Daily Discussion Thread: 🐪 Wed 21 Feb 2024

Returned keys to rental that I shared with shithead today! Ordeal over.

crack a drink, sit down and really feel this moment. Appreciate it for what it is.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, baby Gibson on the day we met:

Awwww. Such a cutie!
he is the sweetest thing 🥰
So cute. I wish I had my puddins kitten pictures

Very proud Dad moment: My kid's daycare has a little kiddy pool with colour ball pit balls in them. I've been so excited for him to be old enough to go in it. After 6-ish months proud to report he is. And he was DELIGHTED, the excitement on his face was unreal. So happy for him.

It’s the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to him
Aww! Beautiful day for it too.
😊🥰😊

Slept in, yet somehow feel like I barely slept.

Adulthood is bullshit I used to sleep 6 hours a night and wake up feeling refreshed

I remember I used to go to bed after being extremely drunk/high and get up to go to work the next day with no issue.

Those days are loooong gone now.

It's now been 64 days since the Montague St bridge was fed. This is now way overdue. Just commenting.

Been sharing the treats with the Napier St Bridge lately - that got one last week

Black cockies just swept through. She had her eye on me!

Power was out for 7 days - ausnet can’t even get their website working to put in a claim. Some people still have their power out, running a generator costs a fortune (despite having it off overnight)

Shit they still haven't fixed it?

SO WARM CAN'T SLEEP

Sleep? What is that?

Done my errands, been for a swim, found Watership Down (the 1970s movie) on Netflix…productive day

I remember watching Watership Down as a kid. I am still not ok ...... briiight eyes...burning like fire.... 😭
- I still cannot listen to that song without bawling

__ Its new NOTEBOOK day folks! Full of potential and wonder - will this be the journal that gets me organised? Will it be neat (no, it won't)? Will i actually use the index at the front ?

I don't know. But it's a pretty green.

Ohmagod ohmagod ohmagod 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

Welcome to the world new stationery
Did you go blank, ruled, or dot matrix?

For a moment I thought you meant a new laptop lol
- Dot grid. I like blank best but dots are good when I need to draw and I do draw / doodle a lot.
  
  Hah oh yeah notebook/laptop. That would be exciting

Just the weather to be waiting around for my every 10 min bus that has now been 4 times that late…

Home. Crispy. Past me stocked the freezer well.

Shit sleep. Shit mood.

Have an interview (on line) today, so hoping I can mask my negativity for 45 minutes

I have a meeting this arvo for one of those initiatives that is really busywork to make the higher-ups look good. Will be actively working on not rolling my eyes.

Good luck with your interview!
- Thanks friend!! I think it went okay, but some of the questions seemed like they were tailored to someone else. I may have been the 3rd or 4th candidate to make up numbers as they had a preferred one already. Still a good experience thought.
  
  I'll happily roll my eyes here on your behalf. I'm involved in a fair few of such initiatives myself, and cringe is an understatement.
Have an interview (on line) today, so hoping I can mask my negativity for 45 minutes

Coffee!
- Had one this morning and it did the job, I think

Someone one the cptsd meme sub said this

It’s like “which layer of trauma are you talking about?” and then my whole life story comes apart like an onion

And I have never related to a sentence so hard

Have ouchy finger. Tripped and fell a few days ago and took a large chunk of skin and nail off my middle finger (why is it always that finger?). I was crossing the road where I shouldn't have been and tripped over a stupid manhole thing in the middle of the road and I am an idiot 😔.

spicy roast chicken is in oven, will do some spicy taters too

I've just put a half rack of USA bbq pork ribs in the oven. In 2 hours it's going to be fall-off-the-bone succulent rib time!
- yum
  
  I luv ribs but husband doesn't like them so I don't do them
  
  How do you do yours?

I feel like lately it's been hotter than it ever got through the middle of summer. I don't like it. Feeling for the people who don't have power

Sleeping when it’s hot is so uncomfortable, feel sorry for those without aircon. But I’m the opposite, I think we’ve actually had a fairly moderate Summer overall. I remember the drought years when it was normal to get a run of 35+ for a few days in a row, and at least several 40+ days through Jan and Feb. This year we have had none.
- I meant now is hotter than it ever got through the middle of this particular summer! You're right, it has definitely been milder than past ones which might be why I'm really feeling it now. I've been pretty grateful not to have had those days of heatwaves.
- I'm inclined to agree. Summer has been relatively mild.

