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here’s some winter orchids
I love your vases, I never have enough smaller ones and these show off your gorgeous orchids nicely.
the two small ones are bud vases . Really, an op shop is the best place to find vases , just look at the glasses, cups and glassware and get what you think will work.
Omg they’re beautiful!
thanks , it’s nice to have flowers in winter :) The blooms are so heavy I got a lead crystal carafe from the op shop to show them in, it’s very bottom heavy and has a narrow neck, works perfect! The others I just snipped one bloom off a long stalk with many blooms. Wanted to keep some flowers for outside too.
They look really nice, I love the gentle colours of them.
Those are gorgeous. I especially love that tiger orchid thing in the middle with the fancy purple skirt.
The tiger orchid thing is a zygopetalum, a pretty rare orchid, it has a strong perfume, hence I only brought one bloom inside. There are three big spikes of flowers on the plant outside and the whole balcony area is redolent with orchid .
That sounds so lovely. Orchid growing sounds so complicated to me so I love admiring others instead. You’ve inspired me to freshen up the room with a bit of fragrance myself
it’s easy, I just follow instructions. I use orchid potting mix, put the plant in morning sun, water every few days in summer, never in winter, gives lots and lots of plant food
Beautiful Orchids. You have to take the photo in landscape. (Turn the phone sideways)
Thanks. I did! I retook the picture.
No worries you helped me yesterday with the anti fungal cream idea. I went out and bought curash powder. Not the one I wanted but so far so good. 👍
I had the same thing with a watchband happen to me years ago. My doc said he sees it all the time.
Pretty!
Much needed dose of serotonin thanks to the doggo this morning
doggo looking regal in the morning sun
___Thank you, that is a good dog.
so good he looks quite angelic 😊
… he’s definitely not angelic
Tomorrow I return to the office after 3.5yrs, if I die in the night I shall take it as Gods mercy.
Also, shout out to the utter brilliance that is my upper management thinking dragging us in for full rotations without toeing us in first isn’t going to have a single mental affect on anyone.
full rotations without toeing us in first
This seems like a bad idea… Good luck.
Oh, it’s a terrible idea! I left out the part were my rotations go in a 7 on 2 off pattern, so I’m going to go from full time WFH for 3.5yrs to immediately working 7 days straight in an office with no buffer.
That just reeks of upper management sitting on middle management. Gross. All the very best. The fucking laundry??? Cmon. 7 lunches to prep? wtf? I’d be stressed
Oh the panic in organising everything today was palpable! I’m a shiftworker so I have to make sure everything is in it’s place now I’ll be disappearing at odd hours of the day and night. I imagine this work week will be riddled with organisation errors that will cost me dearly.
alright wtf wtaf
this sTUPId company emailed me this morning, said they’re sorry about not getting back to me last week, they had some structural changes and put hiring on hold, but they’ll get back to me this arvo with an outcome. Sounded promising, I wrote back ‘thanks looking forward to it’ blah blah blah
BRUH! BRUH BRUH
they did not get back to me
they did not get back to me
they did not get back to mesTOP faRKIN with me argghhhhhhh
I’m so done I’m burnt
/VENTiamokayjustneedtoscreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeam–
Hope you hear back soon. Unfortunately this has been happening all too often recently based on my own and other people’s experiences. I had this HR person who kept saying they’ll reschedule an interview and just kept coming up with excuses or you give them a time then they ghost you until they feel like calling you again. It was fucking rude. Sadly it may be a reflection of what companies are going through and I’d love to hear from an insider on wtf is really going on behind closed doors.
Yeah it’s given me big ICK vibes, something big went down/is going down there. Ugh.
Oh no hun. Sorry to hear. Hopefully they get back to you with good news in the morning.
💜 💜
The personal stories where people open up to me at work are amazing. (And the level of trust they put in me when they share it)
Had a man in his 60s talking about how he’s working on his mental health for the first time in his life after his divorce and death of a parent.
It’s still really raw for him and he still trusted me with his story. I love that I can work in this blue collar environment and have interactions like this.
You come across as a very genuine and caring person, so I’m not surprised that people trust you with their stories.
My boss jokes that I like to rescue all the lost puppies at work.
He might be on the money with that one
holy shit - visitors arrived at my neighbours next door, and I swear to fUCKING Alanis if they start singing Katy Perry again, I’m going to TP their welcome mat.
edit: EVERY MONDAY WTF
edit edit: this was my rant posted in yesterdays dt, but they just arrived so here it is too, electric boogaloo
You have to start playing Taylor Swift to show your dominance.
I was a bit lucky this morning! I couldn’t get to sleep until I think about 4:30am. I have a ‘work from the office’ 7:30am Tuesday alarm (earlier than my every other day work remotely 8:45am alarm) which I was dreading so I could head in today and present my months in the making document to the team. Woke up without the aid of an alarm which didn’t bode well… 8:40am. Seems I disabled my Tuesday alarm last week because I wasn’t going in but forgot to turn it back on.
The lucky part is my phone also had a Teams message on it from the boss saying he’s unwell and won’t be in today, so I don’t need to go in anyway! Now I’m going to require all of the world’s coffee.
Things for my move are all set in stone now. Neither I or the org I’m moving to are allowed to back out now. Since CP have set a date, I WILL move whether I’m happy about it or not. They really have found a way to suck all of the excitement out of it, I was pretty neutral on it until I’m told I no longer have a choice and in 12 days I’ll be moving somewhere I’ve never even seen yet
Moving is always going to be stressful, no matter what the circumstances. I find when something like that is happening outside of my control it is best to accept that it is happening and focus on the parts I can control. You are a great person and you have the ability to make this a good thing for yourself.
