I went downstairs to the bin room. Left my door unlocked, because it's only as far as the bin room.
Came back up to find A STRANGER IN MY FUCKING HOUSE
WHAAAAAT?? More details please! What happened? Who were they? Why were they there? Are they gone now or did you make a new friend?
Bitch seems to have taken my wallet and ipad
What the fuuuuuck. That's fucked, I'm so so sorry you have to deal with this shit on the eve of a PH no less so great fun trying to rapidly replace everything. Can't even trust your neighbours wtf.
I kinda hope your parents can stay out of this somewhat, given their patronising attitude towards you in times of need tbh.
But otherwise I wish I even knew what would help in this sort of situation. I guess I'd be playing loud calming music at night to help block out the anxiety for a night
One of my colleagues tried to organize a meeting tomorrow. Simple mistake yes?
Well the other party that was invited were reps from an Aboriginal organisation that is pretty cold towards us (Vic Gov) at the best of times.
Our director is giving him some feedback on 'reading the room' right now.
Just got my locks changed.
My local locksmith is such a sweetheart. He seems to like me (he says "you're always pleasant"). Lovely guy.
Somehow I feel better for the chat
Anti depressent must be working. Had a dream last night mum and I caught up for a coffee and woke up feeling ok about it.
For context, my mother passed away 25 years ago and I lost all the family I had within a few months of her passing away.
Of course I wish I could have met her in real life now, but that I wasn't despondent when I woke up is a good sign I think.
Your ma loved you. Wherever she went, it's entirely possible she still does
Bit of an update on my next door neighbour. I just ran into him as I took my bins out and heโs let me know that they now have a new baby born early at 31 weeks old.
It was lucky that they decided to get his wife to the hospital and Iโm told both baby and mum are doing well though of course being born so early the baby has to be looked after for a good while.
So happy for them. Was worried because they had a rough pregnancy of late.
Also it explains why there was noise at 3am last night. My neighbour had his phone on silent so his sister came over and tried to scale his front gate using bins to do it.
Congrats to them! It's good it worked out well
Saw car, drove car, liked car. Will buy car Monday.
Got the quote for the insurance. Given the higher value of the car and I suspect the recent claim... ouch. ๐ฌ
I'm gonna put it out here. I'm gonna have some drinks tonight and play some Aussie music. I'm proud to be an Australian and I love this country and I'm not gonna be made to feel guilty for appreciating this beautiful land, people, flora and fauna.
The atrocities that were done to our first nation's people are unforgettable there is no denying that. I hope for a solution to Australia Day asap because it's gone on far to long.
Feel free to downvote me because I don't give a shit.
Same. I might even have a few drinks myself. I'll continue to celebrate Australia Day on whatever day it happens to be. I'm not tied to the date, just the day itself. My intention isn't to celebrate the date January 26, it's to celebrate Australia and I won't feel bad about celebrating Australia.
I'd guess most, nearly all Australians who celebrate Australia Day feel a similar way. Make it the 27th or 25th. Makes no difference to me.
You can celebrate being Australian
You can also acknowledge that the modern nation state came from very dark roots.
The two aren't incompatible in the slightest
We hear you. I feel something of the same way - we should remember the past but strive to do better going forward. Australia Day serves very well as a reminder to do just that. And lets face it, Aussie music is great.
@CEOofmyhouse56
Two things can be true at the same time right.
I'll help out whenever and wherever I can to get the sick date that commemorates the start of a genocide shifted to a different day, but whenever my day off work is granted by the powers that be, I'm gonna party on that day.
Full bladder pelvic exams I hate you!! I just want to have a nice little chat with the person who thought, you know what, this person is having some serious pelvic pain so let's fill em right up where it hurts.
Last time I had one I had an active bladder infection and I cried so much I thought the technician was going to start crying from the amount she was apologising.
I decided to see what the forecast in the BOM app looked like for Townsville with that cyclone coming up. Haha holy shit they have a whole separate icon and rainfall ranges that would make you think the app had glitched. They also have five active weather warnings - two cyclone watch warnings, marine wind, flood watch and a current heatwave.
