Gotta be up at 4.45am, to catch the tram at 6am, to be at my volunteer shift at 8am. Hoping I can get arvo shifts from now on.
I wish I could teleport there - one of the very few times I wish I could drive lol
That’s an insane commitment for a volunteer role. Any chance you could carpool with someone who lives close by??
I took the LLN assessment because I didn’t want it hanging over my head. It didn’t tell me my score/how well I did, and nobody told me what I needed to get anyway.
I think I did well on the communication and written portion, but I think I sucked on the math part. I know I screwed up an answer that I know, because I misclicked and pushed the wrong button, but I couldn’t go back… Thanks for being so understanding, computer system.
I guess I’m happy I’ve done it, because it means I can’t forget about it. But now I have to have it hanging over my head until Tuesday, not knowing whether I passed or failed. My course is due to commence on the 16th, too, so I don’t have much time to fix myself if I colossally fucked it up
You probably did better than what you think you did.
Maybe
Tmi and kind of icky
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I squashed a mosquito that was buzzing around and it left blood on the wall. I don’t know whether it’s more or less gross if it’s my blood or someone else’s, but it’s icky 🤢
you’ll live, the mozzies here are clean biters
Well, I don’t have any open cuts in any case so it’s not like there’s much transmission pathway for anything anyway. Just gross having someone’s blood on my wall and hand, especially when I don’t know who’s blood it is
And tonight’s chocolate flavour is the Cadbury Vanilla Key Lime Pie that’s being sold everywhere at half price. It’s horrible. After 2 pieces, it tastes so so plasticky it’s not funny. Don’t waste your money peeps, even at half price.
Bad chocolate is worse than no chocolate!
Fully agree! Will be binning the remainder. Will fall back on Choceur dark.
Honestly who is coming up with these awful flavours? Same thing on the crunchy side of the snack aisle (looking at you, cinnamon donut twisties).
The description alone sounds vomit-inducing. Key lime pie and cheap chocolate? No thanks. I appreciate you taking one for the team though.
Sitting down to try and write a full track from that small piece from yesterday. Exciting!
Aw yeeeee 🙌
I’ve been waiting to see what the Victorian Remuneration Tribunal comes up with for the politician’s salary increase this year and it is still not released. Cutting it a bit fine as it is supposed to be implimented on 1/7.
I would support it if they decided to just put off deciding until next year and make them lose out on a pay rise altogether this year, and maybe next year too, so they can experience the situation most of the govt. employees are put in every 3-4 years when their EBA is up for review and the employer just refuses to negotiate. I really think the politician’s wages should also be capped at whatever their policy for maximum pay rises in the public sector is.
Well it looks like I won’t be taking that half day off this week. Two regular staff out of five being on leave near EOFY is a bit much… luckily one gets back next week. Annoyingly, I have some stupid site visits scheduled for Monday that I can’t get out of. I really wanted to take that day off. I’ll see if I can put off the reports for them for later in the week and leave early Monday otherwise I’ll never get onto the shit I need to do asap. And try and get some extensions on stuff that the returning colleague can pick up on so I can clear all that this week.
I am Tired. Glad that past me bought some frozen veg for a quick cheap healthy dinner on days like today.
Do dogs eat grass to puke or do they puke because they ate the grass? Anyway, thank goodness for the wet & dry vac.
Mostly eating grass and puking are independent. Mr Woof wants to stop and graze every time we go past an overgrown naturestrip, if it was something that caused him to vomit I’d be constantly surrounded by dog puke. I suspect the link between grass and puking is more that grass is not something that is very digestible to dogs so tends to show up whole and identifiable. It might also be something that occasionally they eat to try to settle their stomach, much like we might have a dry cracker. But just like you can’t assume everyone who sits down to cheese and biscuits is feeling nauseous most dogs are not feeling sick when they eat grass.
I agree on the benefits of a wet & dry vac. I have a little dustbuster style spot cleaner carpet shampoo thing which has been used to clean up many an accidental pet mess.
I think he’s on the munchies because he’s not usually a grass eater. I have a spot cleaner too that I’m about to get out. The vac I’m gonna have to clean tomorrow because I heard chunks.
I believe my dog used to do it when he felt sick. I am deducing this because I spent a lot of time outdoors with him, and he never ate grass as a regular thing. Didn’t interest him. But on the rare occasion he did, he would soon puke and wouldn’t be very active. I can’t really know for sure what he was feeling but I am assuming he felt sick in his stomach and some deep dog instinct told him to eat grass to help him spew up?
That’s what I reckon too. Those catnip treats may not have agreed with him after all. Oops.
