Here it is! The November bloomer mega! Once again for if people want to share the good things happening in their lives! It can be something big like international news that brightened your day, or something small like a cool bug you found.
Either way, if you need a place to escape the noise and boost your morale for a second, this is it!
The only rule is to keep the vibes chill!
SOOOOOOO I hear Lula won in Brazil, and that the French did some pretty fire protests (Get it? Because they set some things on fire but also I mean fire as in peak, cool, whatever the hip kids say. I am very funny.) Anyway, it’s good. People are doing things. Things have been happening. Will these things amount to anything? Who knows, but at least people are getting pissed off enough to break the civility brainworms.
Anyway, relax and don’t eat all my doribos or I’ll kick you out. OK you can have some but don’t do that thing where you lick them all so no one else can have them.
I got a new pipe for pipe tobacco! I’m usually a cigar smoker, but I wanted to complete my old-man arc and just dive into pipes lol
maxi skirt goes maxi spinny
I got an interview coming up (although it’s from the same place that ghosted me a while ago). I have a new game plan: get some speakers in case headphones cost me the interview, and study for the interview a week in advance. Even McDonald’s takes itself way too seriously, and this is a semi-adult job so of course they’ll take themselves seriously too.
The job also is at a university and one of the perks is one free course, so this will make grad school less of a risk. And in this age where employers expect nothing less than perfection from each and every candidate. I can’t afford to make mistakes. No one does anymore.
Made the most amazing vegan carrot cake for a work thing and it just makes me so happy to be able to feed this to all the non-vegans who will love it and be amazed by it (and hopefully be more open to skipping animal produce).
Also made some vegan pasta salad with tofu and sun dried tomatoes and such. It too slaps.
Nice! What did you do for the pasta salad? Cause I have a sick tofu feta method. Soak in red wine vinegar and zaataar and then strain and salt heavily.
I finished a book for the first time in over a decade.
Congrats comrade! The next time will be ever sooner!
Well done!!!
Amazing job. If i pulled of that great of an accomplishment, the payoff might feel at least a little orgasmic to my mind.
perhaps safest to print & laminate the last few pages ahead of time in your case!
I’m trying so hard not to look at it through rose-tinted glasses and nostalgia because it’s probably just the honeymoon phase, but god I love New Zealand. I’m so glad to be back after a decade in Aus.
Everything is so quiet and chill here. I’m so used to dealing with Australian companies and government departments so I was terrified of setting everything up here like banking, phone, taxes etc, but everything is so… efficient and competent here. I don’t know how to explain it. Everyone knows how to do their job and they know all their policies and are so helpful. Like I mentioned to the tax guy that I just moved and he straight up wrote down the steps to transfer my drivers license and even the address of the closest place to do it. I didn’t even ask. My time here has been full of little things like that. Not just one helpful moment like that but like every interaction aside from one grumpy boomer I met has been so chill. Public transport is amazing and the places are so walkable. There is a bus every 10 mintues compared to the 30+ mins back in Aus. Half the time you can just walk to where you’re going because where I am is built in that grid pattern and it’s a smaller country.
Then later that afternoon I called my Australian bank to ask them to close my account because you can’t do that online for some reason… she got all confused and had to put me on hold for 20 mins to ask someone how to do it… poor lady had not been trained.
And yeah, that’s Australia. I hadn’t had a single job where you get training or anything so you just get thrown in the deep end like that. Don’t get me wrong, I love Aus too, the wildlife is unique and I’ve met a lot of kind people there too… not to mention the public healthcare is great (7 Dollars for my Vyvance in Australia), Aus will always be my second home. Literally, I’m a dual citizen babyyyy.
Anyway, I’m sure I’ll find something to complain about in New Zealand like a grumpy ol’ owl (the politics is terrible at the moment our right-government sucks and our rich farmers are pretty much kulaks), but so far, I feel like I’m finally home. There is already a Ruru owl that lives in the park nearby, that’s gotta be a sign.
We have a friend who visited Aotearoa not long ago and was beaming about it to us. All the more reason to fight for world when its all so beautiful!
It was nice sharing a landmass with you, enjoy NZ :beanis-salute:
Australia will always be my second home
Oh, and by the way. The average internet spead in Australia is 25mbps. I was so surprised that the tiny rural country of NZ has fibre internet, even in rural areas, that starts at 100mbps up to like 800mbps
Not that I’ll be on the internet as often. Because the weather here is cool enough, the scenery beautiful enough and the geography flat enough that I’m finding myself outdoors more often. I should get a bike. I’m going to get a bike.
