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Good morning everyone!
Hope everyone has a great day β€οΈ
I'll fill you in on how it goes tonight!!!!
Edit: lyrebird lounge at 8:30pm, I'll be getting there around 7:45pm to watch a couple of the people before me.
I'm the dark skin guy in the white tshirt and glasses.
Also I make minor guarantees about the quality of my performance lol
Oh yeah, my nickname is Reef.
Break a leg
We need the place and time again I forgot :(
I have lemons to throw.
Lyrebird Lounge, 8.30 pm. Just near Ripponlea Station. Will be there too - look for the red fedora.
Great ty :)
I'll be there as well, I think I'll wear my bright orange and pink pants :D
Heh heh, we will blend in with the crowd with no difficulty whatsoever.
Iβll be the witness to make sure you are telling the truth and the whole truth.
Not my part of the city so can't get there but good luck
So I need to just put this somewhere. With my skin condition dramatically worsening by the day I returned to the GP, who looked as shocked as I felt. The odd little bumps/sores have become open weeping ulcers and spread over my biceps and thighs. He has taken swabs and is testing for Buruli/Bairnsdale ulcer and faxed an urgent referral to a local specialist. I feel emotionally yukky but physically there's no pain at all, just when I sweat it stings. I'm trying to stay positive but I'm pretty depressed.
Oh my gosh how horrible. But hopefully whatever it is is fully treatable and most likely will be.
I'm so sorry you're having such a hard time. I hope everything gets better soon β€οΈ
hugs
Time for a nap and last low energy practice.
Here we go!!!!!
Thanks everyone for all your support and well wishes β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ
Edit: holy fuck the rain is here!
Running 15 mins late. Be there at 8pm
Certainly a day of it. Almost there though.
bit more mushy compost on top then off to the physio.
Odd question, but do ya'll ever plan out other lives for yourself? Occasionally I'll just sit on realestate and and look shit up. Might be like "alright, if I split with the mrs can I afford to buy a unit? where am I gonna live?" or "Fuckit, lets all move up to bright! I hate it here, alright what can we afford?"
I find it really therapeutic for some reason. These alternate lives I'll never live out.
Spud and I have arrived. We are at the back.
I will have to attend in spirit form only. If you hear a soft rustling of wings or a quiet "caw" , that will be me. π
I'm about 15mins away. Traffic sucks
That was an incredible time β€οΈ
Thanks so much to everyone here for all your support over the last year or so. It's been a hell of a ride, and I'm super grateful β€οΈ
Little bit of a rambling. I'm sitting here writing notes, made a mistake so I scrubbed it out and then I realised I can erase it out because it's an erasable gel pen. Then I remembered the old pen rubbers that did diddly squat but rip your paper so everyone used liquid paper instead. Got me thinking.
What has come a long way (for the better) since your childhood?
Photocopiers. Like, we have photocopiers now. They were revolutionary. Don't start me on what life was like before them.
Hot water services - no more stuffing the 10 gallon chip heater with briquette fragments and wood chips before doing the washing up or taking a bath or washing hair. And stuffing it again if you ran out of hot water.
Liquid paper tape so much better than the fluid with the brush and the liquid paper pens.
Mechanical pencils are way better now.
The afternoon sleepiness is upon me.
Coffee not helping.
2 hours of meetings on the horizon.
Grant me strength oh mighty Odin.
Mice are so cute!!! Ugh, their little paws, their little noses, their cute eyes. This course is great just for doing health checks on mice tbh
Really over the anxiety/depression :/ just deep unease all of today and now feeling really glum and dull about everything. I even walked to work in the sun this am, and work was productive, but I still felt detached and fuzzy. Cough still rattling around too. I don't think taking a sick day is going to help as I'll just be unsettled all day.
No suitable rentals have popped up so far on my radar. Registered interest in a couple but no updates yet.
Ugh. I managed to buy some veg on the way home, I'll force myself to make a pasta dish and eat it and crawl into bed to dissociate on the phone for the rest of the evening. Tomorrow is a new day...
E: soxcat is still here as her human won't be back til Monday. It's saying something that I can't even feel that happy around her, but she's been snuggling up against me lots. And left a whisker on tgr couch for me - that's good luck isn't it?
lomg kitty whisker
Anxiety is horrible, soul destroying and crippling. But it does usually comes in waves, admittedly a wave can last a long time. Just hold on for a break in the surf where you will have a respite from the anxiety.
wandered up to the broadbents around the corner with our garden trolley and oh my god we are gonna do so much damage at that place. Landscape supplies within a five min trolley stroll that sell shittons of good quality compost and mulch? mwah. Mwahahhaha. MWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA
I've been having after 9pm thoughts all day about what I'd do if I don't get this job, just because I haven't heard back from them straight away.
I need to keep in mind these things take time and there are still over avenues open if this doesn't come through
If the rain and wind could hold off until say 9pm that'd be great. I'm meant to be doing outdoor cooking with kids this evening.
Still awake then Duenan... :D
Sadly yes :(
I had so many things I was going to do this morning, and here we are after Noon and they remain undone.
feeling OK today. You know that scene in the last air bender where Aang opens up his chakras? felt very similar (embarrassingly) to that. I'm not sure I believe in that stuff but its just what it felt like. First time I sort of bounced off the "avatar state" (or whatever the fuck the end goal of whatever this journey my mind is trying to take is). But I tried again and sort of got that connection. Was nice.
I just had this voice in my head go "Be brave, dig deep". The music hit the right note and I just sort of fell into it.
Sadly, no sign of any bending abilities.
It costs about $400 to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Bit exxy. Worth it?
I don't know if it's worth it or not, but if you do the climb you would have to change your username. HighExperience2090
I'm almost convinced for this reason alone.
Tightarse grousing
So pissed off with myself. I bought a Squishmallow a while back thinking it would cheer me up but all I can think of is how much it cost and Iβm afraid to get it dirty. I could have sewn something myself from an open source pattern if I wanted something that bad.
Same with the old secondhand tv. I hoped it would help to get dvds to watch but itβs awkwardly large for my space and I wouldnβt have had to pay if Iβd been more careful and didnβt let my original tiny one get nicked.
Also my energy bills are higher than they should be because disability leads to using a lot of hot water for pain management and a (low efficiency secondhand) dryer to reduce the exertion of tasks.
Donβt get me started on the food dealβ¦
Iβm managing ok still but am getting really irritated at the areas Iβm not able to min-max. It feels so wasteful.
I know you know this logically but in case it helps to hear it from another voice -
Enjoy the damn squishmallow. You are allowed little comforts. Little sources of pleasure and joy are as important for survival as security and health needs. No-one should struggle for any of them and it's a disgrace on our species that anyone does.
But do not let yourself be sucked into the myth of the "saintly poor". You are allowed these things and you are amazing at making your resources stretch. Every now and then you have to try to let even that go just for a bit and let the warm water and the little comforts refill your cup. It's actually necessary.
Spoilered in case you don't want any more comment.
Nah fam. This is not a fault on your end. It's a problem at a societal level.
I totally get the micro management to claw back some feeling of control, but fuck the blame.
I remember reading when you got the squishmallow. The boys were given really nice super Mario plushes for their birthday last year and they're almost so good you don't want to do anything with them. Especially something plush where you don't know how it will turn out after a trip through the washing machine.
I hope you can find a way to enjoy it and make the most of the TV you have. It sucks when our plans don't work out the way we intend
