Well DT, I got the place… and at the original rent no less (thanks, sloppy REAs!). Payment has gone through so it’s official.
I’m relieved but also… now that it’s real my heart is also filled with incredible, crushing sadness. I know it’s going to be good for me to downsize and cull and open up my life to new options but I am so, so, sad to have to let go of my comforts here under such ugly circumstances. I can’t even bear to look at my plants, it breaks my heart. Such is life though, isn’t it. Change does not always happen the way we want it to. (and this isn’t by far the worst experience I’ve had having to leave a house)
My plan for tonight is to just make a meta-list of tasks so that I don’t feel too overwhelmed, but after that I’m going to just let the emotions flow through and watch an episode of Shrinking and take it easy. No stiffer up lip tonight. The work will start tomorrow. I know I’ll get through this, there is joy on the other side. ❤️🩹
I can’t even bear to look at my plants
Honestly again I’m more than happy to look after them in the interim until they either follow you and/or for when you find them a new home (I promise I won’t eat them).
Second this!
I appreciate the offer! But many are not long for this world anyway (biannuals/annuals that i didn’t bother replacing).
I’ve got several offers of good homes for the big plants from friends and colleagues (helps when most of them are into plants heh). Could even take the manzano to the office courtyard. I’m pretty fond of that lil dude
Glad there’s a plan it’s such a roller coaster with plants :)
As difficult as it is, it really is such good news. 🖤
Oh kitten 😿 let it out and be free
so many hugs
I’m so glad to hear you were able to get a place but sad for your plants.
I’d offer to take them up but I’ve have not had a good time with plants myself and I’m sure they don’t like me back due to neglect.
Celebrate tonight and over the weekend.
I hope you’re able to sleep better now that you don’t have to worry about a place.
Sending you my love, I am glad that you have a place to move to.
I’m sorry about your plants, it’s difficult to let go, especially when the circumstances are so lame. But there will be a time when you will have plants again to pour your love and care into. This is a temporary stop on your journey, and you have already proven yourself to be capable, intelligent, and motivated. Trust yourself, you are awesome.
Wherever you end up, you’re always always welcome in the DT here. And we’ll always be here rooting for you and waving our flags for you 💜
Here’s to a new chapter for you. 🥂
What kind of plants and what sort of setup? (Not asking for anything doxable, just an idea of what you could be working with in the new place.)
There’s a lot of creative ways to have plants, even ones that are just indoor plants. There are also small hydroponic indoor garden kits that could fit on a bench top or windowsill for herbs, bonsai, or air plants.
(I’m so sorry, I’m not good with emotional support and tend to be a fixer but I understand if this is not helpful or wanted)
Congratulations!
Im sorry it’s such a big change. Having some time to let it out can be incredibly cathartic
We’ve decided to campervan around NZ. There will be a luxury hotel at the end.
Picked up a half chicken and chips and the cats loooooooove me right now
Bribe:
Oh, she likes you!
She’s a good one :) Just need cheese though or all bets are off.
What a great shot!
I just could not be fucked going out to get some beer, so I found some vodka, plopped some ice in it, and a bit of orange juice.
This is acceptable
Instead of November, our can-do attitude says YESvember
Chief, next month is YEScember! This month is MOREvember! Didn’t you see the email? Cos all the promo material is already at the design consultants.
Are the consultants paid by hour and how does our budget look? (Sounding way too sane to be a CEO)
Consultants are paid out of your budget. I’m just letting you know as a public service and to build community goodwill.
Yes yes, the community will be excited to be receiving more work, longer hours!
It’s FriYAY the 1st of YESvember!
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Don’t forget it’s Movember too, so if you have a couple of dollars to spare please support this worthy cause and laugh at the hilarity of some people try to pull off a tache all month!
Can do = bin putting in
Oh I’ve got a slot next Thursday at 8:15pm at Lyrebird lounge again if anyone feels like hanging out :)
Will get there if I can. I like your music.
The highest compliment :)
It was a pleasure meeting you!
