Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
I've been out finding new friends in the garden.
I am constantly amazed by the camera on this phone - it was too small to see any detail with my own eyes, and the flowers were moving around making it hard to even keep it in the frame, and the phone manages a clear close up. And I once thought cameras in phones was a gimmick that wouldn’t last.
Hey I got one!
Minipeelers bought seeds from the Shrine and we waited impatiently for it to be time to sow. We nurtured and watered them and they sprouted and grew! Then Mr P decided to do some “gardening” and ripped a whole lot of stuff out of that plot and trod all over the seedlings 🤬🤬🤬 Miniest was especially upset. Mr P denied it was him for ages (but I noticed he got bits of wood and tried to prop them up so they wouldn’t die🤔) They all died except one and it flowered today!
Please admire my premium instant noodles with the best fucking noodles and coconut curry flavour (dried tofu pieces thrown in later).
It is so special that you actually need to follow special instructions: add the curry paste and powdered coconut milk sachets in that order to 500ml water, bring to a boil, then cook the noodles in the curry broth 😋
Jazz it up with some veggies and garnish and you’d think I made the real thing. I wish these didn’t cost like 4-5 AUD each here. Truly god tier. Like, the list of ingredients in the curry paste is legit, theres about 20 spices/herbs in it, and these noodles are unbeatable.
I think I might need more information about where to get these
Late reply, but some Asian shops stock em - Prima LaMian, usually Curry or Laksa flavours.
Looks delish! Are these the noodles you got from SG?
Yep, they were half the price on special so I brought back like three different flavours in packs of 4
Thought I was doing the right thing getting the Covid booster but it seems to have flared up my chronic fatigue … not happy Jan.
@Mittens_meow @bot001 if I’d seen any questions on here about it, I would have recommended #Novavax, if available: tends to cause less reaction than the mRNA vaccines, but not many places have it. Something to keep in mind for next year perhaps.
Noted for next time, thank you !
I’ve just realised Miss Meow has added the word “Famukt” in the middle of my assignment, does anyone speak cat that can translate for me?
Edit: there appear to be a vast number of dialects in cat language.
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"I love you Rusty, you’re my best food provider for ever. "
She couldn’t spell ’family’
miss meow has family in the UK timezone
I believe it’s meant to be FAMUUKT! said with a very dramatic flourish of open hands and furrowing of brows, sort of a commentary on the current state of global affairs, with a tint of southern European.
Dropped my car with a hand car wash to get a bath and walked to the South Melbourne Market. The car wash dude said an hour and a half so I took my time. Got a gozleme, two freshly fried cinnamon doughnuts, stopped in at the nut shop for some yoghurt sultanas and then went and overspent on a terrarium for my sister. Oh then I saw the cutest baby coffee keep cup so I bought one for my niece so she can have pretend coffee while her mum has her real one.
I’m not really keeping track but it’s easy to spend a lot of money quickly in an hour and a half in South Melbourne!
My plasma donation took 69 mins. Noice. Am slowpoke.
Nice
Man, just woke up and realised I forgot to set my alarm. Leapt out of bed, rushing around to try and not be late for work - then realised I’m not working today. Mr Woof is so confused, he thought it was time for pre-work walkies, and now we’re not going.
argh, broke a delicate wire fitting on a vintage necklace now I have to restring the whole thing. 🙄
Here’s the terrarium I bought for my sister today. I dig it:
Wow that looks cool! I remember terrariums were soooo popular when I was a kid (70s-80s) and I’m happy to see the return of this trend.
Amazing! Also, hi it’s me, your sister
Hehe jokes aside, how much did that cost? Is it easy to maintain? I might look into getting one for my desk.
You may not enjoy the answer of how much this one cost… although you can buy kits to make your own quite cheaply and there were cheaper but not as nice options at the terrarium shop. This one was $190.
As for maintaining, apparently you water them once a month. There was a card with a QR code on it to go get maintenance info but I didn’t check it, just gave it to my sister.
