TIL: The Victorian Housing Register has a preferred location area “Undefined” which lists “Blackwood, Bulla, Derrimut, Docklands”.
https://www.housing.vic.gov.au/vic-housing-register-areas
Maybe not the best idea to pick it for your application.
What an odd bunch of places to group together.
This afternoon is playing all the LPs I haven’t listened to yet.
This one I bought without knowing what or who but it just looked interesting. I lolled and lolled when I heard it. It’s old tv music.
Huh. For years I’ve wanted to know what that piece was!
It’s also the theme to the Red Skelton Show. I grew up watching that. 😊
Dinner tonight with a friend who has (to his utter shock) just managed to buy a house. He wanted to talk solar. All the solar. ALL THE SOLAR. And he got a very very pleasant surprise when we went over the paperwork and he realised just how little a 6kw system could cost him. In fact i had a quote from when we got ours installed for a 6kwh and even factoring in the 2 years inflation, i believe the noise he made was w00t!
So I just found out my local Maribyrnong councillor has died of unknown causes in her home. This is quite shocking.
Well, I tried using my new funnels with a spice jar…
Those may be for dolls or for filling tiny jars / cremation memorial jewellery
Maybe it’s for filling little soy sauce fishies…
They are, as you rightly said, quite small. I’d just never imagined funnels that small!
Anti-gratitude thread
Took me half an hour to find a parking spot at uni. Also been very irritable lately. Just wanna feel neutral and calm and at peace. It’s a battle.
Yeah I’ve already spilled my guts. See below.
Milky Way vs Bounty? A debate ensues.
Bounty. Always
Milky Way forever.
No
Still feeling shitty about my (deserved but painful) $200 fine, that was going to go to the dentist… I’m going to ask for a payment plan to soften the blow.
Can’t sleep, so watching good ol’ SVU.
Ugh, up early gang. Was going to make myself sleep, but dropping back into my sleep cycle will only feel worse when the alarm goes off.
These Winter afternoons have been gorgeous. I am looking forward to this one.
I travel into Melbourne for work. About an hour and a half drive.
I used to come in via Sunbury Rd near the airport but that route has shit itself getting in or out since roadwork is increasing. So I’ve started using the Calder and Ring Road near Keilor.
I thought the Sunbury Rd area was dangerous. Jesus Christ, if you decide to ever drive on the Ring Road you’re really just hoping you don’t die. Just the short stretch to get back on the freeway out of Melbourne is basically a suicide run.
Has it always been like this?
The ring road is hell. All roads leading into Melbourne actually lead to hell.
I’ve been driving in for nearly 3 years from Castlemaine/Bendigo area but avoided the ring road until now. I’d only heard stories…
It feels like just trying to get anywhere in melbourne completely sucks. I’d say for the last 10 years but probably longer
Yes. Clogged with tailgating trucks, aggressive drivers, people who don’t know indicators exist, debris on the road, short on ramps, etc. The roads north and west of Melbourne are the Mad Max zones. Source: commuted on these roads for many years, glad I don’t have to do it any more.
They are also quite terrifying when you don’t drive them very often - there are a bunch of intersections that are pretty much impossible to navigate if you are not familiar with them. You get in the wrong lane and end up on a freeway going in completely the wrong direction.
I kind of feel Melbourne’s endless roadworks has made that inevitable.
For your reading pleasure, I present mole rats (with a squick alert):
Happy Tuesday Morning… 😂
Like lil’ sentient ball sacks awww
Well, that was a read 😂
…look exactly like they were sewn together from the hand skin of a very old person.
😂
is it just me or does everyone put faces of people they know on the moles
what nasty horrible creatures
Just you, moles are cute af
Moles are cute, mole rats, ick.
