Have a great night everyone ❤️
So tired after work. Hopefully it will get better with time.
May the fluffy butts keep you warm :D
It’s the man’s birthday on Monday so I’m thinking about making him a giant chocolate mousse, like in a trifle bowl, instead of a cake.
Chocolate mousse is a worthy birthday cake. You could even decorate with sprinkles on top.
Nah, he’s not into fancy extras just a bit of whipped cream on top.
That sounds legendary 😋
He’s worth it
i’d wife my mrs again if she did that. Shes already my wife so not totally sure how that’d work. But when they say the stomach is the way to a mans heart: for me thats Chocolate Mousse!!
It’s gonna be about 8 decent servings.
I mean, sure, if your not committed. I reckon I could do a whole trifle bowl in 2.
Hahaha.
Don’t worry. He’ll give it red hot go.
Preso is done! Went better than expected and there was one question for me (didn’t have enough time for more as the previous speaker took up a lot more time). Got a few good comments as well after! Go me 😄
Go you!! Congratulations. Tuck that memory away to come back to next time you got to do a preso.
What a relief that must be! Well done!
Yay, nice work!
yay
we knew you would ace it
Well done! I also get super nervous giving presentations, the relief once they’re done and the confidence boost is nice.
Nice work!
Made a new friend today. A new young neighbour introduced himself and asked to be friends. I asked if he liked dinosaurs and of course the answer was yes, I said if he and his grandma could wait a moment I had some dino puzzles he could have. He danced with joy. 🥰🦕🦖
did you ask him his favorite?
No, it was just a very quick talk in passing.
I ate chocolate cake at my first meal for today.
I feel no shame!
There is no shame! We’re adults, if we want to eat cake for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, then that is our goddamn right!
I’ve done that more than once 😆what type of chocolate cake was it?
hmm chocolate sponge with a gooey topping.
I chucked it into the microwave for about 10-15 seconds as well.
Legend
You shouldn’t feel shame! That’s not shameful, it’s WINNING.
this is normal breakfast food in Belgium*
- lived for many years in the land o’ chocolate
Best part of being an adult!
I reckon that’s the start of a good day.
Got a referral for a CT, a blood test, and if they don’t show anything, then an MRI.
GP also suggested shingles, and to return if I develop a rash, especially because it’s my face. Amazing lol.
She’s new to my clinic, but literally the best, kindest experience I’ve had. So thorough, and intelligent, and it feels like she cares. I’ll defo be returning to her.
It’s so nice when you find a good dr. Hope you’re feeling better soon
So lucky to find a doctor like that. Follow her if she ever changes practices. Finding a good GP is a needle in a haystack.
It makes such a difference when you speak to a doctor that actually cares.
Glad you at least are being taken seriously ❤️
I have absolutely got pathologic rejection sensitivity of some description. The way my stomach turned just now because I noticed a specific person had unfollowed me on Instagram is crazy.
There’s lots of good reasons people unfollow, eg grew appart, or they are going through some life events, cutting back on social media, etc. When you unfollow someone, do you expect them to feel the same? Might help with the perspective. Meaning, do you think it’s ok for you to unfollow someone but don’t like it if others do the exact same?
Oh totally, I have no issue coming up with a hundred perfectly reasonable explanations. It’s the initial sting of rejection – rational or otherwise – I can’t seem to avoid ;)
it’s totally normal to feel that way , no one likes to feel rejected and a normal person blames themself but like Cake said, you just don’t know so don’t take it personally
worth exploring that with a professional.
It’s on the list!
Me too. I don’t use instagram anymore and it’s made a world of difference for my mental health. No need to keep up with people I hardly know.
I think being aware of the rejection sensitivity is awesome. Know that your feelings are valid. That initial sting is probably unavoidable :(
Some people blow it out of proportion and use those feelings to guide behaviour. I once met a guy who said I made him the most depressed he’s felt in five years because he asked me on a date and I rejected him. It has helped me pinpoint the rejection sensitivity, self-soothe and remember not to catastrophise.
New Malatang (kinda hotpot where you choose ingredients yourself, then hand them over to be cooked in a soup) place on corner of Elizabeth and la Trobe for lunch today. As usual I chose too many ingredients and it was like $32 but it was delicious and I’m stuffed:
Mala hotpot is the beeeeeest 2am food
I fucked up. Instead of picking up a bag of “fun size” Bounties I’ve picked up the inferior Milky Way. I will have to live with this until tomorrow.
I never deliberately buy Milky Ways but I quite enjoy them whenever I have one. Same for Bounties actually.
Oh I ate 5 of them but I’m still disappointed
I’m so sorry.
Fanks.
I can only blame Mars Wrigley (who ever he is) for this travesty for making both packets blue and white. 🤬
I would rabidly eat a bag of either
Complaining about money and wishing I could penny pinch better
I’ve been buying some things I’ve needed and watching the bank balance go down… I really hate the way having disabilities, sensitivities or food intolerances adds unnecessarily to the budget.
If everything was default and my body worked I could just have porridge or eggs for breakfast every morning, sandwich/hotdog/leftovers for lunch, and eat a batch made chickpea curry or stew for dinner until it was finished. I could have ramen. Beans and rice.
Edit: I could walk around gathering fruit from public trees. Bike to the op shop.
