12.50 for some SR flour, Eggs and a bag of potatos. Thats what i get for going to coles. Has anyone ever been to Dandenong Market? was jelous of the 35 dollar fruit and veg box someone got last weekend from Preston market. Or is there a good online service people like?
If we’re nearby we’ll do the Dandy Market. It’s not cost effective for us to drive there just to go to the market but if we’re out and about we’ll go. Are you Paky way? I’ve heard good things about Garfield fruit and veg, and I think they’re online too. I’m more Cranbourne way so I go to what they call Market on the main street and I’m pretty happy with price and quality.
I’m nearish paky, yeah. Hadnt considered travel to Dandenong. Will check both out, thanks!
Market Europa is pretty good price for fruit and veg if there’s one near you. It’s close enough to mine that Dandy market is another 7km/30 mins. Dandy is probably better but effort counts too.
Darn, there isnt. Ah well thanks for the recommendation I will keep an eye out if I head into suburbia.
I can’t tell you how much I miss Preston Markets, even now. My oldest and I were a fixture there. Vendors knew his name/he knew them etc. We were there upwards of three times a week from when he was a newborn. The sounds of the market would soothe him to sleep when he was a baby. He had a tiny size 2 uniform of the taco truck that Ellie bought for him and he wore proudly out and about.
The few markets we have in Perth are more like Queen Vic than just regular weekly shopping markets.
GUYS I’M FREEEEE
Freee Fallin…
To do what I want, any old time 🎶
YAYYYYYY!!
Congratulations on all your hard work. So proud of you. hug hug 😘😘😘
🥺💕
Woohoo! 🎉
CONGRATS!!! Enjoy the freedom!!! You’ve worked bloody hard to get to this point, well done!!
FANTASTIC WORK YOU ARE AMAZING!!!
YOU DID IT!
TREAT YO SELF
Thank you!!!
Here’s a donut for you 🍩 I might make some on the weekend!
Omg that’s so cool! 😍
Ahh women’s BBL cricket on right now and tonight.
Sport saves me once again!
Fuck it I might watch it just for the brain distraction. I think I still have that link you sent me months ago, it would be on that site yeah?
Sent you a DM
It’s actually on free to air through the channel 7 website or app.
The link I sent you awhile ago is dead.
I can send you another for cricket if you want to avoid ads.
Got a call back from CAV today about my application to have the rent increase reviewed, seems like it’s about a 30 day turnaround. Well since shit has changed so much I said it’s no longer necessary and to close the case but they were very helpful about checking that I knew my rights around vacating with 14 day notice etc.
I sent my intention of notice to vacate to the LL yesterday morning, no response so far, and CAV themselves advised that while the LL doesn’t have to respond, if they don’t specify how to return possession (i.e., keys) then really all I need to do is tell them how I’ve done it and then it’s the LL’s problem as to whether the property is secure or otherwise 🤷
Missed the opportunity to ask how exactly I can report LL if she starts listing the property for rent within 6 months of the vacate notice, but I guess I’ll find a way to call again if it comes up.
I’m cleaning up and I found a cover that goes on the battery compartment. I have no idea what it’s from. I’ve kept it for a reason and I’ll continue to keep it but it’s gonna do my head in for the rest of the day.
I’ve done a thing and now I’m going to leave my phone alone and pretend I didn’t do it.
I hate myself often.
I just did a ticket at the new job and this is it. This is the sort of work I’ve been missing for the last couple of years. I don’t know if it’s because I was working with clunky software or what, but I just didn’t enjoy my last couple of roles.
This should have the same issues of finiky work that requires high attention to detail, but there’s something about this where I can get into a workflow to just get the work done and check it as well.
I’m not diagnosed with anything but it’s like this work tickles a part of my brain the way factorio or one of those games does for some people
Glad to hear it man!!!
That’s really great that your new job is sounding like a better fit for you - makes it much easier to move on from the old job and know that you’re not the problem, there is a place for you :D
Exactly. It feels good knowing I’m back in work I like doing, whilst my old workplace is mildly inconvenienced by dealing with this massive platform no one knows how to use whilst they look for someone else.
