Melbourne

Someone yesterday kindly informed me that the really good daily thread had moved here so here I am! Hi everyone. In other news for the fourth day in a row, I don't think I will be able to leave my study or house. Way to many PhD things to do right now.

Omg today has been an amazing day for my PhD research. I am in the process of organising all my data from the archive trips last year and really analysing it. Long story short, without doxxing my topic, I think, as of today, I have enough data to prove my research question with very little shadow of a doubt!

Hire car returned, new car purchased and rego transferred.
I'm beat! Car drives like a dream though.

GAH! I did it! I wrote the 3 Difficult Emails that I'd been procrastinating on for over two weeks. I hate asking people for potential opportunities out of the blue. I still feel like I have little to offer on balance (often feels like social likeability is valued disproportionately higher than skills even for moderately technical roles). So it's hard to reach out and deal with potential rejection especially when deep down inside it kind of feels like none of this matters anyway.

Maybe 4-5pm wasn't the best timing, but I felt like I could send em off, shut my laptop and ignore it all until tomorrow morning.

Currently making this extremely easy and banging Chinese recipe: Cumin potatoes inspired by Cumin Lamb from Xi'an Chinese Muslim street food. Only made it once before and I did have baby potatoes at the time, keen to see how this works out with big potatoes I had to cut into thick coins and then quarters.

Edit: look at these delicious potatoes. They are addictive

I drank half a bottle of orange juice and smashed a bunch of dried apricots and pears. Had issues in the toilet of the explosive nature, but I still feel the rumblings within.

Pray for me

So I'm putting my toys together and the little dog doesn't like electronics so he jumps on the kid, who of course is on her phone, to get away. Then I hear "oh my god dude. You just wiped your dick across my screen". 😂 I couldn't tell her off because I was laughing 😂

Anyone got any of those winning lottery tickets? First day back after holidays and I'm already pining to get out of here....

To the downvoter who downvotes this thread every day, you make laugh. 😂

I turned down the kitten that was up for adoption through a friend of a friend. As cute as it is, after doing some research, I think I'm better off adopting an adult cat. I was worried about single kitten syndrome and all of the work involved in caring for a high energy kitten. Plus I'm about to make a big career change and want to settle with that before I adopt. UGH responsible decision making.

Mummy got cleaning toys, kids 😎 a stick vacuum and a spot cleaner. It's time to play play play.

I just realised that the other day when I cooked party pies and sausage rolls that I'm pretty sure I accidentally used the grill function of instead of the oven function and they actually turned out really great. I'm going to try again now for lunch, for science.

Today's lunch toastie really hit the spot. Chicken, cheese, onion, sauerkraut and a mix of tomato relish and mayonnaise. On a dark capeseed loaf.

Made pizzas yesterday but only had enough toppings the kids like for one pizza for them. Decided on a whim to put some leftover chicken cacciatore on the other one with a sprinkle of cheese. Can 100% recommend!

Back from interstate yesterday. Attended a lovely wedding Saturday night and kiddo had an awesome time with his nana and uncle. Flight was amazing too, to my great surprise. But my god flying with a baby even one who is being chill is a whole lot more work than I expected.

I should have stayed a night or two in hospital but I didn’t wanna. 😔

Now I swear doc thought I was faking and wouldn’t give me a script for anything stronger than nurofen.

I have terrible pain but limited loss in joint and muscle mobility and strength

this is what happens when you’re a fitter than most people your age ( which is pathetic considering I’m unfit ) and diligently do sciatica exercises all the time

Survived my first day back at work today but some good and bad to come out of it.

Someone on "team" resigned so some of those duties are going to fall on my shoulders and I'm not sure if it's possible to get work of that nature accomplished in my work environment which is very open plan.

Second thing that's been asked of me is to work off site twice a week which means making multiple trips during the week to do that and it's only for an hour offsite which irks me more since I can't begin or end the day there which would make it much better to stomach.

Guess I may have no choice in either, point 1 I'll bring up that I can only do what I can do given my workload and concentration needed.

Point 2 I'm not sure how I can negotiate that or come up with some sort of compromise.

Pump up the jam, pump it up while your feet are stompin' and the jam is pumpin', look at here the crowd is jumpin'.

I'm practicing self restraint by having a little bit of ice cream at night but then putting it away before I start binging.

ugh, cluster knocked me on my arse this morning, I slept all day now I'm wired AF. Just what I need heading back after a week off.

Enthroned, I wear this crown of pain,
Nightmares filled my head again.
Grind my teeth to mask the fear,
All my demons dance and jeer.

Cloaked in stars, I shine so bright,
But I cannot see my own light.
Close my eyes and breathe in deep,
And feel the stars begin to weep.

All my demons dance and jeer,
Grind my teeth to mask the fear.
Nightmares filled my head again,
Enthroned, I wear this crown of pain.

YAY: day off - sneaky four day weekend BOO: no sleep from massive headache.

Might potter around and see if I can go get a massage to fix whatever has got caught up in my shoulder/neck.

Still it's a bewdiful day out there ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

I bought a new keyboard. It's delightfully clicky and styled after the Famicom.

These sc(p)am messages are getting real annoying

Phone holder set up and Bluetooth dongle now integrated with car stereo.
Yiss.

Has anyone here gone down the cbd oil route as an anxiety/mood stabiliser?

How is it that in every multipack of something, drinks/icy poles/yoghurt etc., there is always one flavour that sucks arse and nobody in the house wants? Carefully constructed awfulness.