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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 !

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.

I'm staying. I like it here.

I received the grade for the final assignment of my uni subject. I did good 😁

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

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.

I'm in Emerald for a couple of days to finally decompress from the absolute bullshit of work of the last 12 months and ngl seeing the choo choo train go past will never get old. Makes it all feel like it's gonna be OK 🚂🚃🚃

Thank you @the_procrastinata@aussie.zone for making this thread 🙂

This morning I am sincerely grateful for the ducted heating outlet in the bathroom. Ambient temp in rest of house is 13, bathroom is 25!!!!! Loving it. Not loving the bill to come but being clean is worth it.

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.

Whenever I see you good peeps recruiting on the OG dt I upvote you. ⬆️

A new app for Lemmy has been announced by Sync dev. (Sync is a Reddit 3P app for Android)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36405939

Strange melancholy mood today. Started off by me pondering much better life would be if instead of having to be awake at a certain time, you got up when you felt like. Now I’m pondering existence.

Crawl into a nice warm bed, Mrs and baby asleep, just about to turn the light off when suddenly there’s a giant wet fart and the baby is screaming, cats are bolting off the bed and it’s on for young and old. This is why I’m getting grey hairs!

My chicken katsu

I don't know if it worked properly.

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.

Meeting the future SIL's fam bam tonight eeee..

Apparently they're loose units and no topic is out of bounds.

We'll see!

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.

Have a look here to find more communities to add to your aussie.zone account. You can copy/paste the full html link into aussie.zone/search and it will find it within 10+ seconds.

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.

Trivia ended up being a total blast and my team finally won!! How exciting!

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 🤷‍♀️

It be dark, yo. (happy mid winter everyone!)

hey, Seagoon here, it's been the devil to try to log in so I made a new account 👍

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.

Is Lemmy short for lemmings? Like those little guys that follow each other. The walkers, the diggers and the ones that stopped the others from plunging off the cliff.

So update on the licence. Went to Warragul, the jobseeker person is really nice. Got my licence done and got a new photo so I am now ready to get drunk on my birthday!

The NTSB investigation into the Billionaires Titanic Submersible is going to be interesting.

tldr, 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.

Dark thought for literally the darkest day of the year: if the Titanic submarine guests killed the CEO, they could extend oxygen for another day.

It's so warm in the office that I'm getting sleepy. This is why I don't like coming here all that much. The heater going full blast + sun from all of the windows. Is there a "one temperature fits all" that can be set? I reckon it's pushing 25 degrees in here, that's way too warm for most people.

I’m looking forward to a holiday. Sadly I think the only holidays in my future are a cabin in a caravan park, but you know what I’ll take it!

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.

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.

Weighted blanket is actually pretty good at keeping you warm.

Ooo that wind be icy… How is everyone this PM?