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Daily Discussion Thread: 🤬 Sunday, September 15, 2024
Submitted 8 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Catfish@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Eagle@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Catfish@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Yes! I think additions will be necessary
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
They are very interesting.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 8 months ago
mental health stuff - working stuff out by writing....
I had a lovely day out with friends but struggled to get any enjoyment out of it, and to focus on the moment (very brainfoggy). Made me realise I’m further down the depression path then I thought. I’ve had a few big stressful things going on that have made me anxious and down. But it’s gone beyond external - haven’t felt this disconnected and …grey… for a long time. I came home and went straight to bed - just felt completely overwhelmed. Have managed to make dinner finally by putting on a podcast for company. And that’s rice and dal so I’ll get lunch out of it too. I need to plan out my work week - it’s busy and I like to get ahead of it on sunday but I’m just burned. No I can’t realistically take a mental health day or three right now either (for reasons, trust me) So. this week I will: * Eat breakfast and lunch and at least a light dinner. I can boil an egg if needed * Sleep by 10pm and I will be out of bed by 6:30. If I can, go for a walk. If not, just stand outside for a few moments. * keep cutting back on sugar and lay off the alcohol for the week - neither help * Take meds and add in a multivitamin (I have a half a container I bought when I was getting over the flu). god, that sounds exhausting. And I need to realise it is exhausting - so I will use my ‘spoons’ for food, washing, sleeping, moving. And the work I have to do. That’s going to be it this week. I’m going to post here to try to keep track. Hopefully it’s just from stress/burnout and I can get back out of the hole with a couple of weeks of care.
Grackle@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I might join you… I’m pretty good with having breakfast/dinner after 20 years of being inconsistent with either. But I have a habit of coming home from work, eating dinner on the couch and then not moving from there until I go to bed. I have almost no friends in Melbourne so I spend my weekends doing much the same.
You’ve got this! 🙂
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
so many hugs
you can post here anytime, we are all here for you 😘
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Thanks mate.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Hopefully you have enough spoons to get back on track. I’m cheering you on!
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 8 months ago
❤️ having little sancuaries of friendliness on the internets makes a big difference. thanks
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Right there with you. Every small act of self care adds up
bacon@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I’m joining you with the getting up on time bit. I notice I’ve been feeling quite empty lately, most probably due to list of life events.
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Kooka’s Country Cookies are the best cookies. No other compares to the greatness of Kooka’s.
Pilk@aussie.zone 8 months ago
These taste best when acquired from your motel room’s complimentary coffee/tea bar.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Fully agree. Lemon is the bomb for me.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Yesss, love them. A packet of choc raspberry or lemon biscuits does not last even one day at my house lol
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
oh yes, they are very very delicious. I’m still not buying any.
Duenan@aussie.zone 8 months ago
The lemons one are nice. Think I’m going to buy done this week.
Eagle@aussie.zone 8 months ago
The lemon ones have me drooling like Homer Simpson.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 8 months ago
They are delicious. For some reason, in the rare occasion I stay in a motel they always seem to have them in the ‘tea & coffee’ box
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I hate when I come across shit like calculators. They still work, can’t give them away, can’t throw them out, already have 4 scientific calculators kicking around. I have no problem throwing broken shit out but when they still work I just can’t do it as easy.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 8 months ago
TI-83 plus represent.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I remember running some version of Mario bros on mine lol
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I still have my old calculator from years and years ago. It was really expensive at the time. I suppose it’s a keep sake in a way.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
How are we doing no snacks after dinner gang?
Remember it doesn’t have to go perfectly all the time. If you’re hungry eat. If not, leave those snacks for when you are hungry. You’ve got this!
Duenan@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Failed. I did it the other way around. Ate snacks then dinner.
