Creature news…
My sister has a new cat. He’s enormous
Don’t believe you unless we get a piccy!
Say hi to Jetson
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lol yea might need a bigger chair. look at that fluff!
Oh my god, so much surface area for burying one’s face in and nuzzling.
That ruff! Dude totally needs some Shakespearean props to posture with.
He is a kingly cat.
Hi
✈️
Oh he is lovely!
Love you Jetson 🥰
Hi Jetson!! You are a magnificent beast, yes you are!
Jetson!!!
SO BEAUTIFUL
Look at that lion’s mane
What a stunning puss-puss!
I love my psychologist, she’s so good. Shame I only have one more session before I have to wait til next year (or if I get a job, I can pay out of pocket lol).
I have two medicare sessions left and I’ve been postponing and postponing them because even with a decent job, I’ll be fucked paying for the rest completely out of pocket haha. Really wish there were more pathways to access at least 15 sessions a year at the MHCP rebate for diagnosed chronic complex MH issues… not just those with eating disorders who somehow get 40 (!!!) rebated psychological treatment services every 12 months as long as they’re billed under eating disorder-related services… (not to take anything away from people with EDs but damn there are some other conditions too that could really benefit from even short-term access to increased sessions esp with acute flareups).
Eating disorders get it because they’re genuinely lethal if left untreated. Anorexia has the highest death rate of any psychological condition. By a lot.
There are some…especially pressing reasons to make treatment consistently available for that
I can’t recall the exact details anymore but a few years ago my GP got me onto a chronic health care plan (long term depression) that got me a few more psych rebates and a few sessions with a exercise physiologist (to help with strategies for movement). Might be worth asking about especially if you have additional health things?
Can you still get 20 on Medicare if you have a chronic condition? Or have they changed that? :(
I get 10, and then 4 extra with another GP referral, so total 14 per calender year. That’s how they treat suicidal ideation I guess 🤷🏼♀️
Next sesh will be my 14th :(
Medicare: mmkay well you’ve had 14 sessions, just don’t been suicidal until January! Bye!
😂😂😂
Ordering groceries online is easy, carrying them all to the kitchen from the front door is hard. I am exhausted just from that effort, and haven’t even put it away yet. I really should have ordered some chocolate.
Just put the cold stuff away. The rest of it can wait.
My kitchen and living areas are upstairs 😖
i think i use the stairs at least 30 times a day
It would have kept your strength up
Proof Boyo had a deprived childhood, he doesn’t know what a Banksia man is!
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie?
I didn’t know either, but also from a deprived childhood!
Oh no! They might kidnap and boil you 😱
I was deprived too, looked it up and they look like they would be terrifying for little kids!
Probably a nice protected childhood. The Evil Banksia Men were properly scary! At least at the panto thing I was taken to at a very young age.
Um, no.
no banksias where I grew up, only giant old gum trees and wattles
My lovely colleagues dropped by campus with an age-relevant cake and moral-boosting morning tea. It’s definitely helped because i had hoped to be celebrating today but what’s a few days here and there when you’re an adult. Plus, the headache is gone and I’m pumping out insightful observations with ease, albeit without references at this point. Highway to the Paper Zone!
That said, every time I’m writing things like “Regardless, the results suggest that …” I feel tempted to add “(but does it though?)” on at the end. Reminder to self: this is a 25 point research project, not a real thesis, it ain’t gotta be so rigorous
Happy birthday!!!
Happy birthday 🎂
Happy Borthday.
happy dance 😊
Happy birthday! 🎉🎂
Happy birthday 🎂 🥳! May you have all the motivation, and a lovely celebration once all this is over 💖
Happy Birthday!
Wishing you the best for happy and fun times!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!!!
ooh it’s your b’day! Happy b’day!
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birfday!
Happy birthday 🎂🎉
🎂🎂 to get you through the rest of the day. Happy writing birthday
It’s your birthday? Happy birthday!! I hope it’s as fabulous as possible, under the circumstances 🎂🎉
Theory: all roads lead to Rome
My better counter-theory: all thoughts lead to apple strudel
I just put an apple danish in the airfryer. And I’ll be forced to have it with cream. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?
YES! I AM VERY HAPPY!
I have an aldi apple strudel in the oven and chocolate ice cream ready to go and I’m fuckin’ HANKERIN’ for it 🤤🤤🤤
Mine is an Aldi too. It says 6 servings but we all know that’s a lie. I’m up for the challenge.
I’m going to have to get some on shopping day!
Get the apple or Berry mini pies. 2 in a pack. They’re better.
There’s berry? Im all over that!
There sure is.
That danish wasn’t the best. I can’t remember if I’ve had the strudel but I’ve had the pies heaps of times and they are good.
Omg yesss! I love hot pie desserts just get it in my belly, the serving suggestions be damned! I want to feel like I’m about to explode!
I struggled at the end but 6 servings is laughable.
Excuse me this is RUDE when I have no strudel available to me and am forced to live a strudel-less existence (until I can get to Aldi).
That sounds like a YOU problem! I say storm your local aldi and demand your rightful STRUDEL
I mean I could but it’s cold and rainy. I’ll complain on the internet instead, that’ll help.
I am also unhappily strudel-free
A horrific way to exist! 😭
i am strudel and danish and pie less
but i have all the ingredients to make one, maybe tomorrow or the next day
Got accused (jokingly) by aunt that hambam gained weight under my watch.
It’s pure muscle, all I did was unleash his apex ball chasing and cheese loving genes.
OK my trip this weekend is sorted! Been hanging to see these guys. 10 years is a long time not to see people I considered family at 1 point.
Eeeeeeee!
