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Have to make A Phone Call. Wish me luck...
Update: phone call made. Case manager was understanding and took me off Difficult Client's schedule. Also it transpired that the system -at least the scheduling system - hadn't been updated and was showing me still in Cheltenham.
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I don't fold it in half for anyone so only work with feet and metres
Know what I am saying
Hardcore nostalgia with the music tonight!
My work from home equipment arrived today. God it's different working for a normal company.
Certain types of companies are great for a foot in the door, but you can't stay forever.
Massive week in Hobart. My back is killing me. Nothing a frosty beverage canāt fix, Cheers š»
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I went and found an image on my phone. Copied it then came back here in the voyager app and pasted it.
Copy and paste always works on a desktop when Iām need emojis.
On my app though it failed a few times before it worked.
Edit: to clarify I did a Google search for an image.
I was in Hobart once in winter on a day when Melbourne was colder, and I knew because every single person I met told me about it. They were very proud.
Anti-gratitude thread
The delayed phase sleep syndrome I'm dealing with. Even when I've woken up early and gotten shit sleep, I can't seem to fall asleep early. Going to the pharmacy to get my hands on some schedule 3 meds.
I wish toast stayed hotter for longer. It's so often cold. I am ungrateful for lukewarm toast.
I'm gonna make meatballs and I don't appreciate having to stick my hands in cold cold meat. It makes me feel icky.
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I am ungrateful for it being really hard to get replacement brushes for my robovac. Itās cheaper to get a whole new unit of a different brand. Intentional Design obsolescence pisses me off!
I've only tried melatonin (gives me poor quality sleep) and weed (give me poor quality bank balance) for my DSPD. Is there anything else you might recommend?
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I notice that I tend to have bad dreams more often when I take melatonin, but I'm not sure whether that's an actual side effect or just a case of getting better quality sleep, and for longer. What dose did you take?
Melatonin is 5mg, doctor then suggested I crush it, which surprised my GP. I don't dream either way though.
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Ah right. I was prescribed 2mg capsules, but permitted to take 2 of them if 1 didn't work. These days though, I've gone down to 1mg tablets, and I take another if need be. I find that if I take over 4mg I get very groggy, and sometimes struggle to sleep the more I have. I took 7mg once (bad night), and the next day I could barely function.
That said, I know a dude who takes 15mg, which just seems truly excessive. But it's mostly unregulated in the US, so they just gladly sell 20 or 30mg tablets. more than 30mg seems to be considered dangerous, or at least risky, although it doesn't seem to have been well tested.
I haven't tried any medications for it, but yesterday anotherspringchicken recommend restavit or phenergan
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@LowExperience2368 @DolphinLundgrin I ended up using Restavit too often and decided I needed to try something else. I now have a script for Endep (amitriptyline) which is safe to take long term if needed, it really helps me sleep.
Thanks @kudra@aus.social and @LowExperience2368@aussie.zone for the info, might have to pick this conversation back up with my doctor. Cheers!
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How do you even get diagnosed with DSPD in this country? I always get Drs and psychiatrists telling me to go to sleep earlier and be very dismissive when I ask for sleep tests done. Normal sleeping pills don't work at all for me, the best tools I have are agomelatine, clonidine, and cannabis (all taken together if I need to force a sleep bc of society).
Anyways, I'm not grateful for dismissive doctors who think I am trying to get pills off of them to abuse. Also fuck my sleeping disorder!
Yes fuck your sleep disorder :(
I didn't get diagnosed with it, but I think I have a delayed phase thing going on. It might not be disorder level, because I'm not sleeping at a mega ridiculous time, but my rhythm is just kinda in shock and I haven't been to sleep before midnight probably in about two years.
I think it's more a bad habit per se. Although no matter what time I wake up one day, I will still not be able to fall asleep. It's strange.
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Ungrateful that my filling seems to get really painful when I eat/drink anything hot or cold. I think eating dinner is what brought on the pain yesterday. Had similar pain today after I drunk some cold water and let it over to the left side of my mouth. Apparently I just need to avoid eating anything warmer than room temperature for the next 2 weeks, when apparently it'll fix itself š¤·āāļø
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That sounds like the nerve is irritated. Not fun, but at least it means your tooth is still alive and you don't need to go down the whole root canal route.
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Yeah. I think I've mentioned it before, but I'm super thrilled that my teeth aren't fucked beyond repair. I'm pretty good about brushing my teeth at least once a day now, but I went an extremely long time with only sporadic teeth brushing. I'm sure I'll end up paying for that in the future
(Wtf Medicare, cover tooth and psychological care better you gronks)
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Back home after sleep school. I won't say finally a chance for a regular night's sleep, but lets try to keep up the good habits with the kids and there might be many good nights' sleep for us in the future
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Been feeling low and grumpy today. Positive emotions completely dulled while negative emotions seem to get an extra boost. But at least I cut short the work day on both ends today and had some wins at work.
My favourite auntie got into a bad and easily avoidable car accident (total write off, front looked completely mangled) thanks to her stupid idiot overconfident narcisssistic husband, who honestly should've been off the roads years ago. They're in WA so no way of easily going there. Instead here I am simmering in anger at that man (nobody likes him. Except my aunt who is a martyr). Thank fuck there were no injuries, maybe minor whiplash for my aunt.
At least I guess it means they'll get a new car with all the safety features but really the safest thing they can do is take the dickhead's licence away. I hope he'll voluntarily do it after this massive wake up call... small chance given his outsized ego but he's softened a bit over the years.
Gratitude thread āØļø
Grateful for female friendships! Not being upset like I was a year ago because my ex was too busy to talk to me. The sun. Dog attempting to wake me up twice, potentially because someone has either left the house or arrived.
