Goodnight all ❤️
Night Gibbsy 😺
So there’s three people in my team. The good one is leaving. Which leaves the one who is honestly like dealing with a child.
Ah well.
My performance review went great though!
I don’t think I’ve seen a more blatant example of main character syndrome than seeing real estate agents putting themselves into videos showing the house they’re selling.
And I don’t mean talking about the house. They’re in the video sitting on the couch or opening the door to enter with all this dramatic music playing, or staring out from the balcony all reflective and stuff.
Good lord.
They also wear shitty suits.
Their tailors hate them too
Tailors? You mean Tarocash and Peter Jacksons salespeople.
They know they add no actual value to the house, so they need validate themselves by adding perceived value.
I’ll have to see if I can find it but I remember seeing one near my place where the person (not sure if agent or owner) was sitting in the bath tub, topless on the bed (facing away). Absolutely bizarre behaviour
Graffiti ?
“Hey look how nice I dress and my expensive haircut and shoes! That’s how you know it’s a good idea to buy a house from me!” - real estate agents, probably
“See this shiny German car I’m leasing for far more than I afford?..SEE IT?”
For some reason we don’t see those big signs with pics of the agents anymore. 🤷♀️
Well they have such vacuous personalities they’re perfect self insert protagonists
Tonight’s mood booster is some peri peri mock-chicken strips bought on a whim yesterday. I shall throw a zucchini in there for helth, and half an onion, and… idk. Eat it with rice… cooked in broth! With cloves and cardamom! (I highly recommend the latter for really elevating even the simplest rice dish.)
Also just remembered I stress-bought frozen dumplings last night. I’m set for lunch tomorrow, woohoo!
cardamom
Any time people go heavy on cardamom I is always a fan.
I use it in pasta dishes too. so good.
And don’t throw out the pods, so much flavour in those too.
Since all the cool kids are flexing their clivias…
Doxxing capacity maximised… 👀 beautiful part of Melbourne to be in though that’s for sure.
Now I’m getting images of a masked bandit digging up my clivias at 3am.
don’t laugh, garden theft happens all the time around Carlton
A woman I used to work with lived in Kew in a very nice street with a lot of very nice neighbours - included politicians and captains of industry. Her agapanthus bed kept getting raided by plant pirates. She tucked a placard at the back of the bed saying Smile! You’re On Candid Camera! Raids stopped. I mean, who nicks agapanthus?
maybe they were dwarf white agathaspants
Nope, just the regular blue ones. Like, so so ordinary. Why would anyone bother to nick them? I’m still scratching my head over that one.
wow , they are so beautiful . Your whole garden is beautiful. 😭
Thanks :) Honestly the whole thing really took off when I put the watering system in (wasn’t even expensive). I am now a true believer that regular watering on a timer does wonders.
I don’t know what dinner is going to be, but it will be hearty and full of veggies. That description fits almost everything in my freezer
Pasta?
GP check up and blood test results said plenty of sunshine, a nice fat piece of steak, and steroid cream
I do bloods every 6 months, and the August one always show I’m low in Vitamin D…which is probably 90% of Melbourne I assume
my ferritin is 20 and my vitamin D is 28 🧛🏻
I pooped by Aldi to grab a loaf of bread and saw this.
Not an egg in sight. Is it really that bad right now?
I wouldn’t have eggs-pected that.
Eggshellent pun.
Well eggsecuted.
You guys have left me all seriously eggshausted.
Oh, you’re just eggsaggerating
I pooped in the woods a few times. They didn’t have eggs either.i lodged a complaint with manager.
Well at least they have logs now.
No eggs at my Coles.
I think you meant popped. I hope you meant popped.
I get eggs from IGA. There’s always heaps.
I buy mine from the local grocer, they’ve always got stock. Not the cheapest but not hideously expensive either
ahem eggspensive
yes, eggs were 11.50 at woolies, I didn’t get any. A chook to roast was 30, didn’t get one.
Home sweet home. I’m going to throw some laundry on and crack a bag of Doritos
Grave of the Fireflies is on Netflix.
I don’t know if I can face complete emotional destruction on a Tuesday night
Yeah, save that for a non-work-tomorrow day so you can ugly cry
fell asleep on sofa before I finished cleaning up after dinner
nearly done now, just waiting for floor to dry
my life is so excitement …lol
Christmas tree arrived. Woo.
Somebody’s ready early!
My checklist is extensive
I love Christmas trees. 🙂🌲
tell us all about it, how tall, what colour, what type of tree 🌲🙂
Uh yeah, the theme this year is “Dark Matter” so had to get a fake tree this time because I need black. A 7 foot black Bavarian. Disco balls, laser light and so on will be involved. It’s a massive day for me.
This was last year:
so no pixies, squirrels or glass santa decorations then
Uh no. Not this year. it’s a void of space with blinding points of light aesthetic. Pretty straightforward but, I’m excited to see what I can do with the disco ball reflective properties
Next year, the squirrels are a definite possibility as it will be more of a pagan/midsommar theme. Skin, bone, fur, blood and so on.
Haven’t had the heart to tell my supervisor at this job that I’m seriously mentally struggling atm. I’m off for a week from Friday night so I feel like I should see how I go with that before I go any further. I think I’m going to have to leave one of my jobs and cut down my overall hours to make this work, but it’s really bad timing in terms of workload…
some flower pics, it’s early spring and most flowers are small but they are nice and bring colour and a promise of warm weather and sun to come 🙂
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Love ya crucifix orchids, don’t see them about much.
the little mauve ones are dendrobium kingii, a native of Sydney and the white are cymbidium
I do have crucifix orchids but they are not in flower yet, here they are from last year
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Ah, I stand corrected. Mums whole sideway was full of all kinds of orchids, but when I had to sell her house due to the Will being contested I had to get rid of almost all of them. There were so many of them I was struggling to find homes for them. I was selling them for $5-$10 each and people were still haggling and quibbling! In the end I gave a lot of them away because I was heavily pregnant by then and running out of time to move. She had huge gardenias in pots I virtually gave away, and Waratahs and a motherload of different types of Camellias and lots of other things. I could only bring a handful of plants with me because my MIL said there wasn’t the room and didn’t want pots damaging the concrete and shitty old paving, and Mr P and his mum managed to kill most of those anyway. Sorry about the plant rant, it’s an experience that almost broke me as a person, and I’m still heartbroken. I looked up her house years later on Google maps and the new owners had ripped out the whole garden, 30 years of work. I watered and weeded that garden as a child ☹️ It’s interesting what these things mean to us.
ooh all looking healthy.
They are. I try to keep a clean garden. :)
One thing that has happened tho is since I stopped feeding birds there has been an explosion of aphids, I stopped because my neighbour didn’t like the mess.
I’m going to feed the birds again and bring some balance back.
My orange clivia’s are blooming for the first time this year. I grew them from seeds I collected.
so cool and they are a unique flower, they have both red and yellow pigments to make the orange. 🙂
So colourful
Beautiful!
One more assignment to do and that’s another 2 units down. I wanted to get it done this week but I have to wait for the results of my previous assignment which release on Monday to do it because I need to use the feedback I received.
It gives me one week to get it done. It’s only 800 words but I like having assignments done with time to spare…just in case so one week is giving me the twitches.
