Daily Discussion Thread: 🐕🐶🐕‍🦺🐩 Saturday, November 9, 2024

Visited mum for a few hours. She's in good hands.. those nurses at the eye and ear are really caring.

That's great news, glad she's in good care.
- thank you :) truly amazing staff.
Sending you love, I hope she recovers well 💜💜
- Thank you :)

just want to say thanks to everyone for the support yesterday regarding mum's fall. truly is a great community here.

She'll be home tm or the next so that's a good thing.

I didn’t see that, best of luck to your mum
Good luck. Lots of hugs for your mum, she must be really scared too.
I saw your post but fell asleep before replying, just wanted to say it's a huge undertaking you're doing but you've got a very good head on you and I have faith you'll get through this next hard bit well even if it's gonna mean several hard conversations with your mum. Our favourite witch had some excellent suggestions. Feel free to vent here any time
- I don't think I've ever seen a poor idea with our favourite witch.
  And thank you. Was a bit of a confronting day. Tm will be reducing hazards.
I missed that post, but I hope she recovers well. It's scary when they get to the stage of having falls.

Ted is scaring me.

Bums against the wall I wouldn't trust that
- ha ha, tomorrow he gets a sedative so I can remove his dags without him biting me , fun times
Angry Son 😂
- vet put him on a diet
  ted is now eating bill's food
  there will be fights
That cat is truly splendid.
Ooh, he’s pissed off
Kubrick stare
He looks like an angry cotton ball that's fallen in some soot 😠

Ted is spaced out. All knots and dags have been removed and he's been brushed nicely.

close up of Ted seeing magic stars

This is inspirational. My goal for tonight is to emulate this level is consciousness. Fingers crossed
hehe ted never stood a chance with them dags and drugs.
He’s gorgeous! I want to ruffle that fluffy tum
- I knoooow. 😻 I got to brush and pat his tummy, 💖 normally he's all bites and scratching and thrashing about but it did need to be done, he was getting some mats under there.
I'm looking to replicate this energy shortly lol
He’s off with the fairies. I wish that was me…

sigh Really cannot complain.

What a beautiful little corner of the internet this space is. Thank you for all of the love and support lately, I really appreciate it and will absolutely keep passing it on and lifting you wonderful people up where I can!

Whoever said salmon sushi was the best, I wholeheartedly agree :)

yes, it is good 🍥
Salmon sushi vs. spicy tuna though? What would be your preference?
- Porque no los dos?
I do a honey chicken that is magnificent. I might make some today.
- Yum! Do report back if you ended up making it :)
Gotta have the avocado tho

I'm glad I talked myself into the gym.

Incoming vent:

Birthday being next week, it's a real rough time to be honest. I can't help but think about how I don't have any family to spend time with. I know I'm not the only one in this position, but still feels bad.

When I was unemployed, I lost a couple of really close friends who I usually hang out with, but I'm grateful for the people in my life that I do have.

It sounds funny, but I've kinda felt like a stray human since I was young.

Things could always be worse, and I try to keep that in mind. I just have moments of weakness where I wish for things that seem so out of grasp.

/end vent

We'll be here!
Also, yes people may have it worse, but it's a very human thing to want to satisfy our need for connection and belonging. It is not weak.
It'll be okay, the birthday sads are real. You belong, and I'll be coming to celebrate. We can make our own families :D
We are your chosen family my friend, we'll always be here for you. You're fine, you will be fine, and what you're feeling right now is completely normal ❤️
Also happy birthday for next week!
- Yeah mum used to say something like that ❤️

Does anyone know how long you're allowed to stretch out your turning 40 mid life crisis? I'm down to less than 23 hours until that awful meaningless day but still kinda wanna push it out a little longer.

