Submitted 1 week ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
I’m stoned, a little faint after changing the bandage (just a non-stick one held one with normal bandaids lol) so lying on the couch. I’m such a pussy when it comes to my own body - I can watch and even help with wounds, but when it’s my wound… Ugh!
Got a bag of twisties though! #winning
Oh bummer. Hope you’re not too out of sorts.
Are you busy at the moment?
I’m alright :) just hate seeing my own blood haha
I’m not particularly busy:) why?
Got a reference request from a former colleague that I did not along with.
Our work relationship was cold, at best, so it’s interesting that they would want to use me a reference.
I declined politely.
They were difficult to work with and created a large amount of unnecessary work for everyone.
you were more polite than I woulda been.
When I say polite it was basically
‘Considering our respective roles during your time here, I am not in a position to provide you with a good reference. Good luck with the job hunt’
This person still knows people in our organisation, so I didn’t think to completely destroy the bridge…just in case
First class survived. Don’t think I made a tit of myself. Making friends seems unlikely though.
Ordered pizza, watch some TV then bed I think. May as well speed up the time till the meeting tomorrow.
Goodnight everyone ❤️
You’re gonna be alright friend :) 💜
Got off TAFE early today. Teacher had to pick up her kid from childcare cause they couldn’t be arsed dealing with a three year old’s tantrum. Some bullshit about the literal toddler posing a threat to other kids.
I was hoping to get more work done today. Guess I’m getting more units extended to next week.
omg, I just had a sparrow eat from my hand 🥰
How does it feel to be a Disney princess?
😹
Work from home all approved and I have a nice open ended task to spend half a day on. Things are going well
I guzzled the appropriate amount of water on Sunday and Monday, as my vein gushed a tad. First time 'round, the machine kept beeping because my pressure was low, because I didn’t eat or drink enough.
This time, I filled that bag up quicksmart! Had a Nippy’s Iced Coffee and some potato chips after. But yeah, now my elbow-pit is rather sore, I keep catastrophising and think it’s still bleeding and I don’t want to look, as it was when I changed the dressing yesterday (3 hours afterwards).
But! No complaints! Follow the directions and drink heaps of water!
here, take some lemmy medals 🎖️🎖️🎖️
They’re putting in the hard work collecting it all 🙌🏼 I just go in when they text me that they want my blood type haha although, the nurse there said that my vein is real big so I should consider plasma donations.
Can do it more often, and they need people with big fat veins to handle the blood being back in when they seperate the plasma. 🤷🏼♀️ I should rack up my donation numbers lol
Some people just suck all the air in meetings. Dude, shut the fuck up and let someone else talk!!!
Do they also start with, “in my experience”?
Oh my God we had someone like this at my old workplace and he was just insufferable. In the field, in meetings, just never knew when to stfu with his bad takes. Nobody liked him. Claimed he had ASD but after a certain point it’s like no, you’re a jerk with ASD. Definitely glad we don’t have anyone like him where I work now
2 more days and I’m on leave for 3. So much I need to get done before I go.
That’s one thing I love about my job, there is no ongoing work to manage. The moment you leave your desk the work is someone else’s problem and you can just leave and forget about it.
I wish I had that type of role. Because I have a portfolio of clients, they’re my responsibility alone :(
Left my hat and water bottle at the office before field work and have been mega cranky and annoyed today. Not how I wanted my day to go at all, I was looking forward to field work. And the moving place I inquired with seems to have a non-working number, I missed their callback but when I call their number it keeps cutting off. Grrrrrrrrrrr. I am PEEVED!
Need to have a good shower and some feel good show for tonight.
I’ve started my shed cleanout. There is a lot of junk in there! And a lot of dirt ☹️ If anyone is in the market for a slightly rusty hand saw let me know, I seem to have lots of them! I’m not even sure why I have some of this stuff, I’m pretty sure someone has been sneaking in and stashing stuff when I’m not looking. Couldn’t possibly have been me!
It just rained and now it’s sunny again. It smells earthy. Time to take the rubbish out.
Petrichor!
Oh that’s what it called. I never knew it had a name.
4 hours of karaoke. Mostly friend screaming. I am dead.
Like a goood dead or a bad dead?
Neutral dead.
I have watered the garden. Expect a cloudburst.
It’s now spitting where I am…
Morning. I had a very vivid dream in which
but had borrowed a car so was trying to do everything I needed a car for while I had it, so I’d gone to a library (that looked like a stereotypical posh US high school)… was cutting it fine and trying to fat-fingerly message my colleagues to please make me a coffee, but then just as I’m trying to drive off I find out the cat (I somehow own a skinny white one) has snuck into the car, and is now trying to escape… cue increasing panic as the wriggly thing keeps getting out (and some Indonesian kid passing by takes photos of it) and then runs all around the car once I’ve trapped it inside and I can’t drive, and I see the “typing…” animation on the group chat and I realise it’s time for everyone else to leave and I’m still not there…
… so I wake up groggily to check the time on the clock and FUCK it’s 6:55am? I need to leave in ten!.. only to grab my phone and see it’s 6:05am… and here I am, adrenaline unnecessarily coursing through my system, resolutely staying in bed until i have to get up. 🥱 😴
You have got this and I believe in you, and if you feel like you don’t have this then you can maybe just chuck a sickie?
hubs has gone tomato mad, Idk what it is, something about the very Mediterranean house has woken the ancient genes. The terrace and the yard are slowly being overtaken with bushy bushy plants. The one by the front door is already 2m tall. I forsee a lot of canning in our future.
