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  • Day 9 of my exercises completed. I actually did them this morning but haven't had a chance to post about it until now. Normally I'd drop the kids off at school and write it on the bus on the way to work, but this morning I had the music bug and just wanted to flood my brain with loud hard rock music before I got there.

    Still not drinking. I'm enjoying being a boring old fart and coming home after listening to heavy metal on the bus and having a cup of tea. However, today's a special day.. it's "Fat Arse Friday" in my house, a recent tradition where we get door dash and eat brownies and ice-cream and naughty stuff on Friday when I come home. It's our cheat/treat day and we look forward to it! So I'm off to have some Streets Blue Ribbon Vanilla icecream with salted chocolate caramel brownie, probably followed at some point by 🍔 & 🍟. Happy Friday evening everyone!

  • Well I’ve had just a bad start to the weekend start to the weekend.

    My hot water system has now has a massive leak and I was forced to turn it off so as of now I have no hot water or access to it.

    What a disaster :(

    • Oh no. I hope you can get it fixed asap.

      • I hope so too. I don’t know if it’ll be easy or not. If it can’t I’m going to have to think of some creative ideas.

    • If it's the tank that's leaking, best to replace it. Not sure its worth fixing.

      As an owner it should cost around $2k for a new one. At least that's what I paid 3 years ago.

      • I’m not sure where or what it’s leaking from. There was a substantial amount of water flowing.

        If that’s the cost of a new one I guess I’m out of luck for a good while.

  • Was at the shops and overheard a discussion in which a lady kept pronouncing tempura as temp-YOU-ra. With the emphasis on the middle syllable.

    Almost ruined my day

    • I was going to reply to this with my pronunciation, but then it just looked ridiculous written down and now I don't know what to say

      • Tem-poo-rah is how ive always heard it. From Japanese speaking people too

        Does kind of look ridiculous

  • I am so bloody glad it's Friday. These past few weeks at work have had me run off my feet, it feels like I'm doing the job of 3 or 4 people.

    So happy we have literally nothing planned for the weekend. Just need to run a few quick errands tomorrow morning, but that's it. I'm going full gremlin mode.

  • Yesterday I posted my spag 'n' ease dinner so thought I'd share this story wif yous. Spaghetti bolognese is my husband's favourite of all time. If I swap the spaghetti for another pasta, there's disappointment.

    So one day I made the bolognese and I burnt the fucker. I was so angry with myself. Told him that I was sorry and promised him I'd make another one the next day. He's like "nah I'll still eat it". I explained that it's horrible, unedible, burnt throughout. I left it on the stove to deal with it in the morning.

    I woke up and looked in the pot and it's gone. Like all gone. So I questioned him when he got home. He told me that he had taken it, added a shitload of chilli paste to it and that it was delicious. It had sat overnight and he ate it cold. I had no words.

  • Breathe in, breathe out, bundle it up
    \ Hold it for one moment,
    \ Then let it all out
    \ Take a second or a minute, take a whole day
    \ Breathe it in, breathe it out, send it away

  • You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round Like a rekkid, baby, right 'round, 'round, 'round

  • Time to brave the wind and walk Mr Woof. I just need to figure out what to wear for 16 degrees but feels like 12. Maybe a light jumper.

    Edit: Made it back home without blowing away. The light jumper was a pretty good choice, a touch too warm when out of the wind, but that didn't happen much. We also got a bonus chat with a neighbour reminising about all the changes in the neighbourhood.

    • The wind was enough that the cat, when offered supervised outdoor time on four separate occasions (as cats often require), came right back in each time within 30 seconds.

  • My brain is slowly turning to mush through listening to too much hold music.

    Edit: Actually, my brain may have started as mush. I have spent hours today trying to sort out a problem, and just worked out it's my own mistake and it was all a complete waste of time.

  • The Age newspaper comes with the Good Food supplement on a Tuesday. This week they had an article on different types of yoghurt and Mrs_Owl was horrified to learn that all this time (for years) she thought she'd been buying Greek yoghurt, but instead it's Greek-style which is much more heavily processed and padded out with thickeners and gums.

  • I’m going to roll my back muscles to oblivion on my foam roller. Holy SHIT I’m stiff

  • I have the door open to let in the mild fresh air and hear the birdies sing 🎶🦜

    • The mild fresh air is travelling very fast out there. Fresh air might be nice, but I think the turbulance is a bit much to keep the door open.

    • I'm definitely not feeling as cold, actually pretty warm to be honest.

      Please let the rain stay away today, at least till the afternoon.

  • Gah. When I went outside to close the gates just now the wind had blown over the bin and the bag of rubbish, and in the dim light it looked like someone had collapsed on the path.
    Gave me a moment, I can tell you.

  • I kind of had part 1 of my weekend yesterday and this morning. Now that I've mostly recharged and got a second wind of energy I'll be working late into the night at my own pace. I can see and think clearly now that I know I won't get any more emails until Monday...

    Gonna make a simple pasta with onion, garlic, Sirena tuna and broccoli and chuck in some chipotle in adobo sauce for something out of left field. Then on to the next stage of compiling all this stuff together.

    now playing: mais que nada

  • Another problem with replies is when I go to notifications and click show context, no context is shown.

  • Whoo! Home time! Today's comment is brought to you by Ubering in a Tesla. And by home I mean going to my partners place 😊😊😊

  • Thank god it’s the weekend, it was a long day at work, particularly since it was supposed to be my day off. I hope we at least see a little sunshine ☀️ sometime during the weekend.

  • Watching Queen of the Damned. haha I forgot Dennis Denuto was in this. F4!

    • They recruited hard from the Melbourne goth scene at the time. I know a bunch of people in it.

      • My wife's dad was a bus driver out west when the movie was show. The dance party scene was in St Albans and he ended up with a busload of goths.

        He thought it was the end of the world (old school Euro wog)

  • Lunch has been achieved. Just the usual pb on toast ( sans buerre ) . ( still hungry 🥺 )

    • Butter would've filled you up 🤷‍♀️

      • I desperately need to lose weight and get into healthier habits. Being overweight is really bad for my sciatica and in 10 years I'll start to get old. I can't imagine what sciatica would be like then, it would not be good. 😭

      • condensed milk would've worked better

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