Discussion Thread 🌏 Thursday 17 July 2025

Back in melbs.

I miss my bestie down the beach.

She came inside yesterday and hopped up on the kitchen bench (hasn't happened before) and just stood there when I was cleaning up. Honestly she's more domesticated than a cat or dog. Zero need to chase her out of the house. Found her something to eat, walked outside and she followed at walking pace with no stress. I swear they're evolving.

Birb friend! That's so sweet. Can't lie, I'd be worried about poop, but that's still very sweet.
- worried about poop
  lol yeah that was my first thought too.
  Everytime I accidentally leave beach towels on the outside chairs there's always one on there. I suppose that part isn't very domesticated heh.
They are really smart creatures.
Hey Maggie
One of my goals for wherever I move long term is to have birb friends. Specifically maggie friends.

Ooh...I feel ... Oxygenated. That's cool. Score 1 CPAP Con full face masks are not fun but not as bad as I feared.

Good morning everyone 😎

HELL YES!! Love to hear this! May you and your CPAP have many happy sleeps together!
How would it work if you sleep on your stomach with your head to the side?
- You can get special pillows but I dunno. I did wonder that because I am a sometimes tomach sleeper but mostly was getting my head around side sleeping last night

I wish I could sit on my 3rd cat tower and glare menacingly at someone until they give me treats.

The team lead at my woolies is stupidly hot, and I hate it because he's so damn hot. Dammit.

That chiseled jawline.
Those roast chooks don't fall from trees.
Unless chicken sale.
-unknown, 2025.

Oh yes

Never seen feet move more quickly lol.
- Ha. Must get home to set up fastwalk
Enjoy your new favourite relationship 😋
Oooh how exciting!! Whatcha planning on playing on it?!
Get ps+ it's absolutely worth it!
School holiday fun!

Been really depressed lately, not helped by the hormonal hurricane I'm in with this period 💀 been trying to keep my head up, but I think I'm feeling the effect of not having a scheduled psych appt lined up.

My sleep cycle is a bit messed up, and I'm constantly drowsy. I feel like a big ball of whinge and woe-is-me.

On a positive note, I've applied for some jobs which I'm hopeful I'll get interviews for, and I've been playing cult of the lamb and am very happy with the DLC content! It's entirely worth it to me, and isn't just "here's some new clothes and follower forms, bitch" - there's more interactions with the bishops and much more endgame content.

Had a big (for me) adventure today. Took the Minipeelers to Melbourne Central and had a wander around and look at things. Went into the Emporium part and had lunch at the Schnitz (kids choice) upstairs. I liked the upstairs part, it was cleaner and quieter than the other food courts in the main part.

At some point Elder asked if we could visit the museum and I thought, ok, why not? So we went there and Miniest let it drop that Elder was really keen to see the Lego Star Wars exhibition, so we saw that. It's pretty cool, lots of displays and a couple of good interactive displays. One of them you make your own fighter space ship thing and put it in a machine which scans it and then projects it flying through space on a big screen. Another one, you make your own lightsaber, attach a receiver to it and stand in front of a screen which shows it glowing, and you can download the picture. There was also a part where you do a bit of Lego and it goes towards a big mural. Warning to anyone who takes kids: you have to leave via a pop-up star wars retail space (I saw a few tantrums!). The theme cafe was ok (could've done better with star wars themed food ideas) but I was hanging for a coffee by that point and any port in a storm I reckon!

Then we walked back to Melb Central and got Cinnabon to take home. Wish I could remember the name of the scroll place that used to be at Melbourne Central about 20+ years ago, it was the same kind of thing but heaps more types of scrolls and was really popular. Does anyone here remember?

Saint Cinnamon? I’m not sure if that’s correct but the name popped into my head. They were so good!
- Saint Cinnamon 🤔 It didn't ring a bell, but if all they sold was heaps of different flavoured scrolls (I remember loving the butterscotch ones, and there was some kind of cheesecake flavoured one 🤤) that were freshly baked and they had a location at Melbourne Central then that'd be it. God I loved those scrolls!

Fire alarm. FFS.

I’m going back to bed 😠

why the fuck is it only thursday

I had a dream I'd slept through Thursday and woke up Friday morning. Was very sad when I woke up and it was Thursday.

That's so cute!

