Here's to the Matildas win and the man's birthday

Image of a Double chocolate mousse cake.

Criticism 1: Note the air bubbles in the base. That is because I poured the whole mousse into the base instead of a little bit first, then smooth it out, then the rest.

Criticism 2: It was quite crumbly. That's because I made it yesterday so it's been in the fridge a whole 30 hours instead of the recommended 3 hours.

Conclusion: Apart from those two things it was relatively easy to make and quite delicious. Whipped cream was served with it. Would make it again. 4/5 yum yums.

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I fucking love this community. I'd rather drink my own piss than drink instant. Very good sir/madam. We are all very excepting here. Take my upvote.🔝

I feel like we need a tutorial (maybe pinned?) on [!meta@aussie.zone] ?(https://aussie.zone/c/meta) for basic posting instructions for images, gifs, links etc..

I see heaps of images posted sideways and it took like two months for me to figure out how to post a gif (thank you Pilk).

A back to basics type of Meta post.

Friend planned their birthday drinks at 6pm at a brewery unknowingly, booked a table. Get there, apologetic brewery owner: sorry all the soccer fans have colonised your table. Place was packed to the rafters. Owner: well give you some free food and drinks I'm sorry. Us: hell yeh easy, thanks. Enjoyed last hour of game with buzzing crowd, got free food and drinks and eventually our spot. Solid W.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who replied last night to my anxiety freak out. I had a shower, a cup of lemsip and that helped me calm down and I got a decent sleep. Woke up this morning feeling less catastrophic and thinking that maybe sometimes shitty things happen for good reasons. I really want to return to study so had the idea to maybe do a bartending short course at the vic bar school and get a hospo job and get out of retail management so I can finally return to study and do a counselling course. Anyone done a course at the vic bar school per chance and has advice?

That is the first ever soccer game I've watched all the way through. I need a cigarette.

The pictures from the fire in Hawaii are terrifying. 😭😭😭

And it seems every week there is a big fire somewhere in the world that doesn't normally have fires. ( it's global warming )

I'm gonna shock you Melburnians here but I like instant coffee.

Just picked up that carolina reaper hawt sauce from woolies someone on here recommended.

Much excite.

These fajitas for dins are going to be a seething, raging orgy of scoville units.

Holy crap that penalty shootout! That was stressful to watch.

Left over roast and veggies reheated in the oven makes a fantastic early dinner. I'm stuffed 🥔

That was exciting soccer

Anyone watching the Matilda's? Quite a lot of excitement from kidcalhoon1&2.

Day 17 of exercises completed. Baku's interstate adventures inspired me to get my lazy weekend arse out of bed. 3 loads of laundry done, one hung inside and 2 outside. It'll probably get rained on but I don't care. Better outside than loitering in my bathroom. Now just waiting for grocery delivery.

Melbcat is a sleepy cuddly baby lately. She’s in her heated bed or on me all the time

Ahhhh what a hectic few hours it's been but between last night and this morning I got 95% of what I wanted to do done and I am frankly amazed at myself. Frantically washed and dried the sheets, doona cover and towel as soon as I got out of bed (two quick loads), finished packing everything including random shit of mine in the fridge and freezer, last round of dishwashing and cleaning the surfaces, cleared the bins, cleaned the coffee machine, chased the cat down after she did a runner while I was loading the car ... And I remembered to have breakfast too. Couldn't vacuum, but I'd already done most of it yesterday.

15 minutes late for psych appt after all but it still turned out to be an amazing closing one (I'll really really miss this dude)...

...and I think most miraculously, I only left behind TWO things - rusty old secateurs and backup gardening gloves. Got home and have unpacked everything so the rest of the day is free. That's a pretty damn good ending to my month away as far as I'm concerned.

Although reportedly they've just come back and the cat is very cautious around them and even hissed at her favourite human :( :( :( poor poor kitto is probably confused as fuck and feeling betrayed. Hopefully she warms up to them again pretty soon.

Bill Cat snoring . Be sure to switch the sound on. 🤭
::: spoiler spoiler https://imgur.com/gallery/b4z118Z :::

Somehow the Bunnings site randomly set itself to another store which permitted delivery. So I have managed to secure two self watering herb planters, some potting mix, and some seeds.

My physical state is actually really bad at the moment but I seem to do better mentally when I have plants. Hopefully keeping the pots inside and the self watering pots help me keep them alive

FUCK YEAH MATILDAS!!!

I can hear so many bars and balconies of people cheering, it's so amazing!

delicious mousse cake notwithstanding, I think I have overcome my sugar cravings :)

Sleepy kitty https://imgur.com/gallery/NMXdeSp

Today on Melbourne roads:

• Bicycle rider jumping a speed bump on the wrong side of the road nearly hit us.
• Doing 105 on the Calder overtaking a bunch of cars doing 90. SUV towing a caravan cuts me off and proceeds to fish tail and nearly lost control a few times.
• Tonight also on the Calder. Absolutely pissing down so most of us were cruising at 80kmh. Except for that muppet who decided that he could fly past at maybe 120.
• Doing 80 on a very quiet rural road of some sort. No idea what I did wrong but a bird somehow managed to land a massive shit on our windshield. Of all the places and time they could've shitted, it had to be on us driving past under the tree.

There are few feelings as awesome as going for a nap on brand new, high thread count sheets....

hmmm, I think I have hay fever, Bill Cat has it too.

