Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
My lovely daughter comes home yesterday all excited because she spotted all these white butterflies around on her way home. She even took photos. She was so happy. Now as a mother it's my job to tell her the truth. I crushed that little girl's heart with a "no sweetie. They are cabbage moths. They're a pest. They eat hard working Australians crops". Not to be out done she replied with "They're still pretty". Bless her little cotton socks.
So this is the second week I've had my period, and last time this kind of stuff happened I never talked to the doctor about it (medical trauma and obviously cptsd from SA) but it's happening again... So I have to go see my GP, tho I may request a lady doctor to hopefully ease my worries.
Low-key hoping that my uterus is damaged beyond repair and has to be removed. #goals
This organ is nothing but pain and annoyance and though it's doesn't make much sense, whenever I think of it being removed I think of Mike Wazowski: "Put that thing back where came from, or so help me, so help me, so help me, and cut!"
Yeet the thing if you can! Wish the wretched organ came with an on/off switch. Yes, I’m sure I don’t want to use this right now, hibernate mode GO! (I got mine disconnected, but unfortunately it still works)
I don't have anything important to say but I'm becoming really good at getting wasps out of the house. Give them a little hand gesture and they know where the window is. They are more aware than we think.. They know things.
One of your mates got in my car the other day. It got in. I got out. It got very close to buckling up in the backseat before I open the door and nicely asked it to "Get out".
Come back when you have learned the way of the mosquito and you will never worry for fame or money ever again.
Does anyone feel like their emotions get blunted as they get older? For whatever reason I just don't get as stressed or anxious as much about things as I used to. On the other hand I also don't get as excited as much either. Overall I'm just much more..... sedated?
I don't know if it is emotions getting blunted or just that having had a much wider range of experiences the extremes needed to trigger strong emotions are much rarer. When you have little experience of food every meal has a high chance of being the best thing you have ever tasted by a strong margin (or the worst!). But eventually you get to the stage where you have tried so many things that the chances of any one thing being the best are slim, and if it is, it is not generally by a wide margin. I imagine that if you could recreate something as dramatically different as your first taste of sugar your emotions would be just as strong.
I believe the tendency to become less adventurous as we age is down to the same thing. The chances of a new recipe being better than the best recipe we have discovered so far gets lower and lower as we go along, until we get to the point that trying new things becomes more likely to be a negative than a positive. But doing this creates even less likelihood of having an experience that triggers strong emotions - which is why some people go to the opposite extreme of chasing adventure and looking for dramatically new experiences.
Same here, my emotions aren't as extreme as when I was younger. Something I experienced when I was younger that would be very keenly felt is now more of a "meh" for me. However I still get angry the same, I still get cross at everything! I suffered from an anxiety disorder and had PTSD from around 2006 for about years, so everything feels less anxious compared to then lol.
Yeah but I think there's different reasons for everybody. For me I've never really been a stressy person but when I had a child even less stressy because I didn't want her to pick up on it.
I can relate to that.. I think having a child really helped me too, for the same reason.
Same as you I don't get excited much any more (late 40's here), but I am -definitely- much grumpier now than I used to be. Nothing used to worry me back in the day, but now I'm constantly having to catch myself and shut my mouth before I grumpily complain about so many things.
It's a trait I don't like and do my best to suppress, but sometimes it slips through. My internal dialogue is just constant grumpiness these days and I hate it!
No, I am just as intense and wild as ever.
I do try my best to appear calm and i do hold my tongue
Is frustration an emotion? I don't really get angry or excited that much, but holy shit do I get frustrated at little things (90% of the time it's people doing stupid little things). The frustration leaves quickly, but it's pretty intense when it hits.
Overall though, yeah. Way less emotional swings.
I don't think I've got the youthful hormones to fall in love/lust with someone anymore. I might grow to care for someone but I think I'm done falling in love.
