Pet day? Hello from the top of the cupboards where carrier avoidance due to V E T appointment is ongoing

Ok, old pic, but repeat incoming…

Dammit! No vax today, have to go back in a few weeks.

Said goodbye to Toby this morning. What a fantastic little dude he was.

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🫂 ♥
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Vale Toby. I hope he was at peace and knew he was loved when it was time, as much as a dog can understand these things anyway...
So hard to say goodbye. 💙
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ he looks quite a character, many hugs to you.
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❤️❤️❤️❤️
💛
🤍
❤️❤️❤️
I'm sorry for your loss ❤️

I give you shoebox cat for pet appreciation day.

ted being cute

We all know you like to bite bums Ted. Don't act innocent.

Just wanted to thank everyone for their rather raw sharing of feelings yesterday. I realized late last night what my biggest fear was: that something so obvious to me wasn't obvious to a majority of people. It was rather isolating and sobering. upon reflection, ya'll sharing your shock or grief or whatever helped a LOT. So thank you.

You can only look after your own kingdom. ♥
I still feel raw and upset tbh, like a horrible heavy weight sitting in my lower abdomen.
I don't know how to get away from all the terrible news to come over the next 4 years. But I think I might start by actually following through and deleting the other place, and then just focusing purely on my own life and this place here lol
You always have a space to commiserate and find company here, this is a bastion.
Just take one day at a time and the chance to focus on other things.
While it's half a world away it hit me harder than I thought as well.
Treat yourself and make yourself feel better.
hugs , you are not alone
So that's why I'm in a flatline mood today.. it's just hung over me like a cloud all yesterday evening and today. I didn't realise why until you said.
- yep. make you feel DEEPLY alone, huh.

We rent, so don't have pets. This is Cara:

She was a sweet old girl belonging to dad (and Mum before she passed). This photo is my kids saying goodbye to her - it was her last visit before she had to go.

I don't really miss her like she's shown here, but boy do I miss her when she was young! I could take her on a 10km run and she was so fast that she made me faster trying to keep pace. Jack Russells will run forever if you let them.

I walked Ted to Lort Smith for some vaccinations and bum fur trimming. He was a total champ. 🐈‍⬛ Never whinged or meowed, liked looking around when he was in his walker. Of course he tried to nip the doc and nurse. He loved seeing all the other animals in the hospital waiting room.

He is also overweight so he is on a diet of less food. Here he is home again with Bill looking over shoulder.

Bill is hatching a cunning plan.
- Revenge

What dog? I can't see it.

OMG what kind are they!? They are adorable!!!
- I don't know what kind they are.
  Also have another photo:

Fluffy boy, complete with grinch feet

Edit:

Ok that’s a cool shot. Is it bring your pet to DT day or something?
- It's DT pet day! To bring positivity to our lives!
Oh! My departed WhiteBoy used to do this.
Mildly NSFW ::: spoiler spoiler
:::
- Sweet baby! You know you've got the love a cat when they do this!

No pets currently, but here’s a pic of the nice maggie that spent the day in my backyard a while back

Not my cat but my adoptive niece...

Pepperoni, spicy sausage cat

I has baby Tom's!!!!

Ooh looking healthy!
- I used to have a competition with an old Italian fella on who could have the first ripe tomato of the season. Much to his disgust, I won more than him. He's with God now, but I see his son around so now it's a second generation battle. And I'm gonna win again this year! Next year I'll pull my finger out and grow one of his plants from seed, because I wanna beat him at his own game.
how long had they been planted? Never grown them before this season.
- Probably a month, maybe 5 weeks. They are a random cherry tomato they had for sale at a supermarket. Its the earliest I've ever put them in, but they're looking good.

And the beauty of the house.... complete with ginger stalker

😂😂😂😂 that ginger face is killing me
- He loves her soooo much. And she barely gives him the time of day.

Old but fave photo of aunts HAMBAM

Need to go over and give him a pat soon.