Looking at the quality of the components, the plants, the jar, the base and top, and how well it’s been made I think it’s good value. Plus it’s really nice. 😍
4pm accountability: i am awake and about to go for a walk
edit: pre 5pm accountability: charged the phone for a while, now going out
Moving comment to make more sense: Dear Bacon it is now 4pm. Scavenger hunt time! Kindly prove your awakeness by finding me something orange, something triangular, and something to do with parrots
🥕 closed its eyes and urinated
Giggle Snort!
today’s goal: not take a long nap at 6pm, get up at midnight for dinner, and go back to sleep at 3am
Sometimes I wonder if I should try to take up music casually. Neuroplasticity for depressed brains and all that. But honestly I don’t know if I’d be able to stick with it even if I wanted to. Creativity is presented as something that flows but it still takes energy and grit to learn a new skill. Discipline for consistency. The confidence to persevere. Everything people having a really hard time lack. Everything people with my (potentially undiagnosed ADHD) type of brain lack.
Also while I don’t mind a tiny cheap shitty quiet thing that’s barely an instrument (given my commitment level, budget, space and noise constraints it would be) I absolutely hate the songs you’re supposed to learn on. For every instrument really. Nottt my taste at all.
I was “talented” as a kid (whatever tf that means - I genuinely don’t believe I was, I think that was the wishful thinking of the adults around me) but quite lazy. Didn’t want to practice, didn’t care about learning to read sheet music. I would memorise tunes or figure them out by ear. Then I had some extremely demotivating and pressuring experiences with it and never picked anything up again.
I think there’s too much pressure these days with the idea that if you take up a musical instrument or artform you have to be “good at it” or it’s completely not worth it and it’s a waste of time. It’s like you’re not allowed to play/paint/sculpt (or whatever) purely for the pleasure of it. For fun! I read something recently to the effect that if you had a good time and enjoyed something, then the time isn’t wasted (makes me feel better about my 20s 😉) I say if you want to enjoy something then do it. And if you try and don’t enjoy it then good, you learnt something. If you’re not technically perfect or proficient or prodigious or whatever, then stiff cheddar! Don’t be your own harshest critic and rob yourself of fun. We need to take back the idea of doing things for the fun of it without being perfect at it.
The pressure is putting me off anything I want to do, and the worst part is it’s self imposed
It’s more motivating when you find a piece of music that you want to play… bern getting back into piano and trying to remember how to read sheet music again.
I was going through all the grades / exams as a kid and was doing performances for vce. I didn’t touch my piano for a long time after that.
I would have to get really creative tbh. I’ve found maybe a few but don’t know how easy it would be
Nightmares about zebra strippers…
Not guilty
Oh it’s you. The gifted one.😜
did you tip them
Made it rain. It’s how we do
Catch mobile have just advised what compensation they are offering after the Optus outage. I’m getting 50gb of data added to my plan. Which considering I didn’t notice I was affected and have a 60gb year plan is, for me, pretty decent.
But overall that sort of compensation is pretty useless. Most people have a plan that covers what they use plus a bit extra. Giving extra data is mostly useless. What they should be doing is providing data and extending the recharge time. Especially with plans like mine where data does not roll over. And it certainly doesn’t address any of the issues associated with business interuption, the impact on alarm systems (including medical alert alarms) and problems with emergency calls.
I agree, pretty useless. I’ve already got over 600 gig of data rolled over and spare in my plan with amaysim, so extra data is kinda useless? We had drivers making deliveries to my work who couldn’t take and send pictures to prove they’d done the job. And there was a Paralympian who was stuck in bed and couldn’t contact anyone to get help, the poor woman. What use is data for her experience? Very crappy of Optus.
The whole thing is a total farce. How anyone could stay with floptus (unless they’re grandfathered into a very good deal) is beyond me, they take the cake for uncaring and out of touch…
