Submitted 3 weeks ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
Just keeping to myself today.
It’s going to be a tough 3 weeks until I can get my tax return back and that’s hinging on there actually being money to come back.
I need to brainstorm some cheap meals to save on money.
I also got into a massive fight last night with someone and I think my trust in them have broken as well but it’s making me feel really off today and I feel really down today.
I made a delicious soup yesterday. I roasted a butternut pumpkin, two sweet potatoes, some garlic, and half a dozen carrots for half an hour at 200C - all chopped up with some oil, salt and ground cumin. Then in a big pot, soften a diced onion in some oil, add a litre of stock, and let it simmer for 5-10 minutes. Add the vegies to the pot and blitz with a blender until smooth. Add a bit of cream if you fancy.
Makes about 12 serves at around $1.50 per serve, and freezes well if you don’t want to eat it for every meal. And you could swap out whatever roast vegies you fancy.
Tough to hear. You can do this though.
I got ideas if you need them. Also please don’t hesitate to hit up food pantries or anything around, see if you’re eligible
Daal is another good one. It’s a great midweek meal that can see you out until the weekend
oh no,
I hope you can save your trust
I did see the F1 movie yesterday. If you’re thinking about seeing it, It’s safe to say the film is best viewed on the biggest screen you can find.
For fans of:
F1 or any motorsport in general -
Jerry Bruckheimer productions -
Brad Pitt and his face-
It’s a typical Bruckheimer fare with big needle drop soundtrack, quick camera editing, sarcastic quips during action scenes, and the montages.
If you have seen Top Gun, Days of Thunder, or Gone in 60 Seconds, you get the idea. It’s big, it’s flashy, it’s two and half hours long and I will probably never watch it again.
6.8/10 Pitt stops
Brad Pitt and his face-
lol
Sounds like a movie I will enjoy: once.
Hanging on to every moment I can stay in bed before I am summonsed by the family lol. But also the desire for coffee. And my favourite breakfast at the moment: very grainy bread toast with seedy peanut butter on it and sprinkled with extra seedy trail mix type stuff. Perhaps I am birb?
It’s time to train the children in the art of breakfast making so they can bring it to you in bed.
Actually I’m a killjoy when it comes to eating in bed, I detest the crumbs 😬 Not much fun am I LoL
I was a lawyer in my dream. A lawyer for people in the pornographic film industry.
There were a few women milling about my office tending to legal matters. Gordon Ramsey was also present. He was demonstrating how to make a sort of rice bowl thing that looked delicious.The recipe was Japanese inspired and non traditional. A sushi crunchy roll in bowl form.
I remember Gordon cutting himself slightly on my sashimi knife, but it didn’t deter him. He’s a pro.
This is damn cool!
Today was our day of spending time with kids in a civil manner, so we went to Moonee Ponds and had lunch, then had icecream. Miniest couldn’t fit all hers in so I was walking around at one point with a double scoop icecream in each hand lol 🤰🏼 Bought a couple of t-shirts, a Minecraft movie one of Garett Garrison and one of Lisa Simpson in her “I am the Lizard Queen” scene. Elder wants a skateboard 😳 Then I got home and Miniest reminded me of my promise to bake a cake with her today so I found a simple chocolate cake recipe, we made that and it worked pretty well. In all it was a most pleasant Sunday.
Double fisting ice cream isn’t a bad thing. Sounds like a wholesome day!
Got cash out from Coles today and was given two hundreds instead of two fifties. Thank you Mr Coles, and I never want to move to a cashless society now
those are nice friends 🥰
just relax
cats are good buddies for relaxing with 😊
One of my friends took up rock climbing as part of some larger shoulder work he had to do to avoid surgery, I wonder if something like that could help
👍
so many hugs, you take care
8:30am.
Nope. Bed is way too inviting to wake up properly.
AAAARRGHHHHH!
Alarm didn’t go off. Still somehow managed to pull off being only a couple of minutes late to work, but that was a major rush. Poor Mr Woof didn’t get his morning walk. Not a great start to the day for anyone.
No sleep !! But heading to the warmth for a week !! I shall give everyone’s regards to the sun 🌞🌞
Episode 37 of the I Am A Barbarian Files.
I like worcestershire sauce better than soy sauce on vegetable gyoza.
You mean, I Am A Visionary Files ?
Perspective, perspective.
For anyone living in the past like me- a reminder that MS Publisher goes away after tomorrow, export those files.
I use it for two files that are updated once a year. I’ll have to finally move them to Canva I reckon, and mess around with all the formatting.
I have a copy from the ol’ physical media days, good luck tying to take that away
Inkscape might work too as a local FOSS alternative. It saves everything as SVG so files are super transportable and one of the guys that works on it wears a ska style bouler hat and does regular YouTube updates on development
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
I have a beautiful friend who, after I asked her how she finds her music, has been sending me a song nearly everyday and tells me how she found it. I don’t like every song she sends but the thoughtfulness just blows me away.
