Hey people, I think you're really cool and thank you for being cool. Like totally aeesome peolle thabkful to be here ahh 💜

Edit: no u

Mr Sulu, set a course for the Friday drinks region. Warp factor 5.

Good news with a sting. I got my new casual role and pay confirmed and it's definitely all in the right direction.

Unfortunately... Work wants the company car back immediately upon ending my ft role. They've been much more flexible with others who have gone casual in the past, and in the meeting he did say he'd give me some lead time so I can make my own arrangements, but... today after heading into the office he was all paggro and sarcastic again so I don't expect any favours.

I was prepared for the eventuality and overall I MUCH prefer letting go my old work than keeping the car on, but seeing it in writing - to happen two weeks from now - has definitely been a shock to the nervous system. Like whoa, I wasn't prepared to say bye so soon and go back to a carless life that fast, especially when I'll still have two weeks of catsitting to do after that.

I'm definitely feeling that big-change-loss-anxiety-fear (and OMG! how will i visit my friends or get bigger groceries etc? I won't be able to go into the office easily any more, no more regional trips unless I use carshare)

But I think it's mixed in with excitement and determination because life is definitely making me start to commit to what I want and get out of that rut. I've lived on far far less and without a car for most of my adult life. Crucially, i never have to worry about being kicked out of this country. So everything is heaps better than before.

It's time to get cracking ......after I indulge in some escapism tonight. Good Omens maybe.

I joined the reddit Melbourne dt because it looked fun. Sometimes I comment sometimes I don't. Then I read comments that are snarky and bitter and I think for a brief moment are you a cunt irl? Anyway love you guys ♥ (I am sober by the way. For the time being. Not afraid to show my feels).

Working from home today.

This guy wants me to take him out I think.

Cheers comrades 🍻

Tonight we're celebrating an excellent report for our kid with food, beer and music 😉

gee thanks bunnings, ya think?

Nearly at the dreaded 300 comments (with spinny thing and collapsed responses). I'm proud of us.

I am doing 3 samosa

They are deep fried.

I am swapping 2 (!) samosa for 1 sanity.

That's a good deal.

This has been a difficult week :(

A quick little story. My kid has a big group of friends. One is very needy, very self-centred young lass. Another is a meek young man. Well yesterday he had enough (I don't know if this was in text or in person) but he told her "I can't grow as a person with you in my life" and then ended all contact. I could not stop laughing at this.

For the record a couple of the friends had deaths in the family and the young lass was complaining that nobody was paying any attention to her.

God today was stressful. Trying to train someone what you know while also doing the same work, like I don't know if it's the people pleaser or ADHD but I pick up things super quickly, so why can't others????

So glad it's Friday tbh. Physio right now and then paying for new glasses tomorrow

Edit: physio is done cost me $55, but the physio i had was cool, very chatty. My usual physio is on maternity leave, so it was weird trying to describe what I needed

Confession of the day. When ever I go passed the canned fish aisle lately, I buy something. Today it was smoked mussels and a 90c tin of sardines. I can't help it. I now have a collection.

A tiring but productive day in the garden today. I have a bunch of old concrete channel drain sections so I've used those and some old bricks to make a raised drainage channel across the garden. So now I can empty the buckets of water I use in the potting area onto that and it takes most of the water across to my apricot tree (with a few leaks along the way which will water other plants too).

After doing that, cutting out the climbing rose this morning and a few other bits and pieces I am thoroughly exhausted. I'm going to have a shower, heat some stew to have with mashed potato for dinner and then it will be full on relax time.

I'd heard the legends online.. in my hubris I laughed in the face of them and dared to indulge in a hearty meal at US Taco Bell. Wearing cream coloured shorts, I challenged the legends and trusted not one, not two but three farts on my trip back to the hotel.. so I guess you can say I'm into extreme sports. Little did I know they were the horns sounding the announcement of the oncoming storm.

I am now an empty husk of my former self. I have been humbled by the Bell. The legends are true.

Pic of my life before it changed forever:

There's something just excellent about a fresh quality croissant - as-is. No filling.

