Melbourne

Hi everyone. Another refugee from reddit. Glad this place is here :)

Me every weekday: ugh today has been so busy, I can't wait for the weekend when people fuck off and let me live my best life. Play some games, watch some movies, eat some chippys

Me when the weekend hits: lays in bed watching YouTube until it's the week again

One day at a time. Peace of mind feels nice. A walk to the pride centre this morning should be good. I'm getting at least 6 or 7 ks walking every day sometimes quite unintentially so and I'm reaping the rewards. Losing belly fat and tightening the loose skin from loosing a ton of weight of last year. Finally cook my new stew today and do some aa. And of course play with the cats.

I have a new sense of absolute freedom now I'm working on sobriety. I'm glad it's uncool. I've never wanted to be cool or a part of mainstream society and never felt like I was a part of it anyway. Always been queer as fuck and always been alternative. A misfit and a punk but I've lost the anger of punk while retaining the passion to change the world from my own place in it. I also accept that certain things I cannot change but have the courage to change the things I can and act.

My life is completely involved in positive queer spaces, from work to my aa home group to my volunteer work. I feel so much less alienated from them than I used to because I'm not in the queer party scene. It also wasn't my scene. It's restricive, mysoginistic and very much a monoculture. I had an amazing queer family once 20 odd years ago but it was smashed apart by the suicide of one of us and it's when my substance abuse really took hold. I have brain damage from all the partying but getting my much needed oestrogen into my female brain is alleviating some a lot of it.

I always believed in you bot <3

Skipping bootcamp in favour of chilling in my warm bed a while longer before I have to get ready for online TAFE at 9.

Part of me wants a cheeky weekend breakfast but I think I need to have my healthy weekday option instead.

Too much comfort eating behaviour lately that needs to be unwound.

I'm not feeling great about me :((((( I feel unproductive and stupid

I'm cooking hash browns. If I could change the world I would insist that cooking instructions on food products be in a larger print. One step at a time people.

Came home from op shopping and I'm starving, so I had a sausage roll. Will have more later for dinner. They are delish tho I think I made the tomato sauce a little too piquant, 1/4 tsp cayenne in 1.5 litres of sauce is HOT 🔥

Finds today include a beautiful sgraffito vase I'm going to use as vase to keep brushes in. A bunch of little spoons to mix ink with . A big murano style vase ( probably made in Thailand or Turkey ) a heap of LPs, including Hawaiian music of the 1950s , Yehudi Menuhin playing Delibes, and some silver earrings with cute lampworked owls. 👍 was a good day

I took picture of the vase. It was dipped in a dark blue slip glaze, dried, the pattern etched to reveal the white porcelain underneath and then fired

got my tax return and some extra money, so mein liebe and I have rent, bills, cat food, and human food paid for. we have then treated ourselves to a pub meal, some beers and wine, and today a coffee and quiche.

feeling good about it all, things will get better. it's nice to have a little splurge to keep our morale up though heheh

edit: i should have gotten another quiche, damn theyre so good

Oops.. got a call from a Sydney number.. was a guy with a thick Indian accent and the call quality was terrible so all I could make out was "Amazon", so I figured scam call. Then just as I was hanging up I heard a car beep twice through the phone which I also heard outside down on the street at the same time. I'd hung up on the Amazon delivery driver! My buildings' concierge must have been not at his desk so he tried calling me. All sorted now though, I have my 3 x AU to US power adaptors and my new computer chair cushion safe and sound.

I'm getting teary eyed watching Guardians of the Galaxy 3.

Got teary eyed yesterday listening to music.

Is there a male version of menopause I'm not aware of?

Yes hello mister gaiman, i am almost done my good omens rewatch, please commence with followup.

Owwwwwwwwww! Without thinking, I just picked up a cast iron Creuset lid that had come straight from the hot oven. I'm an idiot.