Miss Meow had developed an underwear fetish. Hanging them to dry too low ends up with her pulling them onto the floor and rolling around on them. I also hung a towel over my weights frame because I was out of room on the drying rack and she has decided that makes a good cubby house.

Heading out to a 1-year old birthday party soon....God give strength....

Every time it rains those plastic sensory footpath bobbles become express tickets to death. I get why they are there but surely we could have some that aren’t zero friction when wet.

I think it's quite acceptable to bring a large bowl of beef pho up to one's lips and slurp if there are tissues on the table rather than serviettes.

Also it's come to my attention that I have had a lot of liquid in me in the past 24 hours.

Shower had, lemsip made and in bed about to listen to Vikki Petraitis's podcast on the frankston murders. Oddly, listening to it has been helping to distract my anxiety about life.

Hello dandruff, my old frienddddd

You've come to visit me againnnn

I just watched Beau is Afraid.

What a steaming pile of dogshit of a movie.

Heads-up: Petrol at the nearest service station was up to 224.9.
Everywhere else was around the 185 mark but that servo is generally a canary for impending price rises...

that was insane

oh yes neopets games

And now i'm back to 'in two weeks i'm going to be out of a job and i'm going to lose my apartment because i can't pay rent and be homeless or dead" fuck I hate anxiety so much

Australia vs England on Wednesday.

Some nostalgia for the Gen X kids: and now a word from our sponsors.

Wagwan mandem

I was going to buy some things and they’re all in stock at the closest store but ‘not available for delivery’. That’s a new one

Edit: Oh yeah and it wasn’t like that before. I hesitated on buying until I’d got something more essential then went back and the site suddenly went ‘nope’. Adding other items as a test give the same result.

Edit 2: Emptying the cart and putting them back in seemed to fix it til checkout. I guess Bunnings just doesn’t want my money /shrug

pounds desk ONE MORE RUN OF SUBSPACE RHAPSODY

I'm using all my French swear words right now.

So I tried the sardines in oil today. Mixed it in with a bowl of pasta for dinner.

Not quite as tasty as the herring and was quite….grainy at times?

Little bit of a tougher sort of fish as well, I’d still eat it but if there was a preference it would still be the herring.

I’m not sure if the taste was influenced by it being 90c a tin as well.

My mind is mush, my heart's pumping fast,
At the thought of kissing you, finally, at last.

I slept in this morning and now it's started raining. Mr Woof and I will have to get the raincoats on it seems. The garden's happy at least.

Edit: the coats worked, there was no rain while we were walking.

Nap weather.

I left my car not undercover so it could get washed by Mother Nature and washed she got 😎

I was gonna unwind by finishing The Bear s2 but after a hectic day, between the shock of the cold at my place and, I suspect, drying clothes in my living room with the heater on which I think messed up the humidity (or maybe there's something going on with the reverse cycle splitty), I've ended up with a sinus headache/cold feeling. Great.

Then I ill advisely chose to watch the SBS doco on the Argos taskforce in Qld (that recently made the news with that childcare worker arrested with thousands of child exploitation images). It's called The Children In The Pictures. That was a heavy watch. Not graphic or sensational but just... even seeing the very edges of the surface of the forums these people have had to infiltrate. And the kinds of words used in the posts and stuff. I need brain bleach but alas I am catless.

When my mind has a thought
That was caught
In the river that runs through my head,
When it catches a snag and sticks around full of dread,
I hold it in my hands and stop breathing,
My heart ceases beating, while my mind is retreating
From a threat that is fleeting,
I'm begging and pleading
For my body to let me take a breath
Let me catch my breath.

one of those days where I feel like a (pc) kitbash but can't be arsed doing the actual physical things required for such. I have the parts to physically replace the OS drive and update the file server, as well as new fans and building Zoidberg and I'd like to do it but it involves unpacking boxes and ugh I can't be having with that today

:)

Me: finishes changing to go get groceries

Rain: arrives

Me: Oh. .....Oh.

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🥪🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥫🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Anyone have good ideas for securely disposing of 500 business cards?

I thought I was ready to get up. I was not. Back in bed I go.

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Annoyingly called out of work again, so time to take enough cold and flu to see God and then remain horizontal until tomorrow. This latest bug wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the cough and my stupid asthma.

Wtf is up with Worldle today?? It’s not a country!

Rewatching Pride & Prejudice (2005) and I still stand by my opinion that Matthew Macfadyen is far more attractive as Arthur Clennam in Little Dorrit.

How do I post a video from my iphone? I took one of Bill Cat snoring.

Goddamn it Tyranitar, get in mah pokeball you stupid green jerk.

Edit: 43.18GB/108.87GB of Baldur's Gate 3 downloaded. 9 hours left. 💤

I think I have a crush 👀

It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini that she wore for the first time today.

Still awake. Time for a wander down to the lake, some guitar time and video games to end the night.

Baldur's Gate 3 is 110GB. Reckons 12 hours to download. I should've started it days ago but I'm so rarely sitting at my PC these days.

Just glad this was the last pre-ordered/pre-purchased game I bought when I had a job. Couldn't afford it now - thank you Past-Stud 😎

Late night snack run completed

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Underrated babes of the 90s

Gavin Rosedale

Lisa Loeb

Fight me cunts (and cuntettes)

Wordawazzle 🦘 784 3/6

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