I was feeling a bit down today but the man is here and he always makes me feel better. That and a trip to bunnings. ❤️
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Phoar. I held back so much when my Aunty called.
I told her quite clearly over there phone that I don’t want to be used and manipulated into trying to influence everyone else into making a decision on the will and approving things.
I told her quite clearly I would not get involved and if I needed the inheritance I would not intervene and get involved.
All she wanted to do was try and use me to influence the outcome and kept talking negatively about everything.
She tried manipulate me again and I told her not to.
I didn’t really want to talk to her but I’ve had it with her.
Edit: and I’ve slightly burnt my fish fillets thanks to her.
wtf
if I was so blunt and assertive the manipulators in my fam would then ring up other people and tell them lies, saying I abused them
I just ignore them now
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So the cola experiment was a success 💪🏼 The Minipeelers gave it double thumbs up, mixed with either straight soda water, lemonade or a sprite slushy, and Mr P mixed it with soda water and a dash of bourbon and said it was magnificent. However, next time I make it I will halve the amount of star anise (which I felt to be just a little too "there"), double the vanilla and add some extra of the browning syrup I made. All in all I am happy with the experiment and keen to make more!
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Thanks for paying for my 2nd playthrough of cyberpunk 2077, shitty workplace.
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I messaged a dude on marketplace to buy something and it turned out to be a guy I was in a band with 25 years ago 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Holy shit lol
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Not that exciting in comparison to everyone else living their best life here I guess
but my dad's old friend from his HS and early adult life msgd me today. She has photos of when I was a kid. She's gonna send them to me. The gratitude I feel to her is immense, I couldn't express it properly to her. I'm so happy to finally have some childhood photos.
I'm gonna surprise dad with them, he doesn't have any of me either so I hope he'll be stoked too.
This friend of dad's has done me such a solid, I thanked her so so much. I don't even care if dad doesn't care, I'm just happy to have some photos of my childhood.
She's sending them in the mail tomorrow! Physical photos! Omg omg omg!
Another benefit to WFH: taking a shit in peace. The bloke in the stall next to me before was going to a logie! Seriously, I'm quieter having sex than this dude was in the bathroom. if you gotta groan moan and grunt and gasp like that go to a bloody doctor bro.
I only make heaps of noise in the bathroom when the person in the stall next to me is on the phone.
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To take my mind off dad not responding to me at all (I'm totally not teary, nope, not at all), I have applied for 5 jobs in the animal industry. An animal tech one, a customer service one at a shelter, and a few animal attendant ones. I edited up my cover letter and everything.
I'm just waiting to be okay holy crap. Gonna listen to Montaigne to get all my feelings out in a totally healthy way, yep, mhm
Edit: get on Montaigne's first albums people!
This is my fkn anthem
Looks like QLD is going to cop it bad with that cyclone, apparently i's not going to make landfall later in the week.
Hope everyone is able to keep safe there.
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"yeah nah sorry new manager, my cat has anxiety issues so I'll need to work from home for the next few weeks"
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eeek, the moving is getting all done
while it's a bit of a fuss it's nothing compared to moving a household from Europe to the US or shipping a pet cat overseas. It was exciting moving from Europe, there was a sea shipping container on a flat bed truck!! It was cool, even if I say so myself.
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After an almost 2 month wait I got my final 2 assignment results back from last teaching period.
I was pretty certain I nailed one and the other I was iffy about.
The one I nailed, I "only" got an 82. Which is good and I am happy about but I thought I would have done better.
The one I was iffy about, 90. Now, that, I am chuffed about.
The 90 also did some heavy lifting and put me in HD for the overall unit.
That sounds like me. The last assignment I did I was still recovering from Covid and did a bit of a rush job on, and got 90%. They seemed to particularly like the section I had only done a rough outline of, intending to go back and add some detail and references later. I never went back and just assumed it would get me a few points but not a passing grade for that section, so I guess a rough outline was all they really wanted.
Okay I said I wouldn't care if dad didn't care about these photos, but he's seen my message and hasn't responded.
I just need to chill! It's a workday! It's gonna bring up a lot of feelings from the past for him! Not everything is about you Spud, gah!
