#I moved to australia

[astuteobservations]

looked at the ig of an ex friend (mistake) and felt a mix of happiness chagrin sadness anger, rage.......

[bethanydelleman]

My paternal grandmother's parents wanted her to never leave home and take care of them in their old age. She went to nursing school and got a job against their wishes. They didn't want her to marry, but she started dating my grandfather anyway (they met after he came back from a date with her younger sister). She got pregnant, told my grandfather he had three months to decide what to do or she was raising the baby alone. In the 1950s. They got married and immediately moved to Canada to get away from her family. She was a stay-at-home mom for most of her life and had eight children.

I didn't know until I was an adult how much of a bad-ass she was; she was "just" the grandma who taught me how to knit, made delicious cookies, and used to repair my favourite dolls.

[sergle]

thank you!! also unrelated complaint about etsy but they keep beating my ass about international shipping bc I'm doing it The Cheap Way instead of the $15 tracking label way... bc asking someone to pay $10 - $20 tracking on a $3.50 sticker order more or less just completely turns them away but there's a real possibility that i'll end up having to change things back to the normal way of shipping for international orders

[peninsulaisms]

Somerville <3

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

saw 'from the river to the sea' graffiti yesterday

[mumintroll]

my sisters long term life plan is to open a restaurant w her boyfriend (hes a professional chef & shes been a bartender and then assistant managed a restaurant/bar for years) and hire ME as their in house baker for bread and desserts i hope it comes true bc othrrwise i may be unemployed forever

[savage-rhi]

Fuchgenta??

[altraviolet]

Hi I'm the anon from before who wanted to say thank you for your prose analysis.

I just wanted you and everyone to know that I went to the uni that the olympic breakdancer raygun teaches at and she was in charge of quite a few of my units... so I guess time has provided a pretty succinct way of demonstrating what a letdown my degree has been-

Ultra Violet orz save us from tertiary education wankerage and blinding narcissism

LOL

LOL

oh my god xD

thank you so much for this message, anon xD

ETA link to anon's original message

[mariocki]

Donald Sutherland guest stars as the appropriately named Philip Guest, a less appropriately unbalanced kidnapper, in Gideon's Way: The Millionaire's Daughter (1.21, ITC, 1966)

[ysabelmystic]

My search history over the last 2 hours:

-guns for self defense beginner

-smith and Wesson guns

-how to renew pistol license in [southern state]

-how to renew pistol license in [name] county

-do you need a license to purchase gun in [southern state]

-do you need a license to conceal carry in [southern state]

-immigrate to Australia from US

-immigrate Australia to US nursing

-cost of living Australia

-can I buy a gun in Australia

-is it legal to kill kangaroos in Australia

[rosicheeks]

🙃

[peninsulaisms]

Mount Martha, the Mornington Peninsula

[neon-d0rk]

Forza Ferrari!!!

[tedlebred]

are you british...

ph god oh fuck oh ph UHMMM

WELL. I’m not British. I’m Australian actually mate🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

but i unfortunately live in England + sound British . So. I still consider that a British L

[divinekangaroo]

What is the no makeup skincare routine of Alicia Keys?

So, after much erosion of time and memory, these are the parts I kept (with equivalent products):

Avene Eau Thermale Thermal Spring Water spray (keep in fridge, spray) (highly highly recommend. transforming. if nothing else this product changed me. I genuinely Do Not Understand Why but I try not to question it.)

Jade roller (keep in fridge) and add Vitamin C serum with caffeine (couple drops over roller, roll over face) -> the oil I get? but personally I think the jade roller thing is bullshit. Nevertheless, what it *makes* me do is a ritualistic ~paying attention~ to all parts of my face when otherwise I would just blob, swipe, go. And so it works because the roller means I moisturise every part equally instead of just putting a blob of oil on a cheekbone and walking away with a shiny nose and dry spots on the cheeks

Moisturiser base - Alicia's makeup artist's recommended one (a suncream) stopped being made a few years ago, the equivalent I found which gives same results (but not suncream) is Moo Goo's Natural Fast Hydrating Lotion, which has the benefit of also being a full body moisturiser so, less product on shelf = always a win

Add a tiny bit of primer or foundation to the moisturiser base, mix on hand before spreading on face. Again, Alicia's primer not available any more, the equivalents I found is 1) La Roche Posay Effaclar Duo, or 2) my current preferred-> Primp and Prime from The Organic Skin Company

Exfoliate lips once a week, brown sugar

Some mask thing once a week (I used to bother, no more, vague memories of it, no material difference)

A La Roche-Posay lip balm which I tried to google and found it was just discontinued? SOB (literally the only lip balm I have found in my entire life that delivers lastingly non-dry lips. I have this in bulk in my wardrobe. My lips crack to the bleeding. I've had friends say, "oh, but dry bleeding lips are just your aesthetic?" This stopped once I found this product. I can actually wear lipstick if I want without the colour leaching into the cracks like those cracked desert terrain images)

Do peripheral details because they will stand out:

-Do eyebrows once a week, tidy stray hairs

-Do hairline once a week (depends on ethnicity/hairline, mine does filter down into the face-space)

-Use eyelash curler

and lastly, the "no makeup" bit I did have to laugh at and I don't do:

Actually *wear* makeup for the red carpet, comprising tinted primer, mascara, tiny bit of eyeliner, light eyebrow pencil shaping, transculent shiny stuff rubbed on cheekbones, and a very carefully selected concealer for the under eye bags and general real world pigmentation which exists on all skin

The only thing I've added based on other reading, which I also attribute to the aggregate contributing of fixing my previous 25 years plus of weekly skin problems and pimples:

Shave my face once a week using the Avene spray as my shaving 'liquid'. Chin, cheeks, moustache, around eyebrows, monobrow, hairline, all of it. Unspeakably good results. Tiny small facial razor. Razor goes over each piece of skin exactly once, slowly, and use a very very sharp razor so there is no repeated strokes.

(The Avene spray, jade roller + serum, and the strategy of adding teh primer/foundation to the moisturiser to thin it out/improve spread were the true original items IIRC; the rest have adapted over time.)

[mugs-n-cans]

you never shared your thoughts on wolf creek 2!

-⚡

Sniper: Right. Bloody xenophobic piece a work, eh? What’s up with that? Bloke doesn’t even play fair.

Scout: He was a lot less intimidatin’ in the second one. He was kinda just a jackass. But like, yeah it was definitely more freakin’ gory. Also, Snipes is it really like that drivin’ through Australia? All those freakin’ kangaroos?

Sniper: Er, yeah it can be a problem sometimes. One busted the windshield of my camper when I was bloody parked.

Scout: And I thought ‘roo’ was supposed to be a cute nickname…

Sniper chuckles: Nah yeah, they can be real buggers. But er…I like ‘em more than probably most people.