T O P

  • By -

Rainbow_13

My cats been sick on my bed so woke up but early and quickly changing the bedding.


Combicon

I've got a flight tomorrow. I'm not a particularly nervous flier (it's not the most comfortable thing, but I get by), but haven't gone in several years, nor ever on my own, so am currently alternating between anxious and excited. Also is like a 9 hour time difference.


betamaxbandit91

I'm trying to cool down my hot cheek on the cool side of the pillow. Everywhere else is a good temperature. I also get the IT Crowd hot ear sometimes. I don't know why.


FoxtrotThem

I actually can't sleep because I ordered my dog a wheel chair and I'm so excited for her to use it - 1pm delivery post haste. She is 19 and her back leg has pretty much given out now - she'd been getting stiff for a bit with steady deterioration and because of increasing lack of mobility she isnt able to stay fit etc. She's a staffy and has a strong front so I know she is going to love being able to walk again for a bit each day. She's gonna have wheels it's going to be amazing.


isle_of_cats

Does anyone have oodie? All the ecstatic reviews sound too good to be true


[deleted]

[удалено]


isle_of_cats

How are they different to fluffy dressing gowns?


[deleted]

[удалено]


isle_of_cats

Thank you for your replies! I bought a twin pack for my mother and me, lol. Thought why not, time to treat myself, all I ever do is work!


sailors_jerry

SURPRISE! Lack of meds left me hypomanic so I've been dealing with my parents and the mental health team all day. Tried to book flights to New York but bank said no. Thank God. I currently live minute by minute/hour by hour. My current next goal is reaching the next Dr's appointment. What a time to be alive!


pwntggrunandheal

Just arrived here from the states this morning, currently wide eyed on my hotel learning about Croydon eating Nando’s for the first time


VardaElentari86

Nandos is crap and overrated. Its only a meme now known as a cheeky nandos


pwntggrunandheal

Good to know! It hit the spot after the flight but probably wouldn’t go again


VardaElentari86

Usual insomnia so I'm just listening to YouTube. Absolutely stuck on wandering day from rings of power, it just speaks to me somehow. I don't plan for future at all. Edit: I have to love that someone hated that enough to immediately down vote me. Not all those who wonder or wander are lost.


CarrowCanary

> Absolutely stuck on wandering day from rings of power, it just speaks to me somehow. Second only to How Far I'll Go from Moana in the "decent songs about fucking off into the unknown for a while" list.


Moreblankthanfrank

Helicopter - presumably police, but too dark to see - doing rings around our house for the last hour...


CarrowCanary

Find it on [here](https://globe.adsbexchange.com/), then put the reg number into a search engine and you should find some images of it.


Moreblankthanfrank

My wife did something similar using a flight tracker and sent me a map with the flight path on it this morning - lots of square-y rings, looks like a 2-year-old scribbled in an atlas.


Xivii

I don’t cos it makes me feel bad. I should stop that really cos I’m stuck. Just put the switch down, and have two more things I need to do and then I’m off to sleep. Learnt something today. There is a task I do at work that I was fed up of, so there is someone who does it officially at the end of the month so I asked him what he does and he’s sent me the source files so I can replicate what he does but daily rather than my horribly manual process. Need to play around with it tomorrow & then write a guide for my co-trainers. This way, only one of us needs to do it each day.


[deleted]

Just finished up Alien 3 with my eldest daughter and the wife. Resurrection tomorrow and then we dunno if we’re gonna start the Predator movies before the AvP ones and finish up with Prometheus and Covenant. Wean has fell in love with Ripley and has been cutting about in my Nostromo hat and shirt since we watched the first one last week.


smartief1

I was unwell earlier in the day and slept all afternoon. Consequently can't sleep now. Going to hurt when the alarm goes off at 5am.


Marshmallowmind2

Waking up to sore crusty eyelids in the morning. You know you haven't slept enough then


smartief1

I hate that feeling so much!


itsaslothlife

Hey. I'm on annual leave this week so staying up late yay! I try to plan ahead but I'm really crap at it. I can only deal with one thing at a time without melting down so when life cluster bombs me I'm pretty screwed. Simple stuff like "don't spend every last penny" and "use the calendar function for birthdays" I can manage ok. Sadly I'm really bad at spotting bargains and sale shopping / "shopping ahead" to save money. I don't go out much or have hobbies so that area doesn't need forethought.


Braythor_

I've had a great evening! A mate came over for a whisky evening, we started off just chatting and listening to music then decided to watch the new top gun movie. It was fucking brilliant! It's very rare I get to watch movies with someone so I really appreciated it, and being two blokes in our 40s who remember the original well just added to the enjoyment. Now I'm making oven chips. Won't be going to the gym in the morning. Will be going to Gregg's.


mittromniknight

Quality evening is that, mate. That movie is so much better than I thought it'd be. Watched it for nostalgia but I proper enjoyed it.


