The cake was popular at work. If anyone would like a slice, please help yourself
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Ooh yes please. I have the hungries on today.
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Whatโs everyoneโs NYE plans? For me, a friend hosts a gathering each year with a small group of regulars. Itโs close to home so getting there & home is easy. Thereโs usually a spit and other yummy foods and a bonfire. I may get quite drunk as a fitting send-off to this year.
Stay home and watch Dinner for One and YouTube lol, maybe catch up on the seasons of Dragula I've missed. Hang out with the cat.
I'm so exciting and young.
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Probably will be asleep by 11 at the latest.
Happy New Years everyone!!
Make pasta. Stay up as late as I can. Sleep in as late as I can.
Wander along the waterfront and catch up at a local with some friends/fam early. Might stick around to see if I can see the 9:30 fireworks. Hopefully home in bed by 10:30 ๐ which is just perfect in my books
beach to see the fireworks in the city
I will take pics ๐
Went to friends house a couple of nights ago for tea & drinks so tonight it'll be a quiet one.
I hope there's a spit for you to enjoy!
Drug the cats and put on some bass heavy music before the boomies start. Boyo may or may not get out of work early, so food plans pending. Otherwise, nada.
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Spending this one at home given how tough the year has been. Probably just have favourite movies from the year on in the background while I put together goals for next year and a year ahead tarot reading before catching some local fireworks and bed.
Stay home and re-arrange my sock drawer. I kid you not - I'm immersed in a major shuffle & redeal of home furnishings/cupboards/clothing atm. Hoped to get it done by now, but no dice. Then tackle the bookshelves with the remainder of my leave. Probably won't get to that this holidays now. Some major donating of unwanted cookware etc. coming up in the new year too. Will take a break at midnight to have a drink and wish the new year well and wait for the noise to die down a bit before attempting sleep.
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I hope everyone has a great night! I'm incredibly grateful this oasis from the cesspit of the online world.
Happy new year in advance, from Gibson and the treat dispenser :)
Happy New Year to the best cat dad and to all the kitties. ๐
At work today but it is soooooo quiet. I've done 5 minutes of work in 2 hours. Pretty sure I'll be sent home early any minute now
Edit: ok yup going home in half an hour ๐
Score! Neighbour throwing out a window with the difficult (and likely $$$) to match glass pattern we need. Don't think they realise reclamation mobs exist for this ๐บ
I need to stop spending money, I just spent a small fortune on updated noise cancelling headphones. I've decided I am going to go cold turkey, no more spending for the rest of the year.
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Son is sleeping over at a mate's house and daughter went to an NYE party at her friend's...one street over.
Wife and I got a bit stoned tipsy and frisky....daughter came back to get some board games....if the door was unlocked or she was there 10 minutes early...she'd be scarred for life
Happy New year everyone!!!
10 minutes early
That's about 7 minutes more I than can go.
Happy new year!
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New Year's Resolutions anyone?
For me, more fruit, more drinking, more drugs.
make my new schedule a habit
More glitter! And more movement.
I'm pretty happy with the way things are going at the moment, so I guess just keep doin' what I'm doin'. Boring for a New Year's Resolution, but boring is good.
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Happy new year all!
Hayfever very bad today.
Commisserations, those rampaging grass pollens should really be illegal. It seems to be a bad couple of days for hayfever, but I found yesterday was worse for me.
I would really like the nostril tickles to stop.
Cats have been waiting for breakfast since 10 pm last night.
Boyo telling me he would pick my cooking over his favourite take out ๐ฅน๐ฅฐ (unless I can cook it the next day ๐คฃ๐คฃ)
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Coffee to have with Raven's cake too please.
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I have tested my cake and it passes the edibility check. I can now pass it around at work without fear of embarrasing myself. The attempt at fruit swirled though it didn't work quite so well, I have yet to master that, it's more evenly sunk to the bottom creating a slighly sticky fruity bottom layer, which is not quite what I was envisaging but tastes good.
Ancient trick for even fruit distribution which you probably know, but I'm putting it out there anyway - use some of the flour for the recipie to coat the fruit before including. Helps the fruit stay buoyant in the mix. Works for anything up to and including smallish stoned cherries. Chunks of plum/apricot/peach/pineapple need to be 2 cm or less square or they're too heavy and will sink anyway. If the cherries are large, then they do better if halved. This hack helps with dried fruit too, especially if the dried fruit has been soaked in tea or brandy etc.
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Melbcat crawled into the bed and went to sleep with her face in my armpit. Gave her some extra pain relief just in case that was the cause of the sookiness.
Sheโs eaten most of her breakfast and gone to nap by the window in the other room.
Edit: Also I ran cooling overnight but somehow itโs warm and stuffy inside while outside is cool and crisp? wtf. I may have to try and sort that out
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I didn't go for a ride this morning but I decided to take the kids out in the pram and did the same distance I wanted to do anyway, but now towing around 40KGS instead of just riding. It's a lot easier when you stretch the ride out over 4 hours instead of doing it all in one
Ugh. Keep finding myself falling back asleep. Up. Now. Coffee and walk and beach
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By a long way. It's a quiet morning!
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