• melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    7 days ago

    Changed my bedding, doing laundry. Might hang the sheets and towels out tonight to dry in the blast tomorrow.

    I should probably make some jelly too. Need to check the water is well topped up in advance because birds and animals will need it. Maybe pull the smaller pots inside.

    I’m still not liking this dishwasher. I’ve ended up using it regularly only so dirty stuff doesn’t build up and attract bugs.

    Bitching

    I just have to do a load daily (or run two loads) due to not being able to efficiently stack many of the smaller items, then manually rinse everything under the tap and put it in the rack to drip. If I could stand long enough to just wash things in the sink I would straight up do that. But for now this is the go.

    One thing I have found to be a problem though is the cat’s silicone bowls have absorbed the strong lemon-lime smell of the detergent which will absolutely turn her off eating. (I don’t find silicone kitchenware very good to be honest. It tends to absorb odours and be difficult to clean any oils fully off. The bowls have also stained yellow from pumpkin.)

    Luckily they’re fold down travel bowls so I can try to get the smell out with baking soda or vinegar and pack them away. It’s just nice to have spares… Love it when two crap products team up.

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    7 days ago

    Back from the community breakfast. It was a pretty good time, they had a small accoustic band and…

    I still like fire trucks!

    The little hall where the event was held.

    Cricket anyone?

    Giant pencils along the path into the primary school next door.

    The food tent. There was yabby Mornay, lamburgers, sausages, bacon and eggs. Delicious! The Minipeelers and I helped cut up all the bread rolls. It was good fun and I wore a mask so my weeping face didn’t scare any small children.

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    8 days ago

    No sleep gang checking in. Woke up abruptly, jerkily turned over, hurt back in the process. Did not know ‘injured back due to nightmare’ was on the list of random injuries that can happen when you get old list. Well anyway, guess I‘ve ticked #10348 off the list.

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    I started off the day with a lovely Sunday sleep in. Unfortunately I was supposed to be at work, so I followed up with a bit of a rush and a late mark. Why do these things only happen to me on high penalty shifts?

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    7 days ago

    Ugh I hate this fucking apartment, it’s such perfect Goldilocks weather out there, beautiful cool air and Sun not too hot, meanwhile it’s a solid 5-7C hotter in this horrid old dogbox with zero cross ventilation. Can’t even open the windows until 8pm when the sun isn’t beating down on the hellish west facing bedroom windows where most of the heat is coming in.

    It’s also been a day for minor bombshell events in the family: mum wants to move back to the ancestral country a lot sooner than expected, with all the huge discussions that comes with it…

    …and a young niece’s sudden coldness to her beloved aunt and uncle (almost like a foster family to her) turns out to be mainly because she found out said uncle’s tiktok account follows almost exclusively onlyfans producers. I feel very conflicted about the second one, I really would like niece and her aunt to rebuild their relationship (niece is quite vulnerable due to parent’s ugly divorce but also kind of sheltered). But also it’s not my business to get involved in other people’s marriages. Though if that aunt - i.e., my cousin - found out later and knew I was aware but didn’t tell her, she’d be livid. Ehhhh iunno. I’ve had a cider and some chips and I’m kind of done for the day now