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?
The thing about England is, they always try to walk it in!
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.
Maybe Mr Peeler will learn when he has to cycle everywhere.
None of my business of course, but the relationship seems a bit unbalanced? You seem to be covering his expenses (and his arse)...what does he contribute, is he working? I used to be the major breadwinner in our 24 year relationship, but things took a turn about 10 years ago and, because of things, now I'm not. There's not a day when I don't think about that, and I do everything I can to be a worthy contributor to the household even if not financially.
I have bravely survived the outside
We hear the beast howling outside our door, tell us tales of the sharpness of its claw and the red of its eyes
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I have been cold forever. It is probable my nipples are off the moh scale
Man, what a shocking set of events in Auckland. How awful. Thinking of our Kiwi neighbours today.
Thing is I'm not actually shocked anymore. Yet another shooting. Honestly I think inside I have switched off a bit, perhaps as a coping mechanism from the constant stream of bad news emanating from the media.
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.
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.
Now bleeding at multiple points thanks to feline idiot descending from top of bookshelf without warning
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.
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.
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.
Currently at Oppenheimer with MissGod. Then when that’s over, she walks next door to see Barbie with MrsGod.
My personal victory today at Woolworths.
Discounted pasta and Potato salad
Too much?
TW - poem, tad nsfw, journalling, apologies.
I spend idle thoughts on the painful past,
There's no one here to beat me up.
So I do it myself, mimicking their voices,
Laughing, I should have made better choices.
I used to daydream the feeling of being free,
I'm here now, so, why's it so hard to just Be?
Family stole away my childhood dreams,
I guess, trauma doesn't fall far from our ancestries.
Used and abused, I was their homegrown sin,
Some scars are deeper than the depth of my skin.
I was set up to fail right from the beginning,
So I didn't see that my escape was not an ending.
My saviour was not the white knight I needed;
But a wolf in sheep's wool, friend's warnings unheedee.
A decade of draining my bank dry by day,
At night, he took a different kind of pay.
I'm safe, so why does the fear stay the same?
They're wrong, so why is it myself that I blame?
Suffered and now I feel totally insane,
Scared to call it by it's terrible name.
I'm not stupid, just insecure and naive,
A good sleep I beg to give me some reprieve.
Avoiding but calling it biding my time,
I'll be fine just a bit of a therapy rhyme.
It's getting a bit windy outside. The morning dog walk might be a bit wild.
I made GORP 🫠
spoiler
ALT TEXT: Various nuts, sultana,M&M, breakfast cereal combined in bowl.
Good morning sleepy bums. Time to rise and shine! ☀️
Not a chance. Rising may happen, but shining is someone else's problem.
I’m up, but I’m leaving the shining to someone else
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.
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..... 😮
omg, the weather map. It's blue skies now but with a nasty rain band on it's way 😬
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!
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.
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