Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 11 March 2025

I HAVE AN INTERVIEW NEXT WEEK

HOLY SHIT YESSSSSSSSS AHHHHHHHHHHHH

So everyone had a shitty sleep then.

At least tomorrow looks like a normal day, then a couple more days of this bullshit.

Back down the bellarine..

Flower patch almost full tilt:

Nice outdoor seating area! With that lovely garden bed to look over. I see a fire pit too.
That looks really lovely.

drained and the week has only just begun.

I feel like I want to take Friday off but at the same time it might be a waste if I don't have much work to do.

I had the strangest dream. I was in a room with people and we were all hooked up to some kind of device.

We had to have our body temperature lowered to the point of freezing so we could survive what was about to happen. I think we were supposed to phase through the floor and go somewhere.

We were all sitting on what looked like a kids adventure playground set.

There was someone with me, someone I cared about (but don't recognise in real life), she tells me it's going to be OK and I have to do this.

I have a lot or trust in this person, maybe even love, but I can't remember much past this point. I start feeling really cold.

We had to go through with this. It was a life or death/end of the world scenario. Something bad was going to happen if we didn't all do this.

God I love dreams.

That sounds like the start of an SCP
So jealous of people who remember their dreams haha

Next door to me is selling up, and they spent the long weekend clearing out the house. Including putting an elderly and derelict vinyl lounge suite out on the footpath, but no-one took it. I've just watched a compacting rubbish truck eat the whole lounge suite - impressively loud noises.

I got maybe 2 hours of sleep and now I'm wide awake. Was it the pizza? I don't know. I'm chugging water to see if it helps.

E: that was some very poor sleep with a conga line of unsettling dreams - including having my mother snooping around on my laptop while I'm pretending to sleep and trying to see if I've sent in forms to stay in uni longer. what

Also various natural disasters, erotica gone wrong, slips and falls... note to self do not eat a whole pizza before bed

Same here. Having tea not water as fully hydrated. Bleh.
Maybe the problem was that you didn't eat ENOUGH pizza? The dream monster was still hungry.
- This is a solid theory
I had bad sleep from my pizza a few days ago.
I had both pizza and poor sleep too. But I'm blaming it on the excessive overnight heat.
Crappy sleep here too, had some dreams but can't for the life remember what they were able.
cheesemares
Bad sleep but no pizza. Woke at 1.30 and just tossed and turned from then with very little sleep

This hill will either make me extremely fit or cause a heart attack

You could say it's a hill you'll die on.
Don't worry I already have my coat and I'll close the door on the way out.
- Thank you, that door keeps the aircon in 😉😉

Tonight's wave:

Do NOT look at your super account. Not that you're supposed to anyway.

Even more important, don't panic, sell everything /move to cash and crystalize the losses. Super is a long term investment and the losses are always followed (eventually) by gains, if you are out of the market when that happens and have to buy back in when it is more expensive you lose even more. And if the situation is worse than that and the world as we know it is actually ending your super balance won't matter anyway.
- some of us don't have the long term , we are in short to medium term
Is it buy the dip time?
- Nah, it's time to put it all in crypto. I've moved all my investments into Trump coins and I'm going to be rich any minute now.
- Ah you're an optimist I see

Blergh to this weather.

Second that.
- Thirded that.

I had a good sleep. The fan was less than a metre from my head so I think that helped.

I reckon it was someone on here who recommended Talon to get rid of ants, ages ago. That stuff is magic.

Last night they were mounting a full-blown invasion of the kitchen. This morning, not a sign of them.

I slept for around 10.5 to 11 hours last night. Must've had quite the sleep debt.

Good morning. Checking in to the woke up too early crew.

Is anyone else in a shitty mood from the weather?

