I have arranged alternate leave, very slightly later. This is acceptable to me. I would have LIKED it to include my birthday, but I’ll take a few days off just afterwards
Discussion Thread 🚂 Thursday 19 February 2026
Submitted 2 months ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Alamutjones@aussie.zone 2 months ago
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Couch has been chopped up and removed from the house the easiest and, coincidentally, the most satisfying way: chucked through the window! Dining table has been moved to it’s new position and it’s looking great in here! I even put up different curtains (my exMIL bought herself new curtains but couldn’t get them up by herself, so I did that for her and scored the old ones 🙂).
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
DEFENESTRATE! 🤖
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I was Russian to get it done in one morning
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Throwing furniture out of the window is cathartic lol
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 2 months ago
It sure is! My oldest was home and he helped with it as well. It’s certainly not something you get to do every day and I think he really enjoyed himself 😂
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
TheVoid caught a mouse. Good Boy!
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 2 months ago
He is a mighty hunter
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Indeed. A majestic garden panther.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
yay 🐈⬛🏆
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
One of the black kittens let me pick them up.
Feels good lol
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
So just how many are you keeping? 😹
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
It’s a real struggle lol
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 months ago
😻😻😻
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
aww 🐈⬛
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 2 months ago
The worst thing about changing your diet for the better is when you decide to treat yourself like you used to and your guts decide you’ve been poisoned and must remove all the offending foodstuff asap. 😢
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
It feels like betrayal.
“why body?!?! I’ve been so good to you, just let me have this one!!!”
SituationCake@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Eeeeeek I walked through a spiders web, right across my face! Mad swiping of face and hair ensued, hoping spider wasn’t present.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Has anyone heard from Melbtown and Melbcat?
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Hi - because of hospital stay costs Melbcat has been allowed to come home with supportive care and monitoring to see if her kidneys recover. 🤞 If she worsens she’ll have to go back into hospital
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 2 months ago
No but I just came here to check. If you are listening Melbs family we are thinking of you
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Thanks
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
yay, I bought a new controller so I can play computer games 👍🎮33
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Oooh, so fun!! I’ve been really enjoying playing computer games with a controller. E33 converted me, until then I was a strictly mouse and keyboard person.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
the writers of the game said to use a controller so here I am 🙂
tone212_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Had to visit Camberwell for a meeting today, not an area of Melbourne I’ve ever visited. Such a contrast to my west side hood, in the types of people walking around, the much nicer houses and buildings. Their office was very flashy. Felt like the person from the ghetto seeing how the other side lives.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 2 months ago
The leafy green burbs in the east are definitely something else compared to the west.
With that in mind, feel free to rob people. They’re scared of us from the other side of the bridge.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Just plant more yuccas, bit of synthetic grass, few footy gnomes it’s not all bad out west.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Used to live in camberwell near the junction many moons ago as a 20 something.
It was sort of souless but there was an awesome chicken place at the end of the street that arrested many a hangover.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
the west and north never used to be so ghetto and run down, it’s so heartbreaking to see
I think the loss of rates revenue from the now closed manufacturing and defence facilities has left these councils poor
pokies and gambling has not helped communities either
If I were in the council I’d be applying for every grant, state and federal, that I could
and would do my best to drive out pokies
nothing will stop the centuries old prejudices but standards of living can be raised and opportunities nurtured
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Our historical landmark is pacific Werribee lol
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Heading home from work, my bowels are UNHAPPY
I’d like to give my gratitude to my sympathetic nervous system and the crimson tide for the opportunity to look like a sick fuck at work ✌️💜
I finished all seasons of The Boulet Brothers Dragula that I can access via Shudder (seasons 4-6, and Titans 1 and 2). Gonna rewatch Titans 2, and then investigate how to “obtain” seasons 1-3 and Resurrection lol
I NEED MY HORROR DRAG QUEENS AND KINGS
Pilk@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Cheers :)
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Perfecto!
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Got the day off so I’m doing something drastic: throwing out my couch! It’s threadbare and disgusting and I’m sick of covering it with throws to try to make it look ok. It’s time to get it out of the lounge room. I also want to move the dining table to the space it currently occupies. ExMrP wants to help… I’d kind of like to do it myself but fine I guess. I threw out the last lounge suite we had on my own and this is smaller. I’ll see how I go!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I do 99% of stuff here on my own, that way it gets done
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Guy has only been single for five months. Will abort mission. I knew it was too good to be true.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I don’t think that’s a sign to run for the hills straight away. How long were they together? Do you have any inkling that he’s not over it or you’d just be a rebound? Are you looking for a reason to run?
