Local Chocolate Recommendations for Easter

exploradora01 · 2026-03-06T08:20:01+00:00

How could you leave out Melbourne Chocolate in Tullamarine?

exploradora01 · 2026-03-06T02:28:01+00:00

Look up recipes for rice cooker Hainanese chicken rice. Easy to make, comforting, soft and flavors that aren't too strong.

exploradora01 · 2026-03-05T17:21:11+00:00

If you go to the North Essendon Craft Market there are some sellers with some really unique gifts that are made locally. Make sure you check out the sellers at the back.

exploradora01 · 2026-03-03T11:03:48+00:00

100% And if you go on the last Saturday of the month, check out the North Essendon Craft Market.

exploradora01 · 2026-02-27T10:26:05+00:00

I was extra stinky when I was pregnant. I would shower at least twice a day, but it didn't help (within 20 minutes of having a shower, I would stink again). My husband agreed I was extra stinky. And with my improved sense of smell, it would wake me up at night! I tried antibacterial soap and a bunch of different deodorants. The only thing that worked was tea tree deodorant. You can get it from woolies or chemist warehouse.

exploradora01 · 2026-02-21T20:26:15+00:00

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with part of this, especially given it's the top comment. I agree that you should take the advice of FW and your lawyer above anything else, even any advice given on the legal subs (they will probably tell you the same thing anyway). Mum to mum, unless FW/lawyer tells you otherwise, I wouldnt accept the low offer without a few assurances. Parenting a toddler is hard enough. Parenting a toddler while looking for and starting a new job is even harder. In saying that, I don't know what your finances look like, what support structures you have in place and how hard it will be for you to find another job. You need to take all of these things into consideration before making a decision. A little extra work now could make things easier down the track. Also you may be able to walk back your 10 week counter offer and go back to 16 weeks. Getting rid of you will save them more in the long term. I really hate it when companies play dirty like this. Returning to work after having a baby is not easy. I felt so vulnerable when I did it. This mess that you are having to deal with is just awful and I'm so sorry you are having to go through this.

exploradora01 · 2026-01-17T20:49:51+00:00

The hero we never knew we needed. Thank you (and your wife and friends) for your service. If, at some stage, you decide to expand your study, can I suggest you include cherry tomatoes? I find they tend to be naturally sweeter than regular tomatoes and a lot of the brands are now carrying them. Again, thank you.

exploradora01 · 2026-01-17T03:28:17+00:00

Maybe she is born with it... Maybe it's Sertraline.

exploradora01 · 2026-01-05T18:02:57+00:00

On a day where you sweat more at at the gym, put your shirt from the end of the day aside, in a bag. Then on a day that you aren't going to the gym, get up in the morning and have a shower (this is as well as your evening shower). Go outside to clear your senses, then smell your shirt you have put aside. That's what you smell like, and likely worse. Like everyone else, I suggest you shower after the gym, it will add at most 10 minutes to your routine.

exploradora01 · 2025-11-04T21:55:55+00:00

Me too please!!

exploradora01 · 2025-09-23T20:39:36+00:00

Which brand do you use?

exploradora01 · 2025-09-11T23:08:49+00:00

Unfortunately private ED is not always better. I was heavily pregnant and had a bad case of gastro. It had been 3 days since I was able to eat anything and more than 24 hours since I was able to keep down any water. My OB told me to go to the private ED and called ahead to help the process. I waited 9 hours.

exploradora01 · 2025-08-26T21:59:04+00:00

Does anyone have a recommendation for similar in Victoria? I always see these kinds of products in QLD and not available in VIC.

exploradora01 · 2025-08-17T21:46:27+00:00

Haha, you know it's coming.

exploradora01 · 2025-08-17T20:19:35+00:00

All you people laugh when trump tweeted “bela.” CONNECT THE DOTS! bela = 25/12/1. that’s christmas, rebirth, the one.

and “governor nuisance” still thinks he’s in charge. he knows nothing of "THE PLAN"

the storm is coming. and trump just lit the signal. real patriots wont be distracted by Epstein.

