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here’s some winter orchids
I love your vases, I never have enough smaller ones and these show off your gorgeous orchids nicely.
the two small ones are bud vases . Really, an op shop is the best place to find vases , just look at the glasses, cups and glassware and get what you think will work.
Omg they’re beautiful!
thanks , it’s nice to have flowers in winter :) The blooms are so heavy I got a lead crystal carafe from the op shop to show them in, it’s very bottom heavy and has a narrow neck, works perfect! The others I just snipped one bloom off a long stalk with many blooms. Wanted to keep some flowers for outside too.
Beautiful Orchids. You have to take the photo in landscape. (Turn the phone sideways)
Thanks. I did! I retook the picture.
No worries you helped me yesterday with the anti fungal cream idea. I went out and bought curash powder. Not the one I wanted but so far so good. 👍
I had the same thing with a watchband happen to me years ago. My doc said he sees it all the time.
They look really nice, I love the gentle colours of them.
Those are gorgeous. I especially love that tiger orchid thing in the middle with the fancy purple skirt.
The tiger orchid thing is a zygopetalum, a pretty rare orchid, it has a strong perfume, hence I only brought one bloom inside. There are three big spikes of flowers on the plant outside and the whole balcony area is redolent with orchid .
That sounds so lovely. Orchid growing sounds so complicated to me so I love admiring others instead. You’ve inspired me to freshen up the room with a bit of fragrance myself
it’s easy, I just follow instructions. I use orchid potting mix, put the plant in morning sun, water every few days in summer, never in winter, gives lots and lots of plant food
Pretty!
Either my upstairs or downstairs neighbour is working from home today and has their Outlook notifications on loud. And I have a goddamn Pavlovian anxiety reaction every time the “new email” sound comes through. Even though I’ve turned mine off for years so I know it’s not an email for me. This is very exhausting.
For me, it’s that Teams call ring tone ! I think I have PTSD from my previous job where ppl would non stop calling on Teams ……
I get that from one of the default iPhone ring tones… Now everything is permanently on silent
All my phones are permanently on silent. I used to get people calling me on teams while I was in a meeting and keeps calling till I msg them I’m busy 🤯
My current job has a few meeting free days! And they are the best !
Ah, consulting life… in a way I’m lucky our line of work is so minor across so many projects that we don’t have many meetings. And our clients don’t usually keep calling again and again in the span of minutes D: they leave a voicemail.
This is why we don’t let external uses contact us on Teams unless we set up a meeting with them, they should never be able to see our online/offline status
Surprise surprise it was a state gov job!
BITTER TEARS OF RECOGNITION because that’s even worse in some regards
I’m just trying to wrangle our consulting on two separate state gov projects and they are the most irritating and demanding with the largest volume of communication (that doesn’t get read lol).
It is worse in a lot of way haha. But I would never go back to consulting! Depends on which gov department and who from the department you deal with, your experience could be very different!
Btw I remember you were waiting for your PR? Any updates on that ?
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What bothers me most is how we are encouraged to feel hopeless, like there is nothing we can do
We can do so much to improve our lives, our community and the environment. Some we can do on our own, some takes organising.
An example is Clean Up Australia Day. Community food cupboards, little libraries.
We can be good neighbours even in small ways.
We can stop listening to bad news.
The economy? That will take longer. Join unions. Invest in Australian industry instead of residential property. Tax private companies. etc etc
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of course privately owned companies ( lets call them what they are ) and governments need to do things that improve lives and the world
Advocating action on an individual level is subversive and a way to achieve these bigger aims
once people start cleaning their local environment, having a nicer kinder community, having stronger local industry, having more tax money to invest in Australia they will like the results, they will want more as they see that positive change is possible, become invested in improvement, in positive action, and they will start demanding more action from government and industry
it’s subversive , it changes minds and that’s why I always say it
Hence why I don’t really watch the news anymore. I just end up feeling sad and angry.
