Switching to an Aussie name worked. I’m getting a lot of callbacks and interviews being scheduled.
It is what it is I guess.
Daily discussion thread: 🕊️ Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Submitted 6 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Feeling depressed. The cold and dark sucks. Cost of living sucks. Need a holiday but can’t afford one. Going to take a week off work in a few months but it’s not the same as going somewhere and getting away from it all. Pet boarding would cost heaps so even cheap isn’t on the cards. Tax cuts sounded great til I got a land tax bill that had doubled because it’s how Dan andrew’s is paying back the Covid payout debts. (It had a nice letter with it to explain that). And I know there’s people who are in very very shit circumstances compared to me, so self compassion isn’t a thing.
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Isn’t PPR exempt from land tax?
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
If you got a land tax bill for the one property that you reside in (owner occupier/ppr), call the State Revenue Office and they can have it removed. You may need to provide proof it is the only property you own, and that you live in permanently, but they will explain that.
I used to work for the State Revenue Office of Victoria, specifically collection land tax and payroll tax. Please contact them if this tax bill is for your PPR!
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I moved in with fiancé so it’s subject to land tax now, it’s the only house I own. Relationship is a bit dicey atm, sadly. Can see why women get divorced around age 40-50.
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I feel you hard. The SADs hit hard on these chilly and short days :/
SituationCake@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Sometimes I feel so Groundhog Day. Each day merges into the next and the next. But unlike the movie there’s no magic trick to break the spell. Sleep eat work tv housework weekday weekend repeat.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
The weekly shopping at safeway/woolies did it for me. I looked ahead and saw decades of it, I would cry in the supermarket i hated shopping so much.
Now I shop online and on random days.
ajsadauskas@aus.social 6 months ago
@Seagoon_ @SituationCake When I start feeling that way, it's usually a sign for me that something has to change, or I need a bigger goal to look forward to.
Is it time to take up a new hobby? New job? Move house? Do something on the weekend you wouldn't normally do? Join a community group? Plan something? Catch up with an old friend or meet a new one?
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
This hit me the other day. Really, really hard. Here’s to better days.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 6 months ago
This was me last couple of years. I don’t feel it atm as I’m new to my jobs and I certainly think getting out of my house for work helps make it less monotonous, but I can see it happening again on the horizon.
Its an useful feeling, it prompts change and makes us into more interesting people with more to offer the world. What’s really helped in the past has been having a meaningful goal to work towards (savings being an obvious one), and in better times, scheduling in something unusual or out of the ordinary when I can (an overnight trip somewhere new, trying out a new activity, even looking at and applying for new jobs). I may not necessarily enjoy the latter, but it does provide enough contrast/discomfort to help me regain appreciation for my life or remember why I originally chose to play certain things safe.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Woop, this time it seems to be my turn to have eaten something that overstayed its welcome. Not sure if it was the rice or the dal. Probably the dal, it’s lasted a week. Burping like crazy and feeling a few stabs in the gut. Usually my gut is fairly durable with old food, but it’s been a little weird lately… handling coffee well again? But back to the burping? Hmmm…
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
COVID and my period!? What else? What else Universe!?
WHINGE WHINE WAH
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 6 months ago
This is NOT the time to break a leg …
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
😬 I’ll hold off on the jazzercize then
Eagle@aussie.zone 6 months ago
At least it’s all over and done with at the same time.
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Reschedule leprosy for next week then?
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
4:00: wallow in self pity;
4:30: stare into the abyss;
5:00: solve world hunger, tell no one;
5:30: jazzercize;
6:30: dinner with me - I can’t cancel that again;
7:00: wrestle with my self-loathing…
I’m booked!Yeah I think leprosy will have to wait until next week
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 6 months ago
**Trigger Warning: corriander
I’ve been out enjoying the lovely weather in the garden and am pleased to report that the late planting of corriander last year has successfully self-seeded and I now have a patch of baby corriander. There is also a bit of self-seeded lettuce popping up, and my bok-choy mustard hybrids are going well now the weather has cooled down.
I’ve also planted some snow pea seeds and will cross my fingers they don’t get eaten before they manage to grow.