Count me in! You were so fucking awesome last time, and I was rapt for you when those strangers gave you praise for your set after! That was so damn cool!
I wouldn’t miss it :D
That’s incredibly kind of you :)
I’ll be honest, that whole night made me feel the best I’ve felt in a really, really long time.
The same goes to you!
It was a pleasure to meet everyone and have a nice chat about stuff.
It was really nice to meet you mate, and very appreciative that you came along :)
Really going to try and make it to that one :)
No stress at all mate, see how you go :)
Oh damn I’ll be out of town. Next time!
In Ripponlea? I thought you were a Westie these days?
Oh yeah it’s a mission and a half to get there lol
If you can get a gig in the west or north I’ll be there.
Done deal! There’s a place in fawkner I’m looking at that has open mic every week.
Do a Drunken Poet set and I will be there with knobs on
Shit yeah.
Count down til xmas when the young Seagoons come to back to Aust and stay with me for a month 🐱
Ted better behave.
He loves them and is a little angel for them. 👼
About to walk to the shops down here on the foreshore and I reckon I’ll get 13 ‘hellos’ Gonna count that shit then when I get back to melbs in a few days going to say hello to randos and I’m going to compare how miserable we all are.
I’d say G’day to ya then I’d wonder who the fuck was that for the rest of the day.
Heh that’s the funny thing down here you’d think why the fuck didn’t they say hello back.
If one does not reciprocate then one must say it a bit louder and a bit more aggressive.
I miss that from when I lived in the country.
😂 I just realised last week that I didn’t have to do that crappy xmas dinner in July shitty deal. MIL#1 really wanted me to cook a xmas dinner and have all the celebration but without presents. So last year I did, I made a lovely three course xmas dinner then made everyone watch two different Scrooge movies so they truly understood the meaning of xmas. They did not expect to celebrate the meaning of xmas, they just wanted a fancy dinner and to be fashionable. They did not like the Scrooge. They have never mentioned xmas in winter/July again. 😄
Glowing quarterly feedback. Hooray
yay 🍻
Yay!
It might be radioactive be careful
In the news today: It’s official. Pauline Hanson is a racist.
I nearly made a post about it - but I decided it wasn’t actually news to anyone.Today? She always has been… I thought this was well known to everyone thats ever heard a word leave her mouth.
Now she’s legally defined as one XD
it bothers me how when she first started she was mocked for being a woman, for being a red head, for being working class, for having a working class business
and then people wonder why she got votes 🙄
few people reported on or cared what she was saying, nor that what she was saying was normal LNP party policy
there are few good guys in that whole fucking drama
dont really need a ruling to confirm that. I’d call her a c word, but that seems an insult to genitals.
Lacks the warmth and depth. She’s a douche. Claims to fix a problem that doesn’t exist and is actively harmful
I do wonder if she did good potato cakes though (not that’d I’d buy one but I’d eat it if it was free).
It isn’t, but it’s like when you have someone that everyone knows has ADHD who finally gets a diagnosis. It’s good for everyone that it’s finally on record and they can get the support they need.
Actually I don’t know if that last bit will happen for Pauline 🤔
Have you been living under a rock since she came on the scene before I was born 😂 she’s always been a piece of shit racist lol
why are you making shit up, I never said I agreed or supported her
I am saying how she was reported and what the public response was
it pissed me off how the LNP lied when they said they weren’t racist and that Hanson doesn’t represent them, she exposed them all as being racist. She was originally a LNP candidate.
Hanson was quoting the policies in the members handbook the LNP gave her
the racist LNP were angry at her for exposing their hidden racism, the city middle class mocked her , this is such a fucking classist country
the news did not focus on her racism and nativism, just her class
I hated Fraser but at least he wasn’t a racist cunt like Howard and the rest
Um, I’m sorry Seagoon. I wasn’t replying to you, I apologise if I said something wrong
Sorry. 😔
I’m sorry too! For the record, I actually agree with everything you wrote in that reply though. But Pauline is also a racist 😂
dont think Stud was replying to you on this one.