I made breakfast, lunch and dinner (and coffees / drinks) at home while WFH today. My usual approach is not to clean up after each meal and leave it all to the end of the day. By the time I've finished making dinner and eating, my kitchen is a bomb site and takes a loooong time to clean up. It's a real drainer and crappy end to the day. Trying to save money not buying food out as much but that means the kitchen mess multiplies. Thankfully no cooking at all tomorrow, I've got enough leftovers. I need a break!
This is exactly why I desperately miss having a dishwasher 😭
Gripe of the day:
People using their phones while driving. Especially when they have their kids in the car. Like are you kidding me?
Positive of the day:
Looks like it’ll be a beautiful day! Hoping to get the paddleboard out again (although my knee is still very bruised) or at the very least have a swim!
My workplace is full of 18-21yo university students. I have given up trying to swerve and dodge out of their way because they're walking down corridors with their heads buried in their phones and weaving all over the place more than a Ranger driver on the freeway.
Now I just walk a straight path (off to one side, not in the middle of the walkway) and just let them crash into me. They wake up startled from their trances and frantically apologise for not watching where they're going... and then proceed to re-bury their heads in their screens and carry on as they were :|
It's already happened twice today.
I do this too. If you're walking in a crowd and not willing to look up from your phone, then I'm not going to try and avoid you.
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The next person to blow smoke in my face in a public place is gonna discover what it feels like to have said cigarette smothered out by their colon after I lodge it up their with my boot. Same goes for vapes in which case I hope it explodes up there.
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Definitely worked up an appetite for tonight's dinner thing. Another long hot sweaty day especially after going to bed at 1am with the random cleaning and shit. Need to hurry up and shower and hoof it over there soon though. Thankfully REA is coming between 10 and 12 tomorrow which gives me time to vacuum the joint and clean the stove.
This is nice. It’s so lovely to cuddle with Melbcat while playing computer games in bed and stroke her soft fur.
While on my fixing procrastination spree, replaced the busted fridge bulb, got a light in the fridge again.
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I have just bought more packing boxes. 25 for books and 25 big boxes should be enough. I have other boxes already. 🤞
just submitted a quote enquiry for movers for 2 weeks from now 😬
skin is crawling with excitement about this campervan. Cant pick it up till next week cause cant get the towpack fitted till next week which means we will miss the public holiday. Not the end of the world, cause we probably need to set it up first, clean it all out and get it all kitted out for us anyway. But still. Its exactly like buying a new car or ordering a new phone online. You spend all this money but then have to sit and wait and you cant play with your new toy.
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Back down the bellarine for the night, hopefully 2. All about watering :(
But first chillies are turning!
I think the blood and bone gave it a bit of a kick.
And the flower patch is lurvly. So glad I got my way with that.
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Car door lock replaced post-attempted break in. Surprisingly easy to do. Should've done it sooner.
tonight I am paging thru "How to Make Yourself Miserable, a Vital Training Manual" to see if I have been doing it right. I think I have.
😬🤣
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Oh man. I’m feeling so tired and unwell lately. I try to rest but still in pain.
Lying in bed and doing extensive landscaping in Minecraft to stay occupied. 😔
Boxes come tomorrow , that means I will start packing in earnest. Since I have already cleaned and sorted everything it shouldn't take long. 🙂
I found an opportunity to start an online store and I'd like to ask the DT brainstrust on some feedback. I'll mark it all as spoilers because people may not want to read my full ramblings or some of the subject matter:
Business talk
So I've been looking at business where I work to try boost my other business offer, selling marketing software subscriptions, and I came across a lingerie wholesaler.
They just had an open submission to sign up as a stockist so I thought I'd check it out. I have an ABN and a registered company so I could just do it, and there was very little vetting on their side.
Once approved I had access to their entire catalogue and they do dropshipping, where you don't need to stock the product yourself. Essentially someone buys the product from you, then you buy the product from the wholesaler and they ship it to the person for you.
These guys have way more than lingerie. You can stock a whole sex shop with what they have. But I've decided to keep it simple, try focus on a few core products I think would move, and have picked more socially acceptable things that you could actually advertise on social media.
Instead of uploading everything, I'm focusing on things that could target the rave, festival, club scene. So it can still be seen as fashion instead of getting labelled as a sex store and getting banned from every online platform. I'm offering a few best selling items in the hope they will have a broader appeal to try get some cut-through.
