Ted Cat loves his little Halloween house.
Maybe dracula will bite his bum.
he deserves it
I love everything about this picture. Teddy looks so beautiful and mysterious
He’s a giant monster
Boo Ted 👻
How does the second storey work? 🖤
It’s like a church, it’s a vaulted ceiling, no second story.
I 🖤 this so much.
Odd time to eat but I did it.
Made burger and put it on a paper towel and lightly toasted bun kept it all intact.
Most painful part of all this is the cleaning up.
Patties are minimum 160g I reckon.
Here’s the minimalist burger. Essentially double cheese burger with bacon.
I’m full and stuffed now.
Toasting the bread helps hold it together, much like CEO’s frying it suggestion. I build my burgers between alternating layers of dry and wet stuff. Eg If I put pickles, tomato and mayo all together I’ll wind up with a mess, but if I separate them with egg, patty and cheese; it all works out.
It definitely made a difference. I was able to squash it down and hold it in my hand intact for the entire time.
I sadly didn’t have much else to add to it so might look a little plain but boy was it delicious.
Truly monumental . You must give it a name.
Just a humble if big double beef with double cheese and bacon burger.
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Oh man 😮🤤 I would lay waste to that thing right now! I’m a big fan of eating when you feel like it. I definitely feel like eating that burger!
Dude! A lamentable lack of pineapple but even so!
!!! I never even thought of that. I might need a quick trip to the super market tomorrow
I used to watch alot of Man vs Food. That’s where the idea came from. Glad it worked out. Yours looks delicious. You’ve inspired me to have burgers for tea tonight too. 👍
Thanks for the tips. It definitely was a better experience eating it.
I did forgo the hash browns just incase. The Pattie’s had a lot of oil come out of it. I’m sure that more than contributed to yesterday’s destruction.
It’s beautiful 😍
I can tell you it was delicious.
The giant ageratum popped when I was away. Favourite plant not only because it looks nice but it’s the first to wilt if you’re fkn the watering up.
ageratum is so lovely , I grow it as a ground cover under shrubs :)
Omg omg omg a RABBIT was in our side yard this morning! It’s obviously someone’s pet, so I’ve had to leave Mr P and Miniest to catch it. When I left for work, something larger than football sized and greyish moved in the undergrowth and scared the bejesus out of me. When I saw what it was I tapped on the window and said, “Miniest! MINIEST! Come out here!” She did and just stared and said, “Oh. My. God!” She came out to look and I threw it some lettuce from out of my bag. She said, “Why do you have random lettuce in your bag?” I told her to go wake her dad and tell him and he flew out there to see it. I can’t really see how something that large entered the yard. Mr P just messaged me “it’s magic, it disappeared.” So that’s my morning visit from a magic rabbit!
Edit: it’s still there! Hiding under Mr P’s man cave couch.
Why do you have random lettuce in your bag?
That is a good question. We need answers.
I’ve got most of the fixings for lunch in the work fridge but not lettuce, so I decided to take some with me this morning.
They don’t teach you this in school but as an adult you can have pancakes whenever you want.
Until your doctor finds out and refers you to a dietician.
If my doctor knew the truth of it all I’d be in an asylum.
They could always be those ones folded around a vegetable filling. You can’t get in trouble for that
They’ll find a way - too much salt, too much fat, too much sugar, not enough fibre - take your pick.
Pointedly start eating cardboard in front of them
Cheese. Too much cheese cancels veggies
My work laptop exploded so I get two hours free time while new one is set up for me 😀
Nothing like a little Rapid Unscheduled Dissassembly for a Monday arvo.
Like literally exploded?
Data went everywhere
Hope there wasn’t any casualties.
Monday discovery time. The top of my compost heap is thickly lined with tomato seedlings. Dunno what sort - might be punnet of cherry toms I chucked in there late last summer. Yay free seedlings.
Infinite food hack
Compost heaps really are the gift that keeps on giving.
The best pumpkins I ever grew came from the compost.
Someone just left a large box of Hello Fresh on my doorstep. Commencing Operation Neighbourhood Doorknock now.
EDIT: Found the intended target. On another street, a different house number and different phone number from the one on the label (which was smudged a bit). Much gratitude all around. Scored some lemons from target household which was nice. And some early broad beans from another household that thanked me for doing the doorknocking thing even though they weren’t the intended target. Today was clearly also the day for WGAC to deliver too, as a LOT of households had these boxes on their porches so to speak.
You are a good person to try find the owner.
Got some rewards out of the process - would do again I think even without those. Its a nice neighbourhood - we all help each other when we can.
