Went out for dinner tonight, Korean BBQ. On our way out my kids helped out a server who was carrying too many things, when I was paying the tab.
The owner/manager told me I had a beautiful family and that my kids were super polite.
I nearly broke down crying.
So, I have a small guilty pleasure now: I downloaded tiktok and am loving all the videos with pets tbh.
TW: DV
But I watch one video by an Aussie lady about women's rights and whatnot, and now tiktok thinks that's all I want to watch. 😭 Like, 4b movement stuff, the rate of homicides, etc. It's interesting but like, also triggering of course. I'm in the process of re-teaching the algorithm or whatever.
But I also feel like I don't have a right to talk about my experience, not because of what they've said or anything like that. But because my abusive ex was male and male presenting for the VAST majority of our relationship, until the last 6 months where they only came out to me about being a tran-woman. So, like, they're part of this super marginalised group, having told their friends I was transphobic. I don't feel like I can talk about it with anyone (besidesy dad and my partner), without, like, playing into that lie they told. I believe they are, of course, trans, but also that they use it as an excuse to not take accountability for their heinous actions. That if I did file a police report, that I'd be called transphobic and a false reporter. What a strange position to be in. Just needed to have a small ranty rant about it, because I haven't seen anyone else anywhere have, or talk about, an experience like mine without also being transphobic. I always feel like if I talk about it, if I don't use the right pronouns, or if I clarify "well they were male, but are now female" it's about women-on-women DV. Which, it wasn't, but is it?
Ugh, just gonna keep saving up for a psych appointment and hopefully I can start feeling better about being in this tiny bubble of one.
Crashing soon so I can be up at 6am. Interview Monday requires me to be in the city at 9am and I want to have some practice in advance.
Enjoy your evening everyone ❤️
SKY PRETTY
Heading to a big (and free!) outdoor park bass party tonight and easy to get to. Always good vibes.
Hopefully the fun police won't shut it down.
Really good to see a crew start thowing these again.
Which calls for a rave choon.
Health is still absolutely caning me. Constant pain and not able to keep on top of things. I hate using disposable products... Landfill and paying for stuff that gets literally thrown in the bin... but at the moment it's kind of necessary.
I'm cutting down on that wherever I can but it'd be nice if I had a little countertop dish drawer to run every time I had a full load. It would save water too. Wonder if I could get it funded. I've been budgeting well lately so could perhaps save to get one but vet bills always take priority and it also seems I've got stuck in tightarse mode.
I got some details about the next people who are moving in. On the lead tenant front, we're getting a new one "sometime soon". I've been told his name, and that's he's a Resi worker, but not much else. On the kids/YP front, we're getting a newbie from my old org, probably around the same time. I don't want to stereotype, but he's coming from, uhh, quite the rough house. He's also AOD affected from what I've been told, and has issues with nicking stuff.
I feel cautiously optimistic about the new LT, but I haven't met him yet. He's also quite religious from what I've been told, while I'm quite staunchly atheist. I don't really care, as long as he's not the preachy type, which it doesn't sound like he is. I'm quite nervous for the new YP though. I'm mainly nervous because the current LT is moving out a week or two after they move in. Can't blame him, he's been here for many years, and if I was in his shoes, I'd bail too. But we get along really well, and because he lives here and has experience with the system too, he argues with them on a lot of out of place policies. The new bloke is a Resi worker, and it's basically part of their training to not question orders and just do what they're told.
:/
Holy shit
I know it's literally light rail but watching how far the other states will contort a sentence to avoid saying 'tram' is fucking hilarious to me
Calm down people the Sun is just having a little tanty.
At this point Aussie Frugal Living consists entirely of me. Did I establish dominance and win Best Tightarse, so everyone is now too intimidated to post? Because I am pretty good at it. /j 😉
Also if you've got frugal food tips/recipes do they go in there or do they go in Food Australia? (ie telling you how to make toasted sandwiches without a jafflemaker, only a frying pan you've already got, or how to turn leftovers into fillings)
Nigh nighs
@Seagoon_ So I really slept in this morning.
Is everyone's electrical gadgets still working? No big blackouts?
Very hot chicken and veg soup for dinner. Made a huge pot of it today. Also need to make the Xmas trifle that I bought ingredients for and never made, thinking maybe breakfast trifle ?
Rebel Yell came on just as I got to the last hill this morning, doggo kicked into gear and started galloping instead of his usual trot, and I ended up getting a PB. Sub 25m/5k, which I'm very happy with.
Gym achieved. Gentle gym, but gym.
Now I can slow it down a tad
It's odd, I watch practically no hyper anxiety producing news anymore, had a bad nightmare about a big terrorist bombing in Africa
don't nightmares come after the stressful event is over?
Dammit! Save game lost because I ignored phone low power warning.
Vegan banana pancakes recipe for everyone for mother's day tomorrow https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipe/banana-pancakes/jzko3nze0?utm_source=pocket_mylist
rice is in the cooker, I made some satay sauce and cooked the chicken. Now I have to saute the vegies n stuff and dinner is ready.
Is Biggest Morning Tea stuff happening at the moment? There's an event I might go to happening today and I think it's part of the morning tea stuff
