The second emoji is what came up when I typed in meeting.

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    Had one hell of a psych session… big emotions. Good session but the kind that you need to sit down and process for 30 minutes afterwards. I had thought I might pack my shoes and some other stuff tonight but it isn’t happening. It’s been a big week and more to come with the real move coming up.

    I am not being lazy or weak, I am pacing myself 👍

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      19 hours ago

      Go you for attending the psych session! Good attitude, put your feet up and relax a bit. You deserve it!!!

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      I was just thinking to myself today that no one starts or does everything at the same time. And starts are the hardest as learning curves are real and take a lot of work. Life naturally just spaces itself out with different demands happening at different times. Systems are set up at different times, skills learnt at different times.

      Life is naturally paced. That’s how people can do so much .

      It’s how I did it as a teen even. Got some education. Got a job. Moved out. Did more education. One big start at a time.

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    17 hours ago

    After many phone calls tonight I can now finally have dinner.

    Watching some shows then I’ll hit the sack.

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    19 hours ago

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo!!!

    spoiler

    I forgot to buy cheese on the way home from work. My life is over

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    Melbcat has been wrangled for her meds… she’s forgiven me and is now curled up as the little spoon

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    18 hours ago

    Friend I met up with today said she doesn’t drive because her ex crashed into a tree after she broke up with him and thought it was her fault. But she has spoken to me about driving on the ring road with her dad and driving to her sport practice. It’s just that she needs a ride whenever I go out with her. Another friend wants me to pick up her too good to go box which is a 10 minute drive away. I feel iffy about saying yes because she constantly asks me to check if things are in stock for her at my work and asked me to help jump-start her car because she had no one else. I don’t mind doing a nice thing for a friend, but I just feel like these people are using me.

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      18 hours ago

      hmmm, that all sounds a bit like emotionally manipulative bullshit on their part.

      Politely decline and see what happens.

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        18 hours ago

        She’s manipulative just like her ex was. I will not be driving her anymore. The other friend is also a user.

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          Good for you! I’ve let people use me in the past and it wasted a lot of my time and energy for nothing.

          Less than nothing actually. Because they actively made my life worse.

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            18 hours ago

            Gosh that’s horrible. I guess if anything, it goes to show that you have a kind heart.

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          I must be getting old but I just can’t stand that bs anymore.

          And you aren’t even giving genuinely needed help, you’re a convenience and that’s different.

          They can walk or get a bus or get uber. Asking for a lift , I can’t even imagine it. Unless it’s hospital and even then I would expect them to make an effort.

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            Exactly, I never ask anyone for a lift because I always feel so bad. But these people have absolutely no problem doing so. As a child, my mum was very paranoid about safety and was a SAHM so I had the privilege of being driven around, and expected that I was meant to do the same thing for others.

            I know people aren’t raised the same way, and not everyone has the same level of agreeableness. It still just baffles me.

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      17 hours ago

      Yeah, I learned never do for another person what they can do for themselves :(

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    Made a thread for tomorrow.

    The friend who I’m picking up the food for is going to give me some food and I might ask her about GitHub to attempt to make a bot.

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      I’ve been looking into an RSS bot for here and it seems doable. There are options for creating posts, pinning them, and unpinning posts.

      My biggest problem is getting docker to work

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    22 hours ago

    Got my payslip.

    Picking up the car on my birthday Saturday!

    It’s all coming up millhouse!

    Also, a story in 2 photos:

    Then meowing for my to get her down…

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      20 hours ago

      You softy. I would put a tin of salmon on the floor and walk away.

    • Eagle
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      22 hours ago

      I have an understanding, but no words.

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        21 hours ago

        Watching her scale the security door with claws out, hanging for a bit, then doing the mad jump to the top of the door is nuts.

        And all in 30 seconds from a standing start lol

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          21 hours ago

          She’s so strong! Look at her mighty form up on high, surveying her kingdom and her silly ape-slave… Who, coincidentally, will assist her dismount from her tightrope-throne!