Yep, one or two days of warm weather is fine. However many days in a row it's been now, too much. Also, it's a constant battle to keep my place cool.
Phenomenally. It's taking all my effort to even stay conscious it seems
- I've slept 12 hours the last 3 days. I hear you.
Affirmative
Yep. Sweaty, underslept and somewhat aghast at just how dry everything is in the garden, in spite of watering. I want a week of cool cloudy weather with frequent rain. The eucalypts on my nature strip though, they're putting out a lot of tiny new leaves and shedding scads of bark so maybe they know something we don't. The garden ants too are building lots of air holes which they usually only do if the weather is wet. I think we're going to get a change in the weather pretty soon. Can't wait.
- I hope you're right. My body isn't reacting very well to this.
- Apparently tomorrow is bringing rain with chance of thunderstorms so I hope it hits us in the inner city!
I'm pretty angsty and irritable lol
I'm hanging out for winter tbh, I wanna wear my hoodies dammit!
- Angsty is exactly how I feel.
It's been hard to acclimatize this year for sure. I work in a hot environment and expect it to be cooler outside lol. Everyone gets so drained and unmotivated. I want more autumn dammit. I love autumn. Where is that season of mists and mellow fruitfulness?!
Edit: And I get so bloody itchy!
Shitty mood but not weather related.
- same
Want to send an invoice to the suit that designed (or failed to design) the thermal qualities of this building. No way I should be paying this summer cooling bill on my own.

What up

My blood pressure?

What a day! After telling the boss I wouldn't be able to come in early to beat the heat because I had to get Miniest to school, Miniest refused to attend school because I "woke her up wrong" (!) so I had to leave it to her dad, knowing he'd probably not do it either (it sets off my anxiety in the morning to argue, ruins my day at work and I've had my threshold of that shit) and got there earlier anyway. Everyone was like "thank god you're here!" Worked like a Trojan in the heat and smashed through the work. I think I'm getting used to it, just as the season is about to change lol.

Then I finished early, discovered Mr P couldn't take Elder to his appointment due to illness, and bussed home to get him. I only had time to wash my face, replenish my deodorant and change my shirt before we bussed out to his appointment. I felt sticky yucky and itchy! Came home, ordered dinner, put the bins out, reordered as the order was cancelled and tidied up a bit. Mr P had a dental appointment tomorrow but couldn't remember where because he didn't write it down, so my MIL and I worked it out. Dispensed her eye drops (she needs nightly eye drops and can't do it herself; she calls it Eyes on Call, but I'm rather partial to the Royal Eyeing Doctor Service). Talked to the kids about how we're going to wake up in the morning and who's getting who to school, with added pep talk and motivational barracking, had a shower and now I'm laying in bed feeling like I forgot something.

You've forgotten to take care of yourself! You've been worked to the bone, friend!
Sending good vibes and thinking of you! Being a mum to 4 other people is hard fucking work!
- Thanks mate 🙂 My shower was a longer one than usual and I'm using a nice Aveeno oil spray mist moisturiser stuff which smells lovely and feels (to me anyway) really indulgent🧖🏼‍♀️
  Edit: got the brand name of product wrong. Only been using it for weeks lol
You're doing an amazing job. Don't forget that.
- Thankyou 🙂

Need to remember it's Tuesday, not Monday. And I may be a day out the rest of the week

Getting pretty damn bloody over this heat, it's brutal out there. Drank so much water and barely needed to pee. Gonna need to chug a lot more now as I'm undoubtedly dehydrated.

Another long day of it tomorrow and then I need to catch up desperately on my desktop work, and then uni desktop work... I'd squeeze some in tonight but between the heat and bad sleep I'm just going to take it easy and try to wind down rather than keep myself up on a screen

E: the exhaustion has just hit me like a freight train holy crap

It's pretty warm but getting stuff done 👍

Back to work. The transportation experiments begin...

It's getting chaotic here. Just need to concentrate on one little area at a time and keep on at it.

Are you getting removalists or DIY?
- removalists but I am packing
  2 weeks til moving day

Turns out if you are almost never in the sun for very long it's definitely possible to be vitamin D deficient in summer. At least that's my theory -- feeling whiplash at the mood turnaround after resuming supplements a couple of days ago.

The brainrot infects me, I just giggle when I hear "vitamin D deficiency"
Yes I do, in fact, require more D in my body 😂
Nah seriously, vitamin D is super important and it's insane how much better one can feel when that deficiency is taken care of!!
- I'm deficient in both :')
- I'm much more likely to overdose on the other kind of D than be deficient... ;)
Thanks for the reminder, that can’t be helping my situation
- No worries. Remember it's one we can store so you can take a few to catch up without peeing them out or remembering to take them daily.

