Melbourne

As of 4:47pm today, Baku's gone independent! 🎉

I. Am. Done.

With work for the year. Out of office on, notifications off. Yeeeahhh. Now to clean up and get packed for a wee getaway.

I am thinking of deleting all social apps for a few weeks. I suspect I will keep jerboa but going to try to have less screen time for a bit. If I don't catch has then have a good one 🍻🍻🍻

I'm back from Shelbyville guys. I have hours and hours and hours worth of slides that I must show youse.

Ok. Im turning up for my morning meeting at 9:30am, hanging around for an hour or two then sneaking back home.

Also, I'm not gonna make it to midnight tonight. Would someone else mind doing the thread please? I'll be back in action tomorrow night ♥️

🤣🤣🤣

Geelong trip was interesting.

I am not going to make such a trip to see the husband's cousins again. I invited them to the gallery and the cafe there, my treat. It's a small place in lovely environs.

The train was cool , fast and efficient.

I meet up and they said there is no parking anyway so let's go to el cheapo shopping mall instead. Even with a denim jacket on I felt over dressed and out of place.

I gave the lovely b'day gift , which was the reason behind the visit. She loved it all.

We had sandwiches at the mall , they paid for themselves, they complained about the price even tho it was super cheap.

After some shopping they took me back to the train station. 🫥

I walked to gallery and gardens, which were beautiful.

Buying an eGift Card for Christmas:
Nath: 'Hey Woolies, I wish to purchase a gift card on your site, but want to delay the gift until Christmas morning. Can this be done?'
Woolies: 'Of course not. If you buy a gift card at 2am, we send a text message to your recipient at 2am. They clearly want this gift right now!'

I'm not going crazy, right? It's a super obvious thing when buying a gift card that the person buying the gift would want to specify a delivery date/time as well as a recipient yeah? I told my work colleague and he reckons I'm an edge case. Most customers would want the gift sent immediately. Even if I wanted it same-day, I'd want the option to send it during waking hours.

Nearly slapped a pixel out of a womans hand on the train today. I often drive out catch the vline in cause its a shit tone more comfortable, and its easy to nap (as a ton of people do). Got woken up by a lady talking/half shouting down the phone about some project plan, but she ends the call with "sorry, your breaking up! I'll see you in 15 minutes anyway". Mother fucker are you serious?! have SOME consideration. even if people around you werent asleep! your gonna see them in 15 minutes anyway.

The director told me today she's resigning, and that there's a wave of resignations coming from everyone else.

It was so good until the new owners took over.

Been talking to the people who have been here for ages. They're absolutely shattered. It was apparently amazing before.

Bad timing I guess.

Made it to the bellarine.

Chillos growing quickly which is good. Hoping for dem mini-jungle vibes soon. Not sure why the top right ones (thai) are happier than the rest, hope they're not crosses. Habs at the front seem uniform-ish.

Im so desperate for Friday to get here and to finally have some days off!! Have been doing 60-65 hour weeks at work for over a month now and on the weekends ive been up ladders installing picture rails and setting up all sorts of stuff for the photography business we are starting for my partner. So to say im exhausted would not even scratch the surface haha and i really need to get back to my hobbies and proper routine before my mental health suffers immensely!!

It has been about 5 months since I've had a night of sleep where it haven't woken up at least twice.

I would kill for a full night's sleep.

I’ve escaped work and I’m home already!

Yay

yay, day trip by train to Geelong today. I'm wearing comfy clothes, have books to read but do not have Ted in a catpack.

decisions, cardigan or denim jacket 🤔 crocodile or leopard earrings 🤔

Looks like I'm going to get this job. I put in for the sorts of roles I want and never get anywhere, then recruiters contact me for roles like this and I just smash the interviews.

This one just might work out. Maybe it will be the good job in the area I've been trying to get away from

The self confidence after a haircut is like a drug. Only lasts like two days though. Hmmmm that gives me an idea. Three haircuts a week? Chase that dragon?

laater guys, love you all 😘

OK new scopes booked in on Monday. I am a glutton for punishment and ended up asking for a slightly more thorough cleaning procedure because I was a bit dubious about the results the first time, effectively doubling the amount of slop I have to drink. Merry Christmas to me!

Good swim.

Dune warning is misleading. that is not someone falling to their demise but rather someone having a good time

So freaking grateful I have a day off tomorrow. I'm cooked, I don't think I'll do much at uni, but I will catch up on organising token gifts and life admin nonsense. Working out what to take for Xmas lunch next Wednesday that I can carry on the train to the 'Rat (I've decided I'm not driving - save energy and petrol $). It'll be a mostly Sri Lankan style thing, I could do a simple curry or two but I'm conscious of not having the whole v/line carriage smell of it.

"Yeah I felt horrible at 3am and have been sick for days, but I feel well enough to come in for the Christmas lunch" are you fucking kidding me?! Jesus people STAY HOME!

Me right now, actual footage from the office...

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There's no work for me to do. Yet i have to go to the office tomorrow and literally sit around doing nothing.

Ah well. YouTube it is.

Doing some late night work as I caught up with a friend this morning which railroaded my day. Ughh people coming out of the woodwork with new jobs for me to do the week before Christmas. All of which can wait until the new year. I said to myself this week I will only be finishing up projects on the go, and I intend to stick to that.

Last week while going through customs my backpack got flagged. Off it goes behind the perspex. Gets to the end. Officer looks at the X-ray. Gives the ok.

This morning, same thing happens. Off goes my very full but underweight bag. Not so nervous this time. I met back up with it at the end but this time he decides to rifle through my bag to find the alleged culprit. I am now curious. My ziplock bag with moisturisers and sunscreens. At first he tries to read them, then he opens the bag up and dives in. Comments such as: "Sometimes these are 125ml, oooo nice moisturiser and lovely".

I was half expecting him to try some on.

While I was packing some clothes into my suitcase in a hurry it fell off the bench and fucking walloped my leg. I don't even remember which part of it hit me. It was an instant "oh fuck" when it was falling but I could move in time

Now I have an about 8cm long red, swollen, very painful bruise on my shin. This happened about 4 hours ago, and I did try to brush it off, but it hurt walking through the shops to go get my roast chicken and I got many stares (I wear shorts). I also don't have a first aid kit or ice pack yet, so uhh, go me I guess. Oh, and I'm a tummy sleeper so it's hurts to lie down 🙃

Oopsie afternoon nap. Not like I was going to do much work anyway....

Finally signed up for flybuys. If I’m spending the money on groceries anyway I might as well get a free kitchen knife or Bunnings gift card for it… Still feels kind of wrong. Even though I already have a Woolies rewards card and probably gave up all privacy long ago.

At least I’m probably confusing their algorithm by buying baby food and bibs for the cat.

I downloaded Thunderbird and set my emails up on it. For some reason it makes me feel 10,000 years old using an email client. But it's great for gmail on your phone as it gets rid of the ads

Decisions decisions.

My boss just told me that the xmas do is this afternoon - but I also have a pre-existing dentist appointment for late this afternoon and there's no possibility of re-scheduling it to a pre-xmas slot. Will have to wait until the new year at least.

So, dentist or xmas party? - so far the dentist is winning.