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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Met my future dog yesterday.
Long story, but the owner has breast cancer and needed to find a forever home for a staffy (my dream dog).
Spent about 2 hours with him yesterday making sure he'd be happy with me as his human. He's very shy but we both fell in love.
Meet Adam the new love of my life π
Eeeeee!!!!! I accidentally found the cat's cuddle spot!!! π»π»π» it's much closer to the TV than I would normally sit but I decided to sit there while petting her and she CRAWLED ONTO MY LAP. I nearly died. I didn't have my phone but when she got up for a bit I grabbed it and sat back down and here she is purring up an absolute storm. She hasn't cuddled at all the whole 2.5 weeks I've been here - I'll sit here all day long to feel her purring contentedly against me1. Oh please kitty cat don't let this be a one time thing. We can chill any time. Any time at all. <3
prrrrrrrrrr
couchrat says goodnight
aww good kitty.
Doubt it's saying goodnight it's wide awake with them eyes.
I trusted you, Goddess. I could have hung up my laundry indoors last night, but I remembered your comment saying today was going to be 18 degrees. So I waited and hung out my stuff on the line this mroning and it dried perfectly throughout the day. So - thanks! I'm glad I held off instead of having clothes cram up my house. Cheers!
Tomorrow marks a week since I moved into the new place. I'm feeling so much better, and feel like I'm in a much more healthy place mentally than I was in the last place. And honestly, a lot of it is just the little things, like being home alone, and having access to knives, and administering my own medication
Lol. Who downvotes a daily discussion thread?
I downvote when someone says they don't put butter on toast.
I exist.. we exist.
malakas
Ending the week on a positive note. I wasn't expecting it but I feel like I've finally made progress this week. Still lots on the list to do and learn but it's nice to feel that I'm getting somewhere. πͺ
I've been invited to fill in a survey on my experiences as a student. The email says I am from a "unique group of students". I think this might be a polite way of saying "you're really old for a student".
I am amused by the phrase 'unique group'. If unique, then by definition not a group. If they meant 'small group' why didn't they say so. Fancy word syndrome strikes again.
I have a Melb Uni tshirt with 'minimise sesquipedalian circumlocutions' written across the front. I cherish it.
lazy sunday = cooking spag bol with all the veggies I found in the fridge and needed to clear out. Delicious.
Ok, lunch is packed. Camera battery charged. I'm ready to head off for the day. Be good while I'm away, and keep your finger's crossed that the rain holds off long enough this afternoon that I don't come home a soggy Raven.
Can you bring me back some ice cream please? I'll be good.
The clouds have rolled in over Thornbury. The soft undersides of the clouds are beginning show the warm glow of approaching sunset. Well, either that or Footscray's on fire, and I'm sure someone would have mentioned it if that was the case.
I think I responded to the wrong thread but you have to stand by it .. live it.. it is yours. No backsies.
The sunrise is so beautiful this morning. Purple sky and the stars were still out.
Day 4 and it's a rest day, so I just did my tummy exercises. Now Mr Peeler is up I can put on some washing. The Miniest Peeler this morning said, "you're going to have to get new clothes soon Mum." When I asked her why she said, "because the only thing that's holding up your clothes is your fat." π€£
Doing the springers for dins.
Wrapped in lettuce w/ some sweet chilli dipping.
I was a bit wasted making them and it was very late so we're rolling the dice.
Leftover pasta turned into pasta bake. Can smell it in the oven and my stummy is growling π€€π
if i get blown away then rusty will have been too and i'll have someone to hang out with
My skin has been a lot drier this winter so I bought this product called Glory Oil by Eco Tan. Holy crap. It basically instantly fixed my skin and I have never looked so smooth and glowy in my life! π₯°
I really neglected my self care and appearance while pregnant last year because I was sooo sick. I couldnβt even stand to shower for more than a few times a week. Just miserable. But now at nine months post partum I am finally finding the time/energy/willpower to do morning AND night skincare, regular hair washing and styling, a bit of exercise, and Iβm going to try and cut down on my insane sugar consumption (craved it so bad when I first started breastfeeding, now itβs just a bad habit). Oh and I need to cut down on screen time because itβs baaaaaad π
Ha! Dodged COVID despite spending all day yesterday with someone who unknowingly had it.
The most frustrating part of fixing this vertigo is that I have to purposely make myself dizzy. It's an awful feeling but I have to fix it before work on Tuesday.
Sort of funny but ever since the housemates cat came home from the vet my cat is not happy with him, 9yrs doesn't matter when you're gone for a few days. Also my cat is doing this thing where he approaches housemates cat and just sort of hisses in his face and walks away, and it's so stupid and funny.
Alrighty! Got a new wok and the ingredients for a tofu sitrfry. Gotta say, I haven't made a stir fry from scratch before and the amount of various exotic oils was unexpected lol
At some point I think I may have overwatered one of my indoor plants on account of a couple of yellow leaves. I since have backed off and done a lot more research on how much water is needed which is surprisingly very little. I should note I'm quite inexperienced with indoor plants so this is a learning curve for me.
People can get things very wrong. Have a look at the bozo answers. Australian slang I get that you might never have heard it. It doesn't mean the op is wrong though.
reddit has turned in to a steaming pile of crap. or maybe it was always like that. thankful we moved away for our special kind of banter. A gig is a job, a kind of horse cart but I'd never heard of being a sticky beak slang term, learn something every day. I'll never quite understand why people bother to waste time being jerks online.
People enjoy shitting on others to make themselves feel superior. It's gross. I have not heard of 'gig' in that context, but I didn't grow up in every single state, city, and town in Aus simultaneously. OP is just trying to the slang-etymology for that usage, doesn't mean they're wrong. Netizens can be so cuntish.
I petition for woolies to be penalised if their stock indicators are wrong
Kind of hoping for climate change to result in what happened in The Day After Tomorrow. Can I be stuck in a flooded, frozen city, in a library, and get naked with a hottie to keep warm? I'm looking forward to re-enacting that hot af scene tbh
