Submitted 5 weeks ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
My daughter’s back from her camping trip. 16 adults, kids and 4 dogs attended. She’s recounting her adventures.
Her: Oh and we played trivia
Me: Did you win?
Her: Yeah
Me: Did you whip their arses?
Her: Yeah. And one of the blokes was an ologist of some sort.
Me: Did you whip his arse?
Her: laughs Yeah
Me: That’s my girl.
Years of paying her to be an impromptu quiz master has paid off.
Cool. 🫠
Give him the BIGGEST cuddle for me, pleeeeeease!
Parents swung round bringing the gift of potat!
Threw some in the compost down the bellarine for a while and now there are heaps. Accidental potat!
Apparently that’s about half of them.
yum
I close my eyes and all I see is you,
A silhouette of all my nightmares coming true.
You throw your weight around on me,
Getting off on all the ways I’m suffocating.
So I sink into the bed and out of my mind,
As my heart skips the beat and falls out of time.
Does your girlfriend know about your three am DM to me?
Five years out from the fallout of your fuck around and find out?
She approve of you blaming me for the pain you caused me?
Does she know what you’ve done or have you spun her a new story;
A narrative that paints you plaintive in the face of great adversity,
With me standing in as the villain in your rewritten history?
I’ll tear you apart from head to heart to watch you bleed,
Get on your knees and let me hear you beg and plead,
Reenact that scene, reenact that scene for me:
The one where I was begging you to set me free.
I want to see what you saw when you carved me into your pawn,
But revenge is a dish that’s best served cold and raw,
Do it again and I’ll bring you pain you’ve never felt before,
Like when you choked me out with your father’s belt on the hardwood floor.
I close my eyes and all I see is you,
Standing over me, my nightmares coming true.
You throw your weight around on me,
Getting off on all the ways I’m suffocating.
So I sink into the bed and out of my mind,
As my heart skips the beat and I fall out of time.
Goodnight everyone, from fluffy butt and I ❤️
Things my former cat liked to sit on - clean laundry, dirty laundry, laptop bag, shopping bag on the floor, open suitcase, recently vacated-by-human spot on couch, a cardboard box
Things she didn’t like to sit on - cat tree, any cloth or blanket out down for her to sit on
She’s got a lovely coat pattern. Like the swirl on a marble loaf cake
She’s also symmetrical! I don’t notice till someone here pointed it out.
The best naps are when you don’t know where you are when you wake up.
And The Void just yeeted his bowl to smithereens
Had a nap from 3 to 8. But I’m still dissociating. A strange sense of doom looms over my head and has infiltrated my heart and my guts, I feel strange pangs in both.
Perhaps I’m just unwell, but when am I ever not unwell?
Also hugs. Is there a grounding thing you could do that might help?
hugs
Have you had enough potato today?
I’d love it if manufacturers would stop reformulating everything.
A lot of the “new and improved” stuff is actually worse, sometimes even causing bad reactions for me. I have a bad experience and stop buying.
Thank you so much for this warning. I have a tendency to rosacea and if I am not careful I get rosacea in my eyes, which can lead to corneal scarring. Cetaphil was a go to. Now I’m going to check all my cupboards for any I might still have and warn young Miss Seagoon too.
A good alternative is clearasil wash, get the one without much salicylic acid.
No problem, glad to have warned you.
I’m not exactly sure when the formulation changed (to be able to check by bottle date) but I burned my face on it at least one or two years ago. Complaining again because I’m revisiting my options.
I went to Neutrogena extra gentle cleanser but that’s now been changed into some foaming and creamy cleansers that I haven’t yet tried out.
Unfortunately I’m not able to use salicylic acid every day. If I use it it’s only once in a blue moon (because physical exfoliation is too rough) and as a drop or two of serum mixed into lotion to dilute it. (I’ll keep one bottle of a cheap brand like Beauty Glam or Kmart on hand - also good for rubbing under arms before antiperspirant.)
If anyone has sensitive skin and would like a heads up these were the other things I tried:
Cerave is good on my skin but you can’t buy it with your regular supermarket shop and while the lotion is lovely and hydrating it’s quite light and doesn’t have a lot of staying power so you can still get dry.
The tube of Cerave cream isn’t very moisturising, feels more like a really thick barrier cream that sits as a residue on your skin. Reviews say the same about the Cerave tubs which also contain niacinimide (can cause redness and soreness or breakouts) so I give the tubs a miss.
Ego Sunsense Daily Face SPF 50 varieties have also changed to include niacinimide so I stopped buying it. That had been a little oily/shiny but was the only high protection facial sunscreen I found that didn’t sting…
I used the Nivea SPF 15 moisturiser for many years as a teen and young adult but that recently began stinging after reformulation and then got discontinued. In hindsight I wish I had used something with higher protection.
I tend to dislike QV products in general with one exception. The foaming unscented QV wash is ok for body but stripping on face. I might use it in the shower if trying to remove sunscreen but for regular use, no.
Current routine: After finishing the cleanser bottle I kind of cracked the shits about the price of Cerave face wash and having to go out of my way to buy it so have just been rinsing my face with water or a quick wash with very diluted Balnea sorbolene soap in the shower… kind of stripping but oh well.
I tried the Dove sensitive beauty bar on my face at the sink but it’s unexpectedly drying and can sting if I’m not careful.
I’m still using the Cerave lotion but having to top it off with an unscented body lotion to seal the hydration in (Vaseline brand) because it’s so very light.
