Melbourne

Seeing the newly released Erin Patterson evidence, like photos of dehydrator with mushrooms in it, and mushrooms being weighed, and her trying to leave the hospital despite being told her life was at risk, and having zero concern about her kids being at risk; makes me wonder why the jury deliberated for so long. She knew what she’d done and confidently knew she hadn’t served herself or the kids any.

very windy tonight 💨

Got the details for the funeral for my old colleague. I'm going to go, even though I haven't spoken to him in years and years, since before COVID even. He made working at Computershare tolerable - guaranteed to make me cry-laugh with the jokes and witty comebacks he had for the micro-managers there😂 taught me how to handle those managers when I took over his role.

It's the least I can do I think, pay my respects and remember how he made me laugh so hard.

Good news: test results came back, i am not a pencil

Bad news: noro

Someone used just about all of my butter in the work fridge! I'm probably more annoyed that they left the tiniest little scrape in the corner instead of just throwing it out the container.

Wake up early and refreshed, get dressed, drive to the train station.......bus replacement service.

So back at home in trackies and debating whether to chuck a sickie.

Was meant to catch up with a friend at 3. Last night she changed it to 3:30 because a new update for a game she's playing is out. Whatever, that's fine. I tell her to text me when she's leaving so I can leave then. She's fine with that.

I decided to leave earlier and get there at 3:30, because I have a jazz playlist I want to listen to. But it hits 3:30, and she still hasn't texted me saying she's left. She sends me a picture of her game asking which option I liked more. I asked her if she's left and she said no. She does live a 5 minute drive away from where we're meeting, so I guess that's not too bad. She is apologising profusely. Now it's been 15 minutes since we were supposed to meet, and she said she has to brush her teeth and wash her face. She is nocturnal because of her (undiagnosed but probable) gaming addiction.

Am I overreacting? I am pissed off even though she's going to be 20 minutes late, but it wasn't because of something like traffic or PTV issues. She could control it. Last week she also pissed me off because she's unemployed and using her dad's money. She said, when buying food,

"It's not my money. I don't care."

I need new friends. I downloaded Bumble for Friends today. Hoping I can get a group of people together and make at least one friend from there. I need friends that don't trauma dump on me or are selfish.

There is a package waiting for me at my front door. Now I just have to wait 9 hours until I can go home to get it!

Edit: now there are two packages!! What an exciting day.

I need to liven this place up a bit.

What would be the worst gift someone could give you?

Me: Tickets to a musical.

"Oh hey, sorry I'm going to need the rest of the week off. My cat is having seperation anxiety."

Edit: I had my first random endorphin rush today. And my first real laugh in a decade.

Felt great :)

Muting people on my Insta excessively posting about being in Europe. I’m happy for them and all, and yes I’m jealous, but I don’t need to see daily stories & every-other-day profile posts about your trip.

I know how to describe what's happening.

My life feels neglected while I was taking suboxone. Now I'm awake and it's like "where is everything?".

It hurts a bit.

I went to Hobbiton yesterday. AMA.

Goodnight all ❤️

It’s cold tonight, I can feel it.

What a horrid day to have to venture outside.

I had too much coffee... several hours of indigestion and burping later, I'm still wired and tired, deep in rabbit holes over what constitutes an employee vs independent contractor for the purposes of superannuation guarantee... and how to word contracts so as not to hand over IP or be stuck in exclusivity classes...

Aight so it looks like this whole workshop thing is going ahead but now I have no idea what to quote. All sorts of insecurities popping up. It's a ~3 hr in person workshop with 50km return travel (30-40 mins each way) for about 3-4 professionals. It will be mostly hands on demonstration and troubleshooting, not much prep or materials required. I might need to look into a couple of the app's functions I haven't explored much but that would benefit my job as well so I wouldn't count that time spent.

I'm thinking I should be compensated at least the equivalent of what I get paid for a whole day of regular work (inc. super), since I can't do my regular job the entire day, and maybe a 25% loading. That's 600 rounded up, no GST. Hopefully that seems fair?? I don't feel like enough of a grown up to ask for this, but fuckit. I can try

E: ugh I forgot I'd need to pay 32% personal income tax on that. Or 15% if I chuck it in super... 600 is starting to sound very justifiable

Getting my daughters room painted tomorrow. Any advice on what to use to hang pictures, etc on the wall? I want to avoid using blue tack or anything that could pull paint like it has this time around?