Daily Discussion Thread: Thu 05 Oct 2023
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warm feeling of cuddling a cat
crushing searing pain of cat stepping on neck 😬
That point loading from their tiny little paws is painful!
They put all their weight on one foot at a pressure point and then don’t move 😖
Interestingly we had to calculate point loading of an elephant when I was in theatre tech school. Thought we were all good, then were told it was doing the one leg trick.
Yep they find that exact spot on your sternum and suddenly become an elephant
Your sternum? You're lucky, mine always stands on a boob.
That too, I find the bony bit more painful. Him trying to steal jewellery in the middle of the night is another issue…
Naughty cat! I've had the displeasure of a claw holding onto a nip to prevent a slide. Never again.
Why do the kitty gotta step on the tiddy
Not the boob massage I asked for that's for sure.
Huh. Actually felt strong on my 5k run. Considering I'm about 20 kg overweight, I've gotta say I'm pretty happy with that.
That's awesome! I've never been much of a runner 😔 Getting better as I get fitter, but I can't see myself doing a 5k run anytime soon 🐌🦥🐢
That’s very impressive! When I was 20kg overweight I could barely get up off the floor, lol
Guess who decided to make an appearance (!)
Just Joey. They smell really, really, really ridiculously good looking.
Does this look like it’s made of ham to anyone else?
Smoked salmon to me!
Just Joey is my favourite! My mother had an awesome rose garden, she had it in her garden and the fragrance was glorious.
Ahh, a beautiful Just Joey. I have my Kardinal starring to bloom now. Ridiculously long stems. If I remember I'll get a photo tomorrow.
It's such a great rose. And ooh I'm looking forward to the kardinal when it goes :)
It is a lovely morning out there, it made for a very pleasant morning walk. Mr Woof enjoyed himself, and wanted to do all the side quests. Mostly they were quick follow-the-scent quests, but I had to put my foot down when he wanted to follow the shady character in a hoodie, I'm pretty sure that one would open up a long quest chain we just don't have time for.
Note to self: I might be spending too much time playing video games...
Freezing wind though…,.
wind’s howling
::: spoiler regarding shady individual
Nothing happens in the main game as I recall. :::
Fuckit! Dear internet, please validate my design choices. https://imgur.com/a/0OQTBxf ID: a partially sewn punk style shirt
The many skulls feel a bit over the top. Maybe some smaller ones?
I’m going to differ. His fav is hot pink leopard print, so the concept too much is out of scale.
All good. Is there a punk rock bowling event coming up?
Not that I’m aware of. Sounds equally awesome and terrifying 😸
I remember those shirts kind of gained popularity in the 90s during the swing revivalist movement. I had a an all black one with black velvet front panels. It worked well at dressier events as well.
I would agree with this, everything else is great though.
Love the colour and pattern combo.
Thank you.
Curiosity: I fat finger deleted this post and everybody is replying to it rather than the redo?
i saw both post
Didn't see the other one. I do now, but not before.
Looks good to me.
Validate. Would wear.
Great colour choices!
Nice. I think he’ll really like it
Oooh. First prospective buyer who came through today is very keen and is coming back with his wife Saturday afternoon. AND the house they're renting is being sold so he needs to find a place fast.
Fingers crossed for a good outcome and a good offer!
Dropping some cheesy garlic bread:
yum
Luurrve the deep pits of molten cheese/butter/garlic. Yummmmm.
I turned the portable heater on, because I'm shivering, and the motor that makes it turn side to side caught fire. Turned it off quicksmart, but I didn't have 'electrical fire' on my bingo card for today.
Serves me right for buying Anko brand shit from Kmart 🤦♀️
Edit: also went to the pharmacy for a medical cert, and the pharmacist gave me original Codral with the 30mg of Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride (instead of what it is now, with 5mg of Phenylephrine Hydrochloride). Noice!
So lucky you were there when that happened
Wish I could get the real stuff. The fake gives me such insomnia it’s not even worth attempting.
Just ask for it? I always do and they just ask you a few questions and see your ID.
I’m a Goth. This tends to come with some highly inaccurate assumptions about my drug use that asking nicely doesn’t work
Take the heater back
and hugs, glad you are safe
Hell yeah Codral Original formula is all I accept and the only one which works for me. You just have to ask for it and show your ID generally. Codral Original makes sick Bull go ni nighs.