          Praise Be Gibson 🙌🏼

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          I don’t know how they don’t hurt their claws on the screen doors, but mine have been known to do the same!

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            The pitiful ‘I’m stuck’ mews, then they do it again 20 seconds after being rescued

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              17 hours ago

              Nothing will ever beat the defeated look Gibson gives me when she gets wrapped up in a plastic bag and needs me to help her 🤣

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            TIL that cat claws are an appendage of the paw bone structure. Completely unlike humans whose nails are a part of skin structure.

            That’s why cats can support their body weight with claws.

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    Ah man… I probably shouldn’t push myself physically. I risk injury and the pain and fatigue lasts for days.

    I just get bored you know? I wish I could just get motivated to do art or keep learning languages. But nope. All the energy goes to surviving and then I just turn to the net and social media for mental stimulation.

    I remember when I didn’t even have social media and was just… completely self sufficient. That’s when I was a lot more able to be physically active though

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      I used to read many more books.

      And truthfully, if it weren’t for the dt and you beautiful people here I wouldn’t be on social media at all.

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    Trying to play financial seer since our fixed mortgage term is up in December and we’re trying to work out if we should lock in a two or five year rate in case it all goes to shit.

    Musks antics are not helping

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    18 hours ago

    TIL The Cure has been around for nearly 50 years 🤯

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        I haven’t really paid attention. I have a few albums, mostly old ones.

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    Went shopping with friend who wants to rebuild my wardrobe. Bought nothing but she bought some cheap earrings, only to leave the bag of them on the bus. I followed the bus in the car and she ran to get her earrings.

    Shopping is exhausting. Very lucky to have such a first world problem. But I hate shopping centres and browsing.

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      There is a special Hell for people who think bra shopping is fun

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          Wait until you have to buy bras for other people. This is a whole new dimension of not fun. Did that while my late bloke was working in Timor Leste for the army as a contractor just after the fighting stopped. The army women found that they couldn’t buy bras locally due to size and durability issues - like, a bra would last for a month or two at most and were usually far too small. And the uniform issue ones were truly horrible to wear if you were a generous size and even those were in short supply. So my bloke asked me to buy up bras at Vic market and send them up to Timor Leste. I’d get a list of sizes and had to find as many as possible to those specs. Then the fun times of arranging postage …

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        It sounds fun, but my wife has never taken me along.
        Yes, she hates bra shopping.

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    23 hours ago

    Surprise! 1st strawberry from the patch this season. Was watering and thought… hmmmm… something red is hiding there. 🍓

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    Went to pick up some extra food for a few days and came across some bargains

    3kg bag of oranges for 5 dollars and a bag with 4 bunches of chinese broccoli or something for 2 bucks.

    Felt like I made off like a bandit and has left me fairly happy with myself.

    Also this afternoon was way smoother with almost no hassles compared to yesterday’s drama.

    Edit: I also grabbed some red wine and pink moscato.

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      21 hours ago

      Orange juice freezes spectacularly jsyk. I like to make ice cubes

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        I’ll probably just end up eating them.

        They’re fairly big oranges and I lack a juicer too.

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          Always worth having a little jug juicer for citrus, but delicious oranges are delicious

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          Chop them in half across the equator, let the cut surfaces dry a bit then sprinkle with sugar and put under the grill until the sugar melts and goes a bit brown. Eat with a spoon. It’s the perfect antidote to a rich heavy meal. Thank me later.

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            I’ll bookmark this for later. I hadn’t considered that option before and am a little curious about it now.

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          Cutting them in half and whacking with a mallet is good enough for brewing juice…,

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              Well yes, but if you do it in minimal attire in a bathtub you might get secondary income as well as home brew

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                I’m not sure I’ll recoup the cost of a mallet from that alone.

                Might be a bust.