Buy an 8 pack of whatever bar soap was cheapest and use it head to toe. The dirt cheap highly scented laundry detergent. Wear literally whatever was on clearance without discomfort or alterations or be physically large enough to shop in the men’s section.
If it wouldn’t lead to being targeted (perhaps violently in my area/circumstances) I might be able to buzz my head at home to not need to pay or fuss around with technique on home haircuts.
It’s really blocking the financial min-maxing I could be doing.
The highly scented cheap laundry detergent could set off my cat’s asthma as well. (I hate how unscented basics are more expensive even in homebrand - if you can find that.)
And if she wasn’t allergic to chicken I could have her on cheaper brands or on proper prescription renal food 😭 As it is I’m looking at a really swanky brand that isn’t prescription but happens to be lower in phosphorus to try and slow her kidney disease.
I would cook the nutritionist diet for her but she refuses to eat it and my physical capabilities are limited
This is what all this money fretting is in aid of. Making sure I have the financial stability to weather what difficult times come.
sky pretty
first beautiful delicate blues of dawn now tinged with purples and pinks,
Oh thank goodness today is pretty cruisey at work. Some family drama that cropped up and left a bad taste in my mouth. Angling to leave early and go meet my friend for dinner earlier and bring some positive vibes in. This weather is really lovely too.
I feel you on the family drama front, it’s not fun at all to be involved in it.
Hope you’ve been feeling better and you have a good meet up with your friend tonight.
so many hugs
Doubling the positive vibes your way! ✨✨
Morning all! So now Elder minipeeler has tested positive for covid ☹️ Being stuck at home with a covid sufferer who repeatedly left his room without warning hasn’t worked out very well for him. Luckily he just seems to have a slight sniffle, but as an introvert he is more than happy to stay in his room with a supply of snacks and drinks and tech 😆. Miniest has some cold and flu symptoms but tested negative, but I’m keeping her in her room with a similar supply of drinks and tech. Mr P has pledged to stick his head out the window for a smoke if he needs one and not leave his room at all today, but it’s a bit bloody late for that. I’m still testing negative and have no symptoms, but I have constantly been wearing a mask since Sunday and being as meticulous as I can.
It’s hard to avoid in your home, you’ve done very well!
I hope your eldest gets well soon <3
It’s not much of a silver lining, but you’ve just won any argument that happens in the next six months or so.
“Yeah, well you gave the kids covid by walking through the bloody living room every five minutes!”
I’d be mad not to use it!
Should I keep making the frugal and gardening megathreads? I’m trying to make Lemmy more active and encourage posting
I might also share my egg recipes if it’s not a bad time for it. (Are eggs still limited?) They’re not glamorous but will feed your family cheaply in a pinch. They deserve to be passed down.
If you enjoy it, keep doing it. More people read than comment, so there may be people who find it useful even if they don’t interact.
Eggs are still limited, but don’t let that stop you. The shops round here still have a 2 carton limit, but that’s 24 eggs which can go quite a long way.
I like them even though I have been slack about commenting (sorry). And egg recipes would be great! I get mine from the farmers market so I haven’t had supply issues. Still they are cheaper then red meat!
Sometimes I get super stressed about buying a house, as in I never will. But then I read about people getting their deposits scammed away and I’m kinda okay with being relatively poor lol
I’d feel so so bad if I got scammed out of a $500k deposit, so I’m just gonna enjoy the little things I have that bring me happiness haha
The thing no one tells you is if you buy an established house, everything breaks within the first 12 months. Oven, heater, hot water, it’s a never ending money pit. Being a renter sucks no doubt, but you can always breach a landlord if they refuse to fix shit.
The other thing they don’t mention is that even if you buy a new house or do a full renovation, all the big things like kitchen and bathroom renovations and replacing decks, roofs etc - they all need doing about the time you want to retire. So just planning to pay off your house before then is not enough, you need to plan to also have enough to do some major work on it.
The timing is something that worked fine when you could buy a house by 30 and take 20 years to pay it off, you had plenty of time to then pay for extra work on the house etc. after the mortgage was paid, but when you push back the age you can purchase and extend the loan period it makes it a lot more difficult.
…no? And our house was built in 1962. Also getting a landlord to fix anything is increasingly an exercise in futility
You got lucky by the sounds of it, almost all of my mates had a similar experience spread out in the outer east/southeast.
Moorabbin here, so stolidly SE
Guessing they bought new builds? We deliberately avoided those for very good reasons
Mine’s early 2000’s. A mates was 80’s I think. Another was 90’s.
it’s actually been interesting looking at stuff. There were some places that the sellers should have been shot for their asking price - talking cracks to the outside you could fit a small child into, rampant mould, fire hazards. Then there were the places that were basically “set and forget” and obviously hadn’t been updated since the owners got their retirement payout. Our place is old, but the hot water was replaced with instant at some point, the kitchen hasn’t been done since the 80’s except the stovetop and oven, which are models from the early 2000’s. The ducted heater died, but we were expecting that, it was from 1979 and we were replacing it with reverse cycle to give us aircon. It lasted our first winter, so win there.
Meanwhile a place we rented for 16 years literally had the side rotting off in something we’d been warning the owner about since 2008. Cunt.
I’d rather that and call it mine, than feel like I’m a roach in someone else’s house haha
I’d trade roaches for my rodents. Probably.
I would make it my life’s work to get justice/revenge/money back
