I don’t think I’ve seen a more blatant example of main character syndrome than seeing real estate agents putting themselves into videos showing the house they’re selling.
And I don’t mean talking about the house. They’re in the video sitting on the couch or opening the door to enter with all this dramatic music playing, or staring out from the balcony all reflective and stuff.
Good lord.
They also wear shitty suits.
Their tailors hate them too
Tailors? You mean Tarocash and Peter Jacksons salespeople.
They know they add no actual value to the house, so they need validate themselves by adding perceived value.
I’ll have to see if I can find it but I remember seeing one near my place where the person (not sure if agent or owner) was sitting in the bath tub, topless on the bed (facing away). Absolutely bizarre behaviour
Graffiti ?
“Hey look how nice I dress and my expensive haircut and shoes! That’s how you know it’s a good idea to buy a house from me!” - real estate agents, probably
“See this shiny German car I’m leasing for far more than I afford?..SEE IT?”
For some reason we don’t see those big signs with pics of the agents anymore. 🤷♀️
Well they have such vacuous personalities they’re perfect self insert protagonists
Goodnight all ❤️
Night Gibbsy 😺
Since all the cool kids are flexing their clivias…
Doxxing capacity maximised… 👀 beautiful part of Melbourne to be in though that’s for sure.
Now I’m getting images of a masked bandit digging up my clivias at 3am.
don’t laugh, garden theft happens all the time around Carlton
A woman I used to work with lived in Kew in a very nice street with a lot of very nice neighbours - included politicians and captains of industry. Her agapanthus bed kept getting raided by plant pirates. She tucked a placard at the back of the bed saying Smile! You’re On Candid Camera! Raids stopped. I mean, who nicks agapanthus?
maybe they were dwarf white agathaspants
Nope, just the regular blue ones. Like, so so ordinary. Why would anyone bother to nick them? I’m still scratching my head over that one.
wow , they are so beautiful . Your whole garden is beautiful. 😭
Thanks :) Honestly the whole thing really took off when I put the watering system in (wasn’t even expensive). I am now a true believer that regular watering on a timer does wonders.
GP check up and blood test results said plenty of sunshine, a nice fat piece of steak, and steroid cream
I do bloods every 6 months, and the August one always show I’m low in Vitamin D…which is probably 90% of Melbourne I assume
my ferritin is 20 and my vitamin D is 28 🧛🏻
Probably having my final assessment for my new role today, to see if they’ll set me loose on the general public. Has been three weeks training so far. I am exhausted. I’ve been up since 2.30 tossing and turning stressing about it, picturing scenarios in my head etc. I’ll get other chances if I don’t pass but would be nice to rip the band aid off
May the band aid be not sticky anymore and come off with ease.
🤞🤞
Dab of olive oil helps a band aid come off painlessly.
Good luck! 🤞🏼
So there’s three people in my team. The good one is leaving. Which leaves the one who is honestly like dealing with a child.
Ah well.
My performance review went great though!
Tonight’s mood booster is some peri peri mock-chicken strips bought on a whim yesterday. I shall throw a zucchini in there for helth, and half an onion, and… idk. Eat it with rice… cooked in broth! With cloves and cardamom! (I highly recommend the latter for really elevating even the simplest rice dish.)
Also just remembered I stress-bought frozen dumplings last night. I’m set for lunch tomorrow, woohoo!
cardamom
Any time people go heavy on cardamom I is always a fan.
And don’t throw out the pods, so much flavour in those too.
I use it in pasta dishes too. so good.
My wins /gratitude list today
✅ up at six after a good night’s sleep.
✅ Good food packed for work
✅ Yummy coffee is yummy.
Haven’t had the heart to tell my supervisor at this job that I’m seriously mentally struggling atm. I’m off for a week from Friday night so I feel like I should see how I go with that before I go any further. I think I’m going to have to leave one of my jobs and cut down my overall hours to make this work, but it’s really bad timing in terms of workload…
Benefit of a person with COVID at home is that I have been told to WFH all week.
Oh no…anyway
How’s the little one doing?
He’s fine. Spent most of the day gaming and chilling. Doses of panadol and nurofen kept the fever down. Coughs a bit, but okay.
