Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
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Much needed dose of serotonin thanks to the doggo this morning
doggo looking regal in the morning sun
___Thank you, that is a good dog.
so good he looks quite angelic 😊
I was a bit lucky this morning! I couldn’t get to sleep until I think about 4:30am. I have a ‘work from the office’ 7:30am Tuesday alarm (earlier than my every other day work remotely 8:45am alarm) which I was dreading so I could head in today and present my months in the making document to the team. Woke up without the aid of an alarm which didn’t bode well… 8:40am. Seems I disabled my Tuesday alarm last week because I wasn’t going in but forgot to turn it back on.
The lucky part is my phone also had a Teams message on it from the boss saying he’s unwell and won’t be in today, so I don’t need to go in anyway! Now I’m going to require all of the world’s coffee.
I got given the news that I am receiving a pay rise and I am absolutely stoked, it made me feel exponentially more valued.
Does that mean you’ll be getting (salary)2?
Not quite squared but it is still a big(ish) raise for my industry haha
That’s awesome. 🥂
Woo! Congratulations 🍾
Yesss!! Good stuff and well done!! <3
The economy is fucked. The environment is fucked. Everything is fucked. But my attitude towards it these days is pretty much is “meh”. At some point you just become very uninterested in hearing the same bad news over and over.
What bothers me most is how we are encouraged to feel hopeless, like there is nothing we can do
We can do so much to improve our lives, our community and the environment. Some we can do on our own, some takes organising.
An example is Clean Up Australia Day. Community food cupboards, little libraries.
We can be good neighbours even in small ways.
We can stop listening to bad news.
The economy? That will take longer. Join unions. Invest in Australian industry instead of residential property. Tax private companies. etc etc
We can take some action but institutional actors need to step up.
of course privately owned companies ( lets call them what they are ) and governments need to do things that improve lives and the world
Advocating action on an individual level is subversive and a way to achieve these bigger aims
once people start cleaning their local environment, having a nicer kinder community, having stronger local industry, having more tax money to invest in Australia they will like the results, they will want more as they see that positive change is possible, become invested in improvement, in positive action, and they will start demanding more action from government and industry
it’s subversive , it changes minds and that’s why I always say it
Hence why I don’t really watch the news anymore. I just end up feeling sad and angry.
Ive stopped watching the news for the last few months. It’s been ever so depressing and the constant delivering of bad news left a bad taste of my mouth.
Cost of this and cost of that and rate rises non stop for the last whatever months.
Sometimes I want the apocalypse to hurry up; it’s the slow burn that’s making the end of the world so boring to live through. Can’t we have an end-of-the-world scenario that’s more like ‘2012’? Ugh!
Collapse happens slowly… then suddenly :)
It scares me. 😟
Scares me too :(
holy shit - visitors arrived at my neighbours next door, and I swear to fUCKING Alanis if they start singing Katy Perry again, I’m going to TP their welcome mat.
edit: EVERY MONDAY WTF
edit edit: this was my rant posted in yesterdays dt, but they just arrived so here it is too, electric boogaloo
You have to start playing Taylor Swift to show your dominance.
Things for my move are all set in stone now. Neither I or the org I’m moving to are allowed to back out now. Since CP have set a date, I WILL move whether I’m happy about it or not. They really have found a way to suck all of the excitement out of it, I was pretty neutral on it until I’m told I no longer have a choice and in 12 days I’ll be moving somewhere I’ve never even seen yet
Moving is always going to be stressful, no matter what the circumstances. I find when something like that is happening outside of my control it is best to accept that it is happening and focus on the parts I can control. You are a great person and you have the ability to make this a good thing for yourself.
If you feel another earthquake, don’t worry, it was just the ripple of the biggest burp I’ve ever done. You’re welcome!
Nah it’s me, I seem to be farting for Australia ATM.
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Day 17 of exercise program and day 2 of ten day tummy exercise challenge completed. Pizza base day at work. I’m craving sushi for some reason. It’s an itch I don’t mind scratching! Got Mr Peeler to watch tummy exercise video last night. Hopefully it inspires him. He is overweight and has back trouble and heart trouble, so he needs to start some manageable exercise program so he doesn’t get put off. He seems to only want to sit around and smoke weed about it, which imo isn’t helping at all. I tell him, too much of a good thing man! Weed is not a performance enhancing drug, and it’s definitely not a motivational aid in my experience. I gave up years ago. Weed is part of his identity though, I don’t think he’d know what to do with himself. (Sighs) Have a wonderful day everyone! Get some of that sunshine if you can!
can you share the tummy video?
Weed is a lifestyle for some but it becomes a crutch I think.