Snack was half a block of dark chocolate.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
You did not fail because there is no pass or fail here. Get back on the horse because there is always a tomorrow.
bacon@aussie.zone 8 months ago
i’ve been doing snacks as dinner
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
You are very good at looking after everyone here no matter how weird their meal plans are. You make sure you look after you, ok.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Look not great, but when I saw your comment I put the block of chocolate away. Small steps.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I don’t what to say to that. A part of me is proud of you. A part of me is apologetic.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 8 months ago
After dinner no problem. It’s the mid afternoon snacks that are my downfall.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Are you snacking because you’re hungry or because you’re bored or out of habit?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I’ve been doing ok. No bad food snacks. Had a plain bun with coffee for afternoon tea.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
You’ve done good. Let’s hope for better weather so we can all get a bit more Vitamin Delirium and exercise.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Gentle house cleaning and chin tucks. Multivitamin.
I really need to start doing a small amount of dumbbell rows each day again, wtf is this posture
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Ooh, good idea, thank you.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I’m making kofta for dinner.
I can no longer tolerate tuna pasta. I can eat the same thing for months, but it does eventually get old lol
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Great ideas!
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Wrap the tuna in filo, bake and smother in lemon juice
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 8 months ago
We just went to the La Trobe market. You can’t best a good old school market with the guy at the fruit and vegetable stall constantly shouting
just_kitten@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Back home and defrosted after a lot of cold, cold, cold, and cold. It was good to have a solid weekend away and with different people doing stuff I never would’ve done myself, partly because it makes me redevelop an appreciation for being at home again. I definitely feel like I got away properly and cleared some of the cobwebs in my head.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 8 months ago
It was so cold this weekend. I reckon it’s nice to go away, because then you really appreciate coming home again (particularly if you’ve cleaned the house before you left)
just_kitten@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Absolutely! We all need a good reset every so often, I forget how to do this. And to your point I am SO glad I cleaned the house before I left, even though it was really tough to squeeze it in… Felt so luxe coming back to a tidy house, sparkling kitchen, clean floors, neat bed…
Pilk@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Trying to get used to Affinity products and getting a little frustrated. Adobe is the devil but boy-howdy do I know my way around those apps.
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Watching Spy but randomly skipping parts of the start because i want o love melissa mccarthy but there’s only so much ‘woman does stupid clumsy things and accepts being treated as lesser by overtly misogynistic farps’ i can stand before i try to leap through the tv and attack her and i’m already close to the limit because miranda hart is in this too. Also still running a fever so relaity is trnous.
Maybe i should watch llama face instead
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
relaity is trnous
This is the truth of the universe
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
So’s llama face
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I really hate that.
There’s either the one dimensional girlboss who’s basically a male action hero with boobs and anything less than that is to be aggressively looked down on… or there’s the bumbling Bridget Jones everywoman who’s supposed to be relatable.
Mix of strengths and weaknesses pls
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 8 months ago
The Melb city ebook library is a bit lacking. I’d love to get physical books but they are too heavy to carry home ( hot desk - have to bring my entire life back and forth)
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 8 months ago
oztrin@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Joining the Odd Sleep club - kept on stirring awake every hour or so, with weird dreams the last couple of times.
The one that did me in the end was dreaming I went to a once off client (I work in aged care) and first of all the car wouldn’t move and I was somehow blocking both lanes, then when I got there the client thought he was having heart problems and we agreed we’d wait and see what happened and yeah, if he wanted to finish his electronics project go for it, it’d soothe him whereas I know damned well from first aid training and personal experience that when in doubt you Call The Fucking Ambulance. So basically I couldn’t get back to sleep for going WTAF, plus the cats both using my shoulders as pillows.
Eventually got up and turned on the heater because my face was freezing - took a while for the cats to figure it out but now Zooks is on my lap on the couch. Sammi is probably being a mini-potat in the bedbacon@aussie.zone 8 months ago
🥶
bacon@aussie.zone 8 months ago
^awoo^
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Kofta is a success!
There’s my dinner for the next 4 nights. Fuck yeah!
bacon@aussie.zone 8 months ago
that’s a proper winter day
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I’m remembering how I was working hard on skincare and health before the lockdowns… it feels like I lost all that and now have to start again from the bottom.
