Melbourne

Through some sort of weirdness of the insurance industry it has turned out to be cheaper to get comprehensive insurance for my car than third party. Renewal of the third party with RACV was going to be just over $500, a basic comprehensive policy with AAMI is $342. Even with AAMI the third party policy would have been more expensive. I have no idea why, but obviously the underlying risk assumptions for the policies have some sort of different risk calculations that work out in my favour.

I guess it's insurance day today, after sorting the car I moved on to finalising the forms for Income Protection. So much money, and the premiums just keep going up the older I get. It does make the car insurance seem extra cheap in comparison.

It's too hot. I want a glass of wine but have "bills" to pay instead

I often feel so ineffectual at life. Especially after I watch or read about successful people, and then I reflect that I’ve achieved absolutely nothing.

I have successfully re-hung the mozzie net over the bed. It fell down late last summer when the sticky 'removable' hook peeled off and I never bothered to re-do it. But it's done now albeit a few days too late. One of the major delay points is that it is very very difficult to buy just one cuphook. Packets of 25 or so, no problem, but just one? Impossible. Especially in Richmond or in the CBD. Not even Kmart sells them. So I've improvised with a long screw and a small butterfly nut filched from work put together arse end first. Might even be better than a cuphook as less subject to the mozzie net hanging ring sliding off in the breezes.

Uh oh, I continued working after coming home from a 9h day in the office and only just finished at 12:20 for like a 14h day... this is the danger of having a nice cozy wfh setup. And stimulants after a 2 day break. Too easy to lose boundaries :')

At least the overdue stuff is all done, but I've got three more things to start and finish by the end of tomorrow so they don't get overdue. Stupid pre-xmas rush and poorly timed leave. So glad for the flexible hours.

Also some slightly disgruntled feelings over finding out a hack who left my former workplace basically straight-up copied the eork I did there at their new employer, where i knew they're paying big $ for this person's "skills"... not cool, not cool at all. Basically slapped a new logo on top... but due to confidentiality reasons with my current work client I can't share direct evidence. What do. Hmm.

Wind picks up and theres 3 drops of rain and immediately the staffy is pawing at my window with an expression of "I cant POSSIBLY survive in these conditions!". She is an outside dog ffs. But the blame should be assigned to me cause I folded and let them in again.

Went for a run. So humid. I am a walking shower.

I think the aircon isn't working properly at work today. :(

Made it down the bellarine.

It's been a few weeks since I've been down here and my heart sank when I saw all the weeding / mowing I have to do over the next few. This was never going to be an actual break. On the plus the chillies have enjoyed themselves with this weather so that's something.

I watched How to make gravy last night. The storyline was a bit meh. I found it lacking in flavour. Not a lot of substance. Not bad, not great, just ok.

3 hobbits

They still haven't taken my parcels (now 3!) to the post office yet. Not quite sure what they're doing with them. After sending them to Truganina for the night, they sent them through the airport this morning, then at 3pm they were marked as "in transit" at my suburb (which doesn't have a post office, the local post office is in the suburb over). I think they may be holding them hostage

I just want my ABBA vinyl 😭😭

In better news, the department approved my transition from care funding, and purchased pretty much everything today. They sent me a Kmart gift card for general setup, and I got to choose a table, chairs, and couch. Also hit them up for a dryer, super energy inefficient I know, but I can't stand air/sun dried socks. Everything else, sure no worries, socks, the rough feeling in my shoes all day makes me physically nauseous. That's gonna be my version of avocado toast I guess

(I found a reasonably priced and small enough heat pump dryer, which apparently is the cheapest to run long run, and they agreed. So with infrequent use I'll hopefully be ok)