Sooooo I got the call. It's sounds promising. I won't go into too much details because it's early stages but it is a potential writing collaboration idea I had and they are receptive to the idea.
They're gonna talk to their people and see if and what can be done and we can work from there. I'm hopeful. It's going to be so cool if it comes to fruition.
Get paid, think "hmm that's a bit much", check psyslip, per hour is off. Have had payroll biff it up before, so send a quick heads up "oi you typoed and overpaid" boss says "oh yeah forgot to tell you, your hourly rate went up. So did your super".
On top of the tax cuts that's an extra $200 in my pocket. Marvellous
I've been informed that it's Vegas' 10th birthday on Saturday! I need to figure out what to get him. Think I'll hit up the butcher but I might have to wait until Saturday to do it so it doesn't spoil the surprise, because he'll smell it. I'll swing by the big pet shop too and see if I can find something he might like.
Edit: Oh it's also my nanna's 98th birthday tomorrow. I don't think she wants anything from the butcher.
Did a pantry clean out today. Chucked out so much expired bottled goods, powders, etc... Found a packet of Stroopwafels, out of date by 7 years.. Yes, I ate them ,and yes they were great.
I am not an op shop person generally, but I felt like going to one today. Reddit told me the best area for op shopping is Elsternwick with 5 op shops and 1 bric a brac shop. Unfortunately none had what I really wanted - old train books, mags, newsletters, etc (the Vinnie's in Bacchus did and I bought heaps of them a few months ago), but I bought a few things anyway. I go to op shops mainly for finding cool stuff I can't really find anywhere else, not so much the prices. I got a coin bank type thing that looks like a royal mail post box from the UK (at least I think it's meant to be a money tin), a few books, and a set of 3 photos of paris on canvas frame things for 12 bucks.
Gonna lose my shit at work. We asked for X to be done. Its a security time sensitive thing. Sent off a spreadsheet containing all the details they needed. They report back X+Y was done. When i asked why they did Y i was told that it was on the spreadsheet.
Why did you put Y on the the spreadsheet I hear you ask? I didn't! When I asked them to produce the working spreadsheet they sent us something totally different that cherry-picked data from the original but missed critical details.
If I were HALF as incompetent as this team I'd be out on my ass, but yet somehow this team is a protected species and can continue to fuckup till the cows come home.
overthinking overreacting
Torn between feeling good and feeling bad. I feel good because next week I start my course and I'm changing my future.
But I feel bad because I feel so far behind. I don't even have $40k of super. I don't have a career. I've burnt my brains out trying and failing at call centre work for 10 years. I still feel like I'm failing. That I have already failed and I'm waiting for it to catch up with me. I can go back and blame the first 28 years of my life but I'm also autonomous. Why haven't I got a high powered career making big money and have a nice nest egg. I've never had enough to even travel to Bali FFS. Idk. I just feel the weight of the past more than ever and I. scared of failing again. It's gonna take me three years to get where I want to be, qualification wise, and I'll be 35. And I have to then find work and start paying my HECS off. I don't feel like I'm ever gonna have a home or feel financially secure.
Went out, came back unable to unlock my laptop despite typing in correct password. Noticed that some of my keystrokes are not registering.
Looks like one of the cats managed to strategically position themselves on the keyboard just right to activate the filter keys prompt and the "yes" button on it.
Sky pretty
Was in Brunswick today for a dentist appointment. Ended up wandering around afterwards. God I miss it. Maybe I'll head back in 6 months if all goes well with this job.
It makes coming back to where I live so depressing. My mantra for the last 6 months has been "all in good time".
And so it will be once again hopefully.In other news, I found an amazing new Middle Eastern instruments library that will expand my compositions significantly. It doesn't have as many functions as my other one, but it has a wider variety of instruments and they sound good right out of the box.
Taking today off was a good call. I was woken up a bit after 1am from tooth pain. Hopefully it starts settling down a bit more today.
Morning! Woke up because too hot. Now window is open but the night is so noisy. Good time to catch up on deleting emails.
