Melbourne

According to BoM it’s supposedly sunny in the day then high chance of rain at night ~ Melbourne

I have completed some draft Community Guidelines for the group. https://aussie.zone/post/53977

Hopefully they are ok - it feels a lot like writing an assigment and waiting for it to be marked :-)

I shat away a headache. Ask me anything.

Instead of doing anything constructive I have been reading about the Aboriginal stories about Raven (AKA Crow). Known as Waa to the Wurundjeri People. Waa was originally a white bird, who stole coals/fire from seven sisters who were keeping it to themselves. He either dropped some or ended up throwing it at other animals who were wanting to have some too, which is how fire came to be used by mankind. In the process Waa started a bushfire in which he was burned, which is how he became black.

Ahhh hello DT friends, a bit late to the party but I have lurked a little. Glad to see you all here in this friendly space :) (formerly jezb87)

If anyone remembers all my long rants in the Reddit DT, I have some kinda good news about it.

Things at the hosue have been much more settled, it appears one of them (the main noisy one) will be moving out and back in with his family. He hasn't been here in about a month and a half, so things have been more chill. One of the others is just going about her life as usual. She tells and throws things once every day or two still, but not as bad as it was. And then the other one is still chill, he's never caused many problems

And on the lead tenant thing I mentioned a while ago, it seems things are going well. They lined up a house that sounds chill and I had my first meeting with the program coordinator on Tuesday. She gave me a rulebook I need to read, and then this coming Friday we meet with her again and I officially sign the papers. After that, it will be about 4-8 weeks until I move in.

It's still stressing me out a bit, mainly because I don't fit one of their requirements properly and I'm only about half fulfilling it. Allegedly they'll be pretty lenient on it, but lenient as in they'll accept me, but if I don't 100% meet it within a few months, I'll be locked back and sent back into Resi.

It's also kind of fucking with my head because I've been here for 4 years, and although I've never considered it to be, or felt that it is my home, that's the longest I've ever lived anywhere in my entire life. For about 3/4 of those years it's been pretty bleak living here and felt like a never ending nightmare, but now that it is ending and comparitively the end is so close I can basically touch it, it feels is backwards to what I'm used to

This baby has gotta be shit out. 2 giant poops in under an hour. How can he fit so much poo in him?!

Had an interesting day, yesterday I watched a pretty cool YT of Danny Elfman, he's old and weird and awesome and so talented. But watching him gave me the confidence to be older and weird too. I'm just miserable if I wear beige and be "comfy" and be my "age". I like to have some style, I like to express myself, have fun, wear black even. So today I bought black and stylish stuff, including a cute jumper with embroidered stars and moons and a grey cashmere top . Felt good. :)

Bad thing about this is not getting notifications of replies and so hard to maintain a convo in a timely fashion..

The lies I tell myself. Went to the sourdough bakery in Bayswater to avoid Dröm but they were sold out.

Braved the queues at Dröm promising myself I would only buy sourdough 😆

What I actually bought:

• Bavarian beignet
• Chocolate marmalade babka
• Marshmallow choc chip cookie
• Chocolate pecan cookie
• Honey butter kouign amann
• Sourdough

Yay a Marketplace item sold. No scammer this time, just a real person with cold hard cash.

I've only just got here but Bright and the drive in is very pretty. Totally guessed the motel wifi password like a hardcore hacker because they didn't give it to me and there's nothing in the room about it.

Now that I'm settled it's time to go for a look around. I friggin love alpine regions/mountains.

I love my job but they cut my hours, so I went job hunting. First interview and they offered me the job which is 30k more than I am currently getting. They want me to start in 3 weeks but I’m so scared I’ll quit my current job and then hate my new one and never get to go back.

Has anyone has a situation where they got the job and ended up hating it

Wow physical meet up between a couple of DT mates was nice. Got a message of support also from another DTer. You peeps know who you are. Thanks a lot. I'm resigning myself to believe that I cast that shit into the ether and let it out rather than bottling it up and can always tell my story in another way anyway. Incredible to meet someone irl with similar shit going on and not pause for breath for an hour. Food and hot bevs were excellent. St kilda is iconic. I'm definitely getting in the north vs south war by now. Great day for a skate. Hopefully I'll not too wobbly.

Good evening!

Very glad we have this thread.

I have to start work at 7 tomorrow so I shall enjoy another episode of Modern Family and then go to sleep.

Also, I broke my two week no crying streak and it was a nice release.

P.S. if r/melbourne doesn't come back, should we start a new sub from the ground up?!