Ummmm. I've just turned 45 and still in the midst..... but I'm also embracing my inner Cat Lady. And I've just had 2 weeks off work, and can wholeheartedly agree that working sucks but I like stuff, and stuff costs money.
- I was just joshing and honest 45 is nothing. I'm jealous of your cats as they are amazing animals, just a shame I'm hospital level allergic to them so I'm happy that you're living the life I wish I could have ❤️
  But am really sick of this whole money thing. Like why can't we just all be generous friends?
I generally prefer to condense my mid life crises into a short but intense period of reading and planning. As I get a heads up from my older sister reaching significant milestones a few years before I do any crisis is over before the applicable birthdate.
I don't think I had much of a crisis at 40 though, it was more just a short-lived "gosh, when did I get so old!" feeling. 50 was much bigger and led to some major introspection and mapping out of life goals and plans. It probably took a couple of years to get through that. But I started early, so I'm pretty much done even though I have another year before I actually get to 50 myself.
- Agree. 40 was easy. Upcoming 50 is the real deal. 40 I was actually still good looking, fit, etc. 50, the aging is real. Introspection, reflecting, etc all been going on for some time.
you don't need permission and other people don't get to define your life
do what ever you want and ignore what people say, they aren't living your life
- I know, I was just being playful and I am very happy and enjoying my life. Many loves <3
Try looking at it as a victory.
- Well I still look and act like I'm 25 so you maybe onto something there ❤️
  Just wish I could end this whole having to work thing.
Can't have a midlife crisis if you don't know your own expiry date taps forehead wisely
- I like you and your attitude. Can I get your news letter?
I expect to just have one ongoing lifelong crisis 👍
- You do you and live your life in whatever way you want to! I've always got you if you fall.
I had one of those. It was expensive.
- Yeah, it's turning out quite expensive. I've enjoyed the hols though!

First flowers have appeared on the volunteer tomatoes from the compost heap. Several on one stalk so I fink they're cherry toms. I hope.

I bet they're gonna taste sooo good.
- Yeah, home grown food always tastes so much better!
I'm curious now. :)

Richmond is pretty good. I think Abbotsford might be better. Loving my time in Melbs

As a travelled immigrant, Melbs is ftw. Don't think I'll ever call any where else "home".
Oooh check out maniax

It was my birthday today, headed down to Ballarat to spend it with family. Replacement V/Line coaches did my head in though.

Sedatives have been given to Ted, now I just have to wait for them to knock him out before I can groom him.

I think we need a photo of a spaced out ted.
- He's getting a little wobbly but he's still spicy.
  He's also on a diet. He gets his normal food but I give Bill less. iow, less food for him to steal.

Events dominate the net and its farken crazy how many people are blaming harris for trump winning.

The fuck is wrong with that country. Chunks of them chose not to vote, or to purity politic, half of them were stupid enough to vote for the persimmon emperor, how the fuck is it 'the dems fault'.

Absolute abrogation of personal responsibility.

They're 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 democracy 👏🏼 until 👏🏼 they 👏🏼 have 👏🏼 compulsory 👏🏼 voting 👏🏼
- we have compulsory voting, Morrison still got in.
- But muh freeeedommmsss
- Also those claps look like potatos on my phone
- They could seriously benefit from preferential voting, too.
  Edit: Just checked, they are actively undoing progress in this area in Alaska. Lol.
That country is so broken. I've only just gotten over my anger due to the significant impact it has on mine and my partner's future. Still avoiding most of the interwebs.
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with them? How's Ukraine going to survive this? What can this dickhead of a loveable punk (me) do to fix it all?
people underestimate how conservate immigrants can be
underestimate the influence of religion
and underestimate how far America has come in removing inequalities, even most Republicans now support all the civil rights changes enacted over the past 5 decades. This is why being told they are racist made them feel upset.
I do blame Dems for bringing in Identity Politics, it was an active choice in the 70s, it wasn't about civil rights, it was about targeting voting blocks. What it did do was undo a sense of national identity. People weren't Americans anymore, they were now Black or White or Latino, etc etc

Oh man why the fuck did I stay up till 4am....

Success!!! Got the big unwieldly couch dismantled with my friend's help both physically and mentally. Now I can hopefully get rid of it sooner and if there's no takers at least it's a helluva lot easier to move myself. That's a big ticket item cleared.

Next up, gotta keep culling and packing clothes... made a bit of a start this am, but I'll probably do most of it tomorrow. It's been a big day today with long chats, grabbing a coffee, going to Bunnings together, dismantling this couch in confused stages, going out for lunch, dropping friend home...

That’s great news.
Has update on when you put in your notice to vacate?
Did the LL communicate back to you in any way?
- LL did finally get back and acknowledged receipt at least so she won't kick up a fuss about leaving early. Hasn't said yet how she wants to organise key handover but I don't really care, it's on her now. Just focusing on next steps. REA is pretty sloppy where I'm moving to so I gotta have my wits about. Still pretty chuffed I got away with paying the original listed rent thanks to their lack of attention to detail.
  Some other big things I need to do are fill in some small holes where I'd put a blackout blind (relatives lent me spakfilla and a spatula) and try to remove some scratches in the toilet bowl.

