Good news: test results came back, i am not a pencil
Bad news: noro
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Got the details for the funeral for my old colleague. I'm going to go, even though I haven't spoken to him in years and years, since before COVID even. He made working at Computershare tolerable - guaranteed to make me cry-laugh with the jokes and witty comebacks he had for the micro-managers there๐ taught me how to handle those managers when I took over his role.
It's the least I can do I think, pay my respects and remember how he made me laugh so hard.
That's a really lovely to go about it. Hopefully there are lots of great stories and laughter shared.
Someone used just about all of my butter in the work fridge! I'm probably more annoyed that they left the tiniest little scrape in the corner instead of just throwing it out the container.
How rude on both accounts!
Seeing the newly released Erin Patterson evidence, like photos of dehydrator with mushrooms in it, and mushrooms being weighed, and her trying to leave the hospital despite being told her life was at risk, and having zero concern about her kids being at risk; makes me wonder why the jury deliberated for so long. She knew what sheโd done and confidently knew she hadnโt served herself or the kids any.
So my bet was she got off and I lost that one. I owe everyone 50c :(
They probably dissected every lie she told. That would've taken a hell of a long time.
I saw those pictures of death cap mushrooms being weighed today and I was thinking - did they mention that evidence during the trial reporting?! Because that seems like pretty damning evidence.
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"Oh hey, sorry I'm going to need the rest of the week off. My cat is having seperation anxiety."
Edit: I had my first random endorphin rush today. And my first real laugh in a decade.
Felt great :)
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Was meant to catch up with a friend at 3. Last night she changed it to 3:30 because a new update for a game she's playing is out. Whatever, that's fine. I tell her to text me when she's leaving so I can leave then. She's fine with that.
I decided to leave earlier and get there at 3:30, because I have a jazz playlist I want to listen to. But it hits 3:30, and she still hasn't texted me saying she's left. She sends me a picture of her game asking which option I liked more. I asked her if she's left and she said no. She does live a 5 minute drive away from where we're meeting, so I guess that's not too bad. She is apologising profusely. Now it's been 15 minutes since we were supposed to meet, and she said she has to brush her teeth and wash her face. She is nocturnal because of her (undiagnosed but probable) gaming addiction.
Am I overreacting? I am pissed off even though she's going to be 20 minutes late, but it wasn't because of something like traffic or PTV issues. She could control it. Last week she also pissed me off because she's unemployed and using her dad's money. She said, when buying food,
"It's not my money. I don't care."
I need new friends. I downloaded Bumble for Friends today. Hoping I can get a group of people together and make at least one friend from there. I need friends that don't trauma dump on me or are selfish.
She is apologising profusely.
But not actually doing anything about fixing her behaviour? That's crappy, you deserve better than that. Even if you had waited for her to text to, she's still leaving you waiting when agreed on a time and then chose to game. And the rub salt in the wound by sending you a picture of said game.
Sorry, that makes me very angry on your behalf. You are not overreacting, she is not respecting you.
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Please report on how BFF goes! I just looked it up and am disappointed to be told I can't be friends with guys. This is dumb.
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I went to Hobbiton yesterday. AMA.
Did you go into a Hobbit house? Not sure I did that when I was there.
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Did you have a second breakfast?
Yes.
I always have a second breakfast. I wake very early and have a very light brekkie, then sleep again, wake and have a second brekkie.
Today it was a little cornflakes and milk then second was some toast.
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Itโs cold tonight, I can feel it.
Yeah, I could feel the draughts a whole room over ๐ญ
Electric water bottle saves the day!
Muting people on my Insta excessively posting about being in Europe. Iโm happy for them and all, and yes Iโm jealous, but I donโt need to see daily stories & every-other-day profile posts about your trip.
There is a package waiting for me at my front door. Now I just have to wait 9 hours until I can go home to get it!
Edit: now there are two packages!! What an exciting day.
