One of my clients got pissed off at the slow pace of their projects, and decided to bring in a 3rd party "project partner". Tomorrow I'm having a "conversation" with Senior Leadership Team. I have a real bad feeling I'm about to be scapegoated for the failures of the project team because the project team manager is besties with my manager. I hate this feeling so fucking much.

Got a reference request from a former colleague that I did not along with.

Our work relationship was cold, at best, so it's interesting that they would want to use me a reference.

I declined politely.

They were difficult to work with and created a large amount of unnecessary work for everyone.

I'm stoned, a little faint after changing the bandage (just a non-stick one held one with normal bandaids lol) so lying on the couch. I'm such a pussy when it comes to my own body - I can watch and even help with wounds, but when it's my wound... Ugh!

Got a bag of twisties though! #winning

Ordered pizza, watch some TV then bed I think. May as well speed up the time till the meeting tomorrow.

Goodnight everyone ❤️

2 more days and I'm on leave for 3. So much I need to get done before I go.

Work from home all approved and I have a nice open ended task to spend half a day on. Things are going well

omg, I just had a sparrow eat from my hand 🥰

Got off TAFE early today. Teacher had to pick up her kid from childcare cause they couldn't be arsed dealing with a three year old's tantrum. Some bullshit about the literal toddler posing a threat to other kids.

I was hoping to get more work done today. Guess I'm getting more units extended to next week.

First class survived. Don’t think I made a tit of myself. Making friends seems unlikely though.

Morning. I had a very vivid dream in which

... so I wake up groggily to check the time on the clock and FUCK it's 6:55am? I need to leave in ten!... only to grab my phone and see it's 6:05am... and here I am, adrenaline unnecessarily coursing through my system, resolutely staying in bed until i have to get up. 🥱 😴

Left my hat and water bottle at the office before field work and have been mega cranky and annoyed today. Not how I wanted my day to go at all, I was looking forward to field work. And the moving place I inquired with seems to have a non-working number, I missed their callback but when I call their number it keeps cutting off. Grrrrrrrrrrr. I am PEEVED!

Need to have a good shower and some feel good show for tonight.

E: I will say, going out has given me a lot more pep and energy in other ways now that I've hydrated and cooled off. I miss field work!!!! I need to make this more regular

It just rained and now it's sunny again. It smells earthy. Time to take the rubbish out.

Some people just suck all the air in meetings. Dude, shut the fuck up and let someone else talk!!!

I've started my shed cleanout. There is a lot of junk in there! And a lot of dirt ☹️ If anyone is in the market for a slightly rusty hand saw let me know, I seem to have lots of them! I'm not even sure why I have some of this stuff, I'm pretty sure someone has been sneaking in and stashing stuff when I'm not looking. Couldn't possibly have been me!

I guzzled the appropriate amount of water on Sunday and Monday, as my vein gushed a tad yesterday lol. First time 'round last year, the machine kept beeping because my pressure was low, because I didn't eat or drink enough.

This time, I filled that bag up quicksmart! Had a Nippy's Iced Coffee and some potato chips after. But yeah, now my elbow-pit is rather sore, I keep catastrophising and think it's still bleeding and I don't want to look, as it was when I changed the dressing yesterday (3 hours afterwards).

But! No complaints! Follow the directions and drink heaps of water!

Edit: actually, the only complaint is the bruise on my left middle finger from the haemoglobin test. I forget how much the tips of the fingers are used until one is sore 😅

4 hours of karaoke. Mostly friend screaming. I am dead.

My holiday is over. Back to work today

hubs has gone tomato mad, Idk what it is, something about the very Mediterranean house has woken the ancient genes. The terrace and the yard are slowly being overtaken with bushy bushy plants. The one by the front door is already 2m tall. I forsee a lot of canning in our future.

I have watered the garden. Expect a cloudburst.

So the executive dysfunction is a cause of my weird sleep; I forget to take my snri and I sleep in, but if I take it I wake up at 6ish naturally no matter how long I slept for.

I really gotta remember to take it every day and get to bed earlier ffs

I wish my boys could talk a bit more. Something was bothering one of them tonight and he couldn't get to sleep, I wish he could tell me what it was

If anyone needs a smile, I suggest peeking into the Brisbane daily thread on here. There's an excellent series of puppy pics in there!

Listing things on Gumtree is definitely not working out - I have had less time wasting nonsense which I guess is a plus, but that's because I have had no enquiries at all (apart from the initial two scam messages which were so quick I presume were bots).

Really bad end to the day even if it only lasted for 10-15 mins.

Not looking forward to seeing how the rest of the time goes until I go on break.

Hopefully the steps put in place for the future will prevent future altercations from occurring.

Nothing like dealing with someone who thinks the way to solve problems is to enact revenge and thinking that’s the right way of doing things.

The new Sandwiches of History book just delivered. This will be a tasty exploration.

Shitty start to the work day with traffic being balls, but my boss gave me a slice of homemade biscoff cheesecake, so... swings and roundabouts.

So I have this art project I'm doing. omg, all the skills I need to learn to get it done. I suppose I could go very low tech and just hand write everything but I don't think that will work. There's the art skills/hand skills, like painting , composition and calligraphy, and then there's all the tech/computer skills of making the project ( it's a book ) I find the tech skills the most frustrating.

happily skills are forever and never wasted 🙂

Eh-oh ❤️

Now both fuzzy ones have the sneezes. Gah.

Day 2 of meal replacement done. ✅

Traffic was awful heading to my social sports training tonight, but had fun once I finally got there. Hadn’t been for a few weeks. There’s just some days I need to be around a group of people. Made the drive worth it.

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Starting piano / guitar lessons on Thursday. By that, I mean I am alternating between instruments until I pick one. Thinking of going with piano because I learnt it as a kid, but am considering guitar for something different, and also I wanna be a rockstar.

Tea break

Mixed some midori with some fruit juice. Not too bad.

Now I need ice cubes.

Yep, it was that sort of a day.