silly old moo :)

an older she/her Aussie person not interested in whatever you were about to suggest 😎 more in pinned post

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Straight up asking me for money gets you blocked.

I don't care how good the cause or how dire your situation, if you do this I block you on sight!

However, you believe I've donated to you before and you still need help, dm me starting with "My paypal name is ____ and I think you gave me $__ before." (I only donate over paypal so if you don't use that, do not message me please!)

New pinned 😎 16/11/2025

🔹 I'm well into adulthood and I have a fully-grown kid (she/her), of whom I'm super proud.

🔹 Cows are my fav animal. If you need a name for me you can use ubermoo or just moo. Ich habe Deutsch in die Schule gelernt, seit zehn Jahren, so I've been aware of and using the word uber since long before ride sharing apps were a thing. Also, I've been using 'ubermoo' elsewhere online for over 20 years (I'm not claiming to be the only person to do so, ofc).

🔹 I've been online for nearly 30 years now. I worked with computers for many years and have freelanced as a website designer/coder/troubleshooter. I still dream about DOS prompts sometimes.

🔹 I made this account in April 2024 to follow one person, not thinking I'd use it for much else. I've been here a few times before over the years but never stuck with it. This time however I've found heaps that interests me, so while this lasts I'm on a lot (couple of times a day at least).

🔹 I reblog to @reblogsbycow and post dreams sometimes in @dreamlogbycow

🔹 In case it's not clear from my bio or header pic, I'm Australian (also caucasian, Anglo & European heritage). I live in a part of the east coast which is GMT+1100 October through March.

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Yesterday I did something I haven't done in more than ten years - went into town (on my way home from an appointment, mind you, cos I never have the energy to go specially) and wandered around for a couple of hours.

Main reason I haven't done it for so long was the ghastly change made to bus routes in 2015 when they started constructing the light rail (aka trams). This completely screwed with all my travel routines and meant lots of annoying faffing about to get where I wanted to go, so I just stopped going.

I'm sad that so many things have changed so drastically and that many places I used to love are now unrecognisable to the point where some barely have any appeal now. Eh, "progress," I know. But it bugs me.

One of the things I've been meaning to do is go to Dymocks (bookshop & stationery chain) and browse the stationery at leisure.

Well. At least it was still there, but I was bitterly disappointed because it's nowhere near as good as it used to be. Like barely 25% of the floorspace and a pretty paltry range of products. Used to be a massive long section of pens and pencils - not there any more! Very few pens at all, in fact, apart from cheap novelty ones and crazy expensive ones.

I did get a small grid-line notebook and a cute glasses case, and was tempted by some of the Palm Pals, but I have so many plushies already I made myself put them back.

Sat outside for a while then went to a specialist stationers and splurged on a stone paper notebook and a decent cartridge pen (my last one died a while back and I miss the smoothness of writing with a calligraphy nib).

Then I staggered off to find a food court and had a sensible salad.

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Something I say a lot (even when I'm alone) -- "Please do not annoy the cow, she's quite capable of doing it herself!"

New variation -- "Do not encrankenate the cow."

Cos why say something simply when you can be a lil creative? 🤭

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Just love how I order something that delivers by Australia Post but the vendor won't accept a PO box address so I put a friend's address (cos I am going deaf and do not hear the alleged "knocks twice" they profess to do, resulting in my packages being taken not to my nearest post office but to one that's totally out of my way in a shopping centre that I hate) and then get a notification they couldn't deliver, meaning they couldn't be arsed going up three flights of stairs. So now I will have to wait til at least Saturday for my item (because friend won't be able to get to their post office til then).

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After a few years without, yogurberry is back in my area. It's in competition with the very popular yo-chi tho, so I don't know how well it will do.

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Suddenly realising both my parents died 3 weeks and 3 days before their respective birthdays (tho 29 years apart - dad was 92, mum was 98). What are the odds?? 👀

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Ran into my fav (elderly) neighbour earlier. She asked something about my mum, requiring me to use the word "died" in response. I have told her before but given her age I don't expect her to remember, but it's awkward cos then she feels bad for forgetting.

Mum always used to say she found it ridiculous people avoided saying "so-and-so died," instead choosing euphemisms like "passed," and at the time I agreed. Since her demise, however, I also avoid saying died, unless I really have to.

It's been two years (as of last month) and I'm in a hole, emotionally.

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The reblog change probably won't affect me directly cos my original content is rarely reblogged but I can understand why it's an unwanted change for most. Enshittification encroaches everywhere, huh 😞

There's really nowhere else I could go, so I'll be here indefinitely. Moots feel free to dm for my discord, tho I don't use it a whole lot.

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30 years ago today I took a train to the beach, ran into someone I used to vaguely know, and got a tattoo. It wasn't my first, but it was the first to mark the passing of a loved one. It's so badly blown out/blurred now it's almost impossible to tell what it is, unless you know.

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Everything is too bright tonight 😞

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Bday present from my kid 💜🐮💜

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There's a house gecko living in my kitchen (for a couple of months now). I'm delighted to have it. Even if it's not actively eating bugs, perhaps it's at least kinda scaring them off. I do hope it gets enough to eat, tho. I see it sometimes at night on my way thru to the bathroom. Then I apologise for blinding it and turn the light off again.

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This is uncharitable of me, but earlier I was looking thru fb profiles of people I was at high school with and it's comforting to see that some who used to be very pretty girls are now as plain and haggard as me. Not schadenfreude exactly, but vaguely in that direction?

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yooo i just wanna say moot your pfp is wonderful :]]] that cow always brightens my day

She is an endearing little thing, hey. 🙂 I'm so pleased you like her! 🐮💜

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A friend telling me about the windoze error where the shutdown process didn't exclude itself from running processes and therefore wouldn't allow shutdown reminded me of this snippet in one of my diary entries from last year.

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My first smartphone 😊

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When I was 7 or 8 I had a phase of being fascinated by my mum's earlobes. She wore clip-on earrings and I always expected to find a thinner patch of skin where they'd been pressing.

I got my ears pierced at age 15 or 16 but they kept getting infected and after a while I gave up. I got them pierced twice more each tho I don't remember when. I have small earlobes and there wasn't much space between the piercings.

For years I wore two sets of studs. Occasionally I'd wear small hoops. For a party or special outing I might wear something fancier, but my skin didn't tolerate anything less than surgical steel (studs) for very long.

Every now and then I'd lose one of the studs, usually because it got caught on something when I was getting changed and I didn't feel/notice it coming out until much later (then have no idea when or where I'd lost it). I liked my sets to match or at least be pairs and if I couldn't find a new set that matched the orphaned stud I'd have to find a completely new stone/type I liked.

Eventually, tho again I don't remember exactly when (sometime in the last 10+ years), I reverted to a single pair. Then late last year I took them out. Honestly? Can't be arsed any more. Keeping my piercings open no longer brings me any joy (despite having had the second and third ones for decades, any time I had the studs out for more than a day they'd start to close up).

And so I remembered how I used to (gently) rub my mum's earlobes between my fingers. Now I've somehow got in the habit of, I guess, using my left earlobe as a fidget toy 😅 Never had the slightest inclination to do that before so I don't know why, and it's not like I do anything else on that side of my head (no hair twirling), but anyway...

My left earlobe is now slightly longer and wider than the right one.

Hmmmmm.

Attached earlobes, btw. And for many years as a child I wanted the other sort and even contemplated having surgery to "fix" them. Mum's were attached, dad's I think were not.