Aight so it looks like this whole workshop thing is going ahead but now I have no idea what to quote. All sorts of insecurities popping up. It's a ~3 hr in person workshop with 50km return travel (30-40 mins each way) for about 3-4 professionals. It will be mostly hands on demonstration and troubleshooting, not much prep or materials required. I might need to look into a couple of the app's functions I haven't explored much but that would benefit my job as well so I wouldn't count that time spent.
I'm thinking I should be compensated at least the equivalent of what I get paid for a whole day of regular work (inc. super), since I can't do my regular job the entire day, and maybe a 25% loading. That's 600 rounded up, no GST. Hopefully that seems fair?? I don't feel like enough of a grown up to ask for this, but fuckit. I can try
E: ugh I forgot I'd need to pay 32% personal income tax on that. Or 15% if I chuck it in super... 600 is starting to sound very justifiable
Don't forget you have to prep the workshop (it will take longer then you think, just to learn the app yourself and make notes on how to walk people through and good demos). and maybe do a followuo (email a summary or something). If it takes 6 hours to prep a 3 hour workshop + travel then you are ~12 hours time. 90-100 bucks an hour is cheap for most trainers . I would go for 1000 as a baseline
Of course this totally depends on the value to the customer? Non profit or micro biz or then yep 600 is fine. Is it for giant mining company with bucks to spare - they won't blink at 3000.
Also if this is the sort of thing people do training for have a scout online and see what others charge for similar training
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I need to liven this place up a bit.
What would be the worst gift someone could give you?
Me: Tickets to a musical.
Lifetime supply of fanta
(I can't metabolise it, my stomach rejects it instantly. Along with anything I've eaten in the past 24 hours)
One Christmas an aunt gave me a ceramic oil burner cork with some wick through it. Just the cork and wick. No oil. No bottle. I was about ten. Straight to the op shop.
Today I guess an ex rocking up with the gift of a child.
More locally, hoppy hipster IPA beers. I like plain beer: aldi blonde, Heineken, corona, Carlton dry.
Sunscreen lol
Don't laugh dude, skin cancer among darker skinned people who think they're good is actually a real problem
I once got a pair of Donald Trump socks. Complete with a little turf of hair at the top. They were part of a "Shit Present" gag gifting thing, but they were the most awful and was so happy to swap it for a book of dad jokes.
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They needed to be buried at cross road somewhere far far away.
I was highly unimpressed with being given a calculator and apron for the next school year. Also a 20+ year old hairdryer. A hot pink thong (hilarious ๐). And a cheap bench mixer bought in a January sale so it had 2 weeks warranty
I did like the kitten
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Just catching up with some world news
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Wake up early and refreshed, get dressed, drive to the train station.......bus replacement service.
So back at home in trackies and debating whether to chuck a sickie.
Gotta love the old bus replacement switcharoo.
I know how to describe what's happening.
My life feels neglected while I was taking suboxone. Now I'm awake and it's like "where is everything?".
It hurts a bit.
deep thoughts for 7am which may or may not be relevant
Maybe what you're feeling is grief for the time spent on suboxone - grief for the wasted time. But taking it may well have been a higher priority at the time, and so should not be regretted in the overall scheme of things. Feel the grief, and move on. This takes courage, which you have in plenty.
EDIT: Like a broken leg: you go to hospital and a plaster cast is put on, then when the bone has healed the cast comes off and your leg is shrunken and muscle wasted, so you do physio to get back function in the leg. Then you can put away the crutches and walk forward freely. In this analogy, the cast was was suboxone, the grief is the physio. Eventually you'll walk forward freely. The physio is not wasted - it's a necessary step in healing.
Thank you โค๏ธ
It makes sense and the analogy is accurate. There is a panic to make up for lost time as quickly as possible.
Which can't be done, which then turns into frustration and sadness.
You've given me a lot to think about, thank you :)
Getting my daughters room painted tomorrow. Any advice on what to use to hang pictures, etc on the wall? I want to avoid using blue tack or anything that could pull paint like it has this time around?
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