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  • Should hear back by tomorrow about this job I interviewed for yesterday. And I have a Teams interview next week. I suppose this may be why I am feeling so damn social, having to put myself out there for corporations and present myself as a capable, intelligent person.... I just want to hang out with people and be my dense, silly, starchy self.

    What do tonight though? 🙄

    edit: have just had a small realisation: I like being social, but am afraid to be social because I hate taking up space - be it in a conversation, or physically. Wow. calls therapist

  • Saw the Barbie movie last night, mostly because I had no idea wtf it was about and wanted to see it before it got spoiled for me.

    It was fun going out to the movies on a Wednesday night and I really enjoyed seeing groups of people getting into the spirit, wearing pink, having dinner with friends beforehand and whatnot. The atmosphere felt fun in the centre.

  • So two teachers in East-Germany are basically leaving town because they called out so many students playing music with racist lyrics, drawing swastika's and using the Nazi salute with other students. And parents in this town wanted them to leave essentially and this is just wild. Especially since Germany did a lot of stuff to try and stamp out Nazi-ism after WWII.

  • It's so warm today I've switched off the heating and am flouncing around in a skirt and t shirt. Unbelievable. (But also hooray for an insulated house)

    Tried to do a load of woollens and finally gave in at how gross the washing machine is. These guys are normally so uptight about cleanliness with their baby around and the wife having all kinds of chronic illnesses, but there's literal black mould impregnated all over the seal. The machine also used to deposit random bits of lint/mystery pieces onto the clothes, which has thankfully improved a bit after cleaning the filter and running it through a hot wash cycle with regular detergent a week ago.

    Did a through spray + 5 min soak with mould remover and a very vigorous scrub, which has taken off the scum and the most superficial mould, but the bottom bit where all the water wells up is particularly difficult. I've just put it through a hot wash with special washing machine cleaner and after that's done I'll dry it out - if it's still gross I'm thinking tomorrow I'll try 1:4 dilution of white vinegar on paper towels to soak onto the seal for a couple hours, then another scrub and wash.

    Open to any other tips from your personal experience of cleaning a front loader, and yes I realise it is probably too late to truly rid it of mould but something's better than nothing.

    Also sorry for the long posts today. One gets a bit loopy in suburbia ...sometimes.

    • You're doing all the right things. If these fail, then try doing the hottest possible cycle with a couple of dishwasher tablets thrown into the machine. This can damage the seal, but then so can mould. I would also check the filter again after and remove anything that cleaning the drum has shaken loose and flushed.
      It might be time to broach the subject of getting the seal replaced with the owners. If the washer is under warranty that won't cost a cent but if not, then will need a repairman to call plus cost of parts.

      • I was waiting for Your Witchiness to chime in! Good point re checking the filter again, I shall do that as well as a wipe of the seal.

        I'm not so fussed about my own clothes but the owners probably need to be gently told that they seriously need to consider seal replacement and that using hot water for washing doesn't mitigate the impacts of mould without a good dry. Knowing the husband he'll probably just buy an entire new washing machine, man has this obsession with buying new things rather than repairing

    • I didn't realise I had no short sleeve shirts that don't have graphic tees so I asked my boss if I could wear the graphic shirts and he said it's fine.

      Whoo!

      • Noice. I'm the same, no plain t shirts left. If I had a teams meeting I'd probably chuck on a pullover but otherwise I just rock the graphic tees.

    • I have switched off my heating, but am sitting in my heavist woolen jumper with a blanket on my lap. I was just thinking of taking Mr Woof for an afternoon walk in the sunshine in the hopes of warming up a bit (whatever the opposite of hooray is for an uninsulated house!)

      I think I'm doing better than you on the washing machine front, I have just run a load and there is definitely no mould in there.

      • Boourns?! This is by far the best insulated house I've been in for a while. I'm positively toasty! But it's still great for a warm up walk outside, although the wind was a bit bitey.

        The upshot of this sitcho is it's encouraged me to go thoroughly clean my own front loader when I drop in this weekend - I've spent nearly my entire life with top loaders only so I keep forgetting that front loaders need more maintenance.

