AHHHHHH. I’ve been CITED. Someone referenced MY academic paper in THEIR academic paper. It’s my first citation. I’m so excited I’m gonna pee myself 🚽🥳🚽🥳🚽🥳

I just have to actually celebrate myself, my friend let slip at dinner that my ex has a girlfriend and has for a while and I'm not sad or hurt about it at all. Which is HUGE. I'm so fucking proud of the progress I've made emotionally.

Second last day of stress leave today, think I'll remain in my jammies and lounge about doing whatever takes my fancy.

If we’re doing pups, here is Procrastidog the other day. He’s the sweetest little boy and is so chuffed to have me home again. He crawled onto my yoga mat this morning while I was doing a forward fold so he could be closer to my hands to pat him 😍

Someone was complaining on reddit about this thread being in some sort of competition with them to have more comments. So this puts us one more ahead of them. As you were, I'll get my coat.

Also my void has a leak and eyes.

Image is of a big black kitten with a white patch on their stomach.

Time to go to bed, and hopefully my headache will be gone in the morning.

I have run the bot through final instructions and insisted that all post titles are pre-approved, so hopefully there will not be a repeat of the 2nd Wednesday fiasco. It's on probation until it shows it understands how the day names work properly. Fingers crossed for a third successful post.

I told speedkitty (my cats evil personality) not to sprint up and down the hallway when people are still asleep. He looked at me blankly for a second as if to say “cat go brrrrrt!” Before dropping into the slipstream and tearing down the hall with sonic booms following in his wake. Asshole.

Can we outlaw the song Achy Breaky Heart as background music in the supermarket? Or anywhere really.

Okay so I've ranted before on the old DT about my boss and the blowups we've had earlier in the year. My annual review is supposed to be in 10 days. I've been thinking of how to approach it and negotiate pay vs hours etc and provide feedback on where things are going and what my role still is in the firm.

But this is the fire under my arse I definitely will use to get me motivated to move the fuck on. No more ms. nice_kitten. Next opportunity I get, I'm gone. I don't care if it's well before the end of the year and it's crunch time. I'm going where I'll be appreciated - either in terms of support, genuine progression, or money.

“Breath. Don’t take it personally. Don’t get upset cause it really ain’t your problem if they have impossible standards. So long as your happy with the work you do and you’ve communicated the challenges” repeat a few times till you feel like like throwing your laptop out the window and walking out.

So we have landscapers here at the moment to help us finish the backyard and lay some turf. They have the radio on, playing B52's Love Shack at a decent volume, and one of them is singing his own lyrics. "Gonna need a chiro cos my backs fuuuuucked". "Every body moving, everybody grooving to the Buffalo, buffalo baby!".

I am trying so hard not to audibly laugh. I think they forget I'm inside and can hear them.

The sun is so beautiful today. Feels like I haven’t seen it in 2 weeks.

How it does cheer up a day when it’s out and makes everything so much brighter and cheerful!

I hope everyone enjoys the day!

I love citrus season. The imperial mandarins right now are so good. Hopefully some good blood oranges will come in in the next couple months too.

Jumping on the doggo bandwagon

Rocky hard at work

Today's the last day of the week for me! Off to gippy tomorrow, but unfortunately someone decided to turn the trains into buses, so I'll be one of the 6 train carriages of people getting on a single bus half the size of one carriage for 4 and a half hours on Sunday, but I'm just hoping it's a bit warmer out that way than it is here!

Toby looking guilty after he ripped his bunny's eyes off.

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Small dog in a large dog bed with his very loved pink toy bunny.

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One defaced pre-loved pink toy bunny.

Been so meh these last couple of weeks. The same again today after work. It’s like… I don’t know… I just want to do nothing.

But… pulled my finger out for self-care Thursdays which has been hit and miss, but a good hit today. Still loving on the Aesop scrub I mentioned I while back. I’ve cleansed, scrubbed and put a face mask on. (I fully look like such a weirdo, my face is kind of bank robber material right now… 🤣)

So while I’m sitting here basting my face, a curious q (as I do), has anyone read any books or have any book recommendations for people who a) suck at meditation b) really struggle with positive affirmations and the like… (like find it [the language] a bit ick?). You know, for an eternal pessimist with a broken anterior cingulate.

Quick! Go outside and get as much vitamin d as you can, while it lasts

Noooooo I dropped my fried egg on the floor as I was moving it onto my bread.

:(

My last egg too.

Tooth extraction done and went smoothly, aside from needing an extra dose of anaesthetic (but that's generally the case).
Home safely and have crawled into bed for a rest, if not a nap.

Woke up at 6am to pee and then decided I better stay awake, cause if I sleep and fall into a deeper sleep then waking up at 7 will be a nightmare. Contemplating a 20 minute Power Nap though.

Today's to do list:

Wrangle cat into carrier for vet visit ✅️
Roast coffee beans
Do some study for my gardening course
Do some actual gardening while the weather is ok
Second walkies

Day 12 of exercise program. A rest day today. Not for work however, I've got lasagna sheets to make and plenty of 'em! At some point I've got to launder some towels (ugh, where do they all bloody well come from?).

Have a great day everyone!

beautiful sunrise, volcano pink and purples, I can see stars, the air is cool, a slight breeze blows, it smells good and fresh , the birds are singing 😊 ( currawong, "I will eat your babies" , thrush, "fuck off and die you baby killer" )

Anyone find that retailers are not picking up phones anymore (goes straight to voicemail or hangs up)? These are large retailers like kmart too. I feel like this started happening after the pandemic. Or is it just me?

@bot001 Swapping the cold Melbourne today for some warmth up north. Call me a traitor. But I'll be back. Can't handle the heat for too long and gotta cool my head eventually.

Stretching on the balcony in the sun after the dog walk this morning was so nice. I then had a cuddle with the dog & watched the clouds wash over the sky. So meditative.

Dinner tonight is large bowl of fried rice with egg and Chinese sausage aka lap cheong and sweet and sour soup. Yum

It’s been a really long time because I’ve just been too busy and stressed. But I’m getting the urge to bake.

I’m now taking suggestions. I’m thinking a bread of some kind and a shareable dessert bake for visiting a friends house for dinner on Sunday 🤔

Feeling very bleh today. A bit headachy and unable to focus, so study did not get done. I made some changes to the bot so the days should be right, then tried to do a test post and it wouldn't work. Just about had a nervous breakdown before I realised I was not using 24 hour time. I'm going to leave off looking at the pinning issue until my brain can function properly.

I'll leave it up for now, unlike Reddit the title can be changed.

Time for bed.

Next Life Already - Ball Park Music

i wasn't pissy about my inspection today but now it's ludicrously nice outside and i would have been able to jump a v-line out to the country somewhere.

e: forgot, in day-making news i went to the market this morning and a little staffy came running out of a random shop to plant itself on my feet and demand pats and scratches. it got SO many

I'm too tired to journal properly tonight. It's been a busy day but I managed to squeeze in a 6k walk and a quick trip to the op shop which landed me a gorgeous full length blue paisly skirt.

Seagoon's Movie review.

Ready Player One. "This is the story of an ordinary little boy named Wade Watts. He was not faster, or stronger or more clever than other children. His family was not rich or powerful or well connected. In fact they barely had enough to eat. Yet Wade Watts was the luckiest boy in the entire world. He just didn't know it yet. "

I made spicy airfryer chickpea snacks for tonight's cricket match.

Spicy chickpea recipe

They are quite good. I just need to play around with the spices.

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Image of spicy airfried chickpeas in a bowl.

Wow it just got crazy dark here in Richmond with some ominous clouds! Makes me wanna sleeeeeep