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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
ok all you mofos stuck in horrible cold shitty rentals come over here where there's whole house heating to 20c and there's cats and beanbags and I'm making muffins and we're on a hill so we can buy rifles and snipe your slumlord bastards.
I'm officially Simon. Yay? Lol
Had an interview this morning which went ok I think. Will find out if I go to the next stage tomorrow.
I am both amused and irritated. Diversity is massive in IT. Until very recently, I was the only person in my team actually born in Australia. Now 2/13 of us were born here.
Whoever is hiring IT people should be able to cope with your name.
Loaf mode activated 🍞
If it fits, I sits. If it's too large, I sit anyway to prevent ANYONE ELSE from sitting there.
Am sad. Work getting worse. Procrastination for job seeking continues.
it's this kind of morning, apparently
(Pardon the mess, still working on the built in wardrobe so the linens and dross boxes are stored down my side)
Pinned by cats, what a terrible way to wake up. One of mine was even under the covers with me.
I ran a short story competition at some schools for the kids to win copies of my books and I'm reading through the entries today and man, kids are morbid. It's kind of funny how wild their imaginations get.
And one of them had a genuinely sad and depressing ending. It was a story about a girl and her mum and it mentions she doesn't know where he dad is and how she wishes she had a sister and then bed creatures attack her and kill her mum and she runs away but theres more monsters and she runs back into the house and lays on her bed ending it with 'why should I save myself. I've lost everything I've loved.'
Wowww that's brutal. How old are the kids? That's a cool competition though! How will you select a winner?
Happy Dance. Fairy Wrens have returned to my little terrace garden. 🥰
I have a few words to say
spoiler
HOW IS IT THIS COLD AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
That is all.
Just got rid of a whole lotta concrete at the tip. Nearly died when they were trying to charge $151. Got it for $31.50 instead.
But that was very satisfying throwing it on the pile, loud noises breaking shit. Threw one bit up the top of the pile and caused an impressive concrete avalanche.
But jeez the matress disposal area.. most of those were better than mine.
Gotta love it when your children start making dinner. Almost seems worth it. Almost.
aargh, my local optician couldn't fix my glasses, after half an hour of mild cussing seems rayban uses unique screws for their frames and they don't stock rayban. Couldn't even wire the hinge as it's a concealed screw hole. These were fairly expensive.
from now on it's cheap ass glasses and lots of them
It's too much of a bleah day, and the second night in a row I can't use my shower because the landlord messed up their emails telling me it was gonna get re-caulked or something yesterday (and I just rolled over and said OK even though I had basically zero notice and can't use my shower for 36 hours). Too peopled out to ask a friend to use theirs. Just retreating to bed with a cuppa and a pitiful mood and gonna have a yarn to my auntie interstate to feel a bit more at ease
It's -1.9 here. Feels like -3.8. No thank you. The cat has jumped into bed with me and neither of us are moving any time soon.
It's a shame your shit music isn't enough to pay for a taxi, Justin.
I dropped a 1kg tub of greek yoghurt onto the kitchen tiles. So much yoghurt. Should've stayed in bed.
Weather has cleared to a beautiful day but it's doing very little to dent my absolute disdain for humankind today. Greedy, shortsighted, self-absorbed, no thoughts for anything other than their own convenience and comfort. So many of our species don't deserve planet Earth. I truly wish I could send a good chunk of people off to another planet with no pesky insects, grass, trees, water courses, and other such outrageously offensive items, and they can live surrounded entirely in man made constructs and sheer rock.
and they can live surrounded entirely in man made constructs and sheer rock.
and many would be happy like that
I'm blaming the cold for why I went back to bed at 7:30. This non insulated house sucks ☹️
When I'm alone upstairs at work and so can crunch on my food as loudly as I like without feeling guilty, yisssss. Eating pork crackle, so not hard to get a very loud crunch happening.
My brown fat is generating so much heat this morning but I'm still putting 2 sheets of toilet paper on the toilet seat before jumping on to ease the pain. I know it's wasteful but we must do what we can to survive this icy blast.
It's 0.4 degrees here, and the BOM app says it's feels like -3.2 ❄️
The cat makes a good case for going back to bed. Smart kitty.
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God dam there were a lot of sirens and ambulances on the morning dog walk. Like a dozen different background wails, I saw three ambulances with lights on down Police rd.
Anyone else follow the Farside Lemmy? The cartoons by Gary Larson?
My dad has two of his books of comics and I used to read them all the time as a kid. The Lemmy for it is so damn nostalgic lol
Hmm… my health is deteriorating and it may now be time for invasive medical measures. That’s if I can pester hard enough for them or pay privately. Love that for me
Melbourne, why so cold?!
Anything fun on in the city today? We have some time to explore on foot, assuming we don't freeze.
Am alive. Whatever that stomach thing was it can fuck right off. Apologies to those I grossed out on the tram the other day.