Daily Discussion Thread: 📺🎥💖 Friday, October 25rd, 2024

Test results still not back. 🤬🤬🤬Rash is spreading all over arms and legs, my butt, neck, and has just shown an interest in my left boob. I feel utterly miserable about it. My MIL (who's had her share of skin issues) says, "Oh I always get my results back 24, 48 hours at the most. But then I've had my tests done by the specialists." Yeah alright miss smarty pants private health cover part pension, you're not helping.

They are growing the bacteria and I guess they want to be thorough so that will take days. Way longer than blood tests. Fingers crossed you find something with an easy fix!
- exactly, it's completely different and takes time
- Thankyou, that's a good explanation. The thought that they have to deliberately grow this thing makes my skin crawl even more! And thankyou again, I'll give them a call.
In the interim is there anything that might sooth the symptoms?
Do antihistamines help any with this?
I wouldn’t listen to your MIL, don’t need her 2 cents about her experience and how lightning fast things are. Doesn’t help you in the slightest.
- I'm just about to try some antihistamines. And thankyou re MIL, she can talk underwater with a mouth full of marbles
just rest , so many gentle hugs
- Thankyou Seagoon 💜
Rough. I hope you get your results soon. Can you call the path lab?
- I'll call them soon, I just went out to buy antihistamines and soft cotton top which covers ugly throat rash.
Do you have any anti-itch cream available? I've found that plain vaseline can help with mystery rashes, helps stop the itches. Not a cure, not even close, but may help with symptoms until you get your results. Sending some healing vibes through the aether.
- Thankyou, I've Calmoseptine and calamine lotion. Everything else just seems to feed it. Ugh!
hugs Hang in there.
Is anything topical working for you?
- Calmoseptine. And calamine lotion but I've had to use lots. Anything else just seems to feed it shudders
shingles?
regardless what it is, rest and relieve your symptoms
so many hugs and I hope all the peelers are looking after you
stupid rash stay in your lane
- That's what I thought too! Stay away from the bosom!
I’m sorry, that sucks. I had pityriasis rosea or some such, I’m hoping it’s just a reaction to a virus and nothing more serious 🤞
I have had impetigo and Betadine helped. They sell bulk bottles so if you receive advice to use it you could decant some into a disposable container and use a sponge or paper towel to dab over large areas.
I also potentially have mast cell flares = rashes so hopefully antihistamines can help you short term if it’s that (consider getting checked for that or allergies)
Chemists sell Savlon, and chlorhexidine wash which may help prevent it spreading to others if it is impetigo or bacterial/fungal - but ask a doctor or nurse on call first as I’m not a doctor. The chlorhexidine is apparently a preventative only.
While you wait - One thing I found is if you absolutely can’t resist scratching and are going mad, then just to very lightly and carefully ‘slap’ the itchy spots - or more like quickly and lightly pat or tap it with an open hand or fingertips. Even better do it right next to it on healthy skin. It distracts from the itchy sensation without causing as much irritation as scratching.
However if it’s likely to be impetigo or the skin is in any way compromised ie. fragile, damaged, weeping, or infectious - don’t do this. Don’t touch it.
Come on test results!
- Thankyou Melba 💜
- My God Melba, that Pityriasis Rosea looks uncannily like what I've got! We're the sores weepy at all?

So. I grabbed a ps5 the other day. I got it running to install everything etc.

I have not touched it since as it's been work nights. I don't game on work nights.

Tonight however, is FINALLY TIME TO PLAY!!!! Fuuuuuuck yes.

what are you playing
- I grabbed final fantasy rebirth, cult of the lamb and Alan wake 2.
  I played the first final fantasy 7 remake on ps4 so keen to see what this new one is like.
  Cult of the lamb is fucking awesome, played it a bit on pc.
  And alan wake 2 looked awesome so keen to see what its like.
  What do you play?

Decided to go to the gym to get rid of my "dickhead at work is screwing up my projects" gunk out of my system.

