• Alamutjones@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Market run complete.

    My life is now improved by

    • coffee
    • bread
    • milk
    • dry pasta
    • apples (Granny Smith)
    • mandarins (imperial)
    • capsicum (red)
    • onions
    • sweet potatoes
    • carrots
    • spinach
    • tinned tomatoes
    • fresh tomatoes
    • zucchini
    • cucumber
    • eggplant
    • mushrooms
    • garlic
    • beef mince
    • can of stout to cook some of the mince with, because I feel retro and savoury mince would be the bomb
    • bunch of bluebells
    • jam donuts x 500000000 for you lot

    and a new and exciting flavour of gozleme

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    2 months ago

    Good night everyone.

    may all of you who have been feeling a bit unwell feel better on the morrow 😘

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Signing to No Sleep Club again.

    As soon as I don’t have responsibilities, I apparently go overdrive on the sleep revenge. Must try to pull and all night and day, and hopefully crash at a reasonable time tomorrow - or take light naps.

    Been avoiding sleep, but I shouldn’t. It isn’t healthy and I know it ugh

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Ugh I feel this in my little sleep deprived soul

      I do this thing where if I follow a routine for too long, I eventually start to subconsciously sabotage it. And with sleep, I feel pretty much forced to not sleep at a reasonable hour the moment I have a free day.

      But at the same time, mental health be going 📉📉📉 if I don’t have enough consistency and don’t see enough sunlight, and honestly, if I wake up any later than 10

      I don’t know what’s wrong with me, or how to fix myself, so it would be hypocritical to tell you how to not do the same thing I’m currently doing (and won’t take my own advice for), but in my experience, all night+dayers rarely work out. I’ve pulled them off a few times, but I really need to be doing something semi (but not very) active all day to make it work. I usually end up doing it every time I catch the night bus to Mildura, since I can’t sleep on public transport, but also don’t have anything to do while I’m there except turn around and come back. On that return trip, I usually end up slipping in and out of consciousness. I believe the assorted medical nerds would call it a “microsleep”.

      Also, it’ll completely fuck your entire weekend. If you try to sleep now, or even within the next few hours (sometimes for me the stress of needing to be asleep an hour ago to get a solid 8 hours is what ends up stopping me from sleeping until 4 or 5 in the morning), you’ll probably wake up between 10am-12pm. After you do your morning routines and get yourself together, that probably leaves you with a few hours of daylight left to go sit outside for a few hours

      I’ve found my dodgy grey market possibly illegally imported melatonin helpful. I start off with 1mg and take more as it gets later if I still can’t sleep. Usually I’m so tired by then, that as soon as I put my phone down and turn the light off, I can sleep reasonably quickly (20 minutes or so, but I follow exactly 0 healthy sleep principles). It’s just making myself part with the day and stop doing anxiety that’s the issue.

      Without medication, I find it very difficult to fix a bad sleep schedule by trying to sleep earlier. I’ve tried it before, with all the bells and whistles. No caffeine within 12 hours of bedtime, at least half an hour of moderate-intense activity and a couple of hours of lighter activity, no screens within an hour or two of bed, etc, and none of it ever worked. But you can try spiking your sleep tonight. Assuming you work/otherwise have to be up early on Monday, it could be worth only getting 4/5 hours of sleep tonight, waking up early tomorrow, powering through the day, and sleeping as early as you can manage tomorrow night. It’ll fuck up your Saturday, and probably put a damper on your sunday, but if you can do it, that does mean your Monday will be at least slightly more energised!

      Also, if you can afford it, psychologist or therapist to try and explore why you struggle with sleeping, with either a referral back to your GP for sleeping medication, or a referral to a psychologist for anti anxiety medication, or other similar medications. Or just chatting it through can help too. This is what I’m currently trying to do

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Bruh, I know why I can’t sleep, I don’t need a psych to tell me I have CPTSD again and it’s night terrors I’m avoiding. I got CBD oil so ima take that, and put a YT vid on lol

        Sleep revenge and night terrors make spud a tired potat

        • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Fair enough. I’m sorry. I think that was mostly just protection, which wasn’t fair

          I hope that the CBD oil helped at least a bit and you were able to sleep

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Work up way too early and couldn’t get back to sleep so put on my big girl pants and went out to do the errands.
    Aldi run done, cat litter and replacement gas cylinder for the soda King bought, replacement water jug filters and one of the Kmart Stanley mugs bought since I damaged the other one. Also filled up the car at the cheap petrol place on Kingston road.
    Now back home and snuggled up with Sammi. Hoping to get a nap in but one of the neighbors has just started hammering so…

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      I feel your pain. Not a nice day today and I only had one load of washing to fold today.

  • Pilk@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    I know it’s a waste of time to argue on the internet, but sometimes it’s the only thing keeping my brain sharp, you know?

    If I gently point out someone may need to rethink their position, and they decide I was actually just personally attacking them and they come for me, I literally crack my knuckles and go in. Nuclear.

    What else am I supposed to do on a cold Saturday afternoon?

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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      2 months ago

      Indeed. Sometimes challenging idiots can help elucidate our views and sharpen our arguments.

      But sometimes idiots are not so idiotic. They might be there to drive the narrative and distract us from posting a more scientific or humanistic viewpoint. iow, they might be shills.

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    2 months ago

    TV Review. Going Postal.

    One them quaint Terry Pratchett shows.

    A cute way to spend 3 hours watching telly ( but 3 hours is enough cute. )

    3 Hobbits ( 4 if you are a totes Pratchett stan )

    Skyfall. ( again )

    This movie really does look beautiful, so many awesome scenes/shots.

    Takes itself too seriously for me to overlook the sheer absurdity of the escapades and the way M is involved in day to day ops. 🙄 I’m pre.tty sure they would have divisions and teams and team leaders and handlers and such. Someone like Bond prolly wouldn’t even ever go to head office .

    3 hobbits

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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        2 months ago

        I actually liked it better. The world building seems more believable, the story original and amusing and the characters and actors were good too

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Crash napped and woke in the night.

    Yesterday was the specialist, Melbcat seems to have kicked the uti! Unfortunately there’s not much to be done to prevent them happening. She also will be getting B12 shots. The specialist is happy with how she’s being cared for and has given the green light for many treats.

     

    I’m finding the Dove beauty bar a bit drying so I might relax a bit and get a supermarket creamy cleanser. I’m also getting rid of the scented soap and a multipack of cheap toothbrushes that are really rough on my gums.

    I wanted to cut out any extra products to reduce spending, clutter and fuss. But unfortunately my skin is really sensitive. Perhaps it’s good to know I can live very minimally if the situation calls for it, but let myself have a few things if it doesn’t.