• StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Mickey says “good meow-ning”

    We weighed him yesterday, by weighing us and then holding him to weigh again. Almost 9kg. You wouldn’t think it when he’s curled up. I checked some charts online and he doesn’t seem to be overweight, but he is due for his vaccination so I’ll ask the vet.

    He eats less than the sachets say to (apparently a 4kg cat should eat three whole sachets!) because he has access to food all the time and he doesn’t eat constantly. Anyway, he’s healthy, he likes to play “chasey-hide-and-pounce”, so he’s keeping me fit too running around the apartment. I do want to invest in one of those cat-wheels, a biiiiig one, but I’m afraid it would be a waste if he isn’t interested.

    I love him.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Argh!!!

    Installation of split system delayed again!

    Well I guess on the bright side I managed to do a couple of hours of more decluttering and cleaning.

    I half moved some stuff already. Wondering I should just make the moving of furniture within the next day so I don’t have to do it in 2 weeks time.

    Still though so frustrating with the constantly delaying. 4th time now I think

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      5 months ago

      I know that feeling!

      Wifey is already sound asleep, as are our fur babies. I need to be up early for work tomorrow.

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      5 months ago

      I was vibrating with stress for obvious reasons - ended up googling mattresses in boxes. Slept once one was sourced.

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      5 months ago

      I was laying in bed awake for over 2 hours and just couldn’t slip into sleepy land so I said fuck it and now I’m just not going to sleep it seems

  • Tofu@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

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

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Second last day of holidays and I am sick with a head cold 🤕🤕 luckily didn’t have much planned because it’s now just rest and feeling sorry for myself

  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    We were shopping for our first home many years ago. It was on a hill. As we were stepping out to leave, the agent says “hey is that your car?”

    I look over across the street, and my car had started rolling down the hill!! I bolted over the fence, quickly zapped the alarm button and dove inside to stop it just in time before crashing into another car.!

    We ended up buying the house.

    The End

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      Got a similar story with a trolley.

      Was loading groceries and stuff into my car and put down something to stop the trolley from rolling downhill.

      Come back from one load and trolley is missing and I see it slowly rolling down picking up momentum in the car park, at the end one incline are more cars parked.

      Bolted after the trolley and thankfully no cars were coming up or down the laneway at the time and after 100 metres I manage to catch the trolley without hitting a car or being hit by one.

      That scared the bejubus out of me that day. Never parked there ever again.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    so I’d say camping was a success. COLD, but a success. It was Tinyest’s first ever camping trip and he took it super well, but I will admit I think the mrs is right, it’ll be a LOT easier when he can walk. But still, good to get him started early! I also brought a friend who I’ve been begging to go for ages, she wasnt a huge fan of camping but gave it a go and says she had a great time and wants to go again, so thats awesome.

    I know I say this every time, but Wilson’s Prom is just SO damn pretty. If your sitting here being like “man I haven’t camped in ages” or “Man, I’m not really into camping” I beg of you to give it a go. I’m prepared to bet its physically impossible to have a bad time down there.

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      it’ll be a LOT easier when he can walk

      See, the thing here is, when they start to walk they almost always default to walking towards something dangerous as a first option…so yeah, it’s easier, but you’ll also get loads of lunging forward practice just as you’ve sat down or have just started doing something else… ha

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        haha no absolutely aware of that. i watched a dude do laps with a VB can in his hand 2 feet behind his toddler stumbling around. I aspire to that parent, just with a better drink choice.

        I did think of you yesterday, I came home and started looking at camper trailers again cause my garage is FULL of wet tent/gazebo shit

    • Baku@aussie.zone
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      I still haven’t been to Willys prom. It’s one of the few places left in Vic I haven’t been to yet, excluding the mountains in the east

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      Did you hike in ? Is there a good fairly accessible (for someone who doesn’t want to hike for miles on their own) spot?

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    5 months ago

    I just got my contents insurance renewal notice. I braced myself for a big increase, and apparently it is $2 less than last year?! Was there a leap year surcharge I was unaware of, or has my neighbourhood become safer?

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      If you have one to me I’m definitely struggling to accept it.

      Summoning every ounce of motivation to clean up a bad move furniture right now.

      Not helped by an upset tummy and pain.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zone
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    Lol reading that thread on the other website about school refusal. So many people don’t get it. I was a chronic absentee, I didn’t even go for the entirety of year 10 and had way more than 20 days off per year before and after, from primary to HS. I was abused young, and my mother had untreated schizophrenia. Neither of us had support, and she certainly didn’t realise what I was going through. She’d sleep all day, because she worked nights as a cleaner in a factory. So she wasn’t home at night, and wasn’t present during the day.

    Then, if I went to school I was relentlessly bullied for having frizzy hair, being fatter than the other girls (funnily enough, I was a normal weight, and they were starving themselves :/ ), for being interested in science or “boy things”. The boys bullied me too, because I wasn’t “cool” enough. I wanted to do “boy things”. Assaulted, teased. Starting in primary. I distinctly remember the boys not allowing me to play footy with them, and the girls not wanting me to play with them because I didn’t wear lip gloss or straighten my hair.

    I wanted to go, I felt like a failure, which just fuelled the depression no one realised I had. I cannot blame my mum, she herself didn’t have support for her mental health, I could hardly expect she would know what to do with me.

    And it wasn’t really the schools fault either. Some teachers sucked, sure, but the classes were oversized and there were kids who were loudly unruly. I was quiet, and I got really good grades. I fell through the cracks, and it was easy to fall back in the 2000s.

    I’m glad that the kids in the article are getting into schools that can meet their needs and foster a sense of self-worth. That just wasn’t available to me back then. It has affected me, and still does. I blame the system, no real individual. If you don’t conform, then you’re just left to rot. And if your parents aren’t great and perfect, or they’re absent… What can the child do??

    Anyway, that’s my little rant. That “other place” can be such a cancer.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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      So sorry this happened to you. So many hugs.

      That is on the school and all of society really.

      I wish Australians were more litigious, I wish perps were frightened to do the wrong thing because they would get sued up the wazoo.

      Because relying on other kids, teachers and principals to do the right thing isn’t working

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      hugs :(

      I sometimes wonder if people who bullied others ever think about it later in life. It makes me sad to think that it’s such an accepted thing, wherever we look.

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    You’re not going to believe this - after one person at the auction place called on Friday to say that the furniture I want to sell can’t be picked up, someone else called to talk about pickup.
    We agreed it would be easier for me to bring the stuff up anyway but they now don’t have a slot for me to drop it off until 2:45.
    Anyway the neighbour came around to help me load the car so that’s all done, and he helped me disassemble Mum’s old bed in the bargain and waved off any suggestion of payment. What a guy.

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    I see Melbourne has greeted me upon my return back to the country with it’s usual sunny disposition.

    Tullamarine Airport is fucked. 8 planes all land at once. All passengers are jammed into a narrow corridor lining up for the egates.

    Foreigners and children don’t use them, so they have to continue. But there’s no sign saying that. You only know if a random border security officer happens to swan past you.

    Baggage carousels are a joke. Queueing for customs declaration also a joke.