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  • Oh the man is not well. This is about the 4th cold he's ever had in the 28 years that I've known him. I'm keeping busy prepping because if I go down too the kid will have to look after us and she only knows how to cook 2 minute noodles and scrambled eggs. I did however show her how to use the airfryer. Please pray for us.

  • Dodgy property developers on Four Corners tonight. I have laid in a supply of popcorn. Should be fun.

  • Ugh, I need to do something about my weight, wearing office clothes again has me acutely aware of just how much I've gained in the last few years. Just feels so out of my control due to working shift work and often doing shifts up to 12hrs long, I just work, sleep, and eat because I'm miserable about it all.

  • Bit the bullet and got a med cert through to Wednesday. I still have some unavoidable work things but this will significantly help reduce the timesheet anxiety

    • You just gotta do what you can do (he says knowing that he's taking a mental health day tomorrow following my psych session in the morning). Here's hoping you're able to get some rest and recovery in over the next couple of days.

      • I don't think I'll get too much today (morning was a writeoff but I'm finally sat in front of the puter to clear the most urgent things so that I can fully switch off the next two days). I really just want to stare into space for a couple of days without that nagging guilt

    • Very nice, I hope you get some well deserved rest!

  • We ate already. Used the new crockery for Korean ramen, mushrooms, bok choy, coriander, crunchy noodles, gyozas, an egg and Kimchi on the side. Little dog is very confused about the time. I promised the kid if she's hungry later we'll have mini pizzas or chips and gravy.

  • Zoo trip was achieved. Feet are sore. I walked there and most the way back. 🤨

    • I went on a mini African safari by seeking out all the African animals. Except the gorillas, I feel too ashamed to look at gorilla people that are effectively sentient caged slaves.

      The baboons did their baboon stuff, lazing on warm rocks in the sun, grooming, wanking, teasing each other, shoving their bum against the glass windows to give spectators an intimate view. The little bastards would run off laughing.

      Lemurs are actually marsupilamis . I always knew this and seeing their hanging nests confirmed it.

      Giraffes were sweet. The lions were sleeping in the sun. They have cute tufts of fur under their arms.

      Bin chickens, native to Northern Victoria, have taken residence en masse in the crowns of tall palm trees, making messes, skwarking and shredding the vegetation.

      • Sounds like a splendid day.

        Hope the sun came out for you all day. By afternoon it was clear skies and the sun was out.

        Was there a lot of people at the zoo?

  • I'm very early to Lizzo but my anxiety is soothed because I'm here and in the correct seat.

    • Better to be early than late. Hope the show is awesome!

    • Hope you have a great concert.

      When it begins you’re fully going to enjoy yourself and forget about everything else.

    • Have a great time. 😊

    • Have an amazing time!! I'm meant to be there but had to give up my ticket because I'm sick. I'd be more pissed at my body, but I saw her on Friday in Perth. Enjoy every moment, she's AMAAAAAZING!!!

      • SHE WAS AMAZING!! I'm going to her show again tomorrow but kind of wish I had a GA ticket lol

  • This woman next door (next building, not in mine) just won't. stop. yelling. Someone else in my building yelled at her to 'shut the fuck up', which made me giggle. But this is the same yelly woman from a few weeks ago... she has not abated; she goes out for whatever, and just yells the most heinous stuff. Super triggering content, like really bad, littered with swears (I swear a lot, she makes me cringe) and I just cannot deal anymore. I don't anyone else on my side of the building can deal anymore.

    I wish I had of gone to Perth with the cat and mein liebe instead of renewing this lease; it would have been difficult, and expensive, but we could have made it work... I could be chilling the fuck out at Noranda Palms Red Rooster right now. Fuck. FUCK.

    I have an actual migraine from being triggered, I swear to FUCKING GOD if I have night terrors tonight I am going to fucking SMASH SOMETHING FUCK

    /ENDRANT ENDME

    EDIT: AND XBOX GAME PASS IS GOING UP TO TWENTY-MOTHERFUCKING-DOLLARS MICROSOFT YOU ABSOLUTE SLAGATHOR GREEDY MFS

  • Oh my god I'm an idiot I miscalculated the 30 days from when my previous private health insurance cover ended and now I have to re-serve all my waiting periods FUUUUUUCK what a fucking waste of all that money I paid

  • Typical, I had to escalate my resignation to upper management as my boss hadn't bothered to reply to me. Such a lazy spineless pos. He had sent the letter on to upper management. A simple cc would have been easy. At least I don't have to rely on him to get my separation certificate. Not sure what to do next, I want to have the book thrown at them but I also want to put it all behind me. My best thought is to focus on the future and accept that I had a music and dj career far and beyond most people's dreams. Let the people left there deal with the bullshit themselves.

