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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Well I rang the EAP people and after being told they are no longer our support, which would have been par for the course, she was wrong and I have an appointment sorted.
Aside from that little hiccup, it wasn't scary at all.
Thanks for your support too. It made it easier to deal with.
I got some good news! As of 4:55pm, I'm officially enrolled in my community services course! I begin on the 26th
Naturally I'm a little nervous, but I think I'll do much better in TAFE than high school. I tend to get along better with adults and older people (who I imagine will be the primary demographic) than people my own age. Although I am second guessing my decision to go for a 1 day a week course. After all, if it only takes 9 months to finish one day a week, it should only take 3 if if I did it 3 a week. Maybe that would put me in a better position next year.
But it's a start at least I suppose. I should probably prove to myself that I'm capable of doing 1 day a week (which I know I can, but also think I need to experience for myself to fully believe it) before trying to bite off more than I can chew
It's a great start to start small with one day a week! We don't know what we're capable of until we try and in sure you can adjust it later on if you want! That's fantastic!! How exciting to be enrolled and to start so soon! TAFE is definitely a different vibe, people want to be there and they want to have conversations and collaborate. I think you're extremely intelligent and clever so you're going to do great with talking to adults and your fellow classmates.
I'm very excited for you!
Happy International Cat Day π±ππββ¬
My (not-so) little man has been gone for many years now, but seeing @Catfish's post has made me want to share a picture of how well-dressed he used to be all the time in his tuxedo (not that he had a choice!)
Cat adventures with Bill and Ted.
So early this morning Ted was upstairs meowing his head off. He wanted to get into the office. I called "Ted" at least ten times to get him to come down stairs. The meowing just louder.
Time for a plan. I used "confuse a cat".
I called out "Bill". There was complete silence in reply. I called "Bill" again and Ted came running down the stairs to tell me he wasn't Bill, he was Ted, and that Bill was sitting next to me.
Bogus. π€
When I call out for my daughter my dog will try to knock her down to get to me first. He thinks it's a race.
Home now, things are good. First aid for animals and CPR, as well as a long term assessment.
Tomorrow is theory, and sitting at my PC from 9 to 6, but I have learned so much already, and I really like my teachers so it's all good.
Just feeling good I think haha
Well I'd been going along fine without any symptoms until I felt like a bit of a Nanna nap in the afternoon and ended up crashed out for several hours. When I got up to cook dinner I started sweating profusely and felt a bit hot. With it came a hard feeling to describe, sort of oddly confused and flustered. Managed to make a curry and rice, and cooked some chicken drumsticks with corn on the cob for Miniest. Elder isn't feeling like eating much, but he ate a hotdog. Went to bed early and feel ok at the moment, but I'm not out of bed yet.
Got a case of the downers today. Feeling a bit isolated, the honeymoon period of being self employed is ending and I'm starting to feel like I did when I was WFH full time during lockdowns (which is not good). I'm making the effort to fill my social battery during the week in other ways, which helps but these kinds of down days from the isolation and lack of forced structure still pop up. I saw a photo my old workplace at some event together on LinkedIn and that's made me miss being employed (although I don't regret leaving that hellish place for one second). Just went for a walk and while it was freezing, I already feel better.
Greetings fellow.. checks notes.. humans!
Go away. Its not Friday yet. How dare you be cheerful at this hour?
So, super karma good vibes, caught a cab from the airport and shared, and the mate paid my fare.
Such a nice feeling, canβt wait to pay it forward.
Got a conditional offer into a Master of Teaching course! Nice to know I've got an option for next year should I pass the semester :)
At TAFE early, for the coffee and the study ππ
Aww, the sucullent chinese meal guy passed away.
I saw that :(
Hoping in the beyond there are many succulent chinese meals and good judo for him.
I feel like really rich people should be philanthropists again. Fund shelters, schools, hospitals, libraries and animal pounds.
On a side note I cannot believe how bad my neighbours let their windows and blinds get. I can see the dust caked on, including the inside. This is in part why I don't have Venetian blinds.
Thanks guys for your responses before. Without giving too much away his company deals with some big names and government contracts. He's ok with them showing his name and pretty little face but he wants to be paid more mullah for it.
Haha, for lack of a better word, if theyβre βselling himβ hehe, for sure they should!
Yeeee, he needs to be paid like a king π²π²π²
gah, this teaches me not to do my budget in my head, I majorly stuffed up the numbers and redid them today with a calculator and the difference was off by $100. Bleh!
My budget is a complicated spreadsheet spread across 13 pages. My brain would implode if I tried to do it in my head π€£
I recommended to the boss on Tuesday that we should get an Apple Watch to test because our customers will likely have them and use them with our managed Apple devices, so we need to be able to see what managed data is available to them and test policies applicable to their use.
2 have been ordered and arrive tomorrow :D
New toyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. That's a MacBook Pro, iPad Air, iPhone and now Apple Watch. I'm collecting Apple products like Pokemans.
I'm trying to get the will to get out of bed and get ready for bed. π€ͺ
Very interesting news at work.
You might remember a few weeks ago, I posted here about an acting "manager" in a department I work with a lot at work.
Well, today the "manager's" boss announced who's going to be permanently filling that role.
And it's an external candidate.
The "manager" is moving to a newly-created role leading the sales team.
The woman who currently leads the sales team is not happy about this. As in, visibly pissed off about basically being demoted so "manager" can have a job.
Heh⦠Melbcat used to be a friendly but highly independent cat and lived half wild before coming to me. Now she lives inside, sleeps in the bed and is a lovebug lap cat.
Iβm spoiling her with how many treats I give. I need to wash the new treat tower puzzle, put some in and see if she can pull them out. I also added a discounted snuffle mat to the latest food order to see if she can find hidden treats. Try to add more enrichment to indoors. (Her bloods had improved but the kidney disease is showing up again, so Iβm spoiling my elderly girl rotten.)
I am still fretting about the budget like always but have been trying to fix a bunch of niggling quality of life issues lately
IG gives me the absolute *****.
The only notifications I want are direct msgs. Thatβs it.
I have turned off a bajillion settings and I am still getting notifications about things I do not care about.
In fact the amount of settings should be illegal. Itβs like bamboozling someone with fine print they canβt read.
Warm enough to not need heating in the office? Whoa.
2 different dreams hearing 2 different original songs of styles I don't usually listen to.
Cool but weird.
dat feel when your favourite eco supply store starts selling fucking alkaline water GOD DAMMIT
This is going to sound really dumb, but I am planning to call our Employee Assistant Program cos I really do need someone to talk too and I'm good and I want to do it, but then I think about calling and I don't know what to say when they answer the phone. How to initiate that initial 'Hello, welcome to blah blah, how can I help you?' kinda of greeting.
My usual canned opening line is βHi Iβm X and Iβm inquiring about your Y?β Or just βHi, Iβm after some Information/advice about Yβ
So basically that greets them and gives a brief idea with an opening to ask what they can help you with more specifically, allowing you to go into more detail and explain the problem.
I wouldnβt say I was great with people or the phone but I sometimes do have to cold call or email a lot of organisations.
Edit: Oh unless this is about something like counselling. Then I guess just say βI need help and someone to talk to.β And they will ask what with and you can give them an area of struggle, lay out a situation in dot points, or tell them what caused you to seek help etc. Something very basic gets them to ask further questions and gets the ball rolling
stars peeping through the clouds π
I never tire of seeing the stars
Temu pakige is at the airport waiting for it's flight. I'm picturing it being bored and browsing listlessly through all the airport shops to pass the time.