Only silver lining is watching Dump fumble and fuck up for 4 years (or whenever he kicks it).
Oh. He wont make it 4 years. He’ll be lucky to make it 1. But then they are stuck with couch fucker, which honestly may not be so bad depending on which persona shows up on any given day. And maybe next time democrats get into power they wont fuck around for 4 years. They had 4 years to lock the fucker up and they did nothing. Should be a lesson in that for all of us, seize the bloody day.
He’ll have a farm of concubine slaves to produce stem cells to prolong his life. Somewhere between the plots of Shoot em up and Perdita Durango.
This is so funny in the worst of ways 😭🤣
They got busted for pedo island. They’ve absolutely got stem cell slave island out there somewhere.
Stahp 😂 why are they so weird and gross 😭😂
Biden could have stepped aside earlier and Dems could have had proper primaries. But hindsight, eh?
I don’t know what to think of Vance, honestly. He’s either 100% committed to Trump OR was clever enough to say what needed saying to get Trump’s endorsement. I watched a portion of the VP debate, and he was pretty sharp.
His policies however…oh boy.
They probably would’ve had a better chance with Walz/Harris than Harris/Walz. Honourably putting a great black/asian woman forward was a massive hurdle for the American shitbags to overcome.
Her being an extension of Biden didn’t help much. And only reason he’s unpopular cause he inherited a steaming pile of shit from Trump and actually went about fixing it.
But yeah…yanks prefer a rapist traitor with dementia over a smart woman from a visible minority.
yanks prefer a rapist traitor with dementia
It’s projection lol they don’t think being a kiddy fiddler rapist is wrong because they want to do it too. That’s how I’m just gonna view everyone who voted for that… Thing
I walked Ted to Lort Smith for some vaccinations and bum fur trimming. He was a total champ. 🐈⬛ Never whinged or meowed, liked looking around when he was in his walker. Of course he tried to nip the doc and nurse. He loved seeing all the other animals in the hospital waiting room.
He is also overweight so he is on a diet of less food.
Bill is hatching a cunning plan.
Revenge
And a migraine right on schedule. Lucky I postponed the show tonight.
I’m giving myself permission to play ps5.
Have you spoken to a doctor if this keeps happening to you?
It’s from a shoulder injury. It requires a certain amount of gym activity which I haven’t been doing since I started the new job.
I’ll get back into it this weekend. No other choice.
I’ve got a headache coming as well but I’m stuck at work.
Play for your ps5 for me.
You’re with me in spirit 👻
Look, feel free to ignore this, but have you had your glasses prescription (if any) updated recently? I’ve had headaches that were made worse by tension/stress but magically vanished when I got new glasses.
The new glasses I got have actually helped a lot. It’s just an old shoulder injury that flares up and causes the headache.
adding to the possibles - do you have allergies? Because 'tis the season and sinuses. And if you take a lot of sudafed, it dries them out and will absolutely smash your head in when they get angry
this nerd hanging out in my jumper
Oh! My departed WhiteBoy used to do this.
Mildly NSFW
spoiler
Sweet baby! You know you’ve got the love a cat when they do this!
He spent his last few weeks glued to me. Both lovely and horrible.
Ok that’s a cool shot. Is it bring your pet to DT day or something?
It’s DT pet day! To bring positivity to our lives!
My favourite child bought me flowers
And dessert
Just a lily warning if you have cats 😥
Favourite child out of how many exactly?
-whispers- pretty sure it’s just the one 👀😂
I thought so, but wanted confirmation.
One
That’s a tough field to choose from
Recently discovered the Woolies cinnamon rolls are pretty good. You have to look through them for the most recent dates though, I notice they keep them out for a few days and no one deserves the disappointment of a stale bun!
What does she want?
Nothing so far
The long con…
In any case, I’m sure you are somewhat deserving of this kind gesture 🙂
scored a pile of flagstones on buy nothing group, now time to move them all into the back yard…
I don’t know why but I read flagstones as lasagna.
Hungry?
Yup. Certainly hungry.
They do come in layers
I has baby Tom’s!!!
how long had they been planted? Never grown them before this season.
