Happy Sunday everyone! Sending good vibes to each and every one of you.
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Feeling super smooth in the Smeg household after we just did clay masks. Bought the Sky & Sand Australian pink clay.
Self-care Sunday success! Would buy again
another one
Super smooth, mask play
Sky & Sand, pink clay.
Rated 10,
Reccomend
For self-care SundayAfter trying a bunch of masks, including a few Lush ones, my favourite is definitely the Sky & Sand Pink Clay one.
Love a self-care Sunday and ooh, thanks for the reminder that I need to snag a new one. I wanted to dislike Sky & Sand, but it’s popular for a reason!
I’m not going to lie, I have zero regrets whatsoever about being in Sydney this weekend, went down to Corrimal beach with the fam and had a great time basking in the sun with short sleeves and rolled up pants…
…even though I am currently shitting myself, as I have a SMALL amount of extremely urgent work to finish this weekend, but I’d somehow left my laptop on when unplugging so it had barely enough battery left aaaaand I’ve stuuuuupidly left my charger all the way back in Melbourne…
The Targus proprietary charger from jbhifi isn’t working and my cousin’s just helped me get the USB-C one - I need just enough juice for it to synchronise the files to SharePoint for another colleague to work on tomorrow 😭 praying it’ll work
E: I GOT IT TO WORK. Crisis averted
Short sleeves and rolled up pants? You’re winning mate.
Definitely winning. Bit nippy now that the sun’s down but I’m still not wearing any thermals and there’s no heating…
So I brought back just over a kg of Kava from Fiji. Damn, after a few wines it’s a great thing to have so you don’t get too drunk instead. Just makes you chilled out but not paranoid like weed does to me.
Yeah it’s pretty nice stuff.
We got into it a bit last year until it started making Mr Smeg break out in hives.
I’m staying with rellos from Fiji and seriously considering asking them for some Australian kava contacts…
I tried some of those Kava strips that dissolve on your tongue. Definitely felt the effects but tasted like arse. Fucked up my beer drinking experience.
I really don’t want to go to work tomorrow. Or ever, really. If I do a Go Fund Me for 2.5 million so I can retire you guys would all chip in, right?
I like how you’ve chosen 2.5 mil. A lot of people would pick a much larger number, like 25 mil or 100 mil. 2.5 is very modest of you!
I’m a very modest person. ☺️ I did consider 2 million, but with the uncertainty in the economy I feel the extra half is safer. And if I raised more I could just blow it all on pets.
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Sure, once I reach the goal amount I’ll be able to send you about $5. No worries!
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Have just marinated and batch cooked a whole bunch of chicken breast with my new girlfriend (the air fryer) for meals throughout the week. So easy, so delicious, and so tempted to just eat a mountain of chicken right now.
we need recipes 😊
i made it up! I love south-east asian flavours, so just a bit of the usual ginger, garlic, soy, chilli and lime to marinate.
Then, I shred up the chicken and use it in different meals: a not-at-all traditional bibimbap type dish, a salad with wombok, shredded carrot, bean sprouts, whatever I have that suits (and a lime sriracha dressing), another with quinoa, roasted asparagus, cornichon, fresh herbs (and again, lime - what can I say, I really like it).
Stuff that I can eat for dinner at home or for lunch in the office, basically.
yum 😊
and sounds a bit like the marinades I use, just combinations of soy, ginger, garlic, lemon, sesame oil, chili
Sometimes I’ll expand out into other Asian cuisines (I know thats so broad as to be meaningless, but you know what I mean - korean, japanese, Chinese and all their regional variations). But the good ol’ soy, ginger, garlic, chilli, sesame oil and lime is so reliable and easy and fresh.
Remember you two, use protection! Things can be very hot when to take them out of the basket.
My Steam Deck arrived today, time to tinker! And thanks @lodion@aussie.zone for fronting the hosting costs of this instance.
🫡
Jealous on the steam deck front. What are you going to play on it?For now I need to work through my backlog. It’s not huge because I don’t watch steam sales unless a mate tells me about a particular game, but it’s still sizeable. Need to get through the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro trilogy remasters. Hoping to mess around with Untitled Goose Game with the missus too if it tickles her fancy. God I can’t get used to the console controls for Terraria though.
These look so cool!
