Daily Discussion Thread: 😘😘😘 Tuesday, September 3, 2024

I bought 200g of olives to make with pasta.

I got home and realised they were not pitted (they had been slit on the side - but seed still intact).

30 minutes of drudgery later I know I will not make that mistake again.

Thank you everyone who replied to my query about puzzling fam behaviour.

All your insights were so good and helped me understand so much.

Thank you again. 😚😚😚

Any cat people have advice on how to feed a cat wearing a cone? Poor Tommy had a bleedy toe and he's not allowed to lick it for three days.

He's currently walking into things and complaining, and looking sad.

It is a bit cliche, but I just bought myself a typewriter. I am ridiculously excited to get it.

I've finally installed a Lemmy app on the iPhone. Without an app I kept not coming here unless I was on a computer. I don't know which one is the best so I picked mlem which looks pretty decent so far.

Ding ding coming to you live from the 11 tram!

ok, I need the collective wise mind of the dt to help explain this weird behaviour

my MIL insists on visiting her sick son in hospital every single day, sick son, my BIL, has had terrible cardiac disease which required many months in hospital

So MIL would visit every day. She's not a caring person, If someone is sick she says, "I don't like that you/they are sick. " She doesn't do any actual tending. She is narcissistic , diagnosed.

Her visits became a burden on the son and the doctors told her to stop coming as son needed undisturbed rest. She still went to visit.

I just can't figure what she got out of it. Why did she do it?

She impeded his recuperation. Her visiting usually meant no one else could visit as visiting was restricted. She complained about going.

If the goal was to make people think she was nice and caring it didn't work.

maybe she need reassurance from her son ( yes, that is fucked up )

I am at a loss as to why she did it.

I guess it was only a matter of time before false spring was going to end and I'd be putting the heater back on.

Arts Tasmania have writing awards open for submissions and I submitted 3 stories (2 of my kids horror and one unpublished one). The likelihood of winning is slim, but I can't help think about what winning might do for my bonafides. And then I start thinking about what I'd say as an acceptance speech.

I've always had that habit of thinking about everything that could happen if things turn out as desired (rarely ever do). It's something I wish I could do and then forget about until the time comes up.

Does anyone else do this though? Plan for something and then get excited/think about the possibilities? I feel like I jinx myself by doing it.

Finished work and was absolutely exhausted when I came home.

Had a wash and turned on the heater and fell asleep in bed for an hour and a half I think.

Tuesdays are so full on. Thankfully tomorrow will be a lot less eventful at work and I can focus on some light manual labor so to speak.

I finally got the last document needed to complete my tax return today 🙂 It is now complete, submitted and I just have to wait for my return 💰

😭😭😭 😡😡😡

apple fucked up my music library, again, 😭😭😭

all the live albums, anything not bought with apple , all the special releases, everything moved to cloud which I do not use

fuck apple, so sick of them

this is why we buy cds and vinyl

I really am being a sook about this

Alright. Experiment: running to the gym at lunchtime. Will I end up feeling good, or fucked beyond recognition?

I brought a towel so I can have a shower afterwards.

Let's see how it plays out.

I am outside and I can just stand here without blowing away. I'm not even wearing concrete shoes. It's quite nice. So quiet.

Oh this is almost too good to be true: scary shit

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If Nasa called you and said "We want to send you up, BUT we can only do it on a Boeing spacecraft" you'd say "No thanks!"

I really wish that fingernails and toenails weren't a thing. Thankyou for coming to my TED talk

yay, I finished the display cabinet and loaded most of my shells. The biggest one, a baler from Western Australia couldn't even fit, and my boxes and books won't fit either. So in the big dresser they go

will get a better pic during the day , but this is it for now

Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘

Morning everyone. The birds are tweeting and the sun is up. 🐦🎶🌞

Morning everyone. I remember seeing no rain on the forecast for today, but it can't get to warm today with how yesterday was, right?

new achievement unlocked: The ability to give The Look over the phone.

^A lot of systems are offline in vic are we having issues gee boss I don't know why would a lot of systems be offline in victorian sites would you like me to tell you about the fucking rabbits lenny?^

Pakige day! My new kitchen sponges are on board for delivery. I'm pretty sure I bought more interesting things too, I just can't remember what.

Just me, or is the mobile network in the city kaput? Best I've been able to get is H+. Am on Telstra network

I love the paraylmpics for their modified sports. I stayed up watching blind soccer. Argentina v Colombia. It was fast, aggressive, interesting. Scores 0 - 0.

I think I pulled a muscle or something while I was under the house yesterday. My sides are super sore

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After struggling to locate eye(lid)primers I found Nude by Nature, Milani and Barry M at Priceline in Bourke Street.

As UD is usually my holy grail, this is going to be interesting.

Jobs that have a lower cognitive demand than uni but higher cognitive demand than retail?

I fear I need direct instructions but not to the point of monotony.

How nice, Mr. Jingoism from last week is back again today, and is talking to our supervisor on the phone going on about how he has the chills and doesn't feel really good and probably picked up something from the childcare (and this person has stacks of leave entitlements), thanks for making the rest of us sick too mate...

Yay. I have yet another key 🙄

Our old back gate in the backyard was on the same binding as our front door, so I could just use my front door key on it. But he changed that, and also installed a lock on the front gate in the front yard (and will install another on the side gate between the yards eventually, but the wood needs to be replaced first). So I now have another key for that.

I now have 11 keys on my keyring, although 3 aren't needed anymore because the padlocks have been removed, and 2 are for my bedrooms which don't currently have locks. So I can remove those for now