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@catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
Oh and when you’re down in Devon be sure to catch up with @Victor-Meldrew he”s not far away 😁
Yeah, but only if he knows how to put the jam on his scones.
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@victor-meldrew said in Happiness Scale:
@catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
Oh and when you’re down in Devon be sure to catch up with @Victor-Meldrew he”s not far away 😁
Yeah, but only if he knows how to put the jam on his scones.
Unlikely.
Edit: one of us will judge him harshly.
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Pre Season training starts tonight so thats something to be happy about!
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@kiwiwomble was it you that popped your knee last year? Be careful. Don't be dumb like the rest of us old fluffybunnies.
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@crazy-horse it was me....have decided there is a big difference between STILL playing at 40 and trying to taking it back up and 40, am just managing the 2's, might do some of the conditioning stuff later in the season as its bloody good work out
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@victor-meldrew said in Happiness Scale:
@catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
Oh and when you’re down in Devon be sure to catch up with @Victor-Meldrew he”s not far away 😁
Yeah, but only if he knows how to put the jam on his scones.
Euphemism?
Regardless, it’s unlikely I’ll know it.
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fuck holidays are important. Pretty sure in this very thread you will find a post from me in June last year about how calm and centered i felt after a week in the outback. fast forward to December and i had lost my fucking mind
Once again a couple of weeks unplugged and i feel fucking great.
We've optimistically booked Fiji for April with the kids. Barossa in June sans kids. Nothing too outrageous, both hopefully doable.
We found a part of Hobart both Mrs Mariner and i would have loooved to live. We had consumed a pint or 3 each, so we looked for jobs (well, hers is easy) and found a house. Kids weren't so keen. And when i sobered up i remembered winter in Wellington... but the serious part was i said we needed to be open to opportunity. if something comes up, we can't be afraid to give it a lash.
Easier said than done obviously, but...
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@mariner4life where abouts in Hobart by the way? we were very close to moving late last year but in the end just didn't know enough about what life would be like to make the call
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@kiwiwomble said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life where abouts in Hobart by the way? we were very close to moving late last year but in the end just didn't know enough about what life would be like to make the call
Battery Point is amazing
But i hope your wife makes good coin... -
@mariner4life ok yeah, we did like the looks of being so close, but even money aside its real small and there just weren't many places to buy or rent
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@majorrage said in Happiness Scale:
@victor-meldrew said in Happiness Scale:
@catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
Oh and when you’re down in Devon be sure to catch up with @Victor-Meldrew he”s not far away 😁
Yeah, but only if he knows how to put the jam on his scones.
Euphemism?
Regardless, it’s unlikely I’ll know it.
Big debate between Devon and Cornwall on whether it's jam then clotted cream on scones or the other way around when you have cream teas...
Pleased you've got your plans for 2022 sorted. We're on hold - again - which is seriously pissing me off. That, coupled with my irrational but deep hatred of January and February, has put me in a bit of a shit place. Know what I need to do to get out of it, but can't be arsed. It will pass.
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people who put the jam above the cream are an abomination in the eyes of the lord, and should be driven from the face of the earth with fire and fury
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@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
but the serious part was i said we needed to be open to opportunity. if something comes up, we can't be afraid to give it a lash.
Easier said than done obviously, but...Fuck yes. All of this.
I looked in every real estate window I could find around Nelson Bay and came to one conclusion: the average house price in my current suburb means I could sell up here and be mortgage-free there. Wife could find work in healthcare pretty much anywhere and I could be a kept man.
Or just work the occasional contract remotely. Whatevs.
The only thing keeping me in situ is kids finishing High School (2025) and mother-in-law not yet dead from dementia complications (202?)
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@crazy-horse said in Happiness Scale:
I think the last couple of years have been harder for me because, like others have said, travel is something that I used to keep me sane.
I am in danger of wishing my life away. I can't wait for the shift to end, I can't wait for my days off, I can't wait to retire...Eight years is an awfully long time to feel like that, even if there's light at the end of the tunnel this year in terms of pre-covid normalcy.
The suggestions to pivot into something else is a good idea IMO. I've done career changes and at various points in my life implemented a work-life balance of work until the job is done and then take time off. Hence big pressure project work appealed to me. The last couple of years has seen that morph into investing less emotionally in my work. An approach I callously describe as IDGAF when professionally I do care, but not to the detriment of my health and sanity. Watching arbitrary deadlines slide by has been cathartic as has new employers/ industries.
I'd say care less about getting to the end and more about enjoying the now - you never know what's going to happen. A great quote I have: The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
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@antipodean said in Happiness Scale:
. A great quote I have: The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
Wish Mrs TA would adhere to that. She scurries around doing her job like she's under performance review. Even when she's a high achiever in her role.
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I'm probably due an update here given I started this thread in Dec-20 - but I'm on a shitty wifi and my fingers can't tap on the phone well, so it'll have to wait a few days. But it's super interesting to skip back to the top of the the thread and see how people have/haven't changed over a 2nd very strange year.
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@nta said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
but the serious part was i said we needed to be open to opportunity. if something comes up, we can't be afraid to give it a lash.
Easier said than done obviously, but...Fuck yes. All of this.
I looked in every real estate window I could find around Nelson Bay and came to one conclusion: the average house price in my current suburb means I could sell up here and be mortgage-free there. Wife could find work in healthcare pretty much anywhere and I could be a kept man.
Or just work the occasional contract remotely. Whatevs.
The only thing keeping me in situ is kids finishing High School (2025) and mother-in-law not yet dead from dementia complications (202?)
We look at RE everywhere we holiday, but will never leave Sydney I reckon. 3 things:
- friends and family, very important to my wife
- kids school (same as NTA), wouldn't leave until they'd finished so that's another 10yrs
- it's a one way ticket if you sell out of Sydney
The 3rd one is probably the main one for me. Knowing that once you leave the Sydney property market, you ain't coming back unless you invest extremely well. That's all well and good if you have somewhere puking you (like friends who have returned to NZ). But for a sea/tree change, I would be seriously nervous about it.
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@nta said in Happiness Scale:
Wish Mrs TA would adhere to that. She scurries around doing her job like she's under performance review. Even when she's a high achiever in her role.
that attitude is often why people are successful, and it's damn hard to leave behind. Habits are deeply deeply ingrained in folk
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@nta said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
but the serious part was i said we needed to be open to opportunity. if something comes up, we can't be afraid to give it a lash.
Easier said than done obviously, but...Fuck yes. All of this.
I looked in every real estate window I could find around Nelson Bay and came to one conclusion: the average house price in my current suburb means I could sell up here and be mortgage-free there. Wife could find work in healthcare pretty much anywhere and I could be a kept man.
Or just work the occasional contract remotely. Whatevs.
The only thing keeping me in situ is kids finishing High School (2025) and mother-in-law not yet dead from dementia complications (202?)
We look at RE everywhere we holiday, but will never leave Sydney I reckon. 3 things:
- friends and family, very important to my wife
- kids school (same as NTA), wouldn't leave until they'd finished so that's another 10yrs
> - it's a one way ticket if you sell out of Sydney
The 3rd one is probably the main one for me. Knowing that once you leave the Sydney property market, you ain't coming back unless you invest extremely well. That's all well and good if you have somewhere puking you (like friends who have returned to NZ). But for a sea/tree change, I would be seriously nervous about it.
we very much had this as a concern when thinking about Tassie, only way we could reconcile with it was planning to keep our melbourne place and rent in Tassie, just look at it as an adventure/opportunity for 1-2 years and re assess
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