Moles are so cute, one came up in my uncle’s yard and I picked it up and held it. They hate the light and go for shade or dig again. They are very very soft and so tiny.
farmers don’t like them because they undermine fields and make holes that cattle or horses can put their foot in and hurt themselves
also, I was making a pun
sky pretty
first beautiful delicate blues of dawn now tinged with purples and pinks,
Sometimes I get super stressed about buying a house, as in I never will. But then I read about people getting their deposits scammed away and I’m kinda okay with being relatively poor lol
I’d feel so so bad if I got scammed out of a $500k deposit, so I’m just gonna enjoy the little things I have that bring me happiness haha
The thing no one tells you is if you buy an established house, everything breaks within the first 12 months. Oven, heater, hot water, it’s a never ending money pit. Being a renter sucks no doubt, but you can always breach a landlord if they refuse to fix shit.
I’d rather that and call it mine, than feel like I’m a roach in someone else’s house haha
I’d trade roaches for my rodents. Probably.
The other thing they don’t mention is that even if you buy a new house or do a full renovation, all the big things like kitchen and bathroom renovations and replacing decks, roofs etc - they all need doing about the time you want to retire. So just planning to pay off your house before then is not enough, you need to plan to also have enough to do some major work on it.
The timing is something that worked fine when you could buy a house by 30 and take 20 years to pay it off, you had plenty of time to then pay for extra work on the house etc. after the mortgage was paid, but when you push back the age you can purchase and extend the loan period it makes it a lot more difficult.
…no? And our house was built in 1962. Also getting a landlord to fix anything is increasingly an exercise in futility
You got lucky by the sounds of it, almost all of my mates had a similar experience spread out in the outer east/southeast.
Moorabbin here, so stolidly SE
Guessing they bought new builds? We deliberately avoided those for very good reasons
Mine’s early 2000’s. A mates was 80’s I think. Another was 90’s.
it’s actually been interesting looking at stuff. There were some places that the sellers should have been shot for their asking price - talking cracks to the outside you could fit a small child into, rampant mould, fire hazards. Then there were the places that were basically “set and forget” and obviously hadn’t been updated since the owners got their retirement payout. Our place is old, but the hot water was replaced with instant at some point, the kitchen hasn’t been done since the 80’s except the stovetop and oven, which are models from the early 2000’s. The ducted heater died, but we were expecting that, it was from 1979 and we were replacing it with reverse cycle to give us aircon. It lasted our first winter, so win there.
Meanwhile a place we rented for 16 years literally had the side rotting off in something we’d been warning the owner about since 2008. Cunt.
I would make it my life’s work to get justice/revenge/money back
I ate chocolate cake at my first meal for today.
I feel no shame!
this is normal breakfast food in Belgium*
- lived for many years in the land o’ chocolate
There is no shame! We’re adults, if we want to eat cake for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, then that is our goddamn right!
You shouldn’t feel shame! That’s not shameful, it’s WINNING.
I reckon that’s the start of a good day.
I’ve done that more than once 😆what type of chocolate cake was it?
hmm chocolate sponge with a gooey topping.
I chucked it into the microwave for about 10-15 seconds as well.
Legend
Best part of being an adult!
Temu day today - all 4 packages marked on board for delivery. Many sewing notions are included, I am looking forward to finding out what sort of quality they are. Especially the impulse purchased embroidery kits, they could be either really good or really bad! I will also now have way more sticky tape than I probably need, as after ordering I found three rolls in a drawer I didn’t realise I had, so I should now have a lifetime supply.
One of the boys learnt how to say ‘more’. Not just the word but the meaning as well. We’ve also been teaching the boys a bit of sign language because apparently kids can pick up on it quicker and it’s good to know anyway.
In reality, signing ‘more’ allows him to ask for more food whilst his mouth is already full
‘More’ was actually my first word 🤣
“No” was my first word. “You want ice cream?” “No”
When I meant yes haha
This boy says no a lot too but seems to actually mean it
is “more” open palm over mouth? I think daycare taught my kid something, but they neglected to tell us what they were teaching.
Here you go…
There’s also an Auslan app you can get with heaps of key word signs (‘Auslan tutor: key signs app’)
It’s hand out from the chest, palm inward. Sort of like you’re simulating a heart palpation
