Maya says hello
Maya waves languid paw in our general direction.
Maya is beautiful 😍
She looks like an Egyptian goddess 🐈⬛
I love her already.
Queenly look
Like Nefertiti
Happy Friday Maya 🍺
Hello
Oh she is just stunning!!
Hello grumpy miss 😽
Kitty!!
Hi Maya! 😻
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Mickey is sending you all good vibes 💜
If you let Mickey go, I will end you.
I never let him go, he leaves my lap of his own accord - usually with a good kick to the boob as a farewell ha
That look on Mickey is so priceless and comfy.
He often will paw at the hem of my oodie so I let him in haha, other times he just jumps up and gets comfy as lol
Honestly It’s so cute, that picture of Mickey is wallpaper worthy!
Mickey squints likes he’s judging me and is unimpressed.
I promise, he is very impressed with us all! 💜😂
Tell Mickey that the smear on my jumper is indeed Vegemite cos I sniffed it to make sure.
Meow 😻
Fuck. Looks like the body corp is trying to bill us for things from before transfer. Repugnant amount of adulting & paperwork incoming. I need a squishy hug.
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Naw thanks
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I’ve got pretty nice arms but I hate my beak🎶
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Moar teddies!
I have been setting up the bookcases and this includes Miss Seagoon’s books that she wants to keep from when she was little. One of the books when she was about 2 was The Winter Bear and I bought her a special little handmade bear for her to hold while we read this book together.
Winter Bear wears a little bead sash Miss Seagoon made when she was older and he lives on the bookcase.
Here he is. 💖
I’m not familiar with the book but Winter Bear looks like a fantastic friend. 🧸
🙂 He is very little, small enough for a very little girl to cuddle and play with.
This is so sweet. Thank you for sharing Winter Bear with us!
Half a glass of wine and I’m commenting on everything, sorry not sorry.
6 beers in, 4 shots of soju, the night is young. 🎤
I think we’re about dead even.
Are you playing music?
I’m cooking pasta bake
Yum. Good enough.
I’ve got soju chilling in the fridge ready for soju cocktails, aww yisss. Time for some Expedition 33 before I’m too far down the drinks list.
Soju cocktails? Tell me more? We drink it in shots. The Korean guy at work says flavoured soju is for the girls. Lol.
I listened to this podcast where they talked about a couple in this Korean divorce court show. The husband had a major drinking problem, and he would drink bottles of soju a day.
Soju is lethal
Soju is crazy. It’s the kick of full bodied wine with none of the mouth feel so often we don’t realise how insanely strong it is. Boyo was surprised his soju cocktail was 3.4 standars drinks.
We drink it in shots as well, but we went to a Korean place that did cocktails. Our fav is Lychee soju with Lemonade and cranberry juice. They used a whole bottle of soju in it!
I like the lychee. Might have to do this. Thanks.
I don’t think you’ve had enough.
Here you go.
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Bottle of soju later, think I’m ready for more. Whatcha reccomend?
I would have gone apple cider. My favourite.
Chilly walk
Really enjoying seeing the world through your lens, you have a cool perspective.
I saw what you did there.
Thanks 👍
Actually one thing I wanted to share with you guys was that somehow this week I managed to read a book! I used to be a massive bookworm when I was younger, until one of my nervous breakdowns when I discovered that I struggled to finish one page of a book without my mind wandering and me giving up. But I found this book in a street library called First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung. I have a friend from my high school days whose background is Cambodian, so I was interested. He’s told me in the past that his earliest childhood memory was when they left in a boat and came here. Reading that book, man it was gripping. The things that little girl and her family experienced, Jesus Christ. It had me enthralled how she survived, how much guts she had.
When I finished the book I gave thought to something else I read recently with a chart, about how most people in Australia and other modern western countries are amongst the richest 20% of the global population. When I think “richest” I usually think of the 1%. But apparently if you have a car, have a roof over your head, shower daily, can easily access food, turn on the tap and drinkable water comes out whenever you want it, have an education and stuff like that, you are among the world’s richest 20%. It really made me think, you know? And it made me feel really grateful, grateful for my life and the lives my kids live. It made me realise that I am rich in a lot of ways, and it made me feel really thankful.
Enough of my ramblings, just wanted to share my mind space of this week. Have a lovely evening you guys!
Outrageous opinion follows.
Life for homeless people in Australia is usually better than life for average people in most of the world. They still have clean food, clean water, good medical care if they walk into a hospital, clean streets. True, they often have psych problems and need care. But they don’t need to worry about open sewers and such.
Um no.
Strapping yourself to ceiling beams to sleep so you don’t get assaulted.
Boyo at 14 in the RMIT brewery.
i didn’t say it was safe or good or something to aspire to nor a reason to not stop homelessness or help, just that there are some of the same advantages of an advanced industrial country.
Actually, fuck that um.
