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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Okay so once in a while I reckon we could do with some local content.
What is your favourite suburban Melbourne road to drive down (at legal or typically expected speed limits) and go WHEEEEEE?
I get my kicks from Reynolds Road Templestowe. Up and down and not much traffic for the size of the road... wheeeeeeeeeee
The Western Hwy past Bacchus Marsh. 110 on the highway with the music full blast.
My favourite suburban street that I love is my own. Turning into my driveway. Bliss.
The hairpin(ish) bend in Yarra Boulevard ain't bad. Probs most scenic, twisty road that close to the city.
Cool. So someone I bailed out of a sticky situation financially after they had a shit breakup and breakdown has shown their true colours tonight. I've blocked her pretty much everywhere, because she's a bit of a terf it turns out. "Trans women aren't women, they don't any have ovaries." blah blah. But she still owes me 500$. I asked a mutual friend to ask her to contact me. Both he and I spent weeks and weeks in 2021 coaching her back from a terrible breakup. He also had a lot of trouble getting money back from her. Now she's saying I'm poison. Sometimes it costs a lot of money to rid yourself of the parasites in life. The worst thing is she'll be badmouthing me now to any other old friends we have in common and possibly outing to me to people I have nothing to do with for very good reasons.
Should I take her to small claims court?
I spent $3000 to get my ex out of my house when we broke up; she stayed for 3 months after we split and extorted me. Told our mutuals that I was a transphobe and I broke up with her bc she's trans (mtf). They believed her over me.
I say you got off cheap, no offence. I have no advice for small claims I'm sorry.
Here we go. Night 2 of southern crumbed chicken. Curiously all wings and drumettes which I love.
Photo of air fried chicken.
Minipeelers just wanted pancakes, so I masked up and made some. That alone was enough to do me in, and I've collapsed back into bed.
The Yarra valley water guys are still working away at the hatch in the yard. They have so far extracted several gigantic bluestone rocks from the hole, I'm not sure how.
Bonza day so far. Was able to find everything on my shopping list. Never waited more than 30 seconds for a bus or tram. The Italian bread wasn't sold out of my fave bread. Also found a sweet Museum print in a 1950s vintage bakelite frame, perfect condition, matches the baroque furniture and it's a pic I like.
Chef taking too long
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Yay I managed to do some exercises today! Dragged myself through the routine but feel a bit better for doing it. Almost makes up for the awful Chinese I had last night .
Tradie types crawling all over the backyard this morning.. there's a drain blockage the next street over and they need to access the easement in our backyard to pump it out or something. I knew there's a giant square concrete thing in one corner of the backyard and a whole area up that side of the house that's never allowed to be built on, but I didn't know about the giant square concrete access cover thing near the lemon tree that was covered over with dirt😳
After an epic battle that has left me exhausted and somewhat bloodied I declare victory in my personal War of the Roses. I have had a few climbing roses that have teamed up with the kikuyu to grow up through some established bushes and trees, making it extremely difficult to get to them to pull them out. The roses are extra thorny and catch on everything, and the kikuyu works like anchoring ropes tangling everything in further. I have now reduced the prickly bastards to a large pile and have access to where it has been cut off so I can poison any regrowth.
low key vibing to centrelink's hold music
Edit: got through in 40 minutes; record!
Have tickets to a Spanish Love Songs show tomorrow, started feeling dizzy and sick today. too late to resell them, and I probably can't get a refund.
grrreeeaaat. Waste of $50 I guess. I was looking forward to it too.
well, I finished this puzzle, only 6 missing pieces! ( I got it second hand so i don't care ) I did about a half of it without looking at the picture. The bunnies are cute 😊
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After carefully reading the reviews (2) for my question I went down to Moles and purchased a Decor refillable oil spray bottle for $9.45 on the spesh.
Tbh it looks very similar to the one my daughter bought for $2 at aliExpress that she uses for her hair. I'll report back with my own reviews at some point. Thank you all.
One of the things I really don't like about being work at home is that I feel guilty when I get sick and take time off.
