It took a bit of time for our lady to settle in this time as she’s been away for a year and hates the carrier - bit of hissing and swiping at her human before he left - but nothing a bit of churu knockoff can’t do to lift a kitty’s mood.
First point of order was bathroom, followed by a general investigation, then of course food (while I was rushing around tidying up and making my own dinner) - guaranteed cutest meows whenever food is involved - but I forgot then that I have to keep her out of my room if I open my closet, because she loves hiding in it and refusing to come out and there was more swiping and angry huffs as I tried to coax her out.
She’s pretty settled now though, headbutts and trills and all, and keeps coming back to sit on/near my socks, so I feel rather honoured 😌
soxloaf and soxfloof
SOX!
I am glad you have sighted the sox. I can now sleep. SOX!
i live for these posts
She has definitely become sassier this time around, thought I’d put treats in one of her toys but it was just normal dry food and she went from super excited to instantly cold and uninterested and even hissed at me later when my leg inadvertantly brushed against her… but then she followed me into the bedroom and has been going in and out and I later heard her merrily crunching on the dry food. and she randomly mrrps at me and probably wants to play but It Is Sleepytime Now. Tomorrow I shall try and wear out some of her energy after work.
Those whiskers!
Her tail is so gorgeous too. Medium-haired cats are the best. Not too long to need frequent grooming, but that much more luxurious than a short-haired kitty
We had one like that when we were kids - smooth and silky on top and fluffy underneath. Kitty lived to 22 years old - brainless (for a cat) but beautiful.
Ah the little Soxgirl! It’s been a while
I’m just happy that she remembers this place! I realise it needs a good dust and vacuum though… poor girl is sneezing in one particular corner.
First night in a long time that I’ve had the door and some windows open at night to cool down the house a bit.
Going to be a warmish night tonight.
Low of 14 tonight.
Enjoy your night everyone ❤️
Her little RBF ❤️
I don’t know why my split system does this but I can’t change it from heating to cooling.
To get around it I have to go into my bed room and set that one to either heating or cooling with a remote then walk back into my living room and using that remote turn on the system and it’ll be set to whatever setting I used in the bed room.
If I try and directly move from heating and cooling the split system will double beep at me and won’t switch or turn on.
Frustrating to say the least.
Got a bit shitty at work over being lectured about fucking image formatting (fuck Word, seriously) but got over it thoroughly by (a) having walked to work and back - big tick, (b) absolutely SMASHING through the backlog, and © clocking off on the dot - because I have much more important things to attend to very shortly! Everyone else can fuck off!
Also managed to survive nearly getting collected by some fuckwit speeding through Kew Junction after the cars finished turning, a good 20 seconds after the lights had changed and I was halfway across the pedestrian crossing. People do be getting stuck in dumb situations there. No death for me today, though - thanks, but nothing will get in the way of hosting my VIP guest!
Got home in time to do some last minute gardening (now). How good is it having the sun still up when I get home. Home - which has been nicely aired through all windows during the day. It’s a great feeling.
Travelling cat hugs from a belated idiot
Thats like… kangaroo, chicken, and t-rex all rolled into one. Impressive
I didn’t know I needed this until I ate it - smoked trout on hot buttered toast with just a smidge of mayo. Life is good.
Gon’ eat some jambalaya
Son of a gun, I’m having fun on the bayou 🎵
yum, when does dinner start
Bummer
Feeling stressed out. The issue of this homeless guy isn’t solved - the services won’t help or come when he’s there, he refuses help, police don’t care because it’s ’public property’ or if they do he just walks away from a welfare check…
He’s ranting and raving and throwing lit cigarettes in an area of dried vegetation and wooden fences near houses. Really mentally unwell with violent outbursts and has aggressively harassed me before. And is now regularly drinking on the bench right outside the window of the room where I sleep - sometimes sleeping there.
He ignored the huge piece of cardboard I left that would have allowed him to sleep elsewhere, isn’t moving to a nearby abandoned flat with a sheltered porch, and it isn’t safe to give him anything.
He doesn’t want help, has possibly already been kicked out of a nearby halfway house for verbally and possibly physically abusing others, and I’m afraid he’s going to start a fire or might attack me. It isn’t safe to approach him to help or direct him elsewhere.
It goes against my morals but if I can’t do anything positive about this situation I’m probably going to have to start thinking of ways to repel him :(
Mmm yummy.
