Discussion Thread 🪷 Sunday 11 May 2025

Shadows are still perplexing.

Today is a tough day (as I'm sure it is for others). So it's do sweet fuck all and try and stay even keeled.

At least it's a beautiful day.

Gibson is so photogenic
- I feel a lot better hearing that considering how much I post pics of her lol

I dont really speak to my mother anymore. tonight, for the first time in several decades, I got a little baked, chilled by the fire and then decided not to worry about Mothers Day at all...

Kudos to the few companies who admit it's problematic and send opt out links
- Yes, I’ve started to get a few. It’s a nice gesture.
hugs
all festive days are just another opportunity for people to show who they truly are so I just celebrate with my true loved ones or on my own
- I love my mum, a lot, but whenever we soend time together, something builds up between us until she explodes in a tirade of telling me all the things about me that she dislikes. Could take months, could take years. After hearing it all enough times, I finally decided it's easier to just to remove the problem of spending time together to free her up to spend it with people whose company she actually enjoys. Much better for my mental/emotional health.
  Thanks for the hugs :)

Just wanted to acknowledge the people here who have complicated relationships with their mothers, have lost children, whose mothers have passed, and any expectant mothers, single dads, foster carers or pet owners ❤️❤️

The other day, a neighbour posted that they were selling their coffee table, and it came with a free cat bed, as her cat has never used it.

I don't want or care for glass coffee tables, but I asked if I could buy the cat bed - she said it was free and she'd leave it outside her apartment for me!

I grabbed it, thanked her, and gave it to Mickey a few days ago. The top can come off so I detached it and put treats in there for him over the last few days.

😻

The bunnies

AHHHHHH I LOVE THEM!!! 😍😍😍

Aaaaaand home sweet home

Happy Mother's Day

Day for it..

Plenty Gorge parklands

Last time I rented a property the condition report was a carbon copy checklist of a couple of pages, with a few lines to add comments. This time I have 170 pages, with multiple photos of everything. There are 9 photos of the front door knob.

That is insane. I think our last one was 16 pages. It was all online because Covid, pity anyone with a data limit.
This is a really, really old house.
Every single scuff mark was documented. I moved in 3 years ago and the report was 95 pages.
Moving out is going to suck lol
- This is a brand new house, there is not really anything to document. There are pages of everything being perfect in great detail.
  Basically any damage is going to be on me. There are little pots of all the paint colours though so I can do touchups, and spare tiles and floor boards so any damage to those can be fixed without redoing everything too. Hopefully I can avoid any damage though - I have lots of things like shelf liners and caps to go on all the furniture to stop scratches. Plus many door mats and rugs.

Airport check in is going well. Perth Airport staff are very switched on and lovely

Happy mothers day to the people who are doing it tough today. Try to be kind to yourself, and do something that makes you happy ❤️

Nom

Everyone is fed (except me lol) had a good day. Lots of chilling and naps.

Time for music and video games. Weekend flew by.

I did it. I put away the clothes. And threw out/ added to donate pile a bunch of old stuff. And vacuumed. Gonna make a gin, have an everything shower and pop a one pot spag Bol in the instant pot.

Sounds like a damn good day!
🥂
I managed to sweep the lounge and dining areas and am about to do the kitchen
- 💪🏻 excellent. Enjoy the cleaner space.

Some of the man's toys

🙂
are the mushroom and brick lamps?
- It's a moneybox. When you push his head down he makes the coin noise like when you collect them in the game.

Good morning possums. I’ll be home later, so please make sure the key’s under the mat

I found one of my friends from the park face down next to his car yesterday. I think the old bloke had just tripped and no longer had the fitness to get himself back up. Helped him up and got him into his car. Helped pack away his fly fishing stuff that he practices with. He said he was okay from there but I reckon I should've drove him home. I was on the dog walk so finished that then went back to the park to check on him and the car was gone ~40 minutes later.

