• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    13·
    25 days ago

    A weird side effect of going through winter carless is the mental health boost from the enforced walk when I have to go into work. Definitely doing better than normal so far. Who would have thought that exercise and a little natural light would do wonders.

    Narrator: everyone…literally first or second on every mental health suggestion list…

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      7·
      25 days ago

      Lol I feel the same. I say I hate going out, but really I hate the at-home-before-going-out part. Once I’m out, I feel great and so much better

  • SituationCake@aussie.zone
    12·
    25 days ago

    I get unreasonably irritated by the pop-up chats when online shopping. They obscure the screen in the worst positions to get your attention, and pop up within 5 seconds of landing on the site. No, I do not want to chat to ‘Hailey’. I just got here, put away your chat bot and let me browse please. And then it whines when trying to close the chat window, are you sure you want to close chat? Look mate, if I wanted to be harassed by aggressive sales staff I can do that in person, I don’t need the service extended to online shopping.

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
      7·
      25 days ago

      I hate this too. I hate it even more on news websites. I sometimes read drive.com.au for their wild stories about a P player doing 130km/h above the speed limit or whatever, but they also sell cars too. Every time I try to read from mobile, some randos face pops up in the bottom of my screen and starts flickering at me asking if I need help. No I don’t fucking need help, I just want to read the article. Seriously.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      5·
      25 days ago

      Or worse - frequent popups of ‘SomeBozo in Buttsville bought such-and-such!’

      Cool. Even if the popups don’t fully block what I’m looking at the flickering appearances of those messages is still breaking my concentration and causing visual stress

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    12·
    25 days ago

    I have a doctor I have to see every 2 weeks. She’s an almost 4 hour round trip on public transport.

    It fucking sucks, but she’s amazing. First paycheck of new job, I’m getting a car.

      • Nath@aussie.zone
        61·
        25 days ago

        Even an escooter that you can take on the train. Depends of course on where home and doctor are.

        It can be two hours to go a 20 minute drive from suburb to suburb if PT insists on taking you via the city. A 20 minute drive is around the end of a comfortable escooter range.

        • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          25 days ago

          Can also take ebike on train AFAIK.

          Plus bike is good for you and can ride on the road. Would not do/say the same about scooter.

          • Nath@aussie.zone
            1·
            25 days ago

            While I happily ride my bike to work every day, I would not take it that far unless there was a shower and change of clothes at the other end.

            • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
              1·
              24 days ago

              Swap of tshirt at work is all you need. You don’t get that sweaty riding a bike if you’re doing it everyday and just cruising. Much less on an ebike

              Racing cars is another thing…

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    8·
    25 days ago

    Didn’t really warm up today after a bungled site visit meant an hour in the cold without enough layers on. Total brain fog at work like I could barely remember my name let alone do my job. The sads are definitely hitting. I watched the last episode of Tales From The Loop which is sad enough itself, but somehow the thing that made me most emotional was seeing Cole walking the sunny meadows, flowers and grass waving in the breeze… I wanted to touch the sun…

    Thinking back to the last few winters from 2020 on, they were all significant low points of the year - aside from getting my PR a bit over exactly a year ago. That was glorious until shtf in July at work.

    Anyway, I know my risk factors, so I’ve arranged social things for all 3 of the next days, I’ll try taking my meds again now that my sleep schedule has reset, and I’ll prolly have a coffee at work tomorrow (green tea is not cutting it). I need external motivation to exercise, that’s probably the biggest thing missing. If I get a decent tax return in July I think I’ll look into a personal trainer for even a month, even though I’m very cagey/picky about such things.

    • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
      2·
      25 days ago

      It sounds like you’ve got a plan, which is a great step. Exercise, for me, is almost as powerful as the meds I take for depression.

      As an aside, tales from the loop is absolutely amazing and the body swap episode brought a tear to my eye.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    6·
    25 days ago

    Here’s an odd one.

    Random dude probably 20yo rocks up this morning, starts whipper-snippering the front lawn. I go out ask him wtf are you doing, he says sorry I got the wrong address jumps in his car and drives off…

    I’m still scratching my head.

