Melbourne

Contract signed, deposit paid. Mad Kermit arms flailing!!!!

Anniversary this week. 26 years with useful_modern_godess. Ooof.

EDIT: thank you DT peeps 🥂

Mickey is so tolerant. He was incessantly scratching one of his ears, as if something was in there. So I told him "I'm going to grab my phone for the torch, and I'll have a look puss".

He trotted to the tiles in the kitchen and flopped on his side so his problem ear was facing up. I was able to have a look, and noticed one of his body hairs was stuck in there. He let me gently tweeze it out and he's been so happy since.

He is so fucking smart.

Not sure exactly what I'm doing today but I know it involves a huge batch of mushroom sauce and some pretty big lasagnas. So 🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙 hey there's no emoji for lasagna! Why haven't I realised this before?

If you live on floor 4 of an apartment building in the city and you're currently cooking up something lemony/spicy/smoky/meaty, please invite me over for dinner. The smell entering the elevator when the doors opened on your floor was ambrosial.

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

we're at the point today where we've got the doors open but both of us working from home with cats free ranging and mingling under supervision please don't make us regret this please don't make us regret this it's been six weeks I want my house back

Have spoken to more people today. They're bailing. The director has set an all hands meeting for Tuesday, where she will no doubt tell everyone she's leaving.

Morale is non existent at the moment. Regardless of negotiations, im here till I move house. Then I'm out.

Unless the interview i have Monday comes through. Then it's worth living in the middle of nowhere for another 6 months.

Tonight's beach adventure:

spoiler

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Spoke to some more people at work today. They're all interviewing for other places.

Far out.

Maybe this will play in my favour. We'll see.

Thanks for all the well wishes yesterday with the doggo. He had surgery yesterday, and the vet said it went well. 💛💛

Just paid $200 so I can take a four hour test to say I have the literacy and numeracy skills to be a teacher. They threw in an "online convenience fee" too. First time I've ever seen that one 🙂🥲

Then I need to do some hunting for some placement clothes that actually fit.

I've been sitting down all of 4 minutes and already my resolve for no coffee is being tested.

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 tried tofu for the first time today. Honestly, I'm a pretty big fan. I didn't try it in anything fancy, just a small fried rice. I wasn't sure I was like it, but tbh I don't think I would've noticed anything wrong if they told me it was a chicken fried rice

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 :/

I am done for the day, sadly later than I'd hoped as I did not pick up the pace much in the afternoon. Now I must battle the tennis crowds to get out of here. So hungry. Might have a pizza tomorrow as a treat

E: that's gonna be a will have pizza tomorrow as a treat. Esp if it's another long day like today - but hotter. Even though my pants are definitely tighter

sky pretty

What up

I'm putting this under a NSFW, as it may be triggering for some of us. Concerns a situation that I've become aware of at work. I'm not sure I have all the details either. But there's a moral dilemma here that I would welcome some feedback on.

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.

HEY ! HO ! LETS FUCKIN GO !

super tired and have migraine, think I will have a lie down

ta da, tried on an old pair of jeans and they fit again 🙂 now to get into even smaller jeans and pants , maybe even some blouses that are way too tight

Helllooooo.

Took melatonin last night. Woke up with a headache and drowsiness. Read some papers and it turns out the optimal dosage is 0.3 mcg according to some. I probably ended up taking 1.5mg. Ya live and ya learn.

bankaust appears to have shat out o joyyyyy

Phrase you might not have heard in real life:

“Walking around money”

I love this phrase. Similar to “pocket money“