BRB, going to Inverloch. Holiday!
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bring us a bass from the bass strait please
My lovely daughter comes home yesterday all excited because she spotted all these white butterflies around on her way home. She even took photos. She was so happy. Now as a mother it's my job to tell her the truth. I crushed that little girl's heart with a "no sweetie. They are cabbage moths. They're a pest. They eat hard working Australians crops". Not to be out done she replied with "They're still pretty". Bless her little cotton socks.
She's right, they are pretty. 😊
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So this is the second week I've had my period, and last time this kind of stuff happened I never talked to the doctor about it (medical trauma and obviously cptsd from SA) but it's happening again... So I have to go see my GP, tho I may request a lady doctor to hopefully ease my worries.
Low-key hoping that my uterus is damaged beyond repair and has to be removed. #goals
This organ is nothing but pain and annoyance and though it's doesn't make much sense, whenever I think of it being removed I think of Mike Wazowski: "Put that thing back where came from, or so help me, so help me, so help me, and cut!"
Yeet the thing if you can! Wish the wretched organ came with an on/off switch. Yes, I’m sure I don’t want to use this right now, hibernate mode GO! (I got mine disconnected, but unfortunately it still works)
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Weird how I have the whole cinema to myself at 10am on a school/work day 😎
I thought that was a keyboard.
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I don't have anything important to say but I'm becoming really good at getting wasps out of the house. Give them a little hand gesture and they know where the window is. They are more aware than we think.. They know things.
Come back when you have learned the way of the mosquito and you will never worry for fame or money ever again.
One of your mates got in my car the other day. It got in. I got out. It got very close to buckling up in the backseat before I open the door and nicely asked it to "Get out".
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Does anyone feel like their emotions get blunted as they get older? For whatever reason I just don't get as stressed or anxious as much about things as I used to. On the other hand I also don't get as excited as much either. Overall I'm just much more..... sedated?
I don't know if it is emotions getting blunted or just that having had a much wider range of experiences the extremes needed to trigger strong emotions are much rarer. When you have little experience of food every meal has a high chance of being the best thing you have ever tasted by a strong margin (or the worst!). But eventually you get to the stage where you have tried so many things that the chances of any one thing being the best are slim, and if it is, it is not generally by a wide margin. I imagine that if you could recreate something as dramatically different as your first taste of sugar your emotions would be just as strong.
I believe the tendency to become less adventurous as we age is down to the same thing. The chances of a new recipe being better than the best recipe we have discovered so far gets lower and lower as we go along, until we get to the point that trying new things becomes more likely to be a negative than a positive. But doing this creates even less likelihood of having an experience that triggers strong emotions - which is why some people go to the opposite extreme of chasing adventure and looking for dramatically new experiences.
Same here, my emotions aren't as extreme as when I was younger. Something I experienced when I was younger that would be very keenly felt is now more of a "meh" for me. However I still get angry the same, I still get cross at everything! I suffered from an anxiety disorder and had PTSD from around 2006 for about years, so everything feels less anxious compared to then lol.
Yeah but I think there's different reasons for everybody. For me I've never really been a stressy person but when I had a child even less stressy because I didn't want her to pick up on it.
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Th garden is growing so well in this weather. 😊
I told myself I was going to get some work done today (and got up at 8:30am so not bad...) But it's not happening yet. I am frozen and somehow crave interaction to kick start my brain. I do have a few hours I have to spend in a library between appointments later today though, so that might generate some action, being away from home with my laptop.
this week is sucking the will to live out of me. I dont know why, but it is just exhausting. Felt like we faced 2 Mondays in a row.
Graffiti and vandalism annoys me so much. It makes me really really angry. Why can't people just not fucking destroy things that benefit everyone?
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@CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone Sorry but those little white butterflies are just so cute
Try growing some veggies and I guarantee you your tune will change...
Hahaha. Well those insects are invading little dog's yard and he don't like it.
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My new job is a finished by midmorning/midday unless something trickles in sort of job, and the feeling is so weird. Like technically I'm done for the day, but now I have to sit there and click about my screen or make small talk with my neighbour. After my last job I'm totally not complaining, but damn!
That can get old very quickly. Being paid to be bored isn’t all it might seem at first.
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- lunch notes - theme this week is power....
TIL the container deposit scheme won't take crushed cans.
Which is beyond stupid. Why can’t I crush most of a six pack or case and leave one to scan the barcode? I also thought there were supposed to be vending machine type things at supermarkets. Certainly not local to me.
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Ok so don't nap when you had a poor nights sleep the night before. Or set an alarm or something. 2 and a half hours GONE and I don't love my chances of sleeping well tonight!
I can report that there are flowers, AND 3 tiny green berries on the tomato plants. Woohoo now I just have to patiently watch them grow.
Ok try 2 at my little DIWHY home repair. Figured out the paint colour. Its a Dulux natural white aquanamel satin finish (so go to Bunnings and ask them to tint it is what the Dulux guy told me). Then, ask for a small piece of timber or something I can stick at the back with some glue for stability and then rinse and repeat the putty process. Also get a 4mm mini roller kit for the painting. Got it. Peanut brain hard at work.
I'm thinking a couple of icypole sticks would probably work well for the wood support. You may need to eat a couple of icecreams to get them, a very worthwhile sacrifice.
i volunteer as tribute
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Where are the Optus whistleblowers to leak what happened? Must be pretty embarrassing or Optus would have said by now.
Robbo kicked the plug out of the socket, Bruce wasn't around to fix it and Keith chucked a sickie.
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There are 3 different custards in my fridge. I think there might be a custard-off tonight.
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Have definitely got the CBFs today. And Sammi is very snuggly.
I had vague plans of tackling the bags in Mum's old room that I shoved things in to clear up for the inspections, but Zooks has nominated Mum's bed as one of her nap spots and is doing just that. Couldn't possibly disturb her. 😉
The Marvels - my quick mostly spoiler-free review but read at your peril:
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That was GREAT! I had a really good time watching it. Even though sometimes it was a little predictable, that didn't take away the joy of the film and it still managed to surprise me a few times. Kamala is an absolute delight throughout. The scenes on Aladna and the space station exit (as vague as I can think to refer to it) were huge standouts and I found myself grinning like an idiot through them. Definitely a return to form for the MCU in my opinion. I did spot a tiny plot hole at the end which wasn't really addressed but I expect they'll explain in a future project. Also the switching when using powers seemed to be a bit random to me but when they got good at doing it and put it into practice, that scene was BADASS.
Also the mid-credits scene.. OH HELL YEAH GET HYPE!
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Very humid on my run this morning. Doggo will get a hair cut tomorrow which will help him out a bit.
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