Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
So I know I always call him Mr. Omoikiri but that’s just for ease because he’s my human and he has been for a long time and we always knew we were stuck with each other for forever. But I guess he really is (soon to be) mr. Omoikiri now
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Congratulations 🎉 After the vanilla slice incident he did owe you big time though.
He was on thin ice after that
hah I’d forgotten about that.
Maybe he’s making up for it by proposing.
Congrats! Nice rock too. And you can always keep him in line by uttering the magic words - Vanilla Slice!
Thank you! It’s a champagne diamond, so it’s… champagne colour. Like pinky yellow. I fell in love with them/it when we were looking at rings a while back because the woman said that they’re less sought after because they’re ‘imperfect.’ The imperfections give it the colour. I found that super sweet
I love it! So much more character than the white/colourless ones.
Congrats! That is a lovely ring
oooh congrats!
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Omg congratulations!
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To Mr and Mrs Omoikiri! 🥂
FUCK YEAH! Oh that’s bloody awesome! Congratulations!
(Also spoilers work on the Jebora app that’s great!)
Congrats!
That’s a nice ring there too.
Hope you’re both very happy!
I was always against the idea of diamonds, but mr Omoikiri thinks we’d best have something we can hawk in case the internet goes down and/or we have a zombie apocalypse and everything goes to shit.
aww, congratulations to you both.
Yay! Congrats, nice nails too!
This is the biggest compliment of them all. I always read ‘ladies, make sure you have a manicure in case you get proposed to’ and when I was trying to take a photo of it this morning I thought ‘damn. I really should take better care of my nails/had a manicure’
Nice. Imperfections are what makes us human anyway. All the very best for your future wedded bliss.
Congratulations!!! What a lovely ring!
Congratulations to you both 🎉🎉
Congratulations! So happy for you!
Congrats to you both. Looks like serious conversation turned out to be super cereal! 💍
Yay, congratulations!
Congrats!🥂
CONGRATS!!
💜 💜 💜
🖤🖤🖤
Congratulations! This is so lovely ❤️
Congratulations 🎉🎉 exciting news!
Congrats to both of you.
What’s the appropriate abbreviation? 婚おめ!!! You are both such a lovely couple. All the best for the road ahead.
Thank youuu! We were just saying how dumb and formal 婚約者 sounds actually. Now he’s going around calling me マイ婚約者 like a dummy.
That is exactly the kind of dorky lovable humour I’ve come to enjoy so much from your postings about the soon to be ハスバンド
Congratulations 🎉🎉 exciting news!
Congratulations! 🍾🎉🥂
Yay! Congrats! 🥳
Congrats!
Yay! Congrats! 🥳
The changes I have been making to diet, exercise & no alcohol have been doing me good. In the past I was constantly running out of sick leave, now I have just passed one year without taking a single day. I now understand how people can end up with such high leave balances.
In my last 7 years of working, I’ve probably taken a grand total of 7 sick days.
So you fucked yourself out of 63 days of earned leave.
You have ten days a year. Use them. You’re not gonna win a Best At Working award
GOLD!
Yup, will do from now on.
Good lad.
Just returned from hospital. Honestly thought I was having a heart attack last night. So thankful to be back home with my kids again. I think I’ll keep them home from school today and spend the day with them.
Oooh goodness, glad you’re alright. We’ve had those kinds of scares in this household before, important to get it properly checked out.
My uncle and cousin (from 2 different families – my paternal uncle via marriage and my maternal cousin) both had heart attacks and it’s not fun. They’re also both like active-ish, I know my uncle looks like a long bean, he’s a massive cyclist. So doesn’t matter what active level you are tbh. But I’m glad to hear you’re okay, and yes spend time with your kids! Because you never know when you don’t see them again.
Dodgy property developers on Four Corners tonight. I have laid in a supply of popcorn. Should be fun.
Oh the man is not well. This is about the 4th cold he’s ever had in the 28 years that I’ve known him. I’m keeping busy prepping because if I go down too the kid will have to look after us and she only knows how to cook 2 minute noodles and scrambled eggs. I did however show her how to use the airfryer. Please pray for us.
Oh no, how bad is it?
Plenty of bedrest and fluids and if you want you can try some cold and flu tablets or Armaforce.
You can’t get sick, not with the Ashes coming up on Wednesday night!
Just your common cold. I’m keeping him drugged so he won’t be any trouble at all.
Given how much you cook for your fam just drop a stack of recipes on the kitchen bench and say it’s time you stepped up kiddo.
Oh she’d do it for sure.
Oh noooo fingers and toes crossed for you. Hope you managed to stay away from the germs 🤞🤞🤞
Thank you.
Bit the bullet and got a med cert through to Wednesday. I still have some unavoidable work things but this will significantly help reduce the timesheet anxiety
You just gotta do what you can do (he says knowing that he’s taking a mental health day tomorrow following my psych session in the morning). Here’s hoping you’re able to get some rest and recovery in over the next couple of days.
I don’t think I’ll get too much today (morning was a writeoff but I’m finally sat in front of the puter to clear the most urgent things so that I can fully switch off the next two days). I really just want to stare into space for a couple of days without that nagging guilt
Very nice, I hope you get some well deserved rest!
We ate already. Used the new crockery for Korean ramen, mushrooms, bok choy, coriander, crunchy noodles, gyozas, an egg and Kimchi on the side. Little dog is very confused about the time. I promised the kid if she’s hungry later we’ll have mini pizzas or chips and gravy.
Ugh, I need to do something about my weight, wearing office clothes again has me acutely aware of just how much I’ve gained in the last few years. Just feels so out of my control due to working shift work and often doing shifts up to 12hrs long, I just work, sleep, and eat because I’m miserable about it all.
