So I know I always call him Mr. Omoikiri but that’s just for ease because he’s my human and he has been for a long time and we always knew we were stuck with each other for forever. But I guess he really is (soon to be) mr. Omoikiri now
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So I know I always call him Mr. Omoikiri but that’s just for ease because he’s my human and he has been for a long time and we always knew we were stuck with each other for forever. But I guess he really is (soon to be) mr. Omoikiri now
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Congratulations 🎉 After the vanilla slice incident he did owe you big time though.
He was on thin ice after that
hah I'd forgotten about that.
Maybe he's making up for it by proposing.
Omg congratulations!
oooh congrats!
Congrats! That is a lovely ring
CONGRATULATIONS!
Also, nice ring.
To Mr and Mrs Omoikiri! 🥂
Shiny!
FUCK YEAH! Oh that's bloody awesome! Congratulations!
(Also spoilers work on the Jebora app that's great!)
The changes I have been making to diet, exercise & no alcohol have been doing me good. In the past I was constantly running out of sick leave, now I have just passed one year without taking a single day. I now understand how people can end up with such high leave balances.
Oh the man is not well. This is about the 4th cold he's ever had in the 28 years that I've known him. I'm keeping busy prepping because if I go down too the kid will have to look after us and she only knows how to cook 2 minute noodles and scrambled eggs. I did however show her how to use the airfryer. Please pray for us.
Dodgy property developers on Four Corners tonight. I have laid in a supply of popcorn. Should be fun.
We ate already. Used the new crockery for Korean ramen, mushrooms, bok choy, coriander, crunchy noodles, gyozas, an egg and Kimchi on the side. Little dog is very confused about the time. I promised the kid if she's hungry later we'll have mini pizzas or chips and gravy.
Just returned from hospital. Honestly thought I was having a heart attack last night. So thankful to be back home with my kids again. I think I’ll keep them home from school today and spend the day with them.
Bit the bullet and got a med cert through to Wednesday. I still have some unavoidable work things but this will significantly help reduce the timesheet anxiety
Ugh, I need to do something about my weight, wearing office clothes again has me acutely aware of just how much I've gained in the last few years. Just feels so out of my control due to working shift work and often doing shifts up to 12hrs long, I just work, sleep, and eat because I'm miserable about it all.
I have almost reached 50 reviews/ratings on goodreads. That's about how exciting my life is these days.
What are you all excited/happy about recently?
Zoo trip was achieved. Feet are sore. I walked there and most the way back. 🤨
I went on a mini African safari by seeking out all the African animals. Except the gorillas, I feel too ashamed to look at gorilla people that are effectively sentient caged slaves.
The baboons did their baboon stuff, lazing on warm rocks in the sun, grooming, wanking, teasing each other, shoving their bum against the glass windows to give spectators an intimate view. The little bastards would run off laughing.
Lemurs are actually marsupilamis . I always knew this and seeing their hanging nests confirmed it.
Giraffes were sweet. The lions were sleeping in the sun. They have cute tufts of fur under their arms.
Bin chickens, native to Northern Victoria, have taken residence en masse in the crowns of tall palm trees, making messes, skwarking and shredding the vegetation.
So, at the start of the year my regular GP said that I "probably have chronic fatigue" and that it's likely due to my depression. But lately my depression has been okay (anxiety, okay maybe not so much but I've been under far better control all things considered). And yet the feeling has come back of being super tired, headache, with pain at the back of my neck/top of my spine.
Anyway, found someone locally who specialises in chronic fatigue. He's away on holidays as of today though, so it'll be a while before I even set up a chat with him. Still, I'm hoping maybe it can lead to a bit more than a vague diagnosis with no real plan.
Some days the HR office has a revolving door and it's a non-stop day of people stepping in. No time for a break. Barely time for hydration and bathroom.
Tomorrow I'm cheering up my manager and I by getting us out of the office to buy some more spicy nuts in our lunch break.
We'll get to make jokes about spicy nuts, get out of the office, and get some tasty snacks.
I see this as a win.
It's a bloody beautiful day, I'm going to the zoo.
I'm going to the zoo zoo zoo
How about you you you
You can come too too too
I'm going to the zoo zoo zoo
I'd don't know where that came from but have a good time anyway.
yo ho ho a weeding I did go.
(Slowly untangling the horrible fact that all the things I fucking love doing have been tied up in a BIG TIME TRAUMA and now nothing feels like fun it all feels like duty. So on advice I go out and do something and then just drop it and fuck off when it stops being fun. I've been given a sociopath license!!)
I read the first part as "wedding" and thought holy fuck, what kind of wedding would result in the follow up statement. Then I read "weeding" and realised that both statements aren't connected. But if they were, holy fuck, what kind of weeding would result in the follow up statement!?
The advice you received though... that's gold, right there.
I'm very early to Lizzo but my anxiety is soothed because I'm here and in the correct seat.
Getting my ass kicked by the flu/rsv/whatever else nasty ass virus is getting around at the moment. Have the whole week off and need to actually proper rest. Hopefully I'll be doing a lot of bored shit posting this week.
