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Alrighty, I made it to Mildura a couple of hours ago. I didn't really come to do anything, mainly just for the trip. I did, however, walk over to NSW and took a photo of the welcome to NSW sign (I'll share my pics when I get home - Jerboa doesn't like images over like 5mb)

I was wearing my jacket though, so I did sweat a lot, and I'm getting on another bus back to melbs soon and I'm a little nervous. I did bring deodorant, but not a spare shirt... Ah well, I'll be right I think, I've got a bit over an hour to dry out. Also I've issued 23 "morning!"s this morning, and I've received 15 back with 8 just ignoring me. Not too bad, better than I'd get in Melbourne I think?

I really don't know why I love Mildura so much. This is my seventh time coming here, and coming from Melbourne that seems like a fair bit. Also, to travel almost 1,000km I only paid $8.60 + food and drink, so that's not too bad I say! I love this fair cap

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

Cake

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.

I love the nighttime Mildura coach... Ever so slightly creepy photo I took on our rest stop in Donald

Alt image thingy: a kinda slightly creepy photo taken at 2am of desserted roads in Donald

I added up the Ks from my trip... In 26 hours I covered 1,157km

319km yesterday (23km by train and 296km by bus). 838km today (188km by train, 643km by bus and 7km of walking)

I also slept for 56 minutes over this time so fun days 😆

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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: we'll 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.

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

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

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.

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 feel like we need a tutorial (maybe pinned?) on [[email protected]] ? 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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

That was exciting soccer

Bill Cat snoring . Be sure to switch the sound on. 🤭

Hello dandruff, my old frienddddd

You've come to visit me againnnn

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

FUCK YEAH MATILDAS!!!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.