Very tempted to sell some of my stoncks, and buy a 2 bedroom older walk up unit. Still have room for the CGT taxable part of the sale to go into First home super, and it’s de-risking in case of a crash.
There’s a tonne of them coming up for sale right now, and the mortgage + strata payments work out to be around the same as the rent.
What price range are you looking at?
Under $500K. Ideally under $450K.
Switching to an Aussie name worked. I’m getting a lot of callbacks and interviews being scheduled.
It is what it is I guess.
Well done Darren
Shouldn’t that end in -azza?
Too ‘on the nose’. Gotta be subtle and shit
Fair enough. I’ve been accused of speaking BBC standard… dude I was raised by the Goodies and Are you Being Served
The Vicar’s daughter, she was there
She had us all in fits
By jumping off the mantlepiece
And landing on … a plate of baked beans!
My brain can’t right now. It’s trying to do both Lilly the Pink and something about zoo animals with a circular/shifting rhyme
Bruce B. Brucington.
Good morning, Mr Patel. I see from your application that you prefer to be called Pazza …
I’ve put the oven on, I’m making banana honey bread and roasting a chicken for dinner. :)
Sounds perfect. Meanwhile it’s salad at my place :-(
the chook is in the oven, rice is in the cooker and I will be steaming some broccoli. Then I just have to make the gravy.
The banana bread is chewy from the honey and will be good for brekkie. :)
Can I send you some?
Yes, yes…come to the dark side 🐔
It’s a small chook and they don’t have as dark meat but legs it is. ( Need bigger chooks. )
@Seagoon_ I really should be going to bed sometime right about now, yet I’m still procrastinating about doing the dishes…
Good night.
the mornings and evenings in autumn are so full of bird song
Goodnight all ❤️Today begun explosively sneezing blood. Yay……
Oh good it’s not just me wondering what smells like bloody sinuses.
It sure ain’t. And I need to scrub the door. Later. Next week. Probably.
reminds me of the time I washed a load of towels, flapped one out to straighten the fibres and the fucking thing snapped back, hit my nose and I bled.
all over the freshly washed towels.
80 mins until my alarm. Do I try to go back to sleep or just give up and get up?
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Double Force Burger Happy Meal pliss
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Plate of thumbplings please
👍🥟
Forcemeat dumplings please, and some ginger tea.
👍🥟🫚☕️
[Insert cleverly worded Force food request here]
👍🍕☕️
6.15am, sleepy wife in passenger seat.
Halfway through a left turn, the guy behind me honks.
So as a petty revenge, I did 40 in a 50 zone. Guy behind flashes headlights.
Eventually the guy overtook us. My wife and I looked at the guy. Staring back at us was a possibly 19 year old green P Asian male in command of an MG HS.
Thumb wound day two. Not so bad. Was pretty concerned how long it bled for yesterday but now not bleeding, looks much better
spoiler
Excellent recovery.
You really thumbed your nose at that can.
👍
Woo, that’s a decent cut.
Did you end up going to the hospital? How did you treat it?
Try and keep it clean and use some first aid disinfectant wipes if you have any, otherwise either unscented isopropyl wipes or just soap and water and band aids/gauze will do
I wrapped it in a rotation of clean socks until about 7.30 at night (12 hours post incident) when I realis d I had band aids at home. I applied one over the bloody mess of my thumb and went to bed. After pic is the morning. I didn’t go to hospital or call nurse on call or anything. I figured: if I die, I die. I’ll monitor for infection though
Ugh you sound like me. Or maybe I sound like an annoying wannabe nurse. Or maybe both
When other people are injured in my presence I always go full fix it mode and try to find antibac wipes and band aids, when I’m injured I rinse the blood off and say she’ll be right 🤷♂️
Coincidentally (or maybe not) I actually cut my thumb on old electronics I was messing around with this morning (not as bad as you though) and didn’t really do anything. No wipes, no bandaids, no gauze, I just wiped the blood off on a tissue, even though I would tell anybody else in that situation to at least rinse of the blood and wash with soap
Glad you’re ok though, please carry on being ok and do not, under any circumstances, die. If you do die, I’ll be most displeased and write you an angry letter
brutal
Deffo reccomend those bandaids that close wounds, they pull the skin together.