So, at the start of the year my regular GP said that I “probably have chronic fatigue” and that it’s likely due to my depression. But lately my depression has been okay (anxiety, okay maybe not so much but I’ve been under far better control all things considered). And yet the feeling has come back of being super tired, headache, with pain at the back of my neck/top of my spine.
Anyway, found someone locally who specialises in chronic fatigue. He’s away on holidays as of today though, so it’ll be a while before I even set up a chat with him. Still, I’m hoping maybe it can lead to a bit more than a vague diagnosis with no real plan.
Hopefully you can get some answers!
Zoo trip was achieved. Feet are sore. I walked there and most the way back. 🤨
I went on a mini African safari by seeking out all the African animals. Except the gorillas, I feel too ashamed to look at gorilla people that are effectively sentient caged slaves.
The baboons did their baboon stuff, lazing on warm rocks in the sun, grooming, wanking, teasing each other, shoving their bum against the glass windows to give spectators an intimate view. The little bastards would run off laughing.
Lemurs are actually marsupilamis . I always knew this and seeing their hanging nests confirmed it.
Giraffes were sweet. The lions were sleeping in the sun. They have cute tufts of fur under their arms.
Bin chickens, native to Northern Victoria, have taken residence en masse in the crowns of tall palm trees, making messes, skwarking and shredding the vegetation.
Sounds like a splendid day.
Hope the sun came out for you all day. By afternoon it was clear skies and the sun was out.
Was there a lot of people at the zoo?
glorious day, few people
Some days the HR office has a revolving door and it’s a non-stop day of people stepping in. No time for a break. Barely time for hydration and bathroom.
Tomorrow I’m cheering up my manager and I by getting us out of the office to buy some more spicy nuts in our lunch break.
We’ll get to make jokes about spicy nuts, get out of the office, and get some tasty snacks.
I see this as a win.
Nothing ever goes wrong buttering someone up with spicy nuts.
And we score at least a day of innuendos of hot nuts and the lines.
I live for moments like these
That sounds like a lovely plan.
I have almost reached 50 reviews/ratings on goodreads. That’s about how exciting my life is these days.
What are you all excited/happy about recently?
My blog had two viewers today. They were both me using different devices, but it’s something.
Also I have a burger planned for dinner tonight. That’s pretty exciting.
Blog! Please share (if you feel comfortable with other people reading it, of course)?
It’s pretty much just my holiday photos, with a bit of writing so I can remember where I have been! It’s mostly just to record for myself and share with family and friends. I already put a link to my trip in to Melbourne last week, you can have a look if you like. 🙂
What’s your blog?
I read a whole book yesterday! I haven’t read a book in ages, it’s called Wimmera by Mark Brandi. I used to be the sort of person who’d be reading 6 books at once, even as a child. But after I had a breakdown around 15 years ago I found I no longer had the concentration to read. I’d read the same few pages repeatedly and keep forgetting things, or be unable to grasp it somehow and give up in frustration and befuddled sadness. I found this book very engaging and, due to the places and times of the setting, very familiar also. So I finally read a book again. That was my excitement for the weekend!
I’m happy to rest and stay warm tonight.
Not very ambitious though.
Might go charge my headphones and immerse myself in music for a bit later
Made stir fry noodles for dinner using Nagi’s all purpose sauce recipe. It worked out very nice. Recently have started listening to audiobooks. This is related because for first time listened whilst making dinner, and I very much liked the combo of the activities.
Anyone travelling to the city on the Mernda line is in for an interesting trip.
Our train was stopped at Reservoir, and is not connecting to the city.
Some kind of point failure in the line ahead.
Fun times.
It’s a bloody beautiful day, I’m going to the zoo.
I’m going to the zoo zoo zoo
How about you you you
You can come too too too
I’m going to the zoo zoo zooI’d don’t know where that came from but have a good time anyway.
I’m going on a mini African safari 😀
In the jungle, the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight 🦁
That vaguely reminds me of “Welcome to the Zoo” from the interactive kids game “Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo”.
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Lucky duck… I’ve got to go walk around a Kmart for 3 hours (I hate shopping, in case you couldn’t guess)
yo ho ho a weeding I did go.
(Slowly untangling the horrible fact that all the things I fucking love doing have been tied up in a BIG TIME TRAUMA and now nothing feels like fun it all feels like duty. So on advice I go out and do something and then just drop it and fuck off when it stops being fun. I’ve been given a sociopath license!!)
I read the first part as “wedding” and thought holy fuck, what kind of wedding would result in the follow up statement. Then I read “weeding” and realised that both statements aren’t connected. But if they were, holy fuck, what kind of weeding would result in the follow up statement!?
The advice you received though… that’s gold, right there.
I like to fuck around and garden and build ridiculous things and generally be an obnoxiously bogan builder. But there’s a lot of shit tied up in these things with the forced eviction, having to destroy 16 years of work, then moving and renovating under the gun (which I did most of because I do love His Lordship, but he’s all thumbs) so all my stressors got tied up in the fun stuff. So I’m having to relearn the fun of them. It’s rather poo.
Beautiful day to be outside!
E: was in a rush before and missed the main gist of your comment - hope that the trauma fades and you find joy in the things you love again. I like the ‘drop it til you’re ready’ advice, too
fun thing is I can’t “drop it” drop it as there’s a lot of work that I need to do before this oncoming summer of fuckoff hits to ensure my established plants survive (irrigation, tanks, etc). The stress is not helping, but small progress is still progress - I got the area for the tanks cleared and mapped them out so I can at least put a pissy little standalone link to keep them on life support.
Then I got distracted by the giant reeled hose dying and spent a couple hours trying to repair the ratchet mechanism before ragequitting.
