Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 16 June 2025

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  First time holding a bubs.

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  easier than holding a cat.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    awww 💖

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ol’ girl goes in for her colectomy tm. In for a week +.

  Bit worried about the recovery as she weighs bugger all. Definitely not going in in the best of shapes. I’ve locked horns w/ the ol’ boy way too many times but the main thing is food.

  Dude can’t cook and that will be a problem.

  How the fuck you can go through life and best you can do is a crumpet or overdone steak is beyond me. Hasn’t even tried once.

  I understand that generation is a bit different w/ gender roles etc. but following a recipe isn’t exactly hard.

  Ffs, drop the ‘it’s a womans job’ shit mentality and learn. Seriously stuck in the 1950’s.

  Thanks for reading my rant.

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  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Local council might have assistance available - especially if it’s only for meals. If money’s no object, then hiring someone to come in and cook every couple of days might be a useful way to deal with this.

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  • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Light and easy are well tolerated by my older clients.

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    10/10 rant except for the part where it is a very real problem 😔 the dickhead husband of my favourite aunt is a bit like this - he can cook some very basic meals and a couple of overspiced dishes. But it doesn’t matter how sick his wife is, he cooks when he feels like it (esp if there are guests to show off to), but she is expected to always cook. Really grinds my gears. Your old man might need a bit of a slap in the face about the reality of the situation…

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    get lots of ready made frozen meals

    call Meals on Wheels

    then let him fend for himself

    of course the worry will be he will expect Ol’ Girl to cook once she’s back home

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    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      expect Ol’ Girl to cook

      Yep.

      The problem is she can only eat soup, which he won’t eat. Expecting her to cook 2 different things in recovery is just not reasonable. She wants to be seen that she’s cooking (as weird as that sounds) but she’s increasingly making poor decisions in the kitchen.

      The expectation that she cooks for him has been there for decades and it’s pretty much dangerous now (hot liquids / poor eyesight / weak etc.).

      Made a whole bunch in the last few days so she’ll be fine. Just pisses me off there hasn’t been an effort by ol’ boy.

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I went through similar stuff with my parents and I do remember a dr explaining to me that people that age are unlikely to change their ways (probably after I’d expressed frustration about the situation), which was very hard to get my head around.

    Could you stock the house up with microwaveable soups and meal packs (there’s a few companies that deliver). Hospitals also have social workers who can help, although if your dad is in the medical field I suspect he’d be resistant to ‘being told what to do’. Mine definitely was.

    Could you enlist one of his mates or a rellie to have a quiet word? Or could your mum spend a bit of recovery time in a rehab place, if that’s an option?

    I reckon you’re across all these things but just putting them out there. Sending healing thoughts for your mum and hugs for you - it’s such a difficult situation.

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  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Aren’t those meal kit boxes pretty simple? Helofresh

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    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The kit is fine. The problem here is actually turning the kit into food. Hot liquids, stove elements etc. suck a big one when vision/balance/grip strength is impaired. Remembering my mother when she started her final decline - all the elbows of her cardies were burned through where she’d brushed them too close to the stove element … it amazed us all that she didn’t get seriously burned but that was the point where she had to go into residential care to keep her away from the stove.

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They’re not really that simple, they do the planning and provide the ingredients but there is still a lot of actual cooking and chopping involved. They also don’t do single meals, so you either need to work out how to divide it over a couple of nights cooking or have a lot of leftovers.

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nearly 3 months into my new role and I still haven’t taken a day off. I have a feeling I may be falling ill when kids have school holidays.

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Everyone I know is getting the flu or a cold one after the other. Sounds like it’s your turn coming up

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Physio mostly fixed it. Yay.

  Also temu order is here. Saving it till after I feed the cats.

  Sit in bed, uber eats, play with Gibson, unpack temu.

  Not too bad an evening

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Winning.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ![](aussie.zone/…/ede62f45-2533-434a-b46f-2e852e4238a… Ran out of plates today

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  • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Babies!!!