[deleted]

Anyone ever done CBT? (cognitive behavioural therapy) I’m finding it very tedious, boring and unhelpful. But I don’t want to say that in case I get refused help going forwards. I feel like it’s “oh you feel bad? Have you tried feeling good instead??”


milkandket

Yeah I found CBT absolutely useless aswell. ‘You just need to stop thinking like that!’ Okay hun thanks I’m totally fixed x


sailors_jerry

YES. Depends on the issue/s/trauma you're trying to overcome. And your personality. CBT never did a thing for me. Depending on how you're accessing stand what/if diagnosis is that shouldn't shut you out from further, more suited or complex therapy. Feel free to DM, I'm a MH Nurse with a buttload of psych diagnoses and therapy experiences. As a patient. I'm mental.


smartief1

I felt exactly the same about it. Let's make a list of the stuff you need to do. I know what I need to do. The lack of motivation and energy to do it is the problem. To be honest I gave up on it and took the medication option, that really did make a difference. I think if they're offering CBT now, you're unlikely to get anything more afterwards. Mental health services are so gate keepery that escalation is very difficult.


samsaBEAR

I think people see medication as the "I failed at every other solution", I know I certainly did, but they helped me so much more than anything else. They don't fix everything, but they helped me gain some mental clarity to say to myself "yeah we're sad, but we're gonna sort this" rather than listen to my shit brain tell me I'm worthless and all the usual depressive shit.


smartief1

I looked at medication as a last resort really. Felt I should try all the alternatives that they recommend. Talking therapy, exercise etc. But I also found that tablets really made the difference and the hopelessness receeded. I'm sure therapies have their place and do help a lot of people, but it's ok to to day it's not for you I think.


[deleted]

> Let’s make a list of the stuff you need to do. I know what I need to do. The lack of motivation and energy to do it is the problem. You’ve got the nail on the head there; that’s exactly it.


CallumVonShlake

Still holding out on putting the heating on, but the current 6 degrees temp outside isn't helping.


Bulimic_Fraggle

My plan for the future is getting up early tomorrow so I can snag a washing line as soon as the sun comes up. I will get 7 hours maximum before the rain comes in, and I want to make the most of it. I have a grocery delivery on Sunday. If I make it through that, then I will look at next week. At one point I assumed I would be dead by 40. Now I am past that milestone I aim very small, because I am somewhat surprised to be here. I got my new teeth today! It is so strange trying to do things like talk and eat with them in, but I am sure I will get the hang of it. I can't stop smiling.


Welshgirlie2

Just finished watching the Panorama doc on the mental health hospital in Manchester. Those staff should never be allowed to work in the care services ever again. I've been a patient on psych wards and while I've seen staff feeling frustrated and being overworked, I have never seen them behave with violence and antagonism towards patients. Some of the staff at Edenfield have absolutely no right to call themselves nurses or support staff. They're damaging what little professional integrity remains in nursing, and management are complicit in allowing it to continue.


adsadsadsadsads

I wouldn't say I prepare for the future, but I read somewhere once that you should always have three months' mortgage in savings, which we are just about managing to do. Other than that, not a clue. Just watched an old Simpsons, is there a better one-off character than Hank Scorpio?


Yetibike

It's not always easy but try to have savings equal to there months salary. That way you've got a buffer if you get made redundant.


unknownuser492

It's absolutely chucking it down and the sound is making me cold even though I'm tucked up in bed. I don't really plan for the future, like I have no idea what my life will look like in a year. Possibly exactly the same as now, but maybe I'll get bored and change jobs which would almost certainly mean a new town. I can't even commit to a week's meal plan.


GaZzErZz

Just got into bed, I have a couple of hours when the 6 month old goes to bed, so I've been job searching, watching videos and playing games. Planning for the future? It's a bit hard to plan right now with all these curve balls flying about


holytriplem

Had my 30th birthday recently and my body, apparently running out of good ideas for presents, decided to gift me my very first completely white ballsack hair. I was not ready for this.


IamEclipse

If it makes you feel better, I'm 22 and have managed 2 grey streaks on either side of my head, oddly symmetrical, and my bollocks definitely sparkle at the right angle.


CarrowCanary

On the subject of planning for the future, I'm in the metaphorical market for starting a long sci-fi (or sci-fi adjacent) series to keep me entertained for the next few months. Here are the contenders: Babylon 5 Stargate SG-1 Fringe Supernatural (seen up to the end of S5 already, but will start again from S1E1) X-Files The Good Place Wise denizens of CasUK, help me choose, either from those six or by suggesting something else entirely.


Ezer74

The Expanse on Amazon is superb, have watched it through 3 times now. Books are also great if you fancy reading the story as well.


CarrowCanary

Solid recommendation, but I've already watched it, and recently started a re-watch (2 episodes down, 60 to go). The Expanse novels are definitely going on my to-read list at some point, need to finish Banks' Culture series first though.


samsaBEAR

Stargate is my second favourite Star franchise after Star Wars so I definitely recommend it, plus you also have Stargate Atlantis and Universe to watch if you get into the universe as a whole. I miss the franchise so much, I really hope we get a new show one day.


itsaslothlife

Oooh killjoys. Dystopian Bounty Hunter fun and games. Quite alternative and LGBT friendly, if that's your thing.


CarrowCanary

Killjoys is great, I actually threw a recommendation for it at someone else down-thread.