Ive stopped watching the news for the last few months. It’s been ever so depressing and the constant delivering of bad news left a bad taste of my mouth.
Cost of this and cost of that and rate rises non stop for the last whatever months.
Sometimes I want the apocalypse to hurry up; it’s the slow burn that’s making the end of the world so boring to live through. Can’t we have an end-of-the-world scenario that’s more like ‘2012’? Ugh!
Collapse happens slowly… then suddenly :)
It scares me. 😟
Scares me too :(
Got my nails did. I feel pretty, reader. (I already felt witty and gay.)
Noice!! What colours did you get?
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I make a better one. Just saying.
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its fairly simple to make a better one. it’s not so simple to make a better one that is cheaper, faster and requires less cleaning up.
Now denounce the zeffer, bend the knee and kiss the pinky ring.
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😱 💀 👻
Damn. Kinda regret not getting those After Eight dinner mints but I’m sure if I did get them I’d regret it too.
I’ve got a block of hazelnut Whittaker’s if you wanna share.
It’s too late. I’ve opened up the maltesers. Here ya go 👉 🟤 👈
Thanks. Maltesers and peanut m&ms are my fav.
They’re my fav too!!
They are top tier.
Have you tried tiramisu Maltesers? I haven’t but my manager says they’re awesome.
No but I tried the black forest ones and they were pretty good!
If you feel another earthquake, don’t worry, it was just the ripple of the biggest burp I’ve ever done. You’re welcome!
Nah it’s me, I seem to be farting for Australia ATM.
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I’ve been feeling flat this morning, both physically and mentally. Ended up queuing a bunch of songs together that elicit a strong emotional response and had a good cry. Maybe that’s all I needed. I’m thankful to be working from home today, and with the Mrs out for the morning too… gives me a bit of space :)
I’ve got the Study Lofi playlist on. Certainly feels a little “Everything’s getting a bit hectic and the walls are closing in” hey. But not sure if thats actually whats happening or if my brains trying to turn the cogs tighter on me. Wish I could have a good cry too. Glad your feeling better!
I have a Japanese Jazz playlist that I was listening to a lot over the last week or so for this same reason. And yeah, doesn’t matter if it’s external or internal… sometimes you just got to try and bring the mood to a baseline yourself. The Study Lofi playlist is definitely a good vibe to tap into in these instances.
Same here. Very low on the mental side for me. Not sure why, but trying to make the best of it.
Humans are such complex buggers… like, sometimes it’s easier to lean into it, other times it’s easier to flip it. But actually knowing which path to take is the problem. Here’s hoping you can make the best of it, mate.
Thanks mate. I get like this occasionally and it tends to last a few days. No real reason for it, just how it be. I’ll be fine. Just need to wallow in a shitty mood.
holy shit - visitors arrived at my neighbours next door, and I swear to fUCKING Alanis if they start singing Katy Perry again, I’m going to TP their welcome mat.
edit: EVERY MONDAY WTF
edit edit: this was my rant posted in yesterdays dt, but they just arrived so here it is too, electric boogaloo
You have to start playing Taylor Swift to show your dominance.
Got the cat some fancy-pants biscuits for sensitive stomachs.
Cat vomits them back up, IN MY SHOE
going cheap - one cat
I think someone else here had a problem with the fancy sensitive kitty food too.
The weather is a bit nice at the moment - actual sunshine!
Tomorrow looks like it will be good too, and now that school holidays are over I might take advantage of it to go in to the museum & the systems garden at Melbourne Uni. I think I can get free museum entry with my student ID, it will be great if I can because it means I can take my time and come back later without feeling like I have to see everything in one trip.
I’ve got a Myki loaded on the phone, hopefully everything works ok. It’s been years since I’ve been on a train!
It’s like… 18 degrees today in the city or some shit. That’s crazy good weather for this time of the year. We even had a fucking fly in the house last night. Both cats went bananas trying to catch it. I thought they were supposed to be dormant in winter (flies, not cats - not by the way they go crazy at 4am in the morning haha).
