• TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    If I lay my head down on my desk I think I’d be asleep in less than a minute. I slept ok last night, but running outta juice now. No coffee today isnt helping. Lets see if this tea can help, there is a lot riding on its shoulders.

  • Tofu@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

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

  • danwritesbooks@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I need a new bed. The slightest movement on mine and it squeaks like a rusty gate.

    Any suggestions online to look for mattresses and bed frames?

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Can you get ikea delivered down there? Not everyone loves it but the Malm is pretty solid! It survived the start of me and the wifes relationship if that counts for anything and is still with us today.

      • danwritesbooks@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago

        Can be delivered to Launceston but then getting it from Launceston to here is the problem but I will take a look. Thanks!

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      In the short term, a graphite lubricant like for locks will help a lot. Cheaper than a new bed. I would not use WD40 due to smell and greasy residue.

      • danwritesbooks@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago

        The bed is old. It needs to go, the screws are stripped to the point I’m not sure it could ever be taken apart lol. And the mattress is uncomfortable. I may as well have a whole new me.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Getting the cat into the carrier was a task. Helped when I threw a towel on him and bundled him into it.

    But the yowling on the tram had me cackling; had to get right up close and go “pss it’s me I’m here” for him to stop. I think he was upset because my partner was holding him, and then left to the train when I got on the tram.

    Now we’re chilling in the waiting room. I expect Mickey will beat me up somewhat when we get home lol

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I actually thought there was a child behind me, until I realised it was Mickey 😂😂 I couldn’t stop giggling. He sounded like a whingey baby hahahahaha

    • Eagle@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Getting them into the carrier is the most stressful part of a vet trip. That and the bill.

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        All done and home now, he’s fine. Bit my leg, par for the course.

        Bill wasn’t bad, $90 for his vax and another set in a month, as I realised I never got him vaxxed last year 👀

        In my defense, he’s indoors only, and has only been unwell once when he was a kitten lol

        • Eagle@aussie.zone
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          3 months ago

          Mine all had boosters in December. One of them then shared cat flu with the other two in May. Even the dog got it. In fairness, it was mild in the dog and the two she gave it to, but she was quite unwell herself. Don’t sneak out the door and get picked up by the ranger, kids.

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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          3 months ago

          There have been vaccination shortages anyway, so you might not have been able to get it done. Miss Meow was due for hers 6 months ago but the vet didn’t have any available so it got put off.

  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Booked a short holiday and cruise for next month. My brain: “maybe I should work on my health and fitness leading up to that!” Also my brain: “eat fried potato. Now.”

    … it was delicious.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      A fried potato isn’t that bad. It’s got a lot of kilojoules if you’re counting, but it is also fairly unprocessed. Lots of supposedly diet snacks are actually worse for you than a fried potato.

      Processed food is the devil. And it’s everywhere in our diet. If the ingredients list on a snack is more than two lines long and has a bunch of numbers, it is worse for you than a fried potato.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    100% humidity outside - that explains why EVERYTHING is currently very wet. And foggy. Might be the same tomorrow, weekend’s looking promising for some sun though. My split system was being weird, blowing hot and cold, but the internal unit air filters were quite clean. Gave them a wash anyway. Maybe I need to create more space in front of the external unit and give it a bit of a vacuum or something

    • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Grateful for a roof over my head with a fluffy companion

      For being able to make music

      Having resilience and enough stubbornness not to give up on what I want.

      And for the amazing user here that offered to be my reference

    • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      After the admin were arseholes again, I’m grateful that I have a guaranteed position if I decide to walk.
      After having stayed in shit jobs more than once because there wasn’t anything out there, it’s such a relief that I do have the option of saying '“fuck this shit, I’m out” if need be.
      I’m also grateful that I only have to interact with the office maybe 10% of the time and the rest is with clients.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Grateful for a roof over my and my family’s heads. If you ask this question every day, I will give this answer every day, because I was homeless for a time as a teenager and have never forgotten.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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      3 months ago

      I am grateful I put petrol in my car yesterday, so today I can drive straight home from work without stopping.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Grateful for being able to keep warm in this cold weather. I know it’s tough for many people with cost of living, and rentals built like tents where there is no option to improve the place.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Grateful Mickey is better.

      Grateful that I did mine and partners washing yesterday, so I don’t feel guilty about not doing any today haha

      Grateful to witness the fog this morning. I could see the city from Brunswick at 8.20am, and when I got back at 9am-ish I couldn’t even see the street lol

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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      3 months ago

      I am grateful for fast home delivery of groceries, saves my back from carrying and I don’t need a car.

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Using a stick on picture hook. Picture is only 2.5 kg. I’m nonetheless saying my prayers and hoping this stays up in the long term 🙏😂.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I have a big wooden framed painting/print handing up on a stick-on picture hook, must be a good 3-5kgs. And it’s been up the whole 4 years I’ve been here, no issues.

      That said, at my previous place in the CBD I had it hanging up on the same sort of hook (different brand iirc), and it fell and smashed my partners widescreen monitor. We had only been together for a year and a bit, and we were in lockdown, I thought for sure he was gonna leave me haha.

      I use the hooks from woolies, I forget the name. But yeah, 4 years and it’s fine

      • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago

        Honestly feel like it’s Russian roulette for these things. For at least a week I’ve put cushions on the floor under the frame so if it does fall something will soften the impact.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    3 months ago

    My Excel spreadsheet is refusing to play nice with my OFFSET functions. I do not know why, the exact same formula is working with other cells, it just won’t let me create them with a different original cell reference.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I better stock up on the Berserk deluxe editions now Booktopia is closing down. They had them for the cheapest I’ve seen aside from second hand on marketplace