Well Melby stunning weather today. Lol
For real. It hasn’t rained in a minute, so we’re due for some clouds.
Back to hoodies and uggs it seems.
I’m glad it’s a little bit cooler today. The humid week last week did me in 💀
Am stressed out over Christmas. I am every year though. It’s the money worries, and the hoping everyone likes their gifts worries, and the “I hope I don’t screw up with the lunch” worries. Same shit every year.
Miniest is sick; caught something from kids at her end-of-year class party last Friday, who admitted they were sick but didn’t want to miss out on the fun and food🤦🏻♀️.
Spending the last week of work doing a full dismantling and cleaning of anything that can be dismantled and cleaned (and probably a few things that can’t!) Then I will have that experience of wanting to relax and do nothing while my kids, who’ve been waiting all year for me to have time off, will be constantly requesting/demanding that we do something. It’ll be like weekends but 10x longer. I will wear a Grinch tshirt or two.
It’s a very stressful time. You can only do as much as you can do, though. Don’t give yourself a nervous breakdown trying to be everything for everyone and leaving nothing for yourself. ❤️
- last lunch notes for the year…phew
Chooken has been eaten, next time more mustard.
If you needed to pick up something from sunshine West and something from Cranbourne on the same day, starting from Thornbury, which way would be better traffic wise do you think?
I test by mapping both options in google maps with all the addresses, starting and ending with my home address.
I also tend to get stuff from the other side of town delivered. $20 of tolls and/or three hours driving is worth $15 in postage to me. Depends on the stuff.
I’d go to Cranbourne first then to Sunshine
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Go to Cranbourne first so whatever you get in Sunshine doesn’t get stolen. Plus easier to take the train from Cranbourne when the car gets stolen.
Bold of you to assume the Cranbourne gear won’t get jacked in Sunshine.
I thought its more likely to get a knife pulled on you at sunshine?
Good tip.
I’m sorry but 400 dollars for a passport is completely beyond the pale. Have they really looked into efficiency gains before jacking up the price 15%?
Paid more for express earlier this year. With something that looks like a prison mugshot.
Feels like a Tuesday afternoon, about 2:49 PM
I’m baaaack. Back home to regular electricity and internet and noise and convenience and all the joys and ills of modern life.
My friend couldn’t water my plants for me so I may have lost my hot lips salvia (which I think is severely root bound anyway) and my scotch bonnet pepper (which I don’t use much of). The manzano chili was in an over exposed location and looks very shriveled and sad, but I think it’s still salvageable with lots of pampering over the next few days. Please come through my precious, you are quite tasty and fruitful.
All my indoor plants are super happy though.
Welcome back to good old Melbourne!
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Anyone got any feel good stories, looking for a pick me up for this depressing “summer” weather.
The Hogfather movie is available on youtube for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrCjpnghSWw
Best xmas movie ever I reckon.
For context I work with young children.
I’m walking around doing my yard duty and one of them comes along with me to do my rounds, only a young one at about 6 years old.
We were just talking about what we do in our spare time or on weekends and holidays and wage tells me she does a lot no of swimming lessons.
I tell her that I’m no good at swimming and that I’ll probably never learn to do it properly. She promptly turns around and faces me and tells me never to give up and that I can do it one day.
Made my heart smile on the inside.
Bill and Ted pictures coming shortly. 👍😸😸
Like a real life story or book story?
Alright so this is something that people might not be aware of. There are special Santas now. Santas that know Auslan, Santas for the blind and Santas for autistic kids that don’t like the hustle and bustle of shopping centres.
Kindergartens and schools hire a special Santa and the kids get allocated a time with their families so they can get to know Santa in their own time in a relaxed atmosphere that they know. Parents can then take natural photos.
How good is that? Ok who cut up an onion?
I am insufflating 0.0000075 * $1,000,000 worth of dumplings tonight.
so the same value as the cocaine bust?
Traces of cocaine residue found in Sydney apartment; local police reportedly disproportionately ecstatic at the bust.
Packing everything up for the camping trip starting tomorrow, really really hoping the spot isn’t packed to the shithouse (I’m of two minds about how busy it will be since so far this week I’ve notice everything’s not been super busy yet).
The way the public holidays fall this year make next week the one that’s attractive to take off. Take three days of leave, get nine straight days off.
Just about everyone at work is still in the office this week, and just about everyone is taking next week off.
We were directed to take those 3 days off. Only essential support staff are allowed to work them.
I’ve got those 3 and then until the 15th off 😎🛳️
That’s what I was thinking, so many folks in my office were working right up to the end this year because of what you mentioned.
nah, my work closes last friday before xmas, then reopens first monday after the NY week. So I’m off until the 8th anyway.
Not that it matters, everyone is just fuckin’ around and getting paid for it this week anyway
My office is closed for that week, and if you’ve worked here longer than two years you get thosr extra days off for free!
the amount of P plater fourbys leaving pakey over the weekend with swags on the roofracks says it might be fairly busy out in Gippsland. Are you headed east?
We are heading inland up north. I’m thinking we might luck out with folks more likely to head out to the coast this time of year.
Hopefully not too far, regional NSW is supposed to be cooking!
I’ve been looking at the pictures of those cave paintings from France and Spain.
Not only was it awesome that the pictures survived these ~35,000 years but they are rally good art. The artist was talent and hard working , these can’t be the first pictures they drew, it takes years of practice to be that good.
Maybe they also drew on open cliff faces and tanned hides, neither which would have survived.
I love the handprints. I can imagine in my mind’s eye, when the job was on the artist getting their family to put their hands on the walls and they spray paint to make the handprints.
It’s amazing it has survived so long too. When you look at animals like Przewalkis horse, you realise they were drawing and shading the artworks accurately for what they saw in nature around them. It’s also interesting that recent analysis of the handprint sizes has discovered that many of them were made by women, so presumably the art works were too. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/131008-women-handprints-oldest-neolithic-cave-art
so presumably the art works were too.
can’t presume anything
that’s why I wrote “they and their” , not him or her
But here’s what I do know, it takes upper body strength and stamina to hold your arms up for hours to paint on a ceiling and to paint accurately.
i am very excited about seeing family-grade friends on saturday
how do i concentrate, do stuff, and not just AHHHHHHHH until then
I recommend just ahhhhing, it might be theraaaaahpeutic
AHHHHHHHHH
I have swollen lymph nodes. I wonder what infection I’m fighting this time?
Hope you’re not feeling too badly there and that it doesn’t take too long to recover from.
Oh thanks mate. Hopefully my lymph nodes fight it off before it ravages my body.
Just wondering off topic, did you find the Perth crowd for the test cricket a little underwhelming?
It didn’t seem like they had a lot of people attend though I have t looked at the numbers or compared to past years.Also I wished Lyon got his 500th at the MCG. Having a full stadium celebrate that would have been godly.
Yeah the crowds in Perth are generally smaller anyway because of travel distance. Melbourne and Sydney and even Adelaide have bigger crowds because it’s easier to get to.