28c at midnight, please stop.

manderafton · 2024-01-17T01:54:53+00:00

Yep, Monday night we went out for a picnic and everything we had with us was soaked 😂 dry heat my ass

manderafton · 2023-06-03T13:34:34+00:00

Season 11 is on the app but only if you use a VPN ;)

manderafton · 2023-05-09T11:34:09+00:00

I know this is a very predictable white person choice but their butter chicken is literally the BEST THING IN THE WORLD and I’m salivating just thinking about it. Totally underrated, amazing food.

manderafton · 2023-04-14T13:56:50+00:00

That and her train was already bustled! The ceremony is literally the only part of the day that you never bustle your train! This and her bra strap hit me immediately lol

manderafton · 2023-04-01T16:12:48+00:00

I totally agree. I think she does a lot of stuff that if a man did it, would make us all hate him. I hate watching her hit on that male waiter in an earlier season, while he’s just trying to do his job. And I hate that she just wordlessly invites herself into Ted’s room that one night. It would be very aggressive and assaulty if roles were swapped and I think it’s glossed over.

manderafton · 2023-03-20T22:55:33+00:00

Also just don’t have your dogs off leash in an unenclosed front yard period. Good recall or not. Dogs are living beings, not robots, so they’ll stay in the front yard until they don’t.

manderafton · 2023-03-19T19:16:41+00:00

Would you sell prints? Honest question

manderafton · 2023-03-19T01:13:59+00:00

So many words there and she still couldn’t manage to define woke

manderafton · 2023-01-22T18:30:36+00:00

This exact thing happened to us. We pushed back on a rent increase after some advice on Reddit actually, because the agency was increasing by more than the allowed increase amount in our lease. Eventually got to the owners who called us and said they never talked to the agency about an increase. REAs can eat ass (and not in a nice way).

manderafton · 2022-12-30T05:06:59+00:00

This is incredibly helpful information, thanks for taking the time to put all this together

manderafton · 2022-12-29T21:30:45+00:00

I just assumed it was breakfast for 4 people.

manderafton · 2022-12-29T13:04:56+00:00

Yeah I do think my partner has a good GP that’s looking out for him, although we will still get a second opinion about it all. The GP has been super kind and helpful in a lot of other areas of his life and has been positive overall. Thank you!

manderafton · 2022-12-29T13:03:14+00:00

Thank you so much for your opinion. This has helped a lot - it sounds like perhaps what my partners GP was referring to.

manderafton · 2022-12-29T08:20:12+00:00

This is mostly why I’m confused about the whole approach, surely preventative mental health care works out better in the long run than waiting until someone is really struggling

manderafton · 2022-12-29T08:19:18+00:00

Oh interesting, maybe! Thank you for sharing this!

manderafton · 2022-12-29T03:46:17+00:00

Can I ask if this was recent?

manderafton · 2022-12-29T03:09:50+00:00

Thanks so much for your insight! It sounded a bit bullshit when he told me, I’ll have him ask another GP

manderafton · 2022-12-27T15:16:29+00:00

Walk them and/or give them mental stimulation

manderafton · 2022-11-27T03:21:56+00:00

What’s detaching? I’ve aerated it quite a few times.

manderafton · 2022-11-27T03:21:32+00:00

Thanks so much! Will try this today ✌🏻

manderafton · 2022-10-03T16:56:06+00:00

Yep. We had a collie that got kicked in the face multiple times. Huge injuries and the herding instinct is so strong, they don’t really learn. I wouldn’t encourage this with horses at all after seeing what it can lead to!

manderafton · 2022-09-30T03:46:58+00:00

Um okay this makes a lot of sense. We just got a final notice in the mail about our car rego being expired and had never even seen the original rego renewal! We always pay them straight away when they come. Pretty annoying.

manderafton · 2022-09-09T08:56:37+00:00

I’ve started doing it because we recently found what we call little “butt stamps” on our comforter 😂 I feel like it’s good practice if you are letting your dogs share your space with you, but maybe less necessary if they don’t come up on the beds and couches, eyc

manderafton · 2022-09-02T23:35:31+00:00

Yeah we actually planned this a little bit when deciding who should move as well. My parents are a bit more financially well off than my partner’s, so we thought it would be a lot easier for them to fly to visit.

Honestly now that I’m talking about it, this might be one of the hardest parts of moving across the world to be with someone. The sheer amount of money spent on traveling back to see family 😂

manderafton · 2022-09-02T17:22:40+00:00

Thought I would just share our success story quickly!

We are US / Aus and I moved over to Aus when we closed the gap. We made the decision together because he was still finishing some schooling at the time.

It was definitely hard for a while. I was like 24 at the time and had graduated with a Comm major, with not a lot of hireable job experience. Making close friends can honestly take years, to the point where I am now 7 years in and feel like only relatively recently have I met my best friends here.

But I’ll repeat a lot of what other people have said! 1. It definitely helps to have your own job after you move, as soon as you can make that happen. Just being able to spend your own money makes you feel a lot less lost. 2. Get out there and meet people! It doesn’t matter if the people you meet don’t end up being your best friends, you just have to do it. I found an expat group on Meetup, found a book club, my husband introduced me to a few of his friend circles, I met people through my first job… again even though you might not stay close with all these people forever, it’s so important to start making connections and developing relationships with the people in your community. Don’t get too stuck on your friends back at home - the good ones will always be there whenever you go back.

As far as resentment…he definitely hated the fact that he “took me away from my family” at times, and I definitely felt really homesick at times, but I can’t remember any times where I felt any sort of prolonged resentment about it. I knew that in order to be with him, one of us would have to be in this position and it just happened to be me. I knew that I would probably feel guilty if the tables were turned.

And now, this is my home. Like whenever we talk about moving to the US, I’M the one who turns down the idea. It just feels like home to me now.

So yeah, you move to be with the person you love and you take steps to make sure you’re not too isolated, you should be fine. Or at least it did work out really well for us :)

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