Cendana@aussie.zone 6 months ago
**Trigger Warning: corriander
Umm… “fuck coriander”? 😅
bull@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I absolute hate coriander so thank you for the trigger warningb❤️
wscholermann@aussie.zone 6 months ago
“You hear a lot of talk about the cartels in Mexico, but the truth is that the beaches are safe and all the surfers are safe, you just have to be alert, just as you would in any other city in the world,” said Otanez, whose group took part in a “paddle out” vigil for the three slain men over the weekend."
Um no this particular area is not safe. Not even according to locals. To think otherwise is simply delusional. And this plays out statistically as well.
“In 2021, Baja California had the second highest number of homicides in Mexico, accounting for nearly one out of 10 homicides nationwide.”
It’s really irresponsible to encourage travel to the area.
tone212_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’ve previously looked into traveling to Tijuana, which is in the Baja California region. You’d think a big city right on the border of the US is safe but most people were saying don’t stay in the city after dark, tourist areas only, so many precautions to take. Alert to the potential of violent crime against tourists is probably where I draw the line on travelling somewhere. If the worst thing that’s going to happen to me is being pickpocketed or my phone snatched out of my hand by a passing motorbike, that’s much less of a worry.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Someone fucked around and found out. It’s a tragedy, but completely avoidable by not travelling to areas known for violent cartel activity.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I think I will do one week self care and self organising, then next week doing some stuff around the house and garden. 😊👍
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’ve put the oven on, I’m making banana honey bread and roasting a chicken for dinner. :)
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Yes, yes…come to the dark side 🐔
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
It’s a small chook and they don’t have as dark meat but legs it is. ( Need bigger chooks. )
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Sounds perfect. Meanwhile it’s salad at my place :-(
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
the chook is in the oven, rice is in the cooker and I will be steaming some broccoli. Then I just have to make the gravy.
The banana bread is chewy from the honey and will be good for brekkie. :)
Can I send you some?
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Project day today! My nerdy electronics from that dodgy place that doesn’t do refunds for mixing deliveries arrived today. Finally got around to fixing the boot errors windows was having. It seems it decided to do an update I never asked for and screwed up its boot file. I had to download the 6gb iso and flash it onto a hard drive to get a working command prompt, but it rebuilt the file no worries
Cendana@aussie.zone 6 months ago
6.15am, sleepy wife in passenger seat.
Halfway through a left turn, the guy behind me honks.
So as a petty revenge, I did 40 in a 50 zone. Guy behind flashes headlights.
Eventually the guy overtook us. My wife and I looked at the guy. Staring back at us was a possibly 19 year old green P Asian male in command of an MG HS.
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Today begun explosively sneezing blood. Yay……
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Oh good it’s not just me wondering what smells like bloody sinuses.
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
It sure ain’t. And I need to scrub the door. Later. Next week. Probably.
ajsadauskas@aus.social 6 months ago
@Seagoon_ I really should be going to bed sometime right about now, yet I'm still procrastinating about doing the dishes...
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Good night.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
the mornings and evenings in autumn are so full of bird song
Duenan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Dammit. I hate this cold.
Getting back drip into my throat and it’s making me cough all day long and it doesn’t sound nice at all, like a frog dying or something.
What’s worse is that it’s keeping me from sleeping too waking up to coughing fits because whatever is in my throat is tickling it and making it dry.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
oh noes, that drip is the worst.
hugs and have some steamy hot honey lemon drink 🍋🍯🍵
Duenan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Sadly I don’t have that available to me :(
I’ll try to go to sleep as best I can. Lost the will to stay up to do anything.
Thanks for the hugs
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Man, this original X-Men cartoon from the 90’s is seriously not for kids. Glad they’ve added new episodes this year but yeah it’s pretty intense.
bull@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I watched and loved it as a kid when it was released. Very happy to get more of it now with X-Men 97.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Classy
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 6 months ago
so you know that “add extra member” option on Netflix to add someone outside your houselhold…when you add them (and pay, and provide their email etc), do they log in via their email and my password? or do they get a login request email where they log in with their email, and then get asked to set a password…? asking for a very tech illierate sister in law living in another state…(as in not really able to forward any email on to me) - can’t find this on the website
mysticgreg@aussie.zone 6 months ago
We did this for my mother in law who previously used our account. They receive an email asking them to set their own password and log in with their own credentials, you never need to share yours.