Nice! I have a windows based handheld Ayaneo 2 but I ended up installing Chimera OS which is basically a linux clone of SteamOS and it’s way better without worrying about windows breaking things etc… So far the game compatibility is great as it uses Proton like the steam deck. Handheld gaming is fantastic as you can sit on the couch like using a switch but then dock it to your tv etc… and it’s like a console.
Sorry I’m not familiar with Chimera OS at all. Do you find that there’s a lot of little papercut issues or does it work smoothly?
It worked well for me as long as the game was Linux/proton compatible.
Let us know how it goes. I’m super keen but probably gonna wait till gen 2.
I bought Hades since it’s on sale right now and it runs really well. I’m even getting 60 FPS at 4k (external monitor) unless the screen gets super busy, but personally I don’t notice the frames drop down to 45 or whatever except for the number itself changing. What a fantastic game on a fantastic device.
Ooooh! Interesting! Hades isn’t super intensive is it though?
No not at all, and for that I’m grateful!
Taekwondo grading went amazingly!
Now onto the next thing: finding LARP-ish gear for a fey outfit soon. I really need to figure out where the charity shops are in the CBD, I just need to get like five leather belts.There’s one downstairs in Royal Arcade, near the hippie woo-woo shop, and there’s one down near Southern Cross near the DFO.
Ooh, didn’t know about the one near SC!
Mainlined s1 westworld again yesterday since i had the ceebs. Shoulda stopped at one and done, utter perfection.
Agree. I didn’t ever get past about s02e03. Couldn’t hang out for the bull thing in the title sequence any longer.
S1 left a lot on the table, but s2 just totally failed to take the flag and run with it.
S2 felt made up of stuff cut from s1 - and s1 was the better for it being cut.
the show looked beautiful, it had a great opening title and music, characters seemed to be ok, good actors, great ideas
the story sucked, I gave up half way thru S2 .
Westworld and American Gods both had beautifully crafted credits you could write goddamn dissertations on on their own and a perfect or near-as first season.
Then they both spectacularly shat the bed.
Thanks I never even started s2. Glad I didn’t waste my time
That was truly one of the best seasons of TV ever. S2 was patchy but mostly OK, s3 was horrific, and I don’t even care about s4
Agreed. Imagine if it had ended with that revolt. Such a perfect build up and ending. S2 was a careless dog’s breakfast, s3 was a different show entirely
There’s some storm coming if you’ve got a dog to walk.
Usually I like to spend my Sunday nights brooding, but it was nice to have dinner with some friends I hadn’t seen for a while.
Love this! Where did you go, what did you have? Glad you had a lovely evening!
Pinkie Cafe Ivanhoe.
Service 5/5 ( Fast and accommodating)
Food 5/5 (Chilli Scramble)
Atmosphere 4/5 ( a bit loud, but hey)
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Bit the bullet and cancelled my Netflix subscription, as I’m just not using it enough to justify it.
In other news, the cats suddenly like Whiskas again. headdeskYeah I offed mine and signed up for a 12 month vpn subscription instead. They just don’t have shows I wanna watch.
You should look into realdebrid and Kodi. It’s the jam.
Time for a study break. I’m going to risk going out for a walk with Mr Woof, hopefully we don’t get blown away. He has quite long hair, so he always gets a dramatic windswept look in this sort of weather.
Whoever watched Wayne’s World yesterday thank you. Currently enjoying some Cantonese food for the first time in about 20 years.
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So cold. Huddled under blankets and reheating little wheat packs to keep myself warm and I can hear the wind picking up outside.
Thankfully just ate dinner or what passes for it so hoping to warm myself up again.
Settled in for the night playing movies. Maybe might make a late night hot tea.
Hope everyone else is able to stay warm tonight and have a relaxing time.
Have you got one of those heated throws? They are amazing!
Sadly not. I thought about it once but right now I’m not able to afford one for awhile, just using what I have on hand. Wearing a beanie too!
They seem really nice to use and I think they’re pretty energy efficient right?
Maybe if I can get my tax return done early I might have a chance.
FWIW I use a cheap single electric blanket instead of a slightly less cheap heated throw. They’re also super cheap on the power use. eg, $24 from target - https://www.target.com.au/p/celsius-fitted-electric-blanket-celebfp-q/67505739
How do you find it personally?
I tore the fitted bit off, held it up to the sunlight and cut a poncho hole through the middle. It’s so fucking toasty I can leave the door open for the dog through winter and barely a dent in the power bill.
Very creative!
I think this is on my Christmas wish list for this year. They are amazing.
