Melbourne

Proud of myself! I've been craving fish & chips, but it's getting to the stage where it's costing over $100 for the five of us! And sometimes it's not that great. So after work I bought some fish from the local market. I bought school shark because it seemed like a good price and gave me sufficient quantity to have a couple of attempts if I messed up, but everyone loved it! It was a huge success! I've always been a bit scared to do it because I'm not 100% on what to do and was afraid I'd screw it up. So I looked up wikiHow, lol. My chips were tasty, the fish was delish and it cost me $20, which is a massive saving. This is a big thing for me!

Just got hacked at work. Can't do emails, ordinary work or access the accounts program. Up to date on everything else. They were pretending to be Windows Defender.
Twiddle thumbs afternoon coming up. Ho hum.

Started a new antidepressant today. Haven't been on one before so I'm curious to see what happens.

I do hope it does something. I'd hate to go on the medication merry go round to find something effective.

Update on the new meds: I actually feel great. It's called Wellbutrin and apparently is used to quit smoking (bonus!) and for weight loss also (2nd bonus). I just feel kind of motivated? And have a lot more energy.

Early days yet, so we'll see.

Coffee was so good I'm pretty sure I made my O face. I definitely moaned. 10/10 has saved my day.

I don't normally post things like this. To the old lady in that big mf ute thing, who took 7 goes and 2 different parking spots to reverse park and could barely see over the steering wheel jfc. Go park down the back.

Am bored at work, so here is dad joke for Monday - A Grandfather tells his Grandson, “When I was a boy, you could go into a store with coins in your pocket and come out with a loaf of bread, lunch and a bottle of milk.” The Grandson replies, “You can’t do that anymore Grandpa, there’s too many cameras now“.

Erp. Woke up at 11am. Gonna carpe whatever is left of the diem

Gah. Was meant to catch up with a friend for coffee and lo and behold my car wouldn’t start :(

Have called out roadside assistance to have a look, I suspect it’s the battery.

I hope it’s only flat and doesn’t need replacing.

Pray for me.

Annual performance bullshit completed. They still have no idea

What a lovely start to the week. One of my bosses messages on Teams group chat wishing me a happy birthday for yesterday. 20 minutes later, she sends me an email saying I won't be eligible for the bonus that all other staff will be getting for the team exceeding Q2 performance for the most bullshit reasons (the real reason being, they asked me to leave and don't care to pay me anything extra, even though I contributed like everyone else). Together with some wank about how she wanted to tell me in person but the time of year makes that difficult. Spineless individual.

Planning to resign within the next month and it cannot come quick enough. Thinking another sickie between now and then too.

Had fairly small habs last year but this year we're already seeing 'normal' sized ones which is a relief:

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Looks like a few hundred are on the way.

One of the best times of growing them. the more you look to find them, the more sneaky chillos there are hidden in plain sight.

I am frying onions and my apartment smells so gooooooood. It is making my air purifier very excited though.

Unfortunately Melbcat does have a bacterial UTI. She's been prescribed banana scented antibiotics. Some cats like the taste but I had to chase her through the house to dose her when we got home. She's had her Solensia too which should help slow the arthritis as well as manage pain. The monthly vet bills are gonna be steep...

And just now I found out that this new antibiotic is amoxicillin which she's allergic to. I wish I'd noticed sooner 😬 Sorting it.

Crying on the way to work because I'm tired. Ughhh UGH!

Start of a new week, let's hope I can get off my arse and go job hunting instead of enjoying my break from working.

I bought a couple of individually wrapped meat patties from a butcher yesterday early afternoon and then left them in my handbag until this morning, should I just turf em?

How do I deal with a colleague that I can’t understand? He asked me something, I didn’t understand so asked again . Still didn’t understand. Didn’t know how to approach it -without coming across as insulting or looking stupid. yes he has an accent that makes it hard for me, especially over teams…. Usually not an issue for me but this one is a bit different than the usual

Swapped my pillows out for new ones and now my bed feels all wrong. Usually I'm a two stacker but the new ones are far to fluffy to stack but also not fluffy enough on their own. I fear a night of tossing and turning is afoot.

Risky wrap beach dins..

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Had one doggo come up with a bit of interest but soon left because that was a hawt one.

Twice I've bought those glow in the dark stars and twice they never work. I've never felt so dumb. It surely shouldn't be that hard?

After a great deal of measuring and deliberation I have put through an order to Ikea. There will be many flat things arriving that I will have to turn into not flat things.

It should be a good improvement for my sewing storage area, which has had a mix of random cheap storage solutions including wire cubes that don't really work that well. It's an awkard spot to get things to fit - I think it was originally a wardrobe, which the previous owner tried to turn into a bar, by putting a bench across the middle and putting an arch in the wall at the front to match an arched doorway in the room. Which means there is a really deep cupboard at the bottom which is hard to reach anything in, and the archway on top partially blocks access to shelves. I have bought the deepest drawers I can find to fit in the bottom, plus a couple of narrow trolleys on wheels that can be pulled out to get access. And some wire shelves to go on the top section that are about half the width of the bench.

This is not my circus, not my monkeys,
But there I stand with a red nose,
Coloured hair and wacky clothes,
Juggling emails, calls, managers and techies,

Being a phone monkey is taxing,
No reception, the clients are pissed,
So listen and do my best to assist,
But I'm left wanting, waning and waxing.

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