Probably a month, maybe 5 weeks. They are a random cherry tomato they had for sale at a supermarket. Its the earliest I’ve ever put them in, but they’re looking good.
Ooh looking healthy!
I used to have a competition with an old Italian fella on who could have the first ripe tomato of the season. Much to his disgust, I won more than him. He’s with God now, but I see his son around so now it’s a second generation battle. And I’m gonna win again this year! Next year I’ll pull my finger out and grow one of his plants from seed, because I wanna beat him at his own game.
competition with an old Italian fella
Heh tomatoes are not an easy win against italians!
My two pots of tomatoes were a poor cousin to his backyard filled with plants, but I still won more than I lost.
Probably an overshare, but I'm angry
My grandma is too far gone with the religion and political stuff, and I think it’s time for me to stonewall her. She lives next door, which will make it a bit hard, but I don’t want to put up with her bullshit anymore. During COVID, she got so into religion that she tells us we’re going to hell for not believing. All day, everyday, she sits on her butt, watching YouTube videos about religion and people converting to her religion. She has not many friends, only goes to church and the supermarket, likes my aunt’s dogs more than she likes her own grandchildren and refuses to put in any effort with my younger cousins because their mother chose to keep in contact with her cheating father after my grandma and him got divorced. She doesn’t believe the priests or other clergy members could do anything wrong. Called Kamala a demon and said that she would make the US a communist country. And America will be saved, Trump is Christian yada yada yada. Absolutely no critical thinking skills whatsoever.
she sounds lonely and in need of guidance from someone as intelligent and kind as you
maybe you can share non political yts with her, like nature yts or something . Don’t react to her provocations.
goons, I know you mean well and radical empathy is a thing, but no one makes the choice of stonewall or going NC without trying everything possible first. And I mean everything, including eating decades of shit.
Hmm I feel like I haven’t exhausted all of my options yet though. I shall try with the nature videos and hopefully that will do something. I just wish she was open to seeing a counsellor or something. She never got counselling or had someone to talk to about her divorce after it happened.
I know this situation well. She will not go to a counsellor, because she believes she is right and you and other non believers are wrong and influenced by evil. Put yourself in those shoes - would you listen to someone telling you to go to a counsellor to turn you against your righteous religion? (Rational person would not, but once beliefs get to this stage rationality has left the building). You will not change her mind. She will always view you with disdain. You have to accept this if you want to continue contact. Try to stay away from religious topics, but when inevitably she raises it you will need to brush it off and pretend she didn’t say hurtful things. This might be acceptable to you for the sake of maintaining a relationship. If it’s not, then the other option is to break contact. I know people mean well when saying try to empathise, but I have been in this situation and there is no solution that I know of. They will only come back if they decide it for themselves first. And very sadly, family is usually not enough of a motivator. The religious grip can be that strong.
Lol I feel this. Took me too long to go no contact with mum haha kids don’t do it lightly and without much shame, guilt, and fear.
And I have empathy for my mum too, her life sucked so hard. But sometimes it’s the only way to get healthy, to cut out the people that hurt us.
this isn’t radical empathy, it’s knowledge and expertise gained from decades of study and interacting with close family members who were in a very destructive religious cult, think scientology
the point is to not use words or ideas that set them off
Spud wrote it out very well, I’m just going the one further step. You can get them to change their mind, you have to talk about other things.
Thanks for the suggestion Seagoon :) I sent her some time lapses of plants growing. Hopefully she will like them.
so many hugs, it can be very sad to see this happen to family, it’s like they have changed and become lost and relationships become very difficult
Brutal. When they get that deep it’s practically impossible to pull them out; they don’t believe they need saving. My mum is the same, though non-denominational
Sorry to hear that Spud. That must suck, especially with a parent.
Eh I just meant more I get the feeling of dread lol, interacting with people like that is so exhausting, especially when it’s a family member. If you can’t go low/no contact or don’t want to, then grey rocking is best. Don’t engage with political or religious conversation with them, and if they start it, then change the subject and give very little info about your opinions away.
I’m sorry your Gran is deep in it, it hurts. Remember to look after yourself too, and put yourself first 💜
