Dinner is served
Dinner pretty
Look…I am over here trying to convince myself this gluten free Woolies pie is good and that’s just rude.
Looks so so good though 😭
I regret I know no way to make this GF. I’ve found some decent pastries, but not a convincing Stout
Wyse is a decent GF pastry but you are right, a GF stout is the holy grail (late diagnosed here - god I miss stout). O’Brien’s make an amazing GF stout but it’s only ever limited edition. Two bays have one too. It is very much not the same but might just do for a pie.
Hmm now you have me thinking. When my life is a bit less hectic (hence Woolies freezer pie for dinner) I am gonna try a beef and stout stew and / or a pie. See if I can get it close to real food.
I once made a tolerable dark GF brew out of black rice and tea. Tasted pretty good but totally lacked any body.
Yeah the body is the trick.
I’ve never called a pie “adorable” before, but that really is adorable!
🖤 I’ll make you a kitten or dinosaur one sometime
Blessed be the pie. ❤️
Trying to one up my meat pies for lunch huh?
Well I never!
I believe I declared my intent around breakfast time 😝
It’s been one of those days. My memory doesn’t go back past midday.
Such golden goodness! I hope it’s served with mash potato? 🤞
Kitchen is a mess but worth it. First tempura zucchini flower which was exciting (weird looking thing in the middle). Sort of pointless but it looked nice.
Cruspy Nom!
Oh yum! Minus the chilli’s of course b
yummm,
that looks so delicious
Second cushion is complete. My aim is to finish the two back cusions today as well, but I might only get one done. I’m glad I decided to do the sofa with a single long cushion instead of the three seperate cushions it currently has, that would have taken a lot more time.
A friend in Queensland sent through this link: https://www.lifeblood.com.au/blood/blood-supply-levels
Even though I figure they’re not sending blood from WA to Queensland, I saw that local supplies in my blood type were low. So I dusted off my old donor profile and made a booking.
I fell out of the habit when kids and life stuff happened. I really should have gone back years ago. The process of donating blood is smooth and streamlined. I was in and out in under 30 minutes and back to my day.
Thanks for donating on behalf of those who can’t :) What snacks did you get?
A small bag of Kettle chips and a TimTam. They had a whole spread there, it was a lot fancier than the last time I donated.
That’s awesome!! You’ve helped someone out there who needs it mate!
I have mine booked for the 22nd due to the low supply for A+!
I got to wait another month before eligible again. It was also shown that firefighters who donated regularly had lower levels of the forever chemicals we’re being warned about these days. My pathology lecturer recommended men donate regularly as we don’t have a periods which allow the ladies to lose a little blood on a regular basis naturally.
Last time I gave blood, I got my period the next day and I was absolutely wrecked! Had to get some iron tablets to feel normal again!
Thanks for your donations bro! 😂💜
I got my period the next day …
For fairly obvious reasons, this is not a variable I’ve ever considered when donating. Does it take you out for long? My body doesn’t even notice the 500ml. I literally walked from the donation centre back the office, got changed and rode straight home.
I was off colour for a few days before I got the iron tablets - severe lethargy and extreme brain fog. Couldn’t really formulate sentences quickly or coherently. Like I was laggy lol.
I felt much better after taking the iron tablets - it was just poor timing!
When Ive given blood before that, and it didn’t align with my period, I was fine too tbh
I’m not sure how long it would have taken if I didn’t take the tablets though
Got my replacement dishwasher in today, did one load successfully - here’s hoping it lasts me much longer than the previous one!! I felt such euphoria at clearing so many dishes in one go but had to check myself; don’t get attached to it just in case the dw craps out on you again…
Cut up the packaging and dumped it in the recycling, finished the more annoying/tedious half of my desktop work, now doing a bit of laundry and vacuuming and once I get it all dried and am back I’ll feel like I truly deserve my week of tv :D
I met one of the neighbours (well, the owner of one of the units) today who turned out to be super nice so that was a real pick-me-up
Have been bed bound with migraine all day. Just now getting up to have breakfast and a shower.
Crazy how a tiny bundle of nerves in my shoulder can absolutely ruin my life.
so many gentle hugs
Would you like a cup of tea and some toast?
Yes please 😞
🫖☕🍯🥪
a pillow and some soft music?
I currently have a pillow and purring cat who’s concerned why I haven’t moved most of the day ❤️
It’s not that tiny. The brachial plexus.
I know it well. I would get gravid hyperthyroidism , which would fire off my nerves and then I would get angina like symptoms. Just nerves, nothing actually wrong. It was quite anxiety producing too as the nerves would also fire off anxiety centres of the brain.
we are nothing but wet electrical wires, sticks and pulleys
and iron
The actual pain point feels like the circumference of a 5c coin.