    Easy day, dental hygienist appt, wasted trip to the bank, my first hiccup using my preferred name. Whatever, these things take time and I have the rest of my life to sort the beauraucratic crap out. Working in the moring at 630 am. It's nice becoming a morning person and I finish work before afternoon traffic. The cats always get me up pretty early but I'll need an early night. I'm tired of saying onward and upward, I just want a peaceful life. This endless search for more, better, easier is a load of capitalist crap. No walk, had an afternoon nap and glad I decided a rest day was in order.

    • Ah, ignore my question about your walk elsewhere in the thread, as you answer it here! Sounds like you had enough going on to keep you busy.

  • So I finally got off my butt to get a hideous photo of myself for my passport renewal of which I had to pay handsomely for a rapid renewal, and… my mug was too big.

    So I had to pay for an AusPost mugshot. Like, truly, a mugshot. The only thing missing was an orange jumpsuit.

    If I didn’t like photos before, now I truly detest them. 😂

    • Rapid renewal is a fraud.

      I did normal and got mine in business 5 days. The lady doing the mugshot (mines not great either heh) / renewal for me was very naughty in trying to upsell the express imo.

      • Yeah, I didn’t know I could pick it up on Wednesday until after I paid, meaning I could have brought a resized photo. Unfortunately, I had to be sure I’d get a renewal due to flying out in a fortnight.

  • I have just been going through the material for the feedback on the proposed anti-vilification laws.

    I find it a bit disturbing that there is so much focus on which groups should be protected. I absolutely agree that we should widen the coverage of the laws, but this feels like an exercise of deciding who is deserving of protection and who is not. This seems likely to both leave gaps in who is protected, but also likely to end up with court cases where the offender argues that their behaviour was legal because they hate someone for an allowable reason. Some awful variation of "I don't hate gay people, I just hate rainbows".

    I am definitely in favour of this over what we have now, but it does feel like starting with a list of groups deserving of protection is a terrible way to make a law.

    • I think they've covered a lot of marginalised groups which weren't previously. I agree though they should just outlaw vilification based on any percieved difference. Oh and make the spread of information which could cause others to vilify a crime as well. Freedom of speech like every other right has to be balanced with responsibility with not using it to cause other's pain.

  • The dentist is such a mixed concept for me. On the one hand, they come along with their little wizzadry hand tools and save your teeths from falling out, and hopefully save you a little pain. But on the other, as an outside observer the noises those machines make 100% sound like a torture device

    Teeth are the weakest link

    • The human body is insane, right?!

    • Yeah, I've been paying for my recent neglect in money and pain just recently. Last week was hell, today though felt like it did when I was getting a bunch of tatts, bearable pain. One more session and I'll have saved my teeth from falling out as long as I look after them.

  • Oh dear, it's about 4 degrees outside according to BOM, it's not going to be a very pleasant morning outside when I go out.

    Pray for me!

    • It was about 2 when I left the house 2 hours ago. The good news is that the sun will warm things up nicely....eventually

  • I'm starting to get alarmed by how desperately I need my coffee to function.

    I think I need to have a day off where I just don't have any caffeine at all and writhe around like a junkie in the throes of withdrawal.

    • I skipped having a coffee on Saturday morning, but had one after dinner. Day was fine.

      Yesterday skipped coffee altogether with no ill side effects.

      And I'm a frigging coffee junkie most of the time.

      And of course I had trouble falling asleep last night.

      Stupid body

    • Interestingly I've always found that caffeine doesn't do a whole lot to me. If I'm tired, I'm still just as tired afterwards. I only really drink it for the taste

      • Coffee makes me both buzzy wired and sleepy at the same time. It’s unpleasant so avoided mostly.

    • Problem is that it takes more than one day. More like a week +. One day off will just be one day pain with no gain

      • I've found in the past that one to two days actually does help me reset (I just spend most of it sleeping) - I don't actually have that much coffee compared to most people, only one cup a day and always before 12 - but I wouldn't mind trying a whole week. I'd need a med cert though lol.

