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  • Did the usual laundry/dishes thing, then went out with the Minipeelers and got some essential supplies. Also got nonessential supplies such as cheesecake and brownies from a local cafe, because cheesecake and brownies. They had a pistachio cruffin left and gave me for free🤤 Got home and had a beef sausage in a fresh roll with German mustard (it comes in a mini stein. I love that kind of thing). Going to watch something with the kids and do more laundry. After I eat the cruffin!

  • Melbourne thoughts.

    I went to the Carlton Gardens yesterday evening to see if I could see the comet. There was a homeless person sleeping on a stone bench, they had a pillow and blankets, their belongings in a supermarket trolley. I wondered if I would be able to do anything if I were a member of local government.

    This morning I give money to a crying beggar on Bourke st mall, He seemed ashamed and kept on apologising.

    Walking through the gardens again on my way home from the cbd I see more homeless, this time sleeping under trees.

    What could I do? As much as I would wish it if i had the power I wouldn't be able to help instantaneously.

    I reckon so many people in gov really do want to help, they have ideas but those ideas would get shot down.

    My idea. As a temp stop gap until systems are in place use old warehouses as dorms , have them fitted out as well as possible, have many social services available.

    But I can hear it now. There would be people who would object. They let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

  • So funny how people lie, in life and on the internet. It's not even hard to pick up on, they always get something wrong, be it their age or the timeline of events, symptoms of a disease or mental illness, their work or experience, even what they do day-to-day. Even how they talk or type.

    There are so many valid reasons to lie, I certainly do. I lie to my family about being okay because I fear trauma dumping, and I'd hate for them to blame themselves.

    But to lie about illness or experience? I find that so weird. I have to imagine they feel lonely or unvalued, unworthy, unless there is something "special" or "unique" about them. A deep desire for validation that twists their initially good intentions into a gross facsimile of the reality.

    I find it foul when "influencers" lie about having a mental illness I have. They always get something wrong about it, the details don't make sense, the symptoms don't match their behaviours. They dupe the naïve into giving them money and sympathy.

    Tik Tok is the worst for that shit, Facebook, IG, Xhitter, reddit too, even lemmy. Any social media platform really. It's a performance and it shows.

    /Endrant

  • Scoffing a chocolate hot cross bun… Yummo.

    Fanged down to Apollo Bay, again. Hot damn this weather has just been absolutely glorious.

    I honestly think this is the best Summer season we have had in years.

  • Washing done, toasted cheese and ham linch done, aircon on! Stovetop coffee done!

    I’m all ready for a Saturday!

    • Very much enjoying the Saturday vibes myself too. What are you thinking for dinner?

      • I’m probably going to make stir fry noodles tonight with the massive amount of eggs and ham I have left here with hokkien noodles that I bought from aldi as a test.

        I haven’t done stir fry in ages apart from yesterday when I got inspired.

        How are you spending this Saturday afternoon and evening and are you doing a stir fry as well?

        I’ve got the tennis on as Alex de Minaur is playing at 2pm.

  • Pretty happy that I didn't succumb to screens for too long this morning - woke up feeling better (probably less dehydrated...) and after about an hour of increasingly distracted scrolling I snapped out of it, changed clothes and hoisted myself to the Gleadell St markets. Proud of myself for walking 15 mins there, and then back with heavy bags rather than driving - saw not one but three! kitties, two were spooked by these scary dogs just behind me but I got to pet this friendly fluffball:

    First time at this market.

    Still craving snake beans and tempeh though... Maybe I'll head to Laguna later today or tomoz. Thinking what to do with all that daikon. Stir fry a good chunk with carrot, pickle a small amount, and maybe do a Chinese style braise for the rest.

  • Motorcycle man strikes again. That’s two 5am wakeups in a row from the starting & revving. It sounds like a chainsaw is going off.

    Feeling like crap from lack of sleep but trying to enjoy the day. About to go for banh mi / viet iced coffee and then a swim afterwards.

    • I also have a motorcycle man... Lives in my building and, from the timing of the noise, must work nightshift.

      He's lucky I don't know which apartment he lives in 😂

      A Vietnamese Iced Coffee is definitely classified as self-care after your morning! May it be delicious and everlasting!

  • That Vukic tennis match was absolutely crazy. My nerves are shot. Time for bed.

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