Had a great night practising. I have 3 new songs ready which I'm super happy about ❤️

Here's my number one fan hiding in the cupboard in the studio

Goodnight everyone, and thanks for listening to my vent :)

in non pooh news, got a wild hair up my arse yesterday and ripped up half the backyard paving. His Lordship toppled the rest this arvo (I left it for him to go SMASHY SMASHY with the sledge, he so rarely gets to)

IN MY DEFENSE it’s a pathway we’re gonna replace anyway because 1) it’s too narrow for my garden trolleys and 2) the bloody thing’s subsided to the point where it’s at a 40 degree angle and 3) I need the new level for the end point between the food garden ground level and the path for aforementioned trolleys. And I didn't mean to. I set the goal of moving my fruit trees to the other side of the greenhouse, and edging down it so we could plot.

But then I looked at those nice clean edges and thought “I could get a pry under there, I wonder how easy it would be?”

Surprisingly easy as it turned out. Especially with a 2 meter lever. But then I had a meter and a half of 15cm thick concrete with bluestone chips embedded through it at a 90 angle. No point in letting it back down after all that, and I couldn’t leave it propped up. what if it fell down on wildlife? To the sledgehammer! So then I had pieces that will become the crazy paving on the new path.

Then I started wondering if the next piece would come up that easily and, well, curiosity, cats and now we're missing 8m of pathway. Birds are going apeshit on the rolly pollies.

Living vicariously through this
I live cathartically through your epic backyard landscaping adventures, looking forward to the day I can go in on buying a house and bitta land with someone so I can potter around/go manic as needed (well as much as I can, considering I'll probably be arthritic by the time I can afford that).
- Already arthritic, embrace the pain!
Smashing shit up in the backyard is very therapeutic, too. Or, at least, some heavy-duty gardening, and you get a bonus full green bin
- Fun as hell, too

This pretty bee at my uncle and aunts property

🐝🥰

Just back from a lovely walk with my kid. We got to pat 2 very friendly cats, one of which climbed into his lap when he sat down to get closer to it. The other one was called Bruce.

It’s reignited the ‘should we get another pet’ conversation, but can’t decide cat vs dog

It depends on your family and the dog but dogs are lovely. 💖
- Yeah, I’m a bit keen on a dog and it would be nice getting out for more walks. It would be left alone a bit with us going to work though, and cats are more self-sufficient. So hard to choose!
DO IT
- I think we’ll have to

My kingdom for chicken salt

and not for a kiss upon her shoulder…

Alrighty. Quick house tidy, gym maybe, but of chilling out, the practising the new songs.

Next weekend is birthday weekend, so happy to have a chill one tonight.

Edit: Some uber drivers shouldn't have licenses, seriously. Hopefully I won't need them soon.

I dropped my Darth Vader keepcup and completely shattered the glass. I'm thinking if I find the same size glass keepcup I could put it all back together.

But I'm going to keep an eye on marketplace because damn those things are expensive new

I made a teriyaki mushroom and Swiss burger

Good for you but I am very attracted to those curly fries right now
- Yes the burg is not everyone’s taste. I need that teriyaki hit tho
Fancy!
I'm only sharing the secret of what I had for dinner with the Tucker Time thread 🤣
- Yeah, I mean that’s cool. I don’t see the point of posting there really. Your dinner looks fantastic though
- Share it here too.
  Got to get the comment count up here too!
- And we appreciate that. Thank you.
Oh that looks fab.
The fried stuff I’m absolutely dying for!

5 ciders into birthday bash for dad, uncle, and cousin.

Gonna crack another

(Flying Brick Original and Draft Cider)

I had to pour out two very old apple crumble ciders down the sink the other day when I was clearing out my pantry. Lockdown memories...
Have one for me. I love apple cider.
- Consider it done my friend!

Camping gear has now been mostly sorted - there are a couple of tubs of stuff like cooking gear that will need to be sorted out to either donate or throw out, but all the bigger bits I intend to sell have been photographed. Now I need to do the listings and cross my fingers.

I keep going to vent then realising I’d be massively oversharing and I live in a very different world to a lot of people.

I think I need to buy a damn diary

hugs , you have friends here 😘
I don't think anyone here would judge you ❤️
- Oh I know you guys wouldn’t.
  But yeah. There’s no way anyone could help and sometimes the ways people try to help or encourage are quite stressful to deal with.
  Or it would just be utterly alien to people who don’t live it.

