Treat yourself to something nice today. You deserve it. xxx

    • ThornburywitchEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      A temporary storage space like Storage King is your friend here I reckon. I found when I moved, that I just put everything I wasn’t sure about in that space, and only put stuff in the new place that I KNEW I wanted there. The doubtfuls were sorted later and a lot went to next generation family and to charity etc as I just didn’t have room for them in the new house. Ended up with the new place having ONLY stuff I wanted to keep. This really really helped my decision making on the other stuff. It also helped that the storage space was just up the road from a Vinnies which dramatically eased the actual disposal. Worth considering as a tactic.

      • NathA
        1·
        10 months ago

        I am lazy. I’d still have that storage space three years later. Paying rent on top of mortgage.

    • useless_modern_god
      6·
      10 months ago

      I should have done the same. I’m standing on the corner of Struggle Street and the Boulevard of Broken Dreams

    • Duenan
      4·
      10 months ago

      I wanted to today as well but the work would only pile up for me the next day which is even a busier day.

      I really hate that I feel I can’t be off sick because of that.

      • mysticgreg
        5·
        10 months ago

        That’s the reason I’ve taken like 5 sick days in 9 years and am drowning in excess annual leave.

        Every day off I take results in about 1.2 days of extra work I need to catch up on when I get back 🫤

        At least I’m very often solo in the office so my presenteeism doesn’t get others sick.

        • Duenan
          4·
          10 months ago

          Yeah, this year the way things have fallen, my monday and tuesdays are loaded and if I’m not there the work just piles up.

          The person I work with, while our roles differs, just leaves the massive backlog for me to maintain and this places so much pressure on me if I take the day off when I have a scheduled workload.

      • MeanElevatorEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        I don’t think I’ve suffered from hayfever this late in the season. Generally a spring thing and gone by Dec/Jan…It’s friggin March and I’m still dealing with it

        • Catfish
          3·
          10 months ago

          It’s the bloody smoke right now. Have taped all the doors etc up but my eyes hurt and am a sneeze monster. I could go in, but the walk to the bus would be vile.

  • Duenan
    12·
    10 months ago

    My haul of little tomatoes from the community garden to spice up my sandwiches.

    • CEOofmyhouse56OP
      4·
      10 months ago

      I love putting these in a pasta and when I bite them, they go pop in my mouth. So much fun.

      • Duenan
        5·
        10 months ago

        They’re pretty small sadly, been cutting them in half and popping them inside a sandwich.

        I don’t think the ones I have will go very far with pasta.

        They are yummy and sweet though.

        • CEOofmyhouse56OP
          5·
          10 months ago

          Nothing wrong with that. I’ve done that heaps of times. Pepper and salt those babies. Yum.

          • Seagoon_
            3·
            10 months ago

            pepper and salt on fresh cut tomato is heaven, even better if it’s from the garden

  • StudSpud The StarchyEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    I have an interview tomorrow oooooooaahhhhhhggg why does it have to be warm tomorrow 😭😭

  • Rusty Raven M
    8·
    10 months ago

    Official first day of term for my Uni courses today. Time to knuckle down and get back into the studying.

  • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    Listed some old PC parts on Gumtree, the first five minutes I get the standard “I want to purchase give me your email so I can send you a phishing link” quickly followed by an account called “support” with the gumtree logo telling me I had a pending offer and to just provide my email.

    This was then followed up with a second “support” account trying a different scam, and one person doing the “I will send a courier” bit.

    Gumtree is so shit.

  • imoldgreeeg
    7·
    10 months ago
    random musings (but basically instant pot FTW)

    I got myself an instant pot for Christmas and it has been amazing on low energy / sad days. Today I was WFH and feeling terrible, but I managed to get rice on mid afternoon ((cup of rice, cup of water turn it on and wait for it to beep at me). Then I managed to saute some onions garlic etc, added lentils, random spices and some leftover tomatoes and I got yummo dal stew with the rice. Enough for a couple more meals too. And I feel much better for having eaten something hearty and homemade.

    I realise when my energy is low I can chop a few things, but nursing multiple pots on the stove then cleaning them all up is too much. Having something that I can put stuff in and it does it all and just beeps when my stew/beans/whatever is ready is great.

    Also been making yogurt in it which is also awesome.

    • CEOofmyhouse56OP
      4·
      10 months ago

      I love this and it’s exactly why I love my slow cooker. Fry up a bit of meat and onion. Chuck it in with some other stuff and the end of the day I have meals. Absolute bliss.

    • Seagoon_
      1·
      10 months ago

      That sounds awesome. I wonder if I can use my rice cooker in the same way. It’s a really good rice cooker with many settings.

      • imoldgreeeg
        2·
        10 months ago

        ooh yeah maybe - people do all sorts of random things in rice cookers!

  • Seagoon_
    7·
    10 months ago

    TIL about “sad beige moms”. People so obsessed with image they turn their whole world beige ( and grey blue ) , including the world of their kids.

  • Catfish
    7·
    10 months ago

    When writing a report if you need the word sixthly switch to bullet points!

  • bacon
    6·
    10 months ago

    Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt
    6·
    10 months ago

    Alrighty. Halfway through preparation for interview on Wednesday. Shame it’s going to be 37 degrees so I’ll be ubering instead of PT so I’m not a sweaty mess.

    That aside, if anyone has a ps5 controller with stick drift, push the analogue sticks down for 10 seconds, then turn clockwise for 10 seconds and again counter clockwise for 10 seconds.

    It actually works and saved me 100 bucks

  • Rusty Raven M
    6·
    10 months ago

    A young brushtail just tried to have a go at Mr Woof through the glass of the back door! It was full on banging on the outside of the door right in front of him. Mr Woof is now outside doing a full security patrol while Miss Meow supervises from inside.

  • Seagoon_
    6·
    10 months ago

    I must have been snoring, Ted jumped on my tummy while I was asleep, I got a terrible shock. 😴😮