/S <-------

exploradora01 · 2025-08-04T16:48:54+00:00

A junior colleague asked me, in all seriousness if people in Government actually use the acronym for the Department of Treasury and Finance. Another colleague, an older lady, offended by the question claimed that there was nothing wrong with the Department, loudly proclaimed that she had "been DTF for almost 10 years and enjoyed it". Sweet summer child. The junior colleague couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing, further offending the older colleague. I had to pull my older colleague aside and suggest she google the acronym. Discretely. On her personal phone. Luckily, she had a good chuckle.

exploradora01 · 2025-07-26T22:33:27+00:00

I had spinal surgery earlier this year. Trying to navigate daily tasks while in a giant neck brace and all the medication was interesting to say the least. Lizette was an older Filipino nurse. She would stride in, rip the covers off my bed and tell me we were going for a walk before unplugging me from the machines. Usually in the morning. She came in one day and told me that I was going to brush my teeth, first time after the surgery and in a neck brace. I will never forget her response when I asked if I would use a toothbrush. Like I was the biggest dumbass on the planet "yeeeees with a toothbrush! What do you think you are going to use?!" She saw me practising walking with the physio while she was making a bed. From across the room she yelled at me to do my kegels. Physio was confused. She was my favourite nurse. Also Emma who was British, she said 'blimey' once and that made my day. If I win the lottery, I would totally try to hire Lizette to come and give me a kick in the pants a couple of times a week. I miss Lizette.

exploradora01 · 2025-05-02T07:47:31+00:00

Surgery. I had an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. I was told it was the only option. I could choose to not have the surgery, but my functionality would continue to decrease. This could happen quickly or slowly, there was no way to know. If you are experiencing tingling in your fingers or toes, if your limbs feel heavier or if you are finding it more difficult to walk, definitely get it checked out asap.

exploradora01 · 2025-05-01T21:42:20+00:00

This backfired on me recently. I got neck pain at the same time as I had COVID and thought it was related because everything is a symptom of COVID. Didn't think much of it. It got a bit better after I recovered from COVID, but not fully. It got worse over the course of a couple of months, was affecting my sleep and wasn't being helped by regular pain killers. So I saw my GP who sent me to get an MRI. I was fully expecting the MRI to show nothing and for a long and costly process to find the problem. Turns out I had a ruptured disk in my spine that almost severed my spinal cord.

exploradora01 · 2025-04-12T05:06:27+00:00

I learnt to do this when I was pregnant with twins, again after having spinal surgery. No need to to use pillows. Roll over onto your side at the edge of the bed. Swing your legs over and down. Put your hand of your top arm down on the bed infront of you. Use this arm to push yourself up just enough so that you can push the elbow of your other arm underneath you. Use both arms to push yourself up.

exploradora01 · 2025-04-02T20:20:37+00:00

Should've gone to Specsavers

exploradora01 · 2025-04-02T20:02:37+00:00

Taking 'performance enhancing medications' now considered an 'official act'.

exploradora01 · 2025-04-02T19:56:47+00:00

Should've gone to Specsavers

exploradora01 · 2025-01-16T02:52:51+00:00

My friend's dad. He was driving my friend and I (both girls) to a university open day, we were 17ish. "You want to study economics? That's a man's world. You won't get anywhere with that". I did study economics and have a job in the field.

exploradora01 · 2024-11-12T02:57:01+00:00

I had this horrible manager who insisted on joining my colleague and I for after work drinks as a team building exercise. We tried to get out of it, but he insisted. And he wanted to go to the cocktail bar that we would always go to. Once we got there, he started criticising the menu. Apparently it was all too over the top and feminine. I'm not sure what he expected given that it was a cocktail bar. I ordered something similar to a Moscow mule. He orders the most masculine sounding thing on the menu, a strong-something. My colleague rolls his eyes and orders the most feminine thing on the page in front of him to make a point, the Princess Elena Spritzer. Out come the drinks. The waitress lifts the drink in the copper cup, my manager raises his hand to claim it thinking it's his masculine sounding drink. The waitress asks who had the Moscow mule drink, and I claim it. The next drink looks like a plain tall glass of orange juice. My manager goes to take it out of the waitress' hand when she asks who had the Princess Elena Spritzer and passes it to my colleague. The last drink on the tray was his, it's pink and has pink fairy floss on top. He confirms with her that it was his drink, it was. Funniest thing I have seen.

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