Then I can hopefully relax.

Edit: much better.

@Seagoon_@aussie.zone

Just wanted to say, so glad you are back. It was very super weird without you. ✨

thank you so much 😭😘

Oh we're back

World Pasta Day today. Grazie. 🍝

Extremely important information.
- If you open your food truck you can say "Only the pasta today, no".
Yesssss, thank you for pointing this out!!
- *Grazie
Love me linguine, but kind of obsessed with curly fettuccine or mafaldine.
I choose.Orecchiette
I’m having pasta again tonight!
I love tortellini and ravioli. Haven’t had them in ages.
Anyway have to decide what sort of pasta I want to cook tonight.
- The belly buttons! (tortellini)

I think I may have just secured a GA ticket to Pearl Jam.... Say what you will, but they are a seminal band for me. Many core memories burned into my soul.

This version of Ledbetter was on a complication album I had of the Tibetan Freedom Concert from 94 (?).... All that's missing is the we are the mighty mighty bosstones as the track ran into the next one. Ha.

I'm taking my son to one of the shows. It's his first concert, and he loves PJ.
It's my first concert in about 18 years. The last one being, Pearl Jam in 06.
- My friends went to that '06 show. I don't even care which show you went to, my friends toured Australia and went to them all. That was before that got married and had kids, of course. 😆
- I saw them open for G&R in must have been 93. Only time a noise ordinance was taken seriously.
- Nice! I'm hoping to be there Monday.
Nice. I was lucky to see them in 95 with Mudhoney opening. Great show but stinking hot in the venue.
Oh, I would give something to hear Black live.
Hard though, Ten was very much the pinnacle for me.
- Same. Loved that album. Wish I still had the CD with all the pictures.

Fat cat has decided that my feet are tonight's headrest.

Looks like I'm sleeping on the couch.

RIP 🪦 my back I guess.

I got paid all my leave. I thought I wouldn't get it because I was terminated, but it's all there. Trying to keep my leave was one of the main reasons I was trying to make my old job work, and I thought it would be a loss I'd just have to eat moving into the new role.

But I got it. I'm going to hold onto it because I probably won't get paid over Christmas, so I can hold onto the leave pay I'd have to use then anyway.

Maybe you always get your leave, because you've technically already earned it. I thought it didn't get paid out if you got terminated

Doesn't matter the reason for your termination, you always get your annual leave paid out. Did they ask you not to work out your notice period? Because then you should get that paid out too on top of leave, depends on why you were terminated though. Check Fair Work website to make sure you got paid everything you are entitled to.
- Yeah, I knew I was at least getting two weeks pay. I'll be checking the fair work website but initial vibes are I got everything I was entitled to
Your annual leave is always yours, it's banked and money owed to you. Sick leave isn't paid out though so always always use 100% of it when leaving a company.
Just curious but do you get redundancy pay in this case as well?
- No, this wasn't a redundancy. This was a performance based termination

Home time!

Pizza is on its way, snacks have been purchased, extra cat treats so I won't be hassled for my pizza.

Let's see if the ps5 was worth it.

We’re on the same wavelength today.
I bought some fresh pizzas and some extra ingredients to add to them to make them stacked.
Going to be good eating over the next few days.
Enjoy your ps5!
- Thank you! I look forward to the break from reality for a while lol

My back is acting up. And the Coffee I bought was a shot short. Therefore, it had too much milk and was lukewarm.

This has not been a great morning. 😞

Sounds like you need a reset.
- I have no idea what that would even look like. 😀
Awww I hate a bad coffee :(
Maybe a heat pack might help your back today.
Hope your day gets better.
- A heat pack sounds nice. Unfortunately I am in the office and there is no heat pack here.
Sore back from carrying Seagoon all the way back here. What can we do to help?
- Not at all. I merely helped her make her own way back.
- now I'm embarrassed

This week I have partaken in some obsessive Spring cleaning. This included doorframes and fly screens.

