Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
I went and bought those Aldi coffee beans, gave my espresso machine a good clean and attempted my first coffee in a long long time.
Took 2 attempts to get the extraction right and it’s not my sexiest milk pour but it was a damn fine cup of coffee ☕
Well done agent Cooper!
Stupid work anxiety, I’m so close to the end - just the equivalent of two FT weeks of work and I can leave forever instead of being in this strange limbo - but I just can’t sleep out of sheer dread. So much negativity instead of looking forward to new beginnings!
I was drifting off nicely to sleep with this book when I decided to switch off the lamp and remembered I needed to set the alarm… that woke me right up with a pang of realisation followed by a sinking feeling of sadness. I don’t remember feeling this bad even at school. I’ll have to will myself to sleep and work and find purpose through this quagmire of deep seated aversion!
E: I was up till 4:30 am. halp
It’ll be ok, it’s not long to go, just take one day at a time and deal with what comes when it happens.
Just think of the freedom after you’re done and and what new opportunities await you.
I haven’t set myself up very well for this first of the one-day-at-a-times, went to sleep so late I feel like a zombie today. I suspect what’s making it hard to anticipate the future is that I could have freedom NOW by just walking away. I have to remind myself I’m doing this for my colleagues (and some money).
Ted Cat telling me he is starving and needs another tin of fish and some of those delicious turkey crunchies
Oh my god how adorable!
He needs top nutrition to grow back his magnificent mane
I downloaded an app on my phone that allows you to block other apps and websites.
It also allows you to set it up so you cannot uninstall it if you get “cravings”.
I blocked all socials and Reddit and honestly I feel so much better it’s crazy. I love having my headspace free of outrage and negativity drawn from an online source.
Okay okay okay. I have accepted I’ve developed some severe anxiety/avoidance around work. This is a Thing. However, I don’t need to fix it that immediately, that’s why I’m on casual now and not doing ongoing jobs. I’m gonna roll with it and see the opportunities I have ahead of me instead. I designed this flexibility in!
Instead of feeling bad all day I can tick off some things that’ll make me feel good. Yesterday I “accidentally” did a heap of long overdue clothes organisation. Today perhaps I can clear out the gross carport. And maybe get started on my very overdue Dead Plant Clearout. The graveyard stares at me sullenly.
Make some cardboard gravestones and you have Halloween sorted?
Just made friends with a new resident magpie. Gave it a little mince (cooked from frozen with food grade calcium carbonate) as a once off bribe. I think it worked.
Flew off to its nest (you could here the little ones squawking nearby). Flew back realised it wasn’t getting any more and just waddled around pecking at bugs right near my feet.
Eyeballs and scalp are safe for now.
Totally forgot about mandatory WFH this week on account of office remodeling. Nice.
No pants week!
Ouch. I hadn’t been to get breakfast and coffee from my old regular cafe downstairs for maybe 6 months. I used to get a bacon and egg roll + large coffee for $15 fairly regularly but now it’s $21. Definitely an incentive to not do that too often. No discount for bringing my own cup like some cafes do either.
I’m so thankful that my milk bar does a coffee and ham sandwich roll for $11.
I’d say make your own but even my regular bag of coffee beans has gone from $12 to $15 :\ errything’s going up…
I’ve heard good things about the beans from Aldi. I might go for a drive and grab a bag now, give my espresso machine a cleaning and see if I can get back into making my own coffees. I was pretty good at it at one point.
Haha I just remembered this silly video I made back when I figured it all out, featuring yours truly with the sound effects over the music: https://vimeo.com/302551637
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Thank you for including the cheese!
It’s 5 am and I’ve woken up absolutely baking.
Well it happened. It stung a little but not as bad as expected because I was expecting it and I’ve been dealing with it. Just need to not let it let me spiral too much and look forward and inward.
Chin up mate ❤️
We gotchu pal if you need support.
Miss Meow worked out how to get the ball out of her toy.
Toy solved. New toy required.
New toy has already been aquired. The box from the garden cart is sitting on top of the bench, and she has been spending some time doing strange cat things in there.
throw a frozen pea in there. Cat noises intensify
Haha! I got a cardboard whack-a-mole type thing once. It lasted 12 minutes.
Fortunately this just clips back on. I did have to find the ball as she had a great time batting it across the room and under some furniture. It’s a bit of a fluke, really - the bar on the bench seems to be the perfect height to go under the ring and pushes upwards on it when she hits the whole thing against it. I don’t think she knows how to repeat the action. Hopefully.
Checking in - still feeling wiped after the effort to get the house to buyer viewing standard.
Found my ancient VCR (though alas not the remote) and have a stack of videos I never culled, so my plan is to go through those and go on from there.Every time I open this website, on every device/browser, I’ve had to log back in for the last week.
My friend had to get up early (reason she’s staying over is so she didn’t have to get up even earlier to get to her work thing in South Yarra) and we stayed up until like 2:30 chatting. I feel for my neighbours because she doesn’t have an “night time apartment” speaking volume lol
Anyway I think I see a nap in my future. Feeling pretty great to wake to a clean apartment though! Hope you all have as good of a Monday as possible.
My friend had to get up early (reason she’s staying over is so she didn’t have to get up even earlier to get to her work thing in South Yarra) and we stayed up until like 2:30 chatting. I feel for my neighbours because she doesn’t have an “night time apartment” speaking volume lo
Don’t want to be rude here, but like… you feel bad ok great, what are you doing to prevent this situation that’s 100% in your control? Sorry if that’s offensive, but put yourself in your neighbors shoes. You’d be pissed at you.
I was very aware of it and tried a few things to mitigate it but she’s not used to having to regulate her volume so she’d ramp up when she got excited about something and I’d have to give her the “keep it down” hand signals. Other than that, just closed the balcony door and window, myself spoke in low volumes to try and set the tone and when it got to midnight I moved us from the lounge into bed hoping that’d quiet her down a bit and it did a little but she’s just a loud talker.
Anyway, it’s one time I may have (I’m not even sure if I did) disturbed my neighbours in many years of living here so I’m sure they can forgive me for a couple of hours as I’ve forgiven others for their rare disturbances.
PSA 50% off Uber rides courtesy OzBargain: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/804283
If you don’t want to open the link, go onto your uber app, then wallet, then scroll to the bottom under promotions and press “add promo code”, and type AUS101, AUS103 and AUS112
Uber’s caught on, they don’t work now :(
e: might also be because I have some other promo code applied atm
Oh no. One of the commenters said to try again at night or next morning!