Hambam! 🥰

An offering of this best boy I met on the street one day

GUYS I'M FREEEEE

Freee Fallin..
FANTASTIC WORK YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!
YOU DID IT!
TREAT YO SELF
- Thank you!!!
  Here's a donut for you 🍩 I might make some on the weekend!
To do what I want, any old time 🎶
YAYYYYYY!!
Congratulations on all your hard work. So proud of you. hug hug 😘😘😘
- 🥺💕
Woohoo! 🎉
CONGRATS!!!! Enjoy the freedom!!! You've worked bloody hard to get to this point, well done!!

Mickey is a shoulder cat as well?!!?!? How much more perfect and lovable can this little man be (aside from the occasional leg chomp)
- Haha he is, it is a recent behaviour though. He only started doing it since I started school 😂

Funny lil' guy I saw yesterday on my walk

Fat cat, doing fat cat stuff

Old man dog back in 2020.....passed on in '21

This is me today.

I don't have a pet, can I post a picture of my sister instead? That's basically the same thing right?

sure
it's really just about reminding ourselves that there is good in the world 😘

I've done a thing and now I'm going to leave my phone alone and pretend I didn't do it.

I hate myself often.

My favourite child bought me flowers

And dessert

Recently discovered the Woolies cinnamon rolls are pretty good. You have to look through them for the most recent dates though, I notice they keep them out for a few days and no one deserves the disappointment of a stale bun!
Favourite child out of how many exactly?
- -whispers- pretty sure it's just the one 👀😂
- One
What does she want?
- Nothing so far
Just a lily warning if you have cats 😥

Brutal. When they get that deep it's practically impossible to pull them out; they don't believe they need saving. My mum is the same, though non-denominational
- Sorry to hear that Spud. That must suck, especially with a parent.
she sounds lonely and in need of guidance from someone as intelligent and kind as you
maybe you can share non political yts with her, like nature yts or something . Don't react to her provocations.
- goons, I know you mean well and radical empathy is a thing, but no one makes the choice of stonewall or going NC without trying everything possible first. And I mean everything, including eating decades of shit.
- Thanks for the suggestion Seagoon :) I sent her some time lapses of plants growing. Hopefully she will like them.

And a migraine right on schedule. Lucky I postponed the show tonight.

I'm giving myself permission to play ps5. So fuck you migraine.

Look, feel free to ignore this, but have you had your glasses prescription (if any) updated recently? I've had headaches that were made worse by tension/stress but magically vanished when I got new glasses.
- adding to the possibles - do you have allergies? Because 'tis the season and sinuses. And if you take a lot of sudafed, it dries them out and will absolutely smash your head in when they get angry
- The new glasses I got have actually helped a lot. It's just an old shoulder injury that flares up and causes the headache.
Have you spoken to a doctor if this keeps happening to you?
- It's from a shoulder injury. It requires a certain amount of gym activity which I haven't been doing since I started the new job.
  I'll get back into it this weekend. No other choice.
I’ve got a headache coming as well but I’m stuck at work.
Play for your ps5 for me.
- You're with me in spirit 👻

Gratitude thread.

Lovely sunshine
Cat snuggles
Compulsory voting and a generally sensible and independent electoral system here
I get to catch up with some old friends at the weekend
Summer fruit coming in to season. Blueberries for breakie, yum.

2 day work week for me
Solid night of sleep
Living in Australia, where despite it's flaws, is a great place to live
My kids for being way smarter than me at their age
pet pictures!
work providing a much needed sense of stability and routine and safety atm
le sun
having permanent residence here and not needing to consider the US when trying to get out of where I grew up
friends and colleagues offering to help in various ways with the move
Left over pizza
Lawn seed is taking
Spring onions that I planted from woolies hasn't died yet
Brown garden dripper hose
All the pet pictures! I’m having a shitty day and they’re cheering me up no end
Also grateful for no afternoon meeting today
Lunch slapped today. Just a frozen zucchini slice with some frozen roast potatos, but was exactly what I needed today! also nice my solar is now useful again.
Work bought our lunch two days in a row (subway, too much of it)

Goodnight all ❤️

Already?
Goodnight you two 😘

🦑

I just had that moment where a cat gets stuck with a plastic bag somehow wrapped around them, and they shamefully come to you for help.

