Good Morning!

yeah the guy who said life was not meant to be easy is more left than labour is these days.. also got where he ended up in life through an unconstitutional coup and other claim to fame was losing his pants and locking self out of hotel room pissed as a newt on mission to US..

.. Falcon Grazier ... ok that was in How Green was my Cactus radio parody of politics

Malcom Fraser @Appleblossom

Hello @Appleblossom having been nagging a poor customer service rep at Bunnings. Got the information I wanted lol!!! I felt sorry for him having to put up with all my questions. Now got to ring an electrician. Its been a good day for getting relevant info. I hope youve had a good day so far. Glad to hear you are standing up for yourself. Sometimes we feel we may unnecessarily hurt or offend someone by expressing our needs. Its hard striking that balance

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At least you're still able to avoid bloodshed, @Appleblossom. The blood is pooling here. Typical peer pressure and mean girls among the staff. Us against them. They take out their frustrations on the patients. Tempers are rising.

I had a delicious roast pork salad for lunch. And no dishes to be done.

I haven't got a hope of winning this fight even with knockout blows. They have it in for anyone who doesn't take their disgusting behaviour. I try to keep my trap shut but it just keeps responding.

Feel like I could use some encouragement, tbh @Appleblossom

I've been another day in bed and feeling powerless

Hey @Kyle1 you are good at encouraging others. Sometimes personalities are what they are. Would not want to change that about you.

@Former-Member Thats what they get paid for. Bottom line with all those practical things we need to be accurate ... cos getting wrong thing is more than a pain.

@TAB Indeed! lol...Tho did not know all those extra dirty details ... guess .. it comes with him being a man of the land. Been in garden ... hands get dirty. Whats left and whats right ... getting dizzy turning in circles with it all ...

@Historylover Hearing you about the current social scenario. It is where people are at their most vulnerable which can also lead to some getting their most bolshie in defensive reactions. Tricky. My mother was upset that my sister's fiance was met in psych ward. It is tricky. I did not get it at the time, as mostly I was trying to understand the plight of those who are inpatient. I can now understand not wanting a child to mingle only from the psych ward. My son made a few friends from the ward, but only one has lasted the distance and I like him.

Weird synchronicity. I got a birthday invite today on my phone from a lady ... who my ex met in the psych ward and they made a baby ... as some do ... God I met her 40 years ago .. and she is the only one inviting me to a social do. Its all too hard for my poor brain to comprehend. Will need to discuss the invite with son, but probably not cos it is all too too messy now, but it is part of what messed up my marriage and my relationship with daughters, tho not really this lady's fault ... per se. She was too unwell to look after her child ... all the way through ... protective services involved etc ... but she was never really mean. On a depot for a very very long time ... but from upper mid class family ...

Also I cleaned a meat blood spill in my fridge today ... yes avoiding bloodshed has not always been my luck... tho, nothing really that I did or did not do. I was too young to have that much impact, tho my existence must have stressed my parents no matter how hard I tried. Just a sad, so very sad side effect of too many people in psych wards.

@Appleblossom well, mr life was not meant to be easy's govt let vietnamese refugees come to aust . re left and right, doubt any of his nasty successors would have.. everything has slid to the right ok inc house prices and homelessness ... country was way better 40 years ago @Appleblossom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Fraser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Green_was_my_Cactus#:~:text=How%20Green%20Was%20My%20Cactus%20is%20a%20daily%20syndicated%20Australian,ministers%20of%20the%20Australian%20parliament.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis

Hey @BlueBells Jade is a beautiful green stone and green is my favourite colour. kind of, if I let myself have a favourite. At moment I have orange, purple and many shades of pink in my garden, as well as many shades of green.

@Appleblossom, not a bad day here today. Delightful, in fact. A fellow patient brought in a game of Rummy and we had two games which really taxed my brain. Great game!! There are a lot of manoeuvres to learn and she's way sharper than me but it was great. I was going to play cards with a patient tomorrow and innocently asked what they used for money? I changed my mind when he said the real stuff. (I didn't know we were allowed money as I thought all money was locked away).

🤪🥴🤯 The mind boggles even more about the birthday invitation from the mother of your ex-husband's friend/spouse/partner's child who met in a psych ward. Life's full of twists and turns, heh? Will your ex be there, too? Strangeness is becoming normalised, don't you think? Seriously.

I hope you guys had a good weekend and have a good week ahead. I'm beginning to enjoy life. I hope it lasts. @Appleblossom, @BlueBells, @TAB, @Kyle1, @Former-Member,. Have a good one guys. 🤪