I asked for that link a couple of days ago so I can share 😀 stomach exercise video
Thanks!
alright wtf wtaf
this sTUPId company emailed me this morning, said they’re sorry about not getting back to me last week, they had some structural changes and put hiring on hold, but they’ll get back to me this arvo with an outcome. Sounded promising, I wrote back ‘thanks looking forward to it’ blah blah blah
BRUH! BRUH BRUH
they did not get back to me
they did not get back to me
they did not get back to mesTOP faRKIN with me argghhhhhhh
I’m so done I’m burnt
/VENTiamokayjustneedtoscreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeam–
Hope you hear back soon. Unfortunately this has been happening all too often recently based on my own and other people’s experiences. I had this HR person who kept saying they’ll reschedule an interview and just kept coming up with excuses or you give them a time then they ghost you until they feel like calling you again. It was fucking rude. Sadly it may be a reflection of what companies are going through and I’d love to hear from an insider on wtf is really going on behind closed doors.
Yeah it’s given me big ICK vibes, something big went down/is going down there. Ugh.
Oh no hun. Sorry to hear. Hopefully they get back to you with good news in the morning.
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Damn. Kinda regret not getting those After Eight dinner mints but I’m sure if I did get them I’d regret it too.
I’ve got a block of hazelnut Whittaker’s if you wanna share.
It’s too late. I’ve opened up the maltesers. Here ya go 👉 🟤 👈
Thanks. Maltesers and peanut m&ms are my fav.
They’re my fav too!!
They are top tier.
Have you tried tiramisu Maltesers? I haven’t but my manager says they’re awesome.
No but I tried the black forest ones and they were pretty good!
After a 12hr sleep finally shook the end of that cold / virus that I caught from OS.
5 weeks of severe tum tum + cold / virus cost me 6kgs and I’ve developed a deep disliking of food :( Even just looking at it.
Chicken soup (clear) with chopped veg in it is your friend here I think. And you can add hawt sauce if you want. There are pho stock cubes from Massel that are excellent. Your appetite will come back. And is likely to be massive when it does. Don’t overdo the potat caks.
Big hugs friend. When I’ve been poorly I like to start off with a takeaway stir fry or beef pho.
I want to post a pic here but the site keeps turning the image over, I have tried different source files too
so here it is sideways, some winter flowers from my garden
The look really nice, I love the gentle colours of them.
I love your vases, I never have enough smaller ones and these show off your gorgeous orchids nicely.
the two small ones are bud vases . Really, an op shop is the best place to find vases , just look at the glasses, cups and glassware and get what you think will work.
Omg they’re beautiful!
thanks , it’s nice to have flowers in winter :) The blooms are so heavy I got a lead crystal carafe from the op shop to show them in, it’s very bottom heavy and has a narrow neck, works perfect! The others I just snipped one bloom off a long stalk with many blooms. Wanted to keep some flowers for outside too.
Beautiful Orchids. You have to take the photo in landscape. (Turn the phone sideways)
Thanks. I did! I retook the picture.
No worries you helped me yesterday with the anti fungal cream idea. I went out and bought curash powder. Not the one I wanted but so far so good. 👍
I had the same thing with a watchband happen to me years ago. My doc said he sees it all the time.
I’ve been feeling flat this morning, both physically and mentally. Ended up queuing a bunch of songs together that elicit a strong emotional response and had a good cry. Maybe that’s all I needed. I’m thankful to be working from home today, and with the Mrs out for the morning too… gives me a bit of space :)
Same here. Very low on the mental side for me. Not sure why, but trying to make the best of it.
Humans are such complex buggers… like, sometimes it’s easier to lean into it, other times it’s easier to flip it. But actually knowing which path to take is the problem. Here’s hoping you can make the best of it, mate.
Thanks mate. I get like this occasionally and it tends to last a few days. No real reason for it, just how it be. I’ll be fine. Just need to wallow in a shitty mood.
I’ve got the Study Lofi playlist on. Certainly feels a little “Everything’s getting a bit hectic and the walls are closing in” hey. But not sure if thats actually whats happening or if my brains trying to turn the cogs tighter on me. Wish I could have a good cry too. Glad your feeling better!
I have a Japanese Jazz playlist that I was listening to a lot over the last week or so for this same reason. And yeah, doesn’t matter if it’s external or internal… sometimes you just got to try and bring the mood to a baseline yourself. The Study Lofi playlist is definitely a good vibe to tap into in these instances.
So I tried Aldi Potato Gratin. I wouldn’t say it blew my mind.
I make a better one. Just saying.
No doubt!
its fairly simple to make a better one. it’s not so simple to make a better one that is cheaper, faster and requires less cleaning up.
That is true. When I make it it’s a meal in itself. When I cook Aldi ones it’s really just a plate filler.
Now denounce the zeffer, bend the knee and kiss the pinky ring.
Never tried Zeffer!
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Good bot. You did your job and right on time.
Rest well and we’ll see you tomorrow.
