Melbourne

Thought someone had died at their desk at work today.

Found them unresponsive slumped over their desk and had to call ambos.

Worked out okay in the end but jeebus what a day!!!

Never a dull moment at this job

My boss just tried to talk to me about The Ashes and I just stared at him completely uncomprehending of what any of his words meant. "howaboutthatfourthtest", he said as he passed my desk, with absolutely NO CONTEXT. Cue me being like what test? Are we testing something? Are we testing ME?

Happy birthday to me 😌 Very excited to be thirty flirty and thriving 💘

working on weaponising my ASD contrariness and defining my anxiety as being a stupid screeching monkey. Note that I am not stupid, the anxiety is a literal panicking monkey pulling on my hair and trying to make me do stupid things. Yes bitch. I am othering you. Because I do not like others trying to make me do shit (panic) that makes no sense because they're idiots who want herd validation for their idiocy.

see how this works.

Ugh. Mr Peeler has yet another speeding fine. I pay his rego, insurance, give him petrol money each week so he can at least pick up the kids from school, I paid his last (how many!) fines because he didn't even ring up to arrange instalments.. I just can't even. I get that he's dyslexic etc. But fucking hell! I'm not paying this one, fuck it. I'm working hard and trying to save so we can have things and he's just pissing around. The other day he was late picking up the kids because he just "popped in" to a mate's place in the afternoon and "had a whiskey," then found himself stuck in traffic. Wtf is he even doing drinking before picking up the kids?! I'm fucking relying on this fuck!

Just getting it out of me before I get home or it'll come out in an angry rush which will in turn make him angry, defensive or both, and the kids will be right there exposed to it all. Thanks for listening.

I have bravely survived the outside

Okay so I'm thinking I might wear my purple cardigan with black pants to my interview tomorrow. That cardigan has been super lucky with making a good impression on people, fingercrossed it comes through for me again!

However, today it's black leggings, brown shorts, and brown t-shirt (with jacket and beanie, of course), and let me tell you I'm feeling MIGHTY CUTE ✨️💖

/endoffirstworldthoughts /broughttoyoubyStudChud

Edit: the wind the wind! Changed from shorts to jeans* over my leggings. Function over form, woman!

*imstillatotalhottiesoitsokay

Have been in WA this week getting training for the new role. Everyone has been really friendly and welcoming which has been great! I miss fluffybutt :( One more day and I'm back.

Thank you everyone for the birthday love yesterday 🥰 Ended up feeling a bit down because I had an awful day at work, and on top of that I didn't hear from any of my friends (which I'm not taking personally, but I was already in a bit of a mood lol). Husband took me to a nice Argentinian place in Black Rock for dinner and we finished with some cake at home in our PJs, so all in all it ended up being a pretty good birthday.

TIL of the 4th Earl of Sandwich (via this thread). This excerpt from his Wikipedia page sounds like someone Aussies will be familiar with:

Sandwich retired in 1782. Despite holding a number of important posts during his career, Sandwich's incompetence and corruption were legendary, inspiring the saying: "Seldom has any man held so many offices and accomplished so little."

Hi ScoMo!

Going to both of Lizzos concerts were the perfect end to a what has been a fucking hard year, they encapsulated every bit of happiness, heartbreak, pain, learning, and growth I've had through this time and reminded me of how much I love her and myself.

People don't appreciate the process of chips.

They're hard work and when you order them you're like 'they're just chips'. But they're not. just.. chips. It's a process.

Completely forgot I'm supposed to be cooking for 5 tonight and not 1 heh.

shiat.

Emergency cashew chicken for the main. Fucking saved by 5 week old potatoes for chips (double fried none of this fandangled microwave business) for the entree.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa

I am cold.

Man, what a shocking set of events in Auckland. How awful. Thinking of our Kiwi neighbours today.

fuck

i genuinely love the relationship that (I think) Australia and NZ have with each other. Sure, there's competitiveness, but when push comes to shove it takes a back seat to how close we are (geographically and socially). I loved watching the Ferns win tonight, and I epecially loved the moment between the Aboriginal and Maori elders before the Matildas match jist now.

Some random thoughts.

