melbaboutown
@melbaboutown@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 11 hours ago:
I heard that you can tighten all of your muscles really hard and relax a couple of times to release the fight or flight.
Allowing yourself to shake.
Dipping or splashing your face with cold water for the diving reflex.
There’s deep abdominal breathing.
Or even holding your breath until it subsides (something about carbon dioxide balance in your bloodstream)
YMMV
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 12 hours ago:
I’ve managed to get almost all the art supplies into a plastic tub and off the bench
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 12 hours ago:
You can also do hip bridges or heel slides (no band) without getting out of bed but I don’t wanna.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 12 hours ago:
You start with KAOS and work against entropy to undo it
And usually you have to first invent
the universean organisational system - Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 13 hours ago:
You’d be surprised. It took two years of regular effort but there was eventually something there.
Then came the pandemic and intensified health issues and I lost it all.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 13 hours ago:
Even if you don’t leave the house or get out of bed you can still do leg extensions with a resistance band for your butt and abs.
I’m probably not going to though -_-
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 15 hours ago:
Someone has stolen my bin. -_-
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 16 hours ago:
I want to do art, to exercise, to UNKAOS…
But it all takes energy and feels pointless
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 16 hours ago:
She’s still an absolute trooper though. Still eating, drinking, walking over to visitors to check them out. Still trying to convince me to let her outside
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 1 day ago:
Melbcat spluttering and spitting out purple cranberry medicine: I am particularly inspired by the works of Jackson Pollock 🎨🖼️
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 1 day ago:
🤖🏃♂️
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 day ago:
Pain is exhausting. I hope there’s something to give even a little relief
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 day ago:
Thanks so much. I’ll probably be asking a lot when it comes time to try and get stuff working
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 day ago:
Problem is going to be document compatibility when dealing with organisations and possibly WebEx or Zoom. I’ll work it out on this old machine as I get time and energy though. One step at a time
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 day ago:
I’ll try. Fingers crossed I have time and brain cells
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 day ago:
Thanks. They’re actually extremely patchy because I’m mostly self taught, I can follow curly tutorials and use the command line with a guide but a lot of the fundamentals have been missed
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 day ago:
I’m going to have to do it fast because starting from December I’m going to lose access :(
I’ve tried Linux before but not as my main. This is basically to test out and see if I can switch over for most things because I viscerally hate Windows 11
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 day ago:
Trying to sort shit out.
Windows 11 machine is completely full so using a Mac to download the classic Linux Mint and waiting a hundred years for the iso to download so I can sha the damn thing and make a bootable thingy.
Tried to drag a bunch of files onto a 32gb usb off Windows machine to free space and keep them safe but there’s seriously not enough room so I might get an external drive just for that to have on top of backups.
Then I have to download everything off Flickr and Dropbox and make sure the last gmails get changed over on any platforms they’re still connected to (or emails they’re recoveries for).
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 day ago:
Was late with the antibiotics so gave them right after the midnight meds… bubs threw them right back up so I gave her some anti nausea meds and repeated the dose.
Dealing with a spilled milky drink on the carpet too. -_-
I wish there was a carpet cleaner that doesn’t absolutely reek of perfume to the point they set off migraines and cause asthma attacks. I use the bacterial enzyme concentrate but that’s more for breaking down biological stuff like pee, and doesn’t do a good job of actually cleaning.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Tuesday 21 October 2025 2 days ago:
🖤
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Tuesday 21 October 2025 2 days ago:
I feel you. I’m hoping something can help
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Tuesday 21 October 2025 2 days ago:
Found out Melbcat only got a little over a weeks worth of antibiotics so I managed to get the vet to bump it up to 3 weeks (against manufacturers advice). I hope that’s long enough that it does something.
I’m so stressed.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Tuesday 21 October 2025 2 days ago:
Yesterday was really tough.
Melbcat was quite uncomfortable still, crying and fussing, and needed an extra top up even with solid pain management. Really hoping her antibiotics kick in and offer some relief. I understand antibiotic stewardship but still wish she hadn’t been made to wait so long for treatment.
I spent most of the day sleeping outside of pickup and meds because I have an infection too, plus really struggling to manage.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛹 Monday 20 October 2025 2 days ago:
I think the creature was angry to have been created only for his ‘father’ and the world to fear and despise him (and leave him in isolation).
Frankenstein ran in terror and disgust at what he had created and also because the creature wanted serious revenge. Since Frankenstein broke his promise of making him a companion and destroyed the creature’s bride to be rather than finish her.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧭 Sunday 19 October 2025 4 days ago:
I’ve pretty much accepted that the flowers are getting nibbled so sowed them in bulk.
The pumpkin seedlings are inside on the windowsill where I think they might probably stay
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧭 Sunday 19 October 2025 4 days ago:
About to do some more UNKAOS but can’t find my iPod. Why is it always when I tidy up I can’t find anything?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧭 Sunday 19 October 2025 4 days ago:
I’m lucky to have her. She needs to be protected and cherished for as long as possible
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧭 Sunday 19 October 2025 4 days ago:
It took so long for the vets to give in and finally let her have antibiotics, then she got a shot that only lasted a week (and waited another week after that to go back), then it took yet another week for these ones to get ordered in 😭
She was on a lot of pain relief but I’m not happy it took so long. However I finally badgered them into the extended course she needs 🤞
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧭 Sunday 19 October 2025 4 days ago:
Thanks Chef
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧭 Sunday 19 October 2025 4 days ago:
I’ve started baby on her antibiotics last night and am hoping they work fast. She’s had brekkie in bed and is tucked in with me.