I haven’t been on Reddit at all since we moved here. Realised I was just going on for the DT but would get sucked into scrolling once in the app. Huge time waster.
Taiyaki are basically just pancake batter filled with whatever. Traditionally red bean paste. This time I did red bean paste, chestnut paste and Nutella. I also really like filling them them a crème patissiere or yuzu curd if I have enough time/foresight to make it ahead. Because you cook them in the special mold, they get a nice crispy outside. People tend to have a preference for eating the head or the tail first. I personally like to go tail-first 😈
I've decided to quit my job move to a small seaside town where I will befriend local characters, take on a strange job that pays pennies, and live in a quaint shack. I'll also only wear light colours and linen clothes with white plimsolls, and maybe I'll even let my Scottish curls grow.
See you suckers later, it's me and my seaside dream from here on out.
Alberton is still relatively cheap and my old neighbours are selling an original fixer upper. Local characters live there and they're all pretty wholesome.
I'm building a dedicated dl machine and deciding on the name. I like my machines to have in jokes in their names, so was pondering sea themes, Barnacle, which I liked but not liked liked...scallop? needed to be some sort of high seas sailing parasitic leech
What’s your build? I’m gonna get a dell optiplex 7060 for my Plex machine cause my gaming rig is dying and plex is about it’s only purpose atm, but I’m debating a raspberry pi for a light weight DL machine.
Ah this is a literal dl machine, file server is a different machine entirely. Gonna be a vm on a proxmox with a 3tb landing pad and rdp access so the hubs stops harassing me. (PIA is currently on my w10 laptop and we're both IT pros, so using someone elses machine is like wearing their underwear. And not in a fun way.)
Edit: if ya really wanna know.... the hardware is a Dell PowerEdge R620. Lol.
I have bought some stuff there, heheh, I really like the full body fishnet things, with the crotch opening haha! Wearing it out to a party is super fun lol
Meanwhile, I've only just sat down to begrudgingly start on the work that I have to get in before 9am Monday, which I've spent all of today doing procrastichores (in a house I have zero obligations to clean).
I suspect I'll be up till 2-3am again but doing so means I can take Monday off, more or less.
I envy your ability to get things done ahead of time...!
Psychiatrist has all but diagnosed me with the latter. She finishes up tomorrow and will start me on meds. Idk if that's the whole story but I've been like this my whole life so I guess I'll try.
Really wish people would keep their dogs on leash in areas where it literally says to keep your dog on leash. Some dog runs right up to mine not even 50m away from said "dogs must be on leash" sign. I don't wanna hear "ohhhh sorrrrrryyy about that", I just don't want your dog to run up to mine smh
I have a fear of strange dogs. the fucking cunts who get their noses out of joint when you tell to control their bity fucking animals where the sign says to are as bad as they come. I used to walk my housemates huge staffy ridgeback, on a lead. he was known to bite other dogs. trying to explain to these fucking hipsters in footscray having a picnic, this isn't even my dog, so I can't absolutely control him and here's your bouncy labradoodle snapping at it cos you want it to be "free". people have no common sense.
I'm hongohones, and this is today's what really grinds my gears.
I hear ya. My dog was attacked as a puppy on two separate occassions from off lead dogs, and as a result he's not great with dogs who run up to him suddenly while he's on a leash (which he always is because I don't trust other people or cars lmao). I also don't walk him where I know there's gonna be lots of dogs just in case, cause people suck - so that generally rules out all the nice dog-friendly places we could go. He hasn't actually attacked another dog, but I don't wanna take that risk because I've had friends whose dogs were perfectly trained with no prior negative experiences, and have still ended up going another dog in certain situations. I just want my bebi to be safe, especially since going for super long walks with him is one of my favourite things to do :(
I can say for myself that I became an avid DTer during the lockdowns and continued to drift in and out afterwards, out of habit. The Reddit blackout was a little bit of a reset switch for that habit - no longer instinctively go to r/melbourne when I open up a browser.
Still love the vibes of a/the DT (which is why I'm here!) but it stopped being such an instant thing that I opened.
Not sure how number of comments left over a 24 hour period has anything to do with "the downvoters" but OK.
My point is, it used to get 500+ comments daily. It's been limping along since the blackout, but to see the day end with a double-digit number of comments is something unique up to this point. I wonder how long until that becomes more common...
It's all happening here this morning. We've survived an attempted invasion from Next Door's Cat. She came into the backyard and Looked at us through the back door.
Luckily Tommy the brave resident GuardCat was on the job and dealt with the situation by crying loudly and pathetically.
I banged on the door, and went out and shooed her back over the fence. And then congratulated my brave hero on scaring away the intruder. He would definitely survive in the wild.
Image: a fluffy tabby cat all curled up and not looking at all savage
Toast with peanut butter and coffee made, trying to relax now and wondering what I should do.