CBFs hitting suuuuper hard today, unsurprisingly. I decided before I start whinging here about what I don't want to do, I'll swallow some small frogs. Lodged a complaint/refund request about my air purifier not arriving so that's one huge headache addressed for now. Rice is cooked for the belated tinned fish celebration. Yay.
Trying to feel better by celebrating the garden...
::: spoiler photos and shit
The snow pea forest is thriving and fruiting, yay! I know it'd be better if they were spaced further apart, but I'm very happy with having found this position and this planter box. Come at me delicious fresh pods!
Lil jasmine plant I bought a year ago has flowered nicely and smells gorgeous - I hope it brings a smile to everyone passing by. Some day when I move I'll have to untwine it and prune off what I can't untwine and hope it survives. I think they're quite resilient, it should be okay?
And finally my rocoto chilli is already (!) putting out new flowers. I suspect it's a little confused. Will need to find a new spot for it when it becomes more reliably warm. Need to harvest the chillos for some experimentation and maybe try and save some seeds?? :::
But also, just as much as I see the good, I also see sooo much maintenance I need to tackle before I head off again in two weeks - repotting, pruning, pulling out dead plants - and I feel blah again even though I normally don't mind doing it and feel productive.
And work... ugh... no... sads...
Looking good!
I'd say jasmine would be one of the more resilient things I have in the garden keeps growing into and strangling shit this time of year. I go at it pretty heavily just to give the other stuff a chance. Always bounces back. It's probably 40+ yrs old.
Yeah true, I've seen them take down entire fences. I'm conscious that this little one is still small/young but it's also been doing p well so don't think I need to worry about vigour when I do prune it - would likely be after the flowering season and heading into winter.
it's currently growing in a deep but narrow tree seedling pot and doesn't seem rootbound, I'll maybe repot it in another year's time depending on where I end up.
No tinned fish photo? Sad.
Yeah it was sad because I only remembered to eat at like 1pm and was ashamed at myself for being so self sabotaging. I chopped up some garden coriander to go with it though so it did look nice.
I started a new exercise plan today, this time it's a 30 day fat burner. I think the trouble I had motivating for the last program was that the sessions started out at 8 minutes or so but got progressively longer to about 18 to 20 minutes or so. Which is much harder to carve out of a busy morning. Also my core wasn't very strong to start with and I hate tummy exercises! These ones are more intense and shorter so much easier to fit in. Day 1 completed.
"Jimmy Giggle" is driving my bus again today!
I've found a laundromat near my place which is handy because I can bring stuff here to dry which was a pain to dry before. I could have always driven to one but I never thought to. This one is convenient AND has the most modern payment system I've ever seen at a laundromat which excites me. It's also on the pricier side compared to other places around the world because we get reamed in Australia.
Of course, my first day off and I can't even sleep in... especially when I stayed up until 3am.
Anyways, hello everyone, I hope you're well!
Today I learned fig wasps exist and my mind is blown a little, nature is insane.
without wasps there are no figs
Today I learned that some veganism is not just about human killing animals, but death of any animal at all even if it is part of the natural lifecycle? So what happens if a worm is killed when potatoes are harvested?
Jeez today has been a day.
Reminds of a quote my gramps said (in a very thick scottish accent many moons ago). He was a wheat / sheep farmer in WA and ended up looking after pigs for the CSIRO in retirement.
With a straight face "Aye the more I get to know me pigs, the less I like people". I was too young to understand it but it all makes sense now.
I’ve heard pigs are very good company, so I reckon gramps was onto something there
He gave up eating pork after looking after them heh. Absolutely taken by them.
Bill Cat is exhausted from being a bad puss.
::: spoiler spoiler :::
snorggles
Oh no, the little teddy puss. Poor thing has been through so much. Time to sleep for 20 hours and plot his next move against the intruder...
Got through the cleanup and being out for the inspection - drove down to Chelsea and poor Sammi threw up and started anxiety drooling on the way back. However she's happily disporting herself in front of the fire, while Zooks has settled on my bed.
Oh poor darling. Feliway, catnip, meloxicam??
Was thinking of the first two will definitely check with the vet!