It’s PS5 niiiiiight. I’m so fucking lame lol
Don’t say the word “lame” around Cup weekend.
How dare you call nerds lame
Excuse me, it is lower decks night. And you are not lame.
Thank you for your vote of support :)
I kinda forgot till a little earlier. Come here Final Fantasy Rebirth!!!
FF16 is really good too! dunno if youve played it yet.
FFXIV is where it’s at, thousands of hours have been played personally.
For the thousands we have played, and the thousands we have yet to play.
Ah, it’s frustrating that I loved Heavensward and Shadowbringers the most. Will also still put in those many more thousands of hours yet to play though! And nice to meet a fellow player, hopefully we’ll randomly match in a roulette and you can watch me YOLO tank haha
I started playing just before Endwalker came out so I basically played everything through together all the way through to the Endsinger, so didn’t really have proper separation through any part of it. Dawntrail is my first experience of playing a single expansion at a time (and it sucks, I want to mainline more MSQ dammit, none of this waiting another 2 years for a new expansion!)
I main healer so I’ll get to keep you alive if you YOLO tank 😊
I did last year before I sold my old ps5.
The story was fucking amazing. Wish the combat outside of the massive fights was a but more interesting.
If it had the new ff7 combat it would have been probably my fave game of all time.
Pfft. If you’re lame I’m lame but to fix that we’re certainly not lame!
Its perfect normal!
I’m spending the weekend filling holes i spent the past month digging, redefine lame
I got some cans of cat food from the food cupboard this arvo - diet chicken mousse that someone else’s cat presumably didn’t like. Miss Meow seems enthusiastic about it so that’s definitely a win.
Someone smells like they’ve bathed themselves in aftershave today and it stinks, I don’t know how they walk around without knowing how bad and strong it smells.
I feel like my senses are being assaulted, let the day end quickly!
I once used lynx africa on a tram and still feel guilty.
I was once in a lift with someone wearing lynx and am still scarred
so you should
Better than smelling like BO!
The ones I haaaate are the girls who get on a crowded tram and proceed to spray themselves with perfume. A known hazard of Friday pm public transport. Or anytime on trams that pass a secondary school.
has flashbacks to Impulse in the post-PE girls’ changing rooms
walking past or through a department store makes me heady
Remember when they used to spray everyone going through Myer?
so many stinky people out there
the way to do perfume
spray 3 short spritzes in the air and walk thru the cloud
after shave, put a few sprinkles on your hands and dab gently on all the shaved areas of your face. It’s an antiseptic.
way to do perfume:
TINY. DABS.
Remember it’s supposed to entice someone to come closer, to put their face near your neck to sniff that intriguing scent. They should not be able to smell you fifteen minutes after you left the fucking room, it defeats the purpose
About once a decade I find a perfume I like, and doesn’t turn into catpee once on my skin. Then they discontinue it
another issue is are people using cologne or parfum? So easy to use too much parfum and that’s why I use cologne. I also make sure I do the same amount every time because I don’t trust my nose.
Swarms of teenage boys on a bus are one of my worst smell issues
depends. have they showered in the last few hours?
I think people smell other people stronger than they smell themselves.
Someone else noticed it too so it isn’t just me.
I also wear odourless roll ons so it’s not me.
I find the unscented or ‘sensitive’ antiperspirants aren’t as effective which is unfortunate. Really hate that they changed the Mitchum roll on.
I currently use it anyway because the other unscented options aren’t good and it’s better than accidental perfume cloud
I went with the Nivea women’s sensitive roll on, It seems to be working so far the last 2 months I’ve been using it but it’ll probably get a workout during summer.
I do find that it doesn’t irritate me though which is good.
I don’t seem to get much mileage out of women’s stuff. I go for men’s roll ons and either unscented or something that doesn’t really carry
Oh ok, I used to use the Dove anti irritant one but I didn’t like the smell because is smelled like smoke, didnt like it and it was strong.
Same deal here. Friend recommended the Mitchum one but then they changed it.
I think they changed it in 2014, still mad about it
For sure.