I am excited to be putting clothes on the outdoor line today #thuglife

Good day for laundry - wind and sun. It's also hard rubbish weekend in Darebin, so I'll be looking out for large plant pots and mesh to cover the fence in the courtyard. Let the curb crawling commence (after breakfast). Reduce, reuse, recycle!

Went to the zoo, it was bloody windy! I feel like most of the animals were like yeah nah! All of the reptiles and snakes were out and about though, which is pretty rare!

It’s fucken wimdy. This wimd needs to calm down. Have some chamomile tea or something 😴💨🍃

They're at it again

I suppose I better get a move on and do some shopping

later guys 😘

Made a spreadsheet for a list of names. No time to fill it out yet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oMhrX4Pal2el0Km6l_1C_INnqUCpr_E-L0NPYyYb49o/edit#gid=0

Open for editing, no need to login.

I forgot to ponch ⏰🥊

Far out. 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Suddenly Saturday Edition.

Full of porridge with a purring cat on my lap. Saturday morning is going well so far.

wind's howling

:)

Not a frequent commenter but I reached out to u/Aphrodisia-x. Radio silence so far.

I have also DM’d u/Casper_Louisiana just now.

There was also a pole dancer . Can’t remember the username. Infrequent commenter as well. If anyone can think of it?

in the market for a new job and article this morning about australian companies trialing and succeeding with 4 day work weeks here has me glimmer of hoping. difference in quality of life between 5 and 4 days is incredible.

Morning DTers,

So I know that the whole Rdt saga is a bit of a sore point. (Avery ye eyes if needed.) I’ve been following it loosely and someone posted their terms which made me think about how we loathe it when news outlets pilfer our posts. I thought it might be worth noting this:

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Just some thoughts.

The subscriber counts here are a bit dodgy. I think it is only showing the subscribers on the instance you are in, not overall. I accidentally went to my other group from this account and thought it had dropped from about 200 subscribers to 3! It makes me wonder how many subsribers we actually have here, if the 358 showing is just people subscribed from this instance we may actually have quite a few more. Although I think the users/posts/comments counts are really more meaningful anyway.

I have had junk food delivered and I have no regrets at all. I prefer fish n chip shop burgers generally, but McD's is what my half drunken arse is craving. What trashy foods do you guys crave when you've had a couple?

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

I have no idea how I’m still upright. Riding back from Geelong was… Just. Brutal.

Still, dashed in, did some vacuuming, laundry, swept some leaves, (folding more laundry, ugh, now).

Might still keel over.

My hot water unit is finished, the gas pilot isn't staying on for more than 24 - 48 hours. The unit is from 1995. I've been told they don't usually last almost 30 years so this house did well with it. It's a fun game going into the shower on a cold winter's day and wondering if hot water is going to come out or if the pilot's gone off. Going to cost 2k to get replaced! Love these unexpected large expenses. Anyway, trying to not let it ruin my weekend. Things break, such is life.

ahhh WOO HOO i gave my subreddit the two-weeks-notice that i'm quitting today. fuck that feels better, knowing that the endless toil is ending.

i'm gonna have a celebration and get baked

Watching Jurassic Park in bed like a boss

Laundry accomplished. Shopping done. Have decided to ditch the jigsaw that came with a jumbled up picture on the box. Brand/logo is M?xtery. Stuff that for a game of soldiers. Will fall back on the Sistine Chapel ceiling by a proper jigsaw brand with a real picture on the box. Not in the mood for deciphering a jumbled up picture.
Sister has lent me a rather nice jigsaw called Diverse Women. No women in the picture just a lot of squiggles. Maybe that one after the Sistine Chapel.

So I had this problem where I couldn't open more than one page in my browser. I asked the man to have a look and he said everything is fine. Then the interrogation started.

Him: What browser do you use?

Me: I don't know. Chrome I guess.

Him: Show me.

I press the google bar. His eyes got very wide.

Him: That's not chrome. That's google. It only allows you to open one tab at a time.

Me: ooohhh

He shakes his head. Then proceeds to educate me on Google vs Google Chrome vs Samsung browser. Now you smart people probably already know this. I did not even though I've had 3 Samsung phones and 3 Samsung tablets over the last 10 years. I have learnt lots in the past few days. I will continue to learn. I at least showed him how to use the airfryer the other day.

Just went and looked at a car and old mate was determined not sell it apparently. Remember guys "my bro is a mechanic" and "I'm selling it because I'm moving overseas" are not phrases you utter when trying to sell a car.