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MADE IT TO ROUND 2!!!!!

Now I have a week to brush up on some tech stuff (active directory mainly), and we should be good!

I've found a good 6 hour tutorial on YouTube that'll do the trick.

Initial Assessment for Psych sessions done. Now on the wait-list for a bulk billed session.

Holy crap, I want to cry and laugh.

Looking forward to TAFE starting in July, too.

I can do this, I can do this. If not for me, then for him:

Alrighty. Off to an interview as "Simon". Here we go.

Saw little butters today for an mday event. Little man chooses his battles.

It went ok I think. They didn't react negatively to "Simon". But we'll see how it plays out.

Was good practice anyway! Edit: managed to sort of organise a reference. It's a mate but it's the best I can do for the moment.

Took a pretty heavy call from a friend this afternoon that is going through a rough time. She had an altercation with some friends in our group which I think set her off into a spiral. I had no idea about any of this. It takes a lot of courage to reach out to someone.

I used to get affected by the same friends too, but then learned to stop putting disappointing people on a pedestal, thinking they do the same, and rely on them for emotional support and wellbeing which was always one way. I made some new friends. I discovered that healthy adult friendships actually exist and instead of being upset about certain behaviours from those people, I learned to pity that behaviour. I hope she learns this too.

Still feeling wrecked. Am kind of wondering whether it's related to (an unpleasant road related incident)

Sorry, just needed to offload it.

Edit: Oh no. The spoiler isn’t working on mobile? I’m so sorry. 😔

What a frickin dumpster fire. The EBU f’ed up hard. Also so much for not politicising Eurovision, Israel got over 300 points with one of the worst songs of the night! in the same 24 hours it warns of inceasing its bombing campaign in Rafa. I just….. I don’t even have words here. What the f is going on in the world.

Mimi is such a brave little kitty.

Yesterday, wifey noticed that Mimi seemed to be winking a lot. After some further inspection, she noticed that one of Mimi's eyelids was swollen.

So today, Mimi went on a big trip to the vets to see Dr Paul.

Dr Paul took a look at her eye, and thankfully there's no scratches on her eyeball.

Because it's one eye that was swollen, it's unlikely to be an allergic reaction, and our babies are all indoor cats.

Most likely, it was that some individual — who may or may not be named Spunky or Snowy — got a little rough while playing with Mimi overnight.

After an anti-inflammatory injection and some eyedrops, Miss Mimi was sent home.

She's now happily playing in a box.

Got some pretty cool shots of the aurora on Saturday night, hand held with my phone, standing in my partners backyard in Reservoir!!! What a crazy experience :)

Best $7 ever spent. Doggo can no longer disappear into the night...

Edit - now in the market for a similarly priced glow-in-the-dark ball for throwing....and not losing

Currently trying to organise a redundancy reference. Can't risk getting to the last stage and having someone drop out.

Also, we are a chicken household:

TinyCat was a model patient. Bloods, worming, vaccines and we will see what we see. Still weighs the same, still eating and going to the litter box ok so they are not sure but not super worried.

TinyCat is off to the vet. He chucked again this morning, that makes it 4 times in a week. He's also alternates between velcro-kitty and antagonist way more than usual. Suspect something is going on with him.

Have awoken to a kitchen covered in stir fry. Unwisely thought the lid would be enough to stop FishyCat getting into it. Hopefully he doesn’t end up peeing rocks from that snack.

For fucks sake. Our fire alarms randomly went off. I was on the dunny half asleep. Nothing's on fire. There are cobewebs around the fire alarm that's going off, so my guess is that something's moved in to it and is triggering the sensor. This actually happened at my last place, although at a much more reasonable hour.

Our alarms are a lot worse than regular alarms in regular houses. They're all wired in series, so once one goes off, they all go off. It is controlled by a commercial style Pannell, but the best that can do for us is making it shut up for 8 minutes. After that it can be retriggered. We can't just take it off the roof, A because we'd be in a fair bit of shit, but B because it's bolted onto the roof and has several wires feeding into it anyways.

We can call the fire alarm company to replace it, but they won't get here for several hours. Several hours while we're meant to be asleep...

E: We tried vacuuming out any dust, in case that's what was causing it but no dice. Fire panel people have been called. No clue how long they'll be

E2: fire people reckon they'll be here within an hour

E3: they came out quite quickly to fix it, which honestly wasn't my experience in the past. Apparently nothing moved in, it just happened to go faulty. I blame the sun farts. In any case he took it off the roof and somebody will come tomorrow to replace it. A bit under 2 hours from it going off til it was fixed, which was honestly a good response time. Lovely bloke they sent too. He's on call so we pulled him out of his slumber, so at least we aren't alone in our suffering 😂

E4: also he called me back at 12:59, so he was here in under an hour

yay, I got lactose free milk and have been able to have coffee without effects , it was a bad week ... lol

First 40 minutes of work today really soured my tone for the week. Had a chat with my boss and he felt the same.

Reason - we have some team members who are getting a bit too big for their britches, and causing a bit of friction. One particular person cannot stop themselves from interrupting others when talking. Happens daily, they have been reprimanded and it still happens. I think we're getting close to an HR chat or a director telling them to pull their heads in.

Crud has spiralled into feeling Actually Awful.

I’ve held it together for long enough to go to the supermarket and call in sick for work tomorrow, but now I’m going to bed

My head is so sore from last night. Those damn smoke alarms. I am pretty sure the ones we have are loud enough to cause hearing damage, at least my tinnitus thinks so. I guess it gave the neighbour with the car alarm a taste of his own medicine though, so there's that

I've woken up and come to work and forgot my ID pass, hopefully I don't get locked out of the building today.

Also my body is broken from the weekend furniture moving.

5 mins to have coffee and enjoy it before I have to be outside, argh!

Spent more time in bed than usual this morning and the app says I slept well... Annnnd I still feel like a sack of ripe old. I feel soooo tired.

Dragged myself out of the cave upon realising there was gorgeous sunshine to be had and in 15 mins it was gone! Melbourne weather, aye.

Love getting into work and there's a mystery bottle of vodka waiting on my desk. Sign of the week to come?

Listening to Magic Pill and the author describes animal testing of effects of different foods on appetite. I can't help thinking of Ted Cat.

When Ted Cat came here I noticed he was quite short for a Nieb breed cat and he was ravenous. He would not stop eating. He would attack anyone who came near him. He only wanted packet food with gravy and would leave good food uneaten. He wanted to eat 3 times a day.

Over the months I slowly changed his diet. One packet food and some fresh food. He rejected good food and would get angry. I put out a huge bowl of crunchies to last for days, he ate it all in a day, his poor tummy was distended. He now eats fresh Fussy Cat meat and Fussy Cat kangaroo crunchies only. I now measure it all out carefully, I gave him a slow eating bowl so he wouldn't wolf it down then start on Bill's food. I fed him outdoors.

Then I got sick and husband fed the boys, they got unlimited food. Ted just went crazy and ate and ate, he's now on a diet and it's working.

The positive thing is that Ted Cat now eats healthier food , not packet food with gravy. I don't know if he would choose gravy if offered. That's the thing, Ted Cat doesn't need will power, he doesn't have the ability to make choices between foods, for him it's eat or have nothing