Melbourne

It's been a good week now since I have had to deal with any people receiving DM spam. I don't want to jinx it, but we may have weathered that particular storm.

I'm still a bit surprised (though not unpleasantly) at the little microcosm of activity that these daily threads have.

There's a question I've been asking people for a while, might as well ask here too: what gets you up in the morning?

Woke up at 6, went to the bathroom and a wasp stung me on the back of my neck. Never seen a wasp like it. Fastest most erratic insect I've ever seen. Whole right side of the head felt like it was on fire for about an hour. Felt like a bullant sting but went for way longer.

Don't normally get too upset will little bites but this really tested my limit. Cheaper than a coffee though.

Had to stand up to my manager today. He took it pretty well.

Surprised to be honest.

Those little jobs that you put off doing but need to be done. I'm filling up all the soap dispensers.

Motivation at rock bottom. Just want to delete any work commitments until I get back. Some other family stuff has cropped up that has me worried about a different relative... they might be in danger of spiralling badly and doing something stupid (but not reportable). Which might set off a bunch of other dominos. Nothing much I can do from here at this stage but it weighs on my mind. Would be nice for all that to hold off until late June thanks.

Just saw someone whip it out and take a leak right there on the ground with heaps of people around at the Bourke x Swanston st tram stop 🤮

Got my postal vote. Democracy will occur after breakfast

I'm going to need a lot more potting mix to pack up all the plants I want to take with me. The iris at least can be divided and stored over winter without soil, but most of the other things will need to be potted up.

I'm hoping the landlord will let me plant a bunch of stuff in ground so I won't need to buy bigger pots etc. for the future. It's a pretty ratty garden at the moment, so I can't see why they'd say no. Plus they can't "unreasonably refuse" permission to have a vegetable garden, and most of my stuff is edible.

I planted up a pot with some flowering bulbs this morning, I should also be able to take nasturtiums, kangaroo paw, borage, comfrey, artichoke, canna edulis (arrowroot), midjin berries, raspberrries, strawberries, lemon, lime, mandarin, apple, pear, thyme, rosemary, mint and maybe a bay tree. I'm sure I'll find a few others as well.

I've been here at the beach house about a month now

nearly all settled in, still a lot of work but the chaos is receding 🙂

2nd coat of paint is done, table is starting to look good. I think I'll let it harden , then sand and do one last coat.

I think I found the perfect childcare watch. The Casio gmbd300 is your regular slim G-Shock, but can connect to your phone via Bluetooth.

It's not a smart watch, but you can do all the fiddly shit like setting the time and alarms on your phone and sync it with the watch

Man, this behemoth of a laptop has really chewed into my luggage allowance. Can't take my work laptop, will have to deal with accessing work stuff from SharePoint on my personal laptop instead.

I've been in a mad rush trying to clear out the fridge and tidy things up before tomorrow... Plus side is I made a kickass fried rice with all the leftover rice, enough for brunch tomorrow before the flight and for the freezer as an excellent meal for when I get back.

Once again I cannot be grateful enough for my dishwasher. Takes so much out of the chaos. My mind is in a million places... But I'm almost through my Anxiety List!

Went to Aldi to get some beef ravioli and they were all sold out so I bought a lasagna instead and some fresh noodles for the weekend maybe.

Never tried their lasagna before so I guess I’ll find out if it’s any good.

Some school kids saw me and called out to me as I was doing my shopping. Ahh so that’s what it feels like.

Installed a video doorbell on the fence/gate today. I can both spy on the street and keep the gate locked, but still deal with deliveries / visitors.

Amazon doesn't even try with deliveries. I have an empty plant pot next to my front door, perfect for concealing delivered parcels. The Australia Post guy who does the deliveries in my hood gets it. Amazon just leaves the package on my front door mat for anyone to pinch. Hopefully it's still there when I get home tonight.

I'm a very positive, happy, go with the flow kinda person... but my god do I dislike a lot of people.

Stomach angry. Bring your empty gas canisters, free renewable energy for all!

Nooo… Melbcat has been feeling stressed lately and licking her little tummy raw.

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She’s still been getting her calming Zylkene and I’ve been neglecting the garden to avoid leaving her inside by herself. But she is overdue for her Solensia (thanks health dramas and 4 days of public holidays). Maybe she’ll come good when I sort that.

Otherwise maybe I can put her in a baby’s bodysuit (with the bottom snaps left open) as a way of protecting her skin. This however… would not help her stress.

I am considering taking a leave of absence from uni next year and getting a job so I can properly treat my AuDHD and issues with procrastination and work avoidance. Any job. I don't want to sit at a desk for eight hours, five days a week, but if that's what I have to do, I'll do it. Very sick of being anxious and stressed all the time when I don't have to be. Also the thought of going into a classroom for the next few weeks is making me really anxious to the point where I am about to have a meltdown in front of all those kids.

DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'

HOLD ON TO THAT FEELIN'

STREETLIGHTS

PEOPLEEEEEEEEEEEE

this week back from easter has been atrocious. god I miss sleeping in !!!!

Why do I need to turn the volume up to read the subtitles?