Submitted 9 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
going to do the good old fashioned walk into a place hiring with a smile and a CV and maybe a handshake
big pay cut if i get it but it is the line of work i’ve always done and enjoyed instead of this random job i have right now
it will also bring regular breakfast back
Good luck chef! Applying for jobs is daunting but you sound like you’ve got it together 🦾
There’s definitely something to be said about doing work you enjoy even if it pays less. We won’t complain about regular breakfast returning either.
Thank you!! It’s the exact line of work I’ve been telling people I want. I will feel much more relaxed too given it is work I’ve been doing on and off for a very long time.
Hey Kitten. Not sure if you’ll see this.
I sent you a PM, would you be able to take a look at it?
Good luck!
Thank you!!
Crossing all bits for you chef!
Thank you!!
Good luck!
Thank you!
It’s been a tough day in the office for Mr Snowy, who’s now falling asleep at the desk.
Mr Snowy is a very handsome boy
For the first time in what seems like ages I haven’t needed to turn any heating on. It’s nice. I could get used to this.
I had a night like that last week but I aired out my house today so it’s gotten a little cold again. I can’t wait to not need heating daily. Just about a month to go…
I aired the place due to damp and it is freezing
bought ticket for 1pm deadpool
i should really get up
got up 12 minutes before the bus arrives
My anxiety could never
Performance: optimised
I want cooookiiieess to go with my evening cuppa… but I’m too lazy to wear real clothes to go to the shops… I’ll save myself some calories tonight then 😮💨
So Mr P tested positive for covid today, but via some miracle or misadventure all the rest of us have tested negative. Thank goodness, as Miniest was at a party earlier and if she’d tested positive I’d have had to contact the parents 😬Now he is quarantined in his room moaning and demanding things lol.
Oh that’s no fun — poor thing 😔😷
I remember a couple of months back when my partner had covid, it was a logistical nightmare.
She got the bedroom, I got the living room and slept on the couch.
We both wore masks if we had to be in the same room for any reason.
And then one day I gave her a bowl of soup and she managed to spill it all over the bed. (Thank heaven for mattress protectors!)
Making the bed while wearing gloves and a mask is not an experience I’m keen to repeat anytime soon!
The good news is she started getting better after a week or so. And had completely recovered after a month.
She first noticed her sense of smell was returning while walking past some smokers in front of Woolies.
“Do you smell that? Wait — I can smell that! I can smell the smokers!” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a nonsmoker so overjoyed at the smell of cigarette smoke! 😆
Anyway wishing Mr Peeler a speedy recovery. Yeah, it’ll be tough, but hopefully he’ll be feeling better in a week or two. Take care 💜
Thankyou for your kind thoughts 🙂 It’s awkward here as he’s walking through the lounge to use the bathroom frequently enough for me to be concerned about mine and the children’s health. So I hunted up my family’s old chamber pot (mum called it “the gazunder” because it gazunder the bed) and gave it to him to use. But, like all diehard smokers, he still goes out to smoke 😠
Hubs lost his sense of smell and taste both times with covid - the one time I caught it i didn’t. He’s still scuntch about it.
I had covid recently and my OH and kid didn’t get it, despite all being together in the house. Fingers crossed you’ll avoid it
Thankyou Springy, here’s hoping all our previous practise with masks and sanitiser pays off!
Anti-gratitude thread.
Got like five hours of sleep and woke up late for work. Was a minute late. Every Sunday it’s the same and I feel like I’m sacrificing my mental health for the sake of this three hour shift.
It’s a beautiful looking day outside and I am once again trapped inside at work.
no buses and trams in the city 😡
I have to do something today I really don’t want to, but I have no choice. Ah well, it won’t be long now.
Good luck 🫡
I have some mince which I think is freezer burnt :(
Freezer burn is just a bit dehydrated, it should still be fine for most things. If it is very bad use it for something like bolognese sauce that gives it lots of moisture and time to rehydrate.
I feel like Australia is increasingly becoming stratified. There are people toward the top who are still a bit more protected but the people at the bottom are left fighting each other for scraps and dragging each other down like crabs in a bucket.
It has always been like this.
For a few decades the middle class forgot they were still part of the proletariat and weren’t really independent bourgeoisie.
Occupy was a Russian front, ignore it.
What the Marxists never say, or maybe they never figured it out, is that America and Australia only had good post war living standards for the working classes because they were the only western countries that hadn’t had their factories bombed to the shithouse. It meant we became primary and secondary industry powerhouses. But once industry had enough money again and factories could be built in places with cheaper labour we were doomed. That’s what capitalism is.
me and my husband had to get professional jobs overseas to escape the old boy network and that was 25 years ago
Just last week, John Quiggin released a book on pretty much this exact topic, called “After Neoliberalism”.
You can download the eBook for free, or order a printed copy here: press.anu.edu.au/…/after-neoliberalism
If you’re interested in an in-depth look at the economic and government policies that erosion of the middle class happened, it’s worth a read.
@melbaboutown @Seagoon_
Apparently the revolutionary French visited Australia and declared Australia practised "Socialism without doctrine". That was long ago and trades hall today is a museum of collapsed trade unions. Both left and right totalitarian systems are currently regarded as frightfully modern era and intemperate. I can't wait to see what comes after post-modernism.
It’s going to keep getting worse too. I give us about 4 years.
Why isn’t it listed in descending order, or even alphabetically?
