SETTLEMENT COMPLETED
I fucking now own a house
kermit arms
Welcome to the club. Get reading to spend whatever is left of your savings at bunnings Edit: OH! And sorry, just a heads up. At least 2 of the following will fail in the next 12 months. No your house is not cursed. No one can explain WHY it happens: Hotplates, Hot water unit, Oven, Dishwasher, or a shower leak.
Bunnings is a danger, but I’ll be walking distance to Poynton’s which could be worse 😝
in our case it was the goddamn extractor fan for the kitchen and the ducted heating flame sensor.
Ha! Dishwasher (leaked and went kaput) and shower leaks here
Congrats! All that stress and anxiety over the process has paid off.
Congratulations!!
Congrats 🎉🥂🍾
HUZZAHHHHHH!!! Congratulations!!!
Congrats! When do you move in?
Next Thurs for the truck
We’ll have to have a special Catfish moving day party I reckon.
Goodness knows what that might look like ?!
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
Buy a plunger (if you don’t have one).
We do, but there are better ones
Congratz!
Congrats!!! I’m at the other end of the process and I’m about to have my first meeting with my mortgage broker so I’m terrified.
So much paperwork! Watch out for car spaces being on a second title.
HELL YESSSS FANTASTIC!!
Congrats!!!
Woo! 🏡🎉
🥳
Party time and celebrations!
I think it’s time for a big feast!
ALL THE CELEBRATING 🎉🎈🥳
WAHOOO!!!
like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4810hS8weQ
congrats 🙂
Woohoo! 🥂🍾
Hi everyone, long time no see :-)
I’ve been absent for a bit - I think I crashed a bit after Covid, but I am alive and well and getting back on track.
It’s good to hear from you! I was worried you’d joined the many who have departed for one reason or another. I hope you’re able to take things easy for a while.
It was a bit weird - I thought I was better, but I just couldn’t be bothered doing anything. Then I actually got better and realised I hadn’t actually been completely well after all! A bit like having a dream that you woke up, and then actually waking up.
fuck covid, I swear the covid fog made me paranoid and feeling like I had dementia when I wasn’t freaking out
I did get one good symptom - it killed my appetite for a while, and whilst it has come back it is currently still just at a fairly normal level instead of the weird constant peri-menopausal super hunger I’ve had for ages. I’m hoping it lasts as long as possible, it might actually be possible for me to lose some of my excessive weight - I’ve already lost enough that my clothes are fitting properly again.
Welcome back!
Welcome hooome!
Good to see you back again!
🥰💋
Omg raven!!! Thank goodness you’re okay!!! 💜💜💜💜 I’m so glad to see you back!! 😭💜💜💜
Thank you. It is nice to know I’ve been missed 🙂
It’s good to hear from you!
🥂
Welcome back!
Great to see you back!
yay, happy to see you again 😘 good to hear you are getting better
Yaaaay! ✋🏼
The toilet paper nest is a platform for attacks lol
The TP Goddess protects and defends her soft, papery realm with the undying power of the M U R D E R M I T T E N S
Thankfully they were trimmed very recently. But the teef do much more damage lol
Tonight’s wave with a bonus drop on the lens.
Completely empty beach again.
that’s really awesome 🙂
cheers
Had a long day so broke my 2025 rule of no grog on a weeknight and shouted myself a little wine and hour looking at the waves. Such a beautiful evening
I approve of this!
🥂
looks like heaven
I love when the government calls on a private number and asks me to confirm my name, DOB, address, etc. “Absolutely not, I have no way of confirming who you are”. They seem shaken by the response. Given their atrocious security protocol there’s no way I’m giving a private number any of that info.
We recently had to do this as part of a campaign. First thing I would say to the person on the other side ‘If you’re not comfortable confirming this, please email the address provided with the correspondence’.
I completed all my calls in about 15 minutes and fobbed the work onto the team that was monitoring the inbox.
Such a stupid way of doing things
Happened all the time when I worked for the SRO doing outbounds haha. I was always like, “fair enough! When you get a letter saying you owe X* tax, call us on the number on the letter then!” 😂
*X in place of payroll/investment home tax lol, not the actual figure/amount!
