I see Melbourne has greeted me upon my return back to the country with it’s usual sunny disposition.
Tullamarine Airport is fucked. 8 planes all land at once. All passengers are jammed into a narrow corridor lining up for the egates.
Foreigners and children don’t use them, so they have to continue. But there’s no sign saying that. You only know if a random border security officer happens to swan past you.
Baggage carousels are a joke. Queueing for customs declaration also a joke.
Lol. It was great weather yesterday. A warm 24°c and sunny. Missed it by that much. 🤏
Melbourne airport continues to be a literal international embarrassment.
@Pilk @wscholermann Also, if you’ve got checked baggage and you’re flying to Tullamarine, I suggest you bring a good book.
Because you’ll be waiting… And waiting… And waiting…
It’s sleepy time BUT I DON’T WANNA
Revenge bedtime procrastination is alive and well in my house 😆
I know that feeling!
Wifey is already sound asleep, as are our fur babies. I need to be up early for work tomorrow.
I was laying in bed awake for over 2 hours and just couldn’t slip into sleepy land so I said fuck it and now I’m just not going to sleep it seems
I was vibrating with stress for obvious reasons - ended up googling mattresses in boxes. Slept once one was sourced.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Protein shake with a side order of motivation pls chef.
I hear motivation is on the menu today? I’ll have a serve of that with a side order of enthusiasm please.
☄️🌶️
Coffee please, and a cinnamon bun with no icing.
☕️🍞
Lovely. I’m sweet enough I think.
Fruit smoothie and a serve of motivation please.
Me too please. You go strawberry and banana, bacon?
🍓🍌🥤☄️
YAY thanks BMw/BS
🍎🍌🫐🍓🥭🥤☄️
Red bull, salmon and cream cheese bagel… Coffee.
🐂🐟🧀🥯☕️
Mickey says “good meow-ning”
We weighed him yesterday, by weighing us and then holding him to weigh again. Almost 9kg. You wouldn’t think it when he’s curled up. I checked some charts online and he doesn’t seem to be overweight, but he is due for his vaccination so I’ll ask the vet.
He eats less than the sachets say to (apparently a 4kg cat should eat three whole sachets!) because he has access to food all the time and he doesn’t eat constantly. Anyway, he’s healthy, he likes to play “chasey-hide-and-pounce”, so he’s keeping me fit too running around the apartment. I do want to invest in one of those cat-wheels, a biiiiig one, but I’m afraid it would be a waste if he isn’t interested.
I love him.
Don’t listen Mickey. You’re not fat, just plump. And very cute.
What a spectacular boy!
Morning Mickey. I love him too
Beautiful cat! He is fine 🙂
aww, he looks sleepy there and very cuddly. 🥰
Oh Mickey you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow mind, hey Mickey, hey Mickey
I sing that to him all the time 😂
I also replace “Jackie” with Mickey
Mickey when you scratch your post in tall lamp light
(Ohhhh Mickey)
Mickey when you got the zoomies in the dead of the night
Mick-mick-mickey, can’t get you off my mind
Second last day of holidays and I am sick with a head cold 🤕🤕 luckily didn’t have much planned because it’s now just rest and feeling sorry for myself
no shame in rest 🤗
so I’d say camping was a success. COLD, but a success. It was Tinyest’s first ever camping trip and he took it super well, but I will admit I think the mrs is right, it’ll be a LOT easier when he can walk. But still, good to get him started early! I also brought a friend who I’ve been begging to go for ages, she wasnt a huge fan of camping but gave it a go and says she had a great time and wants to go again, so thats awesome.
I know I say this every time, but Wilson’s Prom is just SO damn pretty. If your sitting here being like “man I haven’t camped in ages” or “Man, I’m not really into camping” I beg of you to give it a go. I’m prepared to bet its physically impossible to have a bad time down there.
it’ll be a LOT easier when he can walk
See, the thing here is, when they start to walk they almost always default to walking towards something dangerous as a first option…so yeah, it’s easier, but you’ll also get loads of lunging forward practice just as you’ve sat down or have just started doing something else… ha
haha no absolutely aware of that. i watched a dude do laps with a VB can in his hand 2 feet behind his toddler stumbling around. I aspire to that parent, just with a better drink choice.
