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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Pup dog decided we needed some drama in our lives and had a fit/collapsed last night :/ ran him to the vet (quite literally, they're just down the street) and he seems a bit better this morning. Back to the vet today for blood test results, but he's lost weight despite a big appetite. He's getting old and I'm trying not to think the worst.
As a result, I'm working from home while he snoozes on the bed near me and it's peaceful and nice and I'm still looking for the positives!
aw, lots of gentle hugs for you and pups
Hospital parking fees ๐คฌ
Nobody is going there for fun.
Its absolutely digusting, have always said it should be illegal to charge for parking at hospitals. At the very least free short term parking should be made available for urgent visits.
My dad at the height of his illness drove himself to hospital and parked in the hospitals parking facilities, and I couldn't get on a flight for two days and had no one in that area to help me. So I had to pay an insane parking fee, which made everything so much more stressful for me financially while I was in the middle of grieving for my dying dad.
Bloody agree with you and a lot of people who need it are often suffering from paying other hospital related fees that got their relatives or relations there in the first place.
Yeah, it adds another layer of complication and stress at a time when you already may have a million things on your mind. Maybe it's to stop just anyone parking there and occupying needed space but it could also be predatory
https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/hospitals-ordered-develop-fairer-car-parking-policies
Normally if you get a note from the hospital proving it's an emergency the council will wave it.
And May well be in the sort of urgency that does not allow for sorting out change or downloading an app.
I've started making my coffee at home and bringing it to work in a (not Stanley) thermos flask. I worked out it saves me $67 per month. If it was a streaming service I'd have already cut it by now, but I still feel like some kind of traitorous unmelbournely bastard. Still, $ is tight and I've got to make cuts ๐ญ
Great idea! Guarantees a certain level of coffee as well, sick of paying 6 bucks for a bullshit one.
Coffee is so worth making at home these days, we're spoilt for choice with good coffee beans + great tap water and there's a million billion methods readily available with guides. If you buy a coffee every work day, a mid range espresso machine pays for itself within a year, if not a grinder + aeropress + metal filter pays for itself in like less than a month. Pretty decent & reliable cuppa at a fraction of the cost. Highly recommend. It won't feel like you're cutting back on nice things!
It's a great way to save money as I made the transition some years ago.
Also helped me teach myself how to make coffee via various methods as well and introduced me to different coffee blends.
Yum!
I made a turtle from imitation Lego.
My back is sore, my eyes are blurry and I have no thumb nails left but I have a cute little turtle ๐ข
You need to invest into one of those Lego tools that helps you pull apart pieces.
Nearly tore my own nails without that little tool to help when I was doing it at work.
Surreal moment today: me, a blondeish woman of a certain age in a Volvo V70 wagon, blasting Counting Bodies Like Sheep through its (excellent) stereo. ๐
Just woke up to the excellent news that my downstairs plumbing issue is actually a street wide issue. Looks like Great Western will be sending people out today to clear the streets sewage pipes.
Looks like Sunday forecast has already been adjusted downwards to 35 degrees. By Saturday wouldn't be surprised if it went down to 30.
Oh my god. I thought it was Tuesday today.
Ever since I got home and came back from work I was trying to work out why my petrol was so low and what I was going to do.
Suddenly got confused at seeing the dates of tucker time and this thread and only clicked that itโs Wednesday.
Iโm so out of it!
Been copping a bit of flack from upper management lately. My boss and the boss's boss are calling BS, but the old boss and the "head off" are fucking idiots. Anyway, there was an issue this morning, guess who solved it? Yeeaaaah, the bloke who supposedly "doesn't do anything around here". Fuck I'm good.
Bit of the old "why do we have IT, everything's working fine" / "why do we have IT, nothing is working" situation?
Ted Cat woke me up. I must have been making ouch noises in my sleep.
Still awake and it's starting to get light outside. Already told work that today isn't going to work out. It's not them, it's me.
jfc there is not a single fucking braincell left at M$.
Fire up laptop for work, start of the work day IMMEDIATELY greeted with an UPGRADE TO WIN 11!! screen.
Can't alt tab out of it, can't even bring up goddamn taskmgr to kill it, the only way to get rid of it so I can start my fucking work day is either "UPGRADE NOW!" or "DECLINE UPGRADE"
shit like this is why I'm cutting the workplace over to mint.