This is a disgusting and ill considered opinion.
ffs,
clean water is precious, sewers is precious, etc
our whole society benefits from these basics
we do need to care about everyone and stop homelessness, and it’s possible, we just need the will , we need to tax mining companies etc
we know it’s possible to help people because we did it during covid
I’ve always read books but what got me into biographies was a book called Two Pence To Cross The Mercy by Helem Forrester. It’s about a twelve year old girl who basically raised her family out of poverty during the depression. She was smart and all she wanted to do was go to school. There’s 4 books in the series. You feel for this young girl but that’s not how she wrote the stories. She just did what she felt she had to do.
It’s something that’s never left me.
I loved that series. That and Janet Sandison’s series called Jean In The Morning, Jean Towards another Day, Jean at Noon and Jean In the Twilight. We don’t remember the depression, but it marked our parents/grandparents with huge trauma.
I may have to start a “to read” list
I’ll have to look this up. We have to learn from this.
Ok this sounded interesting, and a sample reading has driven me to download Libby and start on the eBook. Thankyou 🙂
It’s like Angela’s Ashes but from young girls feel.
Have you read The Harp In The South/Poor Man’s Orange?
Yes and watched the series. So good.
Thankyou again, I’ve finished the book last night! She has such a beautiful way of writing, so descriptive. My library didn’t have the 2nd book in the series, but I found the Internet Archive has it and I’ve started reading it too. Her parents are so infuriating!
No worries.
I love recommendations so just bought the audiobook. 🙂
You will love it
It reminds me of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which I read when I was about 10.
40 years later I would visit Brooklyn regularly and I would always think about the book.
I recently read The Revenant and The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake. Both were op shop finds.
The first is about a man left for dead after being attacked by a bear and his subsequent survival/quest for revenge. The second is about a girl who can taste emotions in food. Bit of a weird ending.
I still have part of the Memory Sorrow and Thorn trilogy to finish as so much was going on for so long that I got too tired to read.
The Revenant was made into a movie with Leo DiCaprio. Beautiful amazing movie.
Haven’t read any those books at all but they all sound interesting.
The past few days I’ve been watching/listening to various renditions of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
I have come to the conclusion it’s Doyle’s version of a Gothic Novel.
Also that the Basil Rathbone version of Holmes, the most beloved version, is a lot different to the novels and other versions. He is kind and gentle, and the classism and racism of the novels is mostly gone.
The Lemon cake one sounds interesting, I might try that next.
You’ve inspired me to get off the usual screens and finally get started on a book I’ve been meaning to read for a while - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It’s starting off really well! I’m going to go back to it after this comment, but…
I had a closer relationship to lower living standards growing up, still very much first world but things like your own patch of grass, the space to not live constantly surrounded by others, a relaxed way of living, wide open spaces and yes, having a car for many people, were all almost unattainable privileges. And just one generation removed my family came from a country that definitely had much less: I remember the constant power cuts, military checkpoints, curfews when I visited (and we were considered privileged back there, having migrated away from it all). Parents had their stories of lining up for rations, the bombings, the terror…
Yet I still often fall into the trap of the hedonistic treadmill and forget how absolutely, blinking, freaking lucky and rich I am to be where I am right now. It’s easy to get caught up in how unaffordable housing is, etc, and it’s not like those things shouldn’t change, but holy shit most people in the world would still kill to be here in our places. We never, ever genuinely have to worry about starving… What a blessing.
And Peeler, you yourself have such a generous, creative, loving personality that is its own richness regardless of material wealth ☺️ the minis are blessed to have you as their mum indeed!
Never Let Me Go is a gut punch. I think I’ve read a few of his that really hurt
I watched the movie of Remains of the Day and it squeezed my heart in quite a unique way
Yeah that was the other book I read… the way he just kept on going when (spoiler)
I’m really happy to hear you got to finish a book. I’m similar in that I was a huge bookworm but struggle to read these days.
So it’s a huge achievement!
What a year this week has been
Amen sister
been a shit storm everyday since december
So true! I’ve seen super busy at work and a whole lot of stuff has happened.
I’m thinking I should change my username because Rowling is a piece of shit.
What would you change it to? Let’s work shop this.
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TalkingtotheForest Boyscrysboutcheese Allcatsaregay HeyHeyidontlikeitalot I might need a bigger drink
Keep working at it. It’ll come to you.
Will cheer you on no matter the name you choose!
PSA: The bloke down the road that grows the most AMAZING roses has just hard pruned his roses back to practically bare stumps. As has his chief rival further down the street. Hmm - gardening is on the agenda this weekend methinks.
It’s pretty crazy how quickly they grow back though! At my old place in Epping, there was a rose bush right near the front door. One year I trimmed it back, as it was getting all tentacle-y and big. Then boom, it grew back bigger and stronger than ever, way more flowers, leaves and thorns. It was nuts!
Yeah, roses like being treated meeeeaaan.
There was one awful scraggly one in a stupid location at an old sharehouse that I foolishly tried to pull out (failed) and then mow over several times, both when I first lived there ten years ago and then more recently about 4-5 years ago.
I’m pretty sure the bastard is still alive.
It’s not even June yet, they’re going early. Hmmm. Maybe I should too.
I was wondering when to do that, thanks for the tip
since this might be a cold winter it’s a bit early to prune
True. But I’m betting on this bloke knowing what he’s doing, given how beautiful his roses are year after year.