Still recovering and trying to keep things under control but as much as my mind might think it’s under control I think my body’s reacting to the stress.
I didn’t get a chance to take a pic last night. So here’s the recipe for Maple-Mustard baked chicken i have been making this for years.Super easy, Super fast to put together and Very tasty
Photo from recipe
ALTTEXT: an amazing looking bowl of cooked chicken
I've made this and it was just far too salty for me. I haven't made it again but I think if I do I would use mustard powder and mustard seeds and add a little light olive to make the marinade smooth.
Stop dwelling on it until you speak with them about it. It would be a bigger issue to not be able to communicate this type of thing with a potential partner imo
I think it's one thing not to reply to a text if maybe you lived together or at least saw each other each day. But if you're doing neither of those things, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a romantic partner to text back the same day you sent them one. He may just be a good guy with poor communication skills. Maybe he had a bad relationship were his partner was texting him constantly as a form of controlling behaviour. It could be any number of things. My advice would be to talk to him about it. Be open and tell him about your past experience and how his lack of communication makes you feel. Hopefully that can help you both reach a common ground
I just paid $250 at the dentist, literally just for a check-up, a quick clean, and a fluoride treatment ($30). What the heck... I swear last time that was $150... T_T
Studying is going dreadfully today. I know what I want to say, but words are really not cooperating. It probably doesn't help that I've been procrastinating on it for the past week.
If I go out for a night on the town
And call you, wasted and lost,
Could you come get me out,
And tell me you love me most?
Carry me home, I'm lonely,
Just tell me you love me only.
I don't care if you mean it,
Just as long as I can feel it.
Send me your memes, ask what I think.
Send me your nudes, even
This isn't love, this is only a kink.
I don't care if I mean it,
Just as long as you can feel it.
I had a very long and intense dream last night about a month long high school exchange trip to China gone very awry...
::: spoiler descriptions
It was constantly grey and bleak, we didn't go anywhere with nature and had to camp en masse on the school grounds, on large concrete yards under shitty tarps like refugees, fight to use the showers and protect one's own shampoo and soap at all costs. And at least a thousand of the school's own, local students had to sleep in similar configurations but with slightly nicer tents. We had school from 8-5 every weekday, were expected to study and do homework in the evenings, chores all of Saturday, and would only sometimes be allowed out on Sunday. The nearest city looked like it hadn't changed since the 80s and was suppressed under a permanent layer of smog. Come to think of it it's like smartphones didn't even exist in that dream. So maybe it was the communist 80s? Lots of brown, tartan patterns, burgundy... But no matter how miserable we were, the absolute best of us was expected during class, alongside the school's richer students who lived at home and were always very well prepared and neatly turned out.
:::
It's now nearly 7pm and I can't shake how subtly unsettled it made me feel for absolutely no reason at all. And the smell of laundry powder just brought it all back. Like I actually went through that? Something in me feels like I really should've done something about the situation but it makes no sense.
Urgh. The ‘real’ dreams are the worst. It must have been the night for it.
::: spoiler spoiler
I had a really vivid dream last night about a serial killer and rapist terrorising all of Melbourne. My dream was about the news coverage of it and how he kept evading all the security cameras around Melbourne and all they could capture were shots of his shoes and cap.
:::
There was nothing particularly directly threatening to myself in the dream, and the events of dream itself was pretty mundane, but the sense and feeling that I wasn’t safe just living my life was enough to have me waking up in a sweat.
Oh god, it's particularly bad when it hits close to home and you might recognise landmarks around you from the dream. It's that feeling of not being safe that is so discomforting and unsettling, particularly when it's completely illogical but feels so real. It's like your body experienced it on some level and has to process it while asleep?
I don't know if exposure to traumatic personal stories (or experience of such trauma in families) activates some kind of bodily memory, even though we know that threat won't ever be relevant to our lives because of distance and/or time.
I just wonder where it comes from at all? Absolutely nothing that I’ve done/watched/read/whatever recently seems linked. Why did my brain pull that out?
Same with my dream, for the most part. I've been having lots of weird high school dreams lately tbh. Brain's interpretation of how to deal with anxiety juice coursing through the veins?
Eeeerrrrrkkkk. Not nice. Sending reassurance and hope vibes over the aether to you. I hate post-apocalyse dreams too. Doesn't stop me reading post-apoc sci fi though. Damfino why.
Thank you kindly, accepted with a hug. I find myself morbidly drawn to similar stories or reports myself - sometimes as a way of feeling something very intensely so that life makes more sense again. At some point the brain probably needs to flush out or resolve some of those vicarious experiences....?
