Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
I’m very perplexed. The man came home from work sick “What’s wrong?” “I don’t know everything hurts and I’m tired”. Right. The kid and I have developed a dry cough and dry throat very similar to hayfever apart from those and slight body aches which can come from coughing but nothing else. It was a high pollen day yesterday. Hayfever or something else? I’m not sure.
Update: the man has tested positive to the covid.
I am now being tested.
Update 2: I and the kid are negative. We will test again tomorrow.
I felt like hell Sunday but I think it was a reaction to all the tension. Like when you take leave and you feel like messy death for the first couple of days.
Hay fever’s not great but there’s activity next door so there’s a lot of dust and whatnot floating around.Kid is coughing up a storm and the Mrs is saying she’s coming down with “something”, so it’s going around, whatever it is.
All my best to the Break fam.
Covid? It’s still around in various forms.
Flu? This winter’s was pretty rough and we’re still at the tail end of it. If you haven’t had your shots it could floor you.
Head cold? My daughter copped one a few weeks ago. Felt very ‘meh’ for a few days.
I’ll just have to wait it out while slugging down some cough medicine. It just feels like a bad case of hayfever but you never know.
Bullshit high hayfever today for me.
Yeah see. I’ve popped a Telfast and it seems to be helping. Might try a Lemsip with some extra lollies. Ooooo.
Oh no, I hope you’ll be ok and it won’t affect your taste buds.
Think of all that alcohol and the cricket match coming up!
If I lose my sense of taste, blood will be spilled.
I’ll be sure to stay out of your way.
It’s for the best 👍
Love this time of the evening in summer. The angle of the sun is just perfect for highlighting the dust on every horizontal surface in my home. 😍 #blessed
Oh I get the dust fairies in the morning. Here’s a bit of sunshine and don’t forget to sneeze.
I looked at my light shades in shame today as a sunbeam highlighted just how dusty they are…
Ha! I discovered that a few weeks ago
geez the house is filthy
I’m feeling helpless about how shit the world is getting. Not only war and climate change and nazis/fascism rising again. But things like food and housing are becoming so unaffordable, and there is very little that can be done about it by the people it most affects.
There is small scale stuff like pitching in to community food gardens, rewilding, cleaning off swastikas, or volunteering with Food Not Bombs but it seems naive and useless in the face of the sheer scale of cunts continuing to fuck everything up. At a certain point you just cannot pick up the slack.
Also my mental health is tanking and I’m literally not able to do much physically. I guess I just stick my head in the sand to try and care for myself the the best I can?
I think your last paragraph is the best option when you feel the way you do.
I take breaks from the world for self care when it gets too much and I feel overwhelmed.
We aren’t built to take in so much information so quickly. I little media blackout while you deal with your health is always a good idea.
Unfortunately it’s hard to deny things affecting you directly and causing it. But attempts will be made
Not reading ! = denying, it is easy to feel that way but it is definitely possible to take a hard media break for a week at least and not miss out on anything that will immediately and directly affect you.
Because honestly most of the time these days even if you find out about it ASAP, does it actually, concretely help you prepare better? Personally I find it does it the opposite by getting me down due to its relentless nature and the biased opinions that crop up without having time and space to process and see things in perspective. Media is not your friend
This is wise. I wish there was something I could do but right now there isn’t.
Do you watch a lot of reels / consume short media? Like the other commenter said, we aren’t made to process so much information so quickly. Definitely try some apps that help with black out or ween off insta / twitter completely for a bit
Not really actually. It’s more how it’s intruding in concrete ways and preying on my mind.
ie Being affected by the cost of living, especially food. Substandard and unaffordable housing. Antisocial behaviour in my neighbourhood rising. Fretting about actions that aren’t eco friendly - then remembering it’s pointless because renewables are being used as a political football and our plastics aren’t even being recycled. Knowing that as temperatures slowly rise my cheaply built flat will become intolerable.
But seeing stuff reflected in the news (ie. around housing climate and food, like it really is that bad) doesn’t help. The Gaza news is also harrowing.
It sounds horrible, but yea. Shrink your circle of concerns. No one can take care of everything, that way lies madness.
Also put in some work curating / limiting your SM. It’s designed to keep you panicked doomscrolling.
I’m really going to have to
Tumblr’s some fun batshit if you’re so inclined :)
Maybe just for the memes
backs slowly away from Tumblr ‘discourse’
stick to the smooth sharks and you’re good lol
I used to be a bit of a news junkie but unsubscribed from a whole lot of stuff about a month ago. Now I focus on funny stuff, and I didn’t realise how much I needed it. I get what you’re saying about how futile it feels to do your bit of goodness for the world while multinational companies are busily screwing the planet over with impunity. Still do your little bit, and know that others of us are doing our bit too, and together we count even though it feels small sometimes.
Tumblr is great for this. Absolute batshit, but in a good way.
