Someone just help me coordinate all these decisions and also please serve me breakfast in bed so I feel like I have enough energy to go plant out the seedlings I bought 10 days ago
I like planning and organising sometimes, but when things arenโt going smoothly and involve other peoplesโ trust and large amounts of money it takes a lot out of me and it takes a while to recover the energy.
I also find it harder to enjoy planning and organising when itโs just for myself and I canโt show off or do something for someone else. I seem to be very uninterested in my own well being sometimes
Iโm an absolute wanker and splurge on San Elk vegetable stock powder. Look, I donโt use stock powder that much, but when I do, I want it to be goddamn delicious
Yay: car! public holiday! picked up some goodies today with ease thanks to both of these factors
Eh: insurance is a bitch to sort through.
Nay: my friend who drove me down to the sellerโs place last night tested positive for covid this morning ๐ญ havenโt tested myself yet but after an OK start to the day, definitely feeling poorly this afternoon, so Iโm fairly certain Iโve got somethingโฆ
Yay in the end: the goodies I picked up today were premade meals, I have enough to last me til Monday. Was gonna put most of it in the freezer but now Iโm just grateful I have ready made delicious and healthy food to get me through the next two days so I can rest up.
Well thatโs finally one saga over. I have wheels again! I think Iโve grown grey in my eyebrows from the stress.
Tomorrow I shall start organising insurance, put in a dashcam, look up places to get quotes for a new head unit, set up direct debits for rego, shop for seat covers and all the rest. And tidy my godawfully messy carport with months of dead leaves and crap accumulated. My neighbours will probably be rolling their eyes and sighing, โat lastโโฆ
Yeah, I normally wouldโve organised insurance first but it was touch and go as to whether this sale was even happening this week. Itโs the first thing on my list for tomorrow.
I feel so much lighter and free, even though Iโm once again chained to the regular expenses of a car. No more faffing around with carshares at odd hours, constantly checking PT times, carrying around a coat and charger, leaving things behind at home, saying no to catchupsโฆ
Ugh only got 4 hours of sleep from stress, did not pick up car last night due to poor communication from them around payment methods. Got in a really foul mood and threw aside my people-pleasing tendencies to let the seller know how disappointed I was that they wasted so much of my time after already having spent so much time on this and giving them a frankly better price than they deserve. Fuck it, I knew it made them uncomfortable and I dug in because Iโm tired of always being the one copping it.
Thankfully the husband at least gave me a ride all the way home and I found a friend whoโs kind enough to drive me back down tonight. I cannot wait for this saga to be over!!!
Itโs too far gone now as I had paid a fair bit for a pre purchase inspection and donโt have the time and energy to follow up with other sellers who havenโt got their rwc and whatnot organised yet. My brain canโt handle any more stress ๐ญ
At least I can finally confirm Iโm starting my second job next Monday. Things have been alarmingly tight after losing 5 days worth of pay thanks to my current employer dragging their heels on authorising additional work ๐
Well at this point itโs really the bank that needs to get their shit sorted as for some reason 2x large payments yesterday went through fine but the balance payment today has been held up for more than 12 hours and my bank canโt suggest any reason why except thatโฆ it happens ๐คทโโ๏ธ and might take up to 2 business days to transfer for no reason at all??? Iโm so over payment systems here!! Literally sitting around refreshing my bank app to see if the payment has gone through and hoping I can still make it in time to pick it up today but that window is narrowing. Which means another day of carshare and trouble and ugh.
As for losing 5 days of work - I should say 5 days of income, I was meant to start last Thursday, but as I only got the go ahead today, new workplace has asked me to start Monday instead (Thu being a PH and not many around Fri). So thats a real bummer. I just have to suck it up and move on and make the most of what I can control
I feel bad for kids who will grow up not knowing what theyโve missed (by extension Iโd be the same, I never really experienced Australia prior to 2009 when I first arrived). The new normalโฆ
Was feeling antsy about my job situation but just heard from my ex colleague about how ex-boss is continuing to be unreasonably snarky and critical to the point that he is pretty much just quiet quitting now despite being one of the most reliable and consistent people in the team. I feel relieved and vindicated in my decision to leave even though I didnโt have anything lined up after for a while.
Financial uncertainty can really drive one to second guessing themselves. But I did save up a good cushion precisely so I could have the option I did and not regret it
I very rarely go on the train. Had to change trains at Richmond en route to the Car on the other side of town. Got to see a lovely contrast of technology, a shiny and quiet new HCMT gliding in like itโs the shit, a doddery old diesel V/Line on the next platform, and my train is an old Alstom that looks like a cheap tin can on the outside (I hate the corrugated look) and doesnโt sound nearly as quiet as Shiny New Trainโฆ
Anyway, this might be the last time I take the train in quite a while. Itโs pretty cool people watching. There is a guy whose hair is a messy, matted nest, with uneven facial hair and oily skin, dead eyes and a defiant scowl, but heโs wearing a clean, fresh, neatly pressed suit and tie! Iโm going to guess IT. e: he got off at Malvern and had a nice-looking but well used laptop bag with him. He must be head of IT.
I really hold onto hope - for the sake of my former colleagues and the industry - that my ex-boss is just garden variety egotistic (he cannot accept that heโs just a bad manager and stress is making him even more narrow minded) He has at least given most ex staff good references and is conscious of not burning too many bridges in the industry. Still, he is being unreasonably rude, sarcastic and unsupportive to existing valuable employees who are already struggling with burnout - is that how you treat good workers who are a real rarity in this field? It would take 5+ years to train up someone as good as the guy I talked to today. Sometimes I wonder if heโs trying to tank his own business ๐
He isnโt as bad as your ex boss though, holy hell now he sounds like a legitimate psychopath. Forget red flags that needs an entire firetruck of alarms
I canโt even bear to finish For All Mankind because it got so ridiculous and poorly written.
Instead blasted through Shrinking and even though the writing is a little on the nose with the modern vernacular, it is really breezy, hilarious and sweet and just what I needed ๐
Itโs such a fun show, makes me wish I had boisterous Americans as friends for a second *. Also, I absolutely loved uber-sarcastic Harrison Ford, he absolutely killed it.
while forgetting how insanely privileged/unrealistic it is for these people to have so much free timeโฆ and for the main character not to be deregistered as a therapist ages ago for having his client live in his own house lol.
Slow Horses or Criminal Records next, maybe. Yo ho ho.
Yeah I would like something light and funny but my left eyeball absolutely hurts despite having a nap and drinking plenty and not doing much. Thank goodness I have a fair bit of premade food to eat. Day feels totally wasted.
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