Anyway, I am considering making a giant playlist of the songs, probably at least 300 of them, because she might like that. But that would mean exporting our text thread with thousands of messages and links, and going through it to find all the Spotify and YouTube links she sent. Maybe there is a faster way?
YouTube has a history page. If you don’t watch too much other stuff you’ll be able to sort through there pretty quickly. Maybe even going to YouTube history might just do music. Spotify should have history as well but I don’t use it so I’m not sure.
Most of the links are Spotify and YouTube Shorts have replaced my mass short-form content consumption on other platforms. So that may take a while. I’ll go to the history and see if I can extract some of the music. Thanks for the suggestion!
I’m getting tired of these wasted weekends where I’m laid up trying desperately to either deal with a migraine or avoid causing one.
Work gets the best of me. And I’m left doing nothing on the weekend.
Can’t play guitar or drums because that causes a flair up. It’s literally all I want to do.
I fucking hate this.
Sorry for the rant.
I used to get a few myotherapy clients with migraine issues. I helped more than I didn’t by working on their necks.
I see a sports physio when it flares up and I can’t get rid of it myself.
Problem is they aren’t open weekends, and what happens is I’ll be fine Friday night and then Saturday morning my shoulder hitches up and pitches forward. Thats the trigger
Have you looked into ‘weekend migraines’? It can be the change in routine or change in stress levels that’s the trigger. There might be something you can identify and change.
Will definitely look into it. I feel cheated when I haven’t been able to do anything then all of a sudden it’s Sunday night :(
I know preventative medication exists but never tried it
G’morning
Unintentionally doing a “winter clean” of the house in pieces - so many loads of laundry: clothes, woollens, bed sheets, couch stuff, oodie on a long and warm pet hair removal cycle… Also aired the bedroom and naked bed for a few hours with that patchy afternoon sun; hasn’t been done in weeks.
Gonna do a big round of vacuuming and maybe even mopping too. Then maybe light some sage incense.
Feels like I’ve been drawn to doing this by clearing out memories and energies associated with the last few months, although a little part of me is sad because I am also inadvertently erasing every trace of sox :c sorry lil’ kitty it’s not purrsonal.
Monstrous load of washing all dried, woollens still drying in the living room under the heater and it feels a bit like a sauna here after having done a quick vac. And with beans boiling on the stove. Gonna make another batch of my rootin’ tootin’ soup with swede, parsnip, carrot, potat (with celery and onion) and kidney beans… tomorrow night, I think. For tonight I’ll just cook the beans that have been soaking all day. I can’t be fucked doing any cleaning.
I do need to make an inventory of all the food to start using up in the pantry. Still more kidney beans, a heap of black eyed beans, urad dal (whole without skin, and split with skin), toor dal, chana dal, masoor dal… dried tvp mince, dried shiitake mushrooms, couscous, risoni, heaps of rice… no takeaway lunches at work for the month of July, I’ve got plenty to cook and use up.
I’m working at catching up on life admin that I have let slide a bit while moving. All the financial changes with different utility companies, insurance etc. with moving make it a bit of a mess. But it will be nice to have it sorted out and be able to rule a double line under the last financial year.
Busy day today
shopping at qvm then doing all the stuff for trip tomorrow doing final tidy up and some last minute washing
Good morning Seagoon 🌞
My neighbours 3 stories below me has recently had their first baby, and I’m pretty sure tonight’s Sydney Road doof doof bars and clubs aren’t the most favourite sounds for that babe - I can faintly hear the sounds of a baby crying over the heavy drums from the bar across the road 😬
I hope they can find a quieter place at some point for their bubs and their own sanity!
Tonight I am listening to the soundtrack of Good Morning America
California Sun www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF1tyjvH9is
Ugh I’m being forced to upload videos to OneDrive to email them to the vet (Melbcat crying) and it keeps failing to upload. I hate Microsoft and OneDrive. I didn’t get to sort that either.
Never get sick and fall behind on things folks. You just do not get out of the weeds.
Getting through things in chunks. The dishes are washed and the grotty ones are getting a bleach soak. If I can still smell bleach at all after rewashing them though that’s a tactical yeet.
I’ve got a bag of clothes for the op shop and one for a workwear charity. I’ve put them by the door and moved the unwanted tv there too. (If the built in dvd player doesn’t work it’s no use to me. Sell.)
Someone cancelled tomorrow so there’s some time to sweep.
Big sleep in after crazy dreams, have chores that need doing today and just… nah. Nah.
just checked in and damn that’s a bad passport photo
makes me think my hairdresser at the time on purpose did those cuts, I kept asking her to keep it long and she didn’t
well, i don’t go to her anymore and am much happier for it
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The CGI is surprisingly good in Fight Club, for a 26yr old movie from the '90s.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Big day today.