The grandparents are visiting and helping to mind the kids for the next two days. These little buggers are getting a bit too much to handle on their own

How I hate Melbourne housing. Genuinely debating chucking a sickie today from the lack of sleep

Uhhhh there's an uber eats looking bag at my door for some dude called david, nobody called david lives here (and as far as I can tell, never has). No receipt on the outside of the bag and it's stapled and taped shut. Does this count as mail? Am I going to jail if I open it? I don't even know how long it's been there, I didn't hear anybody come up the stairs

Edit: I decided to open it to see if there was a receipt or a restaurant name or something, it's literally a white paper bag that says "KEBAB" in a brown paper bag. No shop name, doesn't even say if it's uber eats or door dash or whatever.

Sounds like you got a visit from the free kebab fairy, you lucky duck
- Tomorrow visits the...
  
  Harpic fairy.
- Oo never been visited by the kebab fairy before! Although I'm not sure how much I trust a fairy to make a good kebab. It's a well known fact that the best kebabs come from a bloke covered head to toe in hair with a thick Lebanese accent who calls you friend at least twice per sentence and says he's doing you a good deal. of course, for this to be true he also needs to be working out of a very small food truck parked in front of the dodgiest servo in the dodgiest part of town
- Or a not so free trip to the GI ward if it’s been sitting a bit in this heat

G’morning

*tips cat* m'jones
- Is this the urban version of cow tipping? How does the cat react to this endeavour?

My next electricity bill is going to really hurt...

Nos da

I went for a walk at lunch. It's heating up out there. I've got in early and pulled a WFH for tomorrow - the city doesn't need one more sweaty grumpy person on public transport in high-thirties heat.

beautiful day out there

really want to go for a walk 🥺 but i have limited walking in me and i need that to look after cats and do a bit of cooking

I saw the movie Poor Things. Dark fantastical comedy/social commentary done very well. Kooky aetherics, excellent costumes and brilliant acting from Emma Stone.

Just picked up a few yummy dinners from the South Melbourne market. Going to slow cook some bbq ribs this afternoon!

I should make the effort to come down here more often.

I made a huge pasta salad. On days like this "help yourself".

It's getting a bit warm out there already. Mr Woof and I just had a short walk to drop off some garden produce at the food cupboard, I wouldn't want to go for a much longer walk at the moment, especially in the sun.

Sometimes I like to go look at animal adoption sites, I like finding the animal with the silliest name and photo. Today I thought I'd look at the Pet Rescue which is not my usual place to look, and WTF is with their adoption fees! Maybe I'm being unreasonable but up to $1.5k to adopt a dog... There were 400+ listed in VIC alone, and I can kind of understand why! For that much you could go get a brand new puppy sans all the issues that come with adopting a potentially mistreated dog.

I get it's probably to deter people from making rash decisions, also folks who can afford to drop that much can also probably afford to care for the dog, and making sure that the dog goes to a good home, but it just seems insane to me.

Edit - I listed the wrong site. Sorry to The Lost Dogs Home for that one. Yikes to me!

Not sure where you are looking, most of the dogs I could see were $85. The most expensive was $800 for a young puppy.
- Holy shit I listed the wrong site, my bad, it's Pet Rescue not Lost Dogs Home that was the one I looked at after.
Hey, you will see the occasional bonkers looking fee from places like Lost Dogs when they are certain the cat is pedigree even without papers. I don’t blame them. Some of those cats have specific needs and people can be made pause on ‘but pretty’ by the price.

I see nothing wrong with the mogs being more affordable at checkout.
Ted Cat was $400 on pet rescue. Pedigree but loads of problems. Bill was $160 at rspca, same pedigree and he's been an awesome boy.

Those prices include all the medical care .
- Cough, a highly discounted medical care! And sure as heck not the food & litter to get them to adoptable she.