Fwiw, I have actually visited China once, on a school trip in the late 90s, and the schools we visited were still relatively impoverished despite being in Beijing (I won't forget how their minds were blown by good quality graphic tees and sparkly pens and butterfly clips). But we had a great time being put up in hotels and travelling around in air conditioned buses. I hardly think about that trip though. Or China for that matter. I wonder if it's some kind of deep internal guilt trip thinking about how the world seems to be inching closer to conflict and instability? Dooooooom...
Thank you (?!). I am blursed with very vivid dreams. Think I'm quite overdue for a nice, fun one like flying over the countryside Mary Poppins-style. Hello brain, I'd like to make a firm request...
I read somewhere once that if you want to dream about something you have to think about it for a while just before you fall asleep. I find my dreams are usually a mixture of what I was thinking about before I went to sleep and some other random stuff.
Exercises were completed this morning (day 11) but then I took the mini peelers straight off on a shopping trip to search for costumes and ideas and things for book week. Also I needed to buy face washers/flannels (where do they all go?!). Also tbh it was to just get out of the house and away from Mr Peeler, who has had his meds changed and is playing the role of curmudgeon with dedication. On a serious note, it's interfering with his sleep so taking the kids and I out of the house so he can get some daytime shuteye is probably best for all of us. Somewhere in there I fitted in a couple of loads of washing and some
dinner and now I'm sitting here looking at the clock a bit miffed that the weekend is basically over.
There are a few options. Most likely for the Miniest Peeler is some kind of mad hatter/Willy Wonka character (possibly a confused mashup of the two) especially as we already have a top hat and purple silk waistcoat. For the Elder Minipeeler we now have in our possession a big Garfield plushy, (purchased with pocket money) so they will go as Jon Arbuckle which would enable relatively normal clothes to be worn and the plushy to go to school as the accessory. One was going to go as Jesus but decided against it because it might cause offence. Costumes were thin on the ground this year, with heaps available for very little children who want to be princesses or superheroes and very little else.
I remember riding one of those home from school fairly regularly when I was a lil tacker. The best fun was sitting on the window sills with one's legs dangling outside. Couldn't do it now, but as kids we were all immortal ...
Then the regular train changed to the dark blue kind we called a blue flyer and the old red rattlers mostly got sold off. Do they still have pictures behind glass in each compartment?
We’re pretty boring. Nothing on it besides our lil whiteboard for notes. I’ve been using it to practice my handwriting for the kanji I have to teach next week
My childhood dog ate my childhood teddy. Bills are paid electronically, but not automatically, as they need to be checked and recorded in the budget, with all payments reconciled monthly to ensure there are no errors. There is definitely no way in which a fridge should be involved in this process (except in terms of providing snacks).
You only message when you're drunk;
I only reply when I'm stoned.
I guess that's why I don't mind so much
That we're just so out of touch.
I'm just myself, but never sober.
I'm just a shell, I can't get over
The way your eyes look endless,
When the disco lights beat in time
With my playlist.
Tell me you feel the same, even if it's a lie.
I'll pretend I'll believe you until the day I die.
Let me sleep on your couch, I'll drift off with a sigh,
I'll wake in the night, so I can get high.
Let me live everyday until I die,
I'll wake in the night so I can get high.
Is a novated lease (which in my case includes insurance, fuel, and registration) really as good as companies make it sound, compared to just buying in cash?
Rarely. Especially if comparing it to paying up front and not borrowing. Many years ago there were tax benefits if you drove a lot which could make it cheaper, but mostly these days it just gives you a lower monthly payment than taking a loan directly, primarily because there is a "balloon payment" at the end instead of paying off the full amount.
There is also a lot of hassle involved in doing everything, as you have to go through the lease company. They are also taking out a loan in your name - I know someone who had problems getting a home loan, and discovered that the lease company had not been paying the loan payments which had impacted their credit.
Rewatching The Durrells while I work and it's making me want to be ocean side, laying about listening to the water while a cool sea breeze blows around me.
So in today's DT impulse purchases news it's day 3? Of sleeping on the new memory foam pillow suggested by @wscholermann and although I'm no connoisseur of memory foam pillows (I used to hate them) I'm sold - much better neck and shoulder position, lovely feeling of softness and support - I fell asleep much faster. The real test however is trying it out back at my place with no central heating and fancy mattress. I'll find out next Friday.
I also ordered a goddamn acupressure mat and pillow with the last of my gift card, inspired by @calhoon2005 and a serendipitous discussion of Shakti mats the very next day with the massage therapist. I didn't know it was a bit of a fad item but it seems legit - figure it's far cheaper than regular massages. The items should be here by Wednesday, fingers crossed - I really want to see if it helps with my morning headaches and pre sleep muscle tension.
I just did some half arsed gardening after a very long time (pruning a small row of salvia with small secateurs because that's all I could access, digging up a small garden bed for annuals, fertilising) and I wish that mat was here right now!