My experience at being injured makes many physical traumas (cut hand
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Graffiti and vandalism annoys me so much. It makes me really really angry. Why can't people just not fucking destroy things that benefit everyone?
I keep seeing anti-Semitic and nazi graffiti around carlton 😔 tagging is shit but at least it isn't evil
I told myself I was going to get some work done today (and got up at 8:30am so not bad...) But it's not happening yet. I am frozen and somehow crave interaction to kick start my brain. I do have a few hours I have to spend in a library between appointments later today though, so that might generate some action, being away from home with my laptop.
this week is sucking the will to live out of me. I dont know why, but it is just exhausting. Felt like we faced 2 Mondays in a row.
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Ok so don't nap when you had a poor nights sleep the night before. Or set an alarm or something. 2 and a half hours GONE and I don't love my chances of sleeping well tonight!
- lunch notes - theme this week is power....Which is beyond stupid. Why can’t I crush most of a six pack or case and leave one to scan the barcode? I also thought there were supposed to be vending machine type things at supermarkets. Certainly not local to me.
Me neither. It would make sense to have one in the carpark of First Choice Liquor imo.
Car park is my first recycling memory. Weird domes, glass only, split by colour. And no refund.
I can walk to one, but won’t want to with a bulky load of uncrushed tins. Will go head to head challenge with @CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone On jingly bins. Not doing that for a kilometre.
gotta be able to read the barcode.
Depending on where you are, there may be an app that lets you check eligibility on the fly
I had just bought a soft drink can crusher THEN heard how the container deposit scheme wants them uncrushed for the barcode to be read.
Oh well. I still have a crusher..
I expect that it needs to read a barcode or some other ID to recognise if the container is eligible for refund? Just my guess. This is the kind of info government should explain, so people understand the reasons and don’t waste their time crushing cans.
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My local recycling joint (in WA) takes them crushed. The technology exists. Are the recyclers in Victoria privately operated like the ones here are?
The big joints that go by weight take crushed, but are not keen on domestic quantities. This new return paid by individual item scheme is actually asking us to do loads of work to get 10c back. I’ll probably be largely still using the yellow bin. My down time is worth more.
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Here is our recycling machine thingy separating cans and plastic bottles. Caution: these places are loud.
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The kids love doing this. I've trimmed them out of the video, but the full video shows them jumping with exitement. They come away with about $20ea from these excursions.
My new job is a finished by midmorning/midday unless something trickles in sort of job, and the feeling is so weird. Like technically I'm done for the day, but now I have to sit there and click about my screen or make small talk with my neighbour. After my last job I'm totally not complaining, but damn!
Oh totally! Although it's a bit easier to stomach at home though because you can get things done, which will come in handy when I go back to school next year.
There are 3 different custards in my fridge. I think there might be a custard-off tonight.
Good question. I went to Aldi yesterday and I saw it there and went "yep I need that for my pudding". Then last night I read something about Golden Gaytime Toffee custard so I decided I needed that. While I was there I spotted Farmhouse custard which is a good custard that I cannot refuse.
Ok try 2 at my little DIWHY home repair. Figured out the paint colour. Its a Dulux natural white aquanamel satin finish (so go to Bunnings and ask them to tint it is what the Dulux guy told me). Then, ask for a small piece of timber or something I can stick at the back with some glue for stability and then rinse and repeat the putty process. Also get a 4mm mini roller kit for the painting. Got it. Peanut brain hard at work.
I'm thinking a couple of icypole sticks would probably work well for the wood support. You may need to eat a couple of icecreams to get them, a very worthwhile sacrifice.
Oh great idea! I'll try Bunnings and see if I can snag a freebie but if not will get the icypole. Probably will need 3 or 4 but not a problem!
Hahaha. Mine is mostly boxes but that doesn't dampen the sound of clink clink clink. I wanted to yell "It was a special weekend alright".
I can report that there are flowers, AND 3 tiny green berries on the tomato plants. Woohoo now I just have to patiently watch them grow.