For sunscreen I was using Olay SPF 30 Sensitive which was tolerable and not greasy but could be a bit stinging and thick to wash off.
Now I use Neutrogena SPF 15 moisturiser which is fine but nowhere near the level of sun protection I want. I keep the little pump bottle of Olay in my bag as a backup.
Listening to the rain outside. It’s so romantic.
I love the rain
The exhaustion is hitting me haaaard again, slept til 11am, then had a slow breakfast, followed by going to three shops for groceries… then just sat in my car and snoozed for another hour. That’s bad, I normally chill in my car on my phone but have never actually slept in it.
Still haven’t done my readings either… But I made food?
Tonight it’s khichuri (the lentil-and-rice origin of kedgeree without fish in it) in the rice cooker, with mung dal as the lentil, and my first attempt at vegetable korma (thickened with coconut milk and cashews blended). Wish I remembered to buy frozen peas to really add to it.
Not a bad dinner if I say so myself esp with some super intense lime pickle to cut through ot all. Gonna freeze some of the excess korma for a nice dinner later on.
After visiting my aunt I feel inspired to get an Instant Pot to make this dish (and many others) more quickly…
I bought an instant pot for myself for Christmas and it’s fantastic. I cook a lot of lentils, it’s great for rice,.I make yoghurt in it. The best bit is that you can pop everything in and forget about it until it tells you it’s done. One less thing to watch when my energy is low.
For real, lentils and beans are a big part of my diet - being able to pressure cook without faffing around on the stove or worrying about things exploding is tempting (finally I can have a crack at making dal makhani). And as you say, SET AND FORGET - huge reason why I use a rice cooker. Being able to do pilafs and the like in the instant pot is very tempting…
the 20min nap took just 3 hours
Could have been worse.
That is a small but I can do family size.
That looks sooooooooo gooooood I need it!!
It was really really good. I used chilli sardines that’s why there’s no chilli sauce on there and I ate it with cucumber for crunch.
I reckon it would work with mash potato or mash sweet potato too.
Dogsitting Milo for the afternoon. He goes to work tomorrow, so today is all about telling him he’s a good boy
So many cats! Does everyone have the predawn zoomies?
Here’s a Maggie to balance out the cats. It spent all yesterday in my backyard, just chilling
Thank you for the picture of the Maggie for balance, from someone who can be killed by just a household cat. Asthma sucks.
And what a wonderful way to wake up and see all these floofettes
Also potentially in the reformulation hall of shame - Ensure powder. I’d been drinking it in recent years to help maintain nutrition, but then it got taken off shelves and brought back with new labels…
::: TW medical, vomiting spoiler In developments that may or may not be connected, I started needing to dilute the Ensure much more to stomach it and eventually completely stopped having it because it was making me really sick, much more than my normal baseline.
My stomach still stops working and I’m still in a lot of pain but since I quit drinking the Ensure I’m no longer routinely vomiting. :::
It was always a little gross to drink and I can’t find anything about a reformulation? Nothing is jumping out at me on the label.
But more recently it’s unambiguously been worsening things for me and I’m trying to remember if that started around the time of the new packaging.
so many hugs
have you thought of baby formula?
Thanks, I tried it but need non-dairy and the taste was pretty bad. I also feel weirdly guilty about taking something a child might need.
I’m running through so many options to try and regain my health but keep running into roadblocks and reformulations.
now watch me turn this 20 minute nap into 20 hours
I am jealous of this skill
to be fair it really means being on my phone for some 12 hours
i need to go get food
Hurry up I’m waiting for the food truck
Help yourself to some fruit whilst you wait
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Blah. Nothing worse than digging through boxes of things o my to find it sitting on the shelf instead.
Gym done. House clean. Cat treats dispensed. Now it’s chill time.
Did a big stuff up today, am upset due to it. Have some critical things in the next couple of weeks that will be emotionally challenging. Why is stress hard. Wish I was tougher.
Tough is keeping going. You’re plenty tough.
Big stuffups happen, it’s part of life. You got this.
you can do this 😘
7pm is not too late for a coffee
An afternoon nap and coffee at 7pm? No sleep for you my friend 😴
my usual bed time is 1am
risky but worth the risk
Those days are long gone for me. Godspeed my friend ☕
Some groove for you all…
I had a matcha already and now I want another.
I had breakfast alrdy and now I want another
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sitting in the car listening to the rain is top sunday experience but i really should open the door and go get breakfast
Rain.
Honk Honk ⛴️
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Firstly can we get some recovery stuff for you, and are you sure you’re OK to drive?
Then I’ll take the banana, fish and egg pizza but add some pineapple. Maybe remove the fish and instead I’ll get a side of 3 dozen oysters?
Thanks chef!
🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪that🦪🦪🦪🦪 is why i command 🦪🦪the waves to carry 🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪the boat🦪
🍌🦪🦪🦪🦪🍳🦪🦪🦪🦪🍍🦪🦪🦪🦪🍕
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Bacon wrapped bananas with 2 fried eggs on toast and some smoked salmon on the side please. With a tall gin fizz as it’s Sunday.
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
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I’ve had this away for about 6 months being repaired and got it back today.
It sounds so good, and feels really nice to play. It’s interesting how what you create can be completely different based on your particular guitar.
Also here’s Gibson being fluffy:
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Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I see your fluff and raise you a fluff on a floof
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
a sleeping floof Image
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Floofs bathing
two cats
Eagle@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Soo much floof.