But the impact is fucking crazy.
is migraine day for me too, and yesterday. i blame the moon.
Works for me! It’s finally subsiding but I’ve lost an entire day pretty much.
Hope you feel better soon.
Rest well!
Thanks mate :)
I have made a start on the next lot of cushions, but decided to take a break instead and went to Resource Rescue (craft supplies) and ended up spending the last couple of hours sorting zippers and untangling elastic. Miss Meow tried to help, but her technique was a bit suspect and things went faster when she was diverted to a job as paperweight instead.
just another day of packing and cleaning
at least it’s not hot
but it’s also Severance day and severance reddit has been crazy
It’s really taught me how people can be watching the same show and see completely different things. It seems to attract a bigger share of crazy conspiracy theorists than normal.
Even when I watch a TV show that’s a few years old, I still like to google the show and the episode number after every episode because I love to see what other people are seeing/thinking/saying. I don’t know much about Severance besides what I’ve seen in here, but I can imagine it has people pitching the craziest of ideas!
robots, clones, pregnancy and complete surveillance seem to be the most popular
my fave nuts post so far has been the feminist saying no man could possibly understand the women signally to each other scene. It was men who wrote the scene.
Driving along I wanted to change the song. must’ve said “hey Google” 5 or 6 times before I realized thats probably not gonna work on my iphone. I havnt had google assistant in like 6 years, man I’m dumb!
I have 2 google homes. One in the kitchen and one in the lounge room. Sometimes the one in the kitchen that’s further away answers me but not what I’ve asked.
The other day I got frustrated and replied “hey google shut the fuck up cunt”. Then I heard giggling from another room and realised I wasn’t home alone.
Another one is:
Me: Hey google. What’s the weather like today?
Google: Would you like me tell you about your day…
Me: NO. I asked for the weather. Fuck me.
Pretty sure I’ve never seen the clip before. Thanks,
John Deacon!
Another bewwwwtiful one for day/night drinking. Hit it hard, folks. Cheers 🍺
*This post was proudly sponsored by Kelvin The Beeranator - The old fridge that could.
I’ll take 1 kitten please, preferably chilled.
😂 cheers 🍺
Cheers!
Cheers Tripper 🍺
Soon tm
You know when you learn about something and then you notice it everywhere? Like when your date drives a red Corolla, and then you start seeing red Corollas everywhere?
The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon / Frequency Illusion in action.
Severance has Eagans.
The olives in the fridge are Aegean brand.
Now this?
I have some good news. We’ve had the old fridge in the garage tarped over for more than 10 years so the other day the man set it up and opened it. It was spotless. I did an excellent job cleaning back when.
Anyway he gave it another clean and it’s now a beer fridge which is great because I don’t need to tetris my food in the inside fridge every Thursday night.
Tonight we will be celebrating with the original fridge. Also great for storing watermelon in because that shit takes up a lot of room before it gets cut up.
Who knew that cleaning and properly caring for things means they last!
I really expected it to stink because I’ve smelt closed up fridges and they fucking hum but this one was odour free.
When I think about it, I think it’s been closed up for about 15 years not ten. We bought it in 1998. Pretty happy it gets another run.
There’s a Cowboy Bebop episode called “Ganymede Rock Lobster” where the crew of the spaceship is attacked by something that grew in an old abandoned fridge.
😂
Ah, the dulcet tones of f1 cars from a distance. Hooray, not…
E: had a go with these hot and spicy chicken flavour (black packet) indomie noodles. Love the spices - cumin and some other stuff in there - but dear gods it’s fiery. Might put less of the chili oil next time. Or zhuzh it up with veg to offset the heat 🥵
You’ll get used to the spice. Be brave.
You’ll get used to the spice. Be brave.
Eventually your eyes will turn blue and you’ll be willing to fight for Lisan al Gaib!
Lips acquire a stain, the stain becomes a warning.
I grew up with much more spice than this and regularly cook/eat spicy food, but after nearly 15 years of living in Australia my chilli tolerance has gone down so much it’s not funny…
E: I will also say this is nowhere near as mouth-rapingly hot as the black samyang noodles. That one is a biological weapon
shout out to my neighbor who I’d never even spoken to before for helping me out this arvo. Dude disappeared before I could say a proper thanks but I got his wife to admit what he drinks so dudes getting a 6 pack of Carlton Draught this evening.
In somewhat related news, whilst the car can tow the campervan with ease, reversing it is… well lets just say it makes the turning circle of an aircraft carrier look good!
I thought you were talking about a van with a camping setup in it, that sounds like a caravan to me. But maybe my terms are off.
Nah camper van/camper trailer. A little jayco finch. But with a midsized suv it was always gonna be… interesting.