    • I think I relative get off lightly and don't get any adverse effects if I stop drinking coffee.

      I can definitely get buzzed with a coffee high if it's really strong and fresh as opposed to instant coffee but I've never had withdrawal effects touch wood

  • hahahha my co-worker was showing me stuff his kid plays on Spotify when takes him to school, the tracklists consists of bangers such as: Big Chungus Fart, Techno Farts, I Pooped My Pants (In A Bowling Alley) and the all time classic - Sea Shanty Fart.

    • No secret who the culprit is if that school develops a phantom pooper

    • Wait until you hear Captain Underpants version of the 1812 Overture. In farts.

  • Day 22 of exercise program and day 6 of tummy exercises completed. I'm back baby 😎. The foot is much better today and I'm raring to go on whatever work holds for me today. Probably potatoes, lasagna and maybe pizza dough. It's gloriously sunny but bloody cold outside, which for some reason is weather I really like. So let's get amongst it! 👉👉 Have a great day everyone!

    • I'm on a rest day today (one benefit of doing heavy weights, lots of rest!) but have taken advantage of the lovely sunshine to take an extra walk. I've managed to maintain my weight now that I'm not specifically dieting, and am slowly converting some of the excess fat into muscle, so should hopefully continue to see some differences in size.

      • Go Rusty! It was a lovely day to get a bit of vitamin D, and was quite warm in the direct sunshine.

    • My feet have weird new sore places from all the walking in my new from the hips gait. It's affirming my gender transition while at the same time meaning I need to wear different shoes today to see if they combat the soreness a little. Wish me luck, I did 9ks yesterday but need unsore feet for work later in the week.

  • Finally!

    I got onto my payroll officer today and found out that the end of year financial data upload had failed and they had no idea until I emailed them about it.

    If I hadn't said anything, who knows how long I would have had to have waited for the pre fill information to be up.

  • Phew. Day done, dinner eaten, tax return lodged.

    Time to kick the feet up and relax for the night!

    • Ugh, our admin still hasn't sent in the prefill information. I'm not surprised, the business manager is an incompetent mess who constantly prioritises the wrong things... If we don't get ours by the end of the month I'm kicking up a nasty stink. Even if my tax return ends up being $250 I'd much rather have it now please and thanks.

      • Might not hurt to send an email enquiring about it.

        Everyone at your workplace won’t be able to use the pre fill info if they try and do it.

        I just sent an email today asking when the pre fill information for our tax returns will be available.

        They sorted out the mess within hours and then the ATO flagged it as ready on my pre fill data check.

        Might be worth asking?

    • I just lodged my tax return as well! Glad it's over and done with.

  • I have onigiri I made last night forunch. I'm very excited to eat them.

    Or as Brock in Pokemon said, Jelly Doughnuts!

    • This is my go to reference for the concept of domestication in my translation classes. The reference well and truely dates me though. Students are getting it less and less as the years go by

      • Oh no!

        Regarding domestication, there was an anime I loved as a kid called Bobo-bo Bobobo and one scene they are eating Natto, but obviously western audiences aren't going to know what Natto is. So in the English dub they call it like "spiderwebs and beans".

  • My BOM app has snowflakes tonight? I feel like that's a pretty good indicator it's fucking cold...

    (Thought it's only going to be 3°, and I'm not near the mountains, so why snowflake?)

  • Last week I boiled and somewhat successfully peeled 8 eggs for the week of eating, this week I almost destroyed two whole eggs with my peeling techniques. I don't think it's the longer finger nails but maybe it is?? Hahaha

  • Kidcalhoon2 is pretty keen to give skating a go after they had a session on a board I found in hard rubbish. I'm not a skater in any way, any tips on the type of board I could get them? I guess they just want to cruise, turn a bit, and maybe have a shot at the local skate park....

    • Go to a real skate shop because the people working there know what they are talking about and can hook you up.

      With research you should be able to find a complete 7.25” no name/blank setup under $100.00 on sale.

      The biggest hurdle while you are there? Your child will see an awesome looking deck design and they are going to want that one. but it’s too big and expensive brand name haha.

      • Yeah right on. Was just thinking of going to Kmart actually, but quick check and both Goliath and Hemley have complete entry boards for about $100.

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