Hey all, Decided to take the plunge with aussie zone and nice to be invited into the daily thread. Hope you are all doing well
Hey alright! I rescued another one!!
haha yes you did. Once I got off my lazy butt.
Careful now. The eco chamber we created on the old site is inevitably going to repeat here, apparently.
…apparently…
Good to see you again!
And you too. I hope everything is well with you.
hello!
there!
Nice to see a fellow writer!
I’m hoping Lemmy has some decent writing places, I always hated the Reddit ones tbh.
I felt like r/writing was just bad advice and people not wanting you to be a writer.
What do you write?
Yeah it was the same questions over and over again and I’m like “ugh okay, yes you can write women if you’re a man just WRITE THEM AS HUMANS!”
I’m a urban fantasy/sci-fi writer mostly. But I love creative non-fiction too.
Did your book get published? I have no recollection of anything past you saying you were working on it maybe? Welcome home anyway.
I have a couple published which you can check out here
A couple of upper primary horror inspired by Goosebumps (book 3 coming soon), a Treasure Hunting Adventure (releasing shortly) and a Tassie-western novella/sort story (like 40 pages).
I went to visit nana in respite care today. The place she is is really nice and the nurses and the others there are lovely. I genuinely think it’s as nice as you can get with these kinds of things. The problem is that nana’s dementia means that she forgets why she’s there. Her short term memory is about 5 minutes long now, and every few minutes she asked me “when do I get to go home?” It broke my heart every time. She doesn’t remember what happened to put her there and she doesn’t understand. When she saw me walk into the common space she jumped up and said “you’ve come to take me home!!” It was all I could do to not cry on the spot. She’s also started reverting to being scared of my grandfather. He’s been dead for 30 years. He was a raging alcoholic and very physically and emotionally violent, but nana also gave out as much as she got back in the day and has never expressed being afraid of him before. But when I kept having to say to her “no Nan, this is your home now, remember? You’re here so that we can keep you safe” she’d just nod and go “right, to keep me safe from him he’s always so angry when he drinks.” So that’s interesting.
Anyway I took her to the pancake parlour and let her go to town and order anything she wanted and she was so stoked. She’s never as happy as she is when she’s got dessert.
I need and entire bottle of wine and a good cry now.
Before my grandpa passed, he was in hospice care (found out later that it’s actually the same one my partner’s mum works at, but she wasn’t his nurse) and he I think suffered dementia because of the jaw cancer. And like man, that shit hurts. And you know they’re not forgetting you intentionally.
Like I remember my final goodbye and I could see him trying to connect the dots on who I am. Ugh.
I’ll have to join you the good cry (luckily there’s no one else here in the lunch room), it never gets easier.
Nana, thankfully, still remembers who I am. There’s only been one instance where she didn’t know me, and it was because I showed up at her house with my sister and niece who she hadn’t seen for 5+ years and two unfamiliar faces threw her. I can’t take Mr Omoikiri with me to see her either because he came onto the scene too late for him to be in her long-term memory and she gets a bit uncomfortable around ‘strange’ men. She also comes out with some old lady racist stuff sometimes that she may have thought in the past, but had the filter to know to not say it. and while he just laughs it off, it’s best for everyone if he stays away. I’m certain the day will come when she doesn’t know me though.
I’m sorry for your loss too. It just sucks so much
Oof yeah, it’s uhhh… it’s tough being around old people and they just feel so embolden to say whatever is on their mind. I’m surprised my nana is taking my cousin’s transition well. Of course, I guess it’s easier to understand his transition because it’s a binary transition, whereas I and my partner are both nonbinary… oh well.
Yeah it does suck. But, your Nana is getting the best care and she knows she’s loved and that’s really all you can ask for.
That’s really difficult, I’m sorry. You go have that wine and cry, it’s okay to do so 💜
Thanks, friend ❤️
Big hugs to you and your nan. That’s rough.
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Thank you. ❤️
I work at a respite home and it’s such a sad place to be because you see the elderly suffering through their dementia and other memory or physical issues. It’s really sad, but it’s so nice you got to take her out.
That hit me right in the gut too. This isn’t a big centre. There’s maybe 25-30 people in there all up. It’s also not a high-care one, so they’re free to roam around and do what they want and we can take them out no problem. But when I signed nana out in the log, I saw that there was maybe only 10 other instances of people taking their loved ones out. Maybe some of them can’t really go out, and maybe some family members come and sit with them instead. But for the most part it looks like they’ve just been out there and forgotten.
Dementia is really really hard to deal with. It’s heartbreaking to see and interact with someone whose memory is disappearing.
It’s so hard. Thankfully nana is now past the point where she realises that she’s dementing. There was a while where she was really distressed because she knew she should remember how to do basic tasks and had enough of her mind still to understand what was happening to her
Hi Onoikiri.