HEHEHE jumping on the Baldur's Gate 3 craze, by borrowing my partner's copy. Of course, I won't be able to play until tomorrow night when they're at work, but I'm excited. Last I played was like October of 2020 so it was EARLY days of the Early Access.
Wooo we've paid off 100th of the house.
Still wanna know why the interest on our fixed rate increased tho.
I'm waiting to get all my data from reddit and deleting my account. I'm super disillusioned with the melb subreddit in particular. Time to move on.
Sad really.
it's really fallen a long way. so much akshually and a current affair style content.
Are there even moderators there anymore?
They removed some fairly obvious race-bait the other day, but they don’t seem to be doing much for the most part.
I haven’t been on Reddit at all since we moved here. Realised I was just going on for the DT but would get sucked into scrolling once in the app. Huge time waster.
Made taiyaki for dessert. It was so enjoyable
Omg that's adorably cute food!
Wehhhhhh I want
Fishies!!
What do they taste like? I never had one of those before.
Taiyaki are basically just pancake batter filled with whatever. Traditionally red bean paste. This time I did red bean paste, chestnut paste and Nutella. I also really like filling them them a crème patissiere or yuzu curd if I have enough time/foresight to make it ahead. Because you cook them in the special mold, they get a nice crispy outside. People tend to have a preference for eating the head or the tail first. I personally like to go tail-first 😈
I am a monster and like to eat it from the side
Hmm interesting.
I don’t know what red bean paste tastes like so it’s quite a bit of an unknown for me to imagine what it would be like.
I wouldn’t mind filling one up with apple and cinnamon though.
I would go tail first I think.
want
Tonight is dumpling night! Found a stash in the freezer. No idea who made them, what's in them or how old they are.
Good luck with that. 🤞
Tonight we are having warak enab which is the lebanese version of dolmades. The roomies had a cooking sesh with my MIL.
Livin' on the edge!
Hmm. Mystery dumplings. That is brave 💪
I've decided to quit my job move to a small seaside town where I will befriend local characters, take on a strange job that pays pennies, and live in a quaint shack. I'll also only wear light colours and linen clothes with white plimsolls, and maybe I'll even let my Scottish curls grow.
See you suckers later, it's me and my seaside dream from here on out.
If you leave me can I come too? We can always stay But if you leave me, can I come too? And if you go, can I come too?
But the important question is how will you decorate your fridge while you are there?
Obviously with seaside themed magnets!
Alberton is still relatively cheap and my old neighbours are selling an original fixer upper. Local characters live there and they're all pretty wholesome.
Unfortunately I was thinking somewhere warm year round.
It is not that.
Alberton has the best fishing tho and it's so pretty.
Hello me
oh my god. oh my god.
I'm building a dedicated dl machine and deciding on the name. I like my machines to have in jokes in their names, so was pondering sea themes, Barnacle, which I liked but not liked liked...scallop? needed to be some sort of high seas sailing parasitic leech
Then it hit me. The mother fucking perfect name
Zoidberg
What’s your build? I’m gonna get a dell optiplex 7060 for my Plex machine cause my gaming rig is dying and plex is about it’s only purpose atm, but I’m debating a raspberry pi for a light weight DL machine.
Ah this is a literal dl machine, file server is a different machine entirely. Gonna be a vm on a proxmox with a 3tb landing pad and rdp access so the hubs stops harassing me. (PIA is currently on my w10 laptop and we're both IT pros, so using someone elses machine is like wearing their underwear. And not in a fun way.)
Edit: if ya really wanna know.... the hardware is a Dell PowerEdge R620. Lol.
Important: I met a 13-week-old corgi puppy and got to pat and hold her. Fluffy and adorable.
Hope you're all having a lovely Sunday.
Sadly I didn't get a picture. Billions of apologies.
- so puffed, his tongue might fall out
That's a handsome fellow. Looks quite content with life.
- doggo is done.. Me to buddy, me too.
To clarify my earlier post:
I want money to buy booze, weed, and sex toys. All the naughty stuff 😅😉
Edit: I am NSFW presently, and I am happy with that 😘
I miss being a student, that discount for Lovehoney was great.
I have bought some stuff there, heheh, I really like the full body fishnet things, with the crotch opening haha! Wearing it out to a party is super fun lol
when I lived in nyc I saw a guy wearing a lime fishnet suit with orange teeny tiny shorts, just walking around . It wasn't even Fleet Week... 😂
I've worn something similar to Rainbow Serpent.
When did sex toys become naughty stuff?
It's the booze and weed that's naughty
Assignment completed. About 3 hours to spare, plenty of time!
Meanwhile, I've only just sat down to begrudgingly start on the work that I have to get in before 9am Monday, which I've spent all of today doing procrastichores (in a house I have zero obligations to clean).
