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Had one hell of a psych session... big emotions. Good session but the kind that you need to sit down and process for 30 minutes afterwards. I had thought I might pack my shoes and some other stuff tonight but it isn't happening. It's been a big week and more to come with the real move coming up.
I am not being lazy or weak, I am pacing myself π
Go you for attending the psych session! Good attitude, put your feet up and relax a bit. You deserve it!!!
hugs
Got my payslip.
Picking up the car on my birthday Saturday!
It's all coming up millhouse!
Also, a story in 2 photos:
Then meowing for my to get her down....
You softy. I would put a tin of salmon on the floor and walk away.
I am absolutely a softy lol
Melbcat has been wrangled for her medsβ¦ sheβs forgiven me and is now curled up as the little spoon
aww, hugs
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo!!!
spoiler
I forgot to buy cheese on the way home from work. My life is over
I must keep a constant supply of cheese in the fridge or Miniest will kill me
π
RIP
Surprise! 1st strawberry from the patch this season. Was watering and thought.... hmmmm..... something red is hiding there. π
Friend I met up with today said she doesn't drive because her ex crashed into a tree after she broke up with him and thought it was her fault. But she has spoken to me about driving on the ring road with her dad and driving to her sport practice. It's just that she needs a ride whenever I go out with her. Another friend wants me to pick up her too good to go box which is a 10 minute drive away. I feel iffy about saying yes because she constantly asks me to check if things are in stock for her at my work and asked me to help jump-start her car because she had no one else. I don't mind doing a nice thing for a friend, but I just feel like these people are using me.
hmmm, that all sounds a bit like emotionally manipulative bullshit on their part.
Politely decline and see what happens.
She's manipulative just like her ex was. I will not be driving her anymore. The other friend is also a user.
Good for you! I've let people use me in the past and it wasted a lot of my time and energy for nothing.
Less than nothing actually. Because they actively made my life worse.
Gosh that's horrible. I guess if anything, it goes to show that you have a kind heart.
Goodnight from the Red roomβ€οΈ
Went to pick up some extra food for a few days and came across some bargains
3kg bag of oranges for 5 dollars and a bag with 4 bunches of chinese broccoli or something for 2 bucks.
Felt like I made off like a bandit and has left me fairly happy with myself.
Also this afternoon was way smoother with almost no hassles compared to yesterdayβs drama.
Edit: I also grabbed some red wine and pink moscato.
Well the meeting wasn't too bad. Still got blamed for the inadequacy of the project team, but the heat was lower than expected thankfully β€οΈ
Edit: Just got a call for another job that pays 1/3rd more. Fuck it let's see what happens.
After many phone calls tonight I can now finally have dinner.
Watching some shows then Iβll hit the sack.
Trying to play financial seer since our fixed mortgage term is up in December and we're trying to work out if we should lock in a two or five year rate in case it all goes to shit.
Musks antics are not helping
Interesting thing just happened. I was in the middle of writing a reply, but the time stamp said that I had responded 5 minutes ago. Yes, it was the time stamp for that reply. I checked.
This means that the DT is actually a portal that allows time travel into the future. Albeit not very much future. Not enough for stock market speculation, dammit.
Has anyone else had this happen to them?
TIL The Cure has been around for nearly 50 years π€―
Bro rocked up last night finally to 'see' mum.
Just sat there and spoke about himself for 30mins.
Cunt. At least the old man is seeing him for who he really is now.
Pretty obvious won't be getting much help from bro.
Anyway so I've left the kitchen with a bit of a mess and I need to see what happens (I usually clean up). Pretty much testing severity / independence. I'm hoping I'll get a serve because that means she can see it, she can do it, how well she does it and mood which will be a good indication for steps that follow (for now). Low risk easy test.
Made a thread for tomorrow.
The friend who I'm picking up the food for is going to give me some food and I might ask her about GitHub to attempt to make a bot.
I've been coding excessively since I was a child. I am 40. I'm happy to help and have offered to build this many many times in any lang and on any platform. So if you'll find it fun but need help DM me as it seems like no one wants me to do it :(
I've been looking into an RSS bot for here and it seems doable. There are options for creating posts, pinning them, and unpinning posts.
My biggest problem is getting docker to work
If you need a local docker test env you can spin them up on rpis. I have a local k8s cluster for this although my private cloud can do the same... Shout if you need help. I'm bored and have time.
Also just a CRON job AWS lambda or Azure Function will do the basic task of Auth and POST.
Open mic is tomorrow at 9pm if anyone wants to come have a drink :)
Edit: I'm sorry I'm going to cancel. I've been dealing with this stomach bug all week and it's just gotten worse and worse.
Id rather not go, than give a lacklustre performance :(
Ah manβ¦ I probably shouldnβt push myself physically. I risk injury and the pain and fatigue lasts for days.
I just get bored you know? I wish I could just get motivated to do art or keep learning languages. But nope. All the energy goes to surviving and then I just have to turn to the net and social media for mental stimulation.
I remember when I didnβt even have social media and was justβ¦ completely self sufficient. Thatβs when I was a lot more able to be physically active though
I used to read many more books.
And truthfully, if it weren't for the dt and you beautiful people here I wouldn't be on social media at all.
Went shopping with friend who wants to rebuild my wardrobe. Bought nothing but she bought some cheap earrings, only to leave the bag of them on the bus. I followed the bus in the car and she ran to get her earrings.
Shopping is exhausting. Very lucky to have such a first world problem. But I hate shopping centres and browsing.
There is a special Hell for people who think bra shopping is fun
Those weirdos walk amongst us!
sky blue, I did reading on the tram , got a new planner
and some art books
It was a successful trip. π
is there a stomach bug going around? Kid got sent home with the shits yesterday but was in great spirits and wasnt on a hold so went back today and seems fine. Meanwhile I've got this feeling at the top of my stomach a bit like i wanna spew, but not quite? Had it for 3 days now, and it just comes and goes. not actual digestive changes however, its a bit weird. edit: feels like there is a rock at the top of my stomach.
Yeah man it's been about 3 days now and I'm utterly fucked. Running to the bathroom every 20 or so mins.
Fucking sucks.
My girlfriend has been in bed all day with stomach problems so it feels true from my end
I saw something on the other site with a graph regarding gastro cases in Australia (or Victoria) and there was huge upward spike recently.
Ugh, no luck with confirming the couch move so far (and tbqh I'm really tied for time tonight). I'm starting to think it won't happen and I'll have to move it to my friend's place.
Meanwhile I have at least confirmed the movers for Monday morning, that's a big tick. Think I'm just going to take the day off so I can clean up after and shit