I hate that I have to think about this stuff. I really just want to live peacefully and be left alone
this guy is a psychopath and is creating nuisance on purpose , don’t feel guilty
i think the itching powder will be good
and it’s just a joke and perfectly legal and safe
unlike a lot of other things 👹
Have you made a complaint to the council? You need to get rid of that bench anyway you can.
I’ve been through this before. Council is pretty useless and I often get judged as if I was just being a removed to someone disadvantaged (rather than responding to a threat). I can try but that leaves a trail if something were to “happen” to the bench.
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Ha… the po po dun care. They seriously don’t. They have let so so so much worse than this slide. I won’t go into it but the cops and the justice system are absolutely fucked.
It seems that to protect myself I must become what I hate… a Karen. :( And morally it is a big deal to me. Normally I’m on the side of the homeless and opposed to hostile architecture.
Ideas
I considered bleach, orange cleaner, liquid ass, and the cat poo is another good idea… but I don’t want to make him sick or ruin his clothes. I just want him to not do the damn things.
I tried to see if I could find one of those bolt on armrests that go in the middle of the bench but they don’t seem to be sold in Australia.
I’m looking at a solar powered floodlight that goes on with motion sensors but will have to work out how to attach it up high without it being a “fixture”. (Which could get me in trouble or evicted.)
How far are you willing to go? Because I’ve seen someone super glue bits of broken glass bottle to a fence to stop people from climbing over.
Trying not to get myself in legal trouble. Also it’s not set up so I can do that unfortunately.
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I’ve got an actually evil neighbour who will take pictures and complain. She’s almost had me evicted for installing security cameras before, and I was denied permission for cat proofing because she’d complain, so yeah. Situation here is fucked.
I hoped these high conflict people would end up fighting each other but so far no luck.
If I had the financial security I’d be out of this godforsaken shithole years ago. It’s complicated
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You don’t want to get into it. She starts physical confrontations and then plays victim, often successfully. I said Karen but that’s only now she’s come to some attention and dialed it back - I should have said Methany.
Opened the front door to let some air in.
Neighbours across the way have done likewise.
Discovered Sammi and their cat having a stare at each other through our respective security doors. 😂That’s the worst part about nicer weather. The neighbourhood cats come visiting at the screen door and there’s a lot of hissing!
When we first moved in rhe local tom came to throw his weight around. Caught him literally pissing on the window punkin was at while punkin just gave him a broad idiot ginger face. Unnerved the lil’ bastard so much he never came back.
Good thing too 'cos misha’s fucking psychotic
I had good results with a water pistol when a tom came persistently bothering Melbcat. I backed her up with my aim and he learned to run as soon as he saw me
Whilst I prefer the red trike as it’s pretty stable with a lot of weight at the back, it is currently out of commission so the new shopping goon and snack mobile (for now) is the unicorn basket bike:
Doubt the kids are going to laugh at me now.
“Can I have a chip”… “No”. “Can you buy us some booze”?.. “No”.
Noice accessories
Second interview went… okay. I definitely fumbled some questions and repeated myself a lot. But the interview ended with talk of what’s next, etc, so at least it wasn’t a “okay, thanks for coming in, see you around” sort of end. Fingers crossed for a call either way quickly.
I’m sure you did fine, everyone gets nervous and fumbles a bit in interviews, it’s to be expected and is fine. End of interview is promising!
That’s true - I consciously remembered that it’s okay to pause and think about responses instead of just blurting things out, so I’m proud of myself for that.
It sounds like you did well, try not to stress too much on repeating yourself :)
The worst case is actually still a best case scenario - consider this a practice interview and write some notes about how you wish to articulate yourself next time. I found it helps to write what I did well, and what I did not do so well. And looking up common interview questions and writing answers in the STAR format helps with memory retention too when you’re put on the spot in an interview.
I’m sure you did great! Fingers crossed for you!!
Thanks, that’s an excellent way to frame it :)
great advice
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This day has thoroughly defeated me. White flag, i’m calling it. You have won day. let me lick my wounds in peace.
It’s all good man. Take a breather and get some rest. Tomorrow will be a better day!
I won’t go down with this ship
I put my hands up in surrender
There is my white flag above my door
I am done
Let me go home
My brain is no longer braining correctly. If the universe could stop giving me work for a couple of hours that would be great.