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@LowExperience2368 @Seagoon_ Female friendships are the best āŗļø
(The only catch for me is I tend to be someone people come to with problems. So there's been days when my bestie has come to me with troubles, and then my other bestie, and then mum, and then wifey š«.)
Anyways. Grateful thoughts.
One of the ways wifey and I split jobs is that I do the dishes at night and she, in theory, puts them away every morning.
In practice, most days I end up doing it.
Well...
A couple of days ago, I waited to see how long it would take for her to do it.
6pm ā nope. 7pm. 8pm.
Are you going to put them away? "In a minute!"
9pm. 10pm.
Eventually it gets to midnight. Still not put away and she's fast asleep.
So I put them away. At midnight. I might have made a bit more noise than usual in the process.
She wakes up: "Why are you doing that now? It's midnight!"
Oh sorry, it got to midnight and the dishes still weren't put away from this morning, so I'm doing it...
Anyways.
I woke up this morning, and the dishes were all in the drawers.
Grateful āŗļø
Bocconcini takes me back to my childhood! Don't want to doxx your location, but where can I find a free food market?
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This one is Eastern Food Rescue, which grew out of a Food is Free cupboard in Mitcham. There are a number of Food is Free cupboards around the place too which have free food at random times. The food is primarily stuff that is going to be thrown out from supermarkets and bakeries, so the quality can be variable.
I am grateful that I have choices in my life.
Also that I've just been sent the questions for an interview on Monday, so I can be well-prepared.
You could buy some mince and chop it up, mix it with the mince and make hamburgers or you could fry the mince and throw in chopped up parsley and spices or you could make a pesto with some pine nuts. Pine nuts are cheaper at Aldi.
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I'm sort of a few days out from being able to shop again so I have try and make do with what I have at the moment.
I was going to make garlic butter bread/loaf slices and maybe thinking about using the pasley in that.
Was going to do fish burgers too but I don't know if pasley mixes well with that?
Yeah, parsley goes very well with fish burgers. It'll also keep in your fridge for a week. Just put it in a plastic bag so it doesn't dry out.
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@Duenan @CEOofmyhouse56 Parsley and fish definitely can work together š
Do you have any lemons?
Any neighbours with a lemon tree in the front yard?
If so, you might want to try a lemon parsley butter with your fish: https://www.recipetineats.com/lemon-butter-sauce-fish/
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No lemon sadly :( @CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
I was going to do something similiar to a Maccas Fillet O Fish.
Smokey Cheese, Tartare sauce and battered fish.
Yeah but are you making it because theres alot more in it than herbs. If you have a store bought one just add the parsley to a portion.
Also get some of your margarine and put it in bowl and add heaps of finely chopped parsley and a little bit of garlic, mix it all up and you've got garlic butter. Any leftovers put some glad wrap on it and put it in your fridge for next time.
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Fasolada or some other Greek stew is always my go to with parsley. Lots of good recipes here: https://www.mygreekdish.com/category/collections/traditional-greek-soup-recipes/
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How to jump start a neighbour's Ford Focus with the key-opened bonnet :
Step 1: Try to open the bonnet.
Step 2: With their friends, in total four of us, take turns repeating step 1 while watching YouTube.
Step 3: Celebrate too hard after finally spending almost 2 hours getting the damn bonnet open ... and helplessly watch as they accidentally smash the windshield with said bonnet.
Step 4: Connect batteries, start car, warn neighbour fuel is at 5%, pray that they have enough to gain enough charge to restart after refuelling.
Step 5: Bitch about the problem.
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@Seagoon_ My boss (this is not the "manager") insists on having a team meeting every Friday afternoon.
She insists on having another one first thing Monday morning.
Are these meetings happening so we can talk about what we're working on?
Well, not really. That's what the Wednesday meeting is for.
No, I'm now 99% sure the whole point of the Friday meeting is so she can tell everyone how much fun she will have skiing or bushwalking this weekend.
And the Monday one? That's to force people to listen to how much fun she had skiing or bushwalking this weekend.
Its an evil plan to ensure that no one chucks a sickie on Monday or leaves early on Friday. So these meetings might not accomplish anything worthwhile workwise, but improve her management statistics for absenteeism ... I would take my laptop into the meeting and just get on with my job, ignoring her non-work related stuffing around. If she objects, tell her (and her manager/boss) you're sick of her wasting your valuable and expensive time on nothing.
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Love it when the people we work with use their coworkers as their audience /s big main character syndrome vibes
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I just ... don't go.
Or, I'll happily walk out of a meeting "I'm not adding value, here".
I already have more work than I can physically do. There's no way I have time to sit around through something like that.
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@CEOofmyhouse56 Haha I like your thinking!
Any ideas on what I should say? I'm open to suggestions š
Helicopter ride, pub raffle, saw a snake, rescued a puppy.
Take an exciting weekend you've once had and give it a little embellishment.
Also the more your boss talks on a Monday the less work you do!
Stretch it out a bit more with a few facial expressions and bang you've got yourself a great story.
I have a neighbour who's a drummer. The marching band kind, not the death metal kind. I love hearing them practice. They're a couple of houses away I think and it's lovely and soft and rhythmic.
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OMG Aus music happy hour and I've been missing it...mhang on..
Any you am I love so far? https://youtu.be/Nwsyr5gAEuM?feature=shared
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My filling that I got on Monday started hurting at about 8pm yesterday. It's odd. I didn't have any pain on Tuesday, obviously didn't have any on Monday (half my face was numb), and on Wednesday I only had a little bit that was easily fixed with a Panadol. This one isn't so lucky. And it seems to have been timed nicely with feeling a bit blegh.
Hopefully I have a good sleep, and a good sleep fixes it