So I’ve completed 3/4 knowledge assessments, and submitted 2/4 practical assessments. Tomorrow is prac day, so I can ask the questions I need, finish up the one assessment I still need to do, and then submit those. Then I’ll check the last quiz tomorrow afternoon, and attempt it, note down any questions and save it for Friday. Once that last one is done, I’m finished with my classes for the semester and can enjoy some holidays!
I still can’t believe I’ve changed my trajectory.
Well done. You’ve worked your butt off and now you’re kicking ass!
☺️ thank you! I couldn’t have done it without the support of you and the DT! 💜
I admire your organisational skills and motivation, good on you!
yay, happy dance 🙂
Eeeeeee!!! 🙌🙌
I just got a random email from someone saying they love reading my books and I am one of their favourite authors ever.
I figured it was just a spam email since I get them frequently - usually wanting to sell me something - and its too my author outlook email which is advertised in the books and on my twitter profile, etc.
Check the email address and it’s from an education email address - so the ones they give assign to kids at school.
Could still be a bored student taking the piss, but I choose to believe I just got my first ever fan e-mail.
Oh wow! Straight to the pool room.
Right!
I’d love to say thank you but the way the world is, it probably isn’t a good idea.
Thank the kid via a return compliment to the schools contact email address?
It didn’t say the school - email address was like a state wide one - but worked out a solution that will hopefully work.
I would have loved to have you in as a book week author but my clientele are just a bit too young I reckon.
That nice fuzzy warm feeling when someone appreciates your work is so heartwarming.
It is an amazing feeling. Really motivates me to keep going when that motivation can be lacking.
Not long back from the vet.
Results of second and more comprehensive ultrasound - Sammi has pancreatitis.
Hopefully they’ll be able to control it with cortisone injections.
Also she got a bravery award from the ultrasound people and the staff said she was a model patient and love her. Which is nice. 😊Aw poor baby, pancreatitis is so painful 😣 I hope that if she is back with you, that it is a mild form of it and she’ll make a full recovery! She’s a toughie and I’m positive she can pull through! 💜💜
No wonder she felt so poorly!
Poor baby :( Such a good girl.
Melbcat was on steroid tablets for a while, didn’t know there were shots.
Oh ouch! Poor squish
Poor Sammi cat, she has been through a lot. At least there’s answers now. I hope the treatment works too
Oh poor Sammi. Fingers crossed for the treatment 🤞
poor sweetheart
she needs all the hugs
She’s still Very Cross with me, so most I can manage is a stealthy head snuggle 😂
Poor fluffball. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery ❤️
Surprisingly easier to disconnect from work thoughts with this job.
It only matters when I’m sitting in front of the laptop, and then, it’s over.
Kinda nice for a change.
Onto my sixth load of washing today and I might squeeze in a seventh as I think the sheets will dry quickly (been doing clothes, towels, oodie, blanket, doona cover/pillowcases…) What a relief, i havent changed my bedclothes in ages and the whole house feels so much fresher now that all of this is getting washed.
Going in and out has also definitely helped break the monotony of today’s work, which I just have no mood to do at all. People suck!
E: that was a long day and I didn’t get everything done. But I do have heaps of laundry to fold tonight after dinner! Even the cuffs of the oodie are dry which is a surprise given it was only out for about 2 hours.
I’ve been watching Los Espookys after enjoying Fantasmas so much and it’s a nice low key fun show in Spanish. I really hope Fred Armisen’s characters daughter gets impaled in the second season though, the aggro shtick didn’t fly as humour
ta da, I finished the little cabinet and have loaded up some of my shell collection. I think it looks pretty cool and I’m well pleased with how it turned out. 🙂
spoiler
Looks great. Do you polish the shells yourself?
No, except for a few cameo and scrimshaw cowries they are all natural.
Nice!
Beautiful!
I have been well fed.
Nothing beats a simple beef sausage and bread with tomato sauce with some coleslaw.