Couldn't pay me to live full time in nth Qld, I tell you what. These poor sods have taken a real beating this summer
My parents, brother and his family all live in Townsville, so I'm up there at least once a year myself.
The locals are actually thinking this will be a fairly 'baby' cyclone that they should ride out fairly easily (fingers crossed). That said, the panic buying has still been nuts. First-timers expecting they'll need a year's supply of bottled water, when you can just fill buckets and the bathtub ahead of time and have all you need for most purposes.
Most people are fairly prepared. My dad is in full-time care due to advanced dementia, and a lot of the staff there have actually moved in with the residents to ensure they've got proper care should everything go south.
Woke up with a headache still, nausea and feeling like shit. Called out of work, just gonna die at home ๐คข
It's really not clear why Dutton is going off hard on these tax cuts. Most people will be better off than they otherwise would have been if it had of gone ahead according to the previous design. He's the only one who seems mad.
because labor bad is the only policy he has and by god, he's gonna jam it everywhere.
Ex-cop turned childcare magnate feels slighted and has a tantrum? Seems straight forward.
I had an awful sleep with a nightmare that had no right being as vivid as it was.
night horses
I was part of a group of young women who had been drugged and woken up in a facility where we were told nothing about the outside world except that we were no longer women, later we found out that the supreme leader's young son had decided he wanted to be a woman and all men should heed his example, and modify their genitals if they wished, but as a result any biological women had to be locked up and made to accept that men were real women and they were sexless drones (however, we had to keep our genitals intact as it later turned out that we were being kept for breeding purposes but the child was entirely the mens) near the end I was part of a group that was allowed outside to do strictly limited work and we bravely lobbed a brick at a politician's window before getting ready to escape. But just as I got back in the escape car I heard a man's voice in the back seat saying "we got you" and a hand reached out to touch my shoulder; I screamed and bolted awake drenched in sweat and couldn't go back to sleep for an hour.
0/10 experience
I have real clothes on today, even was able to stand and have a shower. I feel half human.
celebrating Hong Kongโs foundation day tomorrow
One good thing about being old is you have learnt nearly all the tricks .
mumbling is a good one, they talk so low and indistinctly they make you struggle to hear. It's a game. I just don't care. If they want to talk they can talk clearly.
Bit of a sad update. I was so excited about adopting a cat and now my housemate is having second thoughts. She just found out cats scratch furniture and is afraid that her furniture will get spoilt. I see where she's coming from so I offered to pay for any costs but then just said if either of us is having second thoughts best not to go ahead as I don't want it to cause problems down the line.
Also told my boss I'm taking a sickie for the rest of the day as I'm so deflated now. Sigh. I have to call up cat lady to cancel our appointment. ๐
That is sad. I have had cats all of my 40+ years, the last 20 in my own home. I've never had a cat scratch the furniture, but I have always provided multiple alternatives and now with all the options readily available it is so much easier to provide them. I have 3 at home now and my couch does not have a mark on it and it's 15 years old. The scratchers have copped a beating though!
This issue is something which makes me have second thoughts about adopting. But I think you can lessen the risk. If you're adopting a cat that is already trained to use a scratching post to scratch instead of furniture, and you provide that in your home, it's unlikely to happen.
"just finding out" cats can possibly scratch furniture is eyebrow raising.
Some serious marge on its way here. I thought for most of today that the worst would pass north of us, but we're still gonna get some.
Woke up early and couldn't get back to sleep (again) so did a dash to get something I needed at Bunnings and did a shop at Aldi to beat the OMG it's a public holiday must stock up for the apocolypse crowd. A few in doing likewise. My favourite Yiayia has cancelled today (hopefully only once) so unless they give me another job last minute, only one job with the old Greek guy. Fingers crossed they don't - still a bit tired from the jab and all the rest of it.
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The moment when you realise youโve got access to Important Peopleโs private info is weird.
I mean, I knew but it sort of fades into the background until Iโm reminded?
I'm chilling out with a friend talking to her employee about some landscape designs and every time she mentions Philodendron xanadu, XAAAANAADUUUU ๐ถ ๐น XAAAANA-DUUHUUHUU ๐ถ (now we are heeere) ๐ธ ๐ป IN XAAANADU-UUU plays non stop in my brain.
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