It’s my birthday so that means seafood and cheese platter day.
Happy birthday! This platter sounds nice, which cheeses will feature?
Thanks.
3× Mersey Valleys and a wedge of South Cape brie.
Happy Birthday to my favourite CEO 😘 🐟🦈🎣🍥🦐🧀💐🍾
Thank you. You’re my favourite Seagoon ❤️
Happy birthday CEO. Have a wonderful day!
Thanks.
Hoppy birthday! All the beers you could want are coming your way.
Thanks. Beers tomorrow. G&T tonight
Enjoy your special day, or 5.
All the best.
Thanks
Happy birthday!!!
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Happy Birthday! May it be a cracker!
Thanks. It’ll be a 5 day extravaganza.
Happy b’day!
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Happy Birthday!🧀🍤🦪
Thanks.
Happy Berfday Chief 🥂
Thanks.
Happy birthday, here is a frozen sardine for your platter: 🧊🐟
Thanks. Just throw it at me, I’ll catch it like a pelican.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR CEO!!! I hope you an excellent day and enjoy alllll of the treats!!
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🎉🎉 happy birthday!! Enjoy the festival of CEO 🍻
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and 🎂
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Happy birthday! 🎂🧀🍤🦪
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Happy birthday and birth week, CEO!!
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🎂
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Happy birthday :)
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Happy birthday CEO! I hope you’ve had a lovely day for it. Can’t go wrong with the oysters etc you had.
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Happy birthday! 🎂
Thank you.
Happy birthday CEO! Hope you’re having a fabulous day and getting spoilt! 🎂
Thanks. I am.
Guys, my newly adult daughter is on an overnight bus with her friend on the way to Adelaide for a few days. I am sad but I’ll be ok.
That’s awesome that she’s having adventures!! What’s planned for ADL?? How has your night been?
They’ll be doing touristy things. Staying in a backpackers hostel. My night’s been good, lots of laughs and now a little bit sad. I am happy for her but a little anxious because this is her first trip without a proper adult. Thanks for asking.
she’ll be fine, you have raised her well 👍😊
Thank you.
Welp, I may feel like my thesis is complete shite and that doing a research project was the worst decision ever that’s dredged up an unrelenting blast of old trauma, but because nobody fucking applies for scholarships in my school, I did… and guess who just got $3000 for filling out some forms - when I’m weeks away from graduating 😂
Sadly, it is taxable as I’m a part-time student, but hell, at least it’ll be in this FY where my taxable income isn’t as high due to having worked part time
Nice. And trust me everyone feels like that weeks away from graduating - you are doing just fine.
Well it’s official.
Hambam is now confidently an off leash walker.
I have waited for this moment for a long time.
Trick was to take him to the same park several times a day so he got over being hyper stimulated / fixated. It worked. Now he doesn’t give two shits about anything… other dogs / kids. So I have upgraded his braincell count to 3, from 2.
Nice. My tip, still keep eyes open for skateboards and electric scooters…took my doggo an extra year after graduating to off lead status before he could see those and not be bothered…
What are you peasants eating?
Ayyyyyyyye!!! 🎂🎂🎂
I’m also having a seafood feast for dinner
(It’s sardines on toast)
A bit of crab meat rolled down my leg so the dog got some too.
Suddenly I don’t want my planned dinner.
… I had tinned spaghetti on toast. It was delicious OKAY.
Glad you’ve celebrated hard though, this looks amazing and you deserve all of it!!
Thanks
Hot bowl of noodles tonight…
It’s too cold!
Tacos!
I have a very dear older family friend that is in early stage Alzheimer’s. We travelled together about 18 months ago but she is really past it now and we kinda knew that would happen (it was a bit of a last harrah family visit). there’s a family event coming up and she would love to go. I have told her that I can’t manage to find accommodation that will suit us (true) and I also think she is a bit past it (true and said and received with love). But she wants to and is a little bit past reason (keeps saying ‘I will let you know if I can come’) and it breaks my heart. I am gonna zoom her into it (someone in her home can help).
But fuck this getting old business. She was the strongest most capable woman I knew growing up. Always a real rock for me. Aaargghh.
I’m so sorry. hugs
I’m sorry for what’s happening. Dementia related ageing just sucks. 🫂
Has CEO invited you all to their party tonight or just me?
I’m allergic to karaoke
Booooooo
yep and apparently it’s not BYO which is very generous of her.
There will be street artists, unicorns and fairy bread.
Do we get to smash a piano with sledgehammers?
Yeah
Bribed her with offers of soju and oysters.
That would do it.
I’m not cool enough for parties sadly
Did you try giving her a frozen sardine?
