Melbourne

We'll start with January's numbat photo.

Existential crisis 💫

(She gets half a roll of toilet paper for her nest every week after I clear away the old stuff. Thankfully, she just likes laying on it. No idea why)

Sent off an email to the general manager to have a meeting face to face next week about the police check.

I expect to lose the contract, but I still have a little hope that I won't.

Also I have a migraine😔

Goodnight everyone ❤️

Gratitude thread!

My sister bought a little studio apartment, after being dejected because she missed out at an auction a couple of weeks ago. I'm happy for her :)

I also had a lot to do at work today, so the time went by quickly.

Heading to a dnb/jungle/dubstep gig tonight. Gonna see how many lemons I can give away.

Just some rando handing out lemons to randos.

Used to do it in the before times and they all went so keen to see if that still holds.

I think I'll head to the border for the night so I can smash out another 6-8 hours of my audiobook (Pet Sematary read by Dexter's Michael C. Hall). I've been meaning to check out Yackandandah for a while so I can go by there as a detour on my way home tomorrow.

Plans: sorted. Well.. nearly. I need to see if I can find a room up there.

Edit: sorted.

After jumping into the puffer jacket thread yesterday with a bold claim you need neither a big jacket nor a puffer....I succumbed today and am now one of the great Melbourne puffy community.

My fav little local store was having a sale so I got a proper down one for half price so just a bit over a hundred. I have to admit I am very toasty warm

Already only 6.4 degrees. Would not be surprised if it gets to 0 tonight.

Going to throw something controversial out there. It bothers me that virtually all advertisments feature a mixed races couple. It bothers me how virtually all media nowadays is so ultra sensitive to be politically correct that any white person plus white person combo is 'blacklisted' (lol).

I have no issue with mixed race relationships at all. But I do have an issue that all media seems to have started to portray the 'typical' relationship as a mixed race one.

I told the man if he insists on keeping The Beard during Winter, then atleast trim it away from the top lip because sitting here whilst enjoying my dinner, I have seen some disturbing things.

Lol. The Beard is gone now. All of it.

He feels naked now.

It’s been several years since my best Winter sleep period ever. Trying it again (sleeping with the window cracked). Think it went well last night.

This weird little weirdo is actually excited about it.

Cheers! 🥒🍸

Tax return lodged!! Of course my old employer's income statement isn't tax ready, they have ALWAYS been so slow at paying super, lodging tax details, etc. Meanwhile my current employers are on the ball - one is a huge org, the other a tiny firm, and they managed to get shit sorted. I didn't bother waiting for the old guys, the sums correlate to my bank deposits. Hopefully it's all in order, anticipating a decent chunk that I can put towards getting my car's head unit replaced with one that does android auto.

There's also small silver lining to my reduced employment over the last FY, should be getting $511 back as a tax offset. Overall, a huge relief vs my shockingly low tax refund last year of $250 or so

For some reason I have Handel's The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in my head this morning and I just imagine... cats. Specifically, a glossy-maned cat of regal bearing sauntering into a room on an overhead ledge and looking down on us unworthy humans. I am a bit cat-starved. I have much more freedom to adopt a cat compared to past years, but wondering if it's a good time when I might need to cut back on work for a year to finish my studies...

edit: I shall ponder about this some more while I knuckle down and start doing my taxes. Did not save a copy of all my payslips from my old job which was dumb. Zero interest in contacting them again, so I will just work backwards to figure out how many hours of work (and therefore WFH I did).

Also didn't realise I could claim airfare and accom for my work-related conference last year as a deduction as well. Score!

Head north = Find sunshine

I really do wish framing pictures wasn't so expensive. And Australia being Australia means that when you shop around prices seem to roughly the same everywhere.

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Done my shopping for the week. Now to clean the bird cage

Help me hivemind: where have I hidden the double sided tape? It is not in the tape drawer (yes I have one of those)

The meat is finally in.....

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Can it be, can your team win with minutes to go?!

Hope you’re watching!

throws chicken tenders in airfryer then slaps in a sammich slathered with cheese and kewpie mayo i did not spend 6 hours removing render by hand to cook my own dinner, absolute bullshit this is!

so tired, could barely sleep and strange dreams

minestrone for lunch .... brr it's cold inside

sewing is done, now to tidy up and to press the panels

tomorrow I will cover the chairs 👍🏻

Someone smashed the glass to the advertising billboard thingy at the bus stop near the shops. Kind of surprised the rest of the glass isn't smashed too, they just went for the bit they kept the ads in. Surprisingly they didn't even steal the ad (just a poster Blu tacked to the inside by the looks of it), just smashed the glass. Missed opportunity imo

Also, this is the same stop I got abused at a few months ago, and one of like 3 places I've ever been truly scared for my safety while I've been out. Nice to see it hasn't changed one bit (I try to avoid it now)

Edit: just got back to my hotel and there 3 cop cars + a crime scene services van parked out front. About 6 cops got in the lift with me, but they got off the floor below mine. Can't eavesdrop, but they're opposite my room pretty much (there's an internal courtyard), so I can spy. In any case, looks like somebody's having a bad dsy