struggling with water colour books, I suppose using books meant for pencils just doesn’t work 🤔
special water colour practice book has been ordered
Okay:
- Washed
- Chicken sandwich obtained
- Vanilla flan smashed
- Stupidly priced cookies for later
Now just waiting for the rain to pass to see whether I want to be out and about on two wheels. Perfect weather for the one the runs insanely hot. It would be nice to not to straddle 105°.
Even though I should be sorting this crapshow I have created. I just have such an aversion to it, that it is pretty much reflective of my state of mind… Yep, hot mess.
But also so tempting to just lay in bed. This is when I love the rain.
Edit: I have dangerously climbed back into bed. 🥱
I feel surprisingly good today. At times there’s a bit of post birthday blues, but apparently not this year!
Also I forgot I had a car so when I open the kitchen blinds, I was like “oh yeah! FUCK YES!”
Ended up having a really good music sesh as well before I went to bed which felt awesome!
Thanks again for all the birthday wishes, and support over the past year ❤️
Edit: Fluffy and I are going to laze around today I think. No responsibility, no thinking, just rest and recreation :)
You deserve all this and more. 😘
That’s incredibly kind of you ❤️
Here’s to a brighter year for us all!
Overall Australia lacks culture and meaning, and has unfortunately become a mere economic zone. Probably why in part so many people are depressed and anxious.
Australia is brimming with culture and meaning. It doesn’t have to be exotic or ancient to be ‘culture’.
I think we do have our own culture otherwise we would still be a clone of Britain. We used to be but because of migration we are drifting further away from that which is a beautiful thing.
I think we still have an awful lot of Britishness in our institutions and so on. And probably a lot of globalist corporate and consumer culture now as well - hence the emptiness.
I am constantly aware that I work in a bubble of very smart, talented and fairly-paid people. That the people I work with aren’t a slice of “average” Australia. But within that bubble of IT workers, we absolutely have that global cultural influence CEO was speaking about.
Then there’s the kids. They go to school in a mix of kids from all over. Its a great equaliser. They don’t know where their mates ‘are from’, almost everyone was born here. I get it from their names.
It’s easy to look at the news and think our influences are all US/UK. But I think as each generation goes by, they’ll be less central to what makes an Australian.
What emerges from that mix? I’m keen to see it. What we already have is clearly recognised by the British themselves as something distinctly separate from their culture.
I mean this in the most nicest way possible. Just because you feel emptiness it doesn’t mean everybody else does. I’m an optimist and I’m gonna find the good in as much as I can.
To clarify, I wasn’t suggesting everyone does feel this way.
However it must be said that my view on Australian life is hardly an outlier. Official statistics on mental health are alarming and rising, and these are official numbers, to say nothing of all the people that aren’t being accounted for.
To put it succinctly:
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti”
You need to find your Ikigai (life purpose).
Colonial Australia does lack a meaning and culture, because they genocided, murdered, raped, and stole First Nations people, refused a Treaty with FN, and they barely have a presence in Parliament (by design). Settler Colonialism is inherently meaningless and cultureless for it’s victims and those who vehemently disagree.
Similar things happened in Mexico but they still have a distinct culture. It’s not quite the same I guess because the Mexicans recognise the Aztecs weren’t the nicest people either so I guess it’s more complicated.
But I think the fact that we were but a mere settler colony has a lot to do with it. Even then, the previous Christian traditions, whether you subscribe to them or not are also evaporating.
you know, defeating the Aztecs was the right thing, just like defeating the Nazis was the right thing
this Christian tradition is not the main defining tradition we have
we have a culture of trust, we trust that deals we make with other people will be upheld
we have a culture of enlightenment tolerance, we don’t kill people for living or believing differently
we agree that customs and laws should protect the weak
For myself I am trying to be more forgiving and compassionate. Really looking at my own flaws and mistakes and then within that framework, keep that in mind when someone else is not being particularly nice. I like to imagine people as babies and ask myself, what happened to you in life for you to turn out this way?
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
It has always been an economic zone, that’s what being a colony is.
If we want meaning and culture we have to create our own.
I think one of the greatest myths we are told in modern societies is that you have to do it all on your own and you have to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
The truth is life can be terrible. No man is an island and humanity needs each other. I think the lack of care leads to an awful lot of problems and it starts in childhood.
yes, humankind is naturally caring and co-operative
one of the aspects that differentiates our society from others is we have safety nets for those who don’t have familial or social connections
( safety nets that have been eroded )
Yes I was going to say the safety net is basically non existent these days. If you don’t have friends or family unless you can get out of hot water relatively quickly you are in real trouble.
Minipeelers wanted to go to the farmers market today and I am just too tired and unmotivated to spend the $$. So I’m not very popular atm 😔. This one’s a good one, only on once a month so I feel quite guilty but also weather is windy AF.
So many car shows on at the moment. We went to one in Whittlesea on Friday and there’s one on at MacLeod right now
What type?
My attempt at macro phone photography, featuring my dad’s attempt at a pizza oven from many years ago, made from a bathtub he found in hard rubbish.
Bathtub pizza oven! Now that is not something I’ve seen before.
Are those hakea nuts? Awesome picture. 🙂
Possibly, according to Google Lens!
Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋A glass of champagne to celebrate another cupboard being sold, please
🥂
Leftover birthday cake?
🍰
Pate de foie gras please on hot toast with coffee.
🦆🧈
🍞☕️
BLT please chef. 😘
🍞🥓🥬🍅🍯🍞
Juicy Goose sanga please
Pardon us. We are capable of capturing only one goose per day. Have a duck instead.
