After crying basically every day for the last week I realised I’m not coping and that my partner has been letting me down, I have finally asked for more help. Looking after a baby basically by yourself 24 hours a day and being sleep deprived is hard.
I was trying to be the perfect mum, partner, housewife… I had this idea that if I did all the chores and cooking etc, partner would have more time to take baby when he’s home. Guess what he did instead? Play Zelda all day. Lol.
Well I’ve asked him to step it up. We have a sleep consultant coming to help with baby’s sleep. I’m going to hold MIL to her promise to come help out more. I’m considering trying to get baby into daycare earlier than we thought for a day a week so I can reclaim some sanity… we shall see.
5ivesos reporting for duty! Hadn't checked r*ddit for a while and just saw a couple messages from regulars letting me know about this place, thanks @baconmash@aussie.zone and @Sir_ListerOfSmeg@aussie.zone !
Love 'urgent' emails at 3:30 with an 'action by COB' request.
Read through the chain of comms and it was sitting in someone's inbox for over a week.
I'm tempted to reply with 'Please see comments below' and have the only comments as 'It's not' next to their 'urgent' and 'not gonna happen' next to 'action by COB'
SO TEMPTED
Thank you @the_procrastinata@aussie.zone for making this thread 🙂
Just got in from work. It's freezing at home - and by that I mean ice on the inside of the toilet window. Come on, ducted heating! Do your stuff! NB: dumplings in soup for dinner. Might even sneak in some veg into the soup. I have decided that the Massel Pho stock cubes are the best thing since button up sandshoes.
Made it to indo we're in da area.
Bit wasted so was just having a durry and saying hello to every one who walked in out the front with my new security man fren.
was a big day. with some delay.
A new app for Lemmy has been announced by Sync dev. (Sync is a Reddit 3P app for Android)
I follow a few art and craft type areas on various sites, and find it disturbing how much content now is basically just performance art. It's created to look like an interesting process for people to watch rather than because it actually creates something worthwhile, and it is way too simplistic to be instructional. Sometimes it feels like no one is actually living life any more, they are just watching it or creating content for other people to watch. I really like being able to share in things other people are making and doing, but real content is getting pushed out by this made-for-clicks stuff and its really disapointing.
So apparently someone is impersonating epicpillowcase and made what I thought was a joke from them but was completely transphobic. Also apparently other fake dupes exist. reported and blocked, but they'll have another account so it's fucking useless . who ever you are don';t think you'll stop me posting about my amazing journey, and I'll start calling out the fucking terfs and incels again now as well. just when we thought were untouched by the hands of fuckwits
Good to see the daily threads still going strong.
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Its been a while but i did a homeless drop off today yay. The place looks like its expanded staff and is busy af which is nice. The oddest thing ive hoarded to donate is actually the ramen seasoning packets: i dont like the dehydrated veges and chili sachets but i read an article that says homeless ppl do. It feels...strange to hoard such a random thing but the shelter confirmed today they absolutely eat that shit up so 🤷♀️
Trivia ended up being a total blast and my team finally won!! How exciting!
Urgh mum just called to ask if I can house/dog sit for them for 4 weeks in August/September while they go on another US holiday. Usually I'd go and do it if it's a week or two but now that I'm expected back in the office, I'd have to commute from friggin Melton and leave $2.2k worth of Docklands apartment empty.. the entire reason why I live here is to avoid the shit commute, so I've said no. Besides, I think I might want to go on my own holiday around then but I haven't planned anything.
Put together a brand new desk I ordered from Ikea, and I am enjoying it ever much so. I've been craving more space for quite a while and glad I made the purchase. The extra drawers are quite wonderful too, meaning I can put away and sort things in a more proper manner.
winter chill
This is my mid-Winter night time ditty
Penned in bed, for this thread, in this city
My core is icy, I'm a chilly witch's titty
This poem is sadly neither warm nor witty
My frozen nose inhales the frosted air
Numb fingers typing, fumbling, pale and fair
The cat 'neath the doona doesn't even care
But if I move he'll bite me, so I shan't dare.spoiler
He gazes down from great heights
Slow blinking, happy he's got cuddles
He'll beg to be held, my fluffy little light
We'll sit together, he'll purr, drool, for a hug puddletldr, I wrote this at about 1130. thanks for reading if you can sit through it all.
So reddit seems to truncate comments before 2023. Anyone else have the same problem? Or is possible I was just deleting everything before this?
All g either way my post on Jan 5 was talking about first putting my house on the market so if that's where the journal stretches back it kinda makes sense to me anyway. Its possible that's when I started no deleting things, as I used to delete everything for reasons I can't remember.
Thanks to all of you for your understanding, there was a sense of loss and dissapointment then acceptance. Now it's on my hd and I'll stick it on drive too.
Had an amazing end to the day yesterday and while I didn't think I'd need to do any volunteer work I had to do some things which will have postentially great outcomes and showed me how much good will there is for my community despite all the bullshit we keep reading about in the news and from other countries. Then I have the chance to do more tomorrow Thursday and Saturday.
I finally went to the opshop with the last of my stuff to donate. They didn't take it all, but a big box of cables can just live in the boot till I find somewhere to take it. The place is almost completely set up. It's so easy to keep clean and find things. St Kilda is pretty cool to live in. I hardly need to drive and I'm only spending about ten bucks a week on petrol. There's a great cafe around the corner.