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I don’t know how long they were together. Will have to ask. He has said he wants to travel but doesn’t have anyone to go with, and that he will go on a solo trip when he’s been single for “too long”. I think that’s just me reading into things.
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 months ago
For a different perspective: I was 2 months single, and still living with my ex, when I met my now-partner. Together since Jan 2019.
It can work out. Unless you got icks for other reasons, I’d suggest at least a third date to see where his head is at.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Thanks for sharing your perspective! And happy seven years :)
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I had one of those. The Ex was knocked up.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Yeah hmmm :(
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 months ago
If you mean rebound… naww
5 months is okay.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Yeah I absolutely do not want to be someone to fill his void because he can’t be happy on his own. I couldn’t have imagined dating five months post-breakup, but everyone is different I guess.
Eagle@aussie.zone 2 months ago
At least he is single…
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 months ago
That’s mortifying 💀
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
that sounds like one of those unfounded stupid things that you can read on the internet
and something I asked my clinical psych, she said it’s meaningless, people get on with life
if you like the guy that’s what counts, make the effort 🙂
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Yes the internet is full of stupid timelines. Maybe I just take a long time to get over things. I couldn’t see myself dating someone five months after a breakup.
I told him about PHM and he wants to see it with me. Hopefully not to fill a void
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 months ago
This whole album is a great return from these guys.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Thanks, might steal it from you
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
It’s been giving me endorphin rushes all day lol
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I put in for, like, three days of leave. I did this a month out. I want the leave in late March.
Apparently the answer is still no. How damn early do I have to do it for it to be a yes?
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 months ago
That’s bullshit. An employer can only refuse an employee’s request for annual leave if the refusal is reasonable. What’s their reason?
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 2 months ago
That there’s no leave available. Too many other people want it.
But like…why is a month’s warning not long enough to avoid that?
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Puzzle With A Piece Missing came on PBS this morning on the drive to work. I looked it up and Gotye’s Like Drawing Blood isn’t on Youtube Music as an album. The songs are there but not together. This is just one of the many problems with streaming
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Morning
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Either the heating in this building is totally crazy lately or I’m starting to have hot flushes. Yay peri-menopause.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I’ve never had quinoa so I bought some today. If anyone has any tips I would most appreciate it.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I’m feeling efficient and have booked appts for both myself and Miss Meow to have checkups next week. Next in line is Mr Woof’s checkup and my dentist and the optometrist, then the car needs a service & a visit to the autoelectrician. I’ve ended up with lots of stuff piling up because I’ve been putting off decisions about new services for everything now that I’ve moved. My insurance company has been bugging me about getting a checkup though, which is probably good as it’s given me a push I needed to actually start organising things.
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I have listened to the ABC of Relativity a few times now.
I have questions …lol
why geodesics, why not paths of greater resistance , what causes these paths
and the rest requires study of quantum mechanics
bacon@aussie.zone 2 months ago
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melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 months ago
As an alternative to further hospital stays Melbcat is home now on daily subcutaneous fluids, pain and nausea relief, and antibiotics. The idea is to support her body and keep retesting her values at least every three days while trying to let the acute kidney injury recover. 🤞If she worsens she will have to go back into hospital.
I’ll also try to encourage her to drink broth, offer those pouches of soup style meal toppers, and get some electrolytes from the pet shop.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
gentle hugs
_miss_cellophane_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
🖤
Eagle@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Sounds like you have your hands full, but they are the best hands for her.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I would much rather have kept her admitted and on iv fluids but the costs of that could get out of control very quickly. And she will need further care.
At least this way she has more familiar surroundings and her own bed…
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Juice from a tin of tuna in spring water is very much a fave of the puss puss. We used to do liquid for punky, tuna for my jaffle.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Good idea, she did like tuna juice so I’ll get more mini tins.
I’ve moved a small container of frozen broth into the fridge to thaw and am trying to clean the disaster area of my kitchen to hopefully cook more once I’ve had a bit of sleep.