    • That's about all you can do. See if you can put another lot of washing cleaner in, put it on the hottest, longest setting possible and then open it and the drawer to air dry.

      • It's currently into the second hour of the post-mould-cleaner cleaning at 60C (that's what the washing cleaner packet recommended). I'll leave it open tonight and if it's still gross tomorrow I'll do the vinegar with more elbow grease, then a second round with the washing cleaner.

  • Getting lunch delivered today because I'm rocking a banger of a headache and feeling fragile. Haven't had any delivery in 10 days, which is a long time for me. Ride like the wind, Bernabe!

  • My department at work is collapsing. Our budget was dramatically cut, and my direct team in Melbourne has dropped from 8 or 9, down to 3 (farewell drinks for one tonight), and they aren't being replaced. Other big changes coming... Interesting times. Mood and motivation is down in the team. It will continue because it must, and will be profitable in some form, but I don't know what that form will be at the moment, it's all still up in the air. My job is safe I believe, I'm too expensive to make redundant and can be moved elsewhere. I'm just kind of a fly on the wall of my first major shift like this in a business. Just venting a bit I guess.

  • SWEET. It turns out my previous health cover (for visa holders - everything Medicare covers plus hospital with extras added on) did cross over to my new local PHI product so I don't have insane waiting periods for most things after all!

    I don't know how they decided it, because I'm pretty sure my previous extras cover did include physiotherapy and remedial massage (which now has a 2 month waiting period), but did not include psychology (which does not have a waiting period on my new cover).

    Not complaining, I need that shit... I am aware extras is usually more of an Entertainment Book voucher type thing for health services but I would actually use all of them anyway; I did the sums and the savings were worth it.

    And in other fantastic news, it only took nearly two weeks, but the cat has JUST! finally!!! figured out how to roll the treat ball HERSELF and get free treats without standing around sniffing it and helplessly looking at me.

    I almost thought she was mentally slow. It's like she was scared to push the damn thing even though she knows full well there are highly desirable goodies inside and the holes are at maximum aperture so she doesn't have to roll it much for stuff to come out. What a relief

  • My kids are sitting next to each other on the couch both doing Duolingo. One doing French, the other switching between Italian and Hawaiian of all things...

  • I tried to take a photo showing that RavenCat is team Barbie, but apparently took a photo

  • I had an omelette with cherry tomatoes, spring onion and cheese and toast for dinner and there's a vanilla slice for afters for me :)

    • Delightful - easy and light.

      Courtesy of Duenan's inspiration, herring-in-tomato-sauce with onion and wilted baby spinach mixed through with pasta. I would've loved capers or olives but couldn't be arsed DRIVING 15 MINUTES TO THE NEAREST SHOP just to get some.

    • I made egg in bread. The peoples food.

  • PSA warning. The Coles at Richmond Traders has stocks of Shin Ramyun Black - at $11-85!!!!!!! Highway robbery.
    Also at Richmond Traders - I did not think it was possible to kill a pothos plant by neglect but they are managing to do so. If passing, it may be worth your time to go in and look at the ceiling above the chemist - multiple strands of dead and dying pothos dribbling sadly from the balconies. This rare sight has to be seen to be believed. I think it's because the office space is not rented yet and no-one is caring for the poor plants. Vegetable murder by neglect.

    • Not only Richmond, I saw it at another Coles when I was browsing and saw the double digit price there too for the Shin Ramyun Black.

    • Might go take a gander at this dead pothos while getting lunch

      Shin Ramyun price is criminal, especially given that Coles' proximity to the asian grocers of Victoria St

  • I helped two older (70s?) ladies yesterday. I caught ones dog running about in school drop off traffic, and I got some cheese off the top shelf at Coles for the other.

  • Day 1 of intermediate body shred 30 day challenge. Was definitely ready for this challenge and approached it in the manner suggested by the Hybrid Calisthenics guy, i.e adapting the exercises to what fits your fitness ability now. Especially important for me because while my foot is better it's still not 100%. Like there's this weird looking plank into pike exercise that I didn't like the look of and didn't trust myself to do without damaging something so I did other core exercises instead. Mr Peeler noticed that my figure is changing, and noticed the muscles in my back when he hugged me. It's only been 32 days of exercises! My posture has improved and I actually feel like I have a core now. In muscle terms, I just felt a nebulous void between my thighs and shoulders. I'm doing those back friendly exercises every day too, and will for life now because they've just been so beneficial.

