I GOT MY PASSPORT 🎉
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Yay ⛵
Yay, time to celebrate with lamb shanks!
And a nice bottle of wine.
Yay! Where are you off to?
New Zealand for a few days in hopefully November then next year Japan.
I had my care team meeting today. I think it went pretty well. It was fun watching the shitshow of blame games, as well as the external people who just seemed shocked this happened at all. It looks like my org will reimburse me for the security camera and door alarms though, so that's useful. It didn't actually cross my mind that I could probably either make them buy it, or to just reimburse me for it later. One of my support people in the meeting was just like "so let me get this straight: you purchased cameras and alarms to keep yourself safe, with your own money, even though it's their fault you have to worry about your safety in the first place?"
From tonight there's no more overnight workers which means I'm on my own again. I'm not feeling unsafe or scared anymore, I feel like even if he does come back, I can handle it. But after thinking on it more, I don't think he's the type who would come back. I mean, he broke into my room while I was away and only did it before he moved out, even though it's probably a logical fallacy on my part, that kind of just seems like cowardice. Plus, if he was planning on coming back, he probably would've by now
I really hope someone gets fired for this
If you were an adult, I'd tell you to go to the ABC with this clusterfuck. Save it for when you're safe, though, this crap needs to be exposed ugh.
I'm glad you're feeling better and safer. I hope things keep improving for you! You're incredibly kind and smart :)
So is there any accountability or changes coming out of it?
Hmm... Well, I'll see the area manager tomorrow afternoon, he'll probably tell me he's sorry for what happened but also it's not actually his fault at all and in a roundabout way, it's actually my fault. But that's probably about it
Made it in for a bit but was too much got out straight away:
Wasn't the size of the waves but the power in them was impressive. Zero people walking their doggos heh.
looks scary
Through to an interview with second preference job, Friday lunchtime. I've already done online testing with great results and submitted a five minute video. I'm hoping this is more of a formality at this point. I am a great candidate
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Damn straight you are! Fuck yeah!
Good luck!
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You'll smash it!
Good luck! 🤞🏼
I could wear make-up and curl my hair,
Commence my glow-up and start to care,
I'd colour myself amongst the rainbow,
But what for and why? I don't know.I want to be pretty like the girls on the net,
But I feel quite petty when my eyes set
Upon my face and the way it exists.
But what for and why? It just is.Is it the web that makes me feel so bad?
All the cute girls on the street, I feel so sad.
I'm sure if I tried, I'd look like a queen,
But what for and why, so I could be seen?I don't crave attention, I'll promise you that,
I like staying home with my coffee and cat,
Should I do it for me, and try to be pretty?
But what for and why? Now I sound petty.Work all week. Spend weekend recovering from exhaustion. Repeat. Life not very satisfying ☹️. At least my cat naps on the bed with me.
16 tons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkRYuMqw-B0 written in 1946
Peets on feet
Gibson has the cutest little white cheeks 🥰
Gym achieved. Now to undo it with fancy iced coffee
Easy come, easy go.
I'm gonna go find some lamb shanks and if I don't find them Ima gonna chuck a mini tantrum in the meat department of Coles.
I just accidentally replied to a work text message in all caps. Realised just as I hit send. oops. Maybe I can blame the cat.
Blame the Dems, everyone else does.
It's ok, turns out they were too distracted by the typo in their own message to notice me yelling at them.
Every nerve is fried. My heart is beating so fast, and the nerves in my neck twinge. I teleport around the apartment, quantum, fleeting. Electricity courses through my body in waves.
SNRI withdrawal is wild. 3/10, do not recommend. (A 3, because sometimes it feels like my brain is in freefall and it's almost pleasant).
I'll be fine, I have the meds now. The woes of executive dysfunction and supporting a local pharmacy that closes on Sundays. 🤦♀️
My one last morning volunteer shift is tomorrow, so up at 4am, off at 6am, start at 8am, finish at 12pm, should be home by 2ish-pm. Rest. Cleanup Wednesday in prep for MIL visit from Perth. Then TAFE on Thursday and Friday.
This turned into a ramble. Enjoy lol
Hope you feel better ❤️ I've had the "brain zaps" before and it was super unpleasant.
Ty 💜💜💜 It's not my favourite experience, that's for sure. Not even in my Top 50.
But least it isn't painful, just unpleasant as you said
SNRI withdrawal rates 0/10 in my books. I remember having constant brain zaps and feeling like a completely out of control bag of volatile emotions. Probably nothing about it felt good because it fucked up work so badly. Hope you manage to get back on track asap. I would risk going to a chain pharmacy to avoid SNRI withdrawals in the future...
hugs
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Sorry for how you’re feeling. I’ve heard withdrawal symptoms can be awful.
I hope you feel better soon!
Defs jumping in da ocean for the sunset swim tonight.
Last time it was like that was in Jan. and it was extremely humbling.
but why? Are you trying to find holt?
~I get the swells but fuck that temp~
You're mad.
Yes but why
Do not join my staff
You aren't swimming alone are you?
