Melbourne

Hey people, I think you're really cool and thank you for being cool. Like totally aeesome peolle thabkful to be here ahh 💜

Edit: no u

Good news with a sting. I got my new casual role and pay confirmed and it's definitely all in the right direction.

Unfortunately... Work wants the company car back immediately upon ending my ft role. They've been much more flexible with others who have gone casual in the past, and in the meeting he did say he'd give me some lead time so I can make my own arrangements, but... today after heading into the office he was all paggro and sarcastic again so I don't expect any favours.

I was prepared for the eventuality and overall I MUCH prefer letting go my old work than keeping the car on, but seeing it in writing - to happen two weeks from now - has definitely been a shock to the nervous system. Like whoa, I wasn't prepared to say bye so soon and go back to a carless life that fast, especially when I'll still have two weeks of catsitting to do after that.

I'm definitely feeling that big-change-loss-anxiety-fear (and OMG! how will i visit my friends or get bigger groceries etc? I won't be able to go into the office easily any more, no more regional trips unless I use carshare)

But I think it's mixed in with excitement and determination because life is definitely making me start to commit to what I want and get out of that rut. I've lived on far far less and without a car for most of my adult life. Crucially, i never have to worry about being kicked out of this country. So everything is heaps better than before.

It's time to get cracking ......after I indulge in some escapism tonight. Good Omens maybe.

Mr Sulu, set a course for the Friday drinks region. Warp factor 5.

I joined the reddit Melbourne dt because it looked fun. Sometimes I comment sometimes I don't. Then I read comments that are snarky and bitter and I think for a brief moment are you a cunt irl? Anyway love you guys ♥ (I am sober by the way. For the time being. Not afraid to show my feels).

Cheers comrades 🍻

Tonight we're celebrating an excellent report for our kid with food, beer and music 😉

gee thanks bunnings, ya think?

A quick little story. My kid has a big group of friends. One is very needy, very self-centred young lass. Another is a meek young man. Well yesterday he had enough (I don't know if this was in text or in person) but he told her "I can't grow as a person with you in my life" and then ended all contact. I could not stop laughing at this.

For the record a couple of the friends had deaths in the family and the young lass was complaining that nobody was paying any attention to her.

I am doing 3 samosa

They are deep fried.

I am swapping 2 (!) samosa for 1 sanity.

That's a good deal.

This has been a difficult week :(

Nearly at the dreaded 300 comments (with spinny thing and collapsed responses). I'm proud of us.

Working from home today.

This guy wants me to take him out I think.

A tiring but productive day in the garden today. I have a bunch of old concrete channel drain sections so I've used those and some old bricks to make a raised drainage channel across the garden. So now I can empty the buckets of water I use in the potting area onto that and it takes most of the water across to my apricot tree (with a few leaks along the way which will water other plants too).

After doing that, cutting out the climbing rose this morning and a few other bits and pieces I am thoroughly exhausted. I'm going to have a shower, heat some stew to have with mashed potato for dinner and then it will be full on relax time.

Going to spend the night cuddling the cat and playing video games. Being sick isn't too bad with a fluffy friend who's chasing around a moth lol

I'd heard the legends online.. in my hubris I laughed in the face of them and dared to indulge in a hearty meal at US Taco Bell. Wearing cream coloured shorts, I challenged the legends and trusted not one, not two but three farts on my trip back to the hotel.. so I guess you can say I'm into extreme sports. Little did I know they were the horns sounding the announcement of the oncoming storm.

I am now an empty husk of my former self. I have been humbled by the Bell. The legends are true.

Pic of my life before it changed forever:

God today was stressful. Trying to train someone what you know while also doing the same work, like I don't know if it's the people pleaser or ADHD but I pick up things super quickly, so why can't others????

So glad it's Friday tbh. Physio right now and then paying for new glasses tomorrow

Edit: physio is done cost me $55, but the physio i had was cool, very chatty. My usual physio is on maternity leave, so it was weird trying to describe what I needed

I went out with my sister and her friend tonight and the two of them were clearly different people.

When we went separate ways with the friend, I turned to my sister and said,

"You and _____ are so different, how did you become friends?"

She said,

"We have similar morals and we vibe (which I think means connect emotionally and get along well)."

That was the point where I realised I haven't emotionally connected with someone like that in YEARS. Everything has felt so surface level. The last time I felt like that about someone was probably high school (which I'd say wasn't that long ago, being a non-mature aged uni student now).