    Last night I had a crack at the exercises I linked yesterday and found that even after feeling knackered after a day's work, cooking dinner and doing laundry etc.,they were totally doable. So maybe I've got a short evening routine I can do as well, which means I'll be doing the recommended 30 minutes of exercise per day for the first time! Woo! Thanks for listening to my ramblings, and have a vitamin D-lightful day!

    • Good work. I've been taking it a bit easy on my weightlifting while I wait for some new shoes that should give me a bit more stability. They are on board to arrive today so I can go back to increasing the weights again. I'm noticing some nice body changes too - I'm maintaining the same weight, but am losing some size still, especially around the tummy - I actually have a waist that goes in instead of out! 🤣

      My basic plan for now is to keep focusing on the weightlifting for a bit while maintaining my weight, then switch to maintaining the weightlifting level while I focus on diet and losing another 5kg, then go back to slowly increasing weightlifting levels and incorporating some HIT style cardio. Then repeat with an alternating diet/exercise focus, incorporating flexibiity/balance exercised, then longer cardio. By which stage I should be at a stage to just focus on maintaining both weight and fitness levels as a permanent thing.

      It's been working well so far, I think breaking it down into achievable chunks has definitely been the right call. Losing 35kg and increasing fitness from couch-based slob is a massive undertaking, and it felt far too daunting to start when I looked at the whole thing. But 5kg? Seems achievable.

      • I hear you on the whole breaking it into chunks thing. It's why I chose to start with one 10ish minute workout per day. Otherwise I wouldn't have succeeded in getting this far. I really need to lose weight but I've focused on the basic goal of simply getting into a doable and enjoyable routine first. Did your shoes arrive?

  • I need a detox from real life people. I've seen and interacted with too many humans this week.

  • It's nice not get spam from uni studies, recruiters or have stories stolen . Just sayin'. 😊

  • Just waved off my hairdresser, she of the 'JESUS CHRIST THAT'S A LOT OF GREY' comment. Definitely overdue for a colour and a bit overdue for a cut.

    • Comment deleted as it was supposed to be a new comment, and had nothing to do with hair, grey (or any other colour) or overdue haircuts.

      Personally, it's been about 4 years since I had a hair cut, and the grey is slowly taking over and making itself at home.

  • I thought I was just socially burnt out but I think I'm overall burnt out and exhausted. Not sure what I'm going to do as I have next to no annual leave or personal leave.

    • Yeah I'm 100% burnt out myself and thought I still had plenty of personal leave up my sleeve, looks like I only have 3 days left. Think I'll just use it strategically before I resign.

      If you can afford it, try leave without pay. I've had to do that when there were no options left

  • Damn, didn't get to finish up what was I supposed to do at work though the job was a little bigger than I thought in the end.

    Hopefully can finish it up tomorrow.

    Nearly time to wrap up the day and then off grocery shopping I go.

    Herring is on my mind.

    • Herring, I've got you on my mind, fish, you won't ever know
      \ How much I need you in my belly, promise you won't ever go
      \ I won't take no from you this time
      \ Herring, I've got you on my mind

    • Thanks to you, Herring is now on my mind as well! I've gone off bread for a bit but I think I'll try it with some pasta tonight as I'm a bit tired of this defrosted curry I've been having 4 days in a row.

    • Something echoes in the wind ᴷᶦⁿᵍ ᴼˢᶜᵃʳ ᴮʳᶦᵉˢˡᶦⁿᵍ ˢᵃʳᵈᶦⁿᵉˢ

      • I just got back from shopping.

        Woolworths has the Brunswick kippers for 2 dollars a tin this week.

        All sold out when I went there to check.

  • Watching Dune (2021) - I fell asleep watching this once and also fell asleep watching the original version...maybe third time will be the charm?!

