So far so good! Lots of induction and training to do. Will take up the rest of the week pretty much.
It’s so nice to be back at work 🎉
🥳🥳🥳
Went really well!
Tired but had a pretty good day. A lot of induction and training which is to be expected.
Got to chat to the owner and he’s a really nice guy.
No real complaints! ❤️
Tomorrow you get to play name roulette with the blur of faces
Lol too true. I remember 4 or 5 of the 40 or so.
Fuck it was just good to be away from the house. Cabin fever was fucking me up.
I remember that feeling of relief of having something to do after a few months of unemployment/underemployment. Not nearly as long as yours but I’m really chuffed that you get to apply yourself to something.
Hopefully it’s the kind of place where you can build some stability and not have to give too much of yourself.
Yay! So glad to hear it went well.
I did it and it was really really good. If you zoom in you’ll be mesmerised by the pretty colours.
That looks amazing. The pomegranate is 👌🏻
Thanks.
I am drooling
That looks fucking amazing!!!
Thanks.
That looks so good!! Restaurant level for sure
Thanks.
oooh excellent!
Thanks.
Your food styling is 😘🤌
Thanks. Sometimes I just slap food on a plate. They’re the ones you don’t see. 😂
If anyone is interested, the school I presented at had a nice write up about yesterday. It is a facebook link though
Congrats dude! thats pretty sick. Your name vs your username has broken my mind though. I know its just adding 2 letters, but my mind just cant comprehend it.
Lol thanks!
This is so cool! You’ve inspired young kids to write and read, that’s huge meaningful gift you’ve given them!
Gosh, the covers of your books look sick as, definitely inspired me to locate them and give them a read! 💜
My cover guy is amazing. Turns my stick figure nonsensical ideas into what you see.
I really enjoyed Revenge of the Flightless.
It’s definitely my favourite one.
Thank you! I think the schools appreciated the effort into creating funs ways to get them into reading and writing as well. Hoping to do some more of them soon.
That’s so cool!
That’s super cute, yay!
So lucky, would have loved to have had you too but my demographic is too young unfortunately.
Here we go!!!
Have a great day everyone ❤️
You got this, King! 👑
Good luck! You’ll be amazing!
Have a great day!
GOOOOOO SIMONNN
Good luck. 😘
Best of luck, and have a great day!
Good luck dude!
YAASS Simon!! Go forth and kick ass!!
Good luck!!! KICK ASS!!!
You’ll do awesome gibsy
Good luck today!
Hope you have a great day too!
Sending retroactive cheers! 💐
About to go at some gutters. Neighbours’ big tree is overhanging the shed so they’re always full. I like the tree and I’m fine cleaning it up (usually compost it) but he refused to pay for half the recently rebuilt fence so fuck him he’s going get a lot of leaves on his side of the boundary. His leaves, my problem, soon to be his problem. He also has a pool so we’re aiming there.
Yeah, fuck him. I’d be doing the same.
I’m gonna make this tonight for tea tonight and I’m so freakin excited.
https://www.themediterraneandish.com/layered-hummus-dip-recipe/
ooh that looks good.
I’m gonna pair it with lebanese rice, cucumbers and dolmades. And of course fresh lebanese bread.
Oh that looks amazing.
that looks delicious
I know right! I’ve made these components a million times and never thought to put them together on the same plate.
If I understand correctly, Gibson is angry that I wasn’t home all day, but happy I’m here now dispensing scritches and brushies.
Yeah, you’re going to have an adjustment thing. Lots of Pandemic pets are over anxious because they’ve never been alone.
Bit of drama here: the shower which had been taking a little longer to drain but had been manageable suddenly… wasn’t yesterday, so I had to find a plumber.
To cut a long story short, actually found one via the local FB group who said they could come today, and was actually able to come earlyish this morning - sorted things out in 15 minutes including putting the tap in the shower back on and only charged me the callout fee. And thanked me for not using Drano.
We had a blockage in our kitchen sink once and my mum tried to use Drano. She managed to get it on her hands and copped a nasty skin burn and had to go to the hospital. She also dropped the entire tub on the ground after getting burnt. Then it managed to open a hole in one of our pipes (ancient plastic). Thankfully it was on the outside so was easily patched, and tbf it seems like it didn’t actually create a new hole in the pipe, just dissolved something that had been used to seal a small hole in the pipe before. But that was definitely a good learning lesson for me
Anti-gratitude thread 😡
Menstrual cycles suck.
just got an image of a bunch of uterus’s (uteri?) riding the shittest tour de france you’ve ever seen.
in white lycra
Here here.
Agreed. Worst of the worst of the normal body functions.
Ungrateful for drinking too much over the weekend and now I have the alcohol-sads
Tax return. I owe them money. WTF, I had spending plans and everything.
Co-worker away sick today on the busiest day of the week, all the work falls on me today :(
if only those wonderful hormones were moderate and consistent
I don’t miss the roller coaster , I do miss some of the highs
also, hugs to Mr Seagoon for putting up with the drama
Mr Seagoon is a real one 🙏
As always, slow-ass mail. I want my goosebumps throw blanket darnit!
Couldn’t get back to sleep for stressing about whether I’d get a plumber when Zooks woke me about 10 to 4 by joining me for cuddles, so now I’m doing the zombie shuffle but too hyped to sleep. 😵💫
I DO NOT look forward to going through this shit with my youngest girl child 😬
$9.99. unlimited rice and condiments 🤤
Yum! Where’s this?
