So I know I always call him Mr. Omoikiri but that’s just for ease because he’s my human and he has been for a long time and we always knew we were stuck with each other for forever. But I guess he really is (soon to be) mr. Omoikiri now
The changes I have been making to diet, exercise & no alcohol have been doing me good. In the past I was constantly running out of sick leave, now I have just passed one year without taking a single day. I now understand how people can end up with such high leave balances.
Oh the man is not well. This is about the 4th cold he's ever had in the 28 years that I've known him. I'm keeping busy prepping because if I go down too the kid will have to look after us and she only knows how to cook 2 minute noodles and scrambled eggs. I did however show her how to use the airfryer. Please pray for us.
Just returned from hospital. Honestly thought I was having a heart attack last night. So thankful to be back home with my kids again. I think I’ll keep them home from school today and spend the day with them.
Ugh, I need to do something about my weight, wearing office clothes again has me acutely aware of just how much I've gained in the last few years. Just feels so out of my control due to working shift work and often doing shifts up to 12hrs long, I just work, sleep, and eat because I'm miserable about it all.
We ate already. Used the new crockery for Korean ramen, mushrooms, bok choy, coriander, crunchy noodles, gyozas, an egg and Kimchi on the side. Little dog is very confused about the time. I promised the kid if she's hungry later we'll have mini pizzas or chips and gravy.
Bit the bullet and got a med cert through to Wednesday. I still have some unavoidable work things but this will significantly help reduce the timesheet anxiety
Some days the HR office has a revolving door and it's a non-stop day of people stepping in. No time for a break. Barely time for hydration and bathroom.
Tomorrow I'm cheering up my manager and I by getting us out of the office to buy some more spicy nuts in our lunch break.
We'll get to make jokes about spicy nuts, get out of the office, and get some tasty snacks.
So, at the start of the year my regular GP said that I "probably have chronic fatigue" and that it's likely due to my depression. But lately my depression has been okay (anxiety, okay maybe not so much but I've been under far better control all things considered). And yet the feeling has come back of being super tired, headache, with pain at the back of my neck/top of my spine.
Anyway, found someone locally who specialises in chronic fatigue. He's away on holidays as of today though, so it'll be a while before I even set up a chat with him. Still, I'm hoping maybe it can lead to a bit more than a vague diagnosis with no real plan.
(Slowly untangling the horrible fact that all the things I fucking love doing have been tied up in a BIG TIME TRAUMA and now nothing feels like fun it all feels like duty. So on advice I go out and do something and then just drop it and fuck off when it stops being fun. I've been given a sociopath license!!)
This woman next door (next building, not in mine) just won't. stop. yelling. Someone else in my building yelled at her to 'shut the fuck up', which made me giggle. But this is the same yelly woman from a few weeks ago... she has not abated; she goes out for whatever, and just yells the most heinous stuff. Super triggering content, like really bad, littered with swears (I swear a lot, she makes me cringe) and I just cannot deal anymore. I don't anyone else on my side of the building can deal anymore.
I wish I had of gone to Perth with the cat and mein liebe instead of renewing this lease; it would have been difficult, and expensive, but we could have made it work... I could be chilling the fuck out at Noranda Palms Red Rooster right now. Fuck. FUCK.
I have an actual migraine from being triggered, I swear to FUCKING GOD if I have night terrors tonight I am going to fucking SMASH SOMETHING FUCK
/ENDRANT ENDME
EDIT: AND XBOX GAME PASS IS GOING UP TO TWENTY-MOTHERFUCKING-DOLLARS MICROSOFT YOU ABSOLUTE SLAGATHOR GREEDY MFS
Getting my ass kicked by the flu/rsv/whatever else nasty ass virus is getting around at the moment. Have the whole week off and need to actually proper rest. Hopefully I'll be doing a lot of bored shit posting this week.
Oh my god I'm an idiot I miscalculated the 30 days from when my previous private health insurance cover ended and now I have to re-serve all my waiting periods FUUUUUUCK what a fucking waste of all that money I paid
Typical, I had to escalate my resignation to upper management as my boss hadn't bothered to reply to me. Such a lazy spineless pos. He had sent the letter on to upper management. A simple cc would have been easy. At least I don't have to rely on him to get my separation certificate. Not sure what to do next, I want to have the book thrown at them but I also want to put it all behind me. My best thought is to focus on the future and accept that I had a music and dj career far and beyond most people's dreams. Let the people left there deal with the bullshit themselves.
