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    My friend is hosting a lunch at her house this weekend and everyone is bringing their children and partners. As the only childless person in the group, is it bad that I want to bail on this because…I don’t want to hang out with kids this weekend?

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      If you do go… when you’re there, mention how well/much you’ve been sleeping. As frequently as you can organically fit it into conversation.

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      Speaking as someone with kids, if a friend of mine were to say they were sick, or coming down with something and they were going to stay away - I would be very grateful. I’d also be cool with a childless person bailing on a kid-centric thing, but that’s just me.

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      Nope. If kids just arnt your thing its fine. Course, if they all have kids and you only wanna hang out when the kids aren’t around that’s gonna put a strain on the relationship.

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      Just be honest, and / or use my tried and true method. No explanation, just “something came up and I can’t make it.” Something that came up I don’t explain that it was I didn’t want to go. It’s still honest. I can’t lie to people, but omitting information likely to cause offense is nice.

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    In my car waiting to head in for this official event. Dilemma. I need to do a poop really badly, but I don’t think I’d ever get over the mortification of doing a poo in a diplomats house. I would, however, like the experience of pooing in a house that costs at least $15,000,000. The toilet alone probably costs more than my car.

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      Do it. Poo it. I once missed the chance to be invited into an old heritage listed mansion in Toorak with its own ballroom while I was working outside, because I felt awkward and thought I should beat the rain before heading home. I regret it to this day

  • MisssDarylC@aussie.zone
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    Spent so much of the day exhausted, I decided just to use my seated ticket and I’m super happy with it, the view is great.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    The last couple of nights we’ve been having dinner early and having a light supper later on. It makes sense because the kid comes home from school hungry and by 6pm I’m starving. The man doesn’t care when he eats. I normally do this on a Sunday but this is working so it might become regular.

    My dinner

    Image: One bowl of Thai red curry and coconut beef stew soup with vegetables, rice and a dollop of sambal oelek. It was delicious and warming.

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    I think im going to apply for a volunteer photographer position for a Vic dog rescue organisation. Will be great practice for the studio my partner and i are working towards opening and ill get to help the doggos find their people :)

  • omoikiri@aussie.zone
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    I had to (well, chose to) wear heels into work today because I have an official thing to do straight after to do with diplomats so I need to look professional. As I was leaving the house I thought about packing flats or slides or slippers to wear under my desk or just around our floor, but couldn’t be bothered carrying something else into work.

    And let me tell you that I’ve never regretted a decision so much in my life.

    • landsharkkidd@aussie.zone
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      I feel that. I have some super kick-ass platform boots that I love (they also make me 11cm taller which is nice) but oh my God, I wear them for maybe 10 minutes and my feet are killing me.

      I have to bring sandles if I wear them, but issue is I’ve gotta hold these big chunky platform boots.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      You can show off your new bling as well!

      But yeah, maybe it would have been a good idea for flats of some sort even for when you’re on your way home.

  • A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com
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    Yesterday, I discovered that the doctor supervising the nurses doing the vaccinations at the clinic near me is a bit of an anti-vaxxer who tried to talk me out of vaccinating my daughter for COVID-19 (never mind the ATAGI recommendation is that everyone over 5 years receive it, and lots of recent science shows a clear net benefit for children of all ages and comorbidities), and played down the benefits and played up the risks. And when I said we still wanted to do it, he said the nurse would call back when they confirm they still have the vaccine in stock - and then they said it was too late to do it that day and we had to reschedule for Thursday.

    It makes me sad that doctors get in the way of parents vaccinating their kids with vaccines that a committee of more specialised doctors than them have recommended every Australian over 5 should get. I wonder how many other parents he has done this to, not all of whom may have been such a strong advocate for their child as to push past the anti-vaxx nonsense coming from someone who should know better.

  • prime_factor@aussie.zone
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    They should make the Commonwealth Games like they do Eurovision. The winner has to host.

    But as no one wants to win, countries send the weirdest teams.

  • MisssDarylC@aussie.zone
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    I’ve decided to go at a semi normal time and ask for a ticket swap and if I don’t get it, no big deal, I tried. Lol. Either way, I’ll be seeing Lizzo a second time ❤️ if I can’t give her the bag, then I’ll keep it for myself and use it.

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      Nearly every UK or Aus content creator I follow gets comments from Americans telling them “that’s not how you spell [insert word with UK spelling here]”. And at work we work with a US based web dev and he has gone through our website builds and mock ups before and “corrected” the spelling because it was “wrong”.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    I’ve decided to take a day off on Friday for some self care and to have a long weekend.

    Part of it is because there’s no public holidays till next term and maybe the weather has been making it harder for getting up but a long weekend sounds like a good idea for me this week.

    Not sure what I’ll do, with my tax return coming I thought I might treat myself to something.

  • bull⚡@aussie.zone
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    In the office today. I’ve caught up on all of my outstanding work and it doesn’t look like I’ll be starting any new work until after my holiday so this will be a masterclass in looking busy.

    video is of a cat looking very busy mashing a laptop keyboard

  • Pilk@aussie.zone
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    Reading through the yes and no case pamphlets for the referendum this year.

    The no case is shorter, but, unlike the yes case, it includes web links for further reading. Seems like a bit of an oversight for the yes case committee… or some kind of strategic choice I’d be interested to hear the justification for.

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      this whole thing is torturous, like pulling off a Band-Aid slowly. For the love of god call the vote and lets get it done. I’m pretty confident we all KNOW the right answer here, but the longer this drags out the less confident I am that the right answer is gonna get the votes it needs. Leaving it till October just lets Murdoch spin up more fear and hate.

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        Yeah I suspect Gov are hoping that waiting till the end of the year will give the right-wing windbags time to run out of fear-mongering steam, not sure if it’ll work. It’d be nice if the debate was a bit less emotive by then.

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          It wont work. It gives them more time to sow fear and disinformation. What we NEED is decisive leadership.

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      I’m surprised the No pamphlet was allowed to include those three links…surely that’s just a sneaky way for them to circumvent the 2000 word limit?

    • Hongohones@aussie.zone
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      I decided to vote yes ages ago, my old neighbours are first nations people from Alice. So I’m just not reading any of it. I agree, get it done. Them and some of their family members were for it.

      It’s gross that the no camp are trying to reach the old no camp from the same sex marriage plebiscite. Calling all bigots and colonialists, vote no. ffs. It’s also ridiculous that they can’t be held to account for misinformation.

    • TassieTosser@aussie.zone
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      I’m hard set on voting yes but damnit, the no campaign has a catchier slogan. Why couldn’t yes have at least made it rhyme.