Oh, epic swipe type fail moment 😂

Sorry posties

Ugh.

You guys know how potatoes taking things to the post office that’s only open from 9-5 is annoying and inconvenient?

Be glad you don’t live in Jabuk…

(That’s 8am to 9am)

At least it’s 5 days a week I guess

Edit: well, I meant posties, but I think potatoes is better 😂

You have a fair point. Personally, I’ve pretty much just accepted my details probably already are up for sale somewhere. Everywhere seems to either have data breaches once a week, or basically is a data breach (selling everything they know to the highest bidder). The “deals” aren’t really anything special for the most part either. Half price/home brand pretty much makes the first list redundant anyway

There’s some kind of onepass members deal weekend thing happening from today til sunday. Considered posting in the frugal community, but although they are deals, everything is branded so it doesn’t really compare to just buying home brand everything (I mean who the fuck is spending 30 bucks (on sale!) for “One Summer Eau De Toilette Spray”??). But these are some of them that seemed okay:

Kmart

• 110 pack Finish Classic dishwashing tabs - $15 [13.6c per tab]
• 1.25L Morning Fresh original dishwashing liquid - $7 [55.9c/100ml (I think)]
• Handheld physio massage gun set - $49
• 10 piece Sistema Storage Set - $22
• 188 Piece Mega Art Set - $29
• 4L Duo washing liquid [$3/L]
• 5kg clean and soften washing powder - $12 [$2.40/kg]*

(NB on the washing powder: Coles sell a 4kg box of homebrand washing powder for $5, so that’s what I mean by homebrand still being cheaper. That’s what I usually buy)

And a couple more from Kmart that seem like more kiddy things. Idk if they’re worth it, or would even appeal to kids (they seem like stuff nobody else bought so ended up on special buy to me), but I know a lot of parents like to buy things on sale for chrissy time through the year, so maybe they appeal to someone:

• Heroes of Goo Jit Zu Jurassic World assorted dinosaur thingies - $10ea
• Disney Sorcerer’s Arena Epic Alliances Core Set - $15
• Hot Wheels City Super Loop Fire Station Playset - $19
• Crayola Multi-Colour Light Board - $10
• Monster Jam Garage Grave Digger Playset - $49
• Nickelodeon PAW Patrol All PAWS Gift Set - $15
• DreamWorks Gabby’s Dollhouse Kitty Fairy’s Garden Treehouse Playset - $29

Elsewhere

Catch, Bunnings, Target, and Priceline all have deals on, too, but I haven’t had a chance to look through them just yet. Plus I’m trying not to impulse buy all of the things.

Officeworks has 15x flybuys points on Apple products, and half price standard photo printing in store.

Nothing to hide, nothing the fear, Mr succulent.

Fair enough. I’m sorry. I think that was mostly just projection, which wasn’t fair

I hope that the CBD oil helped at least a bit and you were able to sleep

Ugh I feel this in my little sleep deprived soul

I do this thing where if I follow a routine for too long, I eventually start to subconsciously sabotage it. And with sleep, I feel pretty much forced to not sleep at a reasonable hour the moment I have a free day.

But at the same time, mental health be going 📉📉📉 if I don’t have enough consistency and don’t see enough sunlight, and honestly, if I wake up any later than 10

I don’t know what’s wrong with me, or how to fix myself, so it would be hypocritical to tell you how to not do the same thing I’m currently doing (and won’t take my own advice for), but in my experience, all night+dayers rarely work out. I’ve pulled them off a few times, but I really need to be doing something semi (but not very) active all day to make it work. I usually end up doing it every time I catch the night bus to Mildura, since I can’t sleep on public transport, but also don’t have anything to do while I’m there except turn around and come back. On that return trip, I usually end up slipping in and out of consciousness. I believe the assorted medical nerds would call it a “microsleep”.

