After jumping into the puffer jacket thread yesterday with a bold claim you need neither a big jacket nor a puffer....I succumbed today and am now one of the great Melbourne puffy community.
My fav little local store was having a sale so I got a proper down one for half price so just a bit over a hundred. I have to admit I am very toasty warm
Already only 6.4 degrees. Would not be surprised if it gets to 0 tonight.
I think I'll head to the border for the night so I can smash out another 6-8 hours of my audiobook (Pet Sematary read by Dexter's Michael C. Hall). I've been meaning to check out Yackandandah for a while so I can go by there as a detour on my way home tomorrow.
Plans: sorted. Well.. nearly. I need to see if I can find a room up there.
Edit: sorted.
Going to throw something controversial out there. It bothers me that virtually all advertisments feature a mixed races couple. It bothers me how virtually all media nowadays is so ultra sensitive to be politically correct that any white person plus white person combo is 'blacklisted' (lol).
I have no issue with mixed race relationships at all. But I do have an issue that all media seems to have started to portray the 'typical' relationship as a mixed race one.
Tax return lodged!! Of course my old employer's income statement isn't tax ready, they have ALWAYS been so slow at paying super, lodging tax details, etc. Meanwhile my current employers are on the ball - one is a huge org, the other a tiny firm, and they managed to get shit sorted. I didn't bother waiting for the old guys, the sums correlate to my bank deposits. Hopefully it's all in order, anticipating a decent chunk that I can put towards getting my car's head unit replaced with one that does android auto.
There's also small silver lining to my reduced employment over the last FY, should be getting $511 back as a tax offset. Overall, a huge relief vs my shockingly low tax refund last year of $250 or so
Done my shopping for the week. Now to clean the bird cage
For some reason I have Handel's The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in my head this morning and I just imagine... cats. Specifically, a glossy-maned cat of regal bearing sauntering into a room on an overhead ledge and looking down on us unworthy humans. I am a bit cat-starved. I have much more freedom to adopt a cat compared to past years, but wondering if it's a good time when I might need to cut back on work for a year to finish my studies...
edit: I shall ponder about this some more while I knuckle down and start doing my taxes. Did not save a copy of all my payslips from my old job which was dumb. Zero interest in contacting them again, so I will just work backwards to figure out how many hours of work (and therefore WFH I did).
Also didn't realise I could claim airfare and accom for my work-related conference last year as a deduction as well. Score!
Head north = Find sunshine
throws chicken tenders in airfryer then slaps in a sammich slathered with cheese and kewpie mayo i did not spend 6 hours removing render by hand to cook my own dinner, absolute bullshit this is!
The meat is finally in.....
Hampton red rooster is an absolute fucking shitshow. I ordered three items and they couldn't get a single one right. Satisfryer was missing chicken, pineapple and drink (and chips were wrong size), popcorn chicken entirely absent (about which my cats are pissed ) and flayva was a bbq. Which i did not order.
Straight to chargeback ya cunts.
Someone smashed the glass to the advertising billboard thingy at the bus stop near the shops. Kind of surprised the rest of the glass isn't smashed too, they just went for the bit they kept the ads in. Surprisingly they didn't even steal the ad (just a poster Blu tacked to the inside by the looks of it), just smashed the glass. Missed opportunity imo
Also, this is the same stop I got abused at a few months ago, and one of like 3 places I've ever been truly scared for my safety while I've been out. Nice to see it hasn't changed one bit (I try to avoid it now)
Edit: just got back to my hotel and there 3 cop cars + a crime scene services van parked out front. About 6 cops got in the lift with me, but they got off the floor below mine. Can't eavesdrop, but they're opposite my room pretty much (there's an internal courtyard), so I can spy. In any case, looks like somebody's having a bad dsy
The sewing of the patchwork continues
I feel guilty about spending money on self-care sort of things. My group training gym is kind of exxy, but from that, I have started to cook for myself and found a supportive community. I am likely starting piano lessons soon and I also wanna buy a guitar for fun? Then on top of wanting to travel and only having a small window to do so because of study, and everything necessary, it's like should I just not do the music lessons, even though they will give me a sense of achievement and something else to do other than doomscroll all day?
There's the saving for a house part as well. I'm very lucky to still live with my parents.
We both winners today @Duenan@aussie.zone 🙀
Ferociously hungry out of nowhere. Already had some jackfruit and cauliflower and two frozen fish fillets and I might end up having two more fillets. I kinda wish I had some chips in the freezer for days like today but it's too cozy at home to bother going to the shops. Watching the first episode of The Gentlemen (tv series) but not really getting into it. Too much Guy Ritchie posturing vibes, lead actor is cardboard, and which idiot goes to a deal without a heavy? Eh, I'll try one more episode
I have fallen into the trap of doing in-depth research into the car that I would buy in the near-ish future.
I've learned a lot, but keep finding reasons to skip ro the next generation up, and more reasons to go further from there.
Movie Review. Tora Tora Tora. Dramatisation of the lead up and attack of Pearl Harbour. Equal time given to each side. Both sides had admirable me, brave men. And even tho the US made mistakes they still won in the end.
Pearl Harbour, this did not suck. I like how this movie is about Pearl Harbour and all the American people who lived and worked there.