I suspect I'll be up till 2-3am again but doing so means I can take Monday off, more or less.
I envy your ability to get things done ahead of time...!
Psychiatrist has all but diagnosed me with the latter. She finishes up tomorrow and will start me on meds. Idk if that's the whole story but I've been like this my whole life so I guess I'll try.
I have over time lost all ability to stay up late. I usually go to bed around 8, I'm nearly dead staying up this late.
So am I tbh. I used to do all nighters all the time at uni. Tonight I know I will need two days to recover.
In the nick of time. Now what to do with those 3 hours?
Sleep. The plan is sleep.
Really wish people would keep their dogs on leash in areas where it literally says to keep your dog on leash. Some dog runs right up to mine not even 50m away from said "dogs must be on leash" sign. I don't wanna hear "ohhhh sorrrrrryyy about that", I just don't want your dog to run up to mine smh
I have a fear of strange dogs. the fucking cunts who get their noses out of joint when you tell to control their bity fucking animals where the sign says to are as bad as they come. I used to walk my housemates huge staffy ridgeback, on a lead. he was known to bite other dogs. trying to explain to these fucking hipsters in footscray having a picnic, this isn't even my dog, so I can't absolutely control him and here's your bouncy labradoodle snapping at it cos you want it to be "free". people have no common sense.
I'm hongohones, and this is today's what really grinds my gears.
I hear ya. My dog was attacked as a puppy on two separate occassions from off lead dogs, and as a result he's not great with dogs who run up to him suddenly while he's on a leash (which he always is because I don't trust other people or cars lmao). I also don't walk him where I know there's gonna be lots of dogs just in case, cause people suck - so that generally rules out all the nice dog-friendly places we could go. He hasn't actually attacked another dog, but I don't wanna take that risk because I've had friends whose dogs were perfectly trained with no prior negative experiences, and have still ended up going another dog in certain situations. I just want my bebi to be safe, especially since going for super long walks with him is one of my favourite things to do :(
Bring a walking stick. 😊
::: spoiler Just a chill Sunday ::: Image of a small dog relaxing
Nice colour combination! Feels very pleasingly 70s
It's my Iggle Piggle doona cover.
I had to tell our ginger gent that he gets until 11:30 max before i get up.
I still expect extreme displeasure
I'm cramped on the couch reading a book and everytime I turn a page he shoots laser beams into my soul.
Ayup, Punkin's surgically attached to my arse today. Oh no. I shall do so very little today
Went out with a vintage jacket and just realised that it's ah...maybe a little too obviously vintage. Ah well.
ragged or not vintage enough ?
I have a sweet 1960s knitted jacket I haven't worn yet. It's vintage but perfect condition.
Stains on the sleeve 🫠
is it worth the money to buy stain remover?
Errrr I think maybe I'll try a bit of scrubbing. It's just sweat stains around the sleeves 🫠
I noticed that yesterday's Reddit daily thread closed with fewer than 100 comments for the first time
Haven't looked at the DT there in a couple weeks. I feel sad for the lost souls who haven't found their way here 💔
Yeah some are put off by the ui and the bugs. I think a bunch just lost interest in this format overall.
I can say for myself that I became an avid DTer during the lockdowns and continued to drift in and out afterwards, out of habit. The Reddit blackout was a little bit of a reset switch for that habit - no longer instinctively go to r/melbourne when I open up a browser.
Still love the vibes of a/the DT (which is why I'm here!) but it stopped being such an instant thing that I opened.
the downvoters are still working hard there
there is more than one or at least more than one user ID
Not sure how number of comments left over a 24 hour period has anything to do with "the downvoters" but OK.
My point is, it used to get 500+ comments daily. It's been limping along since the blackout, but to see the day end with a double-digit number of comments is something unique up to this point. I wonder how long until that becomes more common...
How can you tell info about user id?
It's all happening here this morning. We've survived an attempted invasion from Next Door's Cat. She came into the backyard and Looked at us through the back door.
Luckily Tommy the brave resident GuardCat was on the job and dealt with the situation by crying loudly and pathetically.
I banged on the door, and went out and shooed her back over the fence. And then congratulated my brave hero on scaring away the intruder. He would definitely survive in the wild.
Image: a fluffy tabby cat all curled up and not looking at all savage
I want money to buy naughty things with. But I have to work for money. What a scam.
Yep... yep. I feel it.
Surely Liebe is the best naughty thing?
Money can't buy them though 😉
Care to elaborate?
Job's done 👹🛠
Hello?
Is it me you're looking for?
I can see it in your eyes...
Toast with peanut butter and coffee made, trying to relax now and wondering what I should do.