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So there’s 2. One is an absolute dead ringer for the dad. It’s interesting what features they inherit.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  I don’t mind being an arm rest

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    we need details on the temu haul

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      When I get home tomorrow from work I’ll post pics. So many awesome clothes!

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The news feels like foreshadowing in a bad apocalypse movie and I still need to go to work

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It felt a bit like this when I was working on my thesis preso yesterday. Does any of this matter? Maybe we will be in WW3 by the end of this week. Whatever…

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It reminds me of this meme I saw when COVID started of a Venn diagram of ‘still having to go to work’ and ‘the end of the world’. It feels like we’re in that overlap again

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m desperately trying to ignore it all.

    US politics

    Israel has gone for Iran which I saw in passing, and looking now apparently the US might get involved. I don’t really like discussing US politics but kind of wishing we weren’t allied right about now

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, Iran, the protests, the military parade. It sucks to know we’re on the side of the bad guys. It feels like one of those Lenin decade weeks so let’s hope for a similar revolution

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  day off today, no painting or hard housework , that’s why I painted my nails sparkly orange last night

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oooh that’s such a pretty colour! Excellent sparkle coverage! What brand?

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Colour.

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Saturday housework (indoors and outdoors).

  Wanted to chill in the afternoon but fam wanted to go to High Point (kill me). At least food and coffe were okay AND it was indoors.

  Yesterday wanted to chill, but son wanted to go to the gym and my neighbour asked me for some help (he’s a good one, so of course I obliged).

  Working from home today but cannot be arsed going a damn thing.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Daylesford was cold as hell, but I lived

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is possible to freeze your arse off in Daylesford.

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  • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s why you need to have a cozy cottage with a fireplace in Daylesford.

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Periods suck (tw: menstuation and poop)

  My lower abdomen cramping and bubbling like a witch’s cauldron, the heinous poos, the feeling of exhaustion. And I ground my damn teeth last night so half my brain already feels asleep.

  This week is poo week.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    spoiler

    Wait until you get older and it becomes a roulette game. Will it be light, heavy? Will it come today? Probably not and then when you least expected it, it pops in overnight when you’ve got important stuff to do in the morning. It’s your body’s way of saying EAT CHOCOLATE.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Deal!!!

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  26 years ago, when I was in prep/grade 1, our dance/music teacher had us sing and dance to Age of Aquarius.

  26 years later, having never heard the song since, I can still remember how it goes.

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Time to play the song and see if you can remember the dance too

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  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I reckon every Aussie school kid starts tapping their foot out when they hear Nutbush.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I wish Tina Turner had come to Australia and done the dance lol

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• SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Woke up feeling great. Getting lightly loaded on hot toddys and a bit of weed seems to have done the trick. Thanks for all the advice.

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  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I called in sick and my manager made me feel like a jerk for it 😭

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    • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I hate that attitude from managers. Hope you’re resting up!

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Today at the Op Shop I found an original Les Paul and Mary Ford vinyl. I think it’s mono. 🙂 🎸

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yH2ioBX_1k

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Woke up with migraine at 4am.

  Pray for mojo.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    🙏

    and gentle hugs

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is it too much to ask for a sock to be of normal thickness and to last at least 4 wears without getting holes?

  $15 socks are not much better than $2 socks.

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  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I had www.aust-woollenmills.com and brucegoose.com.au recommended recently while looking for socks. I went with brucegoose and was disappointed that the stripey socks are significantly tighter than plain of the same size, but otherwise the socks are holding up fine.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    bruce goose for normal wears, for cold weathers I gots my tradies socks

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve had success with macpac socks. They have them for hiking and regular thickness ones if you don’t like bulky socks

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Work socks! Not great if you have tiny feet like mine, but still better than thin socks.

    Gone are the days of getting holes in your socks.

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve got that sleep-in brainfog because I had an early one last night dealing with an obstinate child then woke up a little later than usual this morning. I’m still feeling it

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Does that mean that the non-obstinate child is your favourite today?

