Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
My lovely daughter comes home yesterday all excited because she spotted all these white butterflies around on her way home. She even took photos. She was so happy. Now as a mother it's my job to tell her the truth. I crushed that little girl's heart with a "no sweetie. They are cabbage moths. They're a pest. They eat hard working Australians crops". Not to be out done she replied with "They're still pretty". Bless her little cotton socks.
So this is the second week I've had my period, and last time this kind of stuff happened I never talked to the doctor about it (medical trauma and obviously cptsd from SA) but it's happening again... So I have to go see my GP, tho I may request a lady doctor to hopefully ease my worries.
Low-key hoping that my uterus is damaged beyond repair and has to be removed. #goals
This organ is nothing but pain and annoyance and though it's doesn't make much sense, whenever I think of it being removed I think of Mike Wazowski: "Put that thing back where came from, or so help me, so help me, so help me, and cut!"
Yeet the thing if you can! Wish the wretched organ came with an on/off switch. Yes, I’m sure I don’t want to use this right now, hibernate mode GO! (I got mine disconnected, but unfortunately it still works)
Weird how I have the whole cinema to myself at 10am on a school/work day 😎
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1 more person came to my session lol
Go go Docklands! Sadly no $10 ticket though.
The Marvels. I've managed to avoid all spoilers which is my favourite way to see movies.
Awww yeeeee it's gonna be great especially having the cinema to yourself!
Does anyone feel like their emotions get blunted as they get older? For whatever reason I just don't get as stressed or anxious as much about things as I used to. On the other hand I also don't get as excited as much either. Overall I'm just much more..... sedated?
I don't know if it is emotions getting blunted or just that having had a much wider range of experiences the extremes needed to trigger strong emotions are much rarer. When you have little experience of food every meal has a high chance of being the best thing you have ever tasted by a strong margin (or the worst!). But eventually you get to the stage where you have tried so many things that the chances of any one thing being the best are slim, and if it is, it is not generally by a wide margin. I imagine that if you could recreate something as dramatically different as your first taste of sugar your emotions would be just as strong.
I believe the tendency to become less adventurous as we age is down to the same thing. The chances of a new recipe being better than the best recipe we have discovered so far gets lower and lower as we go along, until we get to the point that trying new things becomes more likely to be a negative than a positive. But doing this creates even less likelihood of having an experience that triggers strong emotions - which is why some people go to the opposite extreme of chasing adventure and looking for dramatically new experiences.
Same here, my emotions aren't as extreme as when I was younger. Something I experienced when I was younger that would be very keenly felt is now more of a "meh" for me. However I still get angry the same, I still get cross at everything! I suffered from an anxiety disorder and had PTSD from around 2006 for about years, so everything feels less anxious compared to then lol.
Yeah but I think there's different reasons for everybody. For me I've never really been a stressy person but when I had a child even less stressy because I didn't want her to pick up on it.
I can relate to that.. I think having a child really helped me too, for the same reason.
Same as you I don't get excited much any more (late 40's here), but I am -definitely- much grumpier now than I used to be. Nothing used to worry me back in the day, but now I'm constantly having to catch myself and shut my mouth before I grumpily complain about so many things.
It's a trait I don't like and do my best to suppress, but sometimes it slips through. My internal dialogue is just constant grumpiness these days and I hate it!
Is frustration an emotion? I don't really get angry or excited that much, but holy shit do I get frustrated at little things (90% of the time it's people doing stupid little things). The frustration leaves quickly, but it's pretty intense when it hits.
Overall though, yeah. Way less emotional swings.
No, I am just as intense and wild as ever.
I do try my best to appear calm and i do hold my tongue
I don't have anything important to say but I'm becoming really good at getting wasps out of the house. Give them a little hand gesture and they know where the window is. They are more aware than we think.. They know things.
One of your mates got in my car the other day. It got in. I got out. It got very close to buckling up in the backseat before I open the door and nicely asked it to "Get out".
Come back when you have learned the way of the mosquito and you will never worry for fame or money ever again.
Wasps are not real. They're drones who are spying on you for big everything.
Graffiti and vandalism annoys me so much. It makes me really really angry. Why can't people just not fucking destroy things that benefit everyone?
I keep seeing anti-Semitic and nazi graffiti around carlton 😔 tagging is shit but at least it isn't evil
this week is sucking the will to live out of me. I dont know why, but it is just exhausting. Felt like we faced 2 Mondays in a row.
I told myself I was going to get some work done today (and got up at 8:30am so not bad...) But it's not happening yet. I am frozen and somehow crave interaction to kick start my brain. I do have a few hours I have to spend in a library between appointments later today though, so that might generate some action, being away from home with my laptop.
My new job is a finished by midmorning/midday unless something trickles in sort of job, and the feeling is so weird. Like technically I'm done for the day, but now I have to sit there and click about my screen or make small talk with my neighbour. After my last job I'm totally not complaining, but damn!
That can get old very quickly. Being paid to be bored isn’t all it might seem at first.
Oh totally! Although it's a bit easier to stomach at home though because you can get things done, which will come in handy when I go back to school next year.
@CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone Sorry but those little white butterflies are just so cute
Try growing some veggies and I guarantee you your tune will change...
Hahaha. Well those insects are invading little dog's yard and he don't like it.
Ok so don't nap when you had a poor nights sleep the night before. Or set an alarm or something. 2 and a half hours GONE and I don't love my chances of sleeping well tonight!
Where are the Optus whistleblowers to leak what happened? Must be pretty embarrassing or Optus would have said by now.
Robbo kicked the plug out of the socket, Bruce wasn't around to fix it and Keith chucked a sickie.
This may not be that far from the truth. Given that it happened at a time where planned outages are generally scheduled, it's probably from rolling out some sort of intentional change. Whether that's a configuration change, or a firmware update of some sort, it was likely done on purpose at 3am.
Then when it inevitably broke everything as it took effect, the rollback plan failed. And yeah - it's 4am and neither Bruce or Keith are in the office to fix it. The hilarious part is both Bruce and Keith almost definitely have Optus for all their contact details (Internet, mobile, landline) and the poor person managing the change couldn't wake them up.
I suspect they will announce the cause at some point. Something this big would have trouble staying internal with an organisation with that many employees.
