Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Well it turned into a lovely arvo. Cheers everybody. 🍺
Finished binding the edges of my fave quilt, it was getting a bit frayed, and then washed it. More masks have been made. Made some scones for afternoon tea. Still heaps to do. 🥴
Breaking news: cats are pretty nice.
They can be, he says, as he nurses the scratch marks on his hands from playing with Gibson.
1964 The House Of The Rising Sun The best karaoke song of all time. You bet I belted that one out. The door’s open so the neighbours got to hear. Lucky ducks.
P.S. Everytime I call for an intermission the man plays Metallica.
If its available, Do Wah Diddy is a super easy option. You only have to sing every second line (the crowd will enthusiastically fill in the rest), the vocal range required is really easy, and the song only goes for 2 minutes.
My last girlfriend before I met my wife was Filipina and well, the Karaoke stereotype in that community is real. I had to build a small repertoire of things I could be dragged out to sing.
What other songs did you deliver?
Second last walk / ball throwing adventure for hams.
3 days of 1.5hrs of pure ball throwing until he refuses in the morning, 1.5hrs of ball throwing / socialising with other doggos in the evening seems to be a solid strategy with him.
Also had a pug and sausage dog have a go at him and he freaked out a bit which is a bit ridiculous. The pug was so imbred it could hardly breathe.
then he complains about leaving the dog park only to walk home at a snails pace and collapse in the kitchen.
Welp… I bought a PS5 during my lunch break. Now to be fair, it’s $679, the disc version AND I get Spider-Man 2 for free (for non-gamers, Spider-Man 2 came out less than a month ago and it’s usually priced between $100 and $125 depending on where you get it from). I mean I put it all on Afterpay, but I only have to spend $169.75 every fortnight so yay!
Besides I also don’t have to a) borrow my partner’s PS5 when I put my hand up to review a PS5 game for my 2nd job b) when PS5 exclusive games are up for review I can actually do it without having to worry about a. and c) Play PS5 games when I want and don’t have to wait every 2nd weekend for my partner to bring their PS5 or I go to their place and play it.
If you review games for a job, this is a work expense. Claim that $679 on tax.
I’ve hit serious burnout. Can hardly function. Weekends spent resting. According to the self care podcasts I listen to, I should schedule a getaway somewhere nice to unwind for a week or two. Lol.
No leave - new job. Too much responsibility at home to be able to walk away. What am I supposed to do? Monthly therapy isn’t helping. Mindfulness can get stuffed. Thankful for my cat.
I’m the strong person who pushes though, and people say “you’ll be fine, you’ll work it out, you’re the smart person” etc. I just can’t.
If you find your hands are full - start dropping things.
seriously. Just consciously dropping things because your hands are too full can be incredibly relieving. And when the world doesn’t end it releases even more.
Just make sure you’re dropping the rubber balls and not the glass ones :P
As someone who is recovering from this I did something similar with podcasts. I also kept a spreadsheet as opposed to journaling to be brutally honest to myself about how things might be compounding and how past things were sliding to the forefront as a lot of unwanted things were taking over.
I couldn’t bring myself to do full cold water immersion but because the majority of it was during the Winter cold water as much as I could stand (on my face) helped first thing in the morning. (If it had kept going I was going to try hands in ice water which supposed to help with stress and letting the body know you can handle it).
As far as tasks, I just did the absolute must do at home and allowed myself space. If I didn’t pressure myself with all the shoulds and musts then I would naturally do a few more things if I was up for it.
Some things had to change. For me I was lucky there was a temporary situation I didn’t realise was really contributing to it.
I also forgave myself for what I was conditioned to see as failing. Anxiety Rx podcast (while not all of it appealed to me) really helped in the sense of highlighting how common it can be for people who have relied on certain tools or ways of managing things to eventually find out that those tools no longer work. That was the bit that was really hard for me. When you are in your head a lot and function a certain way, you rely on yourself, and to reach out and find nothing there is… (I mean more in relation to our own energy/strength/resilience.) Yeah, it’s hard. I wouldn’t wish it on people and it can manifest in ways that make it challenging to identify as burnout.
Hello brains trust! Any cunning ideas what I can do with this? I’ve 3m of 150 and it is not a garment fabric. Lite hessian? Good for shopping bags but I certainly don’t need that many.
Waistcoats.
Cat sized cushions, flog on etsy
Like this?
Last I looked etsy fee structure was brutal
You could make cute fabric planters for potted indoor plants, or furoshiki for Christmas/birthdays.
