Discussion Thread 🔮 Friday 4 April 2025

MissGod has completed the work experience week at the police station and courthouse. None of it super exciting but has made quite a few acquaintances with the local constabulary.

I didn't get the job, but it's okay :) I'll just keep studying and applying.

Got a beer and playing rimworld to chill

Tonight's wave

No one there which I know is a bad idea but it's very calming for some reason.

Miss Meow decided to check if I was awake with a claw to the nose. There was blood.

Knock on wood for meeeeeee

Well, first week is over.

Pretty tired but not in a bad way necessarily. Will be nice to have some time to just relax tonight and not be on a timer.

Have a few errands to run then it's home sweet home.

Don't call Ur super fund today plz. Have mercy

I am now feeding a total of 7 cats.

I don't know how to feel lol

Also, I fucking hate some uber drivers with a passion

Bit rough out there.

So jumping in soon for the sunset swim. I believe this might be the arse end of the weather system / swell that hit the east coast a few days ago. Sometimes goes over that wall but like that not often.

As beach pictures are popular here I thought I should share a photo from my once-in-a-decade trip to the ocean the other day.

Cheers Winners 🍺

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TW pain, periods

Physical pain is taking over my life. I’m spending nearly every day running out the hot water in the shower to the point of mildly scalding myself and stacking paracetamol with ibuprofen just to try and get some relief.

I’m starting to strongly suspect endometriosis or adenomyosis on top of everything else because I’m in agony weeks before my period even starts. Also two of my sisters are diagnosed now

First look at the chilli patch after 2 weeks away:

spoiler

Enough there to start fermenting now :)

Can see a fair bit of leaf curl but no edema. Overwatered but not the worst, will dial that down. Habs a bit shit this year but the thais pulled through alright.

My biggest client decided to call for a Friday late afternoon pow-wow which has properly fried my brain. Ready to check out mentally for the weekend. This week felt like a lot for some reason, but not as shitty as last week so we're on the up.

I imagine there won't be many people in the office today.

Guys that's handing over created a confluence page with all the info I need. Turns out we pretty much have 1 week to handover.

The CEO and my line manager came and apologised to me about the situation and said he basically blind sided them with his resignation as he was supposed to move departments.

I appreciated that. They've also been completely transparent with their financials, which I've never experienced before.

Let's see how things play out.

Enjoy your day everyone :)

I just finished the first High School Musical movie. I don't know why the franchise became one of my obsessions as a kid, but there we go.

What a perfect little day. My uni meeting got cancelled and the ground floor unit had really loud renovations; I just had to get out of there...

today's jaunt

...so first I drove to Carlton North, picked up some lovely pastries, and took them to the office on my day off to share with the few people around for morning tea. This was incredibly well-received. Then made impromptu plans to go to the Yayoi Kusama exhibition with a friend who left work early. Got in at 1:45pm. It was better than I thought (I didn't think much of her pop art and I hate queues and hype but the crowd was not too bad; honestly I preferred her older stuff and I definitely liked that I could see the evolution towards her current style. I appreciate it a lot more now).

Then we went to Yamamoto Udon near Paramount Food Court - exquisitely chilled-out and relaxing between 4-5pm - I had a prawn curry bisque udon and a very yummy Sino-Japanese style squid side dish. My friend got sliced scallops (?) with garlic shoots. All very delicious and the hot and hearty udon was just what I needed on a cold day.

And then we decided on the spot to go watch The Cats of Gokogu Shrine at Kino where, just my luck, it was happy hour. One $6 glass of Shiraz and a super relaxing/healing movie later, I am on the tram home. My cup is nice and full. ☺️

... Good thing I have absolutely nothing planned for the weekend, guess now that I've had such a beautiful day I'll have enough in the tank to crack on with a bit of uni desktop work and chores.

Well Fuckit there is a hole in my bucket

Am in possession of News (TM) of the unpleasant kind. Attending somebody else's event on my birthday just got a whole bunch more complicated. Drunk and rocking in the corner it is.

Okay, okay, I’m up, I’m up

Mount Dishmore is getting impressive again… it’s all “soaking”.

I just remembered something though. You can’t use normal dishwashing liquid in a dishwasher (especially a mini one) because excessive foam can damage the machine. But somewhere recommended putting baking soda in the dispenser with 2 drops of dish soap. Maybe I could get away with using one drop with the bicarb.

I also know that vinegar reduces foaming (with a risk of damaging rubber pipes or seals if it sits).

It’s worth a shot. I already know I’m not getting a refund and the extra work of trying to manually scrub and rinse the strong soap off everything afterwards means it’s sitting unused.

Mystery pakidge... details went to my work email, but had attempted delivery at home... very strange. Waiting for it to land at the post office so I can collect. Also waiting on delivery of new keyboard which will make life easier as this one is playing some wonderful tricks while dying.

Woke up in the middle of the night last night and wasn't asleep after 15 minutes due to thoughts, so I put on an audiobook. Two hours later, I was asleep again but brain did not work today. I collected worksheets from a couple of students and then two minutes later, I went over to them again asking for their worksheets. Boo

Work complete. Onward to babysitting

Happy last day of term 1! And happy Friday!

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I was so tired I fell asleep attached to a TENS machine with a horror movie playing. 😑 So that’s how life is going.

The stuff is here. I’m going to see if I have the energy to split up and rewrap the pack of soap (just so one person doesn’t get 8 bars and everyone else gets none). The tp is the thin rough Delsey but it’s the easiest least suss way to distribute individual rolls.

The fabric pieces of this doll got wrinkled so I have to iron them again before sewing. Note to self - 100% cotton fabric wrinkles super easily and is not a forgiving choice.