Happy international Hot Chocolate Day 🔥🍫
Pup dog decided we needed some drama in our lives and had a fit/collapsed last night :/ ran him to the vet (quite literally, they’re just down the street) and he seems a bit better this morning. Back to the vet today for blood test results, but he’s lost weight despite a big appetite. He’s getting old and I’m trying not to think the worst.
As a result, I’m working from home while he snoozes on the bed near me and it’s peaceful and nice and I’m still looking for the positives!
aw, lots of gentle hugs for you and pups
WFH is fantastic when the furry ones pull this kind of stunt. May all be ok.
Hospital parking fees 🤬
Nobody is going there for fun.
Its absolutely digusting, have always said it should be illegal to charge for parking at hospitals. At the very least free short term parking should be made available for urgent visits.
My dad at the height of his illness drove himself to hospital and parked in the hospitals parking facilities, and I couldn’t get on a flight for two days and had no one in that area to help me. So I had to pay an insane parking fee, which made everything so much more stressful for me financially while I was in the middle of grieving for my dying dad.
Bloody agree with you and a lot of people who need it are often suffering from paying other hospital related fees that got their relatives or relations there in the first place.
Yeah, it adds another layer of complication and stress at a time when you already may have a million things on your mind. Maybe it’s to stop just anyone parking there and occupying needed space but it could also be predatory
https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/hospitals-ordered-develop-fairer-car-parking-policies
Normally if you get a note from the hospital proving it’s an emergency the council will wave it.
That’s good to know
And May well be in the sort of urgency that does not allow for sorting out change or downloading an app.
I’ve started making my coffee at home and bringing it to work in a (not Stanley) thermos flask. I worked out it saves me $67 per month. If it was a streaming service I’d have already cut it by now, but I still feel like some kind of traitorous unmelbournely bastard. Still, $ is tight and I’ve got to make cuts 😭
Coffee is so worth making at home these days, we’re spoilt for choice with good coffee beans + great tap water and there’s a million billion methods readily available with guides. If you buy a coffee every work day, a mid range espresso machine pays for itself within a year, if not a grinder + aeropress + metal filter pays for itself in like less than a month. Pretty decent & reliable cuppa at a fraction of the cost. Highly recommend. It won’t feel like you’re cutting back on nice things!
Great idea! Guarantees a certain level of coffee as well, sick of paying 6 bucks for a bullshit one.
You ask for a large but they’re so fkn small. There’s only a few places that do a proper large coffee that I know of: Macca’s, the cafe near my work in Port Melbourne (literally a proper 500ml cup with 3 shots), and maybe somewhere I’ve forgotten lol
It’s a great way to save money as I made the transition some years ago.
Also helped me teach myself how to make coffee via various methods as well and introduced me to different coffee blends.
Yum!
Yeah, at the rate I’m buying coffees lately 1k+ for the year wouldn’t be a surprise.
I have a stash of ground coffee in my desk drawer and a small plunger. I buy the first coffee, and make my own second around 11am. Which is now. 😁
A thermos would probably produce better coffee, but they’re heavy. I ride a bike to work. I also probably couldn’t fit it in my small commuting backpack.
That’s the way I went.
I decided to go the plunger route, first one of those bodum glass ones at home and for work I bought one of those stainless steel ones for the durability.
I have a stupid amount of ground coffee at work and at home.
Only catch would be the amount of time it takes to make and then clean up when I’m at work.
The other thing that I invested in are long arm coffee spoons for scooping out the coffee out of the bag.
Unpopular but I like the coffee machine at work. Put in a nespresso pod, gives me coffee. I add some chocolate powder to make it a mocha. Surely saves atlwast $5 every time! 🤷♂️
Same here. Free coffee on work from office days!
I made a turtle from imitation Lego.
My back is sore, my eyes are blurry and I have no thumb nails left but I have a cute little turtle 🐢
You need to invest into one of those Lego tools that helps you pull apart pieces.