Just finished refurbishing a wool hand knitted cable cardi. Replaced all buttons, fixed all loose threads and reset the sleeves. Looks great now. 🌞
well that was fun. knocked off work, I made muffins while His Lordship finished up a call, put them to cool while we wandered up to big pig for brisket, wander home, His Lordship cleans the litter boxes as it’s bin night and somehow manages to rip the hot water tap entirely out of the fucking wall.
Good thing I was planning on putting quarter turns in this weekend already.
runs around slapping moisture meter on walls. NOW I GOT THE PARANOIIIIDS
Get dat 33% beep.
Oh this house is old enough that some of the copper piping will set it off. Nothing like an OL in an area of a suspected leak…
About to perform the phonecalls summoning ritual called a ‘shower’.
If performed correctly, your phone will ring right in the middle of it when you’re washing your hair
It worked! But I must have done something in the incantation differently because my phone didn’t ring until AFTER the shower and I was mostly dressed
Good on the nurses for negotiating a decent pay rise so that they’re less horrifically underpaid. It’s such a dangerous and important line of work.
Thankyou for your support!
So things have quietened down a bit since Mr P’s Hulk smash of the bed. He is now using some salvaged wood bits of the bed and other wood bits to build himself a new base. He’s done this before (built himself a day bed for the man cave) so he’ll probably end up with something ok-ish. Good; he needs a project, and he hasn’t been coping well with becoming a house husband.
The Minipeelers were surprisingly unphased by the whole incident. Sadly, I think they’re used to their dad’s spontaneously nutty outbursts.
Elder Minipeeler is doing fantastically with his treatment for anxiety. He’s spending slightly longer at school each time and he’s really starting to noticeably change. He wants to get fit so he’s roped in Miniest as a fitness buddy, doing things like dancing with those kids dancercise apps for exercise, and mock WWE WrestleMania lol. The latter is, as a parent, both really entertaining and a little alarming at times (“No you can not German suplex your brother!”)
Good; he needs a project, and he hasn’t been coping well with becoming a house husband.
Is he talking to someone about it all? Cause smashing up a bedhead is a bit of a red flag that the mental health is maybe not too good.
Maybe worth setting up some more projects for him after the bed assuming this project goes ok.
Yeah the mental health is not great. I think he talks to his mates a bit but it’s an echo chamber where most of them are drinkers/chronic long term weed users and are all enabling each other, so it’s not all that healthy. He’s having mental health assessments at the moment as part of his medication review so hopefully that leads to something positive for him. In the meantime I have lots of things for him to do lol.
Don’t dump a full list on him. “Hey babe I know you’re not feeling great. When you’re up to it do you think you could tackle X task?” Lots of praise for even attempting said task. Don’t let on there’s a backlog of projects
That’s a sound strategy.
Is there a Men’s Shed near you? This sort of thing is what that organisation is so damn good for. Bunch of blokes getting together to make shit and talk without getting stressed about it or dealing with money shit. Usually charitable projects like toy making and stuff for the disadvantaged.
There is a men’s shed near us, and it’s a great idea, but he went along once with a mate of his and didn’t like it. It was a few years ago so I can’t exactly remember the reason, maybe he should give it another go. Sounded cool to me; women’s social groups near me seem to be either sewing or craft related, full of seniors, or rich women networking while doing yoga or pilates lol.
Heading to interview now. Still haven’t heard back from the other place. I find it easier emotionally to assume the worst instead of living in a state of nervous anxiety.
Did get another 2 calls this morning for other places so that’s cool!
Enjoy your day guys ❤️
That’s the way to do it. I just apply and move on, it probably looks bad when I do get a call because I can’t remember the place or the position because it was all so long ago in jobseeker time
Exactly. Sometimes I find myself getting a bit carried away thinking about a particular role, or beating myself up over something I may have messed up in the interview.
Pessimism works well for job hunting
Sometimes you see a nice job and start imagining your life if you got it. I saw a nice communications job that could be based in the Morewell/Moe area. It would be nice to live in a small town with no commute and a cushy corporate job, but you can’t get too carried away with these things.
I’ve been fucked over by the job hunt in almost every way imaginable so I don’t believe I have a job until I receive the first paycheck
That’s the trap I fall into. Start daydreaming about what it’ll be like, what the co-workers will be like, what I’ll spend my first paycheck on etc etc
I’ve had 2 contracts withdrawn after my police check came back with a shoplifting fine from 9 years ago. Literally had the job, but apparently making a mistake while really fucked up is enough to scare clients.
That really hurt.
I’m just imagining you closing you eyes and whispering his name 3 times to summon Simon.
Simon says hire me lol