Catfish@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Why am I awake?! 🤬
briongloid@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Modding Skyrim, looks like the 2021 Anniversary DLC is both necessary for a lot of mod lists and prohibitive on older mods.
Duenan@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Oh damn. Just woke up from a nap.
bacon@aussie.zone 8 months ago
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i should’ve gotten up two hours ago but now im up and that is good
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 8 months ago
(So I <3 you Mlem, but you keep crashing or not opening.)
I have returned on Voyager. It’s look on iPad is meh, but who am I to complain.
I also now have a dirty little secret. I finally tried CGPT today. It didn’t do the particular thing I wanted it to do, but it was interesting nonetheless. I’ve been reading some interesting comments on people replacing therapy with it and claims of better results with it and the image version than hired agencies. That’s a scary thought, but I guess it really highlights language and literal vs interpretation. Guess being a prompt engineer really is a thing.
Warning, strange dream stuff in a wall of text below.
In other wild news on the channel that is my brain. Holy hell. The dream/s I awoke from the morning I think just highlight some stress level at an all time high. My dream was such an insane jumble of scenarios saying out aloud was just so bizarre. I do get a lot of jump/cut scenes in my dreams. So that bit isn’t unusual.
- There was a nightclub with a warehouse that had a netball team (all of which were partially owned by moi). Then there were sneaky negotiations and no one was to be trusted because apparently other parties were trying to take it and just leave me with warehouse/netball team.
- There was a strange female older adult that I somehow knew who was sick (absolutely no idea who that might have represented) and needed regular massage treatment who knew about the bad things going on, but was an unreliable narrator.
- Then there was someone who was quasi-stalking the netball team. I caught them and it was a women who was making weird posters of the team members naked using photos. I snatched the poster and ran upstairs only to open it and find that I grabbed something else and it was a photo of me and someone else in my life and some weird mundane comments below. I close it and then open it and I can’t find the photo any more and I find it in some weird pocket of the poster. So so weird.
- I then leave and am walking a friend back to their home (it’s sunny outside and no idea who the friend is). I have expensive shoes on and an expensive bag that I know is the equivalent to something like Hermes and none of these items are my colours at all. As I leave their house, I slide down their short drive way because my soles are slippery and I fall over scraping the slightly bag. I check and it’s okay, but my shoes which are this weird pale buttercup yellow have some damage, but it’s not a scrape but some part of the sole need the heel that has become unglued. I get up and their cat runs out and attacks my shoes twice by digging their claws in. I tell my friend, but they’re like, the cat is just saying hello.
- Then there was a storm and I was at my home, but not my home. A tiny picture frame falls off the wall and the frame comes apart slightly, but it’s not broken. I want to fix and when I look out the window I can see the wild storm over the city, which is weird because the view is actually from a window at the house I grew up in. I see what looks like a hurricane in the distance behind the city line and birds flying like crazy overhead. I then see a firetruck and when I turn around to go the middle of the house that has large bifold doors that are open, two drenched couples turn up and I say, have you just been to the races because they’re all dressed up. I realise they’re airbnb’ing the house and I’m not supposed to be there. I tell them I’ll just grab my stuff. I fix the picture frame and hang it back on the wall and as I’m grabbing my stuff I go to my bedroom and it’s weird. It’s messy and for a moment I freak out because I think, ugh, have these people just slept in my bed without fresh sheets, but then I look again and realise there are fresh sheets on it.
Then I wake up.
So I used to tell these weird dreams to my friend when I was in primary and her father used to always say I was fibbing. LOL.
If I could ever write this stuff, I’d be a modern day Kafka. Hahahahah.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Dreams are messages from the deep.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Looks like the rain is over, and it’s going to be a glorious day. Might have to get out in the garden …
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Image
Shortly after I took this photo I said “hey, what are you upto chunky?”
And the incredibly angry meow I got back in return put me in my place lol
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
That’s a mini tiger in there 🐅