I came up with an idea for a store name and a design, here's the URL, the store is up and running: https://lxix.store/ LXIX is the number 69 in Roman Numerals so it looks fancy but is a sex joke over two thousand years in the making.
Let me know what you think of the website. It's a little rough in areas and doesn't have everything, but I'm hoping it looks trustworthy enough someone might click through from a Facebook ad and trust it enough to convert and buy.
It's almost impossible to grow a social media following organically these days, so I'm expecting to put a bit of money into ads. My only problem is I have no assets aside from the so-so product images from the wholesaler and the brands themselves.
I'm hoping the way I can make this work is I'm hooking up every tracking pixel to just about every social media account I can find. My plan is to eventually get to know my target audience enough I can create ads and remarket to them effectively enough I can build a mailing list, introduce new products as if it's a 'launch' to capture previous customers again, and just grow the database of customers and like customers.
But I need actual sales to keep this going and achieve any of that. I only took the 'Coming Soon' off the website last week so it's still early days, but I want to make sure this website looks like it will work. The marketing software and business consulting was a slog because I don't have a network or capacity to follow up with people effectively. If I get things right here I could just run an ad and get returns.
I'm also considering reaching out to people and sending free product for content. But that's also a case of choosing the right people, as it still costs me money when I have no cashflow at the moment.
Also, I've searched for the most popular products on the wholesaler's store to find other websites selling the same stock. A lot of them are basic and ugly websites that don't look all that maintained. You can upload a CSV of the wholesaler's catalogue to your store, and I think a lot of people just do that. So they have basic images and descriptions, and are hoping for more of a 'build it and they will come' approach.
I also want to do a lot of SEO work and try be the top rank for a few keywords. That can supplement ad spend and helps with building a following long term. I don't think anyone but the big stockists are doing the same.
I'm just worried I could have a theoretically perfect online store, but can't realise any actual sales because my ads aren't good enough or I don't have enough capital to spend on advertising to figure it out. Any feedback is recommended because I feel like I could make this work.
Quick thoughts:
- The store name/URL is wonderful - definite winner, there. It's memorable and easy to type.
- There's something really off about the models. If those are real women, they've been airbrushed into the uncanny valley. If they're AI-generated, that would make sense. I have no idea how you could go about fixing them, but yeah - that'd be my first priority in your shoes. Photoshoots and models are super expensive, I realise.
- I don't know about the rave scene or what what the GenZ crowd in general are into. I can say that I doubt any of this stuff would appeal to my wife though. Possibly the red one? By targeting a crowd, are you turning off a large potential client base?
- The website itself looks basic - like a template off square or wordpress or something. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I'd emphasise that you are real some more - ABN, Contact details etc.
- The three things I care about as a customer are: Quality, Price and how long it takes for my stuff to arrive. I'm variable on #2, depending on #3. I'll pay more to have my stuff sooner. If it's going to take two weeks to come from China, be super clear about this.
- As to quality, be really upfront about that. If the quality of the product is dubious, don't try and spin it as excellent quality.
There's probably a lot more to cover. At a glance, the range of products looks really limiting. I'm at work and can't really be closely scrutinising a lingerie store, so I only spent about 2 minutes on the site. A wider range will probably increase the trustworthiness of the site.
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Can't sleep. Got overexcited ordering wall decals online. Goodbye bland as fuck everything!
Ooh decals. I'm a bit addicted to those. That's going to be the worst thing about moving, I'll have to leave my wildflower meadow behind!
I also added a few decals to the walls at work, but they've just been doing some work and unfortunately they have been lost. But I do have a spare copy of one of them in my locker so, as soon as they finish painting, Gunther (which is what I named the little guy peering up from the bottom of the wall), can return. Thomas, the rat peering out of his hole, may be lost forever.
It's my first of probably 4 or 5 sleep interruptions. I'm going to shop for decals as well lol
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Empty inbox achieved. Vet visits booked for both Miss Meow and Mr Woof to have checkups. Car service enquiry sent. It looks like I'm having an efficient day today.
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I miss sleeping a whole night.
It's been around 8ish months now.
Maybe I will try they sleeping pill that has sleep paralysis as a possible symptom
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