Oh... Would have been my wedding anniversary today.... I feel ... Ok. Will always have residual anger-sadness that I wasn't a 'good enough woman' and melancholy that the whole thing left me very never wanting to do it again. But at peace. And as these things go it was amicable and as good as it could be.
Just because things don't work out with a person, doesn't mean that you're not "good enough." I'm glad you're far enough away from that past that you can look back on it as the past, if that makes sense.
I was engaged for a long time and feel the same on a particular day of the year. I was very much "not good enough", but over the years I've learned that sometimes people want things we simply cannot give them.
Happy Feaster to all! Jeez that Lindor ball chocolate stuff is rich as 🤰🏻I regret nothing! A BBQ will be had this Arvo which, if I time it right, will eliminate the need for cooking dinner.
In other news I'm trying to teach myself to crochet with YouTube videos and an ancient book. Great hobby to take up when my work is very hand related, bloody genius move 🤦🏻♀️ But behold, my first project!
It is actually wearable, which I'm actually shocked by, but even more shocking is both Minipeelers actually like it!
The ancient book:
A local church minister popped into my work one day to wish me a happy Easter and I replied with "Merry Christmas Colin" in front of a room full of people that I was supervising.
Clothes washed and hung, burrito consumed, car washed, wiper fluid refilled, coffee & hot cross bun acquired. That's me for the day done. Guess I'll play some video games.
No Sleep team member checking in. I suspect the cause was an evening coffee, which is something I don’t normally do. Doesn’t matter, can have a sleep in tomorrow today.
For me it's because I may have not kept up on the upkeep and cleaning while I was sick, and the housemate would go postal if he saw how many dishes are in the sink
I'm so glad tomorrow is also a PH because I think I need a day off after seriously looking at cars online. Last time I bought a car was pre-covid.... 💸
It's looking like with my current options for 2nd jobs, neither one actually requires me to have a personal car even to commute to the worksite, so I'm thinking I should curtail my initial spend on the car, and keep the money for servicing later on (which, with less frequent use, would be padded out over a longer time I presume). Maybe an older car (10-15 years old) with higher kms (120-175k). But not an absolute shitbox either. There's a handful of promising options around the 9k mark (which used to get you a pretty decent car 😭)
So far I'm leaning towards a Mazda 3 in the 2007-2013 sort of range. Couple of Honda Civic hatchbacks that look promising too. While I try to figure out how to spend less I'm also reminding myself how much more bloody convenient it would be to have my own wheels again.
$9k is a good budget. I spent $6.5k on a shitbox station car, had to select from less than ideal options, went for the safer option in the end. (Side airbags)
Yeah, under the $7.5k mark the options start to look dicey. The savings would not be worth the headache for me. I'd also like the car to be good enough for my niece to practice in when she gets her Ls. (She or her dad can pay for a car with all the latest safety features later on if they want)
I've kept the 10k from selling my last car aside and untouched separate to other savings, so I do have breathing room in that range. But I definitely have had to sit down and be realistic about my expectations esp after 3 months of not working. Sure I was spoiled by driving a late model hybrid car for work, but if buying something that nice now means I have to work my arse off for the next 2 years, I'd much rather have the financial freedom.
My wife and I are trying an experiment this year - only get one thing for each other on the day, and then get something more on Monday/Tuesday marked down. I'll take a couple of days to get to it anyway.
I've still spent about $80 in chocolate, which is ludicrous when you think about it.
Man with hole in hands has resigned. Something about returning to his followers. It does make sense that he is an influencer. Very popular among the staff.
I have been thinking William of Occam is possibly the most influential human in history
his influence in bringing freedom of thought created modern scientific industrial western civilisation and industrialised the whole planet ( edited to remove westernised the whole planet. )
Ohh that's an interesting thought. I don't know an awful lot about William of Occam but he definitely was the precursor to a lot of that reductionist thinking...
I mean....Mohammed? any of the religious figures? the people who "decoded" the Rosetta stone? whoever came up with the wheel? writing? Alexander Fleming? Babbage? many a4guments to be made
I have no plans for the rest of the day except more plant stuff and listening to some Terry Pratchett audiobooks (omg thanks for the rec about Spotify @gibsonisafluffybutt and @CEOofmyhouse56)
But now what should I have to go with the rest of my choc bunny as I fluff around the house?