I’m going to be doing volunteer work on catchments here, my first job using my new degree. Hopefully it leads to a proper paid position but for now I have family here that have been helping me out. I have a job in a field of work I’m passionate about with an actual support network… I never though I’d have this…
Happy you’re having a sweet return. I wish you many peaceful bike rides.
Saw these very small bearded dragons in a pet store today.
Trying to get together a birthday party for my boyfriend this Friday. Running into some issues (location canceled on us today) but I’m still feeling like it’s gonna be good.
Last year was a milestone birthday for him and he wasn’t happy with the turn out. It was mostly my friends and some of our secondary/tertiary friends. Great people but it hurts when your primary circle doesn’t show up.
Well my bf never backs away from confrontation and after talking it out with the friends they were actually incredibly remorseful. I typically plan his birthdays by myself but this year they’re doing a lot of the work :)
I’ve only ever had one birthday party planned for me before and it was such a nice thing to do and it also ended out being absolutely fucking wild. The apartment i was in had this weird order wondow kinda cut out in the wall between the kitchen and living room and people were diving through it. Cookie sheet covered in a half inch of speed for everyone. It was super punk.
Just had an omd memory of a kitty i had when I lived at home who was standing on a steep hill, went to lick herself and in doing so went off balance and rolled down the hill. It was reallt funny.
Got a work pal who is good at doong paintings and I’m trading him a customized gunpla for some art, but we also live super close by so i’m gonna get 2 of the same kit, probably an HG Zaku cause I will have built 3 by the end of this month and will know it well and do a build party where I teach him techniques. I have seen the model cars he made in the 90s, he was a mechanic back in the Philippines and can paint as well, this is gonna be super easy for him. But it means we get to have arts and craft hangouts and learn shit from each other! He can do shit with acrylic on canvass thar I can’t! We can smoke some doobs, crush some beers and and do some building and painting.
I got no job, my wife is still waiting for her papers. But today is sunny so im going outside to buy a briton cake (the ones that are made of honey and butters). If i fill for bankrupcy they give me unemployment for a year apparently, so there’s that
I was in Xiamen yesterday and when I planned this weekend I figured that so long as I’m there I should go to Jinmen/Kinmen (ROC-controled island right next to mainland China). I’m so glad I came here, not only because it’s a super cute island, but also because everything here is making me so nostalgic for my semester in Taiwan. Passion fruit green tea, my beloved! The garbage truck music made me cry three goddamn times this evening (positive)!!! It’s funny because my time in the mainland is much better than my time in the ROC (I’ve made such great friends in the mainland, I live much more comfortably, etc.), but seeing/hearing all the little things that are different and charming on lib island is making me so happy. I hope they keep the garbage truck music after reunification.
In Taiwan, Keelung rains over 300 days of the year. No mosquitos because the rain never stops long enough for them to become adults, and all adult mosquitoes can’t fly in the daily drizzle or full on rain. It is BEAUTIFUL. Lush bright greenery takes advantage of growing everywhere that soot/dirt settles on.
Whoever loves the rain will love Keelung. The fishing birds are always fishing whererver water is flowing. Giant black snails love it there. The long dead ones leave the coolest large snail shells behind, which you can sanitize and collect.
Also i believe Hualien has an amazing zoo.
Have you had Taiwan’s style of fried chicken from food carts/stalls? I avoid meat now, but I need the seasoning they commonly put on fried chicken. Idk what the blend is, but it’s goddamn yummy.
I visited Hualien but was washed out! We were planning to go see the wildflowers, we got there but yeah too wet. Luckily it let up for us to go to fully enjoy the night market. Was also a good base for hiked
I haven’t actually visited Keelung while I had my semester in Taiwan, since I lived in the south part of the island so I mostly saw that area. I can confirm though that the fried chicken there is really good!
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Fuck yeah its back. This month i got drunk sometimes and played valheim with my friends. It was thoroughly enjoyable and I love them. We are going to ren faire soon and I am excited
Here is my cat :3
Yo thats a weird looking lemon.
There’s a cat behind that weird cat shaped lemon
awww such a cute cat
