Discussion Thread ❄️ Sunday 8 June 2025

Strays ate from a plate I was holding!

It doesn't sound like much, but this is huge.

Edit: The spinny butterfly toy is getting a hell of a workout from Gibson.

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that's great 😄

Also garlic dip is no joke, 38% garlic! It is SPICY from the garlic. Recommend if you wanna tasty treat that will also protect you from vampires and other people in general

You can add it into dishes too instead of using raw garlic. I like to spread it on a piece of bread then add cheese and airfry it.
- That's a terrific idea!
- Omg 🤤 I was thinking it felt more like an ingredient than a dip. Good thinking!
That stuff is fuckin' crack. Goes oddly great with doritos!

Today was meant to be a uni work day but I genuinely couldn't get up until 11am, it's effing miserable out there, and Sox has been glued to me ever since, so I'm taking that as a sign to cancel my vague offer to help a relative tomorrow and use that to get on with my writing instead. Maybe I'll do some more reading this arvo though.

I'm also not normally much of a soup person, but this weather definitely calls for one. I'm thinking kidney beans, leeks, carrot, tamatah paste and the orzo lying around in the cupboard. Maybe some roast fennel.

It was a day for sleep. I wanted to catch up on a bunch of stuff but napped all afternoon. I have listened to this part of my audiobook about three times because I keep falling asleep! Good luck with it tomorrow 💪🏻

Does anyone else's cat snore? Or am I just lucky?

- I think you’ve got Bill & Ted’s ginger cousin. So fluffy!
My cat snores louder than my human partner.
- Gibson snores as loud as an ex I used to call snorasaurus rex
Mickey makes suckling noises, it's very cute. He also does a big sigh as he's drifting off.
Alfie is quite the snorer!
I used to catsit a couple of cats that snored. Sox definitely doesn't. She might issue a throaty purr when she feels particularly gruntled, though.

Great idea to track. Those little bits of evidence help show it's getting better. You've worked so hard on yourself these last couple of years ♥️♥️
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Mr Woof spent about four hours last night running in and out stressed out and looking for me. He was very happy when I got home, and hopefully will be a bit more relaxed tonight. And hopefully I will be a bit more relaxed too, knowing he's ok.

The positive outcome is that he is now confidently using the dog door in both directions and no longer requires my dog door midwiffery to get up the courage to go through.

Miss Meow was also a bit stressed at having me out all night - she spend an hour or so in the early hours of the morning searching for me. Both of them were glued to my side in bed after I got home.

That's so cute! Glad they're feeling better :)

So nice coming inside to a warm house.

At the same shopping centre where this week’s pumpkin projectile happened to me and I witness another loud confrontation between staff v shoplifter, this time at Aldi. I kept my distance and eyes on them the entire time. What is happening though? Twice in a week while I’m here. I honestly don’t feel that safe coming here anymore.

Edit - I was influenced and purchased the garlic dip. Garlic bomb incoming 😶‍🌫️

I’m sorry bro, there are parts of Melbourne that are especially cooked now. Poverty, drugs and lack of support services are really causing a crunch and leading to increased shoplifting and aggression.
It might be worth going somewhere else, another area if possible

I got:

A fancy toothbrush (that has Bluetooth and an app for some reason)

New sheets

A jacket

A hoodie with a massive hood (took me weeks to find)

Massive amount of cat treats

Done and done.

toothbrush ✅
cat bed ✅
cat bed ✅
cat bed ✅
cat treats ✅

How is it that tedious chores are easier in video games than rl? But I’m stealing the concept of ‘doing dailies’.

If I can do even just one annoying thing each day, no matter if that’s all that gets done, then that should start to add up to a clean mostly empty flat. And if it doesn’t then it prevents things from snowballing (especially in a small place).

I’m staying on Mts Wash and Dishmore, shredding paperwork, and slowly weeding out various things to declutter. There’s a bunch of different places for unwanted stuff to go but I’m just putting them aside for when I get a lift.

When life is less chaotic then I begin to sell things.

One annoying thing a day is a good idea. I'm going to steal it. If my executive function works with me.
this is what I do
I set myself rules. Everyday make sure the cat amenities are clean. Do the dishes and clean the kitchen everyday. Self care everyday. Wear clean tidy clothes everyday.
If I make a list I try to have it all crossed by end of day, it doesn't matter if it's midnight.
I need to expand my rules.

Read another book (High Wire by Candace Fox) and in the brief bit of Sun we had, went out. The Minipeelers swindled me somehow into going to a local cafe where the San Sebastian cheesecake and tiramisu are to die for. Both were lovely as usual. Am now alternating between beached whale mode and doing odd little tasks like a load of laundry.

I hope everything is working out well :)
- Thankyou Gibson!

We cranked up the rammstein for the next wall and i've just nipped up to grab some fuds. I can hear His Lordship singing along to big titties through the floorboards lol

rain, lots of rain here

Same

I'm developing an addiction to Jarrah hot choccie. I blame this weather.

The Coles organic hot chocolate is incredible. I add a splash of pouring cream and vanilla syrup too. No, I have no self-control.