I have rediscovered Legend from 1985. Ridley Scott, Tom Cruise, Tim Curry, and an unimaginable quantity of glitter thrown at wind machines. 3/5 unicorn farts
Made it down the bellarine today. Had a subsurface leak last Monday (blehg) so all the watering was off. Good thing I did go as the chillies were looking a bit sad. But interestingly the patio flowers didn’t flinch.
Was expecting worse than that.
That’s beautiful!
Looking great 👍🏼
I have been touched by the sun, also, it’s generally not a good idea to bring crabs home.
day out looking at houses and walking on the beach has been attained
😺
I took photos
there was a Great Egret near the yacht club,
and some burrows on the beach where crabs live
and a boring pic of stripes
I got a bit more news. For the morbidly curious I guess.
More Sad Stuff
turns out she had too many genetic faults, Nothing anyone could have done. She wasnt in pain. Thank Christ. I was terrified her previous owner had abused her or we’d failed her in some way. The rescue wont tell us what the vet bill costs so they are just getting a donation in her memory.
Sounds like you gave a kitty with a pre-set bad life a few moments of kindness.
Mmmm. Wish we coulda done more. Guess it just proves how short life can be.
That’s rough. Poor little girl. At least she was receiving care and indoors. For the short time she had she was fed and loved
Oh yeah in her final days she was surrounded by love and fellow kittens. Lets be real we’d all be so lucky to leave this earth in the same fashion
I’m glad you know the cause and know that you did your best for the little soul.
yeah I makes it a lot more tolerable that she always had a finite amount of time and all that could be done was done. makes the time we spent all the more precious.
<3
You absolutely did the best you could for that poor soul. Bless you and MrsBreak and the rescue place for giving these suffering little beings some joy and love in their short lives. It’s a true mark of human decency
Alright references are about to be completed.
🎶Re-sig-nation time, COME ON!
🎵do do do-do-do
🎶It’s time for a resignation!
Are you resigned to your fate?
🎶 so shove your bad times and your workload too🖕🎶
Yay, you’re nearly there!
Come onnnnnnnnnn!!! My fingers, toes and eyes are crossed here!!!
Congratulations!! I’m waiting for my offer shortly as well. Referees did their bit yesterday.
Woop woop!!
Good luck. 🤞
gonna do it to their face? Or send an email and wait for them to come over?
To their face. My old manager is still here and I would prefer to speak to her in person.
any chance of retribution/revenge by them?
They have no one to replace me. So they did it to themselves.
I have a few weeks to “hand off” to someone. Not sure who that is though.
I feel bad for a couple of clients and my work mates because this fucks them. But I tried my best.
That’s awesome. It’s going to feel so satisfying
Okay so I’ve always had this problem with the hot water tap in the shower where if you turn it far right enough it turns on again and goes to full blast (not an analogy for conspiracy theorists, I promise). I have usually been able to turn it to just the right point to get it to stop running without starting again.
However as of the last 3 days or so the showerhead has been dripping incessantly and getting worse and worse. Right now it’s a constant trickle. Even if I turn off the tap as much as possible and turn the shower head upside down.
I tried to turn it off completely at the mains and IT STILL WONT TURN OFF (and I can see it’s my meter for sure as when I have the tap running I can see the mini meter spinning).update: I was an idiot and turned the mains tap the wrong way, it took a lot of turning to go completely off but I managed to shut it down thankfully.This is beyond an attempt to DIY fix the shower tap, right? Contact the REA asap instead? The main bother is the dripping at night as I can’t sleep (E: not without turning off hot water at the mains each time). Nobody’s charged me for hot water so far so that’s not the issue … It would be costing the owner a lot though I imagine
E: email sent. Making it sound as dire as possible. Basically either I have increasing dripping or no hot water. I hope they get someone in asap, but it’s the same REA who didn’t even respect the law and tried to arrange an inspection 2 months into a 6 month lease, so…
Definitely contact someone and don’t try to tackle it yourself (just in case). I’m no expert but there could be something wrong that could go sideways and result in difficulty turning off a strong flow
A tap shouldn’t full circle like that in the first place. It’s a safety hazard. You could probably DIY it, but what are you paying the bastards for?
If it was minor it would be the kind of thing I figured would keep me on their good enough side if I fixed it myself (lease ends in mid May with potential for extension and I really do need it for just 1-2 extra months).
