Daily Discussion Thread: Fri 20 Oct 2023

I am officially diagnosed with ADHD combined type! After waiting so long for my appointment and feeling so anxious that I was somehow wrong about it, it's a huge relief. I get to try medication and looking forward to the bonus weightloss that comes from it lol

god that was weird, I had to call Daycare back about something. I called and introduced myself with full name. They go "Who sorry?" I repeat, a few seconds of silence and I go "I'm X's Dad" "Ooooooh, X's dad, hang on a second I'll find who called you". I think its the first time I've said I'm someone's dad out loud. it has a very sobering effect.

look at your highness basking in the morning sun

There was a cat sitting on the side fence yowling during the night. Mr Ps bedroom is that side, so he scared it off by poking the rubber chicken toy out the window and gave it a few good honks 😂

The End

cats are definitely adoring the new house. Oh that giant window facing north - not in my office, where I make noises at them for shoving everything off my workbench to sprawl, but in the dining room, where boxes and beds are placed for their use. Screen doors without modesty panels so they can breeze their whiskers and see everything and not wait for a human to put a little stool up so they can try and peep out. heating vents.

Plus now they can see the entire back yard....and they're gonna absolutely lose their shit when the corellas invade the fruit trees.

Ran 10km this afternoon. I think I've earned a Ferrero Rocher.

After a day of mad cleaning the estate agent notified me that the client has cancelled the inspection.
BUT they're still interested. Keep crossing those fingers, everyone!

If sneezing was an Olympic sport then I'd be on the podium.

I think these are meant to be waratahs but all I see are scotch thistles

I've gone with the gumnuts.

Oops, apparently I accidentally fermented the cat

https://imgur.com/a/cHxunBB

Scooted myself down to a pub along the river. Cricket is on the big screen, the beer is cold and $10 a pint and they haven't played a song newer than the year 2000 yet. Life's good.

Melbcat is fussing around giving indignant huffs. She’s had breakfast, meds and a treat so I think it’s because I won’t let her out. Accidentally letting her slip out behind me into the yard made her forget she’s an inside cat.

Hahahaha ok so I just brought my golf bag up to my apartment and I'm looking through all of the pockets to clean it out/try to find my glove (found it) but I also found something completely unexpected AND telling of how long it has been since I played golf. I found 3 old porn DVDs in the big pocket, which were my friends DVDs he asked me to hide for him (I know how this sounds but I swear it's true). This is a friend I haven't seen or spoken to for about 10 years.

Hmm my apartment building has a free public library shelf thing.. maybe I should make a donation.

What would you do if people at a workplace were organising lunch and openly invited everyone around you, but not you…. And you were sitting at your desk only metres away from the conversations.

Is it just me or has the world turn to shit ever since COVID? First we had the pandemic, then Russia/Ukraine war, then Uber inflation, now Hamas/Israel.

Continuing my schedule of taking a day off every fortnight (so much sick leave). Goals for today are as follows.

• clean house
• do all the washing (sheets included)
• learn how to crip walk
• watch hockey
• drink coffee
• play some AC Mirage

Woo hoo. It's that time again folks where I like a 🍺 🎶 🏏 and a little chat so 🍻 everyone and 'ave a good weekend.

I sometimes see posts on social media that have such poor grammar & spelling that I can't even figure out what the person is trying to say. Then someone else will relpy as if it is perfectly understandable and I'm just staring at it wondering how on earth they managed to work it out. Is it the same superpower as understanding toddler speak, or a complete skill set on its own.

One of the more recent ones I saw a woman was talking about going shopping, and had something along the line of "git husband fine I have ordered more" and someone managed to translate that to wanting to know if she could return some items for a refund because her husband received a fine. I was just trying to figure out why she was calling her husband a git if he was fine with her shopping spree!

I rarely go down the beach, but going in the water to cool down and then lying down is just heavenly.

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Sitting in the bank. First, Thong Song played over their speakers then immediately after Sweat by Inner Circle. CommBank has their Frisky Friday playlist on.

Crisis averted: Kmart found a halloween house for Miss Meow and it is on the way.

People moaning that it's hot. It's really not that bad particularly in the shade.

I hate how long it takes to download games. Decided to download Skyrim, it took an hour or so which I thought wasn't too bad - then it had to download a whole lot of other stuff, and has taken all afternoon. It's currently downloading wild horses. Meanwhile I'm downloading various mods on my tablet while I wait - I haven't even started playing but I'm ready to mod the game until it is unrecognisable 🤣

Edit: Apparently wild horses was what we were waiting for - it's ready to play!

Please get me away from the Will & Jada Pinkett Smith shit show.

Got tix for the new Scorsese film. 😌

Getting a bit toasty out there in the sun.

I've given all the new seedlings a good watering and given them some temporary shade with bamboo leaves and a few other odds and ends so they don't burn to a crisp. I even managed to move a few barrows full of soil and put out some more hard rubbish.

Since you liked that one here's another one. This is more of a caution. I'll refrain from swearing. The My Dog 24/100g cans was $24 then it went to $27. Ok no worries my little dog likes to eat. I'll pay anything for the little mutt. Last time I have a look, yellow tag says $27 locked in until Jan 2024. I look under the tag usual price $34. Bull fucking shit it's never been that price. EVER because I always look. Give yourselves a pat on the back. Your shareholders will be happy with your record break profit next financial year you greedy bastards.

Take care out there consumers. I think I'm done now.

It is a proper warm evening, very summer like. My house is still 23 degrees. Have opened windows to see what that will do. Drinking a bevvy outside in shorts, not cold, feels nice.

Almost all of my goals for the day have been accomplished...still can't C walk but getting there.

warm

ARGFHHH bindiibindiibindiibindii

Cousins birthday tomorrow. Need recommendations on what gin to gift - ideas please!

I had a shoulder injury for about six months which has almost fully recovered but not quite. I am back at the gym but I'm being very careful to still avoid certain movements and not push too hard while I regain strength. Am I able to mostly work out pain free, with only the very occasional slight twinge on certain movements. I'm getting there.

My physio taped my knee pretty strongly and my leg hair is not liking it. I want to shave that portion but won't it look weird to just remove the hair around the knee? Solutions please!

Hey @[email protected] have you tried these from Aldi? They've got a very nice kick to them. Highly recommend.

So my plan was to give the electric piano/keyboard whatever you call it which has been collecting dust in my apartment to my niece for her birthday. I just dusted it off and plugged it in to make sure it's all good but it's a serious bit of kit which I bought for myself for like $500 back in like 2018 I think. It might be a bit too much equipment for a 4 year old. Now I'm thinking I should just go and buy her a more kid-appropriate one like this one and hold on to this one for now. If I still have it when she's a bit older maybe she can have it then.

Nearly finished getting the apartment ready for the Young Seagoons stay. Can do the rest tomorrow. 😴

I have got the process for an excellent iced coffee nailed. Double shot using these Aldi Lazzio Medium beans, stir through a teaspoon of sugar into the espresso, pour over ice in a cold glass and then pour milk over ice and stir. Simple and delicious.