• Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
    2·
    52 minutes ago

    Hola DDT fam,

    • Lovely night catching up with a beautiful friend.
    • Drinks @ Franklins
    • Music @ the Croxton

    It’s a wee bit chilly, but my heart is warm.

    Also, am re-watching Twin Peaks…

    Joan Chen 😍

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    10·
    3 hours ago

    Well, I left it right till the last minute and am only now having a shower and dinner (because otherwise I would’ve felt like curling up in bed…)

    But I have cleared out 90% of unused/expired things in my pantry!! and consolidated 70% of what remains (the rest I’ll still need to use for a while). There was an embarrassing amount of nuts (esp almonds) I had to throw out :(

    I’ve also cleared out random boxes in my car from months ago from when the new car stereo was installed. Recycling bin pretty full after all this.

    Pretty satisfied with today’s effort! This weekend’s big cull is the clothes. I think I’m making decent progress. I seriously need to book a mover ahead of time tho, any recommendations?

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      5·
      3 hours ago

      Good work. 🌞

      it’s a dreadful job but very necessary, I always feel so guilty at throwing out food, even when it’s expired

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        5·
        2 hours ago

        Oh gosh it was utterly heartbreaking tossing out so many nuts. I just kept thinking back to my starving uni days where I would’ve cherished all that food and learnt to make so many things with it rather than let it go to waste. It’s a good wake up call to keep my dry food purchases over the next few months to a minimum

    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      The last time I moved I used Man with a Van - only it was two of them. No complaints, no damage to items. And some items had to be carried down a narrow & twisty staircase. I believe their charges are about industry standard.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I like man with a van, personally. Used them when I moved from Epping to the CBD, and then again when I moved from the CBD to Brunswick. I like that I could put it on the website what I had to move, how big things were, and how many (chairs, drawers, etc). And at the time their rates were reasonable.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Yes I really do like their website! They seem reasonable to me and I just want to not have to think too much (esp with new place being up 3 flights of stairs). I’ll probably just go with them but need to start consolidating which items I need their help with. Definitely fridge, couch, washing machine, tv stand, mattress, probably accommodate a few heavy boxes and the dismantled bed frame…

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
    3·
    3 hours ago

    I think I’ve worked out part of a water colour and western calligraphy project I have.

    I’ll choose a lovely modernish font, one that is free flowing and a little artie. Maybe I’ll do two, one that is a little more serious but in the same family of fonts. And then I will practice my arse off and write out the alphabets, photograph and then upload as my own typeface on the puter. 👍

    also, fuck nibs and textas, I’m awesome at using a blade to write and that’s what I’ll do. I have never used a quill tho.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
    18·
    8 hours ago

    I walked Ted to Lort Smith for some vaccinations and bum fur trimming. He was a total champ. 🐈‍⬛ Never whinged or meowed, liked looking around when he was in his walker. Of course he tried to nip the doc and nurse. He loved seeing all the other animals in the hospital waiting room.

    He is also overweight so he is on a diet of less food. Here he is home again with Bill looking over shoulder.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Fuck it I might watch it just for the brain distraction. I think I still have that link you sent me months ago, it would be on that site yeah?

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
        4·
        6 hours ago

        It’s actually on free to air through the channel 7 website or app.

        The link I sent you awhile ago is dead.

        I can send you another for cricket if you want to avoid ads.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
        8·
        8 hours ago

        Oh. He wont make it 4 years. He’ll be lucky to make it 1. But then they are stuck with couch fucker, which honestly may not be so bad depending on which persona shows up on any given day. And maybe next time democrats get into power they wont fuck around for 4 years. They had 4 years to lock the fucker up and they did nothing. Should be a lesson in that for all of us, seize the bloody day.

        • dumblederp@aussie.zone
          5·
          7 hours ago

          He’ll have a farm of concubine slaves to produce stem cells to prolong his life. Somewhere between the plots of Shoot em up and Perdita Durango.

        • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
          6·
          7 hours ago

          Biden could have stepped aside earlier and Dems could have had proper primaries. But hindsight, eh?

          I don’t know what to think of Vance, honestly. He’s either 100% committed to Trump OR was clever enough to say what needed saying to get Trump’s endorsement. I watched a portion of the VP debate, and he was pretty sharp.

          His policies however…oh boy.

          • dumblederp@aussie.zone
            7·
            6 hours ago

            They probably would’ve had a better chance with Walz/Harris than Harris/Walz. Honourably putting a great black/asian woman forward was a massive hurdle for the American shitbags to overcome.

            • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
              6·
              5 hours ago

              Her being an extension of Biden didn’t help much. And only reason he’s unpopular cause he inherited a steaming pile of shit from Trump and actually went about fixing it.

              But yeah…yanks prefer a rapist traitor with dementia over a smart woman from a visible minority.

              • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
                6·
                5 hours ago

                yanks prefer a rapist traitor with dementia

                It’s projection lol they don’t think being a kiddy fiddler rapist is wrong because they want to do it too. That’s how I’m just gonna view everyone who voted for that… Thing

      • Eagle@aussie.zone
        8·
        9 hours ago

        I used to have a competition with an old Italian fella on who could have the first ripe tomato of the season. Much to his disgust, I won more than him. He’s with God now, but I see his son around so now it’s a second generation battle. And I’m gonna win again this year! Next year I’ll pull my finger out and grow one of his plants from seed, because I wanna beat him at his own game.

          • Eagle@aussie.zone
            3·
            6 hours ago

            My two pots of tomatoes were a poor cousin to his backyard filled with plants, but I still won more than I lost.

      • Eagle@aussie.zone
        5·
        9 hours ago

        Probably a month, maybe 5 weeks. They are a random cherry tomato they had for sale at a supermarket. Its the earliest I’ve ever put them in, but they’re looking good.