I had a fantastic tomato that got named Audrey after engulfing the entire hills hoist. Seeds didn’t take the next year though.
That sounds like a good problem to have. Is canning something you are familiar with or a new adventure for you?
We have an entire cupboard dedicated to mason jars if that answers your question
I wish my boys could talk a bit more. Something was bothering one of them tonight and he couldn’t get to sleep, I wish he could tell me what it was
Depending on their ages, they sometimes lack the vocabulary to put their feelings into words, especially if they’re new feelings or sort of vague feelings or worries. It’s frustrating because it’s hard to know what prompts to give to get them talking. Sounds like you’re doing the right thing and you’re there for them and they know that, that’s all you can do sometimes.
Tom is the best dad , along with all the other dads here. I’m sure once they can they will talk. 🙂
Their speech was always going to be delayed because they’re twins. One is putting together two word sentences pretty consistently now and the other understands everything but doesn’t talk as much.
I’ve put together some flashcards using the program Anki and it has really helped them start recognising things and saying a few words
My holiday is over. Back to work today
Hi ho
Really bad end to the day even if it only lasted for 10-15 mins.
Not looking forward to seeing how the rest of the time goes until I go on break.
Hopefully the steps put in place for the future will prevent future altercations from occurring.
Nothing like dealing with someone who thinks the way to solve problems is to enact revenge and thinking that’s the right way of doing things.
That’s cos the game is not ‘getting the work done’, the game is ‘being top dog’. I agree with melba that this goes nowhere good. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Good to know that steps are being taken.
revenge? There are people like that in the business world? That is crazy.
Oh no, that sounds really miserable… hope this person pulls their head in soon. I hate it when one person can ruin your whole day. When will you be going on break?
On break from the 20th of Dec and hopefully wont have to deal with them after that forever.
Oh that goes nowhere good.
Maybe you’d like to take notes of/document/bcc every single thing you can and perhaps polish your resume just in case
I reported everything and some steps are being put in place.
It’s not my safety that I’m worried about but I do have to deal with the stubbornness and attitude which makes is very unpleasant to end the day.
If anyone needs a smile, I suggest peeking into the Brisbane daily thread on here. There’s an excellent series of puppy pics in there!
He makes pupdates (his word) on the newest addition regularly. It’s so cute.
Oh I definitely need to keep more of an eye out, thank you!!
I just saw 🥰
I totes 💖 beagles
Listing things on Gumtree is definitely not working out - I have had less time wasting nonsense which I guess is a plus, but that’s because I have had no enquiries at all (apart from the initial two scam messages which were so quick I presume were bots).
That was my experience when I first got back to Perth and tried to use eBay. Weird how different places have different apps they use.
It changes over time too. I used to be able to list pretty much anything on eBay and have it sell, now stuff just sits there (and there is not the volume of buyers to allow you to do the auctions any more either). Marketplace was ok-ish, but these days people don’t seem to know how to communicate and mostly just waste time - and you and up wasting other people’s time because you are so swamped with the dodgy people it is really hard to keep on top of messages.
Yeah, seems like Gumtree is more or less dead…
I’m not sure it’s ever had much use here. I’ve bought one or two things on there before, but it doesn’t really seem to get much traffic.
Traffic was awful heading to my social sports training tonight, but had fun once I finally got there. There’s just some days I need to be around a group of people. Made the drive worth it.
Starting piano / guitar lessons on Thursday. By that, I mean I am alternating between instruments until I pick one. Thinking of going with piano because I learnt it as a kid, but am considering guitar for something different, and also I wanna be a rockstar.
Nah, not a rock star. Too much pressure and it takes over your life. You can never do normal stuff again.
You want a single smash one hit wonder that gives you enough to live it up for a year, before you invest $10 Million or so. Then retire into obscurity living very comfortably off your investments for the rest of your life. 5% of $10 Million is an annual allowance of $500k.
If you do want a lasting career, you want someone with the wealth and lifestyle, but not the fame. Someone like Dianne Warren or Max Martin. You can walk safely down the Street and nobody knows who you are. The only circles you’re famous in are rock stars and movie directors.
Or a song that gets picked up for a tv theme or ad, then you get lots of ongoing royalties.
They’re quite complementary instruments so you may end up sticking with both, even if you only pay for lessons for one
Mixed some midori with some fruit juice. Not too bad.
Now I need ice cubes.
Yep, it was that sort of a day.
So the executive dysfunction is a cause of my weird sleep; I forget to take my snri and I sleep in, but if I take it I wake up at 6ish naturally no matter how long I slept for.
I really gotta remember to take it every day and get to bed earlier ffs
Day 2 of meal replacement done. ✅
Beep Beep 🚚
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 days ago
One of my clients got pissed off at the slow pace of their projects, and decided to bring in a 3rd party “project partner”. Tomorrow I’m having a “conversation” with Senior Leadership Team. I have a real bad feeling I’m about to be scapegoated for the failures of the project team because the project team manager is besties with my manager. I hate this feeling so fucking much.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 6 days ago
I know exactly how that feels. We’re here for you if you need it
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 days ago
I appreciate it man. Let’s see how it plays out. It’d suck to be looking for a new job a few days before my birthday.