Sorry, just an awful day.

one of the main newspapers I used to read , the washington post, has just gotten so bad I have lost all faith in it. This was the paper that brought down nixon

now the internets is becoming more insecure, I'm finding it hard to trust

i just want some real facts i can trust so i can understand the world around me

and I'm moving house, which is a long term good but a short term pain ,

i miss my friends overseas so much 😢

maybe a rest then a cool shower then some me time to refresh myself before I keep at doing stuff

Concentrate on one task at a time. Hugs 🫂
Hugs. There’s a lot going on in the world, and moving house is very stressful. Hope you have a good night’s sleep and feel better tomorrow
I feel for you mate. When I was younger, moving house was an exciting adventure and opportunity for newness. Now the thought of moving is an ordeal. Also the decline in journalistic standards in many formerly great news bearers is bordering on criminal ineptitude and a bloody disgrace. If it helps, I read AP, Reuters, IA, Guardian Australia on Bluesky, SBS and ABC, Science alert, The Conversation, Crikey Daily, The Shot and Inside Story ( plus The Chaser and The Shovel because a girl's gotta have fun sometimes). Michael West is also good but frustratingly the stuff I was most interested in was often paywalled and I cannae afford to pay 😔. I've found these sources to be generally reliable, with our own ABC disappointingly and sadly being the weakest link here.

I had a two hour nap and now I don't know who I am lol

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My upholstery supplies have arrived. The foam was very compressed, which made it hard to unpack. Now it's expanded and is taking up a lot of room.

back from the beach and the new place. It's nice. ☺️

my mastodon was hacked in one day, lucky there was nothing in it
deleting it now deleting the proton accounts I will be moving gmail later then deleting

I hate mastodon and instances so much , they add so many layers of complexity , I can't even fucking log in half the time

this is the first time I've been hacked and know it

ffs, false alarm. mastodon spat the dummy with the vpn

If you don’t like the weather right now, look at Saturday.

Now I'm sad :(

realized daylight savings ends next month. Better pull my finger out and book a weekend away if Im gonna do it.

Movie review. A Scanner Darkly. The first thing you will notice is the rotoscope. It looked great but not only that it added to the feel of the movie, a kind of unreality, and made us concentrate on the characters and the story, not the actors. Story was an excellent detective story.

This was really worth while watching. 4 hobbits.

The Detectorists . This series is a nice watch. You just feel good . Nice people, nice places, some gentle joking, and yes, the stories do have a deeper meaning, personal and societal, but there is no stress. No loud jarring music or sound effects, no flashing lights to jangle our nerves.

Every series of the Detectorists shows how the precious archaeological artifact was lost And it has the sweetest soundtrack. the unthanks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kaq-RvVGRi4

4 hobbits

yes, I give out lots of hobbits, it's because the movies and tv shows are so good 🙂

I love A Scanner Darkly. ......what do you think happened to the missing gears?
- lol..... even I knew there were no missing gears
  I was like, 🤔, pretty sure it's 3 x 6 gears

Placement is a great opportunity to have a test drive at teaching, and it is a really good starting degree. I work with a fantastic youth worker who wishes he did teaching as it would open more doors for him with his youth work so as a starting point it's a good degree to have. I'm a nurse, and I love my job but there is no way I'd choose it again.
- What would you do if you weren't a nurse?
everyone keeps telling me not to do it,
List the everyone telling you not to ( do they ever tell what constructive thing you can do? )
then list the supportive people ☺️
- Family, friends, teachers in the field really
  And the supportive people are the universities crying out for more teacher candidates :")

other than Aussie, anyone got an NBN provider they recommend?

Never had a problem with iiNet
- cheers, will take a look
Don't use optus, and use this pricing spreadsheet (make sure to go to the 2024 page, also not 100% accurate but good enough) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_wnaTFb_3QsdgZfKDrEO6D_Rpzt2clbB/edit?gid=1523306688#gid=1523306688
- oh, wow, that's really comprehensive, thanks!

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