Going to spend the night cuddling the cat and playing video games. Being sick isn't too bad with a fluffy friend who's chasing around a moth lol

Someone just jogged my memory about what an awesome song "Without You I'm Nothing" by Placebo was. That whole album was (is?) still so so good. Then I remembered they had a version with David Bowie which is even better!

I am in trouble. Today Bill Cat has kangaroo in gravy, a piece of roast chicken, chicken crunchies and kangaroo crunchies and he is yelling at me because he's starving. Also his bathroom isn't perfectly clean and his blanket isn't in his favourite place.

Trump's mugshot is almost zombie like.

Maybe I should have taken the day off from work today.

Everything is so much harder when you're tired and in pain.

Timesheet time!
Now, what on earth have I done this week?
I know what I did Monday, but the rest of the week has been a bit of a blur.

Well it's not covid according to the RAT, but I feel like I've been hit by a truck. Dizzy, muscle ache, exhausted, no appetite. What a waste of a weekend and EOFY team dinner.

So here's my recent (as of 1/2 an hour ago) head scratcher.

My brother is getting married in less than a month and I got an email yesterday from the best man (his old roomie) detailing the bucks.

Specifically stating don't let bro know. I just got a call from bro (who isn't supposed to know) saying I have to send a bunch of coin ($400) for the 2 activities that are planned.

No one is telling me any acct #s..

It's just super short notice.

Am I right to scratch my head? Or is that normal?

Is my communication radar so off?

I'm used to people pointing out that I talk "funny", but a recent acquaintance I let dribble into a budding friendship won't drop it. I have the slightest feeling they are trying to bait me into revealing its all an act when it really isn't. I've politely steered the conversation away everytime but now it's getting uncomfortable and it's making me want to end any sort of thing we had building.

Maybe, I'm just extra tired and shouldn't have gone to lunch with them.

I used to be the opposite - if I were stressed or depressed, I would go ages without eating. Now, though, I feel I have unlocked a new ability or something. I should harness this and enter some kind of eating competition.

Had to bail on catching up with a mate tonight since Im crook, which is a bummer cause hes not in town often. Feel good for doing the right thing, but would have felt better for sinking a couple of drinks! ok well maybe it wouldnt have helped the cold, but the opportunities are few and far between these days.

Whats on for the weekend everyone? Tonight will be pretty chill, partner has been sick and ive had a very busy week. Tomorrow morning is yoga and meditation at the buddhist centre and then a lunch/mini golf date. Saturday night will be mead and board games with friends and Sunday will be mead maintenance stuff and some small tasks for our business planning :)

It’s time for cat supper but Melbcat won’t let me up

There's only one place I want to go when it's time to have my tank filled...

digging out greenhouse footings - the slope means that a 200mm high sleeper would be buried until its top is almost flush on one end and pretty much sitting at ground level on the other across a 2m spam. Worth AG piping? The ponders. the internal square the sleepers border is gonna be filled with high drainage material anyway, and the pretty much ground level low area means it can just piss out the bottom....

Minipeelers just wanted pancakes, so I masked up and made some. That alone was enough to do me in, and I've collapsed back into bed.

The Yarra valley water guys are still working away at the hatch in the yard. They have so far extracted several gigantic bluestone rocks from the hole, I'm not sure how.

Stressed spelled backwards is Desserts. How have I never realised this?

Cool. So someone I bailed out of a sticky situation financially after they had a shit breakup and breakdown has shown their true colours tonight. I've blocked her pretty much everywhere, because she's a bit of a terf it turns out. "Trans women aren't women, they don't any have ovaries." blah blah. But she still owes me 500$. I asked a mutual friend to ask her to contact me. Both he and I spent weeks and weeks in 2021 coaching her back from a terrible breakup. He also had a lot of trouble getting money back from her. Now she's saying I'm poison. Sometimes it costs a lot of money to rid yourself of the parasites in life. The worst thing is she'll be badmouthing me now to any other old friends we have in common and possibly outing to me to people I have nothing to do with for very good reasons.

Should I take her to small claims court?

Okay so once in a while I reckon we could do with some local content.

What is your favourite suburban Melbourne road to drive down (at legal or typically expected speed limits) and go WHEEEEEE?

