Melbourne

O oh. My over enthusiastic eager greedy eyes selected a 2.8 kg leg of lamb that DOES NOT FIT IN MY SLOW COOKER. I must now activate plan b which is to use my neglected but very capable oven. May the lamb gods deliver me perfectly succulent meat. 🙏

My dinner

Image of a plate with roast lamb, potato and sweet potato mash, peas, mint jelly and gravy.

Perhaps I should have taken a pic before we hoed in.

Still a little bummed about the game.

I wasn't sure they'd take the whole show, I couldn't bring my hopes quite that high. But I thought they had a decent shot at making the final.

I love my partner, I don't think I'd be the person I am now if it wasn't without them pushing me to my dreams and our dreams.

But man I hate trying to figure out what to make for dinners when we're together. They're a picky eater, but I understand why because their family fucking sucks. Like I have issues around certain food (I hate cauliflower, some mushrooms (love me some woodear in ramen), and I hate fat on meat, I don't mind like some, but I just... I can't, it's so gross), but they are such a picky eater. But I just, ugh. I needed a place to vent about this. Again, I know its not their fault, but man it makes it so hard trying to think of recipes that isn't just meat and chips.

so many low cost hobbies or new skills to learn exist

just lies on side in Family Guy death pose

God, making someone with ADHD wake up for an 8:30am appointment is pretty funny.

(For those unaware, most people with ADHD have a thing called delayed sleep phase cycle, where our circadian rhythm is different to neurotypical folks who can get to sleep at maybe 10 - 12, and wake up easy in the morning. Whereas for us we fall asleep later and find waking up early hard).

Going to go back to sleep after my appointment, glad to be working from home today!

Edit: oof that appointment cost me way too much. I hate that psychiatrists app only take 15mins and you get a script and it comes to $175 (luckily there's the Medicare rebate but still).

Oh my god Reno is soooo seedy lol

I went for a walk, it wasn't even dark but close to it.. and the only people out on the street were junkies/homeless people. I put on my "don't fuck with me" walk/look which I'm going to say worked even if it didn't make a difference. Then it started to rain and get dark so I got on a rental scooter and scooted back to the hotel post-haste.

I did stop by the dispensery though... 😎

Edit: also dinner is going to be a Patty Melt and a Cherry Coke 🍔🍒

thai curry chicken pies have been made, served with home made tomato sauce, some eaten, many left for lunches and dinners 🤤🥧

spoiler

Lambo is now in the oven. He got smothered in mountain pepper, wattle seed and native thyme. This thing is going to feed us for days. My kid is gonna hate me "What's for dinner?" "Lamb roast" "What's for dinner?" " lamb souvlakis" "What's for dinner?" "Lamb soup" "LAMB AGAIN? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU".

Popped the heated throw on to get a bit of heat through my bed before I got in, so naturally the bed immediately filled up with the fuzzy children of the house who have left me a generous sliver of space.

I had bananas and custard for dessert. I have not had it in years, but it was a good choice.

Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning. Take a brolly folks.

Where the hell has the week gone?

I've been sleeping at a consistent and reasonable time most nights recently (save for the night I went to Mildura and didn't sleep at all). It feels pretty weird, I always thought of myself as quite the night owl but I'm realising that naturally I don't seem to be

Fuck, looks like I'm moving again, just after finally getting settled down. The landlord wants to sell.

Kitty was not adequately sedated by gabapentin so she had to have a muscle injection and monitoring for a few hours (an extra $300+) but at last they got the blood sample. Got a stack of bupe for her if needed to chill her out until the results come back. She's fine but wobbly and confused at the moment. Poor, poor, poor soxcat. I hope they get to the bottom of what the issue is with the poor girl :(

waltzes past with giant platter of hash browns i regret nothing that is about to occur

Just woke up after falling asleep during the game. We lost?

yooo the melbourne comm finally synced for me

pro tip: keep your back and core strong and stretched. don't get sciatica

Having a rough week so today I decided to get a jump on some birthday & Christmas shopping to divert my mind.

Not for adults - only kids. I love trying to find the right thing for a kid. And because I have a wide age range to consider, and all with different interests, it is all consuming mentally but hella fun.

I think I've done ok. But now I have to hide this stuff somewhere... Tetris time!

Anyone know of any coffee shops preferably around CBD that play jazz music? I'm really feeling an overpriced beverage in a chill atmosphere

Lemmy just logged me out and refused to accept correct login details, so I closed the tab and went back in… to find myself still logged in somehow

haha. My reddit account was permanently suspended for suggesting someone fuck off and die. I guess that could be considered a threat of violence. I was responding to transphobia in my "I can't be bothered engaging with this incel" way. I don't care that we're supposed to be grown up about engaging with the incels and cis het know it alls who dismiss non binary people as being confused or not worthy of respect. It's fucking reddit and it's a cess pit. People think us gender non confirming folk are an angry bunch, and we are at times. I make no bones about it. I do positive things every day to make my little community a little better, I've earned the right to let off some steam too. Most people just sit around and complain about how shit the world is.

Anyway, do I get an Aussie Zone achievement patch for my jacket? Thanks

Been reviewing Madonna’s entire catalogue today. Some real bangers in there. Forgot about that. Some very slick production as well.

Finished S2 of Good Omens last night and feel like I need a whole day to just sit and try and process it.

Chili is made. 19 1/2 serves bottled and in the pressure canner, should be finished processing in good time to be finished before the 3pm time-of-use power cost doubles. I tried a slightly different chili powder recipe which seems to have worked well. Definitely a massive improvement on the first time I made the recipe where I didn't realise "chili powder" is a blend and was not supposed to be straight powdered chilli. That one was a bit tasteless and very very hot.

Finished up the astro happy snap from last night:

https://imgur.com/xBa54sE

I feel wrecked today, Having a flare up and taken some pills to hopefully help calm it down.

Today I'm spending time cutting up pieces of foil squares.

I got loaf of sweet challah and a bottle of kewpie mayonnaise and I'm about to commit a war crime.

MARGE

Managed to work the whole day yesterday, and rental inspection went fine. I even slept better last night. This morning though it was clear I just had nothing in the tank and called in sick. I also have a planned day off tomorrow, so hopefully 4 days break is enough for a mini break and recharge from increasingly stressful workplace

Today is chili making day. One big pot of chili being made to preserve, and some for dinner. Either on a potato or as a soft taco, depending on my enthusiasm levels for tortilla rolling once it gets close to dinner time. It's the first full test of my new electric hotplate for the pressure canner, hopefully all goes well.