Still recovering and trying to keep things under control but as much as my mind might think it’s under control I think my body’s reacting to the stress.
hugs
Slept so terribly last night. Woke up multiple times, couldn't get comfy. So strange! I went to sleep so comfy...
I didn’t get a chance to take a pic last night. So here’s the recipe for Maple-Mustard baked chicken i have been making this for years.Super easy, Super fast to put together and Very tasty
Photo from recipe
ALTTEXT: an amazing looking bowl of cooked chicken
I've made this and it was just far too salty for me. I haven't made it again but I think if I do I would use mustard powder and mustard seeds and add a little light olive to make the marinade smooth.
Sleep was fab. Gotta drag myself up now though to start Operation Fridge Clean pulls on hazmat suit
Sounds nasty
Stop dwelling on it until you speak with them about it. It would be a bigger issue to not be able to communicate this type of thing with a potential partner imo
No. It leaves you wondering. Seems like a potential, keep you hanging and wondering routine. Pretty easy to send an I'm thinking of you text.
I think it's one thing not to reply to a text if maybe you lived together or at least saw each other each day. But if you're doing neither of those things, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a romantic partner to text back the same day you sent them one. He may just be a good guy with poor communication skills. Maybe he had a bad relationship were his partner was texting him constantly as a form of controlling behaviour. It could be any number of things. My advice would be to talk to him about it. Be open and tell him about your past experience and how his lack of communication makes you feel. Hopefully that can help you both reach a common ground
the thing is your messaging is kinda random , it means you're waiting and unsure. Maybe have a set time everyday when you check in.
I just paid $250 at the dentist, literally just for a check-up, a quick clean, and a fluoride treatment ($30). What the heck... I swear last time that was $150... T_T
I have a cheese toastie for lunch today and the wait is agonising. Hungry NOW
Barely escaped the relentless march of German pixels
Studying is going dreadfully today. I know what I want to say, but words are really not cooperating. It probably doesn't help that I've been procrastinating on it for the past week.
The battle of Helms Deep is pretty awesome
😬 At this very moment I'm watching RoTK , extended version. Again.
The filth of Saruman is washing away...
Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the east.
TO THE KINGGGGGGG
👀
I cannot feel my hands. If you are thinking of going out, I do not recommend it.
If I go out for a night on the town
And call you, wasted and lost,
Could you come get me out,
And tell me you love me most?
Carry me home, I'm lonely,
Just tell me you love me only.
I don't care if you mean it,
Just as long as I can feel it.
Send me your memes, ask what I think.
Send me your nudes, even
This isn't love, this is only a kink.
I don't care if I mean it,
Just as long as you can feel it.
I had a very long and intense dream last night about a month long high school exchange trip to China gone very awry...
::: spoiler descriptions It was constantly grey and bleak, we didn't go anywhere with nature and had to camp en masse on the school grounds, on large concrete yards under shitty tarps like refugees, fight to use the showers and protect one's own shampoo and soap at all costs. And at least a thousand of the school's own, local students had to sleep in similar configurations but with slightly nicer tents. We had school from 8-5 every weekday, were expected to study and do homework in the evenings, chores all of Saturday, and would only sometimes be allowed out on Sunday. The nearest city looked like it hadn't changed since the 80s and was suppressed under a permanent layer of smog. Come to think of it it's like smartphones didn't even exist in that dream. So maybe it was the communist 80s? Lots of brown, tartan patterns, burgundy... But no matter how miserable we were, the absolute best of us was expected during class, alongside the school's richer students who lived at home and were always very well prepared and neatly turned out. :::
It's now nearly 7pm and I can't shake how subtly unsettled it made me feel for absolutely no reason at all. And the smell of laundry powder just brought it all back. Like I actually went through that? Something in me feels like I really should've done something about the situation but it makes no sense.
Urgh. The ‘real’ dreams are the worst. It must have been the night for it.
::: spoiler spoiler I had a really vivid dream last night about a serial killer and rapist terrorising all of Melbourne. My dream was about the news coverage of it and how he kept evading all the security cameras around Melbourne and all they could capture were shots of his shoes and cap. :::
There was nothing particularly directly threatening to myself in the dream, and the events of dream itself was pretty mundane, but the sense and feeling that I wasn’t safe just living my life was enough to have me waking up in a sweat.
Oh god, it's particularly bad when it hits close to home and you might recognise landmarks around you from the dream. It's that feeling of not being safe that is so discomforting and unsettling, particularly when it's completely illogical but feels so real. It's like your body experienced it on some level and has to process it while asleep?
I don't know if exposure to traumatic personal stories (or experience of such trauma in families) activates some kind of bodily memory, even though we know that threat won't ever be relevant to our lives because of distance and/or time.
I just wonder where it comes from at all? Absolutely nothing that I’ve done/watched/read/whatever recently seems linked. Why did my brain pull that out?