Beep Beep
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cup of tea and apple burrito please
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Cheesecake tart please
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Back to it.... Lunchnotes - theme by kidcalhoon2
I’ve bought Melbcat a treat tower - trying to give her some enrichment.
You're a good cat friend. 😊
Woke up to 6, got ready for work only to realise it's Monday and not Tuesday (my in office day). About to have a serious midday nap
woke up at one point last night on my side, knees at a 90 degree angle with a pillow in between, feet resting on the spaces between the ball and heels and fingers interlocked. Ontop of this rain was pelting the brick wall behind my head and I have to say it was the most comfortable I've been in a LONG time.
The garden is loving this rain. I am not. Just saying.
Anti-Sads - obtained! Papers - obtained! Milk - obtained! Coffee from Mokum - obtained!!
My daily rant as an old person.
Using the words Processing and Unpacking when speaking or writing of thoughts.
I truly dislike these words because it turns people into machines, into objects. It's how a psychopath wants you to think about yourself and events. They want to define how you think and feel.
People reflect on events and feel emotions, they don't process. When you use the wrong word/idea you distance yourself from who you are.
People think about their lives and events, they may or may not think in an analytical way, they don't unpack. I unpack my groceries and when I do I'm not analysing what they are, how and why I bought them, the origin of the groceries, I'm not trying to make a narrative that makes sense, I'm not relating my groceries to other groceries. I'm just picking them up and putting them away.
When unpacking I usually circle back, touch base and re-process, re-pack then if the synergistic ducks are in a row it'll be all blue skies.
Do you navigate all your problems like that?
The only time I use process is when someone tells me some really big news and immediately wants an answer. I'll reply with "um give me some time to process that".
Agreed! So much more is involved in reflection than just "unpack/process". I'm not "putting away" my thoughts, nor am I "processing" them like a warehouse. Sure, one can make a metaphor for how the brain stores memories (short and long-term, and how that can be disrupted, the effects of such disruption, etc) to how a warehouse stores stock or moves it. But as with all metaphors, they are lacking in a fundamental way: they discount the humanness of thinking and memories. The process of remembering and mindfulness is less a straight line of "A follows B follows C follows D...", and more akin to "A reminds me of F, and I feel X about that, but maybe I should think about D and how it relates to L and I can use that if I encounter G...".
Thinking of us as machines, well, dehumanises us lol.
I might do a little rummaging around to find out when that terminology first arose and who is responsible and why.
I admit manipulation of language and beliefs bother me.
I unfortunately use these kinds of words as a result of working at a community organisation that was run by an interlinking system of committees. There used to be a lot of meetings, and people padded out their conshy sounding contributions with the sort of language that adds absolutely no meaning. Honestly the joint was a bit like a cult and it took me a long time to deprogram myself.
@Seagoon_ it's possible that you're unaware that "unpack" came into this kind of discourse as a term from the 1988 essay "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," which is about deconstructing white privilege
https://admin.artsci.washington.edu/sites/adming/files/unpacking-invisible-knapsack.pdf
> Using the words Processing and
> Unpacking when speaking or
> writing of thoughts
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> I truly dislike these words
> because it turns people into
> machinesI feel the same. Same thing also with the word "content". If I write something, like an article or whatever, I did not "produce" anything, and certainly not "content". Even this little mastodon comment here, silly as it may be, is not "content". It's something I've written where I (a human!) expressed some thoughts.
I have some terrible news ... BreadTop at Melbourne Central is CLOSED. I don't know if it's permanent. This means my mornings are much less joyful... And my life has extended by a few years.
I don't know whether it is still there, but I really miss that pide store at the bottom of Melbourne Central. Their goodies were so great.
There are a few types of street/fast food that were common in Melbourne that I can't readily get in Perth.
Is the QV one still there? Haven't checked in about a decade.
the heating is off to save some power whilst its just me home but maaaaan am I not loving that! works also doing my head in. Just told my boss "You cant say X is in charge of Y, but keep giving me Y to do and not giving me the remuneration that matches that" It wasn't even 11am before I had all the stress back that I'd worked off on the weekend. At some point I'm gonna go "Why am I working here again?"
It’s bin night and there are only 2 other bins out on street. Normally 8pm would have you last bin out by a mile!
Gratitude thread!
Meal prepping yesterday for me
Work was okay today
I’ve now spent as much time out of the house as I need to today. I can settle in and begin the coze
Having a split system heater
Fluffball
Having a job next week (I'll believe it when I get there)
Meal prepping yesterday for me
tonight a mealprepped curry here too. Pretty excited!
I only had to go out to retrieve the bins today.
The new couch is extremely comfortable to stretch out on.
I'm working tomorrow but both places are warm and I get a cuppa and noms at both.I have an overtime shift tomorrow.
I made it through the day today!
Only 4 more to go till the weekend again.
w000 first of two distills done on the sugar wash. Using up the last of my kits...took a gamble on dried yeast that expired in 2021 and was not kept in a controlled environment in any way, shape nor form and it's popped up at a respectable 50% after stripping run. A smish of soda ash, a dash of water, back into the still and then I begin the cuts
moonshine?