Ol’ girl is going back home after her 3.5 week stay in hospital. Was only supposed to be 3-5 days.
After seeing her everyday, all I can say is that she really shouldn’t be (not in my control). Seeing her last night shook me a bit. Basically she’s been refusing 1/2+ the food when there and also refusing supplements (like ensure, resource etc).
Problem is after her head strike a year ago she had a TBI which has caused what they call non amnestic MCI which is a fancy way of saying impaired mind but memory still there. Problem is the only way to slow it down is food and excersise, both of which are not going to be easy.
So taking off work for a bit heading over to p’s to see if this will work. I’m not fazed by doing most of the stuff for them (cooking / cleaning / washing etc), really doesn’t take much time. Ol’ boy will get a cleaner in probably soon.
What I’m mainly worried about is that shift in personality over the last 3 weeks.
For example last night she asked me to turn the light down because she wanted to watch TV. So I did. She said ‘that’s great’, goes around to the other side of the bed and snaps at me ‘why is it so dark in here!’. That is not her.
I’m hoping getting some food in her after basically being on a hunger strike will ease that sort of thing up, but if it doesn’t then we’re in for a ride.
Guess we’ll find out.
Thank you all reading this stuff. Not exactly light and airy.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Feels. You got this, for the moment. Look after yourself too.
personal experience
Hate to say this, but I think it’s time you and your Dad got together and worked out a strategy for further cognitive decline management. You just can’t give up work to do the basic care stuff - that’s a non-continuing proposition even though it works well to look at in the short term. I’m talking trigger points for when more care is needed, and strategies to cope. And what happens if your Dad or you gets sick etc. Really really need to be on the same page. Yes this will be embarrassing to discuss. And some of the options will sound pretty cold and clinical but need to be considered. There’s professional help available for counselling/discussing this sort of thing, and using that might help your Dad and rest of fam take this seriously enough to be useful. Hospitals/doctors/clinics have contact info - and you may need an official letter from your mum’s doctor to access it. I found myself doing what I thought would be short term care for my mum, and found out that the rest of my family thought I was doing it all so they didn’t have to, and this went on for months and months. This got old very very fast and I had to really put my foot down to come up with a more equitable arrangement. Some family members still haven’t forgiven me. One sibling’s spouse is still snarked that she was asked to participate (minimally) and that was more than 10 years ago. Eventually Mum had to go into full time residential care and she HATED it. But there was no other viable option that permitted the rest of the family to have some kind of a life. End of life can be very distressing to all when its long drawn out and there’s no possibility of major improvement and a return to full independence. Just saying.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Thankyou so much for your personal experience. Really appreciate that advice. i think I’ll get the ball rolling on that fairly soon.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
This.
I was in a very similar position except I didn’t have any say around making alternative arrangements.
Eagle@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
You are such a good egg. Healing takes time and a whole lot of resources, so having you there is going to give her the best chance of an effective recovery.
Ensure and the like have an artificial taste that a lot of people can’t tolerate. There used to be a flavourless supplement, I’ll have a sticky beak and see if it’s still around. There’s two main things; cook what she likes/feels like, and making sure every mouthful is as calorie dense as you can make it while she still likes it. You’re doing good work there, and it’s so so tough. We are all here as a resource and a safe venting place.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Really good advice, thankyou. Definitely going to try to make every mouthful count.
StudChud@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
You are always welcome always to vent and just get it all out here!
It isn’t light or airy, no, but it doesn’t have to be. This is what is happening in your life and to you, and it is worth talking to people you trust - even if it’s just this forum 💜 I get the pain of watching your mum deteriorate, even though my experiences cause was different, and it isn’t easy to look after them. The chores are easy, the mental energy and internal stress it takes to just be present and witness to it is draining. I’m so sorry you and your mum and dad are going through this right now, I hope your mum is able to settle down now she is back home and will accept food. Sending you all my love and good vibes, if I could give you some of my mental energy I would do that too 💜💜💜
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Big thanks.
I think the mental energy and stress will slowly catch up. Guess we’ll see if I’m cut out for this (I have my doubts eek).
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I hope things improve for her. Maybe now she’s at home her eating will improve? My mum mostly hated hospital food and ate better when I was cooking. It’s a hard time you’re going through and we’re always here when you need to vent 🫂
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Thankyou. I’m really hoping it’s the same thing that happens here
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I’m sorry to hear :(
I wonder if some kind of home support package might come in a bit sooner. But also I know there are many things not in your control and post-release care isn’t always great
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Thankyou. Definitely looking at home support packages. Definitely looking at the speech path, physio and OT stuff.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Oh this is tough. You are doing good. And vent away. Hoping things improve when she gets home
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Thanks :) Hoping so too.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Hey man I’m sorry that you and your family are going through such a hard time. I hope everything calms down soon ❤️
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Thanks dude me too :)
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Hopefully your mum feels better being at home, and starts to eat more there. Take care of yourself, too