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  • 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 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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:

    • ... but was it worth it? The colour of the drink is amazing and terrifying.

      • You know what.. I think once I stop shaking and sobbing it will have been worth it

    • You're a hero of the people. Thank you for your service.

      Ps. Get some hydralyte in ya.

    • Brave enough wearing cream coloured shorts to begin with imo!

    • You fought a brave and honourable battle. You lost where many others have, there's no shame in that. Be proud of what you accomplished and don't focus on the fecal torrent.

      Is that Sierra Mist in the cup?

      • Thank you, I needed to read that.

        It's Mountain Dew Baja Blast! A drink made specifically for Taco Bell US. Although they do sell it in bottles now too.. but the OG is from the fountain drinks at Taco Bell. It was on my list of things to try over here.

  • 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.

    • Timesheets give me so much anxiety for this reason...

    • Hey Nath. You seem like a lovely person. I have some questions for you if you don't mind. What does the A mean next to your name? Does it mean Administrator or something else? Why does the comments collapse after 300? Why does the spinny thing sometimes cock up and repeat comments or just not show them or in a different order? If you could shed some light on the matter or even better fix them we would be most grateful. Might even throw some nice emojis your way. Thank you.

      • Yep, the A means I'm a site admin. I've known Lodion for about 20 years and when I saw who was running the instance, I let him know that I was indeed "that Nath". I've been helping him run the place since.

        I am not experiencing the 300 comment thing everyone is talking about. It'll be a Lemmy limitation, I assume. The server software is still a little buggy. We're quick to leap on new versions of the Lemmy software when they release them.

        Can you explain the issue better? When a thread hits 300 comments you can't see them all any more?

  • 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 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.

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

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

    • Take the rest of the day off?

      • Nah, I'll just keep going, half the day is gone already and all I'm really doing is cutting up paper strips.

        I keep thinking about dinner and what I'm going to do about food on the weekend.

  • 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'm curious as to what's meant by funny..

      • It's hard to describe until you hear it, but most people say I sound fancy. As a kid I mumbled a lot and my mother would get horribly angry about it and scream and shout about "talking properly", so as a result I talk slowly and have a bit of a news reader accent.

    • Nah, they’re just rude. Bad enough mentioning it once, let alone multiple times

  • 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?

  • 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.

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

  • 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?

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

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

  • 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.

    • We had a dachshund (mix with a jackrussle) when I was growing up - was a brilliant dog. They're super companionable and become protective of their own. They have a lot of positive traits for such a small doggo :)

  • 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.

  • 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😳

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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