Base. Probably gonna end up in the hard solo, or maybe another burbon. Last burbon I made was apparently rather good, given how quickly it went, even if I was straining the cask chips out with a tea strainer.
eyeballs still
I'm pondering poitin
He's a dick tater.
when ever there is a big political event that draws all attention evil people like poitin will use the opportunity to do some more evil with out newspapers taking much notice
watch for poitin enemies disappearing and attacks on other nations , maybe some extra fraud
Anyone got tips for dealing with a dry, itchy, back-of-the-throat cough? Other than a salt gargle. Yesterday's headache and lethargy are mostly gone but replaced by this insidious annoyance. Feels like it's been years since I've had a throat problem
Strepsils or other hard candy. I got a pack of Coles Butterscotch which have been great for the intubation throat.
Vitamin C for general immune system power.
I'll definitely look into this if the honey thing doesn't work. I remember strepsils from childhood...
You get honey and you put some on a teaspoon and flip it over onto your tongue (so it's trapped between your tongue and the spoon) and suck it like a lollipop.
Not gonna complain about this remedy. I've got some very thick honey that's hard to use as a spread so perfect for this very use.
Second the honey advice. Honey + lemon + ginger in a bit of hot water is my go to.
I've got jars and jars of honey that I can't get through so this sounds like the perfect excuse. Will go shopping for lemons and ginger tomorrow!
solvin lozenges
Can agree with the honey-lemon-ginger drink, but also liquorice can work, as can a tea made of dried thyme leaves. I think the ancient Romans used thyme for sore throats. Gargle or sip.
Lips getting a bit too dry for the chapstick to handle so I bought a clear lip gloss… however turns out it’s coconut scented 🤢 The scent is also lowkey burning my lips.
I give up man, all the beauty products seem to stink and hurt. I’d use coconut oil/vaseline/pawpaw but don’t want to be sticking my fingers into pots and touching my mouth. (The cat also loves pawpaw ointment and would try to lick it off)
Lots balms have something like menthol/camphor/mint in them. When your lips are dry or cracked the last thing I need is for them to slathered in spicy ingredients. Why do they put in in there???
Mine seem to hate castor oil too. Stinging and peeling
I found Molton Brown plain lip balm very safe and I am pretty sensitive to lip stuff, having thrown away so many glosses and pencils
Vaseline and a cotton bud is what goes in this house.
Too much hassle
I’ll just deal with it
I found the best ones are those lip balms you get from the honey stalls at markets. Soothing, long lasting and the unflavoured ones aren't attractive tasting enough to eat (which is my problem!)
@PeelerSheila @melbaboutown Unfortunately, they're going out of business. But, if there's still a Body Shop still open anywhere near you, their hemp honey lip balm works well.
(If there isn't one still open near you, various online stores that also sell them...)
Why didn't anyone tell me about the Madeira cake at Aldi?? It's so yum
Have you tried the potato gratin that Sir_ListerOfSmeg recommended?
There is an impeccably appointed Mercedes with a large decal of Psyduck on the side doing a circuit of Melbourne.
Behold the Psyduckmobile
Anti-gratitude thread.
First world problem. Phone is out of storage, and trying to put photos onto laptop to put onto external hard drive (laptop only has one USB-A port). It's making the laptop very slow, so can't do much else on it for the next eleven hours apparently, or unplug my phone. First it said an hour and twenty, now it says 11 hours.
My Win 11 laptop keeps trying to force me to try 'New Outlook' instead of the default Mail app. I'd do it, but currently Mail is an aggregate for multiple email accounts for my small biz and I can't risk stuffing them all up migrating the accounts
I’m a dumbass sometimes. Returned and exchanged an item where I thought something was missing and it turns out the piece is embedded into the lid.
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A restful evening after work it was not :(
I have an overtime shift tomorrow.
iphone? Its got an option in settings to offload to icloud the high quality ones. Saved me a ton of storage. thinkin Im gonna need bigger than 128gb next time.
Android! My google photos is full too :(
I hate that my house has no insulation so to feel comfortable you have to have the heater running.
Just playing some vintage LPs I got last week, one is an album of movie music by Alfred Newman ( Randy Newman's father ) and bless me but the album starts with the fanfare of 20th Century Fox, it appears Newman wrote it!! I was not expecting to hear that .
The album also has a booklet with "movie stills", I like the one of swashbuckling pirate Tyrone Power. 😹
fun fact, he was also the poster boy for MAD magazine :P
the name but not the face 🤓
now I'm playing a Child's Garden Of Frieberg. The Weird Al of the 50s and 60s. Frieberg parodying Elvis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INt48fr_ZYc
Last two albums. Segovia plays Bach, maybe I just don't like his guitar but I prefer Williams or Julian Bream playing Bach.
And the Maya guitar music went in the bin, it sounded like the worst musak.
They had a replay of the world cup final, but with men's teams (it was only the Euros). England lost to Spain again and I am very happy!
Wimdy 🌬️
a little rain here, not much just enough to wet the place