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
      5·
      25 days ago

      Same thing happened to us once. The dude did both nature strips. Beautiful job he did AND it happened to be my husband’s birthday. He came back the following week to do across the road.

      Husband thought I’d organised it as a surprise. Nope.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        25 days ago

        Shouldn’t have told him! “Oh yeah I forgot I booked him. Happy bday hubby!”

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    5·
    25 days ago

    If I’m feeling better by the weekend, I think I want to go and get out and do something. I’m feeling a bit trapped and unhappy with what’s happening here, so maybe going and doing… Something is a good idea.

    I used to do things and go places, then I just sort of stopped. I mean, I still go places and do things, just not really solo anymore. But maybe a nice meal somewhere and a movie is what I need.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5·
        25 days ago

        I’m not sure about that. I think I kind of want to escape into a social setting, but without the socialising (like going to a cinema, or having dinner somewhere)

        • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
          5·
          25 days ago

          I love dinner and movie solo. Or even take a book or mobile/laptop to a library and just hang. Often a good quiet warm option. I do that sometimes when I just want to get out

          • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
            3·
            25 days ago

            I’m thinking I might do a late night type thing. Might go to dinner and then head to the docklands for a movie and wander then come back

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        25 days ago

        Aww, that’s sweet, thanks FM! I’ll probably have a late friday night and probably won’t be up til lunch time, plus I’m planning on just spacing out with my headphones for most of the day. But thanks for the offer

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    5·
    25 days ago

    Semi hoarder parent is being forced into Care. I’m to write a list of things I want retrieved. Very difficult since I’ve not been to this particular house and everything I can think of wanting is super susceptible to rats so probably doesn’t exist anymore.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      5·
      25 days ago

      I’ve dealt with this situation, full on hoarder/slob lazy bastard. If it’s personal and can be washed/disinfected then keep, can’t be washed then good bye to it.

      Photos, heirlooms, objet d’art, personal collections, documents.

      • Catfish@aussie.zone
        6·
        25 days ago

        Er, an emerging one who hasn’t quite got to the legal limit? Deciding the solution to the rats stealing the dog food is to put out an extra bowl rather than dealing with the rats?

          • just_kitten@aussie.zone
            2·
            25 days ago

            There’s definitely scales of hoarding behaviour where it’s considered pathological beyond a certain point. The Clutter Image Rating Scale is one such scale used in Australia (PDF link). Most people don’t become problem hoarders overnight.

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
    4·
    25 days ago

    Still stuffy and gross. Worked up a sweat just loading the dishwasher and taking the garbage to the chute! I’m working today though for the first time this week at least.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    25 days ago

    Just retested. Still positive. Like TinyBreak, the line showed up before the liquid got to the top of the window.
    Not surprised, as I’m still definitely symptomatic and the cats are being very cuddly. I just wish Sammi wouldn’t kick litter all over…

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
    3·
    25 days ago

    Couriers Please is a garbage organization. I get a message saying I wasn’t home. I was literally staring out the window waiting…

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      25 days ago

      They do the opposite for me. No matter how many check boxes I tick or notes I make saying to get a signature and not to leave things, they don’t even fucking knock. They throw it sideways at my front door, snap a photo, and walk off.

      Also funny you bring this up, because I ordered a heater at the end of last month from Kmart, and they’re still saying they haven’t received it. I message them and they’re like “sorry we haven’t received it, it muster still be with the sender”, I message Kmart and they’re like “well we have it to the courier I don’t know what more you want from us”

      Until now I’ve never actually had couriers please lose a package, or just knock it conveniently off a conveyor belt where it’ll probably sit for 4 years. They’ve always delivered, just poorly

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    3·
    25 days ago

    Went for a drive at lunch. On the way there I saw this… figure. Face totally covered, just sitting by the side of the road. Still there when I came back. Hadnt moved in 10 minutes so I figured I’d call the police non-emergency who directed me to 000. I’m really hoping it was just someone throwing out a sex doll or something. Now I’m worried it was just someone having a mental breakdown or something and I’ve made it worse by getting police/ambulance involved.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
        2·
        25 days ago

        yeah I hope so. Or at least the cops have a laugh at the sex doll being thrown away. Without seeing a face its impossible to know.