Enjoy the lovely weather today ☀
On a train. There is an over abundance of short shiny dresses and facial glitter. Must be a Spice Girl around somewhere.
Please count how many times the word literally you hear and report back.
I have decided to try cutting out caffeine for a while. I’ve been reducing my intake for a couple of weeks, with the intention that after today I will not have any more. The temptation to have another coffee is very real.
You’ve succeeded where I’ve failed.
I’m out adventuring and listening to my audiobook. Embrace the majesty of the mighty vanilla slice. Also, this is the very first photo I’ve taken with this new phone (loaned from Microsoft).
Back from the other side of the city. As soon as I was on Chapel St waiting for tram, some middle aged lady asked me from a ciggie. Every time I’m there, which isn’t often, I get asked for a smoke without fail.
Every street and suburb in Melbourne has a culture; I love this city.
Oi anychance I can bum a durry off youse too please.
It’s not for me it’s for me mate daz.
Ow can oi botta ciggie off ya ploise luv? Ta. And a loight?
ALDI TRUMPET ACQUIRED
Fart noises incoming.
Yes, but now i also have a trumpet
So many Taylor Swift fans, the tram was packed as. Wtf. A group of them looked at me and laughed? I’m not in HS anymore, their giggles mean nothing lol
It’s so weird when the Teenage Mean Girl phase persists past high school.
Don’t move. Swifties can sense movement but not sound.
Is that wise though? You might get slapped with a friendship bracelet.
I stayed very still and listened to my Finnish rap in rebellion haha
Finnish rap…really? That sounds interesting.
Käärijä - he came second place in Eurovision 2023 with this absolute banger Cha Cha Cha
That’s how I found him, because I fkn love Eurovision, and ended up listening to his entire catalogue (an album, an EP, and some singles) and love him. I keep meaning to listen to something else, but I just cannot stop lol
Edit: he should have won. It’s crazy, it’s party!
TW blood
Bloody got a blood nose on the bus. Nobody around. I apparently forgot to add tissues and wipes to my gigantic backpack of pretty much everything else you could want or need. Managed to get it under control with a head tilt though, but my face and hands didn’t fare to well without tissues. Ended up having to clean my hands and face with a letter I forgot to take out of my bag last week. Absolutely looked like a crackhead in the process.
Finally got off at a train station and started trying to properly clean it and apparently bumped my nose a bit too much so the whole thing started again. No fucking toilet paper. Sink that’s permanently stuck on really hot for some reason. I heard a line forming and ended up hobbling down to the customer service desk holding my nose and asked the PSOs for some tissues, they didn’t have any but said there was a better toilet down the end of that platform which did have toilet paper. Managed to get it under control but what a wild adventure. Also stole some toilet paper should my nose break on the way back
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
One giant fat coffee please
☕️
Spaghetti & meatballs please
🍝🧆
Ra’men
🦁👬
tactus appendice spacelliforma
🚹🌵📝🚀🎩
εμένα μου ακούγονται κινέζικα
Good morning bacon! Here is a song for you https://youtu.be/fKyXvNkGQKc?si=bMAMsAVqDr-_HCQH
Can I please have chicken noodle soup?
🌅🐥🍜🧊
Please Sir, can I have some more?
🍲
I’d like a full Sunday roast please. Beef, with Yorkshire pudding and lots of gravy 🙂
🥩🍠🥕🥔🎃🥦🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯
It’s been sometime since I was in a bar with carpet quite this sticky 😝
That’s how you stay upright
Nearly fell over because I tried to walk and my shoes stayed in place
Ok, this building is hungry. Run!
That’s how you know you’re in the right place
They also had ouzo which is the other way I pass judgement
I miss the sticky carpet at the Park View band room in the 70s and 80s. Whole ecosystems lived in it. And were on the brink of spontaneous evolution into consciousness. Then pokies came to Victoria and they closed off the band room and tore up the carpet. The spirit of bar room scientific endeavour was snuffed out in an instant.
There are no polite words to be said about pokies
Some sad news. A neighbour found the corpse of Mr Magpie. He and Mrs Magpie lived in the big gum tree in the roundabout at the end of the street and raised several families there. Presumably the hot windy day last week knocked him off his perch.
However, in slightly more cheerful news, Mrs Magpie fronted up for feeding time at another neighbour’s place this morning, bringing another Mrs Magpie with her. Very very Thornbury.😢
Hectic week is just over. I’m drop dead tired, will miss having people to check in with. But also glad to be back in my own space and participating in things from a distance rather than being expected to compete with the popular and the pretty. Also I’d be glad not to go into the cbd for a good month or so. I’m so over it
Rightio.
Shopping is done. House is clean from top to bottom. Washing is done. Cat is brushed and fed.Time for some reading in bed, and Mass Effect 3 later on.
I forget how great I feel when the house is spotless. Feels so peaceful.
6th night without power. I’m so over it. Anxious AF.
@Reonn @CEOofmyhouse56 crap, what area are you in? I checked the outages list and it was still huge yesterday. I’m in a rural area that gets regular outages, but they are usually resolved within about 12 hours. But the amount of trees down, damaged or basically exploded on the drive out from the city today was… exceptional. I’m not surprised it’s taking them quite a while to rectify all the issues.
Farken hell. Did they at least set a vera up?
How come? That seems like a rather long time to be without power.
You are right, it IS a long time. Things are more complicated up in the hills. Too many trees.
Sounds awful. Hang in there, they are working on it. The damage was so extensive and there’s only so many repair crews. Are you able to stay with someone overnight to get a break from it?
Ended up making the trip in with my kids to listen from the park. Was worth it (kids thought it was awesome) - I’d say probably 15k people outside…
And this guy - just grooving from the back
Mildly peeved that the bus driver blew right past the stop I was at, ignoring everyone who was waiting there. Had to wait half an hour for the next one.
But got some fudge, and found out that the brand I usually get shut up shop some months ago.
It’s been one of those ripple days, where everything seems to be going up and down all at once.
Also anyone know any good place to look into getting a second hand bike (and a good place to ride in)? My current one is a bit knackered, and wondering whether it was worthwhile fixing it, or just replacing it completely.
I’m familiar with the bike shed at Ceres, but that’s about it.
Busses are the vehicles of chaos, I love and hate them. The worst was the one from Glen Waverley to FTG/Rowville I used to take; it would go through Wheelers Hill along FTG Road down that huge fkn hill like a goddamn speed demon. It was like a fkn roller coaster, the bus driver would blow past the stop halfway down the hille everytime because they were going so fast.
I think about it and my heart starts beating real hard haha