Poor thing. But also, adorable lol

I just did a ticket at the new job and this is it. This is the sort of work I've been missing for the last couple of years. I don't know if it's because I was working with clunky software or what, but I just didn't enjoy my last couple of roles.

This should have the same issues of finiky work that requires high attention to detail, but there's something about this where I can get into a workflow to just get the work done and check it as well.

I'm not diagnosed with anything but it's like this work tickles a part of my brain the way factorio or one of those games does for some people

That's really great that your new job is sounding like a better fit for you - makes it much easier to move on from the old job and know that you're not the problem, there is a place for you :D
- Exactly. It feels good knowing I'm back in work I like doing, whilst my old workplace is mildly inconvenienced by dealing with this massive platform no one knows how to use whilst they look for someone else.
Glad to hear it man!!!

Got a call back from CAV today about my application to have the rent increase reviewed, seems like it's about a 30 day turnaround. Well since shit has changed so much I said it's no longer necessary and to close the case but they were very helpful about checking that I knew my rights around vacating with 14 day notice etc.

I sent my intention of notice to vacate to the LL yesterday morning, no response so far, and CAV themselves advised that while the LL doesn't have to respond, if they don't specify how to return possession (i.e., keys) then really all I need to do is tell them how I've done it and then it's the LL's problem as to whether the property is secure or otherwise 🤷

Missed the opportunity to ask how exactly I can report LL if she starts listing the property for rent within 6 months of the vacate notice, but I guess I'll find a way to call again if it comes up.

Well, I left it right till the last minute and am only now having a shower and dinner (because otherwise I would've felt like curling up in bed...)

But I have cleared out 90% of unused/expired things in my pantry!! and consolidated 70% of what remains (the rest I'll still need to use for a while). There was an embarrassing amount of nuts (esp almonds) I had to throw out :(

I've also cleared out random boxes in my car from months ago from when the new car stereo was installed. Recycling bin pretty full after all this.

Pretty satisfied with today's effort! This weekend's big cull is the clothes. I think I'm making decent progress. I seriously need to book a mover ahead of time tho, any recommendations?

Good work. 🌞
it's a dreadful job but very necessary, I always feel so guilty at throwing out food, even when it's expired
- Oh gosh it was utterly heartbreaking tossing out so many nuts. I just kept thinking back to my starving uni days where I would've cherished all that food and learnt to make so many things with it rather than let it go to waste. It's a good wake up call to keep my dry food purchases over the next few months to a minimum
The last time I moved I used Man with a Van - only it was two of them. No complaints, no damage to items. And some items had to be carried down a narrow & twisty staircase. I believe their charges are about industry standard.
- Jinx!
- Fantastic, they were who I was looking at. Between you and Spud that's a pretty solid recommendation. I don't want to spend too long paralysed between choosing different movers to save maybe $100
I like man with a van, personally. Used them when I moved from Epping to the CBD, and then again when I moved from the CBD to Brunswick. I like that I could put it on the website what I had to move, how big things were, and how many (chairs, drawers, etc). And at the time their rates were reasonable.
- Yes I really do like their website! They seem reasonable to me and I just want to not have to think too much (esp with new place being up 3 flights of stairs). I'll probably just go with them but need to start consolidating which items I need their help with. Definitely fridge, couch, washing machine, tv stand, mattress, probably accommodate a few heavy boxes and the dismantled bed frame...

Went out for dins last night with fam + SIL. Nice place AUGELLO'S in balwyn. Place was packed and the staff did an incredible job managing that. Good pizza!