Reminds me of when I was 10yo and I cut my left pointer finger, top and bottom, with a pair of scissors. Got a small amount of nerve damage, but if I curl my finger it looks like a bit like a mons pubis
mons pubis on my digit
That’s hot
your condition seemed touch and go for a while.I’ve got to hand it to you for being so brave. 👍
Glad for the update so that we can really keep our finger on the pulse of the recovery.
Feeling depressed. The cold and dark sucks. Cost of living sucks. Need a holiday but can’t afford one. Going to take a week off work in a few months but it’s not the same as going somewhere and getting away from it all. Pet boarding would cost heaps so even cheap isn’t on the cards. Health is shite also (cfs etc) which makes it hard to plan and do stuff.
Tax cuts sounded great til I got a land tax bill that had doubled because it’s how Dan andrew’s is paying back the Covid payout debts. (It had a nice letter with it to explain that). And I know there’s people who are in very very shit circumstances compared to me, so self compassion isn’t a thing.
I feel you hard. The SADs hit hard on these chilly and short days :/
Isn’t PPR exempt from land tax?
If you got a land tax bill for the one property that you reside in (owner occupier/ppr), call the State Revenue Office and they can have it removed. You may need to provide proof it is the only property you own, and that you live in permanently, but they will explain that.
I used to work for the State Revenue Office of Victoria, specifically collection land tax and payroll tax. Please contact them if this tax bill is for your PPR!
I moved in with fiancé so it’s subject to land tax now, it’s the only house I own. Relationship is a bit dicey atm, sadly. Can see why women get divorced around age 40-50.
Project day today! My nerdy electronics from that dodgy place that doesn’t do refunds for mixing deliveries arrived today. Finally got around to fixing the boot errors windows was having. It seems it decided to do an update I never asked for and screwed up its boot file. I had to download the 6gb iso and flash it onto a hard drive to get a working command prompt, but it rebuilt the file no worries
Dammit. I hate this cold.
Getting back drip into my throat and it’s making me cough all day long and it doesn’t sound nice at all, like a frog dying or something.
What’s worse is that it’s keeping me from sleeping too waking up to coughing fits because whatever is in my throat is tickling it and making it dry.
oh noes, that drip is the worst.
hugs and have some steamy hot honey lemon drink 🍋🍯🍵
Sadly I don’t have that available to me :(
I’ll try to go to sleep as best I can. Lost the will to stay up to do anything.
Thanks for the hugs
Sometimes I feel so Groundhog Day. Each day merges into the next and the next. But unlike the movie there’s no magic trick to break the spell. Sleep eat work tv housework weekday weekend repeat.
This was me last couple of years. I don’t feel it atm as I’m new to my jobs and I certainly think getting out of my house for work helps make it less monotonous, but I can see it happening again on the horizon.
Its an useful feeling, it prompts change and makes us into more interesting people with more to offer the world. What’s really helped in the past has been having a meaningful goal to work towards (savings being an obvious one), and in better times, scheduling in something unusual or out of the ordinary when I can (an overnight trip somewhere new, trying out a new activity, even looking at and applying for new jobs). I may not necessarily enjoy the latter, but it does provide enough contrast/discomfort to help me regain appreciation for my life or remember why I originally chose to play certain things safe.
The weekly shopping at safeway/woolies did it for me. I looked ahead and saw decades of it, I would cry in the supermarket i hated shopping so much.
Now I shop online and on random days.
@Seagoon_ @SituationCake When I start feeling that way, it’s usually a sign for me that something has to change, or I need a bigger goal to look forward to.
Is it time to take up a new hobby? New job? Move house? Do something on the weekend you wouldn’t normally do? Join a community group? Plan something? Catch up with an old friend or meet a new one?
This hit me the other day. Really, really hard. Here’s to better days.