Just making some flat bread to have with curry, I added dried coriander to the mix, hope it tastes ok🤞🏻
Sounds tasty!!
I strongly recommend trying out dried fenugreek leaves (methi) if you make flat bread and/or curry regularly-ish. It’s that je ne sais quoi that elevates a dish to that lovely restaurant quality. You can get boxes of the stuff at Indian grocers. A little goes a long way and it keeps for ages
time to play “are things actually hectic” or “is my brain just trying to make things this way?”. I get the sense life is only as hard as you make it, trouble with my anxiety is it LIKES things hard. twists things into problems, forces me to take positions on things. I grew up where everything is a fight, so it tries to make everything a fight. And every now and then I need to stop breath and try untwist the knot my brain has tied itself into,
Oh mate. My brain does the exact same thing. I grew up in a loving but stressful environment, and it feels like I’m still, constantly, worrying about what can go wrong and managing my emotions/actions/thoughts to avoid potential conflicts.
I just wanted to say, you’re not alone. You can get through this too. Deep breaths help me.
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It’s hard, eh? I envy the hell out of people who just seem to go with the flow. That whole “just roll with the punches” kind of person. My brain is constantly trying to play 4D chess in a world that, really, should just be checkers and nothing more. Everything needs a “solution”, even if there isn’t necessarily a real problem presenting itself in the first place.
It’s fucking tiring, man.
I’m exhausted from avoiding punches .
Exactly! I feel base line me is actually pretty happy and chill, but me with all the problems is Deffo not.
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Biggest thing im trying to learn still, and will continue to need to learn is to PAUSE!!! I need to start doing it before anything i do, say, etc. Need to practice it for it to become the norm, but pausing before reacting, or speaking or doing is so important with an anxious brain. I also liked in the book im reading the process of SPOT, STOP, SWAP. It talks of recognising negative thoughts and spotting them, stopping once you have spotted them and then finding a way to swap that thought for a positive one :)
I’m going to make a sate to go with my stir fry using stuff I already have at home. I know it won’t be the same as the delectable dream inducing I don’t know what drugs they put in it from my local Vietnamese shop but all I’m hoping for is it to be edible. I’m very excited.
I have made the sate. Tastes nothing like the one in the shop but that’s ok because it tastes good anyway.
drugs
MSG, you mean? 😋
One of the things I hate about ADHD, is that I have time paralysis/waiting time. Like, I want to do things before I have to leave for work… but I just… can’t. I hate when people say ADHD is a superpower. It’s not… it’s really not.
People who say ADHD is a super power don’t know shit about ADHD. People have different skills and abilities regardless of their neurotype and even if my ADHD did grant me strengths, I don’t find this framing particularly helpful. ADHD inertia fucking sucks. Personally I don’t have as many issues with things like focus, attention, and organising anymore since taking Ritalin, but inertia is still one of the biggest challenges in my life. It’s a seriously under-recognised aspect of ADHD along with rejection sensitivity.
Yeah I find the whole “superpower” so discouraging to a lot of the problems and issues we face. I get that it might help kids who feel really upset about the diagnosis. But like I’m an adult, who has to pay taxes and has a job, I don’t need your “it’s a superpower” b.s.
That was an interesting article, thanks. I don’t think I’ve seen a term for it before, but I’d be tempted to mix those two together and go with waiting paralysis. I actually do a few of those strategies already, especially writing “scripts” for what I need to do and multiple alarms to keep me on track.
Waiting paralysis. Love it!
Yeah I need to look into the tips, I just grabbed the article because it describes what I needed.
Oh wow, I had no idea this happened to other people, I just thought I was weird. And I always feel bad about myself when I get stuck procrastinating when I have something coming up. Don’t have ADHD (that I know of!) but this article really resonated. Thanks for sharing, I’ll have to try some of the tips.
