Happy international Hot Chocolate Day 🔥🍫
Hospital parking fees 🤬
Nobody is going there for fun.
And May well be in the sort of urgency that does not allow for sorting out change or downloading an app.
Its absolutely digusting, have always said it should be illegal to charge for parking at hospitals. At the very least free short term parking should be made available for urgent visits.
My dad at the height of his illness drove himself to hospital and parked in the hospitals parking facilities, and I couldn’t get on a flight for two days and had no one in that area to help me. So I had to pay an insane parking fee, which made everything so much more stressful for me financially while I was in the middle of grieving for my dying dad.
Yeah, it adds another layer of complication and stress at a time when you already may have a million things on your mind. Maybe it’s to stop just anyone parking there and occupying needed space but it could also be predatory
https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/hospitals-ordered-develop-fairer-car-parking-policies
Normally if you get a note from the hospital proving it’s an emergency the council will wave it.
That’s good to know
Bloody agree with you and a lot of people who need it are often suffering from paying other hospital related fees that got their relatives or relations there in the first place.
Teens will eat through your wallet like a moth. A little bit at a time and then it’s all gone.
Pulled a muscle in my back (the doc suspects) and it’s giving me trouble breathing. I want to cry 😭
I have fortunately never woken up at night because of pain so far and I had to last night cuz it got so bad. Off to scans. Also took a sickie cuz it’s so uncomfortable 😪
Just out of curiosity, which side? Only because my pulled myscle turned out be a gallbladder erupting…
Left side. Doc suggested I get a chest x-ray and a d-dimer test done.
A chest x ray for a pulled muscle? Seems excessive …
Ahh, mine was right sided. Felt like I was dying, wasn’t far off!
take care
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Pasta salad with sundried tomato, olive and avocado please
Ooh and feta
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Surreal moment today: me, a blondeish woman of a certain age in a Volvo V70 wagon, blasting Counting Bodies Like Sheep through its (excellent) stereo. 😁
Ted Cat woke me up. I must have been making ouch noises in my sleep.
Finished watching Station Eleven.
no spoilers but chunky text anyway
It was patchy at times - The Prophet was a very unconvincing character for the most part. And it felt like they handwaved too many contrived situations just to make us feel something. Makes sense that the show runner did The Leftovers, I don’t remember most of it now except that I felt it also veered on sentimental. But those odd-numbered episodes, particularly 5, 7 and 9, were really quite something… and even if the show ending was a little too neat/pat, by that point it was emotionally well earned and I kinda didn’t care about some of the character issues as much. I think I would’ve been a total blubbering mess if I really did watch this in 2021.
7/10 on average, 9/10 for the odd numbered episodes.
I’m currently watching The Magicians (2015).
How is it? The premise sounds interesting
not OP but it’s spectacular. Finished its run a year or two ago
Looks like I’ll have something queued up for these interminably long evenings while I’m footloose and fancy free
I liked it. It was an interesting take . No dystopia.
It was refreshingly hopeful and I definitely would like to see more fiction about the positive aspects of real human relationships post-apocalypse. Finding art, love, trust and community (while the nutsos kill each other off or learn to leave peaceful people alone for their own survival).
Though i think both the book and the TV show do make a point that the first period of adjustment is going to be unsafe and violent for most.
Yes. All those positive aspects of humanity are a drive just as much as the negative. :)
Life Pro Tip: if you’re on a visa and have OSHC/OVHC, get Allianz base and Bupa extras (if needed).
imed Radiology and Melbourne Pathology both forward the receipts to Allianz and even though the cover says that they’ll pay up to 85% of MBS, somehow the entire receipt is paid (goes for all scans - MRI, CT, X-ray etc).
Bupa is good for extras, I use a Bupa Members First provider and they have discounted rates for Bupa members which is great. My physio charges me $37 for a 1hour sesh but a max of $450 per year ($90 something after that). But still good value.
Oh my god. I thought it was Tuesday today.
Ever since I got home and came back from work I was trying to work out why my petrol was so low and what I was going to do.
Suddenly got confused at seeing the dates of tucker time and this thread and only clicked that it’s Wednesday.
I’m so out of it!
I spent way too long playing around with Melbourne prompts on Stable Diffusion for a WhatsApp group image. Of course face masks came up relatively often.
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So now that Costco is moving can they also take down that fucking wheel? It was a stupid place to put it and it should never have been built in the first place.
Pup dog decided we needed some drama in our lives and had a fit/collapsed last night :/ ran him to the vet (quite literally, they’re just down the street) and he seems a bit better this morning. Back to the vet today for blood test results, but he’s lost weight despite a big appetite. He’s getting old and I’m trying not to think the worst.
As a result, I’m working from home while he snoozes on the bed near me and it’s peaceful and nice and I’m still looking for the positives!
aw, lots of gentle hugs for you and pups
WFH is fantastic when the furry ones pull this kind of stunt. May all be ok.
First day back at school for mine today… Already a kerfuffle. Good luck y’all.
It’s the last year for my youngest, I hope she got to school, eldest was supposed to drive her to the bus. If there was a kerfuffle it wasn’t my problem I was at work already.
Second day for mine. I think day 2 is worse for my lot, judging by my drill sergeant performance this morning! First day they’re keen to know who’s in their classes etc. Second day is all, "but muuuum! I’m tiiiiired!"
Second day is all, “but muuuum! I’m tiiiiired!”
Me too kiddo, me too!
First day at new schools for my kids. One starting high school the other has changed to a new school (something that I wanted to avoid if possible).
Both were very nervous this morning.
Been copping a bit of flack from upper management lately. My boss and the boss’s boss are calling BS, but the old boss and the “head off” are fucking idiots. Anyway, there was an issue this morning, guess who solved it? Yeeaaaah, the bloke who supposedly “doesn’t do anything around here”. Fuck I’m good.
Bit of the old “why do we have IT, everything’s working fine” / “why do we have IT, nothing is working” situation?