There isn’t a phone number on the label? Had this happen before.
People who live alone:
Do you always having something on in the background?
Personally, I listen to horror stories or SCP stuff narrated by YouTube people when I get home from work.
No. Traffic noise, bird song and the neighbours’ music choices suffice for me. And the changes in the soundscape tell me the time and often the weather too. I’ve found as I got older that I just didn’t need to have massive amounts of self generated/chosen sound to block out the world. I like feeling connected to what’s going on around me. I may or may not participate, but I like my ears to tell me that there’s a world outside my little house box just going about it’s business.
When I do put on music or a radio programme, it’s to really listen to it - background music etc. just doesn’t do anything for me. Neither do films or games much.
I’m alone much of the time and I often do, I have very bad tinnitus. 😖
I go through phases. When I am overwhelmed - no (or low ambient music) but often a podcast or audio book or even the radio as company when I am doing chores.
Yes if possible. Weather tv, movie, radio, music or podcast.
I can’t stand silence when I’m awake.
But you’re also talking to someone who always use to have music on while even while studying for exams.
I’m almost always wearing headphones or earbuds with music playing. Shower with a waterpoof speaker too.
Sometimes, if I’m feeling low or lonely I’ll have some jazz on, especially if I’m cooking or it’s cold or I need to motivate myself to clean. About 40% of the time I’ll have some atmospheric/ambient music on when I’m trying to fall asleep. I’d be less likely to if someone was around I guess
I admit to filling the space with music or talk when Mr Seagoon isn’t here.
Slammin’ dnb here not exactly in the backgound :)
Mostly not. I like the quiet. But sometimes I’ll put something on if I’m cleaning or something.
Mostly when I’m on my own I like to enjoy the quiet that doesn’t exist when my partner is around. But sometimes I like to listen to audiobooks or music when I’m doing house tasks to make it less boring.
Yeh - or I’m playing a game. YouTube, music or twitch streams normally. I also go to sleep with an audiobook on.
If it’s dead quiet I pay too much attention to the sounds in other apartments around me, and also get too caught up in my own thoughts.
Started off my holiday with an evisceratingly bad case of the runs on Sat am and I’m just coming a bit better. Not cool, body - not at my aunties where there’s a billion and one delicious goodies 😭 and I want to go on walks and everything and have energy… have been sleeping for long long hours. I need to just let myself thoroughly rest. Taken a while for my mind to uncoil itself
My aunt has really slowed down a lot in the last 18 months though, physically and even mentally a bit. It’s a looming reminder that she won’t be around forever. I’ll feel rather lost when that happens.
so many hugs for you all
vacuuming done and I did a really good job of it too, all the dusty corners I hadn’t been doing because of a bad back are now done
fricken cat hair is beyond a joke too
Made a joke to my partner yesterday about racking off for solo week in Japan (well, probably just Tokyo) if I have a week off soon and it’s planted the seed in my mind and now I can’t stop thinking about it. If it was roles reversed, I’d probably encourage him to go.
Are you accepting shopping lists that will not get through AU border checks?
Is yes,
4x Family Mart ham and cucumber sandwiches.
4x Family Mart egg sandwiches. 100,000x Suntory grape water (I’ve tried contacting Suntory, they apologetically will absolutely not deliver this to AU).
100x 20 Marlborough red.
Thanks in advance! And btw there’s genuinely some ¥ hidden in Old Bar which should cover some of it.
Joking aside, are wanting the solo trip or is it just that your partner can’t take the time off too? What’re you thinking of getting up to whilst over there if you go?
Would prefer to go with my partner, but he absolutely cannot have time off. And if I have a week off, I’d like to do something with it. I went to Japan last year with friends and it ended up being mostly a shopping trip, so I’d love the chance to wander around more of the Shrines and gardens and take a bit more time to explore the city. I’d prefer to save new adventures for when I can share them with him, but we’ve both been to Tokyo before.
Probably also eat my body weight in ramen and egg sandos.
Absolutely or absolutely? I’ve found that taking a week off unpaid is barely noticable when salaried.
Tokyo is all new adventures IMO, and you must must must do this light exhibition which is walking distance to the highest bar in the city.
The gardens near Shinjuku are beautiful if you haven’t been, and there’s a great vegetarian restaurant 3-4mins walk away from the main entrance. The temples in Tokyo I found to be very tourist-y though, the experience is much better away from what you already know to be the hustle and bustle that is Tokyo. Also if you haven’t done it already Electric City is bad… Those very young girls… :(
I’m waffling so I’ll shut up. Also because you’ve made me crave an egg sando again and want to book flights haha
It’s his work’s blackout period - delightfully, with our jobs, our blackout periods are back to back, which means 6 months of not being able to take leave together.