I’m now kicking back on the coach trying not to fall into a coma now.
pakige…
Two days with “we couldn’t deliver”. Two days I’ve been here all day. Either they are not trying or they can’t figure out how to operate a buzzer.
EDIT: more ranting Oh and now they have cut me off from the phone line three times in a row. I’m now on chat to Amazon making a complaint. I’ve never had anything delivered by Dragonfly couriers before - this is terrible
EDIT EDIT: Ok I know amazon are evil and all that, but 3 mins in the chat and they are sending me a replacement with a new courier company. THat is nice
And so the enshittification of everything continues.
Looking forward to the post apocalypse, just so I can build a shack and call it my own. Defend it with some pitchforks and I’m sorted. May the enshittification continue so that one day I may own a home lol
When I was a teenager I was learning German and saving money to go. Disability put a stop to that, it’s not a realistic option now, but I wonder what life would have been like if I had been able to emigrate.
I’m aware that the living costs are also high in Europe. You don’t necessarily get an aged pension as an expat. Jobs could be competitive and social norms difficult. Nowhere is a utopia and it’s likely that wouldn’t have worked out for me.
But you know. Longer term leases and tenants rights. Building standards. Dental. Less of an overt meth problem. You wonder.
I know a bit of German in the hope that I would one day emigrate. Though my reasons for not doing so are different (stupid fat money-sucking ex lol), I still enjoy reading and writing German, and learning. I feel closer to my ancestry by doing so, and it sparked my obsessive fascination with linguists, etymology, and language in general (my current research is Proto-Finnish and other Uralic languages, specifically it’s a bit more recent in that I am learning why they chose a Latin alphabet despite Finnish being entirely unrelated to any PIE language).
What I’m trying to say, sorry, is that we can still pursue the things we enjoy, even if the method of doing so is a bit different due to L I F E.
But yes, one can dream of long term leases and better renter rights, though I heard the AfD has been elected in some states, so I guess no where is safe from the stupid Far/Alt Right
Love this.
Funny, Finnish came up in dinner convo this evening because someone didn’t care for the sound, but I dig it. And the fact I survived a month on Hei and Kiitos is like a highlight. Hehe.
Finland isn’t doing too badly either. Their energy costs went below zero due to so much renewable.
…Damn it. I missed the opportunity to apply for the $250 energy rebate. I set a reminder but put it for August not June. /facepalm
Edit: or did I? It said 2023-2024 so was there another one or did it just close this late? I’m going to set a reminder for May or June next year to remind myself to check
I don’t think there is another State Govt. rebate like the last ones, but there should be a Federal rebate issued through your power bills - $300, split into four $75 dollar rebates applied quarterly to your power bill.
https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/households/help-paying-your-energy-bills/energy-bill-relief-fund
Oh good, that looks like it should be automatic. Thanks. I’ve been having trouble staying on top of stuff like this but it adds up
I have thoughts like this sometimes, but from a different angle. I try not to dwell on them, otherwise I’d become wistful for a dream. There’s nothing wrong with that really, but for me, it hurts.
Government House. I think the photo didn’t load. Here for a friend’s OAM.
All meetings cancelled. Party time 🎉
All meetings finished 💥
Any of you sewing types successfully Re-elasticated a bottom sheet? I suspect attempting such would be economically inefficient and I should rag bag it.
It depends. Is is elastic in a pocket or sewed directly onto the sheet? I’ve done both, rethreading the first type with a safety pin took a while, but the overlocker does a reasonable job on the second.
It’s direct and I don’t have an over locker.
You could just zig zag over the existing elastic.
using zigzag stitch does the same job . It’s tricky to do tho. You need to stretch the elastic while you sew it to the fabric base
Ever met this beastie?
He’s an interesting little fella.
yes I have , they scare me lol My mum used all these weird feet for things like shirring and ruffling, I just use plain feet and use hand tailoring methods to do the same thing
I found a manual for it but am still scared. You can’t unpick those results.