I think it’s ordered by lane they were in.
I had a dream last night that the woman buying my sewing machine on Marketplace accidentally gave me way too much money (like a couple of thousand instead of a hundred). I knew the right thing to do was to let her know and give the extra cash back, but holding a big wad of money was way too tempting. I was still wresting between my decision as to whether to do the right thing or keep the money when I woke up.
Keep the money. She clearly doesn’t need it
Interesting…
Wrestling with any big decisions?
A major difference between my wife and I:
I spent 10 minutes banging a wooden spoon on a standard kitchen knife trying to open a coconut. I give up after the wooden spoon disintegrates, the coconut still closed.
My wife comes into the kitchen and swings the same knife at the coconut a few times. Less than a 30 seconds later, we have access to coconut water.
You obviously loosened it for her
😅
I’ll see how long it takes her to open one from the mostly-original state next time we’re in the kitchen.
I grew up watching my mum crack open coconuts all the time though I’ve only done it myself a couple of times. I think you have to do it perpendicular to the seam. Whereabouts are you getting fresh coconuts? Are they any good? I’ve wanted to have a go at getting some but for grating the flesh, not for water.
We’ve gotten it from a few vendors over the months, like from Queen Vic market, Footscray, and most recently yesterday in Springvale Central.
My wife otherwise thinks they’re all not fresh - it lacks the taste of when the young coconut is opened freshly chopped down from the tree. I thought it’s so sweet it’s almost artificial.
In my wife’s home town home we have a rather large heavy knife. A few well placed hits is all it takes to get the water.
Use a drill.
Oooh bringing a drill to a coconut fight.
Planning has begun for a trip to LA28 Olympics. Might as well tick that box before departing this mortal coil.
My first headache in years. Ouch. I think it’s dust from the new old cupboard and spring glare
I am not ashamed to say that I cried at the end of Deadpool when the song came on.
Back from the bellarine with yet another big bag o’ lemons. Never ends! will have to give more away.
Starting to get thoughts about doing icy poles though.
Basically squeeze them into ice cube trays. thaw them out come summer. Chuck it in moulds (with water / sugar and some berries)… wait for it to freeze. Grab a drill, pour liquid-ish icecream in the holes, partially re-freeze, jab the stick in, then back in the freezer… hrmm.
Random question: have you heard the phrase “(he / she /it) went mad and we shot them” in response to a query, or even just answering the phone? It’s something quite commonly used in my family, but when i answered a work call with it “not here, she went mad so we shot her” the zoomer on the other end lost their shit
My hair turned out really nice today. Not sure why, I washed it with a detergent ’soap’ bar and haven’t cut it yet.
I think the issues I was having were only from hair being a bit too long and not remembering to brush it enough.
Just had some Portuguese chicken. Definitely challenged my spice tolerance levels. Mouth and lips still tingling 10 min later.
On an unrelated note, I find it astounding that new builds, even ones that look relatively expensive still have single glaze windows.
Random sunday braindump:
Had a BIG reset sleep last night. Feel asleep at 5:30. Woke up at 8 for a bite to eat and listened to podcasts for.a while then back asleep round ten for around 11 hours.
I knew I had not given myself enough rest to get over that flu and my brain has been ramping up in tighter and tighter circles all week. I feel calm finally today.
Today I will clean the sheets and make some food basics for the week and catch up on a little bit of planning work.
I think I need to reset my bujo rhythm too - it’s turning into an unmanaged Todo list of doom. I think I am going to try to enforce 20 mins at either end of the day to sit down with a cuppa and review/plan/organise.
Sanity check: I’ve got a little bit of chicken alfredo pasta left over. Not enough for a serve by itself, but I was thinking maybe chucking it in the jaffle maker for lunch tomorrow? Mrs says that sounds horrible, but she also says a bakedbean jaffle is gross and hates a hot chip sandwich so I’m not sure I can trust her judgement.
🎶it’s a DAAAAMN COLLLLD niggght🎵
Just two more points and the Hawks would have knocked off GWS.
So disappointing 😞
This just appeared in the abc newsfeed - home sewers welcome apparently Still fairly exxy by the metre. Just better than fabric lab or rathdowne remnants.
Gratitude thread!
The sun :) and only a few weeks (??) left hopefully of super coldness. Every year, I forget when it starts to warm up.
Watched Fried Green Tomatoes. What a sweet and very 90s movie. I felt all the warm and tinglies. Jessica Tandy was very lovely but her accent was all over the place which was distracting…
Got an 8am shift tomorrow morning, so today is relax and play games, and some study.
Tuesday and Wednesday will be my big study days, got a project to make for my prac which will be interesting bringing in on the bus lol.
So, for the last week or two, my zygomatic bone (the corner of my eye socket furthest from my nose) has been hurting. When I blink or touch it, it hurts a lot. There’s no bruising though, or any real swelling. But it’s painful and sore.
I’m low key stressed it’s something serious, but it could also be a small fracture from when Mickey pounced on my head. Could be nothing. I should go to the doctor, will have to make an appointment this week.
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StudChud@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Tucked-in Mickey
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Duenan@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Kitty!!!
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 9 months ago
He’s smiling
AJSadauskas@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Nawww 😻
Best cat. Deserves all the scratches behind the ears ❤️
just_kitten@aussie.zone 9 months ago
I want to join him
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Hi Mickey. Luv U 😘