Beep Beep 🚚
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Seafood congee please
- 🦀🐙🦞🐟🦐🦑🍚🍲
Raging bonfire please.
- 😡🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥☄️☄️☄️☄️☄️
Chicken parma, pleeeease! You're the best, Chef!
- 🧀🍅🥓🍗

P&H soup in crockpot - adequate quantities of garlic included. Kitchen smells amazing. Will be done by 6 pm I hope.

Please help.

Do I:

Stay inside all day and lounge around

Go and do a massive food shop

Go and buy some new clothes

I'm leaving towards option 1.

I mean it's a great day for option 1. How urgent are 2 and 3? Can they happen tomorrow?
- Option 1 was the winner!
Massive food shop if you’re lacking.
It’ll also mean you won’t have to do it after work this week if you shop for the entire week.
Clothes shopping maybe wait on that. EOFY sales should be starting soon?
- You make good points. I'm still lounging but will do a massive food shop sometime today, but not heaps lacking in stuff.
Look I just got back from the great OUT THERE and it's pretty miserable. But there are not many other shoppers around.
- I bit the bullet and went clothes shopping and grabbed enough groceries for today.
  Glad my bed is warm and inviting lol
whine I've got
Pump a pile of artic water from the overflow to the tanks on the other side of the house then
Smash a pile of render off a brick wall in an unheated basement
Wanna swap?

My big plans for this morning involve the heater, the couch, and a large pot of tea.

Replace tea with coffee and I’m your twin.

Grrr. I have to go out and buy stuff. Peas are soaking for P&H soup, but they won't be cookable for hours yet. I need a decent ham bone and some more garlic. Grrr. Some nice bread to have with soup would be good too. But hanging about won't make that happen so will grit my teeth and grin and bear it. Weather is (marginally) improving.

I feel hungry, making two sorts of pasta and mixing it together tonight.

Need to get up and out to the farmers market while there's a break in the rain but stuck under my blankets... What to do?

I need to either do a massive food shop, or go to the mega shopping centre for some new clothes.
I don't wanna

Been waiting hours… Melatonin hasn’t done a thing. /shrug Restavit it is

More painting is done. Later I will continue painting the drawer handles and escutcheons.

now it's tidying up and ironing on some patches.

TIL a new word, escutcheons. Thanks Seagoon 🙏

The painting of the bedroom suite is taking a while but it's looking so good. I'll post pics when I'm done. 🙂

I fell asleep briefly watching Klute. I never fall asleep during the day ever. Perhaps I’m coming down with something

Found out you can do donations to food banks via supermarket delivery but annoyed that by posting that I’m driving more business to Coles (when Coles and Woolies should be receiving a lot more scrutiny for price gouging and shrinkflation).

Hopefully a few more people will donate this way but it’s hiding a systemic issue (growing wealth inequality) and it’s always the big businesses that clean up when things go to shit. What a sucky balance.

If I had money and a car I’d probably hit up Aldi or IGA both for myself and when I could do donations

the savings from shopping at aldi make using public transport to get there and back cost effective
and so many hugs for you thinking of helping other people, again , you're a good person 😘😘😘
- Public transport isn’t very accessible for physical ability and also local safety issues. Also for working people time is an issue
  Still sucks that I’m giving a sus grocery baron a plug (and using it)

Sorting out my trip to Adelaide!!!!!!!

Fuck yes!

Scomo gets an award in the Kings B'day honors list

Words fail me.

that cunt , didn't he refuse the vaccine from pfizer , making us wait at least another year just so his corrupt mates could profit
- Yes. They haggled over the price, turned it down and let us deal with the strollout.
"You do the best job you can on the day and then you shake yourself off the next day and you do it all again."
Mate, you didn’t do anything.
Very undeserving.

I didn’t end up taking the restavit because it expired last month… debating whether to take it tonight anyway and get a fresh box on Monday.

I’m sick of the sleeping pattern I’m stuck in. I do wake up but can’t seem to get up or do anything and end up going back to sleep.

IDK much about pharmaceutical chemistry, but I wouldn't be too concerned about the expiry date. They usually decided with a large error of margin. The sooner the company says something has 'expired' the sooner it needs to be replaced.
- The other aspect with the expiry date is it is generally about the chemical compounds breaking down and becoming less effective rather than it becoming unsafe to consume. So expired medications may not work quite as well as if they are in date but are not harmful.
- That’s good. You always hear not to take expired medication and usually I don’t but I am not feeling up to going and getting more right now
Agree with others, would be totally safe to use

When I trim my nails, I trim too close to the cuticle and end up getting an infection.

I have one now and the antibiotics are giving me a nasty headache.

Goodnight all :)

I’m not sure what this means because the cuticle is the thicker skin stuff between the bottom of the nail and finger? Do you just mean the skin gets nicked because you cut too much off the top? You could try washing/disinfecting the nail scissors or clippers. Bacteria might be living on them that keeps reinfecting any nicks each time you do your nails. Order of operation is wash hands, disinfect clippers, then trim nails. Hopefully that prevents any further instances!
hugs, get better soon 😊

I'm pooped. Did nearly everything on my to do list.

Good night. Sweet dreams. 😘