• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago
    overwhelm

    i am still doing an assignment that was due a week ago. family is giving me a lot of shit for it and making me feel ashamed. lots of the whole “get a job” and “what have you contributed to this family?” talk and that i’m a loser. i am focusing on finishing this assignment tonight and going to apply for jobs so i’m not underemployed. i don’t know if i want to do this course anymore, or if i could take it on if i was actually treated for adhd. the dr said no stimulants, and i’m scared to try anymore meds. i’ve tried three different meds and none of them ‘worked’.

    this plus the itching that’s lasted for months. i wonder if it’s stress related. going to give it a couple more days of moisturising and see if it works. google says it’s a sign of cancer. of course it does.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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      5 days ago

      Your family are kind of being jerks… shame is demotivating. And any kind of meds aimed at improving your mental health or ability to cope probably won’t work in this environment.

      Do your best. Stress can sometimes result in hives

      • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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        5 days ago

        I agree. Turns out I have failed the subject because of unsubmitted assessment but I looked at the policy and they can only not mark an assessment if it’s more than 10 days overdue, which mine is not. Let’s see what happens.

        Thanks Melba.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    Last night I grabbed a bucket and washed a couple of soft toys that had been sitting in the laundry basket for ages. Hung them in the shower to drip dry but they’re still really wet where water has collected at the bottom. I squeezed some of it out but I might have to rough up the stuffing further by wrapping them in a towel and squeezing or weighting.

    I probably did it wrong but am just trying to get things around the house cleaned and sorted in the most straightforward ways possible.

  • TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    It’s bin night here in Thornbury, and NO ONE but me has their bins out. Council website is silent on the issue. Has something happened that I don’t know about but everyone else does? I am starting to worry.

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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        6 days ago

        🫥🫣😳

        And not even the water soluble ones as they were so costly and would probably require the risky stuff anyway… I found a very cheap tiny starter pack of the real dealio.

        Safety rambles

        Probably poor quality and not thick enough for my purpose and there probably isn’t enough white to make Magic White without finishing the tube. There are two little brushes included but they’ll have to serve, to not mix the ones for oil and acrylic.

        Added a tiny bottle of the linseed oil (refined is safer and I plan to soak the used paper towels in water then discard sealed in a ziploc or some container - I’ll ask the council).

        I really got stung badly on the large bottle of odourless spirits though because there were no small bottles in stock. Ouch.

        I’m thinking to clear off a plastic table near one screen door to keep everything away from curious little beans and lickable fur. And set a fan blowing through it to force the fumes outside (with the opposite door cracked for air flow and added pressure).

        …Now to just ignore all my art supplies forever like a lazy useless p.o.s because of fear of failure 😔

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    Tried to get some rainbow photos. Didn’t capture all the colours, but turned out interestingly to me.

    For a rainbow to happen, there needs to be a storm.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 days ago

    So the cattery messaged me and said I’ll find out if I got the job by the end of the day Wednesday, because another applicant had to delay their trial shift.

    Now me arriving 10 minutes early to mine looks real good methinks 🙏

    Edit: I want be Ron Swanson, but really I’m the Eurotrash he hates 😂

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    A few more yellow poppies are out and the vermilion nasturtiums are rioting. They don’t seem to need any help so I’ll leave them be. Boring.

    I want to buy some water soluble oils but don’t know how to dispose safely of the wash water, don’t know what to do if cleaning or thinning does require linseed oil, and honestly I don’t think I can shift myself to actually use them.

    Depressed as fuck and art blocked to the point I don’t even want to practice 😔 Can’t even pick up a pencil and practice.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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      6 days ago

      take some photos of your flowers

      pick some flowers and put them in a vase

      You have created something beautiful. That is art. 😘😘😘

      and for practice, get some colouring books , it’s easy, relaxing and kinda practice

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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        6 days ago

        That’s actually a really good idea. Maybe I can wait till I’ve binned the used litter and tip the dirty paint water in the bin on top of it.

        Just a bit worried because it may contaminate quite a lot of water during the cleaning, too much to absorb without wasting expensive clean litter, as a review said that soap and water cleaning was very inefficient and they ended up eventually resorting to solvent or linseed oil anyway. And the ‘soluble’ paints didn’t thin well with water.

        Safety ramble

        I could use a few drops of linseed oil for thinning only and wash brushes with odour free solvent with all the fans going full blast, but that’s like doing traditional oil paints anyway and really does seem like it needs a studio and safety measures I don’t have. If not for me, for my cat. She likes to be right in the thick of things.

        And the cost of the materials…

        Evaporation and disposal of the solids is possible but not practical in a small space and if there’s a lot of liquid.

        Acrylics are a lot more practical in every way but I just really don’t enjoy working with them. They’re so thin and smeary, low quality and streaky.

        Ah well… I do have to learn to draw worth a damn before I begin painting anyway.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    This hot dry weather coming is just the thing I need so I can clean the wool rugs and hang them out.

    Am missing the beach but too tired and it’s a bit wild out there still

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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      6 days ago

      Spin us a yarn you’re Yarrabyte, spin us a yarn tonight

      For we’re all in the mood for a storyline and you’ve got us feeling alright

      • SpinMeRound@aussie.zone
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        6 days ago

        I read a “theory” that the Piano Man is actually performing in a gay bar and it cracks me up whenever I hear the song. I love it.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    6 days ago

    The last coat of paint has gone on the lawnmower. I failed to keep the paint off my hands this time, so I’m now sprorting yellow spots. We should have a couple of mostly dry days coming up so I’ll be able to get out and cut the grass and see how much difference to new sharp blades make.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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        6 days ago

        My last lawnmower was basically a glorifies whipper snipper and had a plastic ‘blade’. Having to worry about things like sharpening a blade is a new thing for me.

        I don’t really want the lawnmower to go too fast, I generally keep the speed control closer to tortoise than hare, so red could have been a problem. The yellow is all underneath so is mostly invisible anyway & I’m pretty sure the red thing only works if you can see it.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    6 days ago

    Pakidge!

    I decided I wasn’t happy with how well the food processor kneads bread dough and decided to get a bread maker. It also gives me another option for making yoghurt which is a good thing, I usually make it in the rice cooker and some times I want to make both rice and yoghurt and things get awkward.

    Myers had the model I got on special, so I price matched it with Appliances Online and bought it through them. It’s funny to think when I was growing up Myers was considered a top store with great service and now I’d prefer not to buy from them if I can avoid it and don’t really trust their customer service to be up to scratch. How the world has changed.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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      6 days ago

      Same here re Myer. Last time I went I stood in the store for a good 10 minutes and was not approached once by a staff member. This would’ve been unheard of with the Myer of my youth.

      Also let me know how you go with the breadmaker. I’ve been a little tempted but I’m sticking with my stretching-and-folding sourdough thing for now.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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        6 days ago

        I have had a few breadmakers before. They are really good at kneading dough (and providing a warm place for it to rise) but are not as good at the actual baking. I intend to just use it for the kneading and then bake the loaf in the oven. Which is how my mother has been using hers for years too, with very good results.