AA is helping me face myself a lot more much than I had to in dealing with being trans, which made completely re-avaluate every moment of my life. Journaling is a part of a part of it so that's pretty good, seeing as its already become a part of my life anyway. There's an online group which runs 24/7 and its been a godsend literally. There's a chapter on agnostics which summed up pretty much my whole spiritual view for the last 25 years. Then the end I'm a long way away from is all about service, which is already a part of life as well. It has a low success rate but I don't have much choice other than take it on with the same gusto as everything I've done in the last 12 months.
Car inspection was fine, had all the books and stuff but it's a no because he provided a fake name and was weird about providing contact details when I asked for them so I could have my mechanic set up an inspection with him.
It’s currently 5C but feels like 2.6C sounds about right 🙃
The body is sore, the mind is unwilling but the coffee is strong.
Let's see how much fuckery I get to deal with at work today.
Damn house is so cold it's actually woken me up. Going to make a mad dash for my heated blanket on the couch and then return to bed for a little while longer I think.
Weighted blanket is actually pretty good at keeping you warm.
Cool and frustrating trans stories for this pride month. So today I volunteered to help make care packages for older trans and gender diverse people, which was a good way to spend a morning. There's a job fair Transgender Victoria are facilitating tomorrow where I think 13 employers are directly seeking trans and gender diverse staff. It's not a huge number but it's a greatly heartwarming thing regardless.
I was going to wax lyrical about my bank and insurer being super trans positive until I got their email stating they could only reflect my gender as male or female. The super friendly person had mistakenly identified me as non-binary and therefore they couldn't change my gender in their system. I can't reply to that email either as it's unmonitored. Duh, I'm female, not non-binary, dumb dumb. I tried phoning them again now but after five minutes the line dropped. Seems like a simple clerical error but it leaves all non binary completely non-represented and that's not good enough, They've been trained but maybe not that well, still and all at least they use my preferred name and don't treat me any differently but when someone says they're transgender it usually means they're transgender, not non-binary necessarily. A lot of non binary people don't identify as being transgender and don't identify as either male or female. I should add they really went the extra mile to help up until now and are trying to be better. Just when the insurance lady and I had had a great conversation about inclusion I feel kind of deflated now. Two steps forward, one step back.
I also just read the elon musk has now stated cis and cisgender are slurs on twitter. I'll take all the good and feel good rather than dwelling on the bad of course, but its a reminder of how far we have to go. Cis is used as a slur by trans people sometimes for sure but not by everyone and not by cis people who are happy to be identified as such.
I'm Melbourne born and bred but I'm also a ride or die Queensland supporter in NRL State of Origin! Just wrapped up the 2023 series with an awesome win! I know I'm one of the few who pay attention to this stuff down here but still.. woooo!!
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🥪🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥫🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯
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Thanks for all the support lovely people. The community grows stronger with solidarity and I'll sleep well tonight. Transphobia is actually becoming less common but more nasty because so many of us call it out. The terf numbers are thinning and I feel safe in women's spaces just like all the women I interact with feel safe with me in them. They won't win and will find some other marginalised group to target as our marginalisation diminishes, which happens every day we show each other support like you all have tonight. Thanks, my cup runeth over!
I don’t get the governments decision to block the tpg (Vodafone) and Telstra regional sharing deal. 3 used to roam onto Telstra, it worked great! The governments position was that it’s anti competition. But I mean, even when Vodafone were owned by Vodafone they had 0 interest in expanding the network regionally. It’s never gonna happen. This isn’t gonna inspire tpg to go spend hundreds of millions building out the network in the bush.
Quite a good write up, I thought
If anyone has read and enjoyed “The Three Body Problem” trilogy by Liu Cixin, Netflix will release a movie based on the first book.
An outstanding sci-fi piece of work.
I'm kinda excited because my main PC monitor might be dying and that will force me to buy a new toy. I'd been thinking of buying a big, curved gaming-spec monitor for a while but couldn't justify replacing these 32" and 27" 4k 60Hz ones I bought before I started playing games but the 32" might be dyyyyyying!
I'm pretty frugal with spending money in that if I have something which works, I generally won't 'waste' money replacing it (why I still drive my perfectly functioning but aging 2009 sexy purple car when I'd love something new) but when I do buy something I'll throw a bunch of money at it to buy top tier stuff.
I'll have to do a bunch of troubleshooting before I go breaking out the cash, to figure out if the monitor is dying or if it's just a stupid cable or potentially even my fairly new graphics card but still.. potential new toy wooo!
My gawd pinot is very expensive here in indo.
They must tax wine by volume.
365Lemmys with that guy from tism and tony whatshisface the comedian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEMzA_dVbsM&ab_channel=DAMIANCOWELL'SDISCOMACHINE-Topic
I've got complicated feelings about 6, it's one of my favorite RPGs ever, and since it's always seemingly in the shadow of FF7 in some ways a full 3D version would give it the attention it deserves.
However it's absolutely not a story that needs a "remake". Everything from the character designs (kefka is brilliant) to the scenes cough opera cough and subplots are near perfect, they would just benefit from getting a full glow up. (I do love ATB but using the recent battle systems from Remake would likely be very fun... I can just imagine fighting Atma Weapon would be awesome)
Do I trust current square to do this though? Nope. Not at all.