Nearly tore my own nails without that little tool to help when I was doing it at work.
I might have to invest in one of those.
defo cute 😸
Surreal moment today: me, a blondeish woman of a certain age in a Volvo V70 wagon, blasting Counting Bodies Like Sheep through its (excellent) stereo. 😁
Just woke up to the excellent news that my downstairs plumbing issue is actually a street wide issue. Looks like Great Western will be sending people out today to clear the streets sewage pipes.
Still awake and it’s starting to get light outside. Already told work that today isn’t going to work out. It’s not them, it’s me.
Looks like Sunday forecast has already been adjusted downwards to 35 degrees. By Saturday wouldn’t be surprised if it went down to 30.
Been copping a bit of flack from upper management lately. My boss and the boss’s boss are calling BS, but the old boss and the “head off” are fucking idiots. Anyway, there was an issue this morning, guess who solved it? Yeeaaaah, the bloke who supposedly “doesn’t do anything around here”. Fuck I’m good.
Bit of the old “why do we have IT, everything’s working fine” / “why do we have IT, nothing is working” situation?
Ted Cat woke me up. I must have been making ouch noises in my sleep.
Oh my god. I thought it was Tuesday today.
Ever since I got home and came back from work I was trying to work out why my petrol was so low and what I was going to do.
Suddenly got confused at seeing the dates of tucker time and this thread and only clicked that it’s Wednesday.
I’m so out of it!
First day back at school for mine today… Already a kerfuffle. Good luck y’all.
Second day for mine. I think day 2 is worse for my lot, judging by my drill sergeant performance this morning! First day they’re keen to know who’s in their classes etc. Second day is all, "but muuuum! I’m tiiiiired!"
Second day is all, “but muuuum! I’m tiiiiired!”
Me too kiddo, me too!
It’s the last year for my youngest, I hope she got to school, eldest was supposed to drive her to the bus. If there was a kerfuffle it wasn’t my problem I was at work already.
First day at new schools for my kids. One starting high school the other has changed to a new school (something that I wanted to avoid if possible).
Both were very nervous this morning.
jfc there is not a single fucking braincell left at M$.
Fire up laptop for work, start of the work day IMMEDIATELY greeted with an UPGRADE TO WIN 11!! screen.
Can’t alt tab out of it, can’t even bring up goddamn taskmgr to kill it, the only way to get rid of it so I can start my fucking work day is either “UPGRADE NOW!” or “DECLINE UPGRADE”
shit like this is why I’m cutting the workplace over to mint.
Doing some online shopping at Mid ass hoes 👍Need better shoes for walking and Mid Ass have nice wide fittings
Mid ass hoes? 🤣 Midas Shoes. LOL I’ll never be able to read it properly again.
Wait untill you realise Platypus Shoes reads as platy puss hoes
Whatever you choose get insoles. Doesn’t even have to be expensive ones.
Also the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever had were Skechers.
This shop has excellent walking (and other) shoes for weird feet. mclaughlancomfortshoes.com.au Strong recommend if you ‘difficult’ feet or like me have wide small feet that are different sizes as they’ll split pairs. Store is in the WORST shopping mall in Melbourne - Bell St Mall but Bell St buses do go past and the 250 bus on Rathdowne goes right by the Mall on its way to La Trobe Uni. No online sales unfortunately. Best substitute for Angels Shoes I’ve yet discovered. I wept when Angels shut down.
thanks for the recommendation, that’s so easy to get to for me and sounds great 😘
One of Melb’s unsung jewels I reckon. Needs to be kept in business permanently.
Just wanted to say thanks for the recommendation, I finally went there this week and was very pleased I did.
How can a nice wide ass be mid? Or are you capping?
I’ve had a productive morning - a trip to the op shop with a car full of donations, and then steam cleaning the carpet. I think I might rest on my laurels and slack off for the afternoon.
