I was made redundant last week, which I’m still coming to terms with. But after wallowing for a week or so, today I went to the zoo and saw the baby elephants. And now I’ve opened champagne. It’s my birthday today, my (quite large) payout’s just come through, and I have an interview on Friday. I’m going to be fine.
Daily Discussion Thread: 🌸Tue 16 Apr 2024
Submitted 1 year ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Congarats! And nothing wrong with a good wallow.
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
A redundancy is a chance for a fresh start. Enjoy the down time. Best of luck for your interview!
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 year ago
May your new year of life be off to a good start, closing one chapter to start another exciting opportunity
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Happy birthday!🎂
notgold@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Happy birthday and good luck on Friday
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Happy birthday 🎉 🐘 💰🍾
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Eee Happy b’day!
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Happy birthday!
Sending you good vibes for the interview on Friday!
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Happy Birthday!
ReadEverything@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Happy birthday 🎁🎈
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Happy birthday!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
🥂
Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Ah yes, happy birthday tenant, here’s a rent increase. We compared your northern suburbs 1 bedroom apartment to inner eastern suburbs two bedroom apartments and decided we deserve more money.
FUCK Real Estate Agents. I will be disputing this, or at the very least forcing the issue and making them give me air con if they want the increase. I’ve been in this flat three years and the damn thing is practically unlivable.
Day ruined. Fuck you Real Estate Agent.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Happy birthday 🎂
Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Thanks mate
Nath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
happy birthday tenant
Happy birthday @dalek_Thal! 🎂
Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Aww, thanks @Nath!
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Happy b’day!
Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Thanks mate!
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Contest it bro. Fight the man!
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 year ago
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I had a dental appointment today to find out about lots of expensive work. The bad news is it will cost many $$$. The good news is it can all be spread out over a couple of years to maximize health insurance rebates. So it will take a while, but I can look forward to a future without gaps in my teeth. 😁
fullkitwanker@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Ah well my insurance won’t cover a nurse on call so I have to look at other options to get my dressing changed. Are there any cheap GPs or other services that could help me with this?!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
The way I pick fruit compared to my husband is vastly different. I pick it up, put it in a bag. That will do. He carefully selects a piece, examines it, caresses it, talks to it before carefully lowering the chosen piece into a bag. I am a very patient wife.
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Anyone else look up from their morning coffee to see a mouse casually walking across the kitchen floor like they freaking owned the place…! daaaah
fullkitwanker@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Oh gosh I asked the nurse to take a pic of my wound as I can’t see it and it’s not a wound…it’s a 1x1 sized chunk of a hole! Yikes!
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Found out kidcalhoon2 has a kid in their class called Dante. I asked her if they were even supposed to be there. She’ll get the joke in about 20 years maybe.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 year ago
For the past 2 weeks, the shower has been leaking really, really badly.
Plumber came and fixed it.
I didn’t realise how fucking loud it was until it was repaired. Holy shit that was fucked lol
oztrin@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I’ve neglected yard maintenance with the lurgie and the fig tree has been dropping leaves early, so I’ve just spent half an hour raking the leaves into piles. Good thing I haven’t later start today.
In other news may have a buyer for the furniture I don’t want to take with me - fingers crossed!Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Had a moderately busy day , did not have any pain killer and didn’t think of my bad back once. iow, it’s better. 😊
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 year ago
With the recent community hyper-fixation on bees, I’d like to draw out attention to another issue: the lack of easy to attain quality soy sauce.
I went to KT Mart today, I was looking for two things: a sweet refreshing beverage that I didn’t know what it was until I drank it, and some decent soy sauce.
I got my beverage (Milkis), and I went looking for soy sauce. I found a small range of low-quality “cooking” soy sauce, which tastes terrible, but for the life of me I couldn’t find any decent table soy sauce. There was all other kinds of sauces, terriyaki… kelp broth… dumpling dipping sauce… low sodium soy sauce… BUT WHERE WAS THE ACTUAL SOY SAUCE?!
My last purchase of soy sauce of questionable provenance was a low sodium variety from ALDI. I couldnt use it, it was disgusting.
