Melbourne area

Min 11 Max 22 Showers increasing. Possible rainfall: 0 to 6 mm Chance of any rain: 80%

Partly cloudy. High chance of showers in the evening. Light winds becoming south to southwesterly 20 to 30 km/h in the morning.

Fire Danger - Moderate

Sun protection recommended from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm. UV Index predicted to reach 11 [Extreme]

  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
    15·
    1 month ago

    I just had such a beautiful morning. Met up with my chess buddy at what has become our regular cafe in Prahran, got a nice spot in the sun. Had a lovely cheese and egg omelette with avo. Played for two hours and didn’t feel bad for taking up seats for so long because it wasn’t that busy. Walked back to her place to meet her foster cat who was very shy.

    Then I decided to walk home instead of tram because the weather is PERFECT. Did some shopping on the way, and because I felt amazing I decided to buy a scratchie and won $17. Walk home took about 1h15m and I feel amazing right now

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    14·
    1 month ago

    Last day of work before Christmas is over, yay! Due to my work schedule my family is celebrating a day early, so tomorrow is Christmas Eve for me. Then back to work for real Christmas Day. It always feels slightly odd to be on a slightly different timeline from everyone else, but it is the time spent with family which is important, not which day it is on.

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    13·
    1 month ago

    I wish to register a complaint about bars & cafes who choose plain mdf boxen as seating… My elderly butt wants some upholstery!

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    13·
    1 month ago

    Was up at 4am for another spew. Drinking on Saturday really messed me up. I can’t go hard like I used to. Didn’t help that I didn’t have enough water ugh.

    Got some decent sleep last night though, the cat came and snuggled with me after my toilet trip which was just blissful. He nudges the doona with his head and paws my face to ask me to make him a cubby. Best friend in the whole world.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    12·
    1 month ago

    Tonight was a very interesting experiment (and unfortunate lesson). The males of the house wanted Hungry Jacks, but Miniest wanted ravioli. So I ordered the takeout and got to work cooking the ravioli and making a simple Napolitano sauce to go with it. Her ravioli was ready and eaten with dishwasher loaded while the dasher was still waiting for the order. Then when the order arrived it was missing half of the items! Mr P’s burger was soggy and cold and his drink wasn’t cold. Had to reorder and wait again. A lesson that so-called “fast food” ain’t fast at all sometimes, and you’re better off with even a simple thrown together home cooked meal than that garbage.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      6·
      1 month ago

      The boys need their head checked for wanting such rubbish when you make such delicious food (and you offered - not like they’re demanding home cooked meals from you at all times even when takeaway would give you a break).

    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
      61·
      1 month ago

      I’ve gone off the whole uber eats thing. If it isn’t cold, missing items, the driver put his dirty fucking hands in my meal and started snacking on it.

      • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
        3·
        1 month ago

        I’ve decided if we’re going to have that kind of thing then we have to eat it there, seems to be the only way they don’t stuff it up. Too much disappointment for the money spent.

    • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
      4·
      1 month ago

      Boyo is quite Uber Eats-pro after a single male life, but whenever he suggests it I’m like “okay, but we could just do x instead” and it always turns out better than when I’m lazy and go “sure, get that.” So very few things are worth getting delivery, no matter the app. Burritos are absolutely the expcetion.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
      2·
      1 month ago

      I’ve got the big three drive throughs nearby at spaghetti junction so I’ll just go and get it if I’m eating it. I only really go if there’s a good deal in the app which I can’t uber anyway.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    11·
    1 month ago

    So, I didn’t realise that the place I work at does annual reviews not 12 months after you start but at the end of the calendar year for everyone (when I was booked in for a “review” along with everyone else I thought it was just an end of year chat). It went really well - I got a bit of a pay bump in addition to CPI increase which was a really lovely way to end the year 🎉 after how things went down at my old workplace it is really nice for a change to feel appreciated in a meaningful way!

    housing musings

    Even then, as a single without parental support and years of lower wages/saving due to being on various visas, I still don’t think I can get anywhere close to housing security without being able to save dramatically on rent while working at least 3-4 days a week.

    Work has intimated that I could work remotely (and they clearly want me to stay on, so keen to be flexible).

    So in Jan I’m going to seriously float the question to my aunt and uncle about staying there for 3-6 months. It’ll be challenging working fully remotely interstate and living under senior relatives’ roof, but it seems like the only way forward if I want to escape rental hell any time soon.

    It does feel pointless working towards a deposit when it’s like scrabbling desperately for a ticket to a train hurtling towards an inferno (re: climate change). I’ve accepted I won’t be a homesteader and I’ll be the first to go if society collapses. So this won’t be part of some permaculture self-sufficiency dream.

