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Sooooo I got the call. It's sounds promising. I won't go into too much details because it's early stages but it is a potential writing collaboration idea I had and they are receptive to the idea.
They're gonna talk to their people and see if and what can be done and we can work from there. I'm hopeful. It's going to be so cool if it comes to fruition.
I just want to lay in my new bed and new mattress and forget work ever exists.
I definitely feel different to how I did last week.
I guess, more confident, or maybe sure of myself?
It's not surprising in a way, but I didn't notice what I lost now that I have it back.
You rock gibsy. I went on a job hunt last year and got knocked back or ignored by every application I sent. It knocked my self esteem and confidence really hard. You went to soooo fucking many interviews, and if your experience is anything like mine, probably sent in 10-20x more applications. I can't imagine going through that and still putting on a brave face and going into interviews with a positive outlook. To be completely honest, I think I would've shrivelled up and died.
You're a hell of a lot stronger than you realise, and if you were that confident with all of those rejections, you must be easily the most confident person on the planet ordinarily
Edit: also, I really really appreciate all of the comments and ideas you've left when I've shared what's been happening here. I hope that my bad days haven't brought your mood down, you deserve to celebrate and enjoy the moment
I think in light of recent events youโre probably super happy and relieved as well.
Youโve been through a lot with the emotional roller coaster and to come out of it on the other side is of great relief.
Get paid, think "hmm that's a bit much", check psyslip, per hour is off. Have had payroll biff it up before, so send a quick heads up "oi you typoed and overpaid" boss says "oh yeah forgot to tell you, your hourly rate went up. So did your super".
On top of the tax cuts that's an extra $200 in my pocket. Marvellous
My sky pretty has a crane
Now let me explain what this crane is doing.
It is building an exclusive 55yo and older community called st. clare in kew. Shit out of luck if you're 54 but the joke is on them because the grand kids will visit and you're back at square 1.
ah good another eye infection. Love it. The same week daycare jack up their prices they send home headlice and eye infections. Brilliant!
Had 3 days off caffeine. Caved this morning.
Back on the caffeine choo choo train.
I've been informed that it's Vegas' 10th birthday on Saturday! I need to figure out what to get him. Think I'll hit up the butcher but I might have to wait until Saturday to do it so it doesn't spoil the surprise, because he'll smell it. I'll swing by the big pet shop too and see if I can find something he might like.
Edit: Oh it's also my nanna's 98th birthday tomorrow. I don't think she wants anything from the butcher.
I have some potentailly really good news coming today. I'm probably jinxing it by even hinting at it now but I'm excited if it happens.
did you also stash a block of chocolate somewhere and forget and now have to hunt it down? Im gonna find it! Its half a block of darrell lea rocky road ffs.
Here's an odd one (to me at least).
P's are going to a funeral tm and everyone has to chip in a $fiddy.
Extremely wealthy family. I've never heard of that before. Is that a thing now?
I understand they're expensive but just never seen that before.
Extremely wealthy and theyโre insisting people chip in for a funeral? Thatโs extremely tacky.
Iโve heard of people asking for donations to a charity rather than flowers, but never for the cost of the funeral.
E: it would be tacky even if they werenโt wealthy
I forgot to take my douche out of the shower and the plumber is in there.
FML FML FML FML
Edit: not a pipe leak or water ingress. It's my fucking washing machine. FML FML is the re gonna make me pay for this? Fuck.
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Morning! It's Thursday! Which means it's almost Friday which means it's almost the weekend!!! ๐๐๐ฎ
Did a pantry clean out today. Chucked out so much expired bottled goods, powders, etc... Found a packet of Stroopwafels, out of date by 7 years.. Yes, I ate them ,and yes they were great.
I am not an op shop person generally, but I felt like going to one today. Reddit told me the best area for op shopping is Elsternwick with 5 op shops and 1 bric a brac shop. Unfortunately none had what I really wanted - old train books, mags, newsletters, etc (the Vinnie's in Bacchus did and I bought heaps of them a few months ago), but I bought a few things anyway. I go to op shops mainly for finding cool stuff I can't really find anywhere else, not so much the prices. I got a coin bank type thing that looks like a royal mail post box from the UK (at least I think it's meant to be a money tin), a few books, and a set of 3 photos of paris on canvas frame things for 12 bucks.
How good's a breakfast burrito and a black tea for brekkie? Stuff of champions!
so, I have no feelings about Celine Dion as a singer.... but as a person who can't sleep, I am finding her documentary fascinating and admirable
Taking today off was a good call. I was woken up a bit after 1am from tooth pain. Hopefully it starts settling down a bit more today.
