Melbourne

I can stand up straight without pain. 😭

Looks like I have an interview next week for a service delivery manager role!!!!

I also got in touch with a recruiter who handles contracts, and he's shown interest which is great!

I feel like I haven't achieved a thing today

So tired. Right now my health and pain sucks balls so not a lot of art is getting done (try zero). It feels a bit useless to try and progress on a hobby that constantly gets derailed. Just had a zoom appointment with a specialist and have my fingers crossed they're good going forward.

I miss the baby pudding but am still kind of getting back on my feet, the updates sound like she's doing well, and it might be good to let her to settle in so she feels more comfortable the next time she has to stay in the cattery. I might ask about picking her up on Monday because that's her week

Tafes next intake is in July, which is le sad. But! I have an interview for a part-time role this Tuesday coming. So I can make some money in the meantime. My application to be a volunteer has also progressed.

So I think I'm on the right track to switching careers. Still gonna be a few years until I get to where I want to be with new skills (cert III is 12 months, and the cert IV is 2 years), but I feel much better.

Everything is coming up Milhouse.

There's an older couple who live next door. They have a bungalow out the back which they have moved into, and rented out the main house.

Pretty sure there's a couple of ice addicts that have moved in. If im right, I'm moving out. Not putting up with that shit.

Struggle street today. Like Im not really here or not really connected or something. Just feels off and a little bit unreal.

I've slept most of the day. It makes such a difference if I manage to find a sleeping position that is pain free.

P!nk is going off at the stadium. Big bass and it sounds like they've got the pyro working overtime. Big badda boom.

Mr Woof and Miss Meow have now had their first experience of having a pet sitter while I am away. Mr Woof warmed to the idea once he learned walks were involved. Miss Meow thought it prudent to hide, and my pet sitter possibly believes I was lying about having a cat at all as she did not show herself the whole time. It took about an hour of me being home for her decide it was safe to come out, but she seems relaxed enough and is lounging in an arm chair doing a thorough groom now.

dont forget to drink some water folks. Don't let the headache be the first warning you haven't had any water all day, learn from my mistakes!

Having Prosecco about my problems, because that fixes everything /s

I want to write songs,
But I can't write music,
For some talent I long.
All my beats are acoustic,
Finger-rapping, feet tapping,
But it sounds all wrong,
So I just keep writing.

I type these words and wonder of an alternate me:
She writes her lyrics for the gifted and the wealthy,
She's well-off, and doesn't want for anything,
On the radio she hears her songs playing.

But I'm not her, I'm just me,
Just a poor writer, stereotypically.
A smoker and a drinker I'm a walking trope,
Desperately writing myself some hope.

Tooth fixed. Dentist needs to trim his nose hair. I am banned from biting apples forevermore.

Drove to Buchan and back today. Boy what a pretty valley. Too bad the house I went to look at was F U C K E D. From the dirt to the sky that house was fucked. I've lived in some rough places but this was next level. https://www.domain.com.au/5554-buchan-orbost-road-buchan-vic-3885-2019045349

EDIT: and by rough, one place I squatted had a hole in the roof where rain came into the room and it was still better than this place I just looked at.

Cheers everyone 🍺

About to cook this chicken pinwheel thing I spotted at the market. It kinda looks like chicken mince with veggies? I dunno. Looked interesting though!

I consider a lot of the Taylor Swift mania going around to be, at best, overblown. I'm not a fan of her music either. However, one thing she should be thoroughly commended for - she has made mousy beige hair fashionable. For the first time in history.

It's been 9 days of no sugar. Except for the teeny tiny tinkerbell Cherry Ripe I borrowed from the Favourites box yesterday. It does get easier.

Good game Blackcaps. Sorry for your loss but you earnt me two cups of teas tomorrow morning. Thank you.

Good morning boys and girls and such

I managed to poison myself with (presumably) food somehow. Now I'm going through everything I've eaten on the last week trying to figure out what I could possibly have not cooked right, and hoping that it wasn't any food I've shared

And of course the very worst parts of it hit at 2 in the morning, and very "conveniently" 2 months after someone had the bright idea to stop subsidising 24 hour pharmacies. I even checked to see if any of the servos on uber/doordash had any useful medication, but they didn't

Let's just say I'm glad I had an antacid after yesterday's spicy concoctions. My rear exit certainly felt it today

Also, is anyone getting a smoky-ish smell or feel the air quality is a bit ordinary today? Or am I just imagining things after reading about the fires out west? I know it was a bit smoky for some yesterday, but the fire's heading north today so I don't expect a lot of the smoke is being directly blown towards Melbourne, and I'm not in the western suburbs

I wish the general population isn't so easy to scam.

There's this Chinese made Indonesian ponzi app where a user can pay rp 13 million (AUD$1300), do some basic tasks that's a little more than tapping a "download" button and watching a fake progress bar fill up, and earn a minimum of aud$45 daily.

Of course nothing is more convincing to my wife than two of her sisters and her mum, who all in less than a month got their money back plus more cleared into their banks.

Thankfully just AUD$300 later she apologises for calling me a skeptic last week. 😴

Not too bad being at another site for the morning, got to catch up with people I used to work with and it was a lot quieter there.

I've come back and also managed to get a handful of I think cherry tomatos to add to my dinner sandwiches, I hope they taste nice.

Come on end of the day, hurry up!