✅ Breakfast
✅ Groceries
✅ Post breakfast nap
🔳 Cook
🔳 Meal with friend
🔳 World Domination
🔳 Maybe laundry
Attempt 2 at cat tower to commence shortly.
So the 2nd amp I grabbed to make a stereo guitar setup was a huge win!
Sounds so damn cool with an amp on each side.
Will photograph cat tower later. Pray for me.
I’ve dedicated this thread to your cat tower.
It is time to begin THE GREAT CLEAN.
DT DJ, please to turn the music up
Craft prepping for the big Halloween window. Sure hope the theme isn’t too obscure ☠️
Had some stuff done a few months ago on the roof. Turns out the dudes just cut the downpipe and used a brick to keep it in place without reconnecting it. I only worked that out the other day after that rain.
Was wondering why the rose next to it was having a great time:
Should be an easy fix (was just gonna use PVC glue and that PVC rubber tape stuff) but jeez a bit of a poor effort. Getting people in for such small jobs (or getting them back to fix their fuck ups) is hard today.
Stunning rose, but caused by the bane of all our existences: the slacklustre tradie.
Why do people feel the need to use their most loudest voice possible when they are outside and only a couple of metres away from each other?
Sounds like kids to be honest. They can’t control their voice volumes either.
I have no idea why people do that. Bad hearing?
No, not children. Adults.
Oh sorry I knew that. Just saying kids have the same problem with voice control and how loud they are.
There was outside idiots and inside idiots having a convo.
Widespread solipsism?
I call it loud noise disease.
Alright, lamb shanks are in the slowcooker! Excited af about this. Never had them at home before. Well, except for the frozen pre made ones.
Argh. Woken up late and have to make the transition back to early wake up tomorrow.
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Very slow start to cleaning today but I've cleared out a lot of junk hiding in the kitchen (years of plastic packaging that I meant to throw at redcycle, old teas and boxes of nuts) and tidied under the sink which is the one set of cupboards I know they'll check with good reason.
Off to meet friend and try to keep spirits up...
I have Monday off, figured I'd do the vacuuming + mopping + mass laundry to get rid of cat hair that afternoon after sox leaves. When I get back today I'll just continue with the decluttering and wiping surfaces so that it looks neat and tidy enough. That's doable.
I've got a few pretty politically conservative types in my extended family. Mostly we've always been able to have decent conversations but more and more it seems like the information they quote is so different from the information I see about the world I don't even know where to start. No ...I don't think Trump helped the American economy last time but I don't even want to start to explain why I think that. And no we are not being held back by Greenies .... I just can't even find common ground.
My only regular shift that they cancelled would've ended at 10. It's 11 and I just woke up. So nice to not be waking up at 6 on a Sunday.
I need to buy some shoes and vote. Righto
In what order though? That’s very important.
I voted, posted the ballot and bought shoes in more or less a straight line
Not bad. Nice and efficient!
Going out for fancy breakfast this morning to a cafe near a post office. Nice food and the boys can post our council votes for us.
If I ran a cafe near a mailbox I'd do a post about it to remind people to send off their votes and come enjoy a coffee while you're at
If I could vote I'd definitely get in on this
DEMOCRACY COFFEE
If I ran said cafe I'd have an October long special of some overpriced cafe version of a sausage sandwich for that election day feel
Would you do different versions for each of the major parties or something like that?
My plan today: go to the market. My strategy is to give every member of the household a limit, say $40. The ones who want to spend more will negotiate with those who don't spend that much and it's great to see the kids in action making deals with their father and each other over who's getting what.
Always good to involve everyone in the budgeting. I learned from an early age to keep an eye out for specials, compare by unit pricing etc. to keep the overall food budget down - if you get the cost of the boring stuff lower you have room to add in important stuff like lollies!
When I moved out at 18 I discovered that most of my peers had no idea how to stick to a budget or prioritise their spending - an alarming number would run out of food entirely before the end of the fortnight, then when they got paid they'd waste it on expensive stuff and start the cycle again. I was really surprised, I'd been shopping on a budget and planning ahead with my Mum for years.
Lol same, I lived with people who spent their entire food budget in a few days 🤦🏼♀️I was living on about $25 per week but it was easier then. I'd get a bag of spuds, bag of onions, garlic, big bag of red or brown lentils, some budget cans of tomatoes, dried pasta, rice, a bag of apples, a couple of key vegetables that were cheap and in season and a couple of packets of herbs/spices (thus building a supply of herbs and spices over time available to enhance my cooking). I would combine these ingredients in different ways over the week to try to make it interesting. When it was someone's birthday I'd lash out on a King Island Brie and red wine. I've probably never eaten so well lol.
Budgeting and also knowing good deals and seeing one is an under appreciated skill.
I found a ripping deal on ham this week and bought quite a bit of it and made really nice sandwiches out of them and couldn’t be happier.
It absolutely is - it also needs to be paired with the ability to cook and menu plan well.
A lot of people have the basic skill set of being able to choose a recipe, buy the ingredients and make a meal, but don't have the ability to reverse the process and create something based on which ingredients are available. Which works well for me, I have often ended up with things like trays of meat left over from events because people don't have any idea what to do with them (or have a mental block against "leftovers").
Mix and mash all the stuff together. What could go wrong?
I’m fairly simple so if there were trays of meat you could pair it up with rice, pasta, sandwich, noodles just on a basic level. Nothing fancy or complicated but maybe I just don’t have any good ideas in my head.
I think my budget was $50 a week, but that included odds and ends like toiletries and magazines as well as food. It also included meat, although not huge amounts. My staple meal was stir-fry, with lots of rice and veg and a small amount of meat (about 60-80g per meal). I would cut up the meat into strips for the freezer (I had a bar fridge with freezer space designed to hold a couple of trays of ice-cubes!) so something like a single chicken thigh would cover a few meals.
I also had a butcher that would sometime have whole wild rabbits for a couple of dollars, so I'd use the meat from those for a stew & make a soup from the bones.
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