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Cool. Thanks I’ll let them know.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Thumb wound day two. Not so bad. Was pretty concerned how long it bled for yesterday but now now bleeding, looks much better
spoiler
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 6 months ago
your condition seemed touch and go for a while.I’ve got to hand it to you for being so brave. 👍
mysticgreg@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Glad for the update so that we can really keep our finger on the pulse of the recovery.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 6 months ago
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
brutal
Deffo reccomend those bandaids that close wounds, they pull the skin together.
Reminds me of when I was 10yo and I cut my left pointer finger, top and bottom, with a pair of scissors. Got a small amount of nerve damage, but if I curl my finger it looks like a bit like a mons pubis
mons pubis on my digit
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
That’s hot
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Woo, that’s a decent cut.
bacon@aussie.zone 6 months ago
👍
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Did you end up going to the hospital? How did you treat it?
Try and keep it clean and use some first aid disinfectant wipes if you have any, otherwise either unscented isopropyl wipes or just soap and water and band aids/gauze will do
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I wrapped it in a rotation of clean socks until about 7.30 at night (12 hours post incident) when I realis d I had band aids at home. I applied one over the bloody mess of my thumb and went to bed. After pic is the morning. I didn’t go to hospital or call nurse on call or anything. I figured: if I die, I die. I’ll monitor for infection though
melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone 6 months ago
80 mins until my alarm. Do I try to go back to sleep or just give up and get up?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Movie review. Knight of Cups with Christian Bale.
This movie is so beautiful nearly made me cry.
5 hobbits
prime_factor@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Very tempted to sell some of my stoncks, and buy a 2 bedroom older walk up unit.
There’s a tonne of them coming up for sale right now, and the mortgage + strata payments work out to be around the same as the rent I pay.
Pilk@aussie.zone 6 months ago
What price range are you looking at?
prime_factor@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Under $500K. Ideally under $450K.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I was looking at pasta recipes with pineapple and apparently it is a thing. It’s called Hawaiian pasta. Everything that’s on a Hawaiian pizza is in the pasta. Genius.
shiny_idea@aussie.zone 6 months ago
The German TV show “Dark” featured a (nostalgic?) dish called Toast Hawaii. I think it’s just ham and cheese on toast plus a pineapple ring.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_Hawaii
Now that I check, Wikipedia says it also had a cherry on top. Wild.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I love that show!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Hahaha. I think I need to do this. Thanks.
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
COVID nightmares are wild
Response to Seagoon: I bought codral, not Sudafed, so that’s prolly why my nose is swollen. I should have bought Sudafed, or spoken to a chemist for the good shit (codeine)
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I stupidly ordered nestle hot choc sachets from Amazon without checking the ingredients. Corn syrup dammit. Had the nestle hot choc sachets at a training centre in the city and could only find them on Amazon. Clearly not the same though.
bacon@aussie.zone 6 months ago
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LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Thank you all for the support yesterday. Reading your messages helped me feel so much better.
Yesterday one of my friends drove half an hour to go for a walk with me (which is more than bar guy would’ve ever done). Then we went to the shops and tried on clothes. Afterwards, we met up with a mutual friend and her friends. The friends were so nice. They gave me really nice hugs, made me punch pillows, talked to me empathetically, bought me KFC because I hadn’t eaten all day, and then we drove to the beach. This experience has shown me that I can do so much better, as someone who hasn’t had a good time socially.
Not getting closure in person and feeling the loss absolutely sucks. It’s going to be sad for a bit. He didn’t even fight for me! I had guys who I’d only been on a few dates with wanting to talk it out and try to problem solve. I should’ve left months ago at my first sign of doubt. But there’s nothing I can do now. Now I know that I need to listen to what my body is telling me, because maybe it isn’t all that shit. I shouldn’t have to cry 30+ times just in a month because that is not normal (yep I have a crying tally whoops).
I also feel fucking relieved. Good riddance. I don’t have to beg for someone to show up for me anymore.