@bot001 Good morning to you who wakes up way too early on a weekend 🌞

Team, I need some advice. My boss dumped on me yesterday that she wants me to fire an employee who has been with the business for 5 years, however she wants me to tell this employee that I made the decision to fire them and to not mention under any circumstances that she has asked for it to be done. I'm really not ok with this as I see it as me being thrown under the bus and being made to look like the bad guy, i think it also shows a complete lack of integrity and also cowardice on the part of my boss.

The employee in question has had some behavioural problems which have existed since he started years ago, but they only seem to an issue for my boss now. I personally don't think that this employee has done anything severe enough to warrant termination and my boss absolutely doesn't want to provide this employee opportunity to improve or correct the behaviour. I'm at a loss as to what to do, because I think if i am honest with this employee and tell them that it was owners decision to fire them, I will most likely be on the chopping block as well when my boss finds out. Everyone at my work is casually employed so I can be dismissed without notice. I've felt for some time that my boss is a covert narcissist or at the very least has a toxic personality and this pretty much sealed the deal for me. I feel like resigning over this but have no savings and will need to try and find another job. I just don't know what to do.

Meals have been prepped for the next couple of days. Now I need to make dinner. Cooking takes up so much time when you have to do it all in one block.

Oh boy. That nap was nice and good though I felt like I slept the day away :(

Also my washing machine is working after some fiddling around.

fingers crosses

While it works I’m not going to mess around with it again.

Fruit toast has been acquired. I accidentally turned the toaster TO THE MAX when cleaning it last time and switched it off just in time so it's a tad burnt but all good.

Love you bot #001. A tribute to you Midnight Blue. I'll call you later 😉

I slept like shit, but have the gym in half an hour. Ugh

Hello I have transferred from the bed to the couch. I'm considering my breakfast options.

Ordered a pumpkin pesto pizza that had a truly over the top amount of cracked black pepper all over it, plus under the pumpkin as well. It wasn’t listed on the ingredients. Pepper gives me a stomach ache, so I spent ages picking off as much as I can before eating it. Tell me if you agree that this is a shitload of pepper:

Description: a slice of pizza with a slice of pumpkin lifted up to reveal a lot of cracked black pepper underneath it.

I don't know if I just have a friendly face or something but I got on the train (with seconds to pass) sit down in a 4x4 that was available but it had someone sitting on the other seat (I can't sit in the 2x2 seats because they're too tight). And my seat mate couldn't stop talking to me.

She was very lovely and spoke about her kids and such, but I just wanted to listen to my podcasts 😔. I'm too nice for my own good 😮‍💨

Hello bot001.

I must have a aurora that says "old ladies speak to me", because at Caulfield this old Vietnamese lady gave me her phone, and I'm guessing her son maybe or someone close to her told me "can you please help her get to Springvale". So I'm like showing her my phone of terrible Google translate Vietnamese trying to help her. Luckily I was going past Springvale so I helped her and she got off. I did my best.

I made toast this morning. Why is that significant? Because I used the last slices of a loaf of bread I bought which never happens, actually finishing an entire loaf. I also only ever buy bread maybe once a year.. not sure why, I like bread. I just don't buy it. Maybe because I never finish it? Not sure.

Anyway, I made toast this morning.

Now I'm looking at Google Maps trying to decide if I feel like going on a road trip/overnighter somewhere. What to dooooo...

So the other day I got a box of tofu from the shop, forgot about it and left it on the counter for about 4 hours before I realised and chucked it back in the fridge. It's okay right...right?

Feels like napping is a viable activity for the rest of the day.

If I time this right I can wake up ready to eat dinner

Hey looks like we're all in bed

I have eaten so much potato this last fortnight…

And yet, I am off to eat potato… again.

Have just indulged in toasted Turkish bread with chilli hummus and kimchi washed down with a moon dog ginger beer. Now to hang up all my washing!

Holy hell I am hungggggover. Drinking three glasses of wine before dinner and eating ice cream after is not a good combo for me as I basically had my head in the toilet all night. World, please go gentle on me today!