I had a shit sleep last night, but this time it was entirely my fault. I was waiting for a game to download, so left my computer on but hopped into bed at about 11:00ish where it was warm (♥️♥️♥️ electric blanket). Next thing I know it's 7am. I left my lights on and had my computer screen lighting up the rest of my room but apparently tired me didn't care. Also had my electric blanket on the highest mode which is really hot, but good while awake so I'm really thirsty now
Also, I called the PAL again last night to amend my police report to also include the Xbox theft and provide the serial number of the MacBook which I managed to track down through iCloud. Unfortunately they said once the report's been made, they can't amend or update it and I have to call the local branch handling the case. I guess I'll do that today
I was just getting all the meat off yesterday's roast chicken for lunch sandwiches and Bill Cat was begging real bad, but I know him, he won't eat it but he does like stealing chicken from plates!!
So I put some pieces on a plate and put that on the small table in the living room then walked away. He is stealing it right now and I can hear him eating.
Stolen chicken is yummier. 🤭
I packed clothing away when winter came around and now I can’t find my other pairs of trackies. Moral of the story, don’t tidy up or you’ll lose your pants
Been sick all this week. I should have taken more than one day off but there are meetings I want to get out of the way. My sense of taste hasn't been the best so I think I'll do a COVID test and if it comes back positive I'll take the rest of the week off
God this shitty weather just sucks the life right out of you, and it doesn't look to be going away anytime soon.
Sky angry. Reminds me of old paintings of ships at sea during a storm.
I got an email from the regional manager in response to the complaint that I lodged last night. He wants to organise to meet with me tomorrow. Unfortunately I'm not available on Fridays so I'll have to meet him next week.
I'm not super keen about meeting people in person or discussing things over the phone, to be honest. Sort of get that way when people do that and promise the world and then don't follow through with it. Plus I feel like I am able to better articulate my points through email, but I seem to be in a very exclusive club with that.
I'll probably have to meet him in person, but I'll try and organise for someone else who's on my side to come so I have another advocate and a witness in case he tries to get out of whatever promises he makes. But then again I did that when I had a meeting with the former acting regional manager and he still refused to uphold his end of the agreement, so maybe it's all pointless
My pikag was going from tullamarine to Essendon fields, but then ended up in Dandenong South. That always seems to happen. Every time I've seen a parcel go from melb airport to Essendon airport, it always goes via Dandenong South for.... Reasons
I also did an in transit redirection thingo to a random post office in the south east just for the fun of it, and tulla seems to be their only facility that applies the labels. So it will probably look something like Melbourne airport > dandy south > Essendon fields > Melbourne airport > held for redirection > Dandenong South > Essendon fields > cranbourne
Had a stuffy nose last night, couldn’t sleep so put an extra pillow to keep head a bit elevated, and then woke up with sore neck. The irony of treatment for one ailment causing another.
Fuck this mortgage person! If you want all new paperwork when July arrives just fucking say wait. Doing everything twice is Brain garbage.
That wind is looooud
got a giant to do list, thinking I can spread it out over two days
Fried egg sandwich eaten.
Now for coffee!
Went out to a mutual friend's birthday, and holy shit, she knows so many people. She met people from uni, from dating apps that she befriended, from high school, through friends, it was actually crazy. I spoke to so many people.
My friend's partner told me that he keeps feeling like he needs to ask me if I'm okay? Not sure why, maybe I just give off that shy and quiet vibe? I wanna know how I can stop that. Also apparently I smile all the time - nervous defense mechanism.
Back from opshop with some finds. I'm listening to another Peter and Dudley LP and found an old book, Seven Years in New Guinea about some weird guy who was sent to PNG in the 50s-60s to do ethnographic studies for the Aust, gov. They didn't eat him, as is evidenced by the fact he wrote this book.
teaching ravens to fly underwater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhS35f015SQ
I always feel warmer after dinner. ( spaghetti and meat tomato sauce )
Not long home from work - the yiayia isn't happy with the admin side of the agency either.
That's up to half of the clients or their next of kin who are pissed off with them.
Well, well.
Just listened to the last chapter, Grey Havens, of LOTR, 😭 every single time
“I shall defeat a bajillion ninjas with a box of pop tarts”