I did think of you yesterday, I came home and started looking at camper trailers again cause my garage is FULL of wet tent/gazebo shit
I still haven’t been to Willys prom. It’s one of the few places left in Vic I haven’t been to yet, excluding the mountains in the east
Get on it! Honestly like the most pretty place in the state.
I can’t drive and don’t have a car
There’s no PT there, and I’m sure as shit not paying $90 for a taxi there
I’ll make it one day
Did you hike in ? Is there a good fairly accessible (for someone who doesn’t want to hike for miles on their own) spot?
Nah drove into tidal river with the kid. You just park on your site.
I just got my contents insurance renewal notice. I braced myself for a big increase, and apparently it is $2 less than last year?! Was there a leap year surcharge I was unaware of, or has my neighbourhood become safer?
Maybe you crossed their age threshold and they decided you’re less likely to start fires and forget to lock doors now
Well I sold my chiminea so I guess that parts true!
What’s a chimea
an outdoor fireplace
Portable fire pit with a chimney. Usually a terracotta thing on a metal stand.
Ok. Groceries purchased. Cat fed and brushed. Dinner in the oven.
I really hope this cold doesn’t last much longer. I live alone and am single so bring sick brings my life to a standstill.
Gibson is concerned also.
First day at second job was really awesome. Feels like I’m working with real people! And so much respect and warmth! Plus some very compatible interests/tastes/politics. Cozy, comfy office and such a short commute… I couldn’t ask for more??!
I think I have a random crush developing on a colleague however, which needs to be viciously stepped on and killed with a flamethrower immediately. Please let them have a partner. Haven’t heard one mentioned so far… if they don’t say anything I’m going to ask (obliquely).
Sounds awesome, so happy for you.
In regard to your work colleague though there are some people who never talk or mentions their other half or partner, even with people who I’ve worked with for over a decade, some of them rarely talk about their other half though they do talk about other aspects of their lives including their kids.
Just a friendly little heads up about it.
Oh for sure. Most people I’ve worked with have the age and circumstances to be partnered even if without kids, so I generally assume that unless said otherwise.
Not that I care 99% of the time; this is just an incredibly stupid crush that will go away soon enough… but it’ll go away faster if I know there’s a partner for sure!
But at the same time who knows what could happen!
Especially if this person isn’t with or seeing someone.
New beginnings and all.
Hell yeah! Glad it’s working out well ❤️
I definitely had a couple of poignant moments of “wow I can’t believe what I put up with at my old place”.
But it’s like with love and relationships, sometimes the best healing from an old job isn’t just time off, but a new and better environment to rewire the brain 😊
We’ll see how this goes over the next few weeks. Never managed two jobs like this before
I totally agree with you. Time off is nice, but getting back onto the proverbial horse makes a hell of a difference.
i think i gave away my entire stock of motivation
If you have one to me I’m definitely struggling to accept it.
Summoning every ounce of motivation to clean up a bad move furniture right now.
Not helped by an upset tummy and pain.
I have none to spare. Apologies.
I found some that someone tossed aside but it’s all gone now and I’ve expended it.
Oh no! I am a happy recipient of the breakfast motivation, I shall share some back. 💪💪💪 you can do it!
You’re not going to believe this - after one person at the auction place called on Friday to say that the furniture I want to sell can’t be picked up, someone else called to talk about pickup.
We agreed it would be easier for me to bring the stuff up anyway but they now don’t have a slot for me to drop it off until 2:45.
Anyway the neighbour came around to help me load the car so that’s all done, and he helped me disassemble Mum’s old bed in the bargain and waved off any suggestion of payment. What a guy.I have been listening to a book about scientific intuition, what is is and why people believe incorrect theories and facts.
Answer, we are born as babies who know nothing, cognitive limitation as adults and the way we live and experience the world around us frames the questions we ask.
