Melbourne

I declare: I AM TIRED

Hiya guys and gals, I'm gonna have to travel to melbourne for work every once in a while. I think sometimes I can plan a weekend or at least a day there once in a while.

I'm not gonna ask for sights, but maybe some quality bars and restaurants?

Well really, the must see sights are welcome, too

Ugh. Pay day is usually Monday. Boss did pays Monday (public holiday doesn't bother him, he's been known to go in and do our pays on Christmas Day if that's the payday!) but there's some kind of banking problem with payments for merchants to external accounts. I still haven't been paid 😮‍💨 Hopefully tomorrow! 🤞🏼

Jeeeeeesus christ.

Once home, feed the various creatures, smash some junk food and pass out.

I had a semi-productive day today. One pumpkin has been cut up and roasted, most is now in the freezer. I also roasted some zucchini. Most of it will end up on toasted sandwiches in future, but some of the pumpkin will end up in risotto and similar dishes. I also made a pumpkin, onion and fetta pizza for dinner.

Set up a date for a couple of weeks away. First date in two years. Scared, but I picked the location and it is somewhere I've been wanting to go for a while. I will have fun regardless :) unless he's a complete asshole, but I can recover.

Will be so much more comfortable to sleep tonight. It’s not the same with aircon as having a naturally cooler night.

My 25 min commute is supreme.

Ugh. Still in major sleep debt but eating something stupidly salty seems to have helped a great deal.

My wallet was stolen yesterday. Again.

Police reports, reports to the landlord (stolen from inside my apartment, part of a break in…the building has known security issues with randoms following tenants in) etc all filed. New cards requested. It’s fixable. I’m just vaguely disgruntled with the universe and everything in it

Dear Apps everywhere: stop offering to summarize things for me. Documents, emails, unread messages. I don't trust you.

i don't even know why i got this new phone, i use very little of it , just camera, music, weather, messages, safari, qr for gov apps, and a few calligraphy apps

it's a pita switching everything off for privacy

it's big and can hardly fit in pockets or handbags

i hate hate hate it has my name & personal data, i will remove as much as i can

It's nice to finally have the doors open for fresh air. I've looked for my motivation but it's nowhere to be found so gonna have to pump my body full of coffee instead.

Ugh the place I do contract work for is absolutely pummelling me with new projects to take on. Looks like they've had some staff leave recently. No, I can't do your work full time. I feel bad for ignoring / rejecting the project offers but they are a stop-gap at the end of day, not my full-time gig. They definitely have enough work to hire someone with my experience full time, but it's cheaper to just use the contractor I guess. They also don't pay me nearly enough to take on the extra burden of their staff shortages.

I'm planning to use this situation to my advantage to get a better deal on fees, they obviously need me and I've been working for them long enough now to have some leverage. I've booked a call with the staff manager next week, let's see how we go! I'm becoming more ruthless in business by the day haha. But also, I need to earn the $$.

Removed because potential doxxing could happen

I have been generously gifted $50 to see me through a walletless week

New resident magpie has joined the fray. Either new partner or kid of the existing long time resident.

The old one knows not to come inside. New one just flew straight in and landed a foot away from me lol. Brazen.

It's a male, so probably thinks it can just waltz in and push boundaries. Easiest birds to get out of the house, just don't want it taking a dump inside.

Interestingly when taken (well, walked and it followed) outside, long time resident gave a new call that I've never heard before and pecked it once and walked away lol.

Crazy smart creatures.

think i'll go out to brunnie then home to make todo lists and cook a salad for dinner

but damn, everyday feels like a battle against feelings of hopelessness

I've checked my analytics, happy to go home now again after my break

Internet outage in Thornbury from late last night. Anyone else had trouble sleeping? I found the humidity really really trying, even though the temp had dropped. Still muggy this morning.

Woke up with puffy face. Thanks, hot weather and humidity, I look like I've been punched in both eyes

Wearing the Dillinger shirt from the tour Greg Puciato wasn't in to the Better Lovers show. People here will know and I'm prepared to get my area kicked for it