Fairly chill day.
From 100+ metres away. Patiently waiting.
I am sooo tempted to ask kindly to have one of the gingers.
Me too…
Can you start a DT cat shelter? Pretty pleaseee
My whole dream is to buy a piece of land or an existing farm property with some land and start an animal shelter.
That’s what I’m working towards. Fully remote work so I can live far away.
Happy Eurovision week to those who celebrate 😁
Are we you the song about blowjobs? The song about coming? Or the song about saunas?
Wild that this is a perfectly valid sentence this year! I am 100% sauna, but I intentionally don’t listen to too many songs before hand so may be surprised on the night.
Rates notice for the wrong house. Somebody done fucked up.
It feels like Spring.
Spring, but with an underlying scent of existential dread.
the weather be a little odd
The new toaster oven/air fryer has arrived. I have a test batch of hash browns cooking now.
I’m glad I was able to get the spiffy black and silver model, it matches the black microwave quite well.
I’m starting to party plan this week I’m thinking I might need to buy some nice new drinking glasses then I look in my cupboard and I discover I really don’t but they will need a nice wash.
We don’t own any dishware in this house that can’t go in the dishwasher. Best decision we ever made.
We were gifted a large amount of crystal glassware as engagement/wedding gifts.
There’s an entire cupboard dedicated to it. They are used very, very rarely.
Shit is overrated as hell.
Glasses are meant to be used. That’s my theory going in. I no longer care.
I agree but we just don’t use them. Personally I don’t like them and the cupboard they’re in requires crouching to access.
No thanks.
So they stay hidden and pristine.
Yea my grandparents handed down a shitload of waterford crystal. Never used. Stuff is probably expensive but coffee mug for my goon is more practical.
I think it was a status symbol thing back then. Absolutely pointless stuff.
We have 4 crystal decanters.
I’ve used two, so I can feel fancy.
Sure they’re nice to look at, but pretty large and awkward to use and clean.
They stay hidden
I have 3 that have never had liquor in them.
They’re such a weird thing to have and yet many people do own them
crystal decanters are the best vases for heavy orchid flower stems 👍
Ooh ooh ooh I think the ABC have quietly called Kooyong for Monique Ryan. Still in the realm of just under 700 votes ahead at 89.4% of votes counted, but if the ABC is confident about this then… hooray! Can’t do much about Tim Wilson but it’ll be great for Amelia Hamer to be relegated to irrelevance
I feel sorry for Zoe Daniels and footage of her early celebrating only to lose her seat. At least Monique won’t suffer the same fate!
Yes, that was definitely a bit arrogant of Zoe… I think Monique and co are trying to lie low after that whole thing with her husband
Yay!!!
After being “a really amazing candidate, ɓut we just had this other person with x” for way too many jobs, I’ve finally been offered a job that’s interesting, uses some of my skills, is 20 minutes from home, and is good money. Fucking finally.
Congraaaaaaaaaats!!!
Yayy!!!
Excellent news! Congratulations 🎉
Congrats!
Winning!!!
Buy a lotto ticket this week
Congrats!!! That’s so exciting!
Congrats! You deserve a break after such a long job search. And to hit the trifecta of easy commute + interesting/relevant + $ is particularly awesome.
🥂
That’s amazing. I think my work being so close to home has made it a lot more tolerable than more interesting jobs further away
Congrats!
🎉👏🏻
aww yiss. the peasant employers were merely placeholders keeping you free until the prize job came up.
Late start to the day but I’m going to find the motivation to start on this cursed thesis somewhere, I know I’ll find it… maybe it’s behind my couch… maybe I should check my butthole (ski-bap, ba-dap, butthole!)
I still haven’t taken out my oodie btw. I AM loving these glorious sunny but cool days without too much wind, but I was expecting this last month?? Not now? I haven’t even worn my trackpants yet!
Trying to find motivation on a Monday morning is no easy task.
I suggest giving up for the moment and regrouping later today or tomorrow.
Motivation will be found much easier.
The time is ticking towards writing this damn thing, and I have taken two weeks off work precisely to focus on it…
… But also I do have that sweet extension till the end of next month, and I do know my brain is like a petulant toddler that needs to be coaxed into doing the right thing if it doesn’t feel like working (unless urgent deadlines or large amounts of money is involved). Currently I’m at the “let’s see if we can just write out some dot points and call it a day” stage
Would you like some witchy help sent via the aether? Can do up a motivational brew if you feel one would help you get started.
That would be most appreciated o wise magi. I have already had one such brew but it has rendered me distractible and not focused.
Righto. Coming up this evening. Will probably kick in right as you want to go to sleep. Will provide the ‘do it now and get it over with’ version, unless you want the ‘help help the deadline approaches far too quickly’ version. Please let me know what your preference is.
The first, please - but it should feel like the second, if that’s possible… thank you.
I recall having similar issues in my uni days.
Somehow I made it.
But would not do it again the same way hahaha.
Made it way too hard for myself
I swear I’m completely done with higher education after this thing, I just don’t have it in me to work on these sorts of long nebulous projects any more. Especially for free!
argh, so itchy today!
Bugger it, my local gym is closing. I’m especially sad because it’s got one of the best cycle rooms. Fingers crossed another gym moves in, it’s in such a convenient spot for me.
Username appropriate.
dunno if this helps? https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/903838
Thank you! :)
Pretty much given up on work. Only delivering the essentials and not taking any initiative since other teams have started dumping their tasks on us with no consequences. Warned my boss that the reward for other teams not doing their work is them getting to assign us isn’t going to fly with me.
Apparently, our director “isn’t happy with the situation” but given they are yet to do anything to stop it they may as well be endorsing it.
Fuck em.
I give exactly enough to do my job and 10% more.
When I get paid to care, then I’ll care.
Enough work, to the bricks!
What are you making?
31161 the Nessie variant
Looks like fun. I must schedule myself some build time soon.
you have a lovely Turkish bowl. 🙂
also, lego 🙂
Thank you. It is unfortunately very very repaired thanks to some prior zoomies.
I’m looking around at all the stuff that needs to be packed and feeling very unmotivated. I’d like a magic wand please.
Sending house pixies your way, when I find them
Ooh, I leaned about how to find those when I was in Brownies. You have to go find a pond, turn around three times and look in the water while reciting a rhyme to see them. It goes “twist me and turn me and show me the elf”. You look in the water and see… yourself.
Indoctrinating young girls into their role as house keepers, gotta love it. Pretty sure the Scouts didn’t get that one. Unfortunately it’s also right, this is all on me. I’d rather a helpful pixie.
Ah, was never part of such an organisation but it sounds unpleasant.
I’ll do you one better. Let me present the Tinybreak guide to packing:
1)Make a bunch of Boxes
2)Pick up an item
3)consider “does this spark joy”?
4)Decided you dont care, yeet it into a box.
To take this to the pro level: -Skip Step 3 and try to avoid putting fragile shit at the bottom. A couple of drinks and a bluetooth speaker with some gym music really helps things along too.
To be clear, this is legit advice. yeet it all into a box sort it out at the other end.
I still have a few weeks before the move and I’d like to cull some of my stuff a bit more instead of moving stuff I don’t actually want. Panicked yeeting into a box is scheduled for everything left the week before the move.
I have managed to pack two boxes of fragile servingware today. All boxes are being liberally padded out with bits of fabric from my stash. By the time I get to the sewing room there should not be much fabric left to pack.
once again I appear to be doing things man is not meant to do…
