Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
My shingles is scabbing, but due to the location it keeps cracking open and weeping, and it’s making me fucking miserable. Also, keeping the heating on to keep me warm while I can’t really wear a shirt is making my skin awfully dry, which is making my other skin problems play up.
I just want it to be over, but I was warned it may be a long time before that happens… ughhhhhhhhhhh
Sorry for the whinge.
Would calamine lotion help or even paw paw ointment?
I was instructed not to do too much to them, I am allowed oatmeal baths though. It seems that it’s a suck-it-up sort of thing once it starts to scab.
Oh no. I hope it’s not gonna be a long one for you. All the best.
There is a thing called Pinetarsol which might be allowed. It helps itch, but fucking stinks so pick your annoyance I guess
Strangely enough I quite like the tar smell. Am I weird?
Probably 😺 I can drink Retsina but this wash is a bit much personally
I’ve been instructed to basically leave it alone, unfortunately, it’s just me and the odd oatmeal bath.
On another note I will say that I like Pinetarsol, I use it every spring when my skin stuff gets out of control with allergies and whatnot.
Still up…
What’s up everyone? ✨
Still up too…so tired but can’t sleep.
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I’m currently in Korea, however their drivers make Melbourne drivers look completely sane.
Red light running is common (however they have right turn on red), and no one stays in their lanes when turning.
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
Oh I wouldn’t need to train him. He loves chasing things.
But the take down?
Oh shit yeah. He’d go for the ankles? first then straight for neck. The little shit can jump.
I feel like I’m in limbo at the moment.
I have no motivation or/and no idea what I want to do right now.
Only thing on my mind is making a coffee at the moment and sipping it.
Argh! I hate when I feel like this
Go for a walk and fight a senior citizen.
Absolutely no downside and it’s good exercise.
I feel like that might give me living nightmares if I did something like that.
Hello good people. How it going?
Decidedly flat. Somebody entertain me?
Go for a walk and pick a fight with a senior citizen.
Everyone wins.
You remind me of the CAH “get drunk and fight a police horse”
Who’s to say the horse didn’t have it coming.
I’m phobic of the damn critters, but cannot approve of punching them.
Hence why senior citizen are an adequate substitute.
Good. I had to go and get some buns because we are having lobster rolls for dinner with lots and lots of beer. How are you going?
Pretty good. Busy and tired. Looking forward to beers tonight as well. No lobster for us though Mrs Moneybags ;)
Look I had to try those aldi frozen lobster tails didn’t I? The thing is the kid wasn’t going to be home so I declared it “lobster and beer night” now she is so I have to share. 😔
Going ok for the moment while I work at another site. Hoping the end of the day comes quickly.
Drinking too much coffee which is making me run to the bathroom far too often.
How’s it going with you?
Busy as shit at work. Keeping fit and healthy, but also seething with rage at the general public for existing.
Trying to make the best of this Friday without doing too much work.
Well hopefully you’ll be able finish up work and go home fairly soon as half the day has gone already.
Thankfully I’m working from home today, but some dingbat filled my afternoon with meetings. And I’m covering for a couple of people who are off for an extended period.
Wanted to crack a brew open during the last meeting but taking my son shopping later and prefer to be sober.
This day ain’t mine, but I appreciate your good will towards me :)
Aww that’s a bummer, well after taking your son out shopping I hope you’ll be able to put your feet up and crack one open after everything has settled.
Lazy. Still horizontal. How you?
Upright and dejected.
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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. 🥴
I love making quilts. Crochet, Tunisian crochet, knit, patchwork. I give them all away. Here’s one I made my daughter because she loves geography and flags and stuff.
And the back
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omg, that is so beautiful 💗
Thank you. All the material was given to me so it’s special.
So much to do and it’s already one of those days. I sewed a button onto the wrong side of the cuff. 🤓 Bought dark green ribbon for a belt instead of black
At least you didn’t set a sleeve inside out?
The very first time I hand sewed something as a little girl, I was so proud, I held it up to show my mum and I’d sown it to my dress.
Done that. Argh!
Devastating as a 7 year old who thought she’d done a might fine job.
Two interviews lined up for today. Just when I had decided I was going to try the world of freelancing, my current work asked if I was interested in doing a secondment outside of my organisation (which could turn into a permanent job). Maybe I am. AND then a job I applied for a while ago has come out of the woodwork. Is the world trying to tell me something?
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
take a holiday at home , pretend you are on holiday and that you will get back to thinking serious thoughts in 2 weeks time
Can you find just a little bit of time out just for you? A walk? A sit under a tree? Sometimes I park a street back from after school care just to have 10 minutes between work and Mum duties. Sometimes I play music while I’m parked (either very heavy or something really light and classical) Sometimes I lay the seat back and just… stop and exist in quiet. It’s not really enough but it all helps.
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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.
It’s like you’re in my head…. Wow.
I don’t ask for help in my life, always had to rely on myself. No family support. No friends asking how I’m going. Anxiety works overtime.
Body is now keeping the score… and physically preventing me from doing things now.
Incoming pity party: made it to the interview stage of a role that I really felt aligned so well with my skillset only to be told today that again, I was the runner up and there was just someone better. I really had to fight the urge not to full-on cry on the phone when they told me because I was so devastated. I was basically manifesting in my head my future with this job all week (probably not the best idea) because I thought I was such a good candidate and thought the interview went well. It’s very rare for these roles to appear that suit my experience so I really felt almost like it was made for me but now all that hope is…gone. The only feedback they could give was just it went to someone who had different organizational skills so now I feel like maybe I just suck at what I do if there’s people out there who can do it better.
Net hugs
Could they give you any further or more specific feedback? It’s so difficult when that happens, but given what you’ve said I don’t think it would hurt to say that and try to get some more information?
Hopefully this just means a better opportunity elsewhere for you. 🤞🏻
welcome back 🔋
The uprising has resumed
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Lots of sweet things please, to salve my pain and despair at this being the first day of my working week whilst half the rest of the world are celebrating it being their last.
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Something special, and unique, to celebrate today’s Fridayness
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Cranberry everything please
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I’d like a healthy Asian brunch please chef if you could wangle it. And maybe a nice feline companion for the afternoon
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Fuck it, I’m eating carbs today, can I please have all of the potato and sugary goodness?
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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.
Everybody wants to rule the world.
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!
You do. So proud. Keep up your diverse catalogue.
Diversity FTW
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
Noodling around and saw that old 7 Red Lines video turn up in suggested on YouTube. I clearly blanked out the INHUMANE PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE that is watching that video because I stupidly clicked and only made it halfway through before ragequitting and now I have all this pent up fury and trauma.
OMG. How have I never seen that before (I just went and searched it). I am so angry now haha
I apologise for ruining your Friday evening
Haha I will survive. I shared it on the work slack to share the pain