But turns out bro and SIL are trump supporters which came as a shock to the rest of us.

Back in the day around the kitchen table we'd get into heated arguments about Labor/LNP. Old man is heavy rusted on LNP (as in he'd leave the room if people we shitting on their policy setting). He just sat there in disbelief.

But this didn't turn into an argument. Just the sound of eyebrows being raised.

Everyone is entitled to their views.. but yeah.. wow. They're well educated aswell.

I'm not really the type to get upset with views but their views on the rona and now this definitely makes it difficult to think any better of them.

As a total outsider just based on what you've described about your bro and SIL over the last year or two... I am not surprised that they are Trump supporters. Selfishness is often correlated with that category of people. I'm so sorry you got another blow to your relationship with them...
- It's a shame. Would be nice to get that back on track (and see bboi butters more often) but yeah :(
I was surprised to learn that a few people at work were happy with yesterday's result also. Not in a 'good for them' kind of way (which is how I'd have been had the result been different), but in a more direct good for us kind of way. One person even pulled out one of those red and white hats. I have never seen one in Australia before.
These are smart people. I have previously dismissed most of the Republican supporters as uninformed and uneducated. It's easy to just assume that anyone voting for the guy has no idea what they're doing.
I still don't get why anyone in Australia is that invested in US politics. But I'm reassessing my previous notions that the Republican party is as successful as it is because they have convinced dumb people to vote for them.
- I think it is not so much dumb people as the selfish entitled people - the sort that are always looking disaprovingly at anybody who is getting anything they are not - and that is a huge demographic. The sort of people who get their nose out of joint at everything from someone taking more food at the buffet to people receiving welfare benefits (or even disability or workcover claims). It also flows over into everyone who thinks that it is unfair if anyone who is female/foreign/gay etc. has something they don't, and assume it is being unfairly taken away from them.
  There is probably a correlation between that and dumb, but there is also a sizeable group who recognise that the Republican plan will increase inequality and believe they will come out on top in that situation. Trump and his cronies lining their own pockets will help a lot of other rich and unscrupulous people do the same.
- grifters can get anyone. The smarter people are the less likely they are to admit they got hoodwinked.
Are they small business owners? My most charitable take would be they can see what's of economic benefit to them because everything else about Trump's platform wouldn't directly affect them
- No they work here in govt. which is the odd thing. It just has no impact on them but they feel very strongly about it.
  Bizarre.

If Ya'll need a laugh regarding THE TOPIC

Only silver lining is watching Dump fumble and fuck up for 4 years (or whenever he kicks it).
- Oh. He wont make it 4 years. He'll be lucky to make it 1. But then they are stuck with couch fucker, which honestly may not be so bad depending on which persona shows up on any given day. And maybe next time democrats get into power they wont fuck around for 4 years. They had 4 years to lock the fucker up and they did nothing. Should be a lesson in that for all of us, seize the bloody day.

I'm cleaning up and I found a cover that goes on the battery compartment. I have no idea what it's from. I've kept it for a reason and I'll continue to keep it but it's gonna do my head in for the rest of the day.

Good night everyone. 😘😘😘 Today can be DT Pet Appreciation Day

scored a pile of flagstones on buy nothing group, now time to move them all into the back yard....

I don't know why but I read flagstones as lasagna.
- Hungry?
- They do come in layers

Fuck! I booked a class. Money mean I must actually go and 🦙talk to people ☠️

Nothing to do with pets. new location They have evening classes - hmmm. Worth considering.

Stardew Valley is on Google Play Pass... Which I have... But I know it's a timesink... But also I love that genre.

Fuck.

four in real life years will fly by
- Hopefully in four years I'll be in my industry for a little bit too!

Ok, wtf is going on?! I’ve heard at least 15 units, there are choppers not showing on flight radar, train line is down and nothing on VicEmergency.

