Daily Discussion Thread: 🤹‍♂️ Thursday, 16 January, 2025

Tonight's beach adventure:

Good night everyone, sweet dreams 😘
- Good night:)

Absolutely splattered with bug guts in the way back this evening.
I thought about absolutely nothing on the way home. The realisation was almost euphoric.

this headache is just about approaching "bail from work" levels, but I have a psych appointment after work so I cant go home to come back in. And there is a not 0 change the headache is due to stress so its pretty necessary.
- My psych allows me to change to a telehealth appointment with 5 minutes notice if needed. If you think you can manage it, perhaps it might be worth checking if that's an option?
  I'd Def's be bailing on work though. Maybe an extra couple of hours lie in might help, even a tiny bit
  Fingers crossed you feel better soon though tiny!
  
  cheers yeah some nurofen has helped a bit.

- Stephen King? Yes, it probably would take that long to plough through one of his thicker books.
  
  I think The Stand is my heart's favourite even if it may not be his best. I remember getting stuck into the monster of a paperback when I was in my young teens and being absolutely absorbed. I relisten to it often

Contract signed, deposit paid. Mad Kermit arms flailing!!!!
- Woohoo! Yay! All the screaming! 🍾🍾
  
  Much, much screaming 🐸 🙀

Don’t you open that trap door!
You are a fool if you dare!
Stay away from that trap door!
‘Cos there’s something down there!

I got bad family news in early November. Another death. It was somebody else that I never got to meet, but was directly and quite closely related to me
I've been thinking about it for a few months, and have even brought it up with my psych, but nothing's really helped. It's weird because I know that I'm meant to feel something, and indeed do feel something, but it's unidentifiable and not overwhelming emotion
Apparently 2 days before he died, he tried to get in contact with me through child protection. Because of bureaucracy, I didn't find out about it until over 2 weeks later. That made it worse. Nobody knows what the message was, but trying to contact me was one of the last things he ever did :/
- So sorry to hear that. I’ve also had the experience of finding out direct relatives I’ve never met had died. I never feel anything except maybe a curiosity about who they may have been, would we have got along. But nothing more personal. They were a stranger. I don’t think sharing DNA means anything, really. It’s knowing people and interacting that has meaning. But also, I never had any expectation that we would ever meet, so that probably affects my take on things. Knowing you closely missed out on a meeting would be more difficult. There would a sense of loss if it were me. Hope you can work through it and feel OK.
  
  Thanks cake, I appreciate it ♥️
  Another layer of complexity is that I honestly don't know if I would've accepted, had I gotten the message earlier. Obviously if I knew I'd soon lose the opportunity, I would, but otherwise, it would've taken a lot of rationalising and deciding, and maybe months before I would have made a decision. And I probably would've chosen not to meet or contact him
  There's some other familial stuff going on to where even now I don't know if his intentions were good, what sort of person he was or life he led, and if it was a genuine request, or intended to cause drama. That adds a bit of guilt for thinking that way

Looks like Reservoir is affordable, easy to get to Brunswick and Coburg and to work.
Will go have a look the next couple of days at a few places. Really wanted Brunswick but if I don't get a pay rise that ain't happening.
I think the work stuff is affecting me. I feel really down and out but no real reason. I guess this is what toxic workplaces do.
Edit:
She's using the new cat tree
- Beware of Fawkner & Dallas. They look close but the agents are likely putting lipstick on the pig's butt hole.
  
  I know about Dallas. But is fawkner really that bad? I already sleep with a kitchen knife under my mattress within easy reach.
- Reservoir is 10km from the city and close to inner north suburbs with the cool music venues! Plus if you're into gardening, lots of nonnas around who grow their own produce hahaha. Inner-ish west could be another place to look?
  
  Sounds damn good to me!

Just for balance, is there anyone who's not into sci-fi? What's your preferred genre? I enjoy history, true crime or the occasional fiction.
- Mills and boon for me.
  
  Relaxing reading and also talks about social issues. Under rated. 👍