And little is kind of misleading…he’s nearly 15 and 6 ft tall 😂
Dumb question, but how do you look after a teenager? Just throw them some medication and a console controller? Make sure they are fed and hydrated?
Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Get him to take his temperature and adjust meds as needed. Make sure he’s eating (eggs and chicken are doing the job). It’s way easier than a toddler.
Last night we ended up watching old Simpson’s eps and he fell asleep on the couch, where I left him.
thats so strange to me. I’m so used to them being dependent on us. Not sure how it’ll feel when that comes to an end.
It was quite gradual, so you don’t really notice until one day you do notice and then you need a moment to gather yourself.
The journey was all worth it. I still look back at hiking photos from like 4 years ago and kids look like totally different people.
The best part is that they can help out with stuff. This Friday I’ve got some minor maintenance items to attend to at home, and my son will be helping whether he likes it or not.
nearly 15 and 6 ft tall
Goodness! Lol for some reason I pictured a smaller younger child, probably because mine are! They don’t do much last week of term anyway.
Hahaha…yeah I still say kiddos, but they’re both teens and pretty grown up. His teachers emailed him his work for the rest of the term and over the holidays, and his sister is emptying his locker this week.
He’ll be fine education wise.
some flower pics, it’s early spring and most flowers are small but they are nice and bring colour and a promise of warm weather and sun to come 🙂
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ooh all looking healthy.
They are. I try to keep a clean garden. :)
One thing that has happened tho is since I stopped feeding birds there has been an explosion of aphids, I stopped because my neighbour didn’t like the mess.
I’m going to feed the birds again and bring some balance back.
Love ya crucifix orchids, don’t see them about much.
the little mauve ones are dendrobium kingii, a native of Sydney and the white are cymbidium
I do have crucifix orchids but they are not in flower yet, here they are from last year
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Ah, I stand corrected. Mums whole sideway was full of all kinds of orchids, but when I had to sell her house due to the Will being contested I had to get rid of almost all of them. There were so many of them I was struggling to find homes for them. I was selling them for $5-$10 each and people were still haggling and quibbling! In the end I gave a lot of them away because I was heavily pregnant by then and running out of time to move. She had huge gardenias in pots I virtually gave away, and Waratahs and a motherload of different types of Camellias and lots of other things. I could only bring a handful of plants with me because my MIL said there wasn’t the room and didn’t want pots damaging the concrete and shitty old paving, and Mr P and his mum managed to kill most of those anyway. Sorry about the plant rant, it’s an experience that almost broke me as a person, and I’m still heartbroken. I looked up her house years later on Google maps and the new owners had ripped out the whole garden, 30 years of work. I watered and weeded that garden as a child ☹️ It’s interesting what these things mean to us.
My orange clivia’s are blooming for the first time this year. I grew them from seeds I collected.
so cool and they are a unique flower, they have both red and yellow pigments to make the orange. 🙂
So colourful
Beautiful!
Noooo. Just generally
Seconded.
Spent a few hours last night on the couch in cosy pyjamas, under a soft blanket, ignoring the world and watching a new (to me) K Drama. Followed by one of the most solid sleeps I’ve had in a long, long time. Not feeling any better about being at work today, but at least it was a nice evening.
I don’t know what dinner is going to be, but it will be hearty and full of veggies. That description fits almost everything in my freezer
Pasta?
I pooped by Aldi to grab a loaf of bread and saw this.
Not an egg in sight. Is it really that bad right now?
I wouldn’t have eggs-pected that.
Eggshellent pun.
Well eggsecuted.
You guys have left me all seriously eggshausted.
Oh, you’re just eggsaggerating
I pooped in the woods a few times. They didn’t have eggs either.i lodged a complaint with manager.
Well at least they have logs now.
No eggs at my Coles.
I think you meant popped. I hope you meant popped.
I get eggs from IGA. There’s always heaps.
yes, eggs were 11.50 at woolies, I didn’t get any. A chook to roast was 30, didn’t get one.
I buy mine from the local grocer, they’ve always got stock. Not the cheapest but not hideously expensive either
ahem eggspensive