  • Miss Meow thought playing with the clothes hanging on the drying rack looked like fun. She successfully subdued the lingerie bag, but got stuck in my bra. I had to rescue her (and the bra) but she looks completely unrepentant.

  • Loving early starts and finishes and already clocking up nearly 6.5ks of walking just tramming into the cbd for work and back and working. Was hard work today and as a few in the company have said, there's no need to go to a gym as work is a workout. Training and money is pretty sweet and all my co-workers are great, my colleague today I'd never worked with and asked me my pronouns which is always a good sign.

    On the way home I scored a proper oodie of the baby unicorn print variety and black stovepipe dungarees from the salvos. The oodie is warm, oversized soft and is baby blue, powder pink and white so you know, basically a gay / trans pride oodie as far as I'm concerned. It's nice to find clothes I know I'm going to basically live in for reasonable prices. Still undecided about whether salvos are cool or not, but their staff are at least.

    Absolutely gorgeous day out there too, so I'll smash my ks up to 11 with a nice stroll around this lovely neck of the south of the rivers woods. Also already been able to share some totally un-asked for kindness through my volunteer work as well, so today's about as wholesome as I can hope for.

    Thx for reading and love to you all my little dt family.

    • My Sister in Queer, the salvos are very bad. The workers are fine, but I would reccomend almost any other Op Shop over the salvos; they're anti-LGBTQIA+.

      Getting a blue, pink, white oodie is A+! Fantastic score!! I am so pleased your new job is treating you with respect! Keep being your authentic self, bc you are a strong independent woman!

  • I wish I was Peaches.

    Edit: and Andy Black. I want to be everyone and I want everyone. Fuck.

    Edit edit: I am listening to my everything playlist, and will refrain from posting songs, I promise 😱😅

    • I smoked a joint with Peaches many moons ago. She was fun. I was at her show very early to make sure we saw Cobra Killer. She just came up sat with my friend and I and asked if we had any weed. I had a couple of joints. It was the kind of venue where I was known and no one cared about weed and smoking wasn't banned then anyway. Also, they were super artist friendly. Was at the zoo in Brisbane. She didn't say much but her mate had a very poindexter outfit on and was really nice and chatty. She mainly just sat there woman spreading in her little hot pants. I love her. She was thankful and courteous in an I'm a "rock star ok" kind of way. She was definitely still very underground then though.

      She performed solo and with Mignon, just them, her mc505 beatmachine and some long dildos, shake your dicks, shake your tits. No one including me knew who she was but a bunch of my mates had tickets, she blew us completely away.

      Thanks for reminding of such a great memory. The whole show was incredible, I think Cornelious was headlining but I'm not sure. That may have been another year. The only big day out sideshows allowed were engineered by Regurgitator's manager Paul Curtis. He's a great person. Those shows were usually better than the actual big day out and were always artists he'd hand picked to tour down the east coast with the big day out. They were kind of shows rarely staged in Brisbane at the time and were a must see for a load of us.

  • lol'd at the old-man rant on r/melbourne - wiener.

    • So I get the yelling at clouds thing and there’s nothing more classic than redditor complaining about reddit on reddit.

      There’s no way you could know this but that’s exactly the kind of user I target when I champion Lemmy and our awesome community here.

      Here you have a person who may or may not post often but took the time to write about the degradation (real or perceived) of r/Melbourne. They seem to care about some semblance of quality for an online community. Which we have here.

      prime candidate to drop a line to.

      Now. If and when they come poking around the DT here, what comments might they see.?

      I like you and you ad value here so please don’t take as a personal attack just an observation.

      • Oh oh! I know! ✋ They'll see me having a giggle about it! He seems like a cool dude from the comments they made on the post, and he does have a point. But really, there is a lot going on in Melbs but not every Melbournian is on reddit, nor will they post about the events. So yeah, r/melbourne is going to be full of "what was that bang", "helicopter above my house", "look at this weird bug/amphibian I saw", which yeah, isn't really melbourne but it also kind of is iconically melbourne

        I hope more users come over, and I will try my best to be a welcoming user. 🤗

    • In "his day". What, 2018? her her her. Old man yells at cloud.

    • My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!!

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