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Every fibre of my being wishes today was Saturday…
E: also, holy COW the Medicare safety net is amazing. 475 psychiatrist appt, would’ve been ~265 out of pocket with the normal rebate. Today the full safety net rebate came through - I’ve paid $46 out of pocket for a 90 minute consult. That’s less than 10% of the total fee. Awesome.
I miss living in Melbourne. And there is so much more options for my little one. If (and when) I finish my education degree I’m going to seriously consider moving back. At least working in school I might avoid the ridiculous travel times like I had when I had to work in the city.
Haha, were in opposites here. My MIL is DESPERATE for us to sell and move to Launceston. And TBH, if I could find work it’d be a tempting proposition. I don’t know why I life in Melbourne any more. Its great till you have to deal with the people. Heck even Drouin/Warragul is more tempting at this point.
@danwritesbooks @Thornburywitch where are you? I moved to La Trobe Valley a year ago and love it (though I still am back in the city every second week for work) and hope the local school stays open (heard rumours it might close) though once child is high school age will consider moving back for 5 years.
The burgers are better at my house.
Image: A beef patty with special sauce, 2 slices of cheese, Asian slaw, kimchi, on a brioche bun with a side of onion rings and chips. Beer not pictured. It was delicious.
Cheers everybody 🍻
You have the basket things. Fancy.
Hahaha. Yeah I had to have them when I saw them for 2 bucks each at Coles one day :)
This has inspired me…
Nom!
Oh wow! I want one!
I don’t deliver
No worries, I’ll come to you 😬
Let’s share an uber?
Deal!
Beautiful.
Very very nice!!! Tell me what cheese did you use there?
Looks so beautiful melted on the patty.
They are called sandwich slices smoky flavour Coles brand. You can get Woolies brand too but I found them to be a bit strong in the smoky flavouring.
Ahh yep. Ok. I know which one you mean. I use the Smokey ones from Woolies myself and love the taste of it and how it melts down.
Some cheese don’t really melt easily sadly.
Smokey cheese on your burger is awesome!
Yeah I only put them on burgers but i did put them on our hot dogs yesterday. Too expensive otherwise.
We need a Rate My Plate community.
Show me a piece of toast and I’ll still give it 5/5
I know the plate isn’t supporsed to be special but the whole thing just looks 👌
ETA: lol I’m leaving supporsed there. Matches my brain abilities right now. Supposed.
The paper plate is a Friday night special because I’m not doing dishes tonight.
Now that’s an idea!
I have just spent way too long comparing electricity plans now that my Lumo contract is about to run out. Looks like I’ll be moving from Lumo to Sumo for power, and to Alinta for gas. I hate that we have to contantly be doing this to get a decent price, and it sucks that the people who can’t have to pay more. Why do we allow people who can’t constantly stay on top of this sort of thing to be taken advantage of? It might be popular to call it a “lazy tax” but it is really an extra cost burden on the vulnerable.
Im currently jumping NBN provider every 6 months to get the best deal. its crazy, when you call them at the end of the 6 month deal they go “Oh we cant possibly match the price we’ve already been giving you!”, ok well, someone else will so like, byeeeeee.
I’ll be doing the same. But even Sumos daily access charges are ouch. Nearly 40 cents more a day than the Lumo plan.
yep, $475 a year just to have the electricity connected. The impact of time of use pricing is interesting too - I save a few hundred dollars a year by having time of use instead of a flat rate. One with demand pricing - time of use, plus more expensive over summer - was also a close one. I might revisit the idea after summer, it could be worth changing to it for winter but if we have a hot summer and I use more air conditioning it would be expensive.
Yeah you have to look at your energy use throughout the day I suppose. Like you say we can switch during seasons.
Are you me? I got the email from Lumo last week saying my current rates will go up in August… spent the morning trying to compare different ones and signed up to AGL as they offer the cheapest 😳
I think a lot of people changed to them just before the last major increase. They were cheaper and they locked the price until August - although at the time I was more concerned about the gas increasing.
Just a small note. You are all ball-breakers. I will do both onion rings and chips. Happy now.
hot dog 🌭
You are 24 hours too late. Had them yesterday.
May well fed house elves do the dishes for you
Yeah I wish. Best I can hope for is the elves packing up after we’ve eaten.
Boo!
Pics or it didn’t happen? 🤣
Enjoy!
Oh it’s happening alright. Will provide pics.
Curly fries!!
No!
Boo!!!