Same with my dream, for the most part. I've been having lots of weird high school dreams lately tbh. Brain's interpretation of how to deal with anxiety juice coursing through the veins?
Eeeerrrrrkkkk. Not nice. Sending reassurance and hope vibes over the aether to you. I hate post-apocalyse dreams too. Doesn't stop me reading post-apoc sci fi though. Damfino why.
Thank you kindly, accepted with a hug. I find myself morbidly drawn to similar stories or reports myself - sometimes as a way of feeling something very intensely so that life makes more sense again. At some point the brain probably needs to flush out or resolve some of those vicarious experiences....?
Fwiw, I have actually visited China once, on a school trip in the late 90s, and the schools we visited were still relatively impoverished despite being in Beijing (I won't forget how their minds were blown by good quality graphic tees and sparkly pens and butterfly clips). But we had a great time being put up in hotels and travelling around in air conditioned buses. I hardly think about that trip though. Or China for that matter. I wonder if it's some kind of deep internal guilt trip thinking about how the world seems to be inching closer to conflict and instability? Dooooooom...
Your description is vivid, and reading it had a cinematic quality and I felt like I was there.
Thank you (?!). I am blursed with very vivid dreams. Think I'm quite overdue for a nice, fun one like flying over the countryside Mary Poppins-style. Hello brain, I'd like to make a firm request...
I read somewhere once that if you want to dream about something you have to think about it for a while just before you fall asleep. I find my dreams are usually a mixture of what I was thinking about before I went to sleep and some other random stuff.
Sounds like the Xinjian re-education camps.
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KBBQ platter please
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Can I please have a carrot on a stick?
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Perfect. It is dangling enticingly just out of reach.
Crumpets and tea please 😊
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Stir fry with hash browns, and a large tea please.
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Thank you very much. I do like the spice blend in the stirfry - really delicious and just what was wanted this morning.
Exercises were completed this morning (day 11) but then I took the mini peelers straight off on a shopping trip to search for costumes and ideas and things for book week. Also I needed to buy face washers/flannels (where do they all go?!). Also tbh it was to just get out of the house and away from Mr Peeler, who has had his meds changed and is playing the role of curmudgeon with dedication. On a serious note, it's interfering with his sleep so taking the kids and I out of the house so he can get some daytime shuteye is probably best for all of us. Somewhere in there I fitted in a couple of loads of washing and some dinner and now I'm sitting here looking at the clock a bit miffed that the weekend is basically over.
So what’s the plan for book week this year?
There are a few options. Most likely for the Miniest Peeler is some kind of mad hatter/Willy Wonka character (possibly a confused mashup of the two) especially as we already have a top hat and purple silk waistcoat. For the Elder Minipeeler we now have in our possession a big Garfield plushy, (purchased with pocket money) so they will go as Jon Arbuckle which would enable relatively normal clothes to be worn and the plushy to go to school as the accessory. One was going to go as Jesus but decided against it because it might cause offence. Costumes were thin on the ground this year, with heaps available for very little children who want to be princesses or superheroes and very little else.
I remember riding one of those home from school fairly regularly when I was a lil tacker. The best fun was sitting on the window sills with one's legs dangling outside. Couldn't do it now, but as kids we were all immortal ... Then the regular train changed to the dark blue kind we called a blue flyer and the old red rattlers mostly got sold off. Do they still have pictures behind glass in each compartment?
Hope y'all had a great weekend!
there's still some of it left. dont steal it from me.
pie filling is made, it's apple with cinnamon, vanilla and caramel . 👍 just have to let it cool before I make the pies.
pies have been made and I had a half of one 🤤
Bit too intimate for me sorry. I'll send you a dick pic though if you like
As long as it's under a spoiler
U asked for it ::: spoiler spoiler 🍆 :::
You should get that looked at by a health professional.
Take the rubber band off!
I'm so sorry.
I have a whole jigsaw of those.
You taught me a new word today, thanks 🙏
Obviously had to remove the multiple awards and accolades from the scientific community 🫠
::: spoiler A lot of personality in that fridge. :::
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YOU ARE ALL MY CHILDREN
Granted, it’s no crafty cock colllection, but one can aspire.
What’s for dinner? 😬
Nugs
We’re pretty boring. Nothing on it besides our lil whiteboard for notes. I’ve been using it to practice my handwriting for the kanji I have to teach next week
Love the bonus partial cat!
Well you have to start it. You can leave the decoupaged dong display if you like.
::: spoiler My fridge :::
My childhood dog ate my childhood teddy. Bills are paid electronically, but not automatically, as they need to be checked and recorded in the budget, with all payments reconciled monthly to ensure there are no errors. There is definitely no way in which a fridge should be involved in this process (except in terms of providing snacks).