Apparently the call centres are located in Melbourne, or at least they were as of 2018. I just sort of assumed the email people would've been based there too
( The shit I make up in my head I would never believe if it was written down on paper, there I can see the leaps of logic, the assumptions, the biases . In my head because one thought follows another it's too easy to believe that my train of thought is a logical pattern. )
I sat on those little Cadbury chocolate eggs by accident and it spilled onto the couch. now I looked online and I scraped the chocolate as much as I could from the couch. Then I made a mixture of dishwashing liquid and water and Ieft it on the couc to soak for a bit and it didn’t work so then I had this genius idea of using napisan vanish, and that has seemingly made the stain worse. I also put some corn flour (after looking at some articles online, and that's the white bit from the image, but I assume this will go away with time?) This is my housemate couch and she’s going to be really upset. How do I fix this? A lot of aggressive wiping may or may not have happened...
Also it doesn't look as bad as in the photo. My camera seems to have made it look so much worse...
I'd consider a bit of baking soda in your water mix and test on a small part (if it's a fabric couch hard to tell) and let it dry dab off before the next step.. wet vacuum.
Oh no! It’s hard to say from the photo, but is there now a light patch on it? It may have been bleached by the napisan. If this is the case it’s a lost cause. No way to put colour back into the couch, the solution would be cover with rug or cushion.
For future spills, buy an upholstery cleaner spray from the supermarket and use it exactly as per instructions. They are formulated to not damage the fabric. Source: have successfully cleaned many spills and pet accidents. Internet advice for various concoctions is risky, because it might be completely different effects for example depending on the brand of dish soap, type of fabric on the couch etc. Also some of it is just junk advice, people repeating things they have never actually tried themselves, just to get internet clicks or ‘I have heard it works’.
Agree about washing it (if it's removable). Otherwise buy the nicest bottle of whatever drink you can afford and offer to buy a nice throw rug and apologise. Shit happens. This is why I have a dark coloured sofa (that's washable!)
Blasphemy is a bizarre concept. As are most Gods. Why should I respect your theoretical arse for roaming around the countryside shagging everybody while disguised as wildlife?
Anyone Bayside/SE burbs smell that smoke in the air? I know it was forecast to be a foggy start to the day, but it has this weird aroma to it and our air purifier is going nuts.
The closest one to me says that the from the 29th something suddenly polluted the air. Not sure what it is, but could be bushfires or a factory mishandling something.
The one in Sandringham says the air's worse for some reason. Currently at "unhealthy". Best to stay indoors.
Slapped my face a bit this morning and sat down for a bit to look at cars again before a friend comes to pick me up for lunch.
Can someone who knows about cars explain why there's so many bloody SUVs in the sub-$15,000 category compared to hatchbacks and sedans? Why would they be priced so low when they generally have better comfort and features and space? They don't necessarily have that many more kms than comparable smaller cars. Do they cost more to service or something...
Complete gas guzzlers. Also nowhere near as safe as a regular car being top heavy and prone to rollovers. Basically a light truck with fancy seats. Expensive tyres, expensive servicing - they're a really expensive vehicle to own and maintain. Anyone trying to save money will ditch these suckers first. Their advantages are interior space and a very high viewpoint over the road. You pay through the nose for that luxury. Particularly in insurance due to their nasty habit of rolling over. Damfino why people get them when they have small children unless the good road view really matters to them.
Was going to get one myself, but in the end decided to stick with my ancient F250 for horse towing. Much more stable on the road and easier to retrofit lpg and power steering etc. And the roadview is just as good.
Would that apply even to the older generation of SUVs I'm seeing? 2005-2015 era Outbacks and Foresters, some others like the Hyundai ix35 and the rare wagon (Subaru Liberty). They seem to have comparable mileage to sedans (8L/100km ish). I didn't realise they'd be that much more expensive to service, I figured they could handle more wear and tear than a smaller car but I guess it depends a lot on how the previous owner(s) drove it as well.
I guess there's a lot more demand for smaller cars too so they just get snapped up faster.
Finally found a tv show that’s interesting enough to not need to entertain myself on my phone. 3 body problem on Netflix. Most shows are too predictable and boring.
Can’t wait for rain tomorrow, my garden is so dry. Water tank empty.
Curious to know what you think of it. I'd heard about it before it was adapted, as a breakthrough Chinese sci-fi novel that became popular in the West, but also that the source material was very dense and people wondered how it would work as a tv show.
Nooo, it's the final scene of Siegfried, where Arwen thinks Siegfried is dead, and Aragorn thinks Brunhilde is dead. If it's a dream it's a good dream. They woke up. Not dead.