It took me all day of getting distracted and bullshit avoidance strategies, but I've finally booked the campervan. That's the biggest hurdle over. I splurged an extra $300 for a newer model that has cruise control even though I don't like the layout as much and it's not as spacious. My right knee isn't the greatest these days so I am not putting it through 1000s of kms solo.

I'm just going to book campsites tomorrow because my brain is fried. I will definitely feel a lot more excited about this once all the bookings are over!

I got put in Reddit jail hehe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5s4jIF9UDA
Obviously you are doing something terrible.
I've just made someone delete their entire Reddit account, got someone else to delete a post and leave a Facebook group, and gotten into some pointless arguments with people over what day chores are done and been downvoted for saying sourdough is sour. It's wild out there.
- It’s all a bit silly out in the cesspool.
Someone’s been naughty.
Into the corner you go.

Hey fellow Lemmylings(?). Last week I did Run Melbourne and managed to cut open my foot whilst running (not sure how), limiting my ability to walk. Thing is, I was going to propose to my partner on Saturday and was going to do it during a hike to one of our favourite places.

Given I can't walk, that's not all that doable anymore. Annoyingly I've booked various other things around the engagement.

Any ideas for proposals that wouldn't require significant walking? We don't have our own transport, but are willing to Uber if need be. Thanks everyone!

EDIT: We're in the Inner North on the Mernda/Hurstbridge train lines.

Congrats mate! You might wanna narrow it down for us. North, West, East, South East, South West etc.
- That's an excellent point, thanks mate! Edited the above, but we're in the inner north, Mernda/Hurstbridge train lines.
I take it you want a romantic spot to pop the question?
First meet location? First kiss location? Back of a volkswagon?

"Behind every great man is an even greater woman".
It's no lie that dudes dump their shit on women more than they should.
This guy sounds like a drag.
Woof, that sounds like a lot. I'm glad you're still chatting to him and have nudged him towards an EAP, but do you think it would be beneficial to point out his constant negative viewpoint? It's nice that you want to possibly include him, but it sounds like it'd be fairly risky from a draining your energy view.
But haaaard agree that mates need to talk to mates. I noticed when boyo would catch up with his mates it's always incredibly superficial chatter, he's got no idea how his mates are doing in life. I asked about it and he said "that's just how they've always been. They'll talk if they want to." But will they?!
This does not sound like it will end well to be honest.
- Yeah...

Everyone wants their shit done asap. Get utterly fucked. I barely have enough in my team to do our own stuff.

Grrr.

I survived work and returned my library books. I can chill for the evening

Mission accomplished

Today’s…challenging

Happy World Emoji Day 🙂❤️

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Grapefruit and avocado salad with pickled cabbage and a glass of pink moscato please chef.
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Mixed platter curry blended into a smoothie, iced please
- 🍗🥩🦀🐙🦐🥘⚙️🧊🥤
Ramen, please!!
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Spent a few hours in the garden today, mainly weeding and clearing up, and the thing that really surprised me was how dry the ground is. Thought with the rain we’ve been having it would be damp, but no. This also explains why a fair few of the plants out there are kinda sad. A watering system is now on the to-do list

Clocking out for tonight to be happy with myself since I can’t even share it.

I’m a bit worried about a black spot on the tip of Melbcat’s nose.

Animals, like humans, can get little skin spots, tags, lumps as they age. Very normal. Our dog had quite a few lumps and age spots as he got older, none of them anything dangerous or abnormal. It would be wise to check with the vet, but it’s a much higher probability that it’s nothing rather than something.
- I hope it’s something that isn’t serious… thanks for the reassurance, I’ve been having the most awful sinking feeling and have been resisting contacting the vet because I’m afraid of the answer.
  I might just fire them a photo even if it annoys them 😣

The early morning ride to work was about 3 minutes faster than usual. I feel like I can chalk that up to less traffic so less time at lights.

Maybe I should try these super early starts more often.

Only about half an hour left to vote in:
https://hottest100.abc.net.au/

I voted a couple days ago, what a great list of songs. I stopped paying attention to the triple J hottest 100 many years ago because I’ve aged out. But a list of best of all time Aussie hits will be a great nostalgia trip.

Huh. A Switch 2 game besides Mario Kart World. I haven't been able to justify upgrading. I'll likely go to Steam Deck instead.