I get my kicks from Reynolds Road Templestowe. Up and down and not much traffic for the size of the road... wheeeeeeeeeee

Here we go. Night 2 of southern crumbed chicken. Curiously all wings and drumettes which I love.

There's a massive 'secret warehouse' partay tomorrow. 4 (!) very serious sound systems.. but it's word of mouth and I haven't spoken to my raver buddies since 2020.

So here you are, well into your 30's trying to remember how to get secret illegal partay location like the old days.

My manager is entertaining me by putting traits of coworkers into Chat GPT and asking it to suggest what dog breed they are. I'm a dachshund - short legs, yappy, loves snacks. I'm okay with that.

Maybe someone can start a new thread, a pm addition, part ll, the dt returns, dt 2.0. Just a few names there 👍

TGIF!

I can relax and have dinner soon and watch the footy and hopefully have a peaceful night of sleep.

On the way home I nearly caved to doughnuts but instead I bought a log of meat.

I wonder if im going to regret that decision.

Just got a discounted sausage roll and a free sauce from my local corner store. Goddamn life is sublime

Bonza day so far. Was able to find everything on my shopping list. Never waited more than 30 seconds for a bus or tram. The Italian bread wasn't sold out of my fave bread. Also found a sweet Museum print in a 1950s vintage bakelite frame, perfect condition, matches the baroque furniture and it's a pic I like.

Chef taking too long

Yay I managed to do some exercises today! Dragged myself through the routine but feel a bit better for doing it. Almost makes up for the awful Chinese I had last night .

Tradie types crawling all over the backyard this morning.. there's a drain blockage the next street over and they need to access the easement in our backyard to pump it out or something. I knew there's a giant square concrete thing in one corner of the backyard and a whole area up that side of the house that's never allowed to be built on, but I didn't know about the giant square concrete access cover thing near the lemon tree that was covered over with dirt😳

Not excited for my physio appointment today but hopefully I can get some better workouts for my back and leg.

I have to uber to the physio from work because there's no like public transport nearby, and it's a minute trip but I can't walk because of my back and leg. It's frustrating.

Captain, your pillow is hailing us..

on screen..

One of the things I really don't like about being work at home is that I feel guilty when I get sick and take time off.

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well, I finished this puzzle, only 6 missing pieces! ( I got it second hand so i don't care ) I did about a half of it without looking at the picture. The bunnies are cute 😊

You ought to be congratulated. Onya Botto. 👍

After an epic battle that has left me exhausted and somewhat bloodied I declare victory in my personal War of the Roses. I have had a few climbing roses that have teamed up with the kikuyu to grow up through some established bushes and trees, making it extremely difficult to get to them to pull them out. The roses are extra thorny and catch on everything, and the kikuyu works like anchoring ropes tangling everything in further. I have now reduced the prickly bastards to a large pile and have access to where it has been cut off so I can poison any regrowth.

After carefully reading the reviews (2) for my question I went down to Moles and purchased a Decor refillable oil spray bottle for $9.45 on the spesh.

Tbh it looks very similar to the one my daughter bought for $2 at aliExpress that she uses for her hair. I'll report back with my own reviews at some point. Thank you all.

low key vibing to centrelink's hold music

Edit: got through in 40 minutes; record!

Have tickets to a Spanish Love Songs show tomorrow, started feeling dizzy and sick today. too late to resell them, and I probably can't get a refund.

grrreeeaaat. Waste of $50 I guess. I was looking forward to it too.

Let me change your life friends. How to eat canned sardines ELIMINATE THE FEAR
This is my favourite youtuber

Kinda story kinda question; mostly rambling:

My Opa (dad's dad) is from Germany; Eschborn, near Frankfurt), he moved to Australia when he was 19 and worked on the Nullabor Plains railway tracks. He met Nan, got citizenship here after Nan and him tried to live in Germany. Nan said she disliked it because she had to dry the clothes inside as it was too cold in Winter to hang them out haha.