It must have been really hard to go through that.
I didn’t have a good relationship with my mother and she had a deep onset of dementia while relatively young that eventually took her motor functions and her voice.
On one of my earlier visits she was still somewhat lucid but had no speech and I had to explain to her why we had to put her into a home that she tried desperately to escape from.
When I last saw her she was just a husk of herself staring out into space with clenched fists not even recognising me.
It was very hard to see and I wish we had time to mend our relationship and I’m sure her dementia contributed to our fights.
Treasure the time you have spent and memories of her that you have.
Dastardly Windows automatic update restarted my computer and made the bot homeless overnight. At least it was not the bot itself failing. It has now been turned off. I thought I’d shut off everything that could turn it off on me, but missed one.
Damn, Microsoft killed another bot. We can’t keep allowing this to happen. Remember Tay!
I wonder what future humans (if there are any) will make of Windows updates.
I like the comment you added to bot001’s posts. I was thinking of adding a random quote of the day to sydbot. Thinking is about as far as I usually get though. I’m a good thinker in that respect.
bot must be hungry and tired 🔋
Maybe some nice new batteries, a squirt of WD40, points cleaning and a buff with a microfibre cloth will help it feel better. Self care would apply to bots too methinks.
I’ve been asked if I want to attend an IT security conference next week at the MCG which it comes with an MCG tour and a fine-dining lunch experience. I feel like I don’t own clothes nice enough to attend something like that! I’m not fancy.
Jeans + solid coloured t-shirt or long sleeve would suffice.
Just don’t tuck your t-shirt into the pants.
Yeah “smart casual” had changed a lot. Jeans and a nice tshirt is enough to get you by.
A pair of slacks, shirt with a collar and a pair of shoes (not runners) will be fine.
IT security so chainmail and a chastity belt.
It’s IT. Just wear your most recently ironed pair of khakis and a collared t-shirt.
I always wear a death metal t-shirt when I am made to go into the office.
I’ve got a collection of 90’s wrestlers gear for such occasions.
First date - Brett ‘The Hitman’ Hart
Second date - The Undertaker
Court appearances - Macho Man
Family Gatherings - Mankind
Work related - NWO or Hulkamania
You gotta take a nice jacket - usually either, cream, bone, white, off-white, ivory or beige.
That’s a blast from the past… My favourite random quote was always The cars just keep going round and round, it so fucking boring
Half an hour wait for 3 potato cakes I noped out and bought a potato from the iga next door.
Chips it is!
Modern problems modern solutions!
Up there for thinking!
Down there for dancing.
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Heading to Melbourne next week. Taking the Jetstar roulette. Last time the flight was eventually cancelled at midnight and we got put up in a hotel and slept for like 4 hours before having to be up again for the earliest flight the next morning.
Definitely hoping that isn’t the case this time.
I reached out to my old primary school a week or so ago about donating my books to the school library since they are the reason I am such a big reader and wanted to be a writer. They said yes and wanted me to come in for a talk but unfortunately couldn’t make it work because of pupil free day on one day and specialist classes on the other. They asked if I could come for book week which I would love but probably won’t be able too. I’m really sad I couldn’t do it because I’ve really felt a connection to my school since my little one started school and I’m now studying education for a career change.
I’m still going to drop off the books and hopefully get to see what it’s like inside. Last time I was in Melbourne I drove past and it’s changed so so much. It’s crazy.
Can you do a Zoom thing for Book Week?
So I’m browsing Kbin front page/new and what pops up? A sock darning how to video created by our illustrious moderator. Cute.
Sad Robot Noises
Everythings coming up Milhouse. New job is good, exercise and money. Close enough to home and might be really close after training. aa is working. Finally got some closure on my previous shit cunts of employers and co workers, can resign and move on with life. Holiday is over and I have a new job. Also got news my son and mum are coming down for a couple of weeks in August. Got interviewed yesterday for a trans book and photo exhibition. So much positivity going around. Service work today, aa and my organistiion. Cook another vege stew, go for a walk, another meeting and then bed. My days are full of joy at the moment. Plus constantly playing with the cats. They are super happy at the moment. I got some treats from Aldi. They love them a bit too much but it’s bringing us closer.
😍😍 this sounds amazing! You deserve all this happiness!!
Thanks and so do you hun!
YAY!
Yeah am feeling a nice sense of peace.
So happy to hear that! 😊😊😊
Finally had my long awaited psychiatrist appointment today and lemme just say I’m so so so relieved she turned out to be very professional and empathetic and asked lots of very very relevant questions and wasn’t at any point condescending or patronising. I’m quite emotional tbh. Just want to lie down somewhere and soak up the sun but I have this very time critical government related project thing I have to go and do now and my shoulders are killing me. I will do the lie down this weekend.
