Day 1 of a five day weekend and my birthday in there somewhere…love you all…stay fresh and free
Discussion Thread 🧀 Thursday 5 March 2026
Submitted 3 weeks ago by melbaboutown@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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MeanElevator@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Happy birthday!! How are you planning to celebrate?
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
By doing as little as possible and having dinner at a nice restaurant later.
Very basic.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
okay, wish me luck at the allergy clinic 🙂
Catfish@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Are you getting the huge itchy back thing? Luck!!
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Good luck!!!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Good luck. Hope you get some answers.
tone212_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
My late night soundtrack for tonight. Where my goths at?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
went to bed early
StudChud@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Question: do you sleep
- clothed
- undie-d
- nude
- PJs
Just curious after seeing a post on the other place about how 2/3 millennials sleep nude.
I am one. Even if it’s the middle of winter. I get all twisted up in clothes, tangled, and I run hot so I just end up sweaty lol
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
PJs now but used to be nude. Dunno, I get cold and I have soft comfy jammies.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
yeah, on really cold nights I wear fleecies
Catfish@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Another nude. Unless I’m super unwell or there are guests in the house.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Weather appropriate PJs
All the ladies going nude or undies…PM me…need to get…uhh… an understanding off…uhh…things.
Yes, that’ll do.
_miss_cellophane_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Prefer nude for comfort, but wear short/ cropped PJ’s for fear of needing to get up suddenly and not being dressed (due to break in/ fire/). The BS anxiety around it just makes it easier to wear PJs.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Nude.
tone212_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
PJ bottoms and a comfy t shirt on top for me. I run warm in bed but naked feels too cold.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Boxers and that’s it
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Nude
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
nude
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Aced it👍
I’m doing all the right things, am allowed to take more allergy meds if I want. Will keep a food diary for a month,
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I think I fixed the dishwasher. It appears to be working. 🤞 I got the front wheels off the pram to scrub them after the dog shit incident but not the back wheels. I know how but they’re stuck so I’ve put cooking oil to soak in to those parts and will just have to move that to the back area of the lino while I mop the rest.
TW mental health
My sleep pattern is so bad and my mental health has been worse. I’ve been randomly having anxiety and grief crashouts so bad I puke but also desperately trying to regain some control and fix everything to try and ease my mind. Been talking with people about Melbcat and showing cute photos of her but nothing seems to help. I wish I could just cry normally, break down and howl like an animal but it doesn’t feel safe to do that with the people in my block. It has never in my life been safe to stop and fully openly grieve and usually I’ve had to compartmentalise to survive the next immediate crisis. www.tumblr.com/…/803770369219624960
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
so many hugs
don’t worry, you’re doing ok, this grief is normal
maybe bathroom crying?
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I can still probably be easily heard :(
And I’m still kind of at the stunned disbelief stage with it just starting to break through in little bits
StudChud@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Feels like someone is driving a knife into my lung through my left shoulder blade, even hurts to breathe a bit. No way I punctured my lung but just sleeping on my arm or crooking my neck funny.
Why do I have to sleep like a bread knot lol
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Subscapularis and serratus anterior are the muscles in the area. Could also be rib head / vertebrae articulations.
Poi or club bells are good shoulder mobility exercises. Else time heals most things.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Are you hypermobile?
I get that and it turned out to be a stiffness/subluxation where one rib was attached to my spine. Sometimes it can crunch back into place naturally or with gentle stretching. Another time it needed to be adjusted by a physio. (Avoid chiropractors.)
StudChud@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I don’t think I’m hyper mobile; I’m pretty inflexible which I attribute that to lack of exercise lol I can still put my foot behind my head though so I got that going for me 😂
Though you are probably right with what the issue is. I’ll get my partner to give it a good massage when it isn’t 3am 😂
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Holy crap it’s stunning outside. Had lunch with Boyo at a cafe and we both considered blowing off work for the arvo to go and sit on a patio somewhere. Sadly I’m back at my desk.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Day 5
The nicotine spray is effective.
A couple more weeks and the spray can go as well.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Can you get weaker sprays? Or open it up and dilute it with water? I used to cut nic-patches down instead of buying weaker patches.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
That’s not a bad idea…
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
this is great 👍
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I had a bad day again and napped. Festy sink dishes are washing in the shitty but now functional dishwasher. Prised the stuck wheels off with a butter knife and put them in the laundry sink. Tea towels on to wash. I feel like shit and just want my cat back.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
oh melbs
so many hugs 🫂
I have an idea. How about if you make a physical album about Melbcat (doesn’t have to be a scrap book with all decorations and stuff ) just a nice album of pictures and some writing , Start at the beginning. Yes, you will probably cry . Maybe do other albums of other cats you have had.
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Heading into the CBD this morning - haven’t been on public transport in months, usually work from home.
Sure enough, delays of >10m just announced due to equipment issues.
And people wonder why RTO mandates are so unpopular. Shonky PT is just one of the many reasons.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s been a little over 2 weeks without sugar. I am eating watermelon like never before though. So far so good.
bacon@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
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A fried chicken wrap, please! Extra saucy.
bacon@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
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Catfish@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Up since 3. Gnawing on raw tortellini. Cats attempting to manifest the food robot. Boyo on day 2 of giant tonka truck course. Think I should re-dye my hair. And seal the banister. And start the new Lego. It’s gonna be a day.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
an interesting day 👍
Catfish@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Bleach bit done. This part is always disturbing. There is no universe in which I am plausibly blonde!
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Is raw tortellini…safe to eat?
Catfish@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
My brain worm says it is
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
an interesting day 👍
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Lonch break
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
thanks for the reminder
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
tongue burns
allergic to soy milk perhaps
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Slow start at work today. I need coffee
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
another day, another reddit ban, this time for making a joke about why isn’t someone dead yet
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
You only get so many before they permanently ban you. I assume you were talking about the pumpkin paedophile king of America?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I may have been
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Let me guess: an orange politician?
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I want to like AnySoftKeyboard but it makes it hard. The app’s menus are a mess and it has looked and felt different on every phone I’ve used it on. Right now on the vacuum phone the themes and suggestions only show up in some apps and I have to manually type everything out the rest of the time. Who knew creating a keyboard app with swipe was so hard?
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I came in at lunchtime and my laptop still isn’t ready so I’m just chilling.
WTF, I love Windows now? (When it’s on someone else’s computer at least)
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Just tried the new ride on mower down here. Old one carked it.
We are no longer going 4km/h but 6km/h. Basically the Ferrari of the mower world. Have to slow down when turning the corner on rabbit / hare mode.
It’s also red so will have to put some flame decals on.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Make sure you’ve got safety gear on. The extra 2km is a killer.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
And overhead foxtail.