Was in Brunswick today for a dentist appointment. Ended up wandering around afterwards. God I miss it. Maybe I'll head back in 6 months if all goes well with this job.
It makes coming back to where I live so depressing. My mantra for the last 6 months has been "all in good time".
And so it will be once again hopefully.
In other news, I found an amazing new Middle Eastern instruments library that will expand my compositions significantly. It doesn't have as many functions as my other one, but it has a wider variety of instruments and they sound good right out of the box.
overthinking overreacting
Torn between feeling good and feeling bad. I feel good because next week I start my course and I'm changing my future.
But I feel bad because I feel so far behind. I don't even have $40k of super. I don't have a career. I've burnt my brains out trying and failing at call centre work for 10 years. I still feel like I'm failing. That I have already failed and I'm waiting for it to catch up with me. I can go back and blame the first 28 years of my life but I'm also autonomous. Why haven't I got a high powered career making big money and have a nice nest egg. I've never had enough to even travel to Bali FFS. Idk. I just feel the weight of the past more than ever and I. scared of failing again. It's gonna take me three years to get where I want to be, qualification wise, and I'll be 35. And I have to then find work and start paying my HECS off. I don't feel like I'm ever gonna have a home or feel financially secure.
Alright tough love time: Everyone is running their own race, and everyone started with their own unique handicap so you cant compare anyone elses life to your own.
BUT: If you're not happy with where your at? Fix it. Process the emotions, work through everything then get up dust yourself off and keep going. Sadly no one else is gonna step up and help you out here, so its up to you to live the life you wanna live. Set some goals and make 'em happen. Rome wasn't built in a day, but it would never have been built without starting out and some tough days.
Sky pretty
I was just getting all the meat off yesterday's roast chicken for lunch sandwiches and Bill Cat was begging real bad, but I know him, he won't eat it but he does like stealing chicken from plates!!
So I put some pieces on a plate and put that on the small table in the living room then walked away. He is stealing it right now and I can hear him eating.
Stolen chicken is yummier. ๐คญ
Went out, came back unable to unlock my laptop despite typing in correct password. Noticed that some of my keystrokes are not registering.
Looks like one of the cats managed to strategically position themselves on the keyboard just right to activate the filter keys prompt and the "yes" button on it.
Morning! Woke up because too hot. Now window is open but the night is so noisy. Good time to catch up on deleting emails.
Gonna lose my shit at work. We asked for X to be done. Its a security time sensitive thing. Sent off a spreadsheet containing all the details they needed. They report back X+Y was done. When i asked why they did Y i was told that it was on the spreadsheet.
Why did you put Y on the the spreadsheet I hear you ask? I didn't! When I asked them to produce the working spreadsheet they sent us something totally different that cherry-picked data from the original but missed critical details.
If I were HALF as incompetent as this team I'd be out on my ass, but yet somehow this team is a protected species and can continue to fuckup till the cows come home.
Gratitude thread โจ๏ธ
Grateful for having all my meals made for today. I just have to eat!
Also my dog :)
I had a shit sleep last night, but this time it was entirely my fault. I was waiting for a game to download, so left my computer on but hopped into bed at about 11:00ish where it was warm (โฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธ electric blanket). Next thing I know it's 7am. I left my lights on and had my computer screen lighting up the rest of my room but apparently tired me didn't care. Also had my electric blanket on the highest mode which is really hot, but good while awake so I'm really thirsty now
Also, I called the PAL again last night to amend my police report to also include the Xbox theft and provide the serial number of the MacBook which I managed to track down through iCloud. Unfortunately they said once the report's been made, they can't amend or update it and I have to call the local branch handling the case. I guess I'll do that today
Train lines PSA
Stony point line FTW!! looks like it's clearing / getting back to normal but double check
Anti-gratitude thread ๐คฌ
Woke up at 6 and fell back asleep, so didn't make the gym class and now I don't have time to go today.
Also kept listening to a podcast last night beyond the sleep timer because I got invested, only to wake up to find the rest of the podcast was played whilst I slept.
God this shitty weather just sucks the life right out of you, and it doesn't look to be going away anytime soon.
I packed clothing away when winter came around and now I canโt find my other pairs of trackies. Moral of the story, donโt tidy up or youโll lose your pants
Iโve ordered some more trackies while I look for the other ones. Pakige.
I also need to get the next bag of Melbcatโs biccies that have been sitting at the post office for at least a week
Been sick all this week. I should have taken more than one day off but there are meetings I want to get out of the way. My sense of taste hasn't been the best so I think I'll do a COVID test and if it comes back positive I'll take the rest of the week off