As a general rule lots of emergency services + train + no info tends to mean someone hit by a train. Although I think when there was a suspected bomb at Ringwood the situation was much the same, although that had roads around the station blocked off too.
- Yeah, I get that. Though one not long ago I managed to figure out it was a cow hit not a person. The choppers not showing up when I can clearly hear them is disconcerting.
As a general rule lots of emergency services + train + no info tends to mean someone hit by a train. Although I think when there was a suspected bomb at Ringwood the situation was much the same, although that had roads around the station blocked off too.

Nourishment for Longevity 🚚
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- Went off to earn five dollars instead of making it in house
Toast and preserves please, with vintage red wine.
- 🍞🍯🍷
Ham cheese croissant and a mojito please
- 🍖🧀🥐🍹
I’ll have a five dollar milkshake, Martin and Lewis.
- 💵🥛🫨🙆🏻‍♂️💁‍♂️

12.50 for some SR flour, Eggs and a bag of potatos. Thats what i get for going to coles. Has anyone ever been to Dandenong Market? was jelous of the 35 dollar fruit and veg box someone got last weekend from Preston market. Or is there a good online service people like?

If we're nearby we'll do the Dandy Market. It's not cost effective for us to drive there just to go to the market but if we're out and about we'll go. Are you Paky way? I've heard good things about Garfield fruit and veg, and I think they're online too. I'm more Cranbourne way so I go to what they call Market on the main street and I'm pretty happy with price and quality.
- I'm nearish paky, yeah. Hadnt considered travel to Dandenong. Will check both out, thanks!
I can't tell you how much I miss Preston Markets, even now. My oldest and I were a fixture there. Vendors knew his name/he knew them etc. We were there upwards of three times a week from when he was a newborn. The sounds of the market would soothe him to sleep when he was a baby. He had a tiny size 2 uniform of the taco truck that Ellie bought for him and he wore proudly out and about.
The few markets we have in Perth are more like Queen Vic than just regular weekly shopping markets.
Market Europa is pretty good price for fruit and veg if there's one near you. It's close enough to mine that Dandy market is another 7km/30 mins. Dandy is probably better but effort counts too.
- Darn, there isnt. Ah well thanks for the recommendation I will keep an eye out if I head into suburbia.

Y'all know I'm obsessed with Käärijä - so here's a banger

https://youtu.be/6yioRBe7lF4?si=trwB5vUJA4y83jH8

Puuta Heinää (Nonsense) https://lyricstranslate.com/en/puuta-heinaa-nonsense.html

I’ve seen this guy before. This is a fun one and includes a Prodigy sample.
It’s Crazy It’s Party
- Yup! He came second in Eurovision 2023, and I've been a huge fan since. They made It's Crazy It's Party because he would say that phrase at the end of his performances in EV lol! It's also a banger of a track tbh

hayfever bad

I’ve been itchy all morning

Ahh women’s BBL cricket on right now and tonight.

Sport saves me once again!

Fuck it I might watch it just for the brain distraction. I think I still have that link you sent me months ago, it would be on that site yeah?
- It’s actually on free to air through the channel 7 website or app.
  The link I sent you awhile ago is dead.
  I can send you another for cricket if you want to avoid ads.
- Sent you a DM

Hola DDT fam,

Lovely night catching up with a beautiful friend.
Drinks @ Franklins
Music @ the Croxton

It’s a wee bit chilly, but my heart is warm.

Also, am re-watching Twin Peaks…

Joan Chen 😍

Man… I feel actual sadness and like I’m shouting into a void

hey, we're here

I think I've worked out part of a water colour and western calligraphy project I have.

I'll choose a lovely modernish font, one that is free flowing and a little artie. Maybe I'll do two, one that is a little more serious but in the same family of fonts. And then I will practice my arse off and write out the alphabets, photograph and then upload as my own typeface on the puter. 👍

also, fuck nibs and textas, I'm awesome at using a blade to write and that's what I'll do. I have never used a quill tho.