Partner officially diagnosed with ADHD, and a treatment plan now in place. I'm so proud of him!
We got back to Brunswick, had a couple of Doppel Ename from Mokum, and then got some beer from Blackhearts and Sparrows. It's been a lovely birthday.
Thank you all so much for your birthday wishes and good vibes!! I don't know where I would be without you all! 💜💜💜
Edit: thank you for the birthday wishes! Sending you all good vibes! 💜💜💜
I've been falling asleep to hour+ long videos on space, by Astrum Extra, so I don't know why I had a nightmare about
tw blood
Living alone and finding blood everywhere in my house, running to the neighbours for help, then waking up to find blood everywhere in my house, running to the neighbours for help, then waking up to find blood everywhere in my house, then running to the neighbours for help... And so on. It was a good 15-20 loops before I woke up at 3am.
The cat came and cuddled me so I fell back asleep and was fine. I'm not upset, just tripped out lol.
Second ADHD assessment appointment for my partner today, so another trip across the city. Gonna treat myself with a cafe coffee, because it's my birthday 😂
My beautiful friend came over yesterday, and made a delicious soup, healing for the mind, body, and soul. I feel so happy to have spent the day with them. They got to meet Mickey, we took a walk, it was great! They gave me their guitar, so I've been practicing last night - gonna practice more this afternoon when I return. I do wish I had slightly longer, thinner fingers so I stop flattening the other strings when practicing chords, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it with practice.
I have just submitted my first rental application, which was slightly terrifying. It is a lot more involved than the last time I was looking for a private rental (over 20 years ago!)
Hopefully they haven't just rented it to someone else, the landlord falls in love with Mr Woof and Miss Meow when they see the pictures, the property will be just as I imagine it in real life and I won't have to look at any others. Unlikely, but I can hope!
It took me nearly a month after getting my psych to fill out uni support forms (which she did within 24 hours of asking) to actually submit them to the uni out of paralysis/shame/anxiety/whatever - I did it this morning and then got a response from the subject coordinator eerily quickly... was out doing fieldwork and told myself I wouldn't read it till I got home because I was fully expecting a "no".
Turns out I got 10 days extension no questions asked. Fucking A. Sat with so much anxiety and avoidance for nothing.
Gonna celebrate by treating myself to an afternoon and evening of yet more PHM. Good good good. Thank!
I have van. Now I'm waiting for an assessment of whether the reversing camera can be installed without a new head unit 🤞
It is nice sitting up high and being able to see further, but it will take a while to get used to primarily using the side mirrors. I have so far managed to avoid turning on the windscreen wipers instead of the blinkers.
Edit: this is taking much longer than anticipated.
2nd Edit: I will need a new head unit. The good news is they can do it tomorrow, so will be able to back more confidently very soon. I did manage to back into my carport without too much trouble when I got home, although the sensors' beeping adds a new feeling of drama to the process.
Got a new phone and now I've been locked out of my banking app in trying to set it up 🤦🏼♀️ Will have to sort it out tomorrow. I'm kind of annoyed.
Just saw first comedy show if the season. So so good. Saw: He Huang (absolute best of the night), Nazeem Hussein, Dave Hughes, and an Australian/African girl who's name I sadly forgot who was second best for me - has her own show and is going to be on taskmaster this season. It was a work social club thing and I almost bailed but I'm so glad it didn't. Buzzing 😊
Ahoyhoy
Had some absolutely funky dreams last night. Vivid, memorable and absolutely bonkers.
Last time I drink sugar free lemonade before bed time.
Sitting in the sun on my lunch break is good for my soul
Went to the gym at lunchtime today. It's 2 doors down, then got some sushi as a treat.
I usually just wander around aimlessly on lunch breaks so I'm glad I'm getting my workout without having to wake up at 5am or get home late.
Power is out, right before I could make breakfast.
Hopefully it’ll come back sooner rather than later I’m all prepared for it!
Angle grinding done. Not touching that thing for a while. Fiesty little fucker.
Pretty sparks though.
On the reptile train today aswell.
Ol' boy caught this (in the wild) on his trip to N. vic last w/e.
I've never seen one in person.
Life alternates between the 🫠 emoji and the 😤 emoji
Suddenly have an absolutely raging craving for prawns. Nice juicy prawn heads drowning in flavour... maybe a nice prawn curry or tacos... that'll be tomorrow's treat.
Meanwhile it's back to having the fan on full blast to try and get to sleep. Too hot in here!
Rock on, gang 🤘🍺
Thinking.
There are so many people I have a lot in common with and could get along with really well - if they would treat me with respect.
They’re always so shocked and angry when you set a boundary or leave, too. Like… you expect me to just take that?
Got a bit of a headcold going on, so off work today. Went for a slow stroll out in the sunshine and oh my god it was glorious. Takes just a couple of grey days to really appreciate the sunshine.
Now just need the headcold to fuck right off.
Not going to finish my assignment in time, probably a few hours after the deadline. It is what it is. Just going to focus on getting the next four in before their deadlines.
I never learn. But for the next lot of assignments, I am going to force myself to break down each assignment into achievable tasks using this AI thing that does that and slot them in on the calendar.
My laptop has 8GB of RAM which is not conducive to many tabs open. It is currently showing a white screen instead of a chrome tab. My aunt has a laptop with 64GB of RAM which I think is other worldly.
When this under 16 ban comes in I’m going to lose all the collected art resources I carefully organised and all my YouTube playlists…
VPNs get you banned or shadowbanned but kids under 16 won’t care. They could just keep churning through a bunch of new accounts, the disposability encouraging them to do whatever they want.
But for me when I’m unwell and can’t do much else I spend a lot of time collecting and organising reference photos, art tutorials, and posts with links to free art books. There’s a few years worth that will be near impossible to back up.
And I don’t know what sites will be affected which makes it hard to even try to start migrating.
spoiler
(‘Download account’ options never seem to work - I always end up having to go back and do it manually.)
Even if I buy a dedicated external drive then screenshot and paste links it will be hard to preserve sources or keep images and related information together. It’s a mammoth task to do manually and the old fashioned way. Archiving is literally a job. And you can’t go back to look at them without a login.
For the YouTube playlists maybe I can screenshot to be able to find some difficult to search stuff later, or paste the titles into a mega document, but oh man. Not a good solution.
It will also cut me off from a lot of other artists.
This crap isn’t going to do anything but punish disabled people who spend a lot of time online and people who care about privacy.
But that’s the Australian government’s way. Make grand promises (usually involving “protecting the children”) and then do something that doesn’t work - and has unintended consequences.
I have much more to say about that but I’m tired -_-