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What bothers me most is how we are encouraged to feel hopeless, like there is nothing we can do
We can do so much to improve our lives, our community and the environment. Some we can do on our own, some takes organising.
An example is Clean Up Australia Day. Community food cupboards, little libraries.
We can be good neighbours even in small ways.
We can stop listening to bad news.
The economy? That will take longer. Join unions. Invest in Australian industry instead of residential property. Tax private companies. etc etc
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of course privately owned companies ( lets call them what they are ) and governments need to do things that improve lives and the world
Advocating action on an individual level is subversive and a way to achieve these bigger aims
once people start cleaning their local environment, having a nicer kinder community, having stronger local industry, having more tax money to invest in Australia they will like the results, they will want more as they see that positive change is possible, become invested in improvement, in positive action, and they will start demanding more action from government and industry
it’s subversive , it changes minds and that’s why I always say it
Hence why I don’t really watch the news anymore. I just end up feeling sad and angry.
Sometimes I want the apocalypse to hurry up; it’s the slow burn that’s making the end of the world so boring to live through. Can’t we have an end-of-the-world scenario that’s more like ‘2012’? Ugh!
Collapse happens slowly… then suddenly :)
It scares me. 😟
Scares me too :(
Ive stopped watching the news for the last few months. It’s been ever so depressing and the constant delivering of bad news left a bad taste of my mouth.
Cost of this and cost of that and rate rises non stop for the last whatever months.
Either my upstairs or downstairs neighbour is working from home today and has their Outlook notifications on loud. And I have a goddamn Pavlovian anxiety reaction every time the “new email” sound comes through. Even though I’ve turned mine off for years so I know it’s not an email for me. This is very exhausting.
For me, it’s that Teams call ring tone ! I think I have PTSD from my previous job where ppl would non stop calling on Teams ……
I get that from one of the default iPhone ring tones… Now everything is permanently on silent
All my phones are permanently on silent. I used to get people calling me on teams while I was in a meeting and keeps calling till I msg them I’m busy 🤯
My current job has a few meeting free days! And they are the best !
Ah, consulting life… in a way I’m lucky our line of work is so minor across so many projects that we don’t have many meetings. And our clients don’t usually keep calling again and again in the span of minutes D: they leave a voicemail.
This is why we don’t let external uses contact us on Teams unless we set up a meeting with them, they should never be able to see our online/offline status
Surprise surprise it was a state gov job!
BITTER TEARS OF RECOGNITION because that’s even worse in some regards
I’m just trying to wrangle our consulting on two separate state gov projects and they are the most irritating and demanding with the largest volume of communication (that doesn’t get read lol).
It is worse in a lot of way haha. But I would never go back to consulting! Depends on which gov department and who from the department you deal with, your experience could be very different!
Btw I remember you were waiting for your PR? Any updates on that ?
Got my nails did. I feel pretty, reader. (I already felt witty and gay.)
Noice!! What colours did you get?
A gloss army green on left hand and clear gloss on right. 🍀
omg that would look so good!! very nice! 💚
I’ve been feeling flat this morning, both physically and mentally. Ended up queuing a bunch of songs together that elicit a strong emotional response and had a good cry. Maybe that’s all I needed. I’m thankful to be working from home today, and with the Mrs out for the morning too… gives me a bit of space :)
I’ve got the Study Lofi playlist on. Certainly feels a little “Everything’s getting a bit hectic and the walls are closing in” hey. But not sure if thats actually whats happening or if my brains trying to turn the cogs tighter on me. Wish I could have a good cry too. Glad your feeling better!
I have a Japanese Jazz playlist that I was listening to a lot over the last week or so for this same reason. And yeah, doesn’t matter if it’s external or internal… sometimes you just got to try and bring the mood to a baseline yourself. The Study Lofi playlist is definitely a good vibe to tap into in these instances.
Yeah just like a reset or release or something
Same here. Very low on the mental side for me. Not sure why, but trying to make the best of it.
Humans are such complex buggers… like, sometimes it’s easier to lean into it, other times it’s easier to flip it. But actually knowing which path to take is the problem. Here’s hoping you can make the best of it, mate.
Thanks mate. I get like this occasionally and it tends to last a few days. No real reason for it, just how it be. I’ll be fine. Just need to wallow in a shitty mood.
I got given the news that I am receiving a pay rise and I am absolutely stoked, it made me feel exponentially more valued.
Does that mean you’ll be getting (salary)2?
Not quite squared but it is still a big(ish) raise for my industry haha
That’s awesome. 🥂
Woo! Congratulations 🍾
Yesss!! Good stuff and well done!! <3
Is it just me or are a car headlights a lot brighter these days. It can’t just b improperly installed aftermarket junk because about half the cars blind me.
Definitely seems like the average new SUV is designed to blind
agrees in astigmatism
I’m currently wondering if this is why mine seem so dim recently. I thought the bulbs had gone, but no, apparently not. Driving on out-of-city roads has been hairy recently on account of seemingly not enough light and I thought this was the reason. Do headlight bulbs degrade? I would have thought they just blew…?
The covers do get a bit hazy with age and makes the light more diffuse.
Yep. Can’t drive at night due to blinding headlights.
Why do some delivery people place your heavy delivery right in front of your door so you can’t open your door?
2 yrs ago people would’ve been ecstatic about that problem.
Lol. That bothers me more than it should!