Anyway, Opa, being born and raised in Germany, would use German sayings and idioms around his kids and us grandkids, especially when we were children. If we were all over the place, running around being menaces, he'd whistle one super fkn loud whistle and we'd all stop dead. He still does it when he wants our attention to take a photo haha! He also would herd us around saying "raus raus!" and it's so ingrained in me that I say it to the cat when it gets under my feet lol. I also say "danke schön" a lot IRL instead of "thank you"; it just sounds nicer to me heh.

So, I was wondering, are there any sayings you say often that are from another language? Like curses or exclamations? I'm tipsy and curious 😅

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Bray Wyatt :(

Rough week to be a wresting fan.

Is there a blog/social media page type thing for alternative sports/activities in Melbourne? Where they might review the sport, what's involved and the culture etc. Seems like there are a lot on offer in Melbourne, but no out there trying them all and documenting it(?) Thinking things like axe throwing, Trugo, larping, bike polo, roller derby and so on.

Synapses sparkle, neurons fire
The sum of our souls
Wrapped in organic wire.

i should probably get up

Argh. After the very first wash the Sherpa fleece of this new blanket has matted into clumps. That was from a quick wash in cold water on the lowest spin. (Front loader. Minimum detergent. One rinse.)

Don’t tell me I needed to use wool wash and the handwash/wool wash cycle? On an Anko blanket?

When it air dries I can try to fix it up with the cat’s slicker brush. But that would be quite a job

beautiful sunny day, time to get some of those healing rays

and some fun music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4JE2ZB5ZQ8

Remember this song folks

Damn I Wish I was Your Lover - Sophie B Hawkins

Second-last Report Type That I Really Really Really Hate Doing out of the way, after dragging my soul through it for the whole day. I have to update the very last one for a disaster project next week - one of the worst I've ever worked on - and then hopefully that's it forever.

I'm not quitting my job per se, but it does feel like serving out your notice at some places. Continuing to go through the motions feels particularly painful when freedom is around the corner.

Watching a British actor, director, or writers filmography inevitably means watching some pretty low budget period pieces. Tonight's offering as my Keeley Hawes education comes to an end is Under The Greenwood Tree (an adaptation of Thomas Hardys' novel of the same name), a production that had a dream and a penny they found on the ground to pay for it all.

Has anyone got an oil spray bottle? Gimme a review please.

I am after a refillable oil spray bottle like this decor one but at $13 I want it to work. Big w and kmart have cheaper ones but again if it doesn't work properly it's a waste of money.

Cackling at Cheeto Benito's mugshot hahahaha

Edit: the gif responses on fauxmoi are sending me 😂

I've had some sad news today.

Vale EAL. Thank you.

Just crawled into bed - tidying up has gone by the wayside, as has any thought of phoning Cennalink.
Still, I did manage a food and meds run as well as a load of washing (on the line as we speak) so all in all I haven't done too badly.

Who doesn't love a good sing a long with Air Supply?

https://youtu.be/rgR-2TOBBqY?si=d6gcqLLU1vcYM8oP

Whatever I had last night, I still have. >.<
Did a dash out for my meds and supplies but completely forgot I was supposed to upload the latest med cert and call to have it tagged until StudSpud mentioned it. Lines are already full - will try again a couple of times but if all else fails I'll call them at opening time Monday and put it in the calendar so I don't forget.
Meanwhile, the errands are done, the weather is nice, the cats love their new foods, and I can relax.

Is this too casual/bright/cold for a dinner/drinks event in a rooftop restaurant on a Friday night?

!Could someone tell me whether this comment works as a spoiler? My app updated, but the syntax seems different!<

Did that work?

Edit - it displays like this in my app....hmmmm

Anyone know any kids/pre-teen books/graphic novels with a female skater protagonist?

I'm starting a new puzzle. It looks moderately difficult.

Captain, scanners indicate it’s Friyay

I guess I'm up

There's a new NMS update. I've always thought the music in the reveals was brilliant. And it still is. Great game, much chill.

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Well I don't know what I expected from the final episode of And Just Like That but I'm glad I didn't renew my Binge subscription for it...

Animal, mineral, physical, spiritual
I'm the one you need, I'm the one you need 🎶

https://youtu.be/ifARMmcqhD8?si=J44WOJBmoJ6EbsQg