Oh my god I'm an idiot I miscalculated the 30 days from when my previous private health insurance cover ended and now I have to re-serve all my waiting periods FUUUUUUCK what a fucking waste of all that money I paid
Work was just super stressful today.
Gonna just go home and play some Sims tbh.
This woman next door (next building, not in mine) just won't. stop. yelling. Someone else in my building yelled at her to 'shut the fuck up', which made me giggle. But this is the same yelly woman from a few weeks ago... she has not abated; she goes out for whatever, and just yells the most heinous stuff. Super triggering content, like really bad, littered with swears (I swear a lot, she makes me cringe) and I just cannot deal anymore. I don't anyone else on my side of the building can deal anymore.
I wish I had of gone to Perth with the cat and mein liebe instead of renewing this lease; it would have been difficult, and expensive, but we could have made it work... I could be chilling the fuck out at Noranda Palms Red Rooster right now. Fuck. FUCK.
I have an actual migraine from being triggered, I swear to FUCKING GOD if I have night terrors tonight I am going to fucking SMASH SOMETHING FUCK
/ENDRANT ENDME
EDIT: AND XBOX GAME PASS IS GOING UP TO TWENTY-MOTHERFUCKING-DOLLARS MICROSOFT YOU ABSOLUTE SLAGATHOR GREEDY MFS
Anyone travelling to the city on the Mernda line is in for an interesting trip.
Our train was stopped at Reservoir, and is not connecting to the city.
Some kind of point failure in the line ahead.
Fun times.
Typical, I had to escalate my resignation to upper management as my boss hadn't bothered to reply to me. Such a lazy spineless pos. He had sent the letter on to upper management. A simple cc would have been easy. At least I don't have to rely on him to get my separation certificate. Not sure what to do next, I want to have the book thrown at them but I also want to put it all behind me. My best thought is to focus on the future and accept that I had a music and dj career far and beyond most people's dreams. Let the people left there deal with the bullshit themselves.
Easy day, dental hygienist appt, wasted trip to the bank, my first hiccup using my preferred name. Whatever, these things take time and I have the rest of my life to sort the beauraucratic crap out. Working in the moring at 630 am. It's nice becoming a morning person and I finish work before afternoon traffic. The cats always get me up pretty early but I'll need an early night. I'm tired of saying onward and upward, I just want a peaceful life. This endless search for more, better, easier is a load of capitalist crap. No walk, had an afternoon nap and glad I decided a rest day was in order.
I cannot brain today. Shall we play a round of Bad Pet Art? Send me a pic of your furry (or otherwise) pet and a maximum of 3 minutes shall turn them into such glorious disasters as:
New Justified series starting on Wednesday. I am unbelievably excited.
The dentist is such a mixed concept for me. On the one hand, they come along with their little wizzadry hand tools and save your teeths from falling out, and hopefully save you a little pain. But on the other, as an outside observer the noises those machines make 100% sound like a torture device
Teeth are the weakest link
Goodnight everyone, sleep well, luv u all 😘
I have just been going through the material for the feedback on the proposed anti-vilification laws.
I find it a bit disturbing that there is so much focus on which groups should be protected. I absolutely agree that we should widen the coverage of the laws, but this feels like an exercise of deciding who is deserving of protection and who is not. This seems likely to both leave gaps in who is protected, but also likely to end up with court cases where the offender argues that their behaviour was legal because they hate someone for an allowable reason. Some awful variation of "I don't hate gay people, I just hate rainbows".
I am definitely in favour of this over what we have now, but it does feel like starting with a list of groups deserving of protection is a terrible way to make a law.
So I finally got off my butt to get a hideous photo of myself for my passport renewal of which I had to pay handsomely for a rapid renewal, and… my mug was too big.
So I had to pay for an AusPost mugshot. Like, truly, a mugshot. The only thing missing was an orange jumpsuit.
If I didn’t like photos before, now I truly detest them. 😂
Oh dear, it's about 4 degrees outside according to BOM, it's not going to be a very pleasant morning outside when I go out.
Pray for me!
hahahha my co-worker was showing me stuff his kid plays on Spotify when takes him to school, the tracklists consists of bangers such as: Big Chungus Fart, Techno Farts, I Pooped My Pants (In A Bowling Alley) and the all time classic - Sea Shanty Fart.
Time to sew up some patches to fix these pants - music reccs are welcome and wanted!
edit: these are great!! pls never stop haha
edit2: 😍 😍 😍 ty ty these are 👩🍳 😗 👌
Day 22 of exercise program and day 6 of tummy exercises completed. I'm back baby 😎. The foot is much better today and I'm raring to go on whatever work holds for me today. Probably potatoes, lasagna and maybe pizza dough. It's gloriously sunny but bloody cold outside, which for some reason is weather I really like. So let's get amongst it! 👉👉 Have a great day everyone!
Heading home from a big weekend in Bendigo. Glad hubby is driving, I am wrecked
I'm starting to get alarmed by how desperately I need my coffee to function.
I think I need to have a day off where I just don't have any caffeine at all and writhe around like a junkie in the throes of withdrawal.