Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024
Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024
Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024
Have to make A Phone Call. Wish me luck...
Update: phone call made. Case manager was understanding and took me off Difficult Client's schedule. Also it transpired that the system -at least the scheduling system - hadn't been updated and was showing me still in Cheltenham.
You got dissss!!
Thanks, I did!
Literally on the ground laughing
Lol 😂.
It's like the divers Bacon/Cook. The Man cheered them on.
I don't fold it in half for anyone so only work with feet and metres
Know what I am saying
How did you know?
Compared against some mates around a campfire, you know how it is!
Hardcore nostalgia with the music tonight!
My work from home equipment arrived today. God it's different working for a normal company.
Certain types of companies are great for a foot in the door, but you can't stay forever.
You cunts are brilliant and classy
On the migraine train today…
Think this has been my worst one yet.
gentle hugs
cups of tea, toast, aspirin and a quiet dim room
I have acquired fresh parsley and I don't know what to use it for!
Pretend it's catnip and that you're a cat
You could buy some mince and chop it up, mix it with the mince and make hamburgers or you could fry the mince and throw in chopped up parsley and spices or you could make a pesto with some pine nuts. Pine nuts are cheaper at Aldi.
Gremolata! Keeps for yonks in a jar if you put an oil film on top.
I put it in mashed potato , I also use a whole bunch when I make minestrone
Not a bad suggestion with the mash potato. Now I need potatoes.
Fasolada or some other Greek stew is always my go to with parsley. Lots of good recipes here: https://www.mygreekdish.com/category/collections/traditional-greek-soup-recipes/
Anti-gratitude thread
The delayed phase sleep syndrome I'm dealing with. Even when I've woken up early and gotten shit sleep, I can't seem to fall asleep early. Going to the pharmacy to get my hands on some schedule 3 meds.
I wish toast stayed hotter for longer. It's so often cold. I am ungrateful for lukewarm toast.
I'm gonna make meatballs and I don't appreciate having to stick my hands in cold cold meat. It makes me feel icky.
How do you even get diagnosed with DSPD in this country? I always get Drs and psychiatrists telling me to go to sleep earlier and be very dismissive when I ask for sleep tests done. Normal sleeping pills don't work at all for me, the best tools I have are agomelatine, clonidine, and cannabis (all taken together if I need to force a sleep bc of society).
Anyways, I'm not grateful for dismissive doctors who think I am trying to get pills off of them to abuse. Also fuck my sleeping disorder!
Yes fuck your sleep disorder :(
I didn't get diagnosed with it, but I think I have a delayed phase thing going on. It might not be disorder level, because I'm not sleeping at a mega ridiculous time, but my rhythm is just kinda in shock and I haven't been to sleep before midnight probably in about two years.
I think it's more a bad habit per se. Although no matter what time I wake up one day, I will still not be able to fall asleep. It's strange.
I am ungrateful for it being really hard to get replacement brushes for my robovac. It’s cheaper to get a whole new unit of a different brand. Intentional Design obsolescence pisses me off!
I've only tried melatonin (gives me poor quality sleep) and weed (give me poor quality bank balance) for my DSPD. Is there anything else you might recommend?
Ungrateful that my filling seems to get really painful when I eat/drink anything hot or cold. I think eating dinner is what brought on the pain yesterday. Had similar pain today after I drunk some cold water and let it over to the left side of my mouth. Apparently I just need to avoid eating anything warmer than room temperature for the next 2 weeks, when apparently it'll fix itself 🤷♂️
Back home after sleep school. I won't say finally a chance for a regular night's sleep, but lets try to keep up the good habits with the kids and there might be many good nights' sleep for us in the future
Gratitude thread ✨️
Grateful for female friendships! Not being upset like I was a year ago because my ex was too busy to talk to me. The sun. Dog attempting to wake me up twice, potentially because someone has either left the house or arrived.
Thank fuck it's Friday 🍺
TFIF! 🍺
plastic straw 👅
@LowExperience2368 @Seagoon Female friendships are the best ☺️
(The only catch for me is I tend to be someone people come to with problems. So there's been days when my bestie has come to me with troubles, and then my other bestie, and then mum, and then wifey 😫.)
Anyways. Grateful thoughts.
One of the ways wifey and I split jobs is that I do the dishes at night and she, in theory, puts them away every morning.
In practice, most days I end up doing it.
Well...
A couple of days ago, I waited to see how long it would take for her to do it.
6pm — nope. 7pm. 8pm.
Are you going to put them away? "In a minute!"
9pm. 10pm.
Eventually it gets to midnight. Still not put away and she's fast asleep.
So I put them away. At midnight. I might have made a bit more noise than usual in the process.
She wakes up: "Why are you doing that now? It's midnight!"
Oh sorry, it got to midnight and the dishes still weren't put away from this morning, so I'm doing it...
Anyways.
I woke up this morning, and the dishes were all in the drawers.
Grateful ☺️
Grateful my filling is feeling better today
I am grateful that I have choices in my life.
Also that I've just been sent the questions for an interview on Monday, so I can be well-prepared.
OMG Aus music happy hour and I've been missing it...mhang on..
