit can be spiced up to the nines and maybe should be. Domestic rabbit is a bit more forgiving.
Duck is a whole other ball game - maybe go asian as there’s a lot of recipies from those cuisines.
I have been told that you can use goat anywhere you would use lamb but slow cook it. I have made goat curry (a massaman type) but don’t have the recipe anymore
I’ve had goat before, and I found the flavour a bit too strong for my liking. It’s like lamb, but stronger. Agree slow cook would be the way to go, with some strong seasonings to balance it out. Never had rabbit. Duck I’ve never cooked myself but had it at restaurants and it’s delicious. Recipes to try might be Chinese style or go fancy with a duck l’orange.
I hear goat goes well in a curry.
No it’s more “Curry disguises the taste of goat well” :)
I’ve taken away the bird water dish. It could spread disease from not being regularly cleaned and a rogue cat managed to ambush a pigeon using it.
Oh that sucks. I had to take mine away too, but it was because those damn myna birds decided they were going to hog the water and take over the yard, bullying all the other birds away. It had only been there half an hour.
Yeah the mynahs swarmed here too. But the bird killed was a pigeon :(
Don’t know if anyone’s a superhero fan but a new trailer came out a couple of days ago for Deadpool.
I have to say that the trailer was pretty awesome and the unexpected use of a song from my childhood was a really big surprise.
Here’s the link for anyone who hasn’t seen it.
Coming together.
Let’s fuckin’ go.
Let’s fucking go.
I think I might break my no big screen run for this
I’m on media blackout for this film. No teasers, no trailers. They show too much in them and I’m already going to see it so I’ll wait and be surprised.
I’ve been keeping an ear out for if they put out anything which is a promo without footage from the film though.
Me too, only I’m like this for every film. I much prefer going into a cinema unspoiled.
I just learned this week that the trailer for Captain America civil war trailer had Spiderman in it. I can’t imagine how annoyed I’d have been if that surprise were denied me as I watched the movie.
Same deal here. If I know I’m seeing it I avoid the marketing.
I actually pity people who watched Infinity War and Endgame trailers and/or read spoilers. Those films were a RUSH for a fan going in blind.
