• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
      10·
      2 days ago

      Nah. It’ll be alright. We don’t generally go backwards. We go at a snails pace forward unless it’s a pay rise for pollies then it’s all speed ahead.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
        11·
        2 days ago

        We don’t generally go backwards.

        This is generally true. Except for the destruction of medicare, loss of local manufacturing industry, no taxation on our mineral resources, expensive and half useless universities and no consequences for government corruption

        • just_kitten@aussie.zone
          7·
          2 days ago

          Was pretty fucked up how close the votes were on this matter in South Australia recently - I mean what the fuck, surely that isn’t representative of how Australians really view the matter, but I realise more and more how out of touch I am

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      I really ought to look into a hysterectomy. I don’t want kids anyway, but this is certainly an incentive to advocate better for myself lol

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    Now is the time to narrow my view, focus in on my own world, school, partner, Mickey, coffee, chocolate, beer. I don’t want to know about the world anymore, not for a while. I can’t let this drag my mood down. I have good things in my life idc about anything else lol

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      5·
      2 days ago

      I’m going to try to do the same as well.

      Work, coffee, podcasts, bit of shopping, streaming shows and movies and video games.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      3·
      2 days ago

      Yes. Keep making choices that make your life and the lives of your loved ones and those around you stronger and better.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    11·
    2 days ago

    World news aside, I’ve finished my first day at the new job. I think I need to get past induction and do some actual work, and start working from home, before I can decide if this was the right choice.

    I think it will be. I need to remember how shit my old work was, even before things for really bad. Once I get started I won’t wish I got things right in the old role, because even when things were working, they were just barely, and things were still shit

  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
    12·
    2 days ago

    My cat’s heart isn’t working well and he doesn’t have a great prognosis, but he’s well and happy in himself and I’m focusing on that. We’ll be ok.

    I’ve just ordered takeaway for the first time in yonks. Fried goodness is now on the way to me and in the meantime I’ve poured a glass of wine. I will enjoy it and not wallow.

    And I’m putting my fingers in my ears and ignoring the news out of the US.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    13·
    2 days ago

    So there’s now literal children buying anti-aging products like retinol and there’s a hair disclosing spray so women can completely defuzz their whole faces?

    People are getting preventative Botox and giving themselves gastroparesis by using Ozempic and 20 year olds are either removing the fat from their cheeks or getting fillers? Celebrities with slightly crooked teeth are getting full veneers or caps?

    Earlier periods of history got a bad reputation for their rigid beauty standards and rightfully so but I feel like it’s all much more out of control now because internet. Modern beauty standards are insane.

    Screw that I’m crawling back under my rock

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    11·
    2 days ago

    Just as a little moment of grounding… What are we all having for dinner on this sombre evening? I gotta use up my other half tin of coconut cream, so I’m going to do a rich tomato curry with tvp balls that I also need to use up. Along with the leftover everything-in-one veggie and dal curry and boiled eggs my aunt gave me.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      7·
      2 days ago

      I’m still fairly limited in what I’m able to have but a few squares of dark chocolate just climbed into my mouth

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      6·
      2 days ago

      I might be done for night.

      I ate a bunch of bread with peanut butter. Started to feel a bit like I had too much because the bread was very doughy.

      We’ll see how I feel later.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        5·
        2 days ago

        I’m hoping you get to have a bit more than just pb and toast to keep you going through the night, but also, there are days that are like that. Getting up at 12 midnight feeling ravenous is the worst tho…

        • Duenan@aussie.zone
          4·
          2 days ago

          I’ll see how I go.

          Feeling off at the moment, unsure of how I’m feeling exactly but I’ve been sitting here doing nothing in silence for the past 30 mins.

          • just_kitten@aussie.zone
            2·
            2 days ago

            I hope the physical feeling passes soon. Mentally I think quite a few of us are staring at walls right now…

    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Frozen fried rice heated in the microwave - a real cbf dinner. Now the cool change has come through I NEED CALORIES! Had a nice salad for lunchies with some gorgeous red grapes after - grapes rn are pretty wow. These were intensely sweet and almost musky - very much muscatel vibes but juicy. Best I’ve had for a long time.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        2·
        2 days ago

        Ooh, you’ve inspired me to pick up some grapies to share at work on Friday. And yes re: the calories. Very grateful for some potat in my diet tonight.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        3·
        2 days ago

        All hail the faithful potat. And the wholesome feeling of a dinner roast! I actually wanted to have something similar for dinner myself but remembered the coconut cream.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        3·
        2 days ago

        Yum!! Homemade roti? :o I keep meaning to do it for ages but am lazy to even though I know it’s so easy (and easy to freeze)

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        3·
        2 days ago

        Tis the night for a nice wood oven pizza, good choice. I’ve told myself I’ll reward myself with one when I finish moving. A $30 splurgefest deluxe seafood pizza.

        Do you just randomly have kids size callipos at home though lol

        • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I buy a box ever pay day lol it’s my “treat”. Always wanted them when I was a kid and my parents would never buy them.

          So here we are today lol

          • just_kitten@aussie.zone
            2·
            2 days ago

            Nice bit of self-care!! I like how that circles back to a childhood memory and letting that part of yourself be seen and addressed with love 💖

            I had a deep therapy session today, if you can’t tell lol… I think it’s time I proactively did some nice things for myself too

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    9·
    2 days ago

    top comment on The Daily Show summary video is “I Prey for Ukraine”. No words for the feeling of when that registers in your mind. I hadnt even consdidered… Will the EU step up? God. I just… those poor people.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    8·
    2 days ago

    So I put in a request to cancel my group fitness membership after the next billing. Will check out the local council gym and also another one to try and get my mum to come along.