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[โ€“] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

16 years old, playing for Arsenal. Already an amazing player. Christ.

[โ€“] SituationCake@aussie.zone 5 points 5 hours ago

Glad to hear the party went well! Hopefully I can join on another occasion. Was glorious weather today. Managed to get some gardening done, and then cleaned out my shoe stack. Some going in the bin and a couple for donation, shoe rack in wardrobe is much neater now.

[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 points 5 hours ago

Big day. After the expo we went to this local community festival that was meant to just be in/lunch/out, but got caught up looking at everything else there. Gave the kids an early one and I'm feeling done

Cow cat let me pat her again until she came to her senses and was like "are you touching me?!?!".

I've packed a bag of stuff to take to the hospital in case I have to go again in a hurry. Headphones, chargers, kindle, adhd pills and so on.

Have a mate that will feed Gibson for me if need be and someone to feed the strays as well.

Got to have safety nets in place.

[โ€“] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

Iโ€™m having a really hard time.

[โ€“] SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

Know that we all send you so much love and warmth.

[โ€“] _miss_cellophane_@aussie.zone 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Heartbreak on this level weeks havoc till it's processed in its own time. We're here while you weather that time. hugs

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 6 hours ago

so many hugs

we are here for you ๐Ÿซ‚

[โ€“] Force_majeure1234@aussie.zone 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Same as bottom_racer. We are real people, in Melbourne, and we care about you ๐Ÿ’•

[โ€“] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

I appreciate it

[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I know I have no idea what you're going through but you'll be able to get through it in time

[โ€“] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If there's anything any of us can do or help in any way please let us know.

[โ€“] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

Thankyou. I donโ€™t really know what would help but I appreciate it

[โ€“] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 10 points 10 hours ago

uh oh.

So you get used the normal sounds of creaks and groans of the place you're at. With the new place going up next door (and the shitload of excavation then concrete) this place is sounding different. Just heard a big crack and err yea.. walk outside and

path was done (really well) a year before they started.

umm

hrmm

Guess it calls for a rave choon truly a rave choon for everything these days.

Lovely day out there though.

Also found the little messages people left from the partay. That was nice :) Glad to see the gyoza got a mention. That was nagi's recipe from recipetin. She never misses.

Also whoever drank the lion's share of the vodka needs some hydralyte, paracetamol and TLC today :)

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Woah. My team won today ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿฆ˜

[โ€“] SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

Yay yay yay!!

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

OOhh.Sunday Pakige! I wonder what this one is?

Edit: turned out to be my shower stool. I will now be able to wash my feet properly without getting stuck sitting on the floor and struggling to get back up because there is no room to manoeuvre in there.

[โ€“] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I just stand up on one leg and hope for the best.

Probably explains why I'm not a foot model.

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

That's been my general approach too, but it's not been the most stable approach. Especially when I've been working in the garden and they've gotten filthy and need a good scrub. Which is why I tried the sitting down approach at one point, but on a slippery surface with no hand holds and very little space getting up again was a bit challenging. Now I can either sit down or have something to put my foot on, I consider it a big improvement.

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 5 points 11 hours ago

I just googled my old place, and saw they've flipped the place very quickly. It looks amazing, and it's gone from a two bedroom to three. I'm happy to see my bamboo and cherry tree kept their places.

Funnily enough what inspired me to do a search was an article in the Age about dodgy real estate agents buying houses cheaply from their own vendors to flip for profit. It would not surprise me at all to find there was a touch of that with this place - not completely dodgy like the guys in the article, but probably a quick easy sale at a lower price than it could have gotten because the seller is an absent old lady who is easy to persuade to sell for a low price. But to be honest I don't really care much even if that did happen, I'm just happy we've got her into a good place now and the future path with any care needs is all mapped out, the whole situation with moving a parent and myself and selling two houses at the same time was all a bit much happening at once.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm off to the Italian market. Does anyone want anything?

[โ€“] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Yep, their reaction when you tell them you put cream in carbonara (even if you don't), and when you tell them tomatoes came from south america so they can't complain about anyone's tasty bastardisations of pizza or bolog anymore.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

" Why u do dis? "

[โ€“] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Today we celebtrate no one next door taking an angle grinder to rebar at 6:30am day

[โ€“] TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe the rebar bit back and they're all in hospital.

[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 6 points 14 hours ago

Possum sent them a cease & desist

[โ€“] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Went well I think :) Hopefully we'll see you at the next one.

Will be there :)

Yesterday we went to Kaprica for lunch. The spaghetti vongole was delicious. 10/10.

Afterwords , we had a look at the Westwood/Kawakubo exhibition at NGV. Fashion designers and their work donโ€™t move me like artists from other disciplines and their creations.

I still donโ€™t know why that is.

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 4 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Beep Beep ๐Ÿšš
๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅญ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅฅ๐Ÿฅฆ๐Ÿฅ‘๐Ÿซ›๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ…๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅฌ๐Ÿฅ’๐ŸŒฝ๐Ÿฅ•๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿซš๐Ÿฅ”๐Ÿง…๐Ÿฅฏ๐Ÿž๐Ÿฅ–๐Ÿฅจ๐Ÿง€๐Ÿง‡๐Ÿฅž๐Ÿงˆ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฅš๐Ÿฅ“๐Ÿฅฉ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ–๐Ÿซ“๐Ÿ•๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŒญ๐Ÿฅ™๐Ÿง†๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฏ๐Ÿฅ—๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿœ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅ˜๐Ÿ›๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฑ๐ŸฅŸ๐Ÿฆช๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿš๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ ๐Ÿค๐Ÿชผ๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿฅฎ๐Ÿข๐Ÿก๐Ÿง๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿง๐Ÿฅง๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿจ๐ŸŽ‚๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿฅœ๐ŸŒฐ๐Ÿช๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฅ›โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿต๐Ÿบ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿฅค๐Ÿง‹๐Ÿงƒ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿท๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿน๐Ÿง‰๐Ÿ”‹

[โ€“] Force_majeure1234@aussie.zone 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[โ€“] imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 points 11 hours ago
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[โ€“] TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Coffee & croissants please chef

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 1 points 9 hours ago

โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅ

[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 2 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Electrolytes for Boyo please

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

๐Ÿฅค

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[โ€“] Alamutjones@aussie.zone 4 points 15 hours ago

I slept like absolute shit. A gentle day of puttering about might be all I can handle

[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I think they're doing a lottery giveaway at the expo. What's the point, shouldn't they already know who the winner is?

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

๐Ÿ˜‚

You could go around saying you're feeling lucky and you should be a winner. Someone might feel sorry for you and give you something for free. Then you'll be the psychic.

[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 3 points 10 hours ago

Y'know, according to Alan Moore's logic I'm already a magician because I work in marketing. My 9-5 is spent mystically influencing people by auguring the favour of the unknowable Meta algorithm

[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 6 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

In case anyone wants notes from my over enthused ranting

book covers

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[โ€“] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I patted the cow cat and she looked at me like "what's happening right now?"

Also 2 weeks since I quit smoking. Yay!

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