Any you am I love so far? https://youtu.be/Nwsyr5gAEuM?feature=shared
Love it, but the clip is weird as
Little dude in a Mirrorball suit has lived rent free in my head since 1993
My filling that I got on Monday started hurting at about 8pm yesterday. It's odd. I didn't have any pain on Tuesday, obviously didn't have any on Monday (half my face was numb), and on Wednesday I only had a little bit that was easily fixed with a Panadol. This one isn't so lucky. And it seems to have been timed nicely with feeling a bit blegh.
Hopefully I have a good sleep, and a good sleep fixes it
DT dropping bangerzz left right and centre tonight :)
Nah just aussie bogan music
It's the bogan in me that loves this song
Not my favourite song, but it gets a listen a couple times a year
How to jump start a neighbour's Ford Focus with the key-opened bonnet :
Step 1: Try to open the bonnet.
Step 2: With their friends, in total four of us, take turns repeating step 1 while watching YouTube.
Step 3: Celebrate too hard after finally spending almost 2 hours getting the damn bonnet open ... and helplessly watch as they accidentally smash the windshield with said bonnet.
Step 4: Connect batteries, start car, warn neighbour fuel is at 5%, pray that they have enough to gain enough charge to restart after refuelling.
Step 5: Bitch about the problem.
Been feeling low and grumpy today. Positive emotions completely dulled while negative emotions seem to get an extra boost. But at least I cut short the work day on both ends today and had some wins at work.
My favourite auntie got into a bad and easily avoidable car accident (total write off, front looked completely mangled) thanks to her stupid idiot overconfident narcisssistic husband, who honestly should've been off the roads years ago. They're in WA so no way of easily going there. Instead here I am simmering in anger at that man (nobody likes him. Except my aunt who is a martyr). Thank fuck there were no injuries, maybe minor whiplash for my aunt.
At least I guess it means they'll get a new car with all the safety features but really the safest thing they can do is take the dickhead's licence away. I hope he'll voluntarily do it after this massive wake up call... small chance given his outsized ego but he's softened a bit over the years.
I have a neighbour who's a drummer. The marching band kind, not the death metal kind. I love hearing them practice. They're a couple of houses away I think and it's lovely and soft and rhythmic.
@Seagoon My boss (this is not the "manager") insists on having a team meeting every Friday afternoon.
She insists on having another one first thing Monday morning.
Are these meetings happening so we can talk about what we're working on?
Well, not really. That's what the Wednesday meeting is for.
No, I'm now 99% sure the whole point of the Friday meeting is so she can tell everyone how much fun she will have skiing or bushwalking this weekend.
And the Monday one? That's to force people to listen to how much fun she had skiing or bushwalking this weekend.
Its an evil plan to ensure that no one chucks a sickie on Monday or leaves early on Friday. So these meetings might not accomplish anything worthwhile workwise, but improve her management statistics for absenteeism ... I would take my laptop into the meeting and just get on with my job, ignoring her non-work related stuffing around. If she objects, tell her (and her manager/boss) you're sick of her wasting your valuable and expensive time on nothing.
I just ... don't go.
Or, I'll happily walk out of a meeting "I'm not adding value, here".
I already have more work than I can physically do. There's no way I have time to sit around through something like that.
Love it when the people we work with use their coworkers as their audience /s big main character syndrome vibes
had a manager like this, drove me nuts!
On the Monday you have to one up her even if it's a lie.
@CEOofmyhouse56 Haha I like your thinking!
Any ideas on what I should say? I'm open to suggestions 😊
Someone beeped and waved at me from their car as I walking on the street. I have no idea who that was. I just looked at them puzzled.
a plastic straw comes along with the vietnamese iced coffee it has been so long my tongue is doing unspeakable things to the straw
I have a stash from when Boyo attended a party in a rubber goat head and couldn’t drink without one. Um…
Confession: I still have a stash of plastic straws for special occasions only. They are a prized commodity.
I ordered a pack of 500 of those thin stripey ones from AliExpress a few months ago, because I needed to spend 15 bucks to get free shipping for new headphone earcups. I feel bad because I actually threw them all away. They smelt funky and the plastic they came in was yellowed and dusty
The straws cold rock used to have for their loaded mega shake things were the best. They were very large, large enough to be able to drink the chunks of kit kat or crunchie or whatever you put in them. The paper straws are too thin and get jammed
I went to donut king to get a shake thing a couple of months ago and even though I only got a medium, the straw disintegrated half way through. I went to the lady and asked for a new one, and she said "we still have plastic straws. I'm not allowed to offer you one, but if you ask, I am allowed to give you one". Makes sense, and made me wonder if I should try my luck elsewhere. Iirc some places still stock them for people with disabilities, but they're not obligated to check people's disabilities (and if someone had an invisible disability that genuinely prevented them from using a paper straw, the store had them, and the person just looked at them and said "you don't look disabled, so I'm not going to give you a plastic straw", that's probably a discrimination lawsuit. But in any case, since it's an exemption targeted to people with disabilities, I'd feel too guilty about using it when I don't need to, to really use it, so I guess it's irrelevant
First it giveth: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g5GrSPUAj4E 🧡
Hell yeah
Not a clue which one is meant to be the artist, so probably safe to say I don't know either
Never heard of either
Wth's happening with all the songs
It's only 40 miles https://youtu.be/IdzB03mA2ws?feature=shared
Cant tell if it was a dream, or if I really did hear mice in the roof last night. If it was real I've gotta say: they are late this year. Usually they come around May/June. God I hate the skittering sound when its on the plaster directly above your head.
