Melbourne

Woo Hoo!!!! Bot progress.

A few more tweaks before I can do the daily thread reliably, but the main hurdle has been overcome. It's alive!

So update to the eye patch saga - my bf came to pick me up for dinner last night wearing a pirate hat. Love his sense of humour. I then wore the pirate hat to work this morning, just to really lean into this. It's been a great laugh, thankfully my eye is already feeling much better and the hat is now just a decoration on my desk.

So today I got a pay rise and am celebrating with ginger beer for grown ups while I wait for the grocery delivery. Am feeling very grateful, fortunate and appreciated.

Reading through my second full draft of my thesis. And you know what? Sometimes, sometimes I can be really smart.

I also won $500 presenting my research yesterday, which was great. Promptly had to spent $200 of it on petrol and two (2) make up products, which was not so great.

Was hearing stories of people 'queuing for 10 hours' for Taylor Swift tickets only to realise they meant somehow queuing online for that time? You know *back in my day * I camped outside the ticketek office overnight to get Nine Inch Nails concert tickets - ah how times change!

Just wanted to report in and say my #2's are finally back to normal.

Been almost 3 weeks. You have no idea how happy that makes me (and 4kgs lighter).

I think someone should go over to reddit dt and recruit more members for the fun dt (here). Someone sober. Really sell it them.

You might think you've had struggles in your life. And I'm sure you have. But they're nothing compared to the agonies of a spoilt cat who only gets fed three times a day and isn't getting attention right at this minute.

PeelerSheila you have inspired me tonight. I was tempted to skip my planned workout and do a quick dodgy dinner, but thought to myself "if PeelerSheila can peel 80kg of potatoes, and manage to keep to an exercise routine, I can manage one dinner and a few sets of weights". And I did, healthy dinner made & heavy things lifted repeatedly. 💪

So caught the bouquet throwing at the wedding I went to and I'd like to talk strategy.

https://imgur.com/np8wWJU

If the ceiling is low your best bet is being up the front.

Doodles in the sun - now time for some lunch

Let's talk about cutlery. I have my favourites. Some of them were lost during the Great Lockdown. Some have gone AWOL in the abyss which is the teenager's bedroom. Some come staggering home wary from whatever horrors they've been a part of. Always to a warm welcome and a very hot bath.

I got told "You're weird. Nobody counts their knives and forks". I said "You're wrong because Nana does".

Fat cat update. A spot has been found and she's doing the Thriller dance in her sleep.

Wow, I think I've finally established some kind of regular routine to life. What a fucking year it's been. Looking forward to enjoying the regularness of a new life I worked pretty hard to set up, sober and female. My adhd seems to have settled down a lot now I've cut back on caffiene, no booze and better levels of oestrogen in my bloodstream.

I do aa, play with my cats, make food, do a little exercise and waste time on the internet. I need to start looking for work, but I have very few usable skills which don't pertain the the music industry. My sister's eap extends to immediate family and they do career counselling so I'm calling them on Monday. Jobs victoria also, and then try and get another look into doing one of these carer trainesships. I don't want to have to become a cleaner or dishpig so someone who can identify my strengths would be excellent.

At least I've been active work wise while I've been on leave with all the volunteering. Meh, 15 years of two nights a week for a good wage and now I'll be back to full time to get close to that again. I don't think it will be a bad thing though, all that free time just led me to substance abuse time and again. Being trans has been such a great opportunity for complete re-invention and enabled me to look after and love myself properly for the first time in my life, so I'm gonna be ok. thx for reading, and thanks everyone for following my journey both here and before on reddit. I've felt such wonderful things and made a couple of new friends from the people who've replied and engaged. It even seems like my downvoters have disappeared.

My anxiety is stabbing me with a rough stick straight up the rectum lately. I hit up some CBD oil in the hopes it'll calm my heart down. I really hate this feeling though - trying to grab thoughts is like trying to catch a particular drop of water in a raging river.

I'm about to try something which some people might consider.. unnatural. I'm going to make 2 minute noodles, 2 packs except one pack is chicken, the other beef.

They'll call me crazy. They'll say I'm unhinged. They'll say ol' Bull has finally gone too far. This is science at its most extreme and only the bold are etched into the annals of history.

UPDATE: it made both flavours worse for doing it. It wasn't bad but either flavour alone would be better. Science.

After spending most of the day today and the other day patiently watching a number of devices refresh every 10 seconds, my niece managed to get 4 tickets. You could say she is a little fucking excited.

Dinner tonight was a bit yummy, and contained no potatoes.

potato free dinner

Salmon with carrot, beans and asparagus, with balsamic dried cherry tomatoes, garlic and chipotle

Got my coffee brewed, emails answered, tunes blasting, gonna be a good day.

I didn't feel the quake. But I just want to chuck a hissy fit about it being two years in a row that EOFY has coincided with pay day (or the day after). Pay was supposed to be yesterday, I still haven't been paid and this has been my skintest fortnight. Grrrr. I know they've processed payroll but are the banks/accounting systems that overloaded that payments could be delayed this much?

E: oh well, I have enough to get me a coffee and pie when I get to Up North.

Errrrrrk. Just got home. Time to defrost some frozen food and pour me a glass of wine. Then sleep like the dead. See you peeps tomorrow.

Was that an earthquake?

Get over to the reddit dt and start upvoting MeanElevator. He's done good.

Around 36 hours until our Reddit apps stop working.

Filming at Mount Macedon this morning so hopefully it's not going to rain and ruin it all. At least it will be a cruisy 1 hour autopilot drive which I look forward

I'm making buffalo wings today (I can't find the link but it'll be from recipetin eats) they'll be paired nicely with beer, music and cricket for afters.

The beers are cold. Got the cricket and footy on the split screen (yet to start). Disco lights. Lunatics are dancing. Air Supply on the jukebox. The dog's letting off some rippers. Just like a real life local pub.

Had a crack at my own Vietnamese Com tonight. Not bad with the coles sweet soy sauce!

Slammed it out to Shep (and a bit) and back via Yea, always a shitfight within 90 minutes of Melbourne (shout out to the insane P plate van that kept a 30cm distance from every car up to Kilmore). Tripped on site and bruised my left thigh, thankfully it's not too bad. Constantly on edge with pay not coming through, thank fuck it did. Harassed by boss about something so I had to stop via the office.

I'm finally home. I'm pooped. I've gotta drive to Point Cook on Sunday so I'm not even going to LOOK at my car tomorrow. That's enough driving for a while. Ow my leg.

First thoughts this morning:

1. There was an earthquake?
2. There's a place here called Rawson?

Homegirl got 12 tabs open on three devices for Taylor tix. Does that even work like that?

Day 5 of workout. I did it, and it felt a little hard but I got through. There were more tummy/core exercises in this one so that's probably why. I hate exercising in my house because there's no room to really spread out for things like reverse snow angels.