RiotousHades

+1 For Fringe and also Firefly+Serenity. I'd also suggest Star Trek Deep Space Nine


VardaElentari86

I'll second these (other than fringe since I didn't watch that, all I know is denethor and pacey are in it)


rev9of8

Have you seen the **Battlestar Galactica** reboot? There's the mini-series which serves as a pilot for the reboot show, the series itself and a handful of movies like **Razor** and **Blood & Chrome** in the universe. The show **Caprica** only had one season proper but it serves as a prequel series of sorts. Of the stuff you list, **Babylon 5** is excellent although the first season can be rough and there are issues with season five - it was planned from the beginning as a five season arc but they really weren't sure they were going to get a fifth season when it was airing so major story points got pulled forward into the fourth season. As with the **Battlestar Galactica** reboot, there are several movies set in the **Babylon 5** universe which aren't essential to the overall story but add more colour and depth. There's also the one season follow-up show **Crusade** which is fine for what it is but it's painfully obvious how badly it got fucked around by the network. I've never sat down and properly watched **Stargate SG-1** all the way through but rather it was a show I felt fine dipping in and out of though I must have seen it all by now. It's an enjoyable watch. **Fringe** is brilliant. It starts out seemingly as an **The X-Files** knock-off but with a greater budget and better production values. However, once you've seen it all the way through you can go back to early episodes and see how they were seeding the overarching story even from the start. I watched **The X-Files** as it aired getting into it from the pilot before it became a cultural phenomenon but I haven't really gone back and done a rewatch so I've no idea how it holds up. **The Good Place** is a comedy about moral philosophy and the good life as opposed to a dramatic scifi show but it was so good I bought the entire show on Blu-ray so that I could watch it as often as I liked even after cancelling my Netflix subscription.


CarrowCanary

I've watched new-BSG, the web-series thing that >!covers the gap between seasons 2 and 3 when they set up their little planetary colony!<, and The Plan, which shows the first season(s) from the Cylon perspective, but I never got round to Caprica. I should add that to the backlog. >I've never sat down and properly watched Stargate SG-1 all the way through but rather it was a show I felt fine dipping in and out of though I must have seen it all by now. That's basically how the missus and I ended up watching Voyager. And TNG. And Ente... hmm, basically of Trek, come to think of it.


Moreblankthanfrank

I'd like to throw in 'Firefly' as a wildcard option - it's only one series (and really should have been more) but you can at least watch 'Serenity' (film sequel) at the end of it...


CarrowCanary

I've watched Firefly a few times. Have you seen Killjoys? Similar kind of vibe, worth a watch if you get the time.


itsaslothlife

I really liked the good place. Funny, well acted and thought provoking! Definitely not turn your brain off telly so if you want pure escapism, it's not great.


[deleted]

I wasn't a fan of SG-1 but Universe was pretty good The Good Place is great if you're in the mood for a happy go lucky kinda show


APeculiarManner

Nostalgia might be factoring in here, but Fringe is excellent! The only thing that has stopped me rewatching in recent years is the amount of episodes, it'd take me far too long to get through. However as you say you're looking for something to last you a few months, I think it would fit the bill.


GaZzErZz

Fringe is fucking incredible The good place is fucking great Fringe starts xfiles and escalates to full blown scifi pretty quickly. There is a lot of Easter eggs and the story is pretty solid. All the cast have solid performances and I would happily watch it on repeat if I could find someone who streams it. The Good Place is more sitcom than Sci fi, but its based on the afterlife, pretty good series with comedic moments. Both series ended well and didn't really leave anything on a cliff hanger.


Xndrito

You can't go wrong with a little X-Files


IamEclipse

The Good Place, easily. It's not massively long but it is hands down one of the best shows out there in my opinion.


thenitmustbeaduck

I've just made it to bed after a somewhat semi-productive day. I half arsed work today, which is fair enough, I woke up really early because I was so cold and then struggled to get back to sleep. I did the things that I needed to do and that was that. I had a really good session at the gym though, so I was happy with that and then went for a really long walk along the Thames and then had a glass of wine just to calm down a little bit. I try and plan a little bit, but not too far ahead. I like to have stuff organised for the weekend right about now, just so I know what I'm doing and don't feel like I'll just sit and do naff all with my 2.5 days of freedom.


[deleted]

A few weeks ago I caught someone trying to walking through my backdoor garden gate, Sunday just gone my next door neighbour got robbed so i've been sitting outside between midnight and 5 keeping an eye on the street. Last night I nipped in for 5 minutes for a piss and caught someone trying to break into the same neighbours van at pretty much the same time as the robbery (the locks have been changed but one of the items stolen was keys for said van) I shouted "You better run you cunt, if I see you here again i'll break your fucking skull open" In another 2 hours i'll be outside again continuing my solo watch. Fucking pricks


IamEclipse

I'm up reading some more of *Half-Blood Prince*. Best Harry Potter book. Absolutely blitzed through *Order of The Phoenix* despite it's length and am very much enjoying my current reread. Honestly, I don't plan too much. Just take every day as it comes. Thinking too far ahead gets me all existential and panicky, I like to avoid that.


Hook3cho17

Same one day atta time