I had another therapy client who fell at home and couldn't get back up. In his 90s. Luckily we were close enough that I knew where his spare key was and alarm code so I let myself in for the appointment even though he wasn't answering the door. Found him dehydrated on the floor, got him a drink an called the jewbalance (hatzolah).

Lesson is, don't let your fitness slide so much that you can't get up off the ground... if you can help it.

don’t let your fitness slide
Ooh I'm witnessing this first hand right now too and it's very true.
That’s been on my mind lately 😬
This is why I've stuck to the 4 days a week gym routine and eating clean as I moved out of my mid 30's.
Been a real godsend.

Back in melbs.

Hit pot hole on way back, tyre fucked, spent 2hrs in a BP car park (admittedly with a nice view of the you yangs and a jackas) waiting for dude to fix.

7/10. Was actually quite lovely out there.

It's a nice coincidence that YarraByte chose a lotus for today's emoji as tomorrow is Vesak Day!

Today I'm taking it fairly easy. My biggest task is to make this delicious prawn curry (incl shallow frying the heads first for extra flavour). One of the few recipes that DON'T use tomato - I'm sick of it being in every other curry recipe out there. Beans, eggplant, gourds, greens, all with tomato! It's not necessary! Have some balance.

Btw - they gave me the prawns in a big ziplock bag type thing, instead of wrapped up. Is this new? The ziploc didn't close very well and I nearly dropped one of my items into a pile of prawns during checkout.

Vesak day - is that the same as Buddha Jayanti? Either way 🪷🙏🏻
Edit: yes it is.
tonight I am making a mango curry that has no tomato
also, TIL about Vesak Day
- I too have just learnt about vesak day. V interesting!
- Vesak Day is probably the only real day of significance all Buddhists observe worldwide, there probably would've been more events on today if it wasn't for Mother's Day overlapping (and it's not a "festive day" per se...)
  Tomato is totally overkill with mango. Too much acidity. I'm adding some tamarind to the prawns and no tomato in my dal or beans. I was rummaging through my freezer meals last night and highly annoyed that most things had tomato in them
Well I am cleaning my home 🤔 🪷🧹

Who'd Iike to help me set a bonfire? Yeah, no hallmark holiday here thanks.

Weird neighbours aside it’s been a nice day. I spent it cleaning and hanging out with fur daughter. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ofjtX6NT-hY&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

She didn’t get me flowers or make breakfast but that’s because she’s not allowed near my credit card and can’t reach the stove.

she's awesome 🐱

Safely landed, watching luggage spin gently by...

mother's day dinner for MIL done , present well appreciated. Got her a fancy throw rug and cushion for when she's sitting watching telly.

and Young Miss Seagoon has invited me to stay with her at Hobbiton, I mean that village near by in NZ. 🧝which is cool

Sky pretty

it was a really beautiful sky this evening

Anyone else notice the price of fuel since the Election?

It was about $1.70/l before the Coalition announced their 12 month excise discount of 25c. Then overnight fuel went up to $2/l.

Now that the Coalition has well-and-truely lost, fuel is back down to $1.60/l.

I think it's just the usual cycle with a bit of low oil barrel price in there.
- I think you might be right, especially with school holidays, but oil barrel prices are influenced by politics.

I found some of my old sketchbooks from my early twenties… there’s not much there but it seems like I was actually fairly good back then before really learning anything.

I often just copied pictures I liked without knowing how to sketch but it was very detailed and somehow I copied hands (???). But now there’s resources and time available I’ve completely got the chokes.

Wish I could get that ability back

Old gouache brush is fun

Is that an iPad? If so do you mind me asking which one? I want to buy one for reading journal papers and writing and tooling around with digital sketching and some photo editing. But I keep getting stuck on a cheaper gen 10 or the more expensive newer air so I can get the pro pen.
If this not an iPad just ignore my ranting I'll go back in my cave 😂
Edit: oh and love the drawing!!
- It's not an iPad, it's a few generations old galaxy tab.

