• PeelerSheila
    14·
    11 days ago

    Was given the day off today (didn’t want it, or tomorrow, but we’re quiet ATM) so I thought I’d make the best of it by using uneaten strawberries to make jam. It’s still cooling but it seems ok. Also waffles

  • CEOofmyhouse56
    14·
    11 days ago

    My kid is going camping with friends this weekend which is a little sad because the dog will miss her but gee it’s gonna be one hellva party when she goes.

  • StudSpud The StarchyEnglish
    13·
    11 days ago

    Idk about any of you. But $35 to get into the Royal Melb Show to pat and feed the sheep and goats was 100% worth the price of admission.

    The piglets, deer, llamas, and rabbits were just so dang cute

    photos

    black/white piglets under a heat lamp

    dwarf lop rabbits huddled together sleeping.

    a brown llama and a white llama

    • PeelerSheila
      4·
      11 days ago

      Aww man 🥰 I’ll have to make sure I take the kids and go next year 🤞🏼

      • Seagoon_OP
        3·
        11 days ago

        https://royalshow.com.au/

        It’s on until Oct 6 but it is terribly expensive. Best to bring your own lunch and snacks and look at all the animals and other competitions.

        • StudSpud The StarchyEnglish
          3·
          11 days ago

          Yeah, we got Tix for 35 bc we both have Health Care Cards. Otherwise it is exxy as. Still is.

          Didn’t get any food there, but did buy some coffees, checked out all the animals (ag shed, petting/feeding the animals) and went into most buildings. Got a show bag for Mickey, because they had a cat one, and he loves his new wand toy. And I bought a little cat ring heheh. Hopped on two rides. No regrets, and today was a good day as it wasn’t too crowded at all.

      • StudSpud The StarchyEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        They didn’t say what breed they were, but I reckon they’re mini lops. You can tell by their size (a bit bigger than a guinea pig), and their ears are ‘loppy’ hence the name. Dwarf lops are bigger versions (like what PeelerSheila posted). They’re super common pets because they’re very friendly and docile.

        I couldn’t believe they had actual deer! I did end up getting a photo of one!

        a spotted deer

  • wscholermann
    13·
    11 days ago

    “The real concern driving CEO resistance is the fact that remote work involves a previously unthinkable change in the way productive activity is structured and organised. If workers can do without the physical presence of managers, perhaps they don’t need managers at all, at least in the way they currently operate. The eagerness of CEOs and other senior managers to wish these changes away suggests that, at some level, they realise this.”

        • StudSpud The StarchyEnglish
          5·
          11 days ago

          “And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth!”

          She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad.

          “I pass the test”, she said. “I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel.”

          Or

          “In place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth!”

          Idk which I prefer 😭😭

          • bacon
            3·
            11 days ago

            you take the book i take the movies

  • Catfish
    10·
    11 days ago

    Moar dinosaurs! I don’t expect to win Ace of Cakes, but pretty happy so far.

    cake decoration prep

  • wscholermann
    9·
    11 days ago

    Sometimes I think about running away to a foreign country and starting again with a completely clean slate.

    Circumstances of late have forced me to think about old jobs and the horrible things I went through and it’s quite triggering.

    • PeelerSheila
      7·
      11 days ago

      Sounds like you’ve got a lot of the past to let go of. Speaking as someone who dragged the past around like an anchor for far too long. Even if you were to go overseas, you can’t escape from you. I hope you can one day find a way to let go of it.

      • wscholermann
        5·
        11 days ago

        It’s weird. Sometimes I’m good for 12 months, then something yanks me back.

    • StudSpud The StarchyEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      Negative experiences (shit job, shit family, shit friends, trauma, abuse, etc) will cause triggers to manifest naturally, it’s the brain ‘misfiring’ doing risk assessments and memory recollection, similar to the way ptsd works. Something in the world reminds you of that time, and your brain treats it like a new threat rather than a memory, even though it is just a memory.

      You can run away across the seas, but you will still have your brain reacting to triggers.

      It may help to recentre yourself by reminding yourself of what you have achieved, your goals, that you are not ‘there’ anymore. That you have come so far despite your past experiences, and fuck those times where you were in a hard place. You persevered and you are succeeding.

      Sorry for the rant and possible lack of help this supplies 😬

      • wscholermann
        3·
        11 days ago

        I think once certain things are resolved which at this stage looks like will take six months to resolve it will be better.