Keep waffling, I love talking about Tokyo! Yes, I would love to do Borderless! See, I missed out on seeing things like the highest bar, every day we meant to go to the top of the metropolitan building but it just kept getting pushed back. Did manage to do Planets though, that was fun! And I want to go back to an amazing ramen restaurant I found in Ginza.
Those blackout periods sound inhumane, I mean what if one of your grandparents dies for the 5th time and you need to fly back to the Arctic? Is that not allowed?
Ramen, GAhhHhh!! When I say spicy, I don’t mean white guy spicy, I mean spicy. Yes, I’ve ordered the spiciest thing on the menu, there’s a reason for that, please don’t give me level ichi because of the colour of my skin and my poor language skills.
I can’t waffle too much more on Tokyo as to me it felt like Sydney, whereas Kyoto felt like Melbs and a place I could live in. And Kyoto wasn’t even my favourite place on our last trip.
Any ways, about those sandos… I’ll send you an esky. I may or may not be hiding in the esky for a bonus holiday to Japan :D
Well that was unpleasant at this hour. Loud bang and the electricity tripped in the whole house. A heat mat for chilli seed germination has blown after 4 days of use turns out to be the root cause.
Now back to getting all my automation working again. ssh pi@192.168… oh wait, wrong window 😁
at least you are safe
Yeah, thank you. Fortunately it didn’t start a fire. I’m slightly concerned that I have another 4 of these running and also annoyed that Amazon wants them actually returned rather than just issuing an automatic refund.
My what if machine is on overdrive lately and I want my brain to shut the fuck up because obsessing is not going to fix anything or make things go faster.
I understand how you feel. I find that a long walk near some kind of nature helps a lot.
Something else I do when things are getting out of control:
I go lie down on my back. I take 3 deep breaths and use gentle self talk to talk myself down from what I’m stressed about.
I’ve been doing the positive, nurturing self talk thing most of my adult life, and it really works.
my brain doesn’t stop either so I just give it something else to do
I understand. My what if machine only spirals in one direction, negativity. For positives it’s very conservative. For me the most effective way to get past it is to tell myself so what. If things get bad, well they get bad. I’ll accept it. I’ll do what I can to make sensible decisions and deal with what ever happens. It brings some relief to give your self acceptance/permission to just do what you can, and whatever will be, will be.
I’m trying to give myself rational counter arguments to my potential negative outcomes.
My brain goes wild if I don’t occupy it with something.
A free computer game or a small project might help (if you wanted advice). If you didn’t just know you’re not alone
I have a busy work day tomorrow so that will take the edge off.
I searched for lost rabbit posts online in my neighbourhood: nothing. I didn’t notice any signs up around the neighbourhood either. Mr P is getting attached to it, so I’m trying to find where it came from, but also we can’t seem to catch it. It seems to come and go as it pleases; sometimes it’s under the man cave couch and then it’s gone… and then it’s back! I even joined Facebook for the first time ever in an attempt to access lost and found pets groups, but there wasn’t anything relevant and I got suspended after about an hour for violating the terms of use or Facebook “identity and integrity” rules or something…I didn’t share enough personal information because I don’t like doing that. No, I won’t upload a selfie. No, I won’t share my contacts with Facebook: it’d take too long to ask everyone’s permission lol, which I know nobody does but that’d be the decent thing to do wouldn’t it. Anyway, Magic the rabbit (Mr P named it) seems to be making itself -occasionally- at home in the tent, slowly getting closer to him. I didn’t bother to tell him how I’ve been laughing all day at the “magic bag/lettuce” comments.
Please mum, can we keep it? I’ll look after it and everything. Pleeeeeese. 🙏
Sure. Just like the dog and the cat and the dead gold fish.
Hey! That goldfish may not have been dead when I flushed it down the dunny.
Oh sorry. My bad.
We were just sending it off to a better place.
I think you own a rabbit now.
I found a domesticated parrot type bird and found the owner via calling the local vets. Any chance the rabbit has an ID chip in it?
I’ve gotta catch the little beggar first! Otherwise that’d be a great idea. Maybe if it comes back and Mr P gains its trust enough to catch it. It’s disappeared for the evening again.
You monster! Atleast pair it with a nice red and a decent dessert.
Lol not a big fan of rabbit as a meat, a bit gamey for my taste. Some of the old blokes around Merri creek in Brunswick East used to catch the rabbits and make a stew that looked and tasted a lot like a cacciatore. Always thought it’d be great with something other than rabbit.