King stingray - Milkumana: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g5GrSPUAj4E
the only king stingray i know is the yellow cover
Don't know it
@CEOofmyhouse56 @Seagoon Is there a theme, or just Aussie anx Kiwi rock?
If so:
Killing Heidi: https://youtu.be/01aq2JWk3d0?si=Y82AAlD4bjpBLfl2
Silverchair: https://youtu.be/8KHwuOtcALQ?si=kIzHfNTdoz5fC9wR
More Silverchair: https://youtu.be/ShiShrRnh8?si=uJnoi5P2AhF4xkO
Easybeats: https://youtu.be/rBJLoYd8xak?si=Kf4bOFeXuvPypmgf
Norman Rowe: https://youtu.be/rBJLoYd8xak?si=Kf4bOFeXuvPypmgf
I probably know it (my mum loves cold chisel and used to play it around the house), but can't place it
I decided against meatballs instead made stuffed capsicums so I asked google how long to put into the airfryer and she replied with "I don't know. Here's a link I found on the web" which I did not receive because it will go to the man's phone instead.
Yesterday I asked her how to whistle she replied "Some people say to close your lips and blow but it's hard to do without lips".
My google has turned sassy.
I found out today that android auto seems to have the best understanding of Australian (or at least my) accent. Most of the others seem to be programmed to understand white Americans from California only and get extremely confused whenever anybody else tries to talk at them
My google home understands me and she speaks aussie herself but if I play pop quiz not a chance does it understand my answers.
While you are toying with Google, try typing "cat" (or "dog") in as a search term. Then click on the paw print icon that comes up next to the Google result, and then click anywhere else on the screen.
Omg that's so cute.
I know LJ is kind of a dinosaur of the internet these days, but there's still one or two I go back to read the updates... haven't been able to for the past week, always getting that "page did not respond" and it's hitting me in the feels. Mostly because I've had a shitty day, it's the first day of my period and I'm just... wah. Being whiny.
Have you looked for Dreamwidth equivalents? Nearly all my LJ people ported there when the Russian no Gay policy thing happened.
Live Journal? Had to google. If it's old stuff you're looking for, check https://web.archive.org/. Maybe someone's archived it
Twas an LJ that was surprisingly still active daily - ONTD!
So effing cold and tired that I fell asleep with my oodie on under the covers and I didn't even sweat. Although, it's not been as cold as the previous nights
I had my electric blanket on high last night, same thing, no sweat
Time to attack the lawn with the push mower and accidentally run over a hose or 2.
trying to get a gold class ticket to Deadpool is damn near impossible. No, i dont want to go at 10:30pm.
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Is that like a slim shady, but bogan
I'm gonna spam youse with my playlist tonight
Don't know it
For all the nerds out there
No.
The last one for the night
For some reason, the name of this made me think of What You Know by Two Door Cinema Club. That one's a current obsession of mine, but they're (North) Irish
Good one!
Ok well silly me messaged that trampoline guy after like two months asking if he wants to join a Stardew Valley co-op with me. Silly, silly, silly.
Oh hon. Buy much cheese and go pet some rescues ferrets. Better for the brain 🖤
Step 1: acquire rescue ferrets :)
it's never wrong to make an effort
Intermission
prelude
No waves in the ocean tonight which makes it SCARY. Waves sort of force you to jump under and takes the mind off the shock. You're either cleaned up or not. When it's still, like glass, it is all on you to make the first move and if I remember my teenage years at house parties I was always too shy to do that.
Good night everyone. Sleep well. 😘
Ahhhh Tex...
But why :(
(I don't)
Scrubbed window down with alcohol wipes. I’m going to use neat vinegar on the painted sill because I am not colour matching gloss paint to fix it if it goes gummy. I have it open for a short time but this is a window where I can’t safely leave it or the blind open.
Avoiding the mending hamper…
Get a damp cloth and sprinkle some clove oil on it and wipe down where you've already wiped. And then wait. It will probably work.
i am eating noodles with dumplings, after which i will bring out my mechanical keyboard to apply for a job i actually like
No.
That was fun! Let's spam again sometime
The man was in love with Suze DeMarchi. Now he has me. ☺
Who the Fuck is Alice - Smokie
Here's a sing a long for the kids
Locomotion - Kylie Minogue https://youtu.be/POWsFzSFLCE?si=13ITEE1b1zyn7sD3
oh yeah i know kylie minogue. I don't think I know that one, but i've probably heard it
It’s a classic.
I really enjoy singing along to this one
C-Dog. It's RIPtide. Like Rest In Pieces (out in the) TIDE
Awesome song though, had it on earlier