Got everything on my list done bar dying my hair. Can do that tomorrow. :)
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Far out that was a long day. 10 solid hours of work, on green tea only (really not cutting it), plus a lot of faffing around with getting locked in the office building because I stayed so late... It's too early in my job to start pulling long hours. But I'm telling myself it's a once off due to a particular combination of unanticipated things. That, and I want to do half day on Monday for cake related reasons, so it's Strategic. I will NOT let it be a pattern! I have Boundaries.
I think I'll wear my slippers around the house all the time.
I got the kids some hot wheels cars and one is a stegosaurs. Essentially its a spike trap on wheels. Couple that with their puzzle pieces with little handles on them and there are a few nasty things to step on.
I want to avoid the very dad thing of stepping on one of the kids' toys at an unfortunate moment
How can people not? My feet would be freezing if I didn't even with socks!!
I used to be very anti socks (and anti shoes too, but that's a different story...) and took both off the second I was inside. Then one day I was just sort of too lazy to take the socks off and wore them for about 24 hours or so and was pleasantly surprised with how nice it feels wearing socks constantly, and how warm my feet stay. Now I am only sockless for about an hour a day
I can't stand slippers though
My slippers are more ugg boots than your traditional slippers.
i hunger
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My boss is going on leave for four weeks as of today, so I asked my bosses boss of they'll be my reference. They will, and it was pretty chill
laksa is cooking ๐smells delish
You got a recipe?.... It feels like one of those dishes that the initial purchase setup would set you back a bit, but then the re-cook is fairly cheap...?
I'm a pretty lazy cook so it's just packets and stuff, I also add vegies to have more vegies so it's def not a purist recipe
finely chop one onion, lightly fry, add 1 tube gourmet garden lemon grass, 1 tbs green curry paste, 2 tsp garlic, 1 tbsp galangal, 2 tsp coriander, 1 tsp paprika, 1 tsp cumin, 1 tsp turmeric , 2 tbsp sweet chili sauce. Fry some more. Add 1 tin pandaroo coconut cream, 1 vegie stock cube, 1 litre water, 1 packet bean sprouts, 1 packet tofu puffs quartered, 400 g diced chicken, 1 cup green beans. Simmer til cooked. Have with noodles. Sprinkle chopped spring onions on top
I just bought a bath sheet (did you know large towels are called bath sheets?) for $60 ๐
Semi related....I heard a random ad on a podcast today saying that a cup of vinegar in the wash is better than fabric softener. I don't use fabric softener, but I don't know where I want to test the vinegar thing....you know, in case the towels come out smelling like vinegar...?
Surprisingly, no. You can't smell the vinegar, even with excessive amounts.
I personally wouldn't use a whole cup full, but it's fantastic for getting funky smells out of things
nope, it gets washed out in the rinse. I always fill the softener in my top loader with white vinegar.
They don't. Add to the rinse water, and the smell is gone by the time the spin cycle has finished. I second this hack - vinegar does wonderful things to hair as a rinse too. Unless your hair is coloured, where a vinegar rinse wouldn't help at all. Mine isn't coloured, so I rinse with a generous tablespoon of vinegar to 1 litre of water after shampooing, and don't need conditioner. At first you notice the smell, but it's gone in 5 minutes. The mild acid neutralises the soap part of washing powder and hair shampoo.
Silly question but do you add vinegar with the detergent liquid at the start?
In the rinse, where you'd traditionally put fabric softener.
i bought some moss river ones about 10 years ago, $120 each, they are still good after much use๐
Ooh that gives me hope. I got mine from Harris Scarfe (someone from either here or Reddit recommended getting one from there). I love it because it's so big and cushy and soft ๐ฅฐ
same
Looking at my energy usage it's clear my hot water system is the biggest user of energy.
Electric heat pump unit. My usage went from $$$ (old gas guzzling unit) to peanuts. Pays itself off very quickly and there was a government rebate for switching.
I'm so, so, so tired.
I think gym this morning is the reason. It's day 4 of 6am wake up and I think I'm almost normal.
I'm eating dinner, kidnapping the cat and going to bed. Goodnight all โค๏ธ
Keep it up and you might be able to make 6am thr regular time. Push through!
Just cancelled my prime membership. In truth, I haven't been buying enough from Amazon to justify it, but it isn't something I think about all that often.
Then they emailed me last week saying "hey, we'll be introducing ads to Prime on July 1st"
Yeah, nah. I can't justify that. What surprised me though is that it was moderately easy to cancel. I thought cancelling was needlessly complicated and they just got in trouble about that.
Cancelled mine immediately after they asked me to pay like $25 to view the movie I signed up to prime to watch
so I buy quite a few things through prime (when I can't buy them locally - am subsidising elderly dad's retirement hobby): I have not received a price increase notification...
That's a good point. They didn't word it like that.
We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting July 2, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements.
But also:
We will also offer a new ad free option for an additional A$2.99 per month* that you can sign up for here.
I think I still would have cancelled had they said 'we are increasing the price by $3, but you can stay at the current price and get ads'. But I believe that's how Netflix would have worded it.
Winter solstice, time to burn stuff and make a joyful noise
Jelly. I love a nice toasty fire
Good aussie tradition that. Burn shit in a drum.
I thought it was 6:50 am tomorrow? Either way burn all the bad out of the year ๐ฅ๐๐ฅ
6:50am is an impractical time for campfires though, I hope to be snoring ๐ด
Just an update again from earlier.
Good news and bad newsโฆ.fuck.
A mechanic near me can do the replacement work for 30 dollars unless something unusual happens and he takes longer itโll cost more.
Bad news is that after I got home I checked my headlights and the smaller one on the opposite side is not working either.
No idea at the moment how much itโll all cost but this isnโt looking good and thereโs also a chance that all 4 lights need to be replaced.
No idea now but Iโll have to wait till I get paid next week since the costs will likely blow out when I have time off to deal with this but Iโll check with them tomorrow to see what they think and if they have stock of the globes.
Folks who use everyday extra with woolies, how does it work with the 10% off? There's an order for instore/online isn't there?
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