It's been a very long time since I've felt like someone gets me and I get them, like we're on the same wavelength. It's a sad reality that the people I see the most are not THE people that I "vibe" with. No wonder why I feel so freaking sad all the time - that's definitely a reason.

There's something just excellent about a fresh quality croissant - as-is. No filling.

Confession of the day. When ever I go passed the canned fish aisle lately, I buy something. Today it was smoked mussels and a 90c tin of sardines. I can't help it. I now have a collection.

I'm used to people pointing out that I talk "funny", but a recent acquaintance I let dribble into a budding friendship won't drop it. I have the slightest feeling they are trying to bait me into revealing its all an act when it really isn't. I've politely steered the conversation away everytime but now it's getting uncomfortable and it's making me want to end any sort of thing we had building.

Maybe, I'm just extra tired and shouldn't have gone to lunch with them.

Trump's mugshot is almost zombie like.

Timesheet time!
Now, what on earth have I done this week?
I know what I did Monday, but the rest of the week has been a bit of a blur.

Someone just jogged my memory about what an awesome song "Without You I'm Nothing" by Placebo was. That whole album was (is?) still so so good. Then I remembered they had a version with David Bowie which is even better!

Maybe I should have taken the day off from work today.

Everything is so much harder when you're tired and in pain.

I am in trouble. Today Bill Cat has kangaroo in gravy, a piece of roast chicken, chicken crunchies and kangaroo crunchies and he is yelling at me because he's starving. Also his bathroom isn't perfectly clean and his blanket isn't in his favourite place.

I used to be the opposite - if I were stressed or depressed, I would go ages without eating. Now, though, I feel I have unlocked a new ability or something. I should harness this and enter some kind of eating competition.

Had to bail on catching up with a mate tonight since Im crook, which is a bummer cause hes not in town often. Feel good for doing the right thing, but would have felt better for sinking a couple of drinks! ok well maybe it wouldnt have helped the cold, but the opportunities are few and far between these days.

So here's my recent (as of 1/2 an hour ago) head scratcher.

My brother is getting married in less than a month and I got an email yesterday from the best man (his old roomie) detailing the bucks.

Specifically stating don't let bro know. I just got a call from bro (who isn't supposed to know) saying I have to send a bunch of coin ($400) for the 2 activities that are planned.

No one is telling me any acct #s..

It's just super short notice.

Am I right to scratch my head? Or is that normal?

Is my communication radar so off?

Whats on for the weekend everyone? Tonight will be pretty chill, partner has been sick and ive had a very busy week. Tomorrow morning is yoga and meditation at the buddhist centre and then a lunch/mini golf date. Saturday night will be mead and board games with friends and Sunday will be mead maintenance stuff and some small tasks for our business planning :)

Well it's not covid according to the RAT, but I feel like I've been hit by a truck. Dizzy, muscle ache, exhausted, no appetite. What a waste of a weekend and EOFY team dinner.

digging out greenhouse footings - the slope means that a 200mm high sleeper would be buried until its top is almost flush on one end and pretty much sitting at ground level on the other across a 2m spam. Worth AG piping? The ponders. the internal square the sleepers border is gonna be filled with high drainage material anyway, and the pretty much ground level low area means it can just piss out the bottom....

Maybe someone can start a new thread, a pm addition, part ll, the dt returns, dt 2.0. Just a few names there 👍

Okay so once in a while I reckon we could do with some local content.

What is your favourite suburban Melbourne road to drive down (at legal or typically expected speed limits) and go WHEEEEEE?

I get my kicks from Reynolds Road Templestowe. Up and down and not much traffic for the size of the road... wheeeeeeeeeee

My manager is entertaining me by putting traits of coworkers into Chat GPT and asking it to suggest what dog breed they are. I'm a dachshund - short legs, yappy, loves snacks. I'm okay with that.

It’s time for cat supper but Melbcat won’t let me up

There's only one place I want to go when it's time to have my tank filled...

Just got a discounted sausage roll and a free sauce from my local corner store. Goddamn life is sublime

Stressed spelled backwards is Desserts. How have I never realised this?

I'm soooo tired. I don't even know why anymore, this whole week I've been constantly tired even with enough sleep.

Please give me strength, Ellie Goulding...

Minipeelers just wanted pancakes, so I masked up and made some. That alone was enough to do me in, and I've collapsed back into bed.

The Yarra valley water guys are still working away at the hatch in the yard. They have so far extracted several gigantic bluestone rocks from the hole, I'm not sure how.