But the fact that even turning off the hot water at the mains did nothing has me worried
Contact the REA for sure. It may classify as an urgent repair even, per the tenantsvic website:
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Specifically:
- A failure or breakdown of any essential service or appliance provided for water, hot water, cooking, heating or doing laundry
- A failure or breakdown in any appliance or fitting supplied by the rental provider that will result in a large amount of water being wasted
Link: https://tenantsvic.org.au/advice/common-problems/repairs/
This is great to know. I wasn’t sure it counted as urgent repair but I will definitely be making that clear to them now. The leaking is pretty bad now, I think all my tap turning has made it worse. I may have to put a towel in the bathtub to soak up the water so I can sleep at night.
Shit timing though, idk how long to wait before getting my own plumber and trying to get LL to reimburse
I believe on that website, the REA has to have it repaired ASAP! No waiting period, only waiting for as long as it takes for the LL/REA to get a plumber
If they don’t do it in a reasonably timely manner, then you can take them to VCAT, in which it will be heard within 2 business days and/or get a plumber yourself and have the REA reimburse you. But the tenantsvic website should lay it all out for you in regards to your rights and reimbursement
Thank you thank you thankyou. Good update is I managed to turn off the hot water at the source, like an idiot I had turned the knob the wrong way around. At least I can sleep tonight. Took video of dripping shower head and faulty tap mechanism and will hope for the best
Changing guitar strings around Gibson is fraught with danger for everyone involved
Ha! Try lacing a corset.
The pull strings of a hoodie 😭
The useless strings on my pyjama pants as I stumble back to bed after my midnight wee are often captured by a single hooked claw on my way past the end of the bed.
Oh god yes!
that’s what hooks and eyes are for
Got some crap news last night.
Very Sad don't read if your not up to it
The animal rescue reached out to us the other week to ask if we’d noticed anything wrong with Jill (the rescue kitten). Apparently she had some balance issues or trouble using a back leg. We were sort of steeling ourselves that she might come back to us (we told them if she had any trouble finding a home she was always welcome with us.) They were talking her to the vet to get checked over.
We hadn’t heard anything so followed up yesterday only to find she didnt make it. She passed shortly after we spoke to them the other week. They dont know exactly what was wrong, but she apparently had some issues. We are shattered. She wasnt even our cat but… fuck man. just… fuck.
You gave her the best you could mate. I’m sorry to hear what’s happened ❤️
Oh that is so sad. Many many hugs. I’ve been watching their lists waiting for her to pop up! But she had warmth, comfort, food and peace which she would not have had without you.
same! I even set up a damn facebook again. I was so excited seeing those guys adopted last week but was starting to get a bit worried. I thought maybe they’d renamed her or something. but yeah. Guess we were her last home.
Sorry to hear that 🫂
I’m sorry. You did the best you could. You took her in and kept her safe, gave her a chance she wouldn’t have otherwise had. She passed warm and safe while being cared for.
That’s so sad. I’m so sorry.
So sorry. Such a massive hurt when you try to do the right thing and it still goes pear-shaped. Hugs for all concerned.
That’s awful I’m so sorry!
They’re so fragile at her age, but know you did everything you could for her. Grieve for as long as you need, friend 💜
Oh man. Should not have read. Much sympathy 🖤
Melbcat hid from me when I came back in the room after giving her meds :( She got over it quickly and is cuddling again but that’s the first time she’s ever acted scared of me. (I’ve never hurt her.)
She’s perked up a lot and seems to be feeling better on everything so I think it’s all working. It just sucks that the routine she’s currently on is full on and stressful (not helped by her refusing to eat medicated food like before).
I hope that when the antibiotics are done she starts eating her usuals in wet food again so she only has to drink one med once a day.
It might be a weirdly good thing she’s hiding from you; she’s getting better and so has the energy for doing so. If she was still so utterly sick, she might not have the energy to hide, I’d take it as a sign the med routine is working! Plus, it sounds like you’ve been forgiven very easily, she certainly, without a doubt, trusts and loves you!
You’re taking wonderful care of her! I’m so happy to hear she’s feeling more herself! 💜
Thanks. She’s definitely feeling better. She’s walking around, washing herself, curious about things and hungry for treats. Her fur looks good and her eyes more normal.
I think she knows I would never hurt her. She’s just overwhelmed by the current hardcore meds regime. Still sucks to see her anxious.
