• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    Shadows are still perplexing.

    Today is a tough day (as I’m sure it is for others). So it’s do sweet fuck all and try and stay even keeled.

    At least it’s a beautiful day.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    The other day, a neighbour posted that they were selling their coffee table, and it came with a free cat bed, as her cat has never used it.

    I don’t want or care for glass coffee tables, but I asked if I could buy the cat bed - she said it was free and she’d leave it outside her apartment for me!

    I grabbed it, thanked her, and gave it to Mickey a few days ago. The top can come off so I detached it and put treats in there for him over the last few days.

    Last night, he slept in it!

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    13·
    2 months ago

    Just wanted to acknowledge the people here who have complicated relationships with their mothers, have lost children, whose mothers have passed, and any expectant mothers, single dads, foster carers or pet owners ❤️❤️

  • melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone
    12·
    2 months ago

    I dont really speak to my mother anymore. tonight, for the first time in several decades, I got a little baked, chilled by the fire and then decided not to worry about Mothers Day at all…

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      7·
      2 months ago

      hugs

      all festive days are just another opportunity for people to show who they truly are so I just celebrate with my true loved ones or on my own

      • melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone
        2·
        2 months ago

        I love my mum, a lot, but whenever we soend time together, something builds up between us until she explodes in a tirade of telling me all the things about me that she dislikes. Could take months, could take years. After hearing it all enough times, I finally decided it’s easier to just to remove the problem of spending time together to free her up to spend it with people whose company she actually enjoys. Much better for my mental/emotional health.

        Thanks for the hugs :)

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    12·
    2 months ago

    Last time I rented a property the condition report was a carbon copy checklist of a couple of pages, with a few lines to add comments. This time I have 170 pages, with multiple photos of everything. There are 9 photos of the front door knob.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      8·
      2 months ago

      That is insane. I think our last one was 16 pages. It was all online because Covid, pity anyone with a data limit.

    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      This is a really, really old house.

      Every single scuff mark was documented. I moved in 3 years ago and the report was 95 pages.

      Moving out is going to suck lol

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        8·
        2 months ago

        This is a brand new house, there is not really anything to document. There are pages of everything being perfect in great detail.

        Basically any damage is going to be on me. There are little pots of all the paint colours though so I can do touchups, and spare tiles and floor boards so any damage to those can be fixed without redoing everything too. Hopefully I can avoid any damage though - I have lots of things like shelf liners and caps to go on all the furniture to stop scratches. Plus many door mats and rugs.

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Nom

    Everyone is fed (except me lol) had a good day. Lots of chilling and naps.

    Time for music and video games. Weekend flew by.

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    11·
    2 months ago

    I did it. I put away the clothes. And threw out/ added to donate pile a bunch of old stuff. And vacuumed. Gonna make a gin, have an everything shower and pop a one pot spag Bol in the instant pot.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    9·
    2 months ago

    It’s a nice coincidence that YarraByte chose a lotus for today’s emoji as tomorrow is Vesak Day!

    Today I’m taking it fairly easy. My biggest task is to make this delicious prawn curry (incl shallow frying the heads first for extra flavour). One of the few recipes that DON’T use tomato - I’m sick of it being in every other curry recipe out there. Beans, eggplant, gourds, greens, all with tomato! It’s not necessary! Have some balance.

    Btw - they gave me the prawns in a big ziplock bag type thing, instead of wrapped up. Is this new? The ziploc didn’t close very well and I nearly dropped one of my items into a pile of prawns during checkout.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        4·
        2 months ago

        Vesak Day is probably the only real day of significance all Buddhists observe worldwide, there probably would’ve been more events on today if it wasn’t for Mother’s Day overlapping (and it’s not a “festive day” per se…)

        Tomato is totally overkill with mango. Too much acidity. I’m adding some tamarind to the prawns and no tomato in my dal or beans. I was rummaging through my freezer meals last night and highly annoyed that most things had tomato in them