Melbourne

Relationship officially over.

He didn't even want to talk it out. Just said we are done over text and blocked me everywhere.

This is going to be a time of growth for me. Only up from here!

I'm sick to death of being treated like a potential thief at self service.

I hate pulling the race card, but it's noticeable how different I'm treated. And it's gotten much worse since the cost of living issues.

They will come and literally stand behind me watching me scan everything. Im not dressed in rags or anything. Even when I'm on business work clothes.

Some of those checkout people seem to have gone crazy with the modicum of perceived power they have over people.

/Rant

After months of snap send solve for a mattress dumped in the park, someone spray painted "Handjob Club. Thursdays 9pm. Kids Welcome." on it and stood it up next to the scout hall entrance. Mattress gone the next day.

Very few photos are more humbling then the passport photo as someone who doesn't ware makeup. Being forced to remove your glasses when they're something I use to detract from the ugly also doesn't help🫠

I don’t understand why people still approach you when wearing headphones…

Why?

So you guys remember that FOI request to AmbVic I was considering last month? Well I decided to go ahead and make it. They seemed a little, um, unsure about what I was asking for. They misspelt my name, deemed my request invalid because they thought I was requesting information about an ambulance attendance so they wanted ID, a phone number, and more information. Then 12 minutes later they sent me another email stating they realised I was not requesting that information (but nothing else) then an hour later sent a third email apologising stating they realised I was not requesting information about an ambulance attendance, I didn't need to provide ID, and I did not need to provide a phone number.

Well, they finally processed it and provided a list of all the branch locations and their addresses today. But they sent it as an encrypted excel workbook thing that they didn't provide me permission to open...

Also, I don't want to rag on them too much, but their emails have had so many typos and grammatical errors I found it kind of concerning.

Ted has been attacking Bill so I held Ted for 20 seconds just to show him he's not so tough. He did not like it.

Well bugger. I think I’ve eaten some mouldy food today.

Two mini cupcakes in the morning and just now a bunch of stale biscuits that I didn’t look too hard at.

Pray for me.

Temperamental car is in for a service (a waaaay overdue service, so I don’t really blame her for being temperamental!) and I’m at my desk just wishing I could have worked from home today. Was awake at stupid hours having imaginary arguments with work people.

Issa gorgeous morning though!

So I was at supermarket the other day, low key jamming out to Coles Radio as you do in your 30s apparently. Then they play a new taylor swift song. And something inside me just... snaps. Previously I was like "Ok, talented artist but getting a bit over the hype". Now I think i actually hate her. Like I cant even do some shopping without having to hear her shit? The song sucked. It was all mopey and shit and felt like 0 effort, but its somehow still getting air time? I hate even posting this cause I feel like its just giving more air time, but I need to vent my frustrations. cant we all (myself included) just move on!?

Got home late today and just cannot be buggered moving all my plants around in the cold and dark. I know my landlord lives ages away so I'll just do it tomorrow. I'll definitely be leaving work at 4pm tomoz. Gotta head in early, so I'm leaving on time...

This week's off to a much better start, less overwhelming, more under control. Much more even-keeled having regular hot non caffienated drinks through the day. Meantime I'm so immensely grateful I made all that food last week. Ripper lunch today and tomorrow, and more goodness for dinner. Gonna do a bittergourd and tvp stir fry tomorrow night I reckon.

Think I'll have a go at trying to sleep without the phone tonight. I have a library book on ADHD I've been wanting to go through...

Countdown to the next public holiday…. And to winter solstice.

Arise, arise, riders of Rohan!
Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered!
A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now, ride to Gondor!

RIP Bernard Hill, Théoden King

The Booktopia website is an absolute nightmare to use when you run a couple of privacy extensions. I am trying to browse the website to give you my money

And I have destroyed my body clock, again. Ackcheew!

Does it feel unusually warm tonight? Feel like I'm boiling.

Meanwhile why are we still filling out paper customs declarations cards in Australia? Surely it's the kind of thing that could be made available online (where it could be translated in multiple languages).

I know there's data security to consider but they are probably already storing all sorts of data about departures and arrivals.

Just gave myself a nasty cut on my thumb opening a can... How do you know if you need stitches 🤔 quite a lot of blood

Beautiful Melbourne day out there. 🙂

Day 15 chilli ferment pH test

Thing is not going to kill me this is a good colour. Using a soil pH test kit (of all things) immediately headed towards acidic. That was a good ferment.

Going to blend it up tm with some vinegar to punch it down a bit more

Kiddo had a great weekend. We caught up with the folks from Mrs's mums group and it was great to see all his little mates. They are all within similar age as each other, but they were all so different. A few were walking, a few had a couple more words, a few were a lot bigger. Tinyest has probably 50% of his teeth and a full head of hair so he probably looked the most "non baby" of the bunch. He's currently trying to say "Dog" but has only gotten as far as "Duh" which is so damn cute.