It really does feel useless when the rot is coming from the head. I do have ideas about things that are better than nothing but my body is deteriorating
I don’t know how to help but I can sympathise. I also struggle sometimes knowing the world is full of arseholes. Reducing media might help but for me personally it doesn’t, I know it all still exists. But there are good people too! Lots of them. People trying to make a difference. Diseases are being cured all the time, social progress is being made with thing liken same sex marriage, inclusivity is more visible in media and art, renewable energy sources are growing, etc. I think we can only accept that the world is the way it is, and know that you yourself are a good person doing the best you can.
Thanks. I try hard to stay positive. Just the stress of the arseholes (on a personal and a global level) is making me sick.
Self care. Seems like the best thing anyone can do in these times…
Seems like all you can do
These bad bwoys are about to go:
Neighbour came over yesterday (she has amazing roses) had a look and flexed a bit “oh they’re a bit slow this year dear”.
The shade
That’s a lovely colour.
They’re looking pretty good.
Those are lovely 💗
It looks gorgeous. What variety?
I’m really not sure. I’ll ask the neighbour in a few days and see if she knows.
Loud O Lady downstairs decided it was a fine day for a rare 1:30pm screw, which is great for her except I was in a work meeting and have a very good microphone.
On the bright side you could get a raise next review for enthusiasm.
They gonna think you had a porno on in the background while you work. 🤷♀️
lol nah I explained what was going on. Luckily it was only my internal team and they’re cool. We had a bit of a laugh but I did try to stay muted for most the meeting.
When she finishes, play an applause track on loud
Fuck I feel shit. Friday night drinks have been postponed. Someone has brought great shame to this family.
I had to put the bins out. I don’t know if it’s correct. Please mr/ms garbo please take my bins.
Rest easy. I will take up your slack on Friday.
Thank you my lord. Don’t forget the cricket’s on. It’s gonna be a doozy.
Oh no!
I hope you’ll be able to relax and fall asleep to the cricket tonight and feel better soon!
No drinkies for you me thinks.
Thanks buddy. I’ll try and stay up tonight. If the Dutch beat us I’ll be very disappointed.
word: cordial
pronunciation: Cor dee ol
American version: Cor jol
What my mind wants to say: cor DialCorrdialle
make it french: CohHHHHHHH di OW
Cord-ee-ooool (ooool rhythms with tool)
I say, cordjal
Ohhh everyone’s smoking a big ol’ bowl of crack today i see
I see you’ve had a similar day to me, lol
Despite the odds I actually knocked it out of the park. Bunch of cunce I’ve been trying to get over the line with installs all realised I wasn’t going away, the skies opened and the stars aligned and now they’re running I don’t ever have to talk to the fuckers ever again.
Looking at the weather in melbs right now I am perhaps okay with the weather here right now, sure it’s 27.7C with 80% humidity but it’s cloudy; with a fan going and my airism t shirt and short linen shorts it’s not too bad. Very holiday esque. Hard to believe this was all I knew for 20 years of my life
Where’s here?
Singapore. I’m sure I’ll change my tune when I head out to Little India later today.
The kid’s gone to shops for us and now it’s my turn to spam her with texts. If I time it right I should get maximum pay backs.
Don’t forget to treat the send button like a carriage return. And correct every typo!
Yesss. 😂 Also the “What’s for dinner?” question
Also, wait 20 seconds to 1 minute before sending a oh and this message, if you know said items are in the same aisle…
Hahaha. She’s back now and my poor bread.
The new netflix doco series ‘Life on our planet’ is seriously beautiful viewing. The cinematography is next level.
It’s great digging weather today, but I am just so over moving soil ☹️.
's gonna rain anyway by midday so no point getting started just to stop as you get going
Just started raining now, so I’ve called it a day. I did get a decent amount of work in first, there are maybe 4-6 more barrow loads to go and then I’ll be done. The car will appreciate being able to go back in the carport.
great effort! I got some gravel shunted for the last of the greenhouse levelling (We’ve done about 15cm of cheap 7mm finings, then gonna top with fancier stuff for the aesthetic the last 5cm). If his lordship ever picks a bloody topping. We’re aiming on matching the scorch zone around the fire pit)
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Could I have some poached eggs on vegemite toast to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the creation of vegemite please. And a nice cup of tea.
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Thank you.
Some peanut butter brittle and a flat white please
🥜🍘☕️🥛
I’ll have some of what Ms. Thornburywitch ordered, please and thank you. 😊
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🍯🍞☕️
Belated thanks!
What an awkward, mentally tiring day. Just when I think I’ve had a “win” I realise I’ve actually had 2-5 days worth of “loss”.
Kicking back & watching Patheon season 1 on Prime. Really enjoying it. Distraction and blankets help.
hugs and good night 😘
Hail
Satan?
Sky ice
