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packing done, need to dismantle table and pack up my pc but shall do that early morning. sent a couple msgs to the airtasker dude to confirm the pick up tomorrow but no response and that’s stressing me out :<
worst case, will ask a friend to get a van from bunnings (?) and help me move. gosh moving is so stressful!
Edit: dude replied, we’re on!
What’s a guy with a van on airtasker cost if you don’t mind?
This one was pretty cheap - $120 to move, but I don’t have much stuff. A few boxes, a table and a chair and there’s lifts on both sides. Fairly quick job.
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Oh yeah. Two bits of ply wood. Good doors are solid or have egg cartons in between the ply wood.
Welp… I bought a PS5 during my lunch break. Now to be fair, it’s $679, the disc version AND I get Spider-Man 2 for free (for non-gamers, Spider-Man 2 came out less than a month ago and it’s usually priced between $100 and $125 depending on where you get it from). I mean I put it all on Afterpay, but I only have to spend $169.75 every fortnight so yay!
Besides I also don’t have to a) borrow my partner’s PS5 when I put my hand up to review a PS5 game for my 2nd job b) when PS5 exclusive games are up for review I can actually do it without having to worry about a. and c) Play PS5 games when I want and don’t have to wait every 2nd weekend for my partner to bring their PS5 or I go to their place and play it.
Heyyyy twinsies!!
Look at us!
Edit: Okay looked at your comment about you picking one up, but like totally agree with you on the whole “not so much an impulse purchase, but also kind of is” because yeah I knew that once I got my job I would look into getting a PS5 (also looking into the ROG Ally, but hopefully we’ll get news about the Steam Deck coming to Aus… one of these days), but I didn’t think today I would get it. But well look at that! Very keen to pick mine up tomorrow (or today I guess), annoying thing is, is that it doesn’t fit in our TV console. It’s one of those Ikea 1x1 square shelving unit things on its side.
If you review games for a job, this is a work expense. Claim that $679 on tax.
I wish I could put it as a work expense. It’s a volunteer position, so while I see it as a job, it’s not a paying job (which is fine, I knew that going in, but I get video games in exchange so yeah). But man that’d be so bloody helpful!
Does this make 2 DTers that have bought PS5s today?
Not surprised more people got it. A friend of mine got one too. Considering that PS5’s are now more readily available than they were previously.
I think so… It’s got me thinking maybe I should make it 3
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Guilty.
Though funnily enough, I did complain on Mastodon about how much I hate that Black Friday is becoming a thing here in Australia and then I go and buy a PS5. To be fair… JB’s deal thing isn’t called Black Friday so…
I gave little dog a kangaroo jerky stick and now he won’t leave me alone. I’m his best friend ever.
your first step to training little dog to hunt kangaroo for food in the post-apocalyptic world
Oh I wouldn’t need to train him. He loves chasing things.
But the take down?
Oh shit yeah. He’d go for the ankles? first then straight for neck. The little shit can jump.
Second step involves playing fetch with a bouncy ball
Finished binding the edges of my fave quilt, it was getting a bit frayed, and then washed it. More masks have been made. Made some scones for afternoon tea. Still heaps to do. 🥴
I love making quilts. Crochet, Tunisian crochet, knit, patchwork. I give them all away. Here’s one I made my daughter because she loves geography and flags and stuff.
And the back
omg, that is so beautiful 💗
Thank you. All the material was given to me so it’s special.
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Just listened and danced to Dancing Queen Staying Alive and YMCA. Haven’t even hit the 80s yet.
The man refuses to play Katy Perry, A-ha, Midnight Oil, Tears For Fears. This is why I married him. He makes me laugh. Plus he buys me stuff.
Everybody wants to rule the world.
Those people make up like half of my liked songs playlist :(
Oh dear. I’m sorry but we are more of a rock, punk rock family.
I have rock!
I have punk!
You do. So proud. Keep up your diverse catalogue.
Diversity FTW
I love the percentage of your songs that were released prior to your birth. You’ve got some good music influencers in your world, Baku.
2010s actually makes up the bulk of my liked songs
But it doesn’t make up the bulk of what I listen to, because that title goes to ABBA, who I don’t go 3 days without listening too…
Which is how this happened
2010’s makes perfect sense. It’s actually a weak decade for me. Once I had mp3s and later streaming, I stopped listening to the radio. That in-turn led to a huge reduction to the new music I was introduced to.
Listen to the album Deleted scenes from the Cutting Room Floor by Caro Emerald. From your tastes, I have a feeling you’ll like it. She’s basically unknown in Australia, so this one isn’t something you’ll have likely come across.
That’s fair. I struggle with discovering newer stuff too because I rarely listen to the radio, and when I do it’s usually SmoothFM. For the last few years though, I have been trying to listen to the Hottest 100 each year
Never heard of Caro Emerald, but I’ll give it a go. Thanks for the recco
Hello brains trust! Any cunning ideas what I can do with this? I’ve 3m of 150 and it is not a garment fabric. Lite hessian? Good for shopping bags but I certainly don’t need that many.
Make shopping bags as gifts for friends and family. Tote bag. Potato bag. Onion bag. Place mats. A bag bag to store other bags in.
A bag for bags is totally a thing I have
But do you have a cat one?
I have a cat that likes to inhabit it. And fabric to create a cat in a cat bag of bags for cat bags
You’re all covered then.
Cat sized cushions, flog on etsy
Oops wrong pic
nonono absolutely right pic :)
Like this?
Last I looked etsy fee structure was brutal
Table cloth of some kind? Table runner even? A decorative curtain for partioning rooms?
E: seconding placemats!
The very one directional pattern is putting me off many ideas. Placemats would work, but isn’t something we generally do.
Do you have car seat covers?
Cut a square into 4 triangles and then sew together with the cats all facing outward.
Now that has my brain going! Shall check viable seam widths between repeats
You could make cute fabric planters for potted indoor plants, or furoshiki for Christmas/birthdays.
curtains, cushions
Many cat-face eye patches
Waistcoats.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Cranberry everything please
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Something special, and unique, to celebrate today’s Fridayness
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Lots of sweet things please, to salve my pain and despair at this being the first day of my working week whilst half the rest of the world are celebrating it being their last.
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I’d like a healthy Asian brunch please chef if you could wangle it. And maybe a nice feline companion for the afternoon
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Fuck it, I’m eating carbs today, can I please have all of the potato and sugary goodness?
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welcome back 🔋
The uprising has resumed
Good bot
Well it turned into a lovely arvo. Cheers everybody. 🍺
🍻 TGIF
Beautiful moment in the CBD. At the tramstop at the top end of Collins st waiting for my tram. On the opposite tramstop a late middle aged gent in jeans and a band tshirt with fairy wings on his back - dancing to music only he could hear. And the son of a gun could dance pretty good. Felt like joining in, but was carrying too much shopping.
I need to get to work, but I can’t find my wallet
It’s in yesterday’s pants pocket silly
Noodling around and saw that old 7 Red Lines video turn up in suggested on YouTube. I clearly blanked out the INHUMANE PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE that is watching that video because I stupidly clicked and only made it halfway through before ragequitting and now I have all this pent up fury and trauma.
OMG. How have I never seen that before (I just went and searched it). I am so angry now haha
I apologise for ruining your Friday evening
Haha I will survive. I shared it on the work slack to share the pain