Still plugging away towards SDC (aka Swedish Death Cleaning). Very mixed feelings about it. Also Llab has become even more like a mix between mecurial Melbourne weather and a Cure album (Wild Mood Swings should about sum it up). It’s just almost like an OOB experience.

Like being super cognisant of highs and lows. The promise of two good days of weather boosted me so much that I actually thought I was going a bit batty and the snap change… oof… Bon voyage, motivation.

How us Melbournites survive, I really don’t know. It’s a bit of a mystery. Haha.

I’ve got a heap of decluttering to do and read the SDC book (among other things). It’s good, but I found it a bit hard to think about the reality of what it presents, if you know what I mean?
- 100%. It can be confronting.

I've got the day off. So far I've contacted Elder's ex school about emptying his old locker so I can sell the books and waiting for a call back. Twiddles thumbs Made and drank a couple of coffees. Looked at a website of clothing that I absolutely fell in love with, but it turns out they're unreliable and the clothing is not up to scratch. Devo'd as it was totally my style 😭 (It was Airpears Japanese ocean art style clothing, not so much the dresses but the shirts, pants and men's hooded fleece jackets that I loved).

I love my sister dearly, I really do but when she has shower thoughts while on the phone to me, it takes alot of courage to not go yep, yep, yep, yep so I pepper my responses with right, ah ha, mmm, yes.

Bring on beer o'clock.

🕟👀
- Nearly there.
  One cat dog two cat dog three cat dog........

How's AZ working today for you guys?

Has been some down periods, mainly this morning
- Yeah, oops. But since this morning?
All good now.
Yesterday I got a SSL handshake fail which I translated as a Silly Sausage Limp handshake but I am really curious what that actually means.
- Secure Sockets Layer. Used to encrypt traffic on the internet. Neeeeerd
It’s ok now but nothing was loading this morning.

Cheers your Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies, gentlemen and bald headed babies. 🍺

P A K I D G E

I caved and went to colesworth on the way home. Airfryer chicken schnitzel for dindins tonight. Plus a few vinos in honour of Pasta Day. Big shout out to all the pasta grannies out there. They are inspirational.

*Nonnas, no?

Ergh, way more interest than expected at today's viewing. So many couples... goddamn couples how can I compete with you on a fulltime wage let alone a part time one 😭

At this point I'm just going to throw it all to the universe and believe that whatever unit I get will be the one I'm meant to be at.

E: ffs it got cancelled after we milled about for 10-15 minutes because the agent couldn't get a screen door open lmao.

Useless agents! We had one no-show once. Had 20ish people waiting around ... for nothing.
- I often question the utility of this entire occupation, would have loved to been an adult through those unbelievable decades when apparently they'd drive you around to different places to view properties to RENT. Dunno if it'll ever be that way again in my lifetime

A while back I mentioned the writing competition I am running with the help of Libraries Tasmania. There are 2 days left and we have 40 46 entries so far. It's gone so much better than I thought it would. I'm really happy with the entries, especially since the second biggest library/area got flooded so might have missed out on a few entries from kids who didn't know about it.

Next year, if they want to do it again, I'm going to add another field for comics/graphic novels.

Place next door (4 apartments) goes up for auction tm. I'm in two minds.

If sold it'll be developed which means noise.
If sold finally the weirdo in one of the apartments who kicks bins and cuts the lawn with hand shears and has a go at me about leaves falling in Autumn will be gone.

Have learned something that MUST be shared. Not only is it National Pasta Day, but National Champagne Day!! (not to be confused with International Champagne Day, which is 31st December). This one is declared by the Champagne Bureau. I might need to celebrate - just had carbonara for dinner!

Excellent 👌 did not have champagne but did eat pasta and drink Italian wine with good friends tonight.

