Melbourne

I wanna let youse know YarraByte is with me and we are getting pissed together. They may not turn up for work tonight because my parties can get pretty wild.

Cheers everyone 🍺

I has new friends thanks to pizza:

The friends:

The pizza:

They're not quite at the stage of the one down the beach (who just does whatever it wants). It's a start.

Which calls for a rave choon

Here's hoping the weekend will help me recharge a bit after feeling sick last weekend. I had the last few days at work to myself but I've felt so flat and out of it, I just need a longer rest I think

I have successfully revived the robovac! Of course we now have the same cat based problem as before, the LittleOne just cannot leave it alone to charge. Off to internet ways to disable the too tempting Ding!

4kg onions = 31 serves of caramelised onion. That should last me a while.

Perils of living with the colourblind, he keeps stealing my toothbrush

Pizza is here, music apps installed, all my shit from band rehearsal last night is plugged back in.

Fuck yeah Friday night. Cheers ❤️

Just cracked a chinotto

WHEN WILL THERE BE A FOOD QUIZ?

Another quiz 6/10

Yeah last I saw Yarrabyte was cracking into the sewing machine oil and chatting up the computerised Singers. Probably still hungover

I am about to make a really big batch of caramalised onions. There will be tears. 🧅😭

Edit: 4kg of onions sucessfully cut and in the saucepan to caramelise. There were tears, but not as many as I feared. Now I can start dealing with some less defensive vegetables.

I assume all the booms are Diwali bit late guys, so many upset animals in my range

friday quiz

8/10

The shopping has all been put away. When you do a major shop monthly that takes quite a while. Sadly they didn't have the bag of potatoes I ordered and for some reason they decided they couldn't substitute them. Is there a major potato shortage I am unaware of? Fortunately I am not completely out, but I will have to go low potato for a while.

Other substitutions today include giving me red curry paste instead of yellow and a different cut of beef which won't work well for what I planned. So I'm making red curry beef instead of yellow curry chicken, and will make a different style of chicken curry from ingredients I already have.

This afternoon I will be doing some packaging of meat for the freezer and a few other food preps, and hopefully get a bit of gardening done too.

Mr Woof's really not doing his guard dog duties well today. There is someone at the front door dropping off the groceries and he's just nonchalantly wandering around the back yard.

Edit: I just left him unattended with some of the shopping bags for a moment. Instead of getting into the lamb roast that was in one of the bags he thoroughly investigated the box of long life milk. He's just not dogging properly at all today 🤣 Maybe he just needs a good walk.

Urgh my microwave died. Do I get a fancy one or a cheap simple one. Convection and airfry seem to be things in microwaves now. e: hmm 3v3. Imma see if the next Aldi has the convection on sale else I'll get a $50 700W baby microwave, babies are less than 20Litres yeah?

I lost the containers I put my caramelised onions into to freeze. I searched everywhere without any success and decided to go to the backup plan of ice cube trays. Then I remembered where the containers are - in the pantry, right next to where I have been working all day and very visible. Fortunately I remembered before actually packaging the onions.

Today’s gone well so far. Let this continue

Parent made me go to a travel agent to get a quote, and they quoted 7k for a two week trip to Japan. That includes a tour, flights, accommodation and activities. I asked if that could be lower because I'm on a student budget, and got ghosted. I guess they weren't going to make enough commission.

Parents want me to go on a tour because they think I'll be bored, lonely, get lost or something might happen. I like the idea of it because everything is planned and someone is there to look out for you. Bit too exxy though. Solo travel seems a bit scary, especially as a woman. I flew to Sydney solo last year and ended up connecting with a friend. The moments alone were fine, but having a friend just made it more enjoyable. A highlight was my friend and I trying to find each other in the botanical gardens, except she was hiding from me and didn't tell me where she was. Imagine that in Tokyo. The tour company said they can give me a discount, but I'm thinking maybe I should just wait until the end of next year. It sucks because I've hyped myself up for it, but oh well. I waited 20 years before I went overseas (that was added to my HECS debt), so I can wait longer.

updating printer drivers ...waiting

oh ffs

processing .....

and went to print out my PT exercises, my PT did not do what I asked, which was to send pictures and text. She sent me an app to subscribe to, which I will not do.

That's really annoying.