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  • Had a super deep but also at times heavy conversation with a family friend here about a family member we mutually know who has had a lot of troubles and is going through a really tough time readjusting to life after being institutionalised. As opposed to being sad and draining, it was a really invigorating and honest conversation despite the really intense emotions that came up at times... I feel alive because this is what life is about, it feels real.

    really grateful for these conversations and being at a stage of my life where I can freely engage in them above the veneer of pleasantries that much of life consists of.

  • Maggie not complaining. Was out there when the thunder hit. All the other birds freaked out but not her. She's a professional.

  • Everything is making me angry and sad, I've been trying to work out why as I recognise it's irrational.

    Turns out, it's just my stupid uterus making itself the centre of attention again 🙄 such an attention seeker, it would fit right in with a mean girl clique lol

    • I just ate 3 of those cadbury popping candy elf things. I don't even like popping candy, so I guess I'll be joining you at the mean girl club tomorrow.

    • damn I hated the hormone roller coaster of emotions, don't miss the tears for absolutely no reason

      but I miss the extra bit of fire hormones gave me

      • I just teared up before because I'm so over these carpet moths. I think I got them, and then I find more 🙄

        My home smells like vinegar lol

        And I cannot wait til I get menopause and after, this shit is so damn annoying 😂

  • Foghorns popping off left right and centre down here with boats going through the heads. Always an eerie noise. Makes you wonder how it would've felt going through pre-gps. Made me wonder how many perished. Turns out 50

  • Have spent most of the afternoon getting all the Lego we own in the house for inventory. We have 3 sets which have never been opened, several almost completed sets (they were completed but bits fell off), most of the assembly books for the sets we have, and two additional 35L tubs choc full of Lego. There's a place that'll buy unsorted, preowned Lego by the kg. The kids have been sorting Lego from non-Lego and playing with it all afternoon. There's some we'll keep, but the rest has got to go. So many memories! I've been buying Lego for the kids for 10 years! It's basically 2 giant suitcases full and we need the money and lack the room.

  • Just a slow housework and gardening kind of day.

    And I have another bag of stuff to take to the op shop, good stuff so I will take to the small shop, the one that does not extort buyers.

    • @Seagoon @Baku which op shop is this? I like promoting good small op shops over the majors.

    • Op shop prices are an interesting topic. I was talking to a friend the other day who volunteers at one (inner city), and she said they got so many people buying things to resell at a big margin, that they put the prices up so at least they got the $ for their charity and people who needed it. If anyone who comes in is really struggling, they will give them clothes etc for free.

  • Marge, babe, you couldn’t have waited five minutes?

    It’s coming down in sheets and I’m soaked from head to foot, and I was only caught in it for two minutes

  • hey guys, back from a nice bbq out in the suburbs. The air there smells of trees. 🙂

    • I went out west and it smelled like poo until I got to my destination 😂

      But it's so quiet and full of nature and wildlife - utterly entrancing!

  • I’ve got the tennis on in the background while making dinner and all I hear from the kitchen is loud grunting and yelling. I’m doing my best imitation of it.

  • Wow, what a welcome home, Melbourne!!! Thank you for waiting until we had our bags in the car before unleashing the rain!

  • Good morning world, today I must kick my own arse into cleaning and not being a massive slob.

    Tried yesterday and failed so we'll see how that goes

  • Skies darkening with thunder. It’s about to go down. A rainy indoor day is just what the doctor ordered too.

    Edit - just got absolutely smashed with rain and house vibrating thunder, this storm’s angry

  • Operation empty the fridge/pantry has begun. Three flavours of fake Shapes and a tray of ginger biscuits done.

  • I need to stay awake for at least another hour. Going back to work tomorrow is a terrible, terrible idea, but I'm great at those.

    Who's got some great dad jokes for me??

    • I don't have a dad joke but this made me laugh

      https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/s/iUH7ue7qOp

    • A young moth was going out into the world for the first time. When he came back, his dad asked him how it was.

      “It went really well, dad”, said the young moth. “Everyone was clapping for me everywhere I went!”

      • SO good, thank you!

      • Reminds me of another moth joke .....

        A moth goes into a podiatrist’s office, and the podiatrist’s office says, “What seems to be the problem, moth?”

        The moth says “What’s the problem? Where do I begin, man? I go to work for Gregory Illinivich, and all day long I work. Honestly doc, I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. I don’t even know if Gregory Illinivich knows. He only knows that he has power over me, and that seems to bring him happiness. But I don’t know, I wake up in a malaise, and I walk here and there… at night I…I sometimes wake up and I turn to some old lady in my bed that’s on my arm. A lady that I once loved, doc. I don’t know where to turn to. My youngest, Alexendria, she fell in the…in the cold of last year. The cold took her down, as it did many of us. And my other boy, and this is the hardest pill to swallow, doc. My other boy, Gregarro Ivinalititavitch… I no longer love him. As much as it pains me to say, when I look in his eyes, all I see is the same cowardice that I… that I catch when I take a glimpse of my own face in the mirror. If only I wasn’t such a coward, then perhaps…perhaps I could bring myself to reach over to that cocked and loaded gun that lays on the bedside behind me and end this hellish facade once and for all…Doc, sometimes I feel like a spider, even though I’m a moth, just barely hanging on to my web with an everlasting fire underneath me. I’m not feeling good. And so the doctor says, “Moth, man, you’re troubled. But you should be seeing a psychiatrist. Why on earth did you come here?”

        And the moth says, “‘Cause the light was on

    • What do you call an alligator in a vest?

      An investigator!

    • ::: spoiler What do you call a fish with no eyes? Fsh :::

  • So considering Baku has gone to bed, who volunteers as tribute to post the DT at midnight?

    • I'll do it if no one else wants to. Will be up until then anyway as waiting on a call my from my son in Florida USA. Some good news to come from there I hope - his wife has just landed a job in Germany so I hope this call will be confirmation that they're moving there later this year. The difficulty is extracting my son from the toils of NASA without anything too restricting in the form of confidentiality agreements. Which could impact his work options. They'll be going anyway, but he would like to work in his field if possible.

    • I don’t mind doing it.

      Will be up watching a movie and maybe playing BG3 finally.

  • So steamy and hot at my place. Dismantled the Xmas tree and packed it away in a cupboard I pulled stuff out of to sort. Found a Bowser's Castle Boss Battle Lego set that hadn't even been opened. At some point one of the kids scribbled on the box a little bit in one corner 😠 not too badly though. Several sellers online selling it, not cheaply either. Considering selling it myself, but then the whole nonsense with scammers etc., don't know if I can be bothered with it.

  • It's dark now. Considering putting on the lights.. Loving the thunder.

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