Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Tonight is my first night home alone in my life. I’ve been alone heaps in the day, but never overnight before. Pretty exciting, yet terrifying at the same time though
I’m thinking keeping busy until I go to sleep will help, so I guess tonight is cleaning night (shamefully overdue 😭)
hugs , you’ll be fine, just stick to your normal routine 🤗😊
You’ll be fine mate. Put on some comfort tv or music and pretend someone is home but asleep.
You got this
I hope you don’t mind my asking but how old are you? I’m just wondering how you’ve got to this point in your life never having spent a night alone. I don’t mean this rudely I’m just genuinely curious.
It’s okay. I’m 16. And how I got here without spending a night alone is just that I only lived with my mum for the first 11 years of my life and she never left me alone overnight, and in residential care you can’t be left alone ever at all for any reason
Oh you’re only 16 I thought you were much older. Ok this makes so much more sense now.
16!! Agree, that’s still fairly young to be on your own.
Yeah, I feel like I’m in such a weird situation where I’m deemed too young to do half the things I want to do, but old enough to live more or less by myself
I think society completely underestimates the ability of young people. Years ago you would be treated as an adult with adult responsibilities and expectations.
You can do this. 👍 🤗
You’re aware enough of how you’re feeling and you’re not afraid of it, that’s a great start! Music really helps with regulation, if you need something to zone out to, Drone Zone on soma.fm is great
Sick kitty is having a bad day. It’s so hard to watch, but there’s nothing to be done, we’ve made him extra comfy today, so hopefully that helps a little. I think the time is looming ever larger at the moment, I hate to accidentally prophecise, but I don’t think he’ll be stealing prawns this Christmas.
I’m very sorry to hear it. Perhaps a prawn could appear early this year for sir 💔
He is a gremlin for KFC gravy and chicken, we once found him in the bottom of a KFC bag covered in potato and gravy. So we’ve decided send-off will be his very own pot of KFC gravy and a leg of chicken, maybe we’ll add a prawn as well.
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Lots of hugs to you - we went through it a couple of years ago with Topes.
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I’m really sorry banana. This part is never easy. Send Kitty a hug from me (and also have one for yourself (if you’d like it) 🫂)
‘Peel here’ is the biggest scam in the food products industry. Why do they troll us so.
Last night I couldn’t do it. I just couldn’t! I found myself with all the cardboard peeled off and meat still completely encased in plastic.
If even the Peeler cannot do it, no one can.
Yes. I totally agree. I stab it then wrap it in glad wrap. Defeats the purpose but fuck it I’m old I ain’t got time to fight with packaging. Give me my food now.
Keep a cheap stanley knife lookalike in the kitchen drawer or utensil bucket/stand - cut the corner and then peel. I got mine from officeworks for about a dollar I think but that was a while ago. Damn useful little item. I cbf with those absurd little corner tabs etc.
Frankfurt packs and everything else.
I keep scissors near the kitchen just for that reason if a knife can’t do it.
Always nice to wake up to a kitty who is more interested in relentless headbutting than food.
Also the last ‘wedding’ surprise dropped. Have to do some cooking for 8 people. Bro + SIL + her family are dropping around after their little tour around the surf coast to pick up the cat tomorrow. Think I’ll just do veg spring rolls.
Remember, 50% invoice up front and 50% after delivery of services.
Thinking i might play the long game here.
SIL is a good cook my mind is slowly gravitating towards something in that direction heh.
Let’s see it’s going to be 29 tomorrow then a top of 14 on Wednesday. It’s clear that Melbourne has no intention of letting us acclimatise.
And 13 on Friday. I get back from Brisbane (where it’s been in the high 20s) on Wednesday, RIP 🫠
Omg. This might be a little tmi but it makes a good story. This is what happens when you teach your kid good manners.
All via text.
Her: These dumplings are so good
Me: That’s good
A little while later
Her: HELP I HAD A POO AND IT LEFT SKID MARKS. WHAT DO I DO?
Me: Wipe off as much as you can with toilet paper
Her: IT’S INSIDE THE WATER
Then I get sent a picture of a toilet complete with offending marks.
Me: Where are you?
Her: At the dumpling place
Me: Leave it. Run. Don’t forget to wash your hands
Her: OK
Me: okShe wouldn’t mind me tell yous this because she has a great sense of humour.
Most restaurant toilets I’ve been to have a toilet brush but when they don’t it is indeed cover-your-face-with-hoodie mortifying. Godspeed to your daughter’s reputation.
I know for a fact if there was a brush she would’ve used it. When the picture was loading I thought “dear God I do not need to see soiled underwear” I was ready to tell her to “abandon them”.