Table cloth of some kind? Table runner even? A decorative curtain for partioning rooms?
E: seconding placemats!
The very one directional pattern is putting me off many ideas. Placemats would work, but isn’t something we generally do.
Cut a square into 4 triangles and then sew together with the cats all facing outward.
Do you have car seat covers?
Hey… just throwing it out there. Is it possible to miss being diagnosed with something like Crohns even after seeing specialists for many years and finally getting thrown in the too hard basket?
Did anyone else in this situation ever get an answer?
I got diagnosed with something with variable symptoms too, and most of the common ones overlap with yours, so yeah it could be other stuff
I would like to think ‘not anymore’ but anything is possible. And something like Crohn’s can affect any part of your digestive tract and be mild to severe. So … yeah maybe? Depends what’s been tested/considered. I dont know how Crohn’s specifically is diagnosed (but have history and relationships with people with similar hard to ID issues). My advice is gather your evidence and find a doctor who will listen and problem solve with you. It’s hard but they do exist
I’ve been through so many tests and tried so many things but the last tests were 6 years ago (an important one unsuccessful) and the situation has deteriorated since.
My current specialists aren’t listening because they have it pegged as ‘psychosomatic’ and are saying they don’t see the need for more tests. So… guess I have to either push harder or go elsewhere.
I’m so sorry. I get it. I don’t have anything to advise except trust your gut (haha) and keep pushing, or just treat yourself in line with what your body tells you is wrong. If it works you have your answer.
I think I’ll be pushing for another round of tests, thanks 👍
I gave little dog a kangaroo jerky stick and now he won’t leave me alone. I’m his best friend ever.
your first step to training little dog to hunt kangaroo for food in the post-apocalyptic world
Second step involves playing fetch with a bouncy ball
The man refuses to play Katy Perry, A-ha, Midnight Oil, Tears For Fears. This is why I married him. He makes me laugh. Plus he buys me stuff.
Those people make up like half of my liked songs playlist :(
Oh dear. I’m sorry but we are more of a rock, punk rock family.
I have rock!
I have punk!
I love the percentage of your songs that were released prior to your birth. You’ve got some good music influencers in your world, Baku.
2010s actually makes up the bulk of my liked songs
But it doesn’t make up the bulk of what I listen to, because that title goes to ABBA, who I don’t go 3 days without listening too…
Which is how this happened
2010’s makes perfect sense. It’s actually a weak decade for me. Once I had mp3s and later streaming, I stopped listening to the radio. That in-turn led to a huge reduction to the new music I was introduced to.
Listen to the album Deleted scenes from the Cutting Room Floor by Caro Emerald. From your tastes, I have a feeling you’ll like it. She’s basically unknown in Australia, so this one isn’t something you’ll have likely come across.
That’s fair. I struggle with discovering newer stuff too because I rarely listen to the radio, and when I do it’s usually SmoothFM. For the last few years though, I have been trying to listen to the Hottest 100 each year
Never heard of Caro Emerald, but I’ll give it a go. Thanks for the recco
I tripped over at work yesterday and I thought I’d hurt my wrist but the pain today is just below my elbow, so I’m off to the doctor and to hopefully get an X-ray. It’s my right arm and I’m right handed so that’s annoying and my arm is getting sorer and sorer. I’m lucky I filled in an incident form for the fall. I really hope it’s not serious but the pain is serious enough I’m worried it is.
In my expert opinion you poinged your sproingle and require two weeks paid vacation for oh&s
EDIT: I speak in jest but MAKE SURE you mention to the doctor this was a workplace accident and get the ball running on workcover.
You were injured at work, work pays for it.
I definitely will, I’m back at the doctor on Monday and will make sure he gets the ball rolling, I ended up booking a different doc at the same clinic because the one I saw on Friday truly didn’t seem to grasp my job and how much I need to use my arms and lift and how serious an arm injury could be for me.
packing done, need to dismantle table and pack up my pc but shall do that early morning. sent a couple msgs to the airtasker dude to confirm the pick up tomorrow but no response and that’s stressing me out :<
worst case, will ask a friend to get a van from bunnings (?) and help me move. gosh moving is so stressful!
Edit: dude replied, we’re on!
What’s a guy with a van on airtasker cost if you don’t mind?
This one was pretty cheap - $120 to move, but I don’t have much stuff. A few boxes, a table and a chair and there’s lifts on both sides. Fairly quick job.