Maybe an internet connected fridge that will pay the bills for you if you stick them on the front with a magnet?
::: spoiler My fridge ::: Image of a fridge door with lots of magnets.
I did have to remove some photos and lettering.
Woah. That's pretty good but you forgot to mention that I like magnets and free magnets are even better.
Those tight arse cardboard ones with the small magnet get chucked in the bin but the full length ones get recycled into crafty ones.
[chaos] (
also sideways and I don't how that happened.
Guilty as charged.
With kid pics and names on things marked over and a dent on the door from when we moved it in 12 or so years ago I submit the semi chaos fridge
Edit: Damn you all have such nice fridges! Mine is daubed with the grey patches of stickers long past.
Smoke alarms are just so overly dramatic some times.
Ugh.. Every time I use my favourite grill pan, even with every fan on in the flat and the door open!
Oh no. I'm reporting you to the fire brigade right now. They are going to come over and lecture you about fire safety any minute now.
What exactly does that entail? If someone sent me a strip-a-gram I'd be really embarrased and would probably run away.
Time for a haircut. Getting a bit straggly.
Edith Piaf is very good kitchen music.
So many beautiful 4 legged friends. 🤗😍
"I am not a robot"
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I spent lightyears stumbling to you,
Though no time at all has passed.
I spent lifetimes waiting for you,
Do you think this time it'll last?
The nightsky tells me it is time,
The stars and planets have aligned.
It is time, what a time to be alive,
Cosmic dust scattered into signs.
What a perfect day to blast some apoptygma berzerk
Was a pretty interesting night, with two junkies trying to pick fights with punks outside the Curtin (death metal) and Last Chance.
Packed tinyests bag for daycare. I am a fucking mess. Glad I’m not going to drop off tomorrow. I won’t be able to handle it!
just saw a YT thumb for movie titled "Saturday the 14th". I might watch that. 😂
Not related but I saw a trailer on YT for a movie called Slotherhouse the other day and thought it was a joke
You only message when you're drunk;
I only reply when I'm stoned.
I guess that's why I don't mind so much
That we're just so out of touch.
I'm just myself, but never sober.
I'm just a shell, I can't get over
The way your eyes look endless,
When the disco lights beat in time
With my playlist.
Tell me you feel the same, even if it's a lie.
I'll pretend I'll believe you until the day I die.
Let me sleep on your couch, I'll drift off with a sigh,
I'll wake in the night, so I can get high.
Let me live everyday until I die,
I'll wake in the night so I can get high.
Is a novated lease (which in my case includes insurance, fuel, and registration) really as good as companies make it sound, compared to just buying in cash?
Rarely. Especially if comparing it to paying up front and not borrowing. Many years ago there were tax benefits if you drove a lot which could make it cheaper, but mostly these days it just gives you a lower monthly payment than taking a loan directly, primarily because there is a "balloon payment" at the end instead of paying off the full amount.
There is also a lot of hassle involved in doing everything, as you have to go through the lease company. They are also taking out a loan in your name - I know someone who had problems getting a home loan, and discovered that the lease company had not been paying the loan payments which had impacted their credit.
Thank you for such a detailed response:)
Rewatching The Durrells while I work and it's making me want to be ocean side, laying about listening to the water while a cool sea breeze blows around me.
So in today's DT impulse purchases news it's day 3? Of sleeping on the new memory foam pillow suggested by @wscholermann and although I'm no connoisseur of memory foam pillows (I used to hate them) I'm sold - much better neck and shoulder position, lovely feeling of softness and support - I fell asleep much faster. The real test however is trying it out back at my place with no central heating and fancy mattress. I'll find out next Friday.
I also ordered a goddamn acupressure mat and pillow with the last of my gift card, inspired by @calhoon2005 and a serendipitous discussion of Shakti mats the very next day with the massage therapist. I didn't know it was a bit of a fad item but it seems legit - figure it's far cheaper than regular massages. The items should be here by Wednesday, fingers crossed - I really want to see if it helps with my morning headaches and pre sleep muscle tension.
Right on.
I just did some half arsed gardening after a very long time (pruning a small row of salvia with small secateurs because that's all I could access, digging up a small garden bed for annuals, fertilising) and I wish that mat was here right now!
HEHEHE jumping on the Baldur's Gate 3 craze, by borrowing my partner's copy. Of course, I won't be able to play until tomorrow night when they're at work, but I'm excited. Last I played was like October of 2020 so it was EARLY days of the Early Access.
I feel that. I have a few games to finish too.
But... why not have another game, as a little treat.
holy shit that was a stressful match, but fuck yeah!! (world cup, for those not playing along)
off to watch footy!
Who you gonna see? Who ya barracking for?
i’ll decide when i get there :P probably carlton
What teams are playing?
Edit: Saints vs Carlton