• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    wooooo. Today we had

    • plumber to put in pressure reducer and new lever ceramic swishy tapware
    • Cerycat to vet for checkup
    • shitload of servers to complete and ship to nz

    last now done, hubs at vet with cat, tapware completed, I’m having a bloody cuppa

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Up early after Zooks woke me up by sitting on my shoulder, so I decided I’d tackle some more clearing and sorting.
    Last day of work before the move. Kinda wish I’d taken this week off as well, but I suspect I would have faffed around more if I had. Plus I wouldn’t have scored free cat food from one of my clients after her cat sadly died.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’ve been getting to sleep super early (around 8/9pm) for over a week, and it’s been going well, it’s nice to be awake for sunrise. But tonight it just wasn’t working. Tossed and turned from 8 until 10, finally got to sleep sometime around 10:30 or maybe 11, then had a bad dream and scared myself awake by 4. Can’t get back to sleep, so I guess my day starts now

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      I had a haunted dream, dreamt of a big building with haunted medieval face carvings that moved, then a big relief carving of an elf came to life and tried to kill us.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I don’t even remember what was in my dreams last night, but I do remember it wasn’t fun

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I wish I was a crow. I’m only 2km away from somewhere I need to go via crow, but 4km by car or 6km by PT

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It took 38 minutes there, and 46 back, getting there involved 3 connections across 2 modes of public transport (excluding walking). Returning was just 1 mode, but did involve ~25ish minutes of walking because the schedules didn’t line up

  • Mittens_meow@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Was awake at 4am and grabbed to cat for a cuddle in bed. Cat fell asleep cuddled up. Cat suddenly wakes up some time later, and leaps into the air off the bed. Lucky I only got a small scratch.

    • Eagle@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      My spicy cat came in for snuggles at 4am too. Very unusual behaviour from her. She ended up with her front paw on my mouth, but I couldn’t move because snuggles!

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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        2 months ago

        Miss Meow has been coming in for cuddles a lot more now that the weather is cooling down. I sleep on my side so she usually curls up on top of me. She’s pretty good at moving off if I roll over and then climbing back on again, but if I move too much she either curls up at the end of the bed or leaves the room entirely. If she is still there in the morning she is generally displaced by Mr Woof’s enthusiastic jumping when he decides it is time to get up.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    sigh Misplaced my wallet earlier this week and I really needed it today.

    Hopefully when I get home I’ll be able to find it, highly unusual that it wasn’t in my bag today as I thought I put it back in there earlier in the week.

    Stressing about it.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      doesn’t help you right now but for when you find it again: sticking an airtag in mine has been one of the better decisions of my life!

    • Nath@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      I realise this isn’t exactly helpful, but I’m curious: What is in your wallet?
      Mine has a credit card, public/private health cards (these cover the whole family), a drivers license and a Public Transport card. Literally nothing else. I never have cash.

      The Credit card never actually gets used because my phone handles payments. I don’t use the health cards all that often. I rarely need my drivers license. That leaves the smartrider. It’s honestly the only thing I ever really need in my wallet. Once the phone can do public transport trips in Perth, I could honestly go weeks without my wallet.

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        My license, bank cards, racv membership,and cash that I urgently needed to return to a friend of mine at work this week.

        I don’t have enough money for my friend if I can’t find my wallet.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Many years ago when I was living with my ex and his parents (I think I was 20), I came home from work in a foul mood and flung my wallet. Couldn’t find it, had to cancel and get cards reissued, whole big kerfuffle.

      A year or so later, I found it in the back of the closet 😑

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        What a pain that must have been for you to have all your cards reissued. Well hopefully I’ve just left it on the recliner or my desk at home and all will be good.

        I remember having to go to the bank on Monday so that’s why my wallet was taken out of my bag and I drove home with it in my pocket but blanks all round about what I did with it after I got home.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    No work for me today - colon went boom about an hour before I was due to start and my clients were a 97 yo and another household where both the client and the carer have autoimmune issues, so I phoned in and said ‘it could be moving stress or it could be something, what do?’ I was told very firmly regardless to Stay Home.
    Back to the packing!

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Ughh… I was just thinking how nice it was that there was an unscented soap I like at Coles, so I could just pop it in with the rest of my basics. Go to buy another box …and it’s gone 😭 Guess I’m doing this weeks shop at Woolies and getting a few boxes from there in case it’s discontinued.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Strange question: How do you ask for a nice big warm hug from your partner without ASKING. I feel like a need some spontaneous affection, like I come home and just get a bear hug or something. But asking totally ruins the feeling of the surprise. Coffee is like a lukewarm limp handshake for the soul, but I will take it!

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      hugs

      I suggest when you get home you give the hugs. Do it all the time. Hopefully hugs will become more of a thing and you receive hugs too.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      RAAAR bear noises, approach with arms outstretched

      casual touching is something you foster, but if they ain’t picking up the messages a spoken reminder of your needs is a must.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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      2 months ago

      Is this a thing specifically about what happens when you come home? If so you might want to think about role shifting and how that is working for both of you - you have had time on the trip home from work to mentally make the shift from your working role to your home role, but she is going instantly from her role of mother to partner and might need more time to mentally make that shift. Talk to her about what she thinks about it, but it might work better for you both if you start a routine along the lines of you taking tiniest for a while to give her some time alone to just regather her thoughts and prepare to be “partner” and not just “mother” - maybe take a shower, go for a walk, whatever works for her.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        Good point, but this predates the kid. I think its just a fundamental difference in love languages I guess.

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      Maybe say to her “sometimes I really want a hug without asking so when I put my arms out would you be ok with that”. If you do that often enough it becomes habit.

      I feel sad you have to ask for a hug but if you don’t communicate with your partner then they don’t know what you want.

      • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        Also important to recognise you might have different “love languages”… Yours might be physical touch and theirs might be words of affirmation for example… Which is the case for us. I actually need to remind myself that my partner needs me to hug her…

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        Yeah its deffo come up before, gets addressed for a few weeks then sort of falls apart, which is fine cause the need is addressed but in a few months I’ll need it again and we just kind of spiral.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    I get that you might like both but that’s not the question. Team Coffee or Team Tea? Which side are you on?

    Team Tea