First day back at school for mine today.. Already a kerfuffle. Good luck y'all.
Second day for mine. I think day 2 is worse for my lot, judging by my drill sergeant performance this morning! First day they're keen to know who's in their classes etc. Second day is all, "but muuuum! I'm tiiiiired!"
Itโs the last year for my youngest, I hope she got to school, eldest was supposed to drive her to the bus. If there was a kerfuffle it wasnโt my problem I was at work already.
Doing some online shopping at Mid ass hoes ๐Need better shoes for walking and Mid Ass have nice wide fittings
Mid ass hoes? ๐คฃ Midas Shoes. LOL Iโll never be able to read it properly again.
Wait untill you realise Platypus Shoes reads as platy puss hoes
Pulled a muscle in my back (the doc suspects) and it's giving me trouble breathing. I want to cry ๐ญ
I have fortunately never woken up at night because of pain so far and I had to last night cuz it got so bad. Off to scans. Also took a sickie cuz it's so uncomfortable ๐ช
take care
Teens will eat through your wallet like a moth. A little bit at a time and then it's all gone.
I've had a productive morning - a trip to the op shop with a car full of donations, and then steam cleaning the carpet. I think I might rest on my laurels and slack off for the afternoon.
Ok, so inflationโs too high and then interest rates go up to curb spending, and now spending slows and the economists are complaining we are not spending enough. I believe the translation is: the rich people wanted to keep wages low because more profit, but also please keep buying stuff from us because more profit. Is that it?
Finished watching Station Eleven.
no spoilers but chunky text anyway
It was patchy at times - The Prophet was a very unconvincing character for the most part. And it felt like they handwaved too many contrived situations just to make us feel something. Makes sense that the show runner did The Leftovers, I don't remember most of it now except that I felt it also veered on sentimental. But those odd-numbered episodes, particularly 5, 7 and 9, were really quite something... and even if the show ending was a little too neat/pat, by that point it was emotionally well earned and I kinda didn't care about some of the character issues as much. I think I would've been a total blubbering mess if I really did watch this in 2021.
7/10 on average, 9/10 for the odd numbered episodes.
I liked it. It was an interesting take . No dystopia.
It was refreshingly hopeful and I definitely would like to see more fiction about the positive aspects of real human relationships post-apocalypse. Finding art, love, trust and community (while the nutsos kill each other off or learn to leave peaceful people alone for their own survival).
Though i think both the book and the TV show do make a point that the first period of adjustment is going to be unsafe and violent for most.
Breakfast ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฅญ๐๐ฅฅ๐ฅฆ๐ฅ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ฅฌ๐ฅ๐ฝ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ง ๐ฅฏ๐๐ฅ๐ฅจ๐ง๐ง๐ฅ๐ง๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅฉ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฅ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ฑ๐ฅ๐ฆช๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ชผ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฅฎ๐ข๐ก๐ง๐ฐ๐ง๐ฅง๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ฅโ๏ธ๐ต๐บ๐ถ๐ฅค๐ง๐ง๐ฅ๐ท๐ฅ๐ธ๐น๐ง๐
Pasta salad with sundried tomato, olive and avocado please
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Ooh and feta
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Life Pro Tip: if you're on a visa and have OSHC/OVHC, get Allianz base and Bupa extras (if needed).
imed Radiology and Melbourne Pathology both forward the receipts to Allianz and even though the cover says that they'll pay up to 85% of MBS, somehow the entire receipt is paid (goes for all scans - MRI, CT, X-ray etc).
Bupa is good for extras, I use a Bupa Members First provider and they have discounted rates for Bupa members which is great. My physio charges me $37 for a 1hour sesh but a max of $450 per year ($90 something after that). But still good value.
People are so disproportionately angry at the little shit responsible for the milk incident. They're baying for blood.
I wonder why this has hit such a nerve.
I think itโs the intersection of obnoxious teenager, elite private school, and TikTok prankster. Itโs a uniquely irritating combo where any one factor makes people want the person to be punished, but all three together incite particular rage.
Iโm in the heโs a little shit camp. The cherry on top was when he whinged that people had identified him to his school, and therefore there might be consequences for him. He complaint was โhow could you do this to a minorโ. What a turd. And I bet his parents are entitled turds too.
Because it's all fun and dandy to prank your friends or act the clown and record it but don't involve innocent people in your stupidity.
