Gibson day 2
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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Got an interview tomorrow lol
Perfect timing.
Definitely a good idea to keep the momentum going after today's news!
100% Spoke to a few people today. Everyone i spoke to feels the same. They're actively on seek on their phones at work lol
These are management people.
It appears I have a cold on my last day here. ๐ The good news is my fam will look after me real well. ๐
The kiwis have given you a parting gift of germs? How rude of them. Hopefullly the plane trip back isnโt too uncomfortable!
Cheers guys ๐บ
CHEEEEEEEEEEEERS!!! ๐ป๐ฅ๐ป๐ฅ๐ป (extra loud cos it has to cross the sea)
Flexing hydrangeas.
I love hydrangeas โค๏ธ I have a few, but none the size of dinner plates like yours!
Ted looking cute again, this time sprawled on the two ikea storage tables ๐
Oh noes ... Came home a bit early so I could regroup and finish off the years tasks quietly. 20 min nap on couch became 2 hour DEEEP sleep with random nightmares and now my neck is cricked and I am discombobulated.
Yep. That was 2024 in a nutshell
Have you ever seen a more majestic breakfast?
240g steak, 1 avocado, one smallish zucchini, 200g mushroom, two runny yolk eggs. Butter, salt, pepper. And now I won't eat until tomorrow! I also won't get hungry til then either
spoiler
So. This morning we find out that the awesome manager will no longer be leading our team.
As I mentioned a bit earlier today, she's the main reason I've stuck it out.
Let's see where the new year will lead. Probably out of this place.
Yeah nah. Still made in Australia. Cheeky buggers.
Well I guess we DO have a history of claiming New Zealanders as our own, so it's only fair =)
Staffy got stuck last night. No idea how she managed this one, sheโs never put the blanket over her head before.
This is it. One more day between me and holiday (except for whatever little bits I will inevitably need to finish off in the morning.
Yyyeeeeaaaah...
2 more days on my end.
No one is doing anything on Thursday or Friday.
IT outage at the hospital, waited 2+ hungry and uncaffeinated hours for my scopes to be cancelled. ๐ I'm declaring today Taco Overload Tuesday to celebrate.
I just had to rescue a frog. In my bedroom. 3 very interested cats, and one squeaky little frog who is now outside. Who needs sleep?
Turns out I took 1 more week of leave than I thought. 3 weeks here we come!
I'm progressing to the next stage with this job. I don't know if it's what I want to do but if I got an offer I feel like I shouldn't knock it back. I just don't want to end up in a similar situation where I'm out in a year's time because it didn't work out
Who's an idiot who thought it'd be overcast and left their bedroom blinds partly open and window wide open. No prizes for guessing.
I am being taught over and over again THOU SHALT ALWAYS LEAVE THE BLINDS DOWN AND WINDOWS CLOSED before leaving for work. No exemptions. Boiling.
Met up with some old colleagues which was nice - kind of really tied a neat bow on that chapter, one year on - now to catch up on 2.5 hrs of work and call it a day.
The cat is mad at me because there's cream in the fridge and it's not all in his belly (just some). He's given up yelling at the fridge and is now glaring at me, and occasionally mixing it up with looking very sad and lean.
The neglect is palpable.
๐โโ๏ธ shameful
I regret getting in contact with my Aunty to settle things.
She tells people that Iโm the nice one Iโm the family but I just choose not to get into conflicts.
She texts me this.
โI havenโt got any replies to my emails. You better tell your cousins to hurry up to have settlement by blah blah dateโ
Dunno if Iโm reading into too much but it does t sound very nice and feels like sheโs pressuring me to rush them.
So today i mostly worked like a dog. My boss admitted to faffing a little too much today and didnโt as much done as she should have.
Hopefully this earns me a couple of early work finishes though tomorrow I have a work function at the end, I really hate that keeping us at work later to do these functions.
Shout out to Australians for making good music (King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Flume, and more).
Dinner out, first time in ages. Little Mexico in Berwick. Nice enough, kinda lacking in spice levels but that's probably more on me.
leaves windows open overnight
wakes up to bright flash of light
loud crackle
rain comes
close windows
time for more sleep ๐ฅฑ
What sort of buffoon tries to sell a house with neither stove nor oven? Wonder what other surprises lurk in this one?
Moving ramblings (kinda want a whinge, feel free to swipe past)
To be honest I can't be bothered and don't have the energy to pack. Emotional energy mainly. I've got so much to do, and my childish mind just keeps reverting to "TO HARD. HIDE UNDER PILLOW TIL IT GOES AWAY", which I'll admit is beneficial in the short term, but I am moving TO.MOR.ROW and have only taken over 2 boxes and a bag of loose stuff
I don't have to return the keys until Friday, but I don't have a way to get back on Thursday or Friday besides the bus, so catching 3 buses or a bus and 2 trains just isn't practical with boxes and bags. I'm pretty sure only a small removalist van was booked (I didn't organise it), so while they probably can take a couple of boxes, the rest of my stuff will just have to make do with a few car trips
Considering I'm going to be moving again sometime between late next year and the end of 2026, it's looking kind of tempting to donate half my shit to the salvos and live like a nomad by necessity. But having done that, I do know that it's a depressing way of living, and you just amass new shit to fill the space anyway
Beep Beep ๐
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