E: actually, don’t dox your location, lol. I’m just interested in new places to eat
https://maps.app.goo.gl/4pVmC67kvLkd4XPEA
Idc come say hi lol
I’ve run out of time, but totally would!
Oh wow! 15 years ago, I worked two doors down from that location. That spot used to be a sushi bar, from memory.
The building between used to be a single-story Foodworks. That building is also gone and is now another office block. We sure need lots more new office blocks in this WFH future. 😁
Primary AND backup coffee places both closed for renovations?! You’ve gotta be shitting me. Any coffee recommendations around Melbourne central? Maccas just aint cutting it.
Puzzle coffee on east side of Melbourne Central is decent
I’ve found them to be a little hit/miss, but when they’re good they are usually pretty good so i’ll roll the dice. Cheers.
I saw a sign yesterday that Puzzle coffee is coming to QV shopping centre soon
Yes. Shortstop, Little Rogue (though might be one of the closed ones?), Krimper.
Cheap options: The $1 coffee at the Monopoly place is good for the price. The $3 coffee at Tigers Den (after 12PM) is OK for the price.
Shortstop is nice, but the temptation to get a 7 dollar doughnut is oftern too great. Tigers den are shut. Forgot about little rouge. Bakemono was the other one, I’m a sucker for those sesame seed honey things.
I can vouch for shortstop. Used to live on Little Lonsdale opposite the Children’s Court, and would go to Shortstop for their coffee and DELICIOUS DOUGHNUTS 🤤🤤🤤
Shortstop have cool donuts too.
There is another governmental envelope on the table. I looked up the PO Box. Yup 😾
Sounds like boyo needs a slap. He could kill someone. Suppose he won’t be so blasé about it then 🙄
I don’t believe it’s deliberate. But still needs to stop!
Speeding fine?
I expect so
Bugger :(
Self inflicted?
Not mine. Boyo. Keeps blaming road work signage.
Not cool, Boyo :/
Oh boooo
Yeah… the other one is still unpaid on the fridge.
The old roommate received a hand written letter from the Melbourne Gateway facility (they screen mail). I’ve never wanted to know what’s in someone else’s mail so badly
I used to get shit tons of Justice Department letters for a presumed ex tenant. After sending back NATA about ten I stopped until I had that many again, then sent them all taped together. It stopped after that. Google wouldn’t tell me and I didn’t dare open them.
When companies keep ignoring the NATAs over the span of many months, I enjoy fucking with the letters before sending them back. Nothing illegal, but never underestimate the power of writing not at address on a letter 100 different times. All in varying fonts and pen colours, some upside down for added effect. Maybe even some passive aggression about how incompetent they must be to not know how to update someone’s address. Sprayed with a quick spritz of non flammable air freshener (I don’t want to blow up a post truck, after all), and scrunched up a few times before being chucked back in the post box.
I did ask the postie about it (don’t want to make his job harder), and he said as long as he can read the return address, and their robot can see the stamp, everybody finds it funny and it does a few laps of the LPO before going to the depot.
Oh there were very impolite words on the mass pack sending!
I had that same thought last week, but it was the payment plan…
Felt good today throwing leaves over the fence. It’s so petty but I feel happy.
Two times this week I got the dreaded ‘you seem like a great guy’ from online dating apps.
The first had bad experiences in the past with guys who have the same first name as me.
The second we were going to meet up tomorrow for the first time but messaged today to say they’ve reconnected with a guy from their past so cya.
I understand the reasons but boy, with the lady who ‘isn’t one for pushing drugs on people, but I think you should take some of my medication’, and one who said she just left a cult, online dating apps have not been fun (though, interesting).
Words can’t express how much I appreciate missing the whole online dating thing. I met my wife at a very unromantic bar. In the days when “we met online” was still a bit weird.
Everything about the dating apps sounds awful. Not just for men, if anything I think women probably have it worse.
From the stories I hear, women definitely have it worse.
Yeah online dating sucks. There are plenty of, sorry to say it, fruit loops, on there. If I had just left a cult, I hope I’d go straight to a therapist!
I’m taking a long break from it and not sure if I ever want to try again. It seems like the only way in this day and age, although I did meet my ex at a bar.
Every time I try OLD, I try to get something out of it, even if it’s not a partner. Last person I spoke to from there shared some great music (and I gave him some recs). Before that, met some people that it didn’t work out with, but now they’re in happy relationships - it has been nice to see :)
I recently went to the birthday party of an acquaintance, and she had friends there that she met from OLD apps.
It does seem like it’s the only way. Doubly for me because I don’t socialise or do anything in social circles.
I’ll take a break from it and focus on other things.
Sorry to hear it man. I gave up online a long time ago and stick to in person.
More to lose, but it’s so much better.
It’s life. I’m probably gonna take a break from it and focus on uni and writing (and work I suppose)
Try not to let it stop you. I guess my mantra is “never give up”, but sometimes a break does help.
How do you find people to date in person?
Go out on the weekends to bars pretty much. Or under very unique and rare circumstances, in your day to day life.
You need to be the kind of person who can smile and say “hey, no worries, have a great day/night” to being rejected. It hurts a bit in the beginning but then it’s ok.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
what happened with the Melbourne girl? I might’ve missed that.
She bought a house in Melbourne so I think that kind of put a bit of a barricade in things. We still talk but it’s more as friends.
