Melbourne

Back home after picking up my mum from the hospital. I left around 3am once we realised she wasn’t going to get seen by the doctor for hours, and I would be too tired to safely drive her home. Took until 10am to get her scans done, and 3pm to get the all clear, so a long stint in ED. She’s just got some bruises and she’s a bit sore, so glad that’s all it is.

I went to the tow truck place to clear out her car and she’s lucky the collison was on the passenger side and not the driver side, because she would have been severely injured. The other person involved was completely fine, newer car with way more airbags that cushioned the impact.

Barely slept last night and all the driving around today, I’m exhausted.

Just went out and there's a for sale sign on the house across the road. The caravan, the trailer, the two cars are gone. This is the same cunt who floors his hotted up torana down the street every weekend and then revs his car outside my place while his wife moves the 2 cars so he can put precious back in the yard. He also yells at his 2 little kids aggressively. Fucking hero. Best day ever.

Yay: my mum got her eye surgery moved forward after much pressure

Nay: it's on Anzac Day and my aunt can't go and flights are stupidly expensive but at least my aunt has offered to chip in.

Looks like I might be doing a week back in the equatorial concrete jungle soup. Maybe a good opportunity to focus on writing uni stuff... Shame it's my favourite time of the year in melbs but honestly all that is irrelevant when my mum's eyes are at stake.

I have been very good with the limited sweets thing this lentish....until tonight when I made this creation.

Here we have vanilla bean ice cream, hot chocolate topping, coffee topping, chocolate ice magic with a biscoff crumb and a twix. It was magnificent. 5/5 yum yums.

This election campaign will drive me crazy because of the huge number of people who cannot pronounce nuclear. Nukular, nooclearar, nuklah, gnocchi-la, newklrrrr, arrgghhhhhhhh.

dusk view from my balcony 🙂 meh, for the cables but there are cables everywhere

the trees are lovely here 🙂

I remembered it's my birthday today so I got the breakfast banh mi as a treat on the way in to work. I think I'll check my emails and head down to the nearby shopping centre during lunch to collect up as much free/discounted birthday stuff as I can

Made myself a roast chicken sandwich.

Oh it’s so nice.

I’m at the ED at hospital. My mum was in a really bad car accident. Thankfully it’s just bruising but it could have been much, much worse. Her car was totalled. Driving up to the accident seeing all the police / ambulance / fire truck lights and then her totalled car was truly scary. I’m just thankful she’s OK. Waiting to do scans to make sure nothing is broken, then I’ll drive her home.

Cutting a big old bit of concrete with an angle grinder and didn't realise it had rebar in it.. whoopsie doodle. Tried to snap it in half when half way through without realising. Whoopsie doodle x 2 :(

Happy Unicorn Day everyone!!

What in tarnation:

still waiting on REA 😠

5 hours late, then they send a no show apology 😡

Seeing petrol go up around some places in town. ~$2 in Brighton, $1.65 in Springy.

Pie floater.

I want so badly to draw or do something but not enough to actually be able to do it. It’s like my mind and body are fried.

Almost a week after the iron infusion I’m still aching, nauseous, have a splitting headache and going between hot and cold.

Lady in office today has no concept of an indoor voice.

Mentioned it to my boss and he said that's why he never comes in on Wednesdays.

Came home late last night from the psych to find mrs and tinyest eating 2 minute noodles out of a bowl on (as well as off of) the floor. Apparently this was the "compromise" to get him to eat. Glad I washed the floor the other day.

Just had a staff member here that I knew who let me borrow a few kids to help me out.

I’ll be done by 9:30 now!!!!

What a beautiful day outside today.

Oh it’s so glorious.

Last day out at this site that would seemingly never end. So badly quoted... not my problem though. I'm glad today is it. Can't say I'm going to miss wrangling the drivers of the M1.

Had a long text chat last night with a friend at my old workplace who was stressed out of their mind after being dressed down by a client due to providing faulty data... it was a continuation of a big job I'd done a few years ago and while I think I was able to help my friend work out what happened on the technical side of things, and how to respond, I saw an excerpt of the email he received and I'm still residually stressed out this morning even though it's not my problem at all now haha. I most definitely don't miss those days (even though the original job was one of the more rewarding ones that we did really well out of). Had a moment of reflection on the really really shitty year I had with flaming out badly and getting bullied by my boss and I'm so happy I was able to come out of it on the other side and look back without too much pain.

I just got confirmation the car dealer has received my bank transfer. So I can now stop stressing & the pickup tomorrow is ready to go.

Now I'll have to get used to the blinkers being on the other side. Plus the fuel tank is on the opposite side to what I'm used to. At least it's not as much of an adjustmant as Mr Woof will have to make, he'll need to get used to travelling in a crate instead of having the whole back seat.

Lesson learned: do not let man with poor eyesight that's been up 15 hours install window film