Melbourne

Went home sick, suspected gastro, end me please.

Kind of jarring flipping between all the moving stuff and work and now uni but I'll adjust. Leaning a bit heavily on feel good food for now and treating myself to a muffin and coffee etc. Not going to save much money to the end of the year but it's better that I have some breathing space...

I also wanted to say, thank you to everyone here for all the supportive messages during this move. I know the posts might’ve gotten a bit tedious and self involved but it meant a lot to be able to vent and move on. I definitely feel more emotionally and mentally equipped

I forget about the mountain of work waiting for me after time off :(

Very short week though which is nice :)

It’s apparently going to be a heatwave for the next three days so I might post some cool drink recipes in Food Australia

I'm not going to give her any more catnip for a while 👀

Edit: it's been around 5 hours and she's still sort of high lol. She seems to be having fun though!

There are days, as a tertiary-qualified 26-year-veteran of the IT industry, where I absolutely despise not just computers but anything that runs on electricity.

Today is one of those days.

If anyone needs me, I'll be in my shack in the woods far away from any and all technology, screaming.

Well... I said I'd just do a couple of boxes but 4 hours of hyper focus later I've done about six boxes and five bags and cleared out much more space in the living room. Can actually watch TV now!

If I do up the bookshelf on the weekend I could be done with the entire living room area! Need to also do up the bedframe asap, bloody thing is so heavy and cumbersome. I'm definitely getting rid of it (donating/tip) once I move out of here

Turning out pretty well so far

Coworker just reminded me that I'm off tomorrow (fortnightly day off).

I smashed through my work in anticipation of an easy day tomorrow. Easy day just became a day of leisure.

Yay me!!

Working and dealing with people....BOOOOOOOOO!

Argh! I'm not awake is not an excuse for peeing on the floor, yet again. Bloody sit down.

There were cats being territorial in my yard last night so I sent security out there twice to break up the biffin' or the rootin' whatever. He tears out the house rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Interview went OK I think. It's been ages since I've interviewed. We'll see how it plays out 🤞🏾

The shoebox is surprisingly still popular lol

Thought I'd leave my West-facing bedroom window cracked open so it wouldn't be full of stale hot air during the day - bad idea. Will be kept open overnight then closed firmly shut with blinds all the way down tomorrow morning.

Super grateful for the food I bought, wished I'd grabbed a bit more. It's like a gift from heaven, being fed by someone else's efforts 🥰

First order of the evening: bossa nova music on, and time to unpack the important kitchen boxes so I have my surfaces available again. Then sit down and enjoy dinner with the week's episode of Shrinked on the lappy. Feeling good because despite feeling brain dead for most of the day at uni, I managed to get my brain to do something useful at the end.

Hiya

Meeting with executive leadership later this morning to talk about why a client has sought a 3rd party project provider.

Hoo fucking Ray lol

Rant: TVs without buttons are stupid. If you mislay or break the remote it has zero functionality. Grrr.

Plants have been acquired for next week's gardening bee. Now I need to do a rough plan of what goes where. I also got some mulch, but still need to get some fertiliser once I work out what type I want.

They are all native plants that are supposed to be ok with dry and full sun and I managed to keep them in the $10-$13 range , plus a few tubestock for $3.75.

Edit: They are all native plants except for a couple which were in the native plant section but Google tells me are actually from the Mediterranean.

Meh, morning. I have been royally itchy AF these past couple of days. Now my right eye feels a bit swollen/tender.

Allergies. The gift that keeps on giving. 😑

I went to drop a box of stuff off to the new place today, and checked the letterbox. Fuck me it must've been empty for a while, there were easily about 75 letters/junkmail/magnet things crammed in there. I grabbed them out and had a quick flick through them, and it seems that was a bad idea. There were two dead snails living on the mail, having eaten through half of it, and tiny jumping things. Fucking hope they aren't bed bugs or lice or something. Never doing that again. Next time it's all going directly into the bin

I did go and have the most delicious Szechuan chicken curry I think I've ever had though. Too spicy for me, so I got a container to bring it back in. Quite reasonable prices though, I can see myself being lazy and getting curry for tea every night. Only a 10 min walk from the new place

I'm considering the logistics of a city bike more again. I was thinking of buying a cheap old bike off marketplace to ride between the station and work, but I couldn't figure out where to keep it locked up most of the week. I might be able to do it now if I can figure out that city spot now

It's not Friday. This is not ideal.

One of my least favourite things that Americans do is ask why characters are speaking with a British accent, in a game made by a non-American developer based in a country that does not have English as the first language.

They did it with Wukong and now they're doing it with STALKER. Why do we let the yanks run the world, again?

Decided to take tomorrow off since I have 190 sick days and in combination of feeling crappy I’m not going to put up with people’s horrible attitude and shit.

I also went by Aldi, got some frankfurts, chips and a couple of bottles of wine and a meat lovers pizza to help me get through the weekend.

Bring on the early weekend fuckers!

Coffee coffee coffee

God, that sovereign midwives article in the ABC really did a number on me. I usually don't get bothered reading any things but I had to stop. I think it's because one of my boys was chilling in breach position for most of the pregnancy

-yawn-

i should probably get up

Edit: I’m up

Bleh, some people are just so unpleasant to talk to. Rude, arrogant, bossy and at times inadvertently mean.

Normally don't need to talk to them but had to today and it was unpleasant as predicted, thankfully I'm not the only one who has the same opinion but dealing with someone like that really sours the day.

I think it's just nudged me further into actually taking a sick day tomorrow.

Far out..

Day off, feeling shitty but also bored AF. Brains not working well enough to play games. Got some other suggestions to keep me occupied?