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They take turns. One likes to be consistently difficult but the other likes to pitch in when things look like they could be going smoothly

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  getting stuff ready for my trip to nz in 2 weeks

  and doing general tidying and organising

  everyday there is less chaos, more done, a little more skill achieved 🙂

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• bacon@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Trying and failing to turn off the sun

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Having my routines messed up by moving and changing my work hours meant I didn’t do washing when I should have and almost ran out of clothes. It’s also been terrible drying weather, but I fortunately have an undercover area I can set up my clothes horse so I finally have clean and dry clothes tooday. Except for one t-shirt which got blown onto the ground and rained on.

  I’m going to do my main cleaning day before my first night shift each week, which meant I got to come home to nice fresh sheets on the bed this morning. Athough I’m probably too exhausted at that point to really appreciate it.

  After ditching my planned trip back to Melbourne last week I really have to go this week. Hopefully I can fit pretty much everything else I need into the back of the van (which will include the lawnmower which is really needed up here with the way the grass has been grrowing) but I’ll also need one more trip in a couple of weeks to organise rubbish collection for a bunch of stuff I’m getting rid of. I’m looking forward to not having to keep doing that drive, or at least not on my own time - there will be regular trips back on work time which are a very different thing to losing your own days off.

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• SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My manager went home sick and all my motivation followed him out the gate…

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Two weeks ago, an acquaintance-y of a friend said she’s having a birthday party this weekend and that she hopes I’m free. Gave no details, just said it was happening. I have heard nothing from her since, and she has left the last thing I sent on read. I don’t really want to go anyway. Knowing her, she will probably text me the night of asking if I’m free, even though she is a Type A person and plans things in advance, so I don’t think I’ll follow it up.

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  • tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is this the same friend that shows up late all the time?! Another sign of lacking respect of other people’s time.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nope, this is someone else entirely. I think I need new friends honestly.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So she sent no details on plans of her event?

    And you asked for deets and crickets?

    You can’t go if you don’t know.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah it was just, “I’m doing birthday drinks on this day, hope you’re free!”

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have had an obsession with ‘toasted’ wraps this week. ‘Toasted’ meaning I am too lazy to get the sandwich press out and clean it so I put a bit of cholesterol spread margarine in a small frying pan.

  It came about after I learnt a sandwich shop in Richmond were charging $16 for a tuna melt. I tried making a tuna melt myself. Wasn’t the best, but maybe that was because I didn’t add lemon juice or celery.

  Today was Vegemite and cheese, with a side of vegetables so I could feel better about my choices after consuming potentially too much salt. Cheese and tomato also good despite the water content of tomatoes. I wanna try mushrooms next, but I feel as though they might be too watery. Maybe some chicken.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Chicken, avo and cheese is a classic. Cheese, ham, pineapple, mushroom and tomato paste is a pizza wrap. Cheese, egg, bacon/ham is a breakfast wrap. So many possibilities.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yum.

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Place near my work does an amazing cheese and mushroom toastie. They add in pesto and use WAY too much marg, but it’s fucking delicious. I might need to go and get one for lunch…

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  • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For mushroom and tomatoes, fry/grill them first before putting them into the wrap.

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    • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fry them with a bit of rosemary.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Took the day off. If I feel better later I’ll jump back online.

  Fuck this.

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My turn to be out on the Bellarine today for work. Ccccold. Wimdy

  Also wish I could just hop over the bay it would be so much faster. Not looking forward to the 1.5hr drive back.

  On a related note, why the fuck does a modern SUV (2022) with all the driver assist shit not have automatic lights, with the lit-up display I nearly started driving without my lights on while it was dark out. Idiotic

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  cheesemares again

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tonight’s movie is Before Sunset. Goodnight all <3

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Totally bizarre online Doc appointment this morning. If I pay the extra for out of hours I expect the call to be then, eh? Missing a course I actually really wanted to do. Bollocks.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ah yes, the reaction of people when you show up with The Cane. grrrrrr.

  god dammit I was going to start on the garage this week

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