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THE SHIT MANAGER IS MOVING DEPARTMENTS!!!!!!!!
I report to SLT now. Fuck yes. Fuck yes.
My hatred for my job has almost completely evaporated. This guy has been a nightmare from day 1.
Today, he shoved 2 of the team members because he got frustrated with them.
They came and told me about it and I went to the CEO straight away.
What an absolute piece of shit.
I just got into where i'm staying at Wharingu, it's quiet and this is my view, its very nice
lots of hugs have been exchanged ๐ฅฐ
No story spoilers, but here are some Death Stranding 2 thoughts:
spoiler
I wish most producers were given as much creative freedom as Kojima. There are a lot more weird and sellable games out there that never got made because big players in the industry are so risk averse. Very few game series have been such a weird fever dream and so deeply moving as the Death Stranding games. I can't re-watch the final DS2 sequences without tearing up. So beautiful and sad.
Today bites and I am very ready for it to be done!
Things have been achieved today. I have changed the sheets on the bed. I have organised a rubbish collection for the last of the stuff at my old place. I have changed the date of my upcoming rental inspection. I have cooked soup and have yellow chicken curry on the stove now. The pet's water bowl has been thoroughly cleaned. I have done the vacuuming and just need to do a bit of a mop and clean the sinks etc. and the cleaning to do list should be done. I think I'm even going to have enough time to do a bit more sorting / unpacking.
I think I've won the comp this week
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hol up from aldi you say?
Yeah.
Oooh I love those. Their jalapeno ones are sooo good. Haven't tried this one, please review!!
Review from the man: Yeah they're alright. Not hot. Would get them again though.
Review from me: Precede with caution. Don't believe what he says about heat. He has no taste buds left.
I bought the jalepeno ones too. Found them at Aldi. I think they're from last week's specials.
I won't be sampling but I'll get the man to review. ๐
7 hours to go lol
I won't be doing this all day. Just once and that's enough. Hopefully we don't have to stay as late but we'll see ๐ค๐พ
I'm about to open a container that came from her room that I think has food in it. I think there's something growing in there but I have to save my fork. Pray for me.
Update: I don't know what that was. Maybe banana and yogurt. Fuck.
I would have sacrificed the fork! ๐คฎ
Turns out it was a spoon. I can't let another soldier go.
Uni results day today.
I passed my placement - yay.
HD on my final assignment in one unit - w00t.
Still waiting on the results for the other unit. I dunno why the first 2 released at 9am and this one is taking ages.
Congrats!
That's awesome, well done!!
Thank you!
Hearty congratulations! My final assignment was submitted very late due to extensions so I don't think I'll get a grade until mid July but it's always a great feeling to get some results back after a round of hard work.
Thanks! What are you studying?
The end of a rather niche/identifiable qualification that is related to my job... Dragged it out for years what with covid etc. I finished it out of spite, almost!
Congrats ๐
Thank you! I don't know how, probably because they give them out like lollypops, but I am on HD streak of 7 so far.
So I've volunteered to spend the night overseeing an unknown number of kids on music camp.
*Numbers may change dependent on enrollment
Overnight stay in dorm room with year 5/6 boys from xxxxxxxxxxxxxx primary
Now that I'm staring at the email and imaging what this is going to entail, I can see why they struggle to find parents willing to do it. I think I need to accept that I'm going to get five hours sleep that night if I'm lucky. Set aside time on the Sunday for a good nap.
I donโt know whatโs up with me. I have things to do but just canโt lock in.
Edit: Coles is absolutely taking the piss on some of their prices. Iโm considering getting this weeks load of stuff from Aldi while I have someone with me to helpโฆ it still involves prolonged standing while I check ingredients and the general hassle of it. It is much easier to get delivery in the cheap slots.
Iโll ask them to help me drop off the clothing donations and see how I feel.
Well this is proving to be difficult.
In better news turns out I accidentally crossbred habs with thai:
Fruits way later and has a hint of habs flavour but not too much and with all the heat. Always found the thais do better in the cold so will be keeping those seeds.
Is being home harder than the hospital? Is Ol' Girl eating?
I think it's easier for her here at home, but she's gone back into 'I need to do domestic chores' mode which might actually not be that bad. I know this might sound bad but I'm leaving small light stuff out for her to put away just so she feels like she's doing something.
Eating is the hard one but she's getting more down here than in hospital. In hindsight should've disregarded advice to not bring anything in.
I just want to do nothing today. Couldn't get out of bed, now can't get into work at all.
Absolutely agree with this today, cannot get in the headspace to work.
Feeling pretty fuzzy today myself. Mehhhhh. Not sure I would've wanted to rot at home either. I just want to get away!
I'm keen to do my tax return but my work hasn't finialsed the income statement for the year yet so I have to wait till they do that then it's pretty much straight forward to get it processed.
I hope they get it done soon as that's the only thing holding me up from doing it.
I need to get onto it today - thought prefill wouldn't be available for a few days but it's all there thankfully. Might even just do it over lunch. I need that tax return ๐ญ
E: ah wait, my old job's income statement is in, but not my current one.
It seems like the ATO doesn't really process these early tax returns until the info is in anyway so probably not much benefit filing it early. Though I'm very confident of the info
All of min will be pre-filled except for a few deductions. I'll give it a week then hit up that next, next, next, tick the authorise box and submit process.
My income is all pre-filled, just that the income statement isn't ready. But as my pay is nothing special (no salary sacrifice, special lease arrangements, FBT etc etc) and the amounts line up with my last "FY-to-date" amount on my payslip, I'm just going to accept the reported income.
Put in a bunch of deductions this year notably voluntary super contributions.
Only getting about 800ish back but it's better than the 1.5k or so I was going to be owing by my calculations. Insufficient tax taken out of second job last year, painful ...
On the ATO website under Employment > income statements it says my Income statement is not tax ready :(
I did a very rough estimate and I'll get something back, nothing mindblowing but it's something.
I hope they also process it faster than 14 business days as well.
Let's hope both our income statements are finalised soon!
Have zero motivation and even less interest in doing work today.
Bosses got on my nerves this morning by giving me another runaround task instead of actually doing what I asked of them (5 min job for them, several hours for me).
Time to stretch those hours into days it seems.
Soooooooooooooo it turns out all that render i've been bathed in for the past year gots the lead.
Personally being genX i have a fatalistic view of life, raging systemic lead poisoning and zero shits anyway, but husband is losing his mind so off for a blood test i go.
There is such a thing as chelation to reduce lead levels in the blood. Check for compatibility with any current medication though, as it may remove that from the bloodstream too.
A whole week of company conference and I need to present today as well. I'm not nervous about presenting but I'd rather get things done than sit in a room with people explaining, 'if you sell things for more money, you make more money.'