I was really surprised at the cognitive limitations data, even graduates of physics degrees might not know or understand basic principles because they are unable to have the mental imagery required for understanding. ie, unable to use visualisation
I suppose that explains why some students can pass exams but can’t explain what they learnt or remember it years later or integrate the knowledge into their wide world view
What’s it called? That sounds fascinating
Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong By: Andrew Shtulman
“In Scienceblind, cognitive and developmental psychologist Andrew Shtulman shows that the root of our misconceptions lies in the theories about the world we develop as children. They’re not only wrong, they close our minds to ideas inconsistent with them, making us unable to learn science later in life. So how do we get the world right? We must dismantle our intuitive theories and rebuild our knowledge from its foundations. The reward won’t just be a truer picture of the world, but clearer solutions to many controversies - around vaccines, climate change, or evolution - that plague our politics today.”
Thanks!
This book has really made me think about what I thought of the world when I was a little child and then an older child.
Here’s the thing, no adult ever asked me anything about my beliefs so any thoughts I had weren’t put into speech or writing. And because of that I have to try to remember original thoughts rather than recall an action. It’s not easy.
I expect like most people I like to think I was smart and didn’t have silly ideas. But that’s not true, I was a kid , I didn’t have theories, for example the ground was the ground and I thought no more about it.
Lol reading that thread on the other website about school refusal. So many people don’t get it. I was a chronic absentee, I didn’t even go for the entirety of year 10 and had way more than 20 days off per year before and after, from primary to HS. I was abused young, and my mother had untreated schizophrenia. Neither of us had support, and she certainly didn’t realise what I was going through. She’d sleep all day, because she worked nights as a cleaner in a factory. So she wasn’t home at night, and wasn’t present during the day.
Then, if I went to school I was relentlessly bullied for having frizzy hair, being fatter than the other girls (funnily enough, I was a normal weight, and they were starving themselves :/ ), for being interested in science or “boy things”. The boys bullied me too, because I wasn’t “cool” enough. I wanted to do “boy things”. Assaulted, teased. Starting in primary. I distinctly remember the boys not allowing me to play footy with them, and the girls not wanting me to play with them because I didn’t wear lip gloss or straighten my hair.
I wanted to go, I felt like a failure, which just fuelled the depression no one realised I had. I cannot blame my mum, she herself didn’t have support for her mental health, I could hardly expect she would know what to do with me.
And it wasn’t really the schools fault either. Some teachers sucked, sure, but the classes were oversized and there were kids who were loudly unruly. I was quiet, and I got really good grades. I fell through the cracks, and it was easy to fall back in the 2000s.
I’m glad that the kids in the article are getting into schools that can meet their needs and foster a sense of self-worth. That just wasn’t available to me back then. It has affected me, and still does. I blame the system, no real individual. If you don’t conform, then you’re just left to rot. And if your parents aren’t great and perfect, or they’re absent… What can the child do??
Anyway, that’s my little rant. That “other place” can be such a cancer.
hugs :(
I sometimes wonder if people who bullied others ever think about it later in life. It makes me sad to think that it’s such an accepted thing, wherever we look.
So sorry this happened to you. So many hugs.
That is on the school and all of society really.
I wish Australians were more litigious, I wish perps were frightened to do the wrong thing because they would get sued up the wazoo.
Because relying on other kids, teachers and principals to do the right thing isn’t working
Travelling to the UK next month. What card should I take? Is there a 101 on this somewhere? I’m with CommBank.
@fullkitwanker @Seagoon_ I got one of these the last time I travelled: https://www.cashpassport.com.au/
As long as your card is a Visa or MasterCard, it should work over there in most cases. However, I would check the fees before using it overseas.
If you use your regular bank card, very likely you will be charged currency conversion fees for every transaction you make overseas. I’m with CBA and they charge these fees for my everyday account.
What you need is an account that doesn’t charge currency conversion or ATM withdrawal. Look at Bankwest for debit or Latitude for credit.
Does anyone know if there’s a Canning’s equivalent butcher in the inner North/outer North? Free range, low salt, sausages, etc?