Think I'm gonna have Fatarse Friday tonight instead of tomorrow, I'm just so exhausted. It was freezing at work today, and for some reason my counting of things was out. I'd count out 65 lasagna trays and then find I'd actually counted 55, that sort of thing. Then I got home and realised I needed to use some nasal spray (I get a lot of sinus trouble, I always have). By about mid afternoon my nose always feels partially blocked. Suddenly I can breathe! Maybe I wasn't getting enough oxygen to my brain lol.
So I've had to take a third day off; this cold has absolutely wrecked me. No sleep, can hardly breathe, aching, snot, so much snot, eyes leaking and puffy - entirely miserable.
On the bright side: my new phone should be arriving today. Whoo, Packidge!
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Thank you Chef, much appreciated and needed 💜💜💜
It's the aching I hated the most.. a visiting the bathroom felt like a marathon. Sending hugs
Thank you 💜 I'm trying to gather the energy to go to the pharmacy for a med cert, and the shops for cat food. I'm dressed, so that's good lol
Daylight savings fucks with my sleep for at least a week and I'm waking up way too early*
Stressing a bit about work just because there's too much shit going on and feel like I'm just meeting jumping. Probably going to get reamed by management when they get back on Monday for not having enough stuff done although I'm not sure when I was supposed to have the time to do it...
*for me...
I hate how I can’t even sit up for long periods anymore. My body is fucked and it makes it really hard to do hobbies
Argh! Going bonkers on this secret sewing thing. Yes it’s getting done in snips when boyo goes for a walk or whatever, but never knowing how long I’ve got tends to packing up too fast just in case. Just give him the damn job already!
Sorry but what's the secret sewing biz?
Birthday prezzie.
I just finished that awfully hard puzzle of an Ancient Roman mosaic floor, it took 3.45 hrs 😵 I've done Escher puzzles that were easier
I finally Did The Thing and got through my work emails (vom, blah, urgh, too many feels) And my refund claim for my missing air purifier has been approved. Now I'm trying a listing on mydeal by mydeal themselves, let's pray this works!
That's IT, now I feel like I can relax today... With plenty of nice warm food, fuck this weather right now atgjdhnghjfghhvlgtbkhfnlgg. Gonna catch up on the last 2 eps of OMITB and then maybe finish Good Omens s2! Happy chemicals, come to me...
I've had a shot of zzzquil and I've turned the heater on. Imma go ni nighs so hard.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Soup please, with a crispy baguette and some coffee.
🥣🥖☕️
Thank you. Just what's needed this chilly morning. At least the sun is shining (at the moment).
Something to drown the pain of Hold musack please
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Wheee! This could be an interesting day.
Can I have a double serving of triple strength motivation please. Plus a strong black coffee.
🏃🏃☕️
Some WFH juice please
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I think it's working. Time to tell my boss
Edit: it worked 👍
The Powerfeed arrived and so did the watering can. But the watering can has a hole in the neck that sprays stuff everywhere out to the side... every time I buy something there's some issue with it
Crumpets have been made and I had three but I had no butter with them so it's not too bad, eh.
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Fuckit! Dear internet, please validate my design choices. https://imgur.com/a/0OQTBxf ID: a partially sewn punk style bowling shirt
TV series are much more serious if the actors speak slowly. 🤭
( watching "Mars". it drives me goddamn friggen nuts )
Has anyone heard from Lister? I haven’t seen comments from her in a while. Hoping she’s ok.
I am easily amused, been pointing the cat laser pointer at my chandelier . Sparkly red rainbows🌟⭐🌈❄
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I was looking for happy chemicals, but goddammit the ending of Good Omens s2 was not that. Excuse me while I curl up into the fetal position :(
I literally just finished that episode 15 minutes ago!
I now have a burning desire to see s3 created as quickly as possible :( 💔
It definitely sounds like perhaps your priorities are different, maybe it's worth addressing with him. Just a calm, quiet chat.
"I was thinking about our dates and time together and realised we do a lot of things you like to do and I haven't been advocating for myself. I would appreciate you making the effort as well"
Or something long those lines. If you're just feeling like you're completely incompatible then the chat might not be worth it.
Getting sleeeeeepy. Still 3 hours of training to go today.
- lunch notes and Inktober time again.
Since the Coles staff are on strike and not cleaning vomit, I've been tempted to leave a pile of endless spew in the store.
Why? You’d just be making it unpleasant for staff and shoppers to be there.
Just brought tickets to the Asakusa Death Fest \m/ \m/ \m/