Come into work, setting myself up and I go and make a cup of coffee for myself as pr ritual demands.
Someone’s in there that I don’t know. We say good morning and hello, then she ask says “Are you IT?”
My mood instantly changes and I respond with “No, I’m “admin”.”
I turn my back and finish making my coffee in complete silence and walk out.
screams nothing like being stereotyped before 8am.
Now I’m moody.
Stuff you!
Christ, it’s not only the racist assumption it’s the violation of office protocol and basic social politeness as well. Triple bullshit.
Bet she’s management
Yeah, it’s the combo that really does it for me.
I’ve seen her around the place but I’m not exactly sure what she does, maybe she’s in early childhood centre as I didn’t see her in the staff workroom upstairs.
“oh you’re not white? Must be in IT, fix my laptop”
🙄🙄 I’m sorry man, racial profiling is so farked
yeah, it’s farked. Hits me in the wrong way when it happens
Understandable! Because it’s fucking bullshit! I hope you are able to treat yourself later on! Sending you my good vibes, friend! 💜💜💜
It’s ok, I was able to vent it off and I’m just working while watching and listening to stuff on youtube and Listnr.
I have a packet of cheese corn chips at home with my name all over it.
I think it’s going to be my treat while I watch the footy tonight.
Thank you!
Why? Pretty sure shes just looking for help and doesnt know who to ask. Its not a personal attack, its a hopeful request.
I absolutely do not like people asking if I’m IT straight of the bat without proper introductions and names.
This is not the first occurrence and it’s always asking if I’m in IT, that is not my occupation
I have a right to be pissed at being stereotyped and pigeonholed and also not being courteous enough to introduce yourself with a name.
I don’t go up to people and say hey, you’re the nanny right based on their looks.
I have a right to be pissed at being stereotyped and pigeonholed and also not being courteous enough to introduce yourself with a name.
I’m sorry but I just dont see it as either of those things? From what you’ve said it sounds like a person rather rudely looking for help. You were there of course, i’m just going off your description.
I am IT, this has happened to me heaps and its never ruined my day. Not trying to invalidate your feelings, and I say this with care: I think maybe this is something you want to talk to someone about. The emotions don’t really match the description of the situation here.
One bad interaction shouldnt have you so upset.
I have self worth and a self awareness of what makes me who I am.
I have a very keen sense of also being treated properly and not on the assumptions of my racial background.
In addition to that if someone wants something from me, I don’t care who you are but you’re going to have to say hello and good morning and introduce yourself before demanding anything from me because I don’t believe in being treated like a tool or an in demand service, I’m not at anyone’s beck and call either.
I don’t need to see anyone about this, I just have an understanding of my own self worth and how I should be treated professionally on a day to day basis and it starts with manners.
Uhuh. Okay you do you.
Fine by me, if you want to be trodden over like a mat you do that too.
That’s not how things work in the workplace.
GROSS.
I would be livid.
and it appears it was a derogatory tone because Duenan doesn’t seem to be the sort of person who would offended so easily
New event for the Dog Olympics… How far can doggo obnoxiously move its bowl down the hallway at 6:30am wanting brekkie.
Doggo is not being obnoxious, rather alerting you to a fault in the current system (I.e. lack of food)
Expressed as an absolute distance? Or as a percentage of the available hallway length? Also bowl quality and materials - ceramic would be significantly harder to shift than Temu steel/aluminium. And hallway floor covering - carpet or boards or rugs? Hard to standardise into a sporting event I think. Would be fun to watch tho.
lol these are all very good things to consider.
Also how many decibels.
I’m sure it’ll get more complicated if there were laps involved.
I believe the cats have taken all the laps, so that won’t be an issue.
We need to factor the power to weight ratio for the breed as well.
New photo dump has dropped:
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I know that cheeky face. That’s a JRT.
If anyone has never visited Perth, it’s a must do. So beautiful.
These are so beautiful, thanks for sharing!! Please pat the doggo on behalf of all of us!
Beyoodiful. Lovely to see a big wetlands like that
pretty
Just notice a rental listing for the apartment below me… identical layout and also unfurnished. The asking rent is just shy 40% higher than what I’m currently paying. That has made my situation feel very precarious indeed. 💀
feel this right in my forever-tenant heart
I worry so much about my fam and renting.
The young seagoons tell me they think they will never own. 😔
hate to tell them but the best chance for us all is to buy a big old house, share costs and learn to live together
5/10
Also 5
6/10
6/10 I guess I don’t know who owns Vodafone 😂
7/10 feeling extra smort today
5/10 today
6/10
4/10
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3/10
3/10
I’ve had my head in the sand a lot this week.
6/10 after a very rocky start.
Alrighty then. The phone calls and appointments have been made 🐸(Except for accessing a patient portal to do something - I’ll do it when I can figure out which hospital and what I’m trying to do again.)
Then I started on the paper clutter and it’s lucky I did… Opened some bills to shred and saw a large outstanding balance. Rang the water company and they’d stopped taking direct debits! That’s paid now.