🍞🦆🍞
Good morning Chef! May I please have chicken avocado salad with a juice box?
🍗🥑🥗🧃
Is it raining anywhere?
I decided to get some exercise and walk to the shop instead of driving.
Guess what happened?
You can’t see clearly because the rain hasn’t gone?
🤣🤣🤣
Left myself open for that one lol
Just started here
Oh yes. Northeast
aaand it’s stopped. Big ole fat rain
Big fat rain out east, getting heavier. Plus many ominous rumbles in the sky.
Edit: and now it’s stopped raining again.
Starting very outer south east.
There’s a huge red patch that appeared out of nowhere over Caulfield area! We had a bit of rain down south but it went away pretty quickly.
Here’s another quiz for you space nerds
12/20. I am happy with that
10/20 for me this time.
Jebus, 6. 🤣
9/20 not gonna be rocket dentist anytime soon.
Same here!
one of the questions is wrong
Which one?
the pluto is a planet one
Pluto is classified as a planet again.
Poor pluto. That classification yo-yo for the little guy would be exhausting.
It’s because there’s other “planets” that are bigger than pluto. There’s debate on both sides so it’s still classed as a dwarf planet for now.
Nope. Still classed as a dwarf planet.
10/20 better than expected
Not good at planets, had some lucky guesses
No I don’t.
I do not know planets apparently
Me neither 😔
Last day/night in old place. Shed a few tears in the morning…
Alright. Big girl pants are on. Feel-good bossa nova station is on. To-do list for each room. Fridge unplugged, washing machine drained and let to dry. One more FBM pickup this morning. Everything else to cull/donate is leaving my house today (except The Couch Of Doom).
I have planned a couple of rewards to bring some joy and goodness into this.
- Started process of booking a week at my bolthole out in NSW over the xmas/new year period.
- Gonna buy an instant pot (maybe second hand) so I can get through my pile of dried legumes
- There will be pizza once I finish this move
- Gonna ask work to book me in for some field work next couple weeks
You’ve got this and you’re doing awesomely!
If you DM me your PayID or email I’ll send you the cash, or an UberEats voucher to buy that pizza for you!
Aw thanks! Nah, it’s all good, I got paid on Friday and can certainly stump up for a pizza for myself without breaking the bank 😊
I will save on some things at this unit as the rent is 35/week less than what I’m currently paying, water is included, and there is no gas. Some of that will have to go to laundromat costs (drying), but overall I will be financially OK. Plus I have my bond coming back in a little over two weeks…
On the bond have you initiated the request with the RTB?
No worries on the pizza but a legit offer! This isn’t meant to be a brag but I just made money whilst watching a cartoon and I love sharing, so feel free to change your mind ❤️
Not yet, I’m handing back the keys on Wednesday. Bond request will be initiated the very second the keys leave my hand
Fair play that strategy sounds correct to me. Even though I’ve read that you’re unhappy with your new place, it’s just temporary and I know that you’ll turn it into a new adventure.
Packing really truly sucks though doesn’t it?
Yes, it’s just a temporary pad till I finish my degree (which is the main thing keeping me in Melbourne atm).
Packing is balls. The good thing is, the next move (possibly putting everything into storage) will be a lot easier!
Yass you can do it! And it will feel like home when you have your stuff in and made it your own. I have lived in big places and tiny old hobbit holes and anything can be a home.
And I vote for the instant pot. I have a smallish kitchen and ummed and ahhed because of storage but it is so helpful. Rice cooker, pasta sauces, dried legumes cooked without soaking, curries, yoghurt. I use it multiple times a week .
Yeah, I’ll be very tight on storage but reckon the instant pot will be worth the space - I’ll never use the oven so I think I’ll use it as storage. I’ll still keep a separate rice cooker so I can have a curry and rice going at the same time 😁
I have soooo many dried legumes, ironically purchased a week before all this rental shitstorm started. It’ll be great to get through them all, and save heaps of money at the same time! Chana dal curries without soaking? Sign me the fuck up. Especially the set and forget part of it. Think I will have a crack at dal makhani as well, never made it before.
You are doing awesome! 🖤
Favourite part of yesterday’s shenanigans:
spoiler
I think you should show Ted
I think Cher wore it better.
Heard about this. 🤣
You could have warned us.
Butt cheeks only! Anus has been covered
I mean, I’m not sure whether I would or would not have been surprised if you could see that. 🤣
I might just go the one sausage today. The Sriracha option is appreciated though
Rain not happening yet. Dare I water the garden or would washing the windows be more effective?
I’ve watered the lemon tree because the ground is so dry and hard that any rain will just run off
Can you wait an hour? My fluffy blanket is almost dry.
For you, anything.
Thank you. I heard some rumbling in the distance and then my Marketplace buyer turned up so I decided it was a good time to grab the blanket - dried nicely (it does dry very quickly).
Let the gates of heaven open up!
My car needs a wash, maybe I should get on to that
Why not both
Dragged myself out, got coffee, was going to go for a walk in the park, but I am already ITCHY and SWEATY!
TF, I loathe this pollen.
Bad bad hayfever already.
Not to mention this bushfire smoke! Dunno if you’re getting it your way…
I could smell it earlier in the northern suburbs, but it’s less bad now
Yeah it is getting a little better now. Still noticeable but I hope that it clears soon. It might not officially be summer but it’s certainly feeling like it now!
Haven’t seen any of yet. Which direction?
More the smell than sight. Been fairly strong since this morning in the northeast
It’s smoky smelling out in the west burbs