I have a gizmo for that but have never tried it. And a super complicated pleater foot that scares me
I used to do it with just a plain foot and stretch the elastic by hand while sewing it on
Only tried once, and it was at best a very qualified success. Removed all the elastic, hemmed the raw edge and sewed on 2 tie tapes per corner. The problem was adjusting the knots on the tapes when putting the sheet back on the bed. Maybe using a strip of elastic instead of tapes would work? Sorta kinda like the elasticated tapes on a mattress protector sheet. On the plus side, the sheet was very easy to wash and fold once the tapes were untied.
This mattress is way too heavy to tie under! Diagonal elastic corners would be an affordable experiment
Is it something some fitted sheet clips can fix?
Oh! Had not heard of these. Might try them even on newer sheets. Wrinkles near my feet are one of my Things.
Shoot me a message sometime and you can have my sheet clips, they’re not for me. They’re like big suspenders, black ones. They do not spark joy for me.
I find those things a bother.
I definitely now prefer sheets made of spandex, never bunch up under you. So good.
Oh another thing! I’d really want to touch those in person first at that price point though.
Wow, they sound amazing. I have many questions… actually just 4: How do they handle romantic interludes and the various resulting bodily outcomes? Are they sweaty in summer? Do they dry easily after you wash them? Do they stain easily?
Well @[email protected] just killed my attempt at polite
Lol I’m as subtle as a train crash when my diplomacy fails, there is no middle.
I don’t fuck under the covers usually, I couldn’t tell you! But I have spilt chocolate and coffee on them. They look and feel brand new still after a year of washing and machine drying. Seems safe with oxygen bleach.
They aren’t sweaty/hot to me. I sleep hot at the best of times, I think I would have noticed if they make it worse.
I’ve not had the need to air dry them, my guess is they’d be similar to cotton.
Thanks for the info. I sleep hot also and once bought microfiber… ugh. Worst sheets ever. Using a cotton blend atm but the dust and fibres! I change the sheets and make the bed and it looks like I haven’t dusted in weeks!
Somehow, I’m brutal on my sheets. I wear through fitted sheets quickly. I’ve taken to using a heavy linen throw as my base sheet, it seems tough enough to take whatever I’m throwing at it.
Check out W H Amad online - they supply Sheraton Hotels in Australia with all their sheets and linen, and Ronald McDonald House with theirs. The plain white sheets are amazing - lovely strong linen that copes very well with all kinds of abuse. There’s a direct to public shop in Gaffney St Coburg.
Er, May I send you a rather personal question about these?
Sure
Elastic is expensive. Unless it is a nearly new sheet that cost hundreds I wouldn’t
Exactly, the sheet isn’t utterly dead but far from new. Better used as draft fabric me thinks.
I have never but I’d still give it a go. All I’d do is reinforce the corners.
Pet hate, one person who hogs two machines at the gym alternating between the two. Extra penalties for doing it in gym peak hours.
Fuck those people.
Bailed on work early to get to GP appointment. My lovely GP is running behind 30min+ and counting. I need to be elsewhere at 5.45pm. I also parked in the city to make my appointment.
I could have gone home and walked in if I knew. Damnit.
It’s so nice how little my work have for my regard they schedule some randoms to have a meeting in my ‘office’ and not tell me.
So work from home today.
I would just sit in there and carry on working. Perfect time to slurp coffee or tea as loudly as possible.
Lol. Sadly I do not have your shit-stirring abilities.
They do take a while to develop, for real. All the best in dealing with your situation.
And have loud conversations on speaker phone…
with a recruiter!
thats pretty poor!
Par for the course for this place.
so how many items did they steal from your office?
They stole my cubicle walls a few weeks back. Which means no one can see my ‘sometimes I feel like a t-wreck’ with a picture of a sad looking T-rex on there picture. And also my garfield ‘I hate mondays’ picture.
But you still have your stapler?
Jesus christ Milton