Take care Kitten. Spewing your guts out to a professional is hard and exhausting. Big gentle hugs.
Thanks. I’ve done it so many times now I’m a bit numb to the whole process but I’m actually feeling overwhelmed this time from feeling like I have finally got a breakthrough where everyone else has hit a wall (because I needed psychiatric assessment).
Best of luck with finding the answers you need.
Hey Kitten,
Is this one a keeper?
Also stay inside if you manage to soak in the sun from there. Outside is cold and windy enough to offset the the warmth from the sun, not that it was that warm in it anyway.
Lying down over the weekend sounds like a great plan, I hope you manage to get your neck and shoulder sorted out.
I reckon so. Big hit to the wallet (475 - thankfully I think I’ll be getting most of of it back having hit the safety net) but she is good.
Unfortunately I gotta head outside shortly for a bit of field work. But I probably could do with some fresh air. I have plenty of warm clothes on so if the sun’s out I’ll be fine in that sense.
Purple sky…shephard’s pie.
Pretty sure that’s how the saying goes.
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Yay for the weekend!
With society changing away from standard working hours we really need to update terminology. We need a new term for scheduled days off, and also a term for when your days off align with the days off of people you want to spend time with. We could probably do with a term for the situation when you are unable to spend time with family and friends due to not having any overlapping time off, and for the annoying attitude of people who assume days off during the week are “holidays” and days off after night shift are open for you to do things other than sleep. Despite the number of people who proclaim we are a 24/7 society now (and they tend to be the ones arguing against penalty rates) a lot of people really don’t understand anything other than standard work hours. Drive time radio hosts are my favourite - despite the fact that they are working non standard hours themselves they really go all in on the 9-5 mythology.
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They sort of have to, because their audience does
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That’s not a mini ironing board. It’s a purrpose built cat lounge
My void is assisting me at the computer today.
Image: A black cat sits in front of the computer, looking serious as it supervises the work.
Exciting day trip to Northland. It has real shops, something Carlton and the cbd doesn’t have.
I went by bus and that was excitement. 😬 A big speeding earthmoving truck pushed a van into our lane, evasive measures were taken.
Northland is so different to where I live. It has shops for children and men and families, homewares and variety stores, cafes that weren’t just coffee shops. It’s clean and quiet.
People there wear colours other than black. 😵
I don’t think you can get an easier hot meal than hot dogs. Yep I’ve scraped the bottom of the barrel with lips, hips and arseholes for dinner tonight.
Top them with some saurekraut, pickle relish, and canned corn.
Now that’s a dang hot dog right there.
Interesting. I don’t have any sauerkraut on hand will kimchi do?
Never tried it. Might be too many competing flavours. I find sauerkraut to be fairly neutralish. Kimchi might overpower everything else.
Then again might be something amazing that no one has ever thought of.
Yeah I’m not too worried about insulting the hot dog’s feelings. That’s why I put a shitload of hot mustard on the thing.
#allhotdogsmatter
Nothing insults my insides like a hot dog can. Nothing.
Cocktail franks fresh from the can?
Gool 'ol Grade-F meat.
There’s very little meat in these gym mats…
Hahaha. Yeah meat isn’t a word I’d use.
It’s mostly circus animals anyway.
Wash it down with some Malk (full of Vitamin R of course) and you’ve got a meal fit for kids!!!
😂
I wonder if there’s some interesting combination to make it tasty or something. Like adding onions and mushrooms and garlic sauce or some combo you don’t normally use with hotdogs.
I just do sauce, cheese and hot mustard. Nothing complicated. If you put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.
I normally do sauce as well and sometimes with onions.
I was thinking this time maybe lettuce or greens with it and tomato or aioli.
Woah. You’re getting into gourmet territory there.
Yeah, you’re right, I went too far with the lettuce!
Hahaha.
Chilli (the bean/meat mix) and cheese on a hot dog are heavenly
That’s a good reminder for me to make chilli this weekend.
Sounds like a nice combo there. Would try if my body could tolerate spicy stuff!
You don’t need much heat for a good chili. Cumin and smoky paprika can do the job. Plenty of garlic and onion and you still get most of the flavours. Most American type chilis aren’t actually that spicy.
I beg your pardon, hot dogs are God-tier foods and with the right toppings can be transcendent.
Do you know what hot dogs means to me? Regret later on but it makes the other 3 happy so I just suck it up.
Check out the Lemmy hot dog community! (https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected])
You can post your hot dog masterpiece
I’ll do it but I’m scared to look.
TIL someone has invented a salmon hot dog. Why?
I recently had the best hot dog I’ve ever had. At the Wandilagong Nut Festival of all places.
Oooo. What was on it?
Two different types of mustard, sauerkraut, onion, kransky.