🖕
Who took the jam out of your donut?
Some greedy cunt.
Yes.
I didn’t think you’d cave to peer pressure!
Both is good though. Enjoy!!
I don’t normally. I put it to the vote because I knew in my heart I should do both but didn’t really want to.
I’m happy you chose to also I saw the complete meal. Looks good and love the fries basket!
Thanks mate. The little baskets were something I bought during lockdown. A little pick me up. Hahaha.
Super cute. I’ve actually seen it one time somewhere at a restaurant and thought it was a nice addiction, so I was so happy to see you had it
Potato pommes go nice in there too.
I’ll take your word for it, I’ve never had potato pommes before
My dumbass old neighbour decided to mow his lawn…the wind knocked him over cause he’s old…I actually went out to help him up (felt bad for a minute)…he started cursing the greens for convincing people climate change is real.
Stay well old mate. Stay well.
Lol… old mate uses a two-stroke no doubt. That is so damn close to the meme where the dude on the bike shoves a stick into his spokes and sends himself flying only to blame someone is.
It’s about 20 years old and louder than fucking tractor. He’ll also keep it running while he walks away from it (the warm start is absolutely cooked on it). I’m tempted to sneak out and turn it off when he does it, so he spends 30 minutes swearing while it cools down.
Naw the nice middle eastern man helped the old codger out.
middle eastern man
🙄 ummmmmmm…I’m not?
Isn’t that what your neighbours thought you were?
Ooh good memory…they did briefly
I haven’t killed all my braincells…yet.
My last few are fighting for supremacy. Only one losing is me
My last 2 are keeping each other company.
🤣
Tonight I watched A Man Called Otto and even though I read the book and knew what it was about, I still cried through the movie. And. I. Never. Cry. At. Movies. Ever. It’s not even a true story for goodness sakes. Pull yourself together old girl.
Is that the one about the guy who drives the school bus in Springfield?
His name it Otto, he likes to get blotto.
Heartbreaking story?
Good job Thornburywitch!
You can always count on a Witch to save the day when the Bot has been tricked by the mischievous Cat again…
Decided to go in to work today so I can give myself an early finish to go shopping. Someone had just freshly hit massive deer, easily a 400kg male (the deer not the person who hit it) poor thing.
I always thought that hitting a deer or moose is something only seen in Canada. TIL.
On another note, I’ve never seen a deer in my 8 years in Melbourne. But I’ve seen deer in Indonesia.
They are a big issue up in the hills! We also see a lot of other hit wildlife, sadly a lot of wombats too.
They’re an invasive species, added by people who wanted to hunt them and surprise surprise we now have an issue.
I have made it as far as the train. To work I go
Hi-ho, hi-ho.
Hey lovely peoples. I’m just lying on the couch, waiting for a nap to come along while scrolling through job listings. My brain is mush and I’ve dealt with my fair share of nonsense this week. Just thought I’d say tgif - from my couch to your couch.
hey
heyhey
From my couch to your couch rest up now cos you deserve it.
Giant froggo with lemon for size. Sorry no banana. Sorry not sorry this is dinner.
A real frog or chocolate?
A real chocolate one 😁
Holy moly.
Holy moley that’s one big frog.
I’m not sure I could eat all that in one sitting.
I don’t know if it’s humant possible. Bf and I have probably eaten 1/3 of it together and we feel sick lol
Oh dear.
Maybe it’s time to stop for the night before it ruins your night.
Rate my dinner
Presentation: 8/10 (the contrasting angle of the bench, board and pizza work well, but the spacing of the beer glass is wrong)
Toppings: 8/10 (I can’t give you 10 as I can’t identify all of the toppings)
Roundness: 7/10 (I estimate 70% roundness)Total score: 23/10 looks great, I hope you enjoyed it!
Image includes a glass of beer and pizza on a wooden board
Oohh looks interesting! I agree with Studchad.
Remove the olives!
Still giving you a 10 out of 10 for that marvellous creation.
Yum! Is that artichoke hearts? And did you make it yourself?
Here we go. Looks like artichoke, tomato, cheese mushrooms and Spanish black olives. (Uneven spray of olives, base looks a little rough, minus anchovies. I’ll have to deduct a point) 4/5 yum yums. Well done. 👍
Met up a friend for a mutual birthday lunch (between hers and mine) after missing the last three years - first two lockdowns happened just after hers, last year I didn’t feel like going out and celebrating anything.
The cross stitch pressie was a success. \0/