Easy day, dental hygienist appt, wasted trip to the bank, my first hiccup using my preferred name. Whatever, these things take time and I have the rest of my life to sort the beauraucratic crap out. Working in the moring at 630 am. It's nice becoming a morning person and I finish work before afternoon traffic. The cats always get me up pretty early but I'll need an early night. I'm tired of saying onward and upward, I just want a peaceful life. This endless search for more, better, easier is a load of capitalist crap. No walk, had an afternoon nap and glad I decided a rest day was in order.
I cannot brain today. Shall we play a round of Bad Pet Art? Send me a pic of your furry (or otherwise) pet and a maximum of 3 minutes shall turn them into such glorious disasters as:
I find it a bit disturbing that there is so much focus on which groups should be protected. I absolutely agree that we should widen the coverage of the laws, but this feels like an exercise of deciding who is deserving of protection and who is not. This seems likely to both leave gaps in who is protected, but also likely to end up with court cases where the offender argues that their behaviour was legal because they hate someone for an allowable reason. Some awful variation of "I don't hate gay people, I just hate rainbows".
I am definitely in favour of this over what we have now, but it does feel like starting with a list of groups deserving of protection is a terrible way to make a law.
The dentist is such a mixed concept for me. On the one hand, they come along with their little wizzadry hand tools and save your teeths from falling out, and hopefully save you a little pain. But on the other, as an outside observer the noises those machines make 100% sound like a torture device
So I finally got off my butt to get a hideous photo of myself for my passport renewal of which I had to pay handsomely for a rapid renewal, and… my mug was too big.
So I had to pay for an AusPost mugshot. Like, truly, a mugshot. The only thing missing was an orange jumpsuit.
If I didn’t like photos before, now I truly detest them. 😂
Made red lentil curry for lunch. It’s one of my all time favourites and it’s great because it’s all pantry staples. I just leave out the chillies if I don’t have any on hand and it’s still fantastic.
hahahha my co-worker was showing me stuff his kid plays on Spotify when takes him to school, the tracklists consists of bangers such as: Big Chungus Fart, Techno Farts, I Pooped My Pants (In A Bowling Alley) and the all time classic - Sea Shanty Fart.
Day 22 of exercise program and day 6 of tummy exercises completed. I'm back baby 😎. The foot is much better today and I'm raring to go on whatever work holds for me today. Probably potatoes, lasagna and maybe pizza dough. It's gloriously sunny but bloody cold outside, which for some reason is weather I really like. So let's get amongst it! 👉👉 Have a great day everyone!
Seriously the man keeps shitting himself and it's putrid. Even the dog left the room in a huff and left me in the dust cloud. I have succumbed to tying a hanky around my head cowboy style with a little eucalyptus on it so I don't vomit.
I got onto my payroll officer today and found out that the end of year financial data upload had failed and they had no idea until I emailed them about it.
If I hadn't said anything, who knows how long I would have had to have waited for the pre fill information to be up.
Kidcalhoon2 is pretty keen to give skating a go after they had a session on a board I found in hard rubbish. I'm not a skater in any way, any tips on the type of board I could get them? I guess they just want to cruise, turn a bit, and maybe have a shot at the local skate park....
Last week I boiled and somewhat successfully peeled 8 eggs for the week of eating, this week I almost destroyed two whole eggs with my peeling techniques. I don't think it's the longer finger nails but maybe it is?? Hahaha
I just did my tax and holy shit they weren't kidding about getting less back this year. I really really need to get myself an accountant/financial advisor who can help me finesse my money so I can pay less tax. It's friggin insane. I'm all for paying a fair share but I feel like I'm paying my share and maybe someone else's too.
Edit: just updated my income/tax spreadsheet and found that even though the amount of tax I'm paying is obscene, the % of my income paid in tax is actually pretty consistent, even marginally down from the previous 3 years. Still hurts but this puts it into perspective.
image is of a chart of my % Tax Paid for the last 14 years
So follow on from the previous car rental post, now looking between GoGet (higher cost but seems better reputation) and Popcar (smaller and lower cost, has some positive reviews but a bit bare/lower on recent reviews). Both have cars near me.
Dropped Uber Carshare because of the ethics, and Flexicar (applied then withdrew) because the app store app is full of negative reviews, like 1 star lol.
My cat is very confused by the new schedule and just screams at me for the first 10 minutes of me being home. He does have my housemate and their cat but I do worry about separation anxiety after me being home all the time for the past few years.