I’m at a loss. Is this related to climate change?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
My first banned from a sub in reddit. It had to be latestagecapitalism . 😂 I mocked a poster for antisemitism, which was not funny.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 year ago
👋
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Today’s car inspection wasn’t the slam dunk I hoped it would be, but still a decent contender… I need to decide by this evening if I want to pull the pin and get a pre purchase inspection done on it. Annoyingly I still might not be able to get it ready by next week to use for work.
Argh!! This is where my overthinking, paralysis-analysis affected brain really struggles
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Latest daycare germs: a stupid dry cough. Tedious as f.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Pupdog gave us a freight just before bed and then Kittycat spent the night being an absolute monster. Am wfh today to take Pup to the vet this morning, must resist the temptation to nap this afternoon.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Enjoy your day everyone ❤️
wscholermann@aussie.zone 1 year ago
The weird jingoism in the media reporting around the Sydney stabbing is extremely cringe. “Warrior” cops and “god tier legends”. Really? It is possible to report the news without being all tabloid about it.
Also “thoughts and prayers” from insert various people. Cool thanks for letting us know. Completely meaningless and predictable “sentiment”.
wscholermann@aussie.zone 1 year ago
When I see Aussie boganism on full display overseas the cultural cringe is real and I just can’t.
I’m like there are Australians here? Ok let’s go somewhere else.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I’ve been wanting to watch some of the classic movies for a while now. I think on Friday night I’m finally gonna do it. I’ve been told the godfather and the Shawshank redemption are the 2 “must watches” so since there’s godfather posters in every pizza shop in the country, it seems only fitting I order a pizza
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I’m reading an old travel book about Arabia and Abyssinia starting in the 1930s and continuing post war. 😕 As per usual women and children are invisible.
And it’s more brutal than I imagined and i’ve read Speke, Bruce and Burton and they generally didn’t tone it down. TE Lawrence did allude to some brutality.
bacon@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
all that fartblarting about how even existing on the internet on win7 nowadays makes you a horrible monster full of disease and the one fucking box in the house that gets compromised is the win10.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Just got home after 2nd six-monthly checkup post cancer. I am happy to say that I am still cancer-free. Peter Mac Hospital in its infinite wisdom has removed all the free books for reading while waiting to see the doctor. This is a major step back. I found a couple of beauties last year while I was in treatment. Things I would never in a million years have actually spent money on, but were splendid reads. On the plus side, the new station at Parkville is just outside the door and is looking splendid and hopefully will be available for use soon. The new tram stop in Royal Parade is excellent and nearly big enough. Also the coffee in the Wellness Centre is still good but the selection of bikkies has reduced somewhat.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yay! Fuck cancer!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yay to you 🎉🎉🎉
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Thanks.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Great news! ❤️
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Thanks.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Good news. So many hugs.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Thanks. It’s been a weird and somewhat wonderful ride.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 year ago
That is so good to hear. I hope it never comes back
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Me too. No one should have to go through the whole cancer ‘journey’. It’s horrible. But for me at least I think it’s over. The doc said that after 3 years I can pretty much forget I ever had it, which is nice. 2 years to go.
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 year ago
That’s wonderful news.
I really hate cancer, it’s such a scurge and can affect anyone at any stage without descrimination.
I hope one day we can find a cure and beat it.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Thanks. Mine was apparently related to the HPV virus - and the current programme of vaccinating every female of reproductive age against that virus means that cervical cancer at least may well become a thing of the past in just a few years. Huge advances being made all the time.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Fuck cancer! There can’t be too much more above ground work since the historic fence is back in and most roads line marked. Bit annoying to lose a tram stop, but getting the bus back on route will be grand.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Amazing news ❤️
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Very good news!
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Hoo boy YASSS!
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Congrats! Someone in my life had to go through these, and I swear my heart stopped for a day every time they went in till I got the “all clear” phone call. Treat yourself and your loved ones to something special tonight.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Will do. Thanks for your good wishes! Happily, some cancers CAN be cured nowadays - it’s no longer an automatic death sentence. I got lucky with one that could be fixed fairly easily.
Cendana@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Congrats!! 🤗
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Fantastic news!
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 year ago
That’s awesome news! Good to hear!
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 1 year ago
🖤
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Amazing news! Hope it stays away for good.