Also, it’ll completely fuck your entire weekend. If you try to sleep now, or even within the next few hours (sometimes for me the stress of needing to be asleep an hour ago to get a solid 8 hours is what ends up stopping me from sleeping until 4 or 5 in the morning), you’ll probably wake up between 10am-12pm. After you do your morning routines and get yourself together, that probably leaves you with a few hours of daylight left to go sit outside for a few hours

I’ve found my dodgy grey market possibly illegally imported melatonin helpful. I start off with 1mg and take more as it gets later if I still can’t sleep. Usually I’m so tired by then, that as soon as I put my phone down and turn the light off, I can sleep reasonably quickly (20 minutes or so, but I follow exactly 0 healthy sleep principles). It’s just making myself part with the day and stop doing anxiety that’s the issue.

Without medication, I find it very difficult to fix a bad sleep schedule by trying to sleep earlier. I’ve tried it before, with all the bells and whistles. No caffeine within 12 hours of bedtime, at least half an hour of moderate-intense activity and a couple of hours of lighter activity, no screens within an hour or two of bed, etc, and none of it ever worked. But you can try spiking your sleep tonight. Assuming you work/otherwise have to be up early on Monday, it could be worth only getting 4/5 hours of sleep tonight, waking up early tomorrow, powering through the day, and sleeping as early as you can manage tomorrow night. It’ll fuck up your Saturday, and probably put a damper on your sunday, but if you can do it, that does mean your Monday will be at least slightly more energised!

Also, if you can afford it, psychologist or therapist to try and explore why you struggle with sleeping, with either a referral back to your GP for sleeping medication, or a referral to a psychologist for anti anxiety medication, or other similar medications. Or just chatting it through can help too. This is what I’m currently trying to do

You good?

It’s not a sensory issue, it’s just not exciting to have 4 teeth pulled while fully awake

Dentist done for now. But I have to find somewhere that will take all of my wisdom teeth out at once, and preferably so full general anaesthetic. They suggested the dental hospital because they’ll do it for either free or cheap, but it’s a very long waitlist, and I won’t get in to see anyone until I’m a full adult with full adult responsibilities. I’d rather do it now when there’s people around to help me, and I can just not speak for a week with no issues

They suggested a low cost but private clinic in the east somewhere, but she said she would have to call to see what anaesthetic they can do. Apparently they also only accept referrals for certain procedures

Cost isn’t too big of an issue, since it’s not on my dime for the next 6 months. Part of the reason I want it sorted ASAP

Does it come in a normal non descript cardboard box/grey satchel, or do they advertise what’s in it? Will they deliver it to your house if you ask them to leave it, or do you have to pick it up from the post office all the time?

Cherish your chatty postmen and postwomen. For one day they might vanish without a trace 😔

Y’know, considering we get 6 non Friday’s per week, I don’t think it’s fair we only get 1 Friday. I’m gonna start a petition to get at least 3 Friday’s a week

I have a parcel which needs a signature (and won’t let me change that) coming between 12:10-2:10pm

I have a dentist appointment from 1:30-2:30pm (I’ll be out 1-3pm)

I reckon Mr postman Pat is gonna turn up about 10 minutes after I leave

And my post office is very strict on only allowing pickup after 4 for some reason. Even if the message that it’s ready for pickup gets sent sooner, and I can literally see my parcel sitting there, they will not allow me to pick it up before 4

🙃

Edit: W E I R D. 5 minutes after posting this I got a notification from the camera somebody coming up the driveway. The usual chatty postman wasn’t at my door - a new lady I’ve never seen before was. She left both of them, including the signature one and by the time I opened the door was already on their electric bike thingy and halfway down my driveway. I hope chatty postman didn’t get sacked for being too slow, he was lovely

DON’T ASK QUESTIONS OR YOU WILL BE DISAPPEARED!

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I’ve got the dentist today, so the date makes sense

Found an interesting looking place on Google Maps:

Taken about 3km south of Maralinga Airport in 2011. Apparently in the 60s, the brits came and bombed the area around Maralinga for not much reason at all. So cheers for that boys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nuclear_tests_at_Maralinga

I tried to sign up for a Facebook account (hate it, but market place seemed like my only option for something I was after) and had my account automatically banned on creation. Twice. They demanded photos of my face, which I begrudgingly gave them, and still never approved my account.

I signed up for a new one with the exact same information from my mobile data plan instead and it worked fine, and I never got banned