Do we get a share of the caviar?
yay, I went to the beach with my new gum boots. The tide was out and I was adventurous and walked right out across the sand flats to the far rocks that are usually well underwater.
here’s a pic looking back at the shore 😊
That’s a beautiful photo.
Thank you. 🙂 It’s a very photogenic place.
That’s so lovely. The sun reflection is beautiful!
I had no idea it was going photograph like that, with reflections, if I knew I would have centred the picture a bit better
Nah, just frame it as rule of thirds. It’s lovely.
Gorgeous photo. Spin is right, the reflection fits perfectly into the right third of the picture
minus 3.5, feels like minus 6
Around 4° here, feels like 0. It’s gloriously crisp.
We’ve almost reached 0 now (still feels -3.7o). Its now beautifully sunny with bright blue skies, so we’re heading off on the morning walk.
I just some bloke walking his dog in shorts and t-shirt. Absolute madman.
That’s a bit mad. I went out with coat and beanie, although the beanie didn’t last long and the coat was unzipped about half way.
I don’t really mind the cold much when walking (although the icy drizzle yesterday was a bit much). It doesn’t take much effort to warm up, it’s really only when sitting around that the cold is a problem - or especially trying to do things like type with cold fingers. I’ve got very low heat tolerance though, once you get past the mid 20’s I find it’s getting unpleasant, by the 30’s I just want to lie down and whimper.
I can’t deal with the heat either. On a day like today, I’d be wearing trackies and a hoodie on a walk. If it’s sunny and over 12°, I’d probably rock shorts. My legs don’t really get cold that much.
That’s a pretty brutal back yard. Lumpy lawn and colorbond.
I like to think of it as a blank canvas. Having seen some of the thistles and spikey things that grow as weeds around here I’d also consider lumpy lawn to be a big improvement.
It’s blank for sure. You’ll get to do what you want with it. That is a crispy new looking fence.
Did you mention pulling up plants are your old place or am I getting my moving people confused?
Tubestock natives are usually cheap and often sponsored by councils or bush regeneration projects.
Yes, I have a few plants I’ll be moving. My basic plan is to put in a native garden on the side and back on the left, which is the bit next to the outdoor area and where you look out from the lounge. Then have a herb and vegie garden on the side and back on the right, with a couple of citrus trees on the side. Keeping the centre section as grass.
That assumes the landlord approves, of course. But I can’t see why they won’t. I just need to actually get around to asking for permission, it’s on the to do list. It should add value to the place for them, and it gives me a project to do with lots of physical work which will be good for me - and the cost of a gym membership will buy a lot of tubestock instead! If the landlord hates plants for some reason I’ll just to the herb and vegie garden (which they are not allowed to say no to without a good reason) and probably put the citrus into some pots.
Be prepared for them to say no because these new developments are often rented out to churn through tenants - landlords usually want something “low maintenance” and ready for the next tenant to move into with minimum fuss. In-ground plantings, beyond a few strappy plants and a token stunted maple, are just too much for most people, it seems.
That’s how it was at my cousin’s place in the same suburb as yours. They just grew things in pots and planter boxes. But hopefully you have a good landlord who likes the place getting spruced up and is looking to attract a higher quality/longer staying tenant! 🤞🏽
It’s a privacy screen; under all those leaves, those trees are naked 👀
I like the foggy view of the trees.
Step 1 in life admin day complete:
I have a desk
It is much more solid than I expected for the price, and a touch bigger than I was envisaging. It mostly went together easily too, with only a few bolts at the end which were tricky to position and in a place that didn’t allow you to turn the allen key fully. I think I’ve only got three more bits of furniture to assemble now, the two bedside tables and a small shelf.
Edit: and I now have a working computer too! The important peripherals have all been installed: mouse, keyboard, speakers, and cat sleeping mat.
Oooh, that actually might work at my place… Where’d you find it? Allen key = IKEA?
A place called Living Styles, but it was a clearance item which has now been discontinued. I got quite a bit of furniture and decor items from them which have all been really good, so worth a look at any way.
Am meant to transfer to a new department at work next week, but the new team didn’t initiate the transfer correctly - so my old role couldn’t be backfilled…
…now there’s a fight brewing over when I should actually transition. It’s good to be wanted, but I feel like a kid who’s divorcing parents are fighting for custody!
Managerial incompetence, don’t you love it?
Oh, totally! 🙄
I have a feeling I’m going to have a LOT of (unpaid, as I’m on salary) overtime in the next three weeks as a result!
If you’re in a position to do so, I would flag it now and ask for some time in lieu.
Working extra as a result of others’ stupidity is beyond frustrating.
I wish I’d taken annual leave tomorrow so I could have a 4 day weekend. Ah well.
I survived work. Must make tea
Hullo
Heyyyo
Aaaaaaaaaaaargh
what happened?
Nothing, today’s just an incoherent scream day