I know that it's natural, and there's possibly a reason to it, psychologically speaking... but can I just say, fuck anticipatory grief. I know it's not its fault, but holy fuck it sucks to hurt so much before the actual event. And more so when it affects your loved ones so much.

We are in the cinema about to see Oppenheimer. I’m very nervous. I have spent the entire day translating the account of a doctor who spent the days following the bomb treating the victims so I am in a very biased mindset, I know. But god I hope this is done well. A group of colleagues and people I put out a private and public plea to Nolan and Atlas entertainment to include epilogue text in the film and acknowledge the plight of the hibakusha and the downwinders and the Marshallese and all the other global hibakusha. They were ignored. Urgh Urgh Urgh. I’m trying to not be pessimistic.

Now bleeding at multiple points thanks to feline idiot descending from top of bookshelf without warning

lol my parents suggested we go see Penn & Teller in Vegas.. "tickets are only $76, that's not bad" (USD remember)

then you realise this is ticketmaster and also it's America where the prices are never the prices

$76 x 3 = $228? Nope.. $76 x 3 = $339.85

If there is a Order Processing Fee (why is there even one?) then what in the HELL is a Service Fee? And wtf is a Facilities Charge and why would that not be included in the ticket price? Then naturally + tax because America is dumb.

So yeah we're not spending $500 AUD on 3 Penn & Teller tickets.

Edit: I found another website selling them for $71 each and less of the nonsense fees and it came to $382.53 AUD total for 3 tickets instead of $500. Ticketmaster costs $117 AUD more just for being Ticketmaster. Turns out we're all soured on the idea now anyway so we're still not buying them. I've already seen them last time I went in 2012 anyway.

Currently at Oppenheimer with MissGod. Then when that’s over, she walks next door to see Barbie with MrsGod.

I'm prepping for night shift and boy howdy was I dead to the world today, the cat managed to open my door and crawl into bed I never even stirred.

My personal victory today at Woolworths.

Discounted pasta and Potato salad

Too much?

It's getting a bit windy outside. The morning dog walk might be a bit wild.

Good morning sleepy bums. Time to rise and shine! ☀️

I made GORP 🫠

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ALT TEXT: Various nuts, sultana,M&M, breakfast cereal combined in bowl.

Do you know what's good value for money? Coles vanilla cream wafers for 80c a pack. Do you know why I'm tell yous this? Because I really like them and I don't ever want to see them discontinued. So next time grab a few packs. You'll be doing me a favour.

Vanilla cream wafers

omg, the weather map. It's blue skies now but with a nasty rain band on it's way 😬

Is it okay to have dinner now

My goodness that was a cold walk with the doggo. Listened to a podcast on the Rubik's Cube. It was invented in Hungary behind the Iron Curtain (maybe '82 I think?). A guy in America had invented a 2x2 version 2 years earlier. No way they could have met or seen each other's work. Worked in exactly the same way. They just came up with it at the same time. Really interesting.

Man I was so scared and angry at myself if I got a keloid around my nose piercing. Especially since it's been almost a year since I've had it and no major stuff up.

Did the salt water saline solution yesterday and today but in what I won't describe because it's gross enough, might've just been a pimple or something. Which I'm thankful for, but I guess good news.

Put a band-aid over my nose and it seems to have gone down. Yay for me!

I couldn't have picked better weather for chips, cheese and gravy night.

kidcalhoon2 is sick again, so I'm WFH today. She just asked a question about space so we had a look at some hubble/webb images - little mind was blown, as mine is everytime. Also, how did I not know about ESASky - zoom out on this cluster to see in perspective..... 😮

Good morning everyone! Day 25 of exercises and day 9 of tummy exercises completed. Also still off the alcohol. Foot is hurting a bit this morning, luckily I've got a sit down job for much of today. I probably aggravated it yesterday when I crawled under our big freestanding pizza oven whilst cleaning it and squatted heaps while cleaning and polishing the lower parts of the cooling racks and surrounding equipment. It's a grotty job but one I like doing because it's so satisfying at the end when it's so shiny you need sunglasses to look at it!

Don't get blown away people, it's wimdy out there!