Tbh if they don’t they’re kinda bringing it onto themselves. Like how southern cross doesn’t have bins. Obviously if it’s at a maccas, it’s probably going to get nicked, but at a dumpling joint it’d probably last for a while
Dumping bleach in and letting it sit tends to remove all evidence with no scrubbing, but who would carry that? It’s impractical and dangerous. Even those hardcore white wearers who bring it for stain removal have it in the form of bleach pens.
(It’s also terrible for the environment. Oops.)
No foul. That’s on the restaurant for not supplying toilet cleaner or a toilet brush.
Edit: Ps. Just so you know bleach also creates dangerous gas when mixed with urine so leaving it in the toilet bowl could be dangerous if the next person lets the yellow mellow or little kids use it in the night. And don’t clean litterboxes with it
As I was reading the transcript I wasn’t sure what I was walking into and where it was heading.
Massive hunger incoming again but my hosts will be away for dinner and I can eat leftovers with abandon. And I have bought a little instant noodle cup for extra snacks. And maybe tomorrow I will get some groceries while I’m out and about. They’ll be out for dinner again so I might make some dins for myself and extra for them. Fried rice maybe. But first I’ll check if they’re okay with my using their kitchen. I know some people are picky about this stuff.
E: I’m overhearing one of them talk to a friend of theirs on the phone,
bla bla bla
explaining positive reinforcement and how to stop being so unnecessarily harsh and critical of their slightly hyperactive and constantly inquisitive grandson, and how to celebrate and support him instead so that he naturally adjusts (I met this kid too and sat and played with him for a while). And to be more realistic about their own parenting successes and failures. And how to have good relationships with adult children who were difficult when young, how to have healthy but respectful boundaries with them when they have their own children and decide to raise them a different way…
Hearing her explain it in a way my parents generation and cultural background can understand, and skilfully countering resistance (“isn’t that spoiling the kid”, “these are just western things”) is making my heart melt and also a bit emotional for what I never had with my own family growing up… It’s very surprising because in a number of other ways this lady is quite uptight and conservative. I know she’s one of the few people my mum makes an effort to stay in touch with, maybe someday I could suggest that my mum talk to her about her own continuing conflicts …
Aaaaaaaagh.
Family dinner degenerated into fight, again. Dad picked his side, again, and it isn’t me.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong
Probably nothing wrong, just wrong in old man’s eyes.
Not sure about your family but in mine and my wife’s, having differing opinions to the older generation is equivalent to treason.
Hope it settles for you.
oh noes.
I had a fight too with fam tonight I have no advice :(
Time to put bhut jolokia in the springies.
Urgh, that sounds so horrible. I would feel very abandoned if that happened to me. I’m sorry it’s happening to you.
I just passed a certificate exam woohooooo I was so stressed about passing, not because of the cost of it, but because of the shame it would bring. I’d have had to tell my team, and other colleagues, and my family. But added benefit is that I will get the exam fees fully reimbursed!! WINNING already today!!!
Had to make a decision on what to feed the 8 people coming tomorrow.
It will be marathon dim sims (heh) with homemade hawt chilli salt and sauce, soy sauce sprinkled w/ home chilli flakes. half deep fried, half steamed. Maybe a sneaky sausage roll.
my mind is at rest.
Those marathon dim sims are pretty decent though. If be happy with them
Happy Public Holiday for a parade I’m not even sure still happens but probably does!
Things I never managed while living in Melbourne (and probably never will now) and sort of regret a little:
- An AFL grand final
- Melbourne Cup
- Formula One on race day
- Australian Open
- War memorial on Nov 11
- Spirit of Tasmania with the car for a bog lap
I’ve only done one of those… formula one on race day many years back. I fell asleep with my feet up on the fence. I learned that day that unless you’re in the stands with the big TV’s showing you what’s going on it’s friggin boring.
Catto didn’t believe me the wattle birds are pretty aggressive when he decided to do an explore.
Werribee gorge hike this morning. Damn it’s pretty and slightly taxing on the legs.
Also when making pizzas for dinner today I mixed some harrisa paste into the pizza sauce.
It was divine.
Always great entertainment at the rope section
There were A LOT of people dressed inappropriately. My son and I had a bit of a laugh at a few.
One lady was cracking it at her partner and I swear the dude was contemplating his life choices.
Definitely going back again.
Treating myself to a cafe brekkie nearby. The coffee is unsurprisingly blah but the food is affordable! $10 for a decent slice of housemade quiche with goats cheese, spinach, asparagus and local mushrooms, a decent serving of baby spinach leaves and a nice tomato chutney. And this is an out of the way place in a fancy suburb. Wouldn’t find that in Melbourne I think.
Yes. Yes you do.
The op shop was still open! managed to score a Gorman linen jumpsuit for $13 - I love looking up the things I buy from op-shops to see how much it cost originally and this one was $250!
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Wow, what a bargain! Which op shop was this?
Salvos Abbotsford!