Hullo

Wake up sleepy heads. 😘

No pizza today because I had that on Tues and leftovers the last two nights. Tonight instead I have fish and chips for the air fryer. And I'll sautee some spinach for helth.

In the midst of everything I've forgotten entirely to figure out upgrading the firmware on my phone so it can do 4G calls. Just got a notice today saying they'll block me from calls AND data after 28/10, what the fuck, I was just going to keep going on data for a while before I worked it out. And I think they're doing it based on phone model regardless of whether you've actually enabled 4G calls the hard way (this phone is technically capable of it, just needs the right firmware). Not something easily explained to call centre support...

Zero spoons for it tonight but I guess I'll have to get cracking on that tomorrow sigh I do have my work phone as a backup at least

I dared to look at jordan peterson politics vid. 😮

regardless of what our principles are there are some real problems with him and his politics followers

Peterson is a genius, he really is. He's far smarter than 99.5% of people out there. Problem is he's arrogant and bitter and doesn't seem to question his world view and what he does much. That's an easy habit to get into. He needs better friends to knock some sense into him.

His politics followers are not stupid, just average, but they don't have the skills or knowledge to see through all the bullshit, scams and lies out there.

I just flat out don't like the guy or his ideas. He seems like a prick.
- arrogant
  he doesn't seem to have figured out yet just because someone else is wrong doesn't make him right, he can be wrong too just in another way
  and he thinks he's too smart to be used
Oh no, your youtube algorithm.
- my algorithm is all hancock half hour, lotr and yard sales.

Tomorrow I'm going to slather on the calamine lotion and take the family to the latest Lucha Fantastica wrestling event. It's the Mexican Day of the Dead festival. Can't wait to go! I buy the tickets pre release so they cost very little, and we go out for lunch before the event. It's our little family outing every 2-3 months and I look forward to it for weeks (usually it's me and the kids going out, or Mr P and the kids, like a divorce lol).

I hope you have a great time ❤️
- and a comfortable time 🤞

Got the day off as well today.

Treating my to a meal and coffee today.

Air’s a bit chilly though.

wind's howling
- Yeah and super cold earlier too. 🥶

Are you, too, ashamed of the disaster in your under-sink cupboards?

Edit: OK I did a big purge in the kitchen cupboard. I need some more containers for the bathroom cupboard though... maybe some other day...

All good in the kitchen. The bathroom is clogged with teenage shit though. I try not to look because steam comes out of my nostrils.
I only recently cleared it out after 3 years when tidying up for my place being inspected. Cathartic. Driven by anger as well though
Nope. Mine is clean , organised and tidy
I do have to tidy the cupboard with all the things, mostly clothes, I've been buying miss seagoon
Not exactly, but the cat biscuits live there so semi tidy is required
There's not enough room in mine, it's full of convoluted drainpipe.
- I have some shelves that work really well for that problem. I liked how they worked in the kitchen so much I bought some for the bathroom too.

Feeling cute, might get some pizzas idk.

I’ve just spent two and a half hours in Flagstaff Gardens post work.

I feel much better

I am going to mow the grass now which I have been putting off for far too long.

Edit: grass has now been mowed. Next time I promise to get fancy and do the edges too.

Anyone want to come see 1927 on Nov 16? Having a friend fail.

That's my birthday lol
- Happy 97th birthday for Nov 16!
  Sorry, couldn't resist...
- Hippo birdies
- He doesn’t break mirrors even now
- I see Scorpios are in the house… Hehe. 😈
Oh wow! I'd love to see 1927! ...ish was one of my favourite albums of my whole teenage years.
They don't seem to be coming to Perth on this tour. I just discovered they were here in March with Boom Crash Opera, I've seen those guys before, that would have been a terrific show.
I should find a way to stay on top of who's coming through town that doesn't involve reading the xpress newspaper every Thursday.
- Yeah, only just found out despite being on a mailing list. Minor grump. Plotting to go even if solo
Does it have to be 1927 or can we pick any year including in to the future? Also does your time machine only work on Nov 16th or is there some flexibility?
- Er no, I don’t think Eric work like that

Oh, we’re back!