    Part of me also just wants to go fuckit and break off, travel for a while…

    But I also am increasingly wanting a stable home base as I see my parents generation might be gone within ten years, and I don’t want to float forever.

    Just want some stability before shit hits the fan regardless - without feeling like I need to bust a gut and be shackled to work to make it happen either. Two bedrooms, sunlit and a small garden in a nice enough community - it sounds incompatible with wanting to not be trapped in a mortgage for decades… right? Right? (insert prequel meme)

    I don’t know what the calculations would be on making it all happen yet, but I think starting that journey is definitely on the cards for 2025. So many chapters are closing, this represents a way out, something definitely needs to change…

    Okay, off to the kids clothes shop to hopefully get this overcharge resolved without any fuss, then heaps of washing, laundromat, and a bitta work.

    E: the overcharge thing went really well, turns out there was a further 20% off the already discounted price so I got $33 back. Worth the trip! 😎

    Also cheesed off someone by “stealing” their parking spot but cmon they were trying to turn right into it across Station St, Fairfield - I didn’t see them, it’s technically illegal and I doubt they would’ve made the angle park without mounting the median and maybe nearly collecting a cyclist. It was just a 30 min park anyway. It’s a shit area to park but deal with it.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        6·
        1 month ago

        I hope so too! It feels like good things might be on their way, most hopeful I’ve felt in a while. That said, last time I felt this way was 2019-2020 (despite the fires and early news of covid) so I’m hoping I don’t jinx 2025 🥲

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    11·
    1 month ago

    Netting up more apricot branches today. Takes waay longer than doing the whole tree as one.

    But they’re getting close!

    Big tree this year. Hoping the netting works and will do some apricot hawt sauce.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    1 month ago

    Oh. Early. Thanks for including the weather, I won’t worry about tonight’s thread

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    10·
    1 month ago

    In your opinion what is the worst alternative milk out there? For me it’s coconut milk. If you add that to hot chocolate it does not taste like a Bounty. It tastes like Reef sun tan oil.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      6·
      1 month ago

      Slightly alternative take: alternatives to coconut milk. Evaporated cow with coconut essence is utterly unacceptable!

      • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
        3·
        1 month ago

        I second almond. Can still remember my disappointment that it didn’t actually taste like almonds, which I love.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      5·
      1 month ago

      I don’t mind coconut milk or cream as long as it’s used in cooking like curries or coconut rice but I hate desiccated coconut in meals.

      I think almond milk or soy milk.

      Have tasted almond milk in coffee and it made it taste funny but I had no choice at the time.

    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Second this. I can do coconut as desiccated or flaked - churned into mulk is so not my thing. And I avoid soy, almond and oat milk unless dining with vegans (which rarely happens). Gimme honest cow juice - full fat for preference. And my cholesterol is considerably below the average for my age so the Purity Police can just shove it up their jumper. This does not include the genuinely lactose intolerant of course. But there are so damn many people out there doing I’m A Special Little Petal that the red mist comes down over my eyes with very little warning.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 month ago

        My kid prefers lactose free milk which means cows milk without the lactose. So many times barista will say “yes. We have soy, oat…”. 😡

        • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          1 month ago

          Feels. I don’t mind lactose free cow milk - nearly indistinguishable imo. I just can’t stand the posturing over plant based mulks by the terminally inane. A genuine reason to use plant based is fine - it’s the posers that make my blood boil.

      • indisin@aussie.zone
        3·
        1 month ago

        Interesting! I much prefer soy milk over cows milk and find oat milk so sweet that it’s a luxury / occasional thing.

        • tone212_@aussie.zone
          4·
          1 month ago

          Oat milk sweetness isn’t all made the same, there’s unsweetened versions you might like more. I usually buy the barista varieties to have with coffee, sometimes over cereal, they’re not overly sweet. On its own is not nice.

          I’m a cow milk drinker, but too much in a day makes my stomach upset, so I sub with oat when needed.

          • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
            3·
            1 month ago

            Same. Anymore than 2 cappuccinos a day makes me queasy sometimes but I can drink tea all day long because I only have a splash in there.

    • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
      4·
      1 month ago

      I can only tolerate good soy milk, if I must (now that I think of it it’s been a longgg time) Fuck all the rest. I drink black coffee most of the time, and if I occasionally have one with milk it’s always cow milk. I don’t eat cereal and the non-animal yoghurt etc is weird.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        3·
        1 month ago

        Fresh made soy milk is delicious and is nice when made into desserts. But it’s not a substitute for cows milk.

        non animal yoghurt is just horrible

      • indisin@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 month ago

        Fellow black coffee drinker here and I actively dislike any milk in coffee. Why is it sometimes weird when people are doing a coffee run and ask us why we only want coffee and hot water and if we’re sure?

        • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
          2·
          1 month ago

          Ya idk. That doesn’t happen very much anymore for me at least.
          One of my favourite ways to have coffee is iced long black - made with sparkling water. 😍

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zoneOP
      4·
      1 month ago

      Yeah they’ve started making a lot of non-dairy icecream and yogurt from coconut milk.

      It’s already so expensive and perishable I rarely ever buy it and because of coconut milk it now tastes gross too

      Edit: Almond milk is both watery and kind of perfumed. Don’t like it.

      I’m also not wild about oat milk, yogurt or icecream either. Porridge is good just not as a stand in for these

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    10·
    1 month ago

    Potentially doxxing where I work but I’ll be out of there soon, I don’t really care. Christmas always brings out the crazies.

    retail shenanigans

    Customer: you should be stopping everyone who exits the store like they do at Costco.

    Me: I’m trying my best but our exit isn’t set out like their one. I can’t stop everyone.

    Customer: well you’re not doing your job properly.

    Me: OK

    Another customer: this is a 17 year old girl and she’s doing a great job, don’t listen to her

    (I’m quite a bit older than 17, time to start the anti-aging so I look 17 for as long as possible?)

    First customer: calm down, you sound so angry. I’m a clinical psychologist that works with children.

    I wanted to say and probably a shite one at that.

    customer shenanigans 2

    customer returns a pair of thongs and I go to put them with the clothing returns

    Customer: I can put those away

    Me: no, don’t worry about it. We can put them away

    Customer: scoffs I do it all the time for people at Coles and they love it. This is the first time someone has said no. Let me do it, I like being helpful.

    Me: thanks but you don’t have to, besides, they don’t have a hanger on them

    Customer: raises voice why are you picking at me? I put the hanger away in a specific spot in the store, let me put them away.

    Me: gives up

    She ended up actually putting them back. The register people said she had to be served at register 1 and not any of the others because she has a thing with numbers.

    another one

    The manager that was on decided to close the door 10 minutes before closing. It had been dead for the past half an hour. They aren’t supposed to do that but anyway. We all go to clock off and leave at closing.

    There was a customer behind the door.

    Customer: your website said you close at this time. Why is the door closed?

    Manager: incomprehensible

    Customer: this is ridiculous, I should get the item I want for free.

    Manager: you can’t get it for free but I’ll let you buy the item.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    10·
    1 month ago

    Crisis averted, I spent the entire late arvo and evening sans phone thinking I’d left it in various places, got home just as Marge hit and still couldn’t find it, major panic thinking I’d need to retrace so many locations in the dark and rain - thankfully I could whatsapp someone on my desktop to call it and found the damn thing sitting on the top of the loo. Honestly!

    I’ve done a shit tonne today including sneaking into the office to use the dishwasher for the collection of takeaway boxes I’ve accumulated in the last 4 weeks and doing 2.5 hrs of work while it dried; I’m so tired now and need to put new sheets on but God, if this evening wasn’t a message from the universe to stop procrastinating and set up the new phone already… urgh!! Shops, sheets, dinner, phone, sleep. I got this.

    BTW it says 13C outside, still feels like a stuffy 23C in my unit despite windows open all day, goddamn this stupid heat box.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      51·
      1 month ago

      BTW it says 13C outside, still feels like a stuffy 23C in my unit despite windows open all day, goddamn this stupid heat box.

      Yup. Love that uninsulated apartment living 🙄

      Very glad you found your phone! I lose mine at least 3 times a day lol; it’s black and so is a lot of my furniture, so it camoflages well 😅

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 month ago

        Ugh and is yours carpeted as well? Haven’t lived in an almost fully carpeted joint for ages and it’s driving me mad.

        My new phone cover is bright red precisely to reduce the likelihood of this happening. My new phone that I have still yet to set up… and might not get done tonight as I’m only just having diner and frankly need the energy for work.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      4·
      1 month ago

      If your phone is advanced enough for voice activation you can call out to it and ask where it is.

      Or if you’ve got a smartwatch many of them have the ability to electronically ping the phone from the watch.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        I tried asking my phone where it is just to see what would happen, and it started talking about the history of my suburb and then said it’s the only phone linked to my account

          • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            I guess the history of my suburb is a lot more words than that, so probably more helpful. But I’d probably expect it to play the lost phone chime like it does if you log into find my phone and click play sound