It doesn't look like much what with all the prawn heads and pandan leaves etc (and my total lack of making it look nice - recipe) but HOLY SHIT is this a mind-blowing prawn curry. Even frying the heads in oil at the start smelt divine. I confess it might've worked better with lime rather than tamarind but it's still so deep in flavours! I also went ham on the chilli (Kashmiri chilli powder, black pepper, and a couple of v spicy dried chillies). Can't wait to taste what it will be like TOMORROW, my god...

Deveining the prawns is a bitch though... the tract keeps snapping and then I can't pull a segment out. I'll need to improve my technique.

That was several hours worth of cooking between that, the cluster beans, and the ginormous pot of dal with cluster beans. But now I'm set for quite a few days. And thanks to my handy dishwasher I can now relax for the rest of the evening. Yay!

The heads and shells are too damn good to just throw away. Best risotto I ever made was with yabbies - boiled up the heads and shells with aromatics to make the stock. Gamechanger. Whenever I get prawns I mostly boil up the heads for stock and freeze it. Does magical things to any rice dish as rich in umami from the tomally in the heads.
- I do love just sucking on the heads when I've had whole prawns. I think if I make another prawn dish without the heads I'll be making stock and freezing as well, it's entirely worth it. Or just use the stock directly (I'm thinking of a nice saucy risoni dish maybe).

quiz

20/50 hard one today for me at least

35
How the fuck should I know how to start a chicken dance
- With a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Quack, quack, quack, quack.
- I knew, because there was deeply traumatic period of time when Australians of some renown were doing it in public - like swimmers at the olymoics, etc
35
45/50
30/50 there were many guesses.
Way better than expected.
15
25!

Miss Meow definitely likes the new mat I put in her carrier, she keeps napping in there. She's in there now snoring away.

lovely day down at the beach . Late sun casting dapples on sand and shadows from rocks

This pleases me in ways I cannot adequately word

Time Team, Indiana Jones, & Olivia

Two magpies having a punchup in the back yard o_O

We have one at work that stands over you for snacks. Doesn't like fruit, tolerates banana bread but will take cheese, crackers and meat from your hand. I'm hoping the friendliness stays for swooping season.
- Protection payments! It should be ok, they learn faces
opened my front door today, and a maggie was outside my front gate. It was completely unfussed by my ratbag younger dog losing his shit at the sight of a magpie, and instead proceeded to tease/warble at him through the fence. It was very cute.
- They have come up near my door before! I think they know there’s cat food inside or maybe just curious

When you've had more than your daily allowance of treats and think being cute will get you some more.

Also, playing Crysis on ps5 with Ray tracing. 15 years ago youd need a fucking supercomputer to get that happening lol.

I'm old.

Plane go brrrrrrr

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I had a mysterious hand delivered letter in my mailbox today, addressed to some people who are not me and marked "private and confidential".

It can't be too confidential because it was a card I was able to read through the envelope, which I presume would be meaningful to whoever it was addressed to but not to me. There is no address or anything so there is no way of passing it on to the right person. I'm thinking maybe just put it through the shredder?

Mark the envelope RTS and drop it in a mailbox. Let the post office open it and determine the sender which they are allowed to do if there is no return address on the envelope. The sender has to pay for the postage then. Which is an incentive to address items correctly. Does sound like it might be religious tracts or similar as per SituationCake below. Or you could open it "in error" and reseal it up again if it turns out to be genuine.
E: for grammar.
- It was hand delivered, not sent via post. There is no delivery address or return address.
Could it be junk mail? I’ve gotten envelopes addressed ‘to the household’ or looks like handwritten ‘sorry I missed you’, and they are always realestate advertising, some kind of tradie magnets or religious spruiking.
- No, it's to specific named people. I can actually read the card inside through the envelope (I may have been nosy and held it up to the light 🤣) and it's pretty much just a note that someone visited while they were out. Not the end of the world if they don't get it, but I presume they would like to know.

Nigh nighs

Is Teepublic safe to order from?

Edit: Ahaaa, there’s the catch. The actual Aussie dollar cost showed up at checkout and I’m gonna have to think about that one