Today I had the day off and by lunchtime had only done 1,440 steps. I thought, oh it's going to be a day when I don't hit my target ๐ And then I thought, "Why? Why should the day be that way? Change the day! Make it the day you want!" So I did a Strong Steps with Kenta workout and did 10 minutes on the exercise bike (people in my street were throwing out an exercise bike that was in great working order, just the electronic bit was broken. So we took that bit off and brought it in and it works fine!). Then my oldest wanted to practise skateboarding so we went to the local park and he practised while I walked laps of the netball courts. I looked silly but I couldn't care less! I noticed different people on their different exercise journeys, from a superfit young guy practising his soccer moves to an obese man doing slow and difficult but determined walking laps of the oval. I ended up doing 12,025 steps and am pretty happy with myself and how I changed my outcome. Now I've got work tomorrow and need to get to bed but I'm all hyped up like a 5 year old ๐๐ผโโ๏ธ
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This is such an awesome POV, thank you!! Absolutely loving this journey for you!
Fuck yes!!!!!!!! Well done โค๏ธ
Interview went well I think.
Recruiter will come back with feedback this week.
Landed yet another one so now itโs one tomorrow and 2 on Friday.
Something will come through soon ๐ค
Looks like thereโs three small new kittens
Edit: anyone want to adopt a cat, thereโs a lot of them lol
You've heard the stories of the cat ladies who push out a big shopping basket on wheels with cat food for the locals every day or so, this is how it starts.
Iโve already got a shopping bag full lol
It's not a bad thing. ๐
Alright. Interview in an hour. Itโs a one stage which is different.
Fingers crossed. I smashed a bunch of cold and flu tablets in advance lol
Oooo I got triggered last night ๐ niece came home from care and just lost her mind, bossing us around, crying, screaming at us, at her parents, to do what she wanted.
We chalked it up to her witnessing a conflict at care between other kids and her feeling like she needs control. No hard feelings or anything, but I had to go outside and ground myself - being bossed around and feeling like I lack my own agency was a bit too much for me.
Still got this cold, and now it's in my chest ๐ญ but it's SILs birthday so I'll pop some codeine in me and hope I survive ๐
You did the right thing by removing yourself.
Nothing quite like a little meltdown. We've all been there lol.
I'm a little bit drunk (checks watch) ON A WEDNESDAY! AMA.
I just had a cheeky swig of baileys ...๐คญ
Have another. You earned it.
garden pics, the weeding is going slowly but surely, nearly done
and I found a bird's nest in one of the small trees
I see you had a supervisor ๐
Edit: ok 2 supervisors, I didn't see the one laying down at first.
I had a dream last night that I found the 4-packs of Shin Ramen Black on sale for $5. I got an oversized Kmart plastic bag and bought 8 of them and carried them home on the tram... Then I woke up ๐ญ
I once bought 24 large jars of polish gherkins from Aldi irl.
I bought 4 sultana brans a few weeks ago. 1/2 price. Still proud of myself (and regular).
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I regularly take a moving trolley to savemore when they've got cheap stuff. 2kg of protein powder is currently $13.33 at Savemore so I bought six boxes. I pay $60/tub at Chemist Warehouse.
birfday sew on patches arrived, noise cancelling ear phones ordered because why get all anxious about noise when I can do something immediate about it, some art books attained, and a biography of Hemingway by Anthony Burgess, which I thought looked interesting.
I don't mind train noise, I do mind the noise from the bridge construction, it echoes and vibrates, I also think there's some 60Hz electric hum.
Observation about Op Shops.
for 5 decades Aussies were buying singles and vinyl LPs by the tens of millions a year, millions of the things should be floating around and they should be dirt cheap for an ordinary condition copy.
There are no pop music LPs in Op Shops, record shops have sprung up every where selling old stuff for over $20 at least. Bat out of Hell is not a collectors item. ๐
Vinyl collectors and resellers are next level though. You'll see them go straight to the vinyl, check everything quickly and leave.
Then there's the op shops themselves starting to list things closer to the resale values than the 'opportunity' value.
It's insane when the shops ask prices as if the item they have is rare or pristine
Or that that weren't just donated it for $ZERO, or that the fucking shop is called an OPPORTUNITY shop. I gotta go meditate, it gets me going.
I donโt even bother looking at record collections at op shops, anyone with money on their mind will take their collections to record stores who pay good $$ and sell for even higher. Or sell on eBay etc
With the vinyl revival, pop music collectable LPs are more valuable than ever.
Lucky I checked the google reviews of the place I was interviewing at tomorrow.
Of 52 reviews, 51 of them were 1 star.
Reading through all the comments this would have been a terrible place to work for.
I've decided it stops being winter today. T-shirts and polos only for next 7 months
Last night I came across The Dark Mod, a community project to make Thief style levels in the Doom 3 engine. I found it because the team made their own level editor and it was available in a Linux package manager.
The dedication some people have to these sorts of things amazes me. People have been working for over 15 years in an engine that's about 20 years old to make levels inspired by a game whose most significant entry was over 25 years ago.
But you know I downloaded it. Thief with Doom 3's lighting engine sounds like a banger idea
The boys have been sick, the girlfriend is sick now too. I'd like to work from home in case I'm sick, but everyone else is home so I've come in so I can get some work done. The joys of parenthood.
Going to a meetup thing today. Kind of scared but hopefully it should be fun, even if I don't connect with anyone!
Breakfast of berries yoghurt and seeds. I like to serve it in a nice glass for a little parfait vibe. Little treats are important
Yesterday I played AC/DC. Today I'm playing Fairouz. Algorithm that Spotify.
I am wearing my "hang in there" cat brooch today
yeah, it's a little old lady thing to wear brooches but this is an internets meme one ...lol
Only two more days until I can have an introvert weekend. Been running way to hard lately and it's catching up - just want to curl up and have a little cry. Gonna spent Saturday reading and looking at water
Ugh I should file my tax return.
ugh where's the section where I can just claim my logged WFH hours.
ugh I am not awake enough for this.
Still feeling uneasy this morning, but am back in the office with plans to go to trivia with friends tonight.
Not to be too cliched, but October, let's do thisssssss.
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