Lmao just got banned from a shitload of lemmy.ml for calling a certain someone Winnie. Badge of honour

xi?
- Ayup. Must upset them terribly they can't disappear people irl
  Edit: context was a post about xi proclaiming housing wasn't an investment. I asked why so many mainlander chinese were squirreling their money away in foreigh real estate markets to keep it out of dear winnie's hands then. Oooh they did not like that. I was Racist!. Sksksks

Thanks for the first part of the delivery bacon!

Off to do some errands. 😘

Mr Seagoon got me totes interested in Gothic lit again so I'm listening to an oldie on audio a book I read decades ago, The Night Land by WH Hodgson.

Yaaassss! 🖤
- I read so many Goth books in the past , spent a few years reading everything Goth I could get my hands on. I think my faves are WHH and the Mervyn Peake books.

Holy. Shit.....I totally forgot about this album! I saw these guys at the old Prince of Wales in 2011. Fucking brilliant show.

Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears

Cupboards are all moved. I am now exhausted, but still need to put away a few things and sweep the decking the cupboards were moved off (and have some stern words to the encroaching blackberries there). And just for fun the people who have made offers have not got back to me to acually confirm a pickup time ☹️.

Where the cupboards are now has more space so I should be able to take better photos to relist. I might try Gumtree this time.

Gosh isn't it annoying when people make offers and then ghost you. Sucks when you could've just sold it to someone else
- It is extremely frustrating. In good news though the person buying my mortar and pestle turned up, so now I have $20 and don't have to lug the thing to the op shop. Winning!

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Finished listing my stuff on Gumtree. Have received two scam messages so far.

Oooh can we have a scam counter? Like, the ratio of scam calls? All in the name of science of course. So far is 2/2 as per your post.
EDIT: don't if it's too much like work though.
- At least it is a change from Marketplace's "Is this available?"

Decided to have a movie day with the Minipeelers. They wanted to go out and do something, but I didn't because $$. I'm kind of sick of all the free stuff we do, to be honest. It's free money wise but always takes planning, preparation. I've worked a hard week and selfishly just want to relax. So far we watched MIB 2 and Bullet Train. The latter was totally up our alley, we all loved it.

Is it possible you and the peeler clan can go to an op shop and choose out some dvds?
- I gave my DVD player to my MIL so she could watch the DVDs she borrows from the library. I'm on a 3 month free Amazon prime trial so I thought, why don't we utilise this instead of spending 💰. Thankee for the suggestion though.

Grocery shopping and then napped.

Was Meaning to make lunch with the stuff I went out and bought but the nap got in the way so need to reshuffle a few things.

I know I’ll getter but I’m going to brew a coffee fresh now then have a pizza for dinner later which will be absolutely stacked.

Ted has woken up and had a little dinner then went back to bed again. aww

He's got the right weekend vibes
- He's probably a little more comfortable now that his matted fur has been brushed and cut out.

Things I really really learnt this week.

Most people are average. After watching Shadow of a Doubt for the umpteenth time I see that Charlie, who is constantly watching the world around her and looking at people and tries to make sense of it is the exception. Her mom, who is a sweet mom and not stupid, just average, sees the same facts but can't add it all up.

And I see now that Germans in the 30s really did believe the Blood Libel and other lies. They really did believe the lies that Jews were committing genocide, tho they didn't use the word genocide as that word hadn't been coined yet. It took decades of small lies that people were just not smart enough to discredit, see above. I used to think they didn't believe but because they were prejudiced they went along with it. They really believed because they thought they had facts and they thought it was the right thing to do. They believed the people in authority.

And no, teaching how to analyse won't work. They just can't do it.

Tonight was good. Attempted to sing with a busker. Watched more buskers. Friend sold something on marketplace in the middle of our hangout. Got ice cream. It was a white chocolate peanut flavour but it didn't taste like white chocolate!

One for the books.

Today is cupboard moving day. I have a bunch of outdoor cupboards in the back yard I need to move to the front so I can sell them. It is a pain in the butt not having good access between the front and back yards. Plus I am going to have to move my car out onto the street until I can get rid of them because there is no space for them. Fingers crossed it won't take too long.

Edit: Cupboard moving is not going as badly as I feared. Two have been moved, six more to go. I think I'll take advantage of the car being out of the carport to pull out the camping gear to list too.

Mood: Oliver - Good Morning Starshine

I had to learn this in primary school. 🙂

Australian moment. (Warning: Vtubers)

https://youtube.com/shorts/NGGd76Oi6oY

Arcane today.

I think.

Might be tomorrow.

This reads like a haiku kinda