Mlem also not working suddenly. Why you do me like this? :(

Air Supply is underrated. I can hear any song, from any room and I'm there singing my guts out.

and aussies too
- Yes. Correct.
Love and Other Bruises does this for me every time. Still one of my favourite songs.
CEO you are every woman in the world, to meee
- You're my fantasy. You're my reality.

Since melbaboutown mentioned American Dad last night, I've had the theme song stuck in my head on repeat.

Why do I know all the words? It's so catchy dammit 😂😭

GOOD MORNING DT LEMMAY
- 🎶 I've got a feeling that it's going to be a wonderful day 🎶

I've decided to spend the afternoon making soap. Hopefully this batch won't stick in the moulds like the last lot did.

Edit: First batch was a complete disaster. I didn't pay enough attention to the temperature and ended up with a curdled mess. Attempted to blend it into submission, poured it into mould and crossing my fingers (but it's not looking good). Second batch went well. I used a yellow ochre for colouring which turned it a lovely caramel colour and now I want to eat caramels.

Hey, I have some foliar fertiliser spray I don’t need and I was going to give it away to a friend-slash-support worker for her kid’s vegie garden.

However apparently it can burn leaves if left on in hot weather and I think someone mentioned it was high in some chemicals/heavy metals?

He’s growing capsicum, strawberries and cherry tomatoes in a container garden.

Is foliar spray safe enough to use on edible plants and user friendly enough for a kid or should I just bin it?

(If it was me I’d just use Osmocote granules or pre-fertilised potting mix made for fruit and veg, but I currently use Powerfeed liquid.)

Should be all good. Should say on it but just tell kiddo to spray on the underside of leaves if it's sunny :)
- Thanks. I’ll offer it and let them decide if they want something easier so they don’t need to remember anything special

Good night everyone, sweet dreams. 😘

Goodnight from the midnight snack gang, ❤️

Beep Beep 🚚
🍝

uhm.. hrmm.
Su filindeu pls chef
- 🍌🍝
I like the extreme levels of choice. I guess pasta, again. Seems to be the vibe today.
- 🍝
Gosh, hard choice today. I think I'll have pasta.
- 🍝
Bawnjorno
- 🍝
I’m still full surprisingly so I’ll go for a nice and simple fruit juice please Chef.
- tomato pasta in the blender 🥤
Hmm I'll take the.... Pasta, please.
- 🍝

Once upon a time if I felt this shit I’d go online and more or less download a Fuck. Meh.

converse with cat. It’s slightly better than Meh because they look at you like like you’re an idiot.
and then you come to the realisation that you are, because you’re talking to a cat.
and we all have a laugh and feel better for about 5 minutes
- I talk to Gibson often. She's a great listener, especially when I'm feeling a bit down and out 🐱
  Sometimes you just need to speak, or be heard.

Might be a little pissed right now. Met up with family friends who I hadn't seen for ages. Was nice. I feel like I overshared but they did ask probing questions. Oh well.

Fun list of sayings I have heard tonight:

It is what it is
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
everything happens for a reason

texmex sausages and steamed vegies for dins. Have no idea what they will be like. We'll find out. 🌭

@Seagoon_@aussie.zone @just_kitten@aussie.zone this is the sort of thing we love on !foodaustralia@aussie.zone. We talk food to give others ideas and share. If we want to keep aussie.zone alive we need to share with other subs. Please yours kindly CEO.
- 👍

I've tidied my desk/table somewhat thus my brain is a little less messy

I got dedicated this song

Buzzkill - Luke Bryan

I have made myself a real coffee against better judgement.

Signature blend today of Guava, apricot, pineapple and mango.

Here I come midnight!

On the train home yesterday, there was a super angry bloke ranting and raving into his phone.

I hope his day got better.