Are Gibson & The Strays sorted for the duration of your absence?
Actually, that’s quite a cute band name …
That’s a damn good band name!
And absolutely yes. I made sure to organise someone I trust to hold down the fort and dispense the treats to all :)
Good staffwork! All shall be well, all shall be very well.
It’s really windy and cold outside. You still going tonight?
yay
this is wonderful 😊
I’m glad you managed to organise it. I hope you have heaps and heaps of unforgettable fun!
Gibson so deserves this 😭
It’s disconcerting to find the back sliding glass door open when you get home.
Shit yeah. I hope everything is alright.
Everything looks in order. It’s a bit of a mystery. I have myself on camera closing and locking the door.
Yikes.I blame the cats.
And nothing else from then onwards?
No. I have two cameras on this entry (internal/external). the door itself is barely out of frame but anything even near the door gets recorded.
I watched the footage twice and nothing happens. The cat doesn’t even stir. I think it’s officially haunted here.
How odd, did you see the door while it opened?
No the door itself is juuust out of camera view. It’s a haunting. It’s Pazuzu.
😵
I watched as the wind blew the sliding flywire door open, just slowly blew it sideways
The wind somehow activated my garage door and it was wide open. 😬
Goodnight from the gremlin and I ❤️
Going to look for a new role in the coming weeks. My manager is acting like a child throwing a tantrum.
Considering my employment directly impacts my housing, it’s best to look for an out before he forces me out.
You’re having a tough run, dude! But good on you for recognising it’s not working and being open to something else.
Thanks for the support :)
Things will ease up. It’s only a matter of time hopefully.
I’;m so sorry to hear, is that also the reason why some others at your work has left?
@PeelerSheila@aussie.zone has got to me. I’ve been struggling with this cold - no appetite and no brain power to even cook the most basic beans and rice. Put in a supermarket order for a couple of Green Goddess salads and Dari’s soups (I find they are pretty close to being real food) and a few tins of tuna. I hate doing that when there’s food in the pantry but I have been skipping meals and that’s not going get me better
The green goddess salad - worth the hype?
I think so. I often get a tub of it from Colesworth for lunch, heat it up in the microwave at work, stir in a small tin of tuna and dribble on the dressing. It’s a nice veg-rich lunch that is cheap, quick and tasty.
Yeah given time and energy I can make something better but it’s a good choice for quick nutrients.
It is, IMO. I frequently vary it by adding more crunchy things, finely shredded cabbage, nuts and seeds, a chopped pink lady apple, some lettuce leaves or more spinach, some small dried fruit pieces or any combination of those things. It’s my lunchtime staple ATM.
I normally hate packaged soups but agree - Dari’s blow the rest out of the water, it tastes like real food. One of the very rare exceptions I make for eating meat is if I am really sick I will have the Dari chicken soup. It really works. Like you say, fed is best, even if it stings when there’s food in the pantry. It’ll still be there for when you get better!
Hope you feel better soon, the unwell brain drain struggle is real!
Ok this is weird. Lurgy day 5ish. Have tested negative to COVID a couple of times. Just completly lost my sense of smell. Like I was cleaning out the kitty litter thinking it was weirdly not smelly. Can just get a whiff of eucalyptus oil if I basically shove it up my nose. Perfume - nothing. Cleaning alcohol - nothing. 😳😳😳
I had that, too, and couldn’t taste much. 5 tests over 5 days said no covid, but whatever it was was pretty bad
It could be something else. But apparently the tests are less accurate with the newer strains. You might’ve been covided.
There’s a RSV going around, it can do that too.
I recall many colds where I couldn’t smell or taste very well but the Covid pandemic made me more aware of it as a symptom
@imoldgreeeg are they old RATs?
No just bought them recently when I was starting to feel poorly. But who knows. I’m supposed to be on holiday next week so as long as it gets better soon I don’t really care. I’ve kinda already called that I am WFH all week (and reduced hours when naps happen)
What about sense of taste?
Bit dull but not gone (yet).
All signs point to Covid
Yeah. That would also explain the ridiculous brain fog…Well either way its a lot milder then the one time I had confirmed covid (hallucinating fever bad). All the better to stay at home in my oodie for the next cold days
@imoldgreeeg hope you feel better soon!
I have something I haven’t been able to completely shake for a week and I can’t be bothered getting new RATs and wondering if I should even bother with old ones… doesn’t feel bad though and I’m a #novid but there’s always a first time.
Is it just me or do EOFY deals seem thin on the ground this year?
Oh boy, you know it’s cold out there when even the security guard doing his rounds is wearing a beanie tonight.
Thanks everyone for the lovely wishes, I’ve been blown away (…) by all the messages streaming in today, I don’t feel too bad about likely working into the night tonight to finish this off (brain is definitely slowing down). My body can feel the real beginnings of joy and relief in letting this thing finally go, though!
I just had a totally unrelated shower thought that I feel compelled to dump here: you know how during the era of black-and-white TV there were reports of people dreaming in black and white, which then faded away as colour TV became common?
Do you think people will start dreaming increasingly in AI-generated oversmoothed imagery and video as it starts to drown out real art and photos? Though, they will probably become almost indistinguishable in a shorter timeframe than it took for colour TV to take over b&w TV… maybe people will be having more eerie dreams of their loved ones being replaced by imposters.
I think AI will definitely influence dreams because AL will influence how people think and visualise.
It’s just change, once people used to use references to books in their everyday language and life, now it’s tv and movies.
Hmm I don’t think I’ve dreamt of people in such details. Been living with cgi from games and movies for ages and they only really present a person as a presence.
Like you recognise it’s a person(fictional or not) and how they talk and act in a dream but that’s it for me.
