Melbourne

I went to Hobbiton yesterday. AMA.

Aight so it looks like this whole workshop thing is going ahead but now I have no idea what to quote. All sorts of insecurities popping up. It's a ~3 hr in person workshop with 50km return travel (30-40 mins each way) for about 3-4 professionals. It will be mostly hands on demonstration and troubleshooting, not much prep or materials required. I might need to look into a couple of the app's functions I haven't explored much but that would benefit my job as well so I wouldn't count that time spent.

I'm thinking I should be compensated at least the equivalent of what I get paid for a whole day of regular work (inc. super), since I can't do my regular job the entire day, and maybe a 25% loading. That's 600 rounded up, no GST. Hopefully that seems fair?? I don't feel like enough of a grown up to ask for this, but fuckit. I can try

E: ugh I forgot I'd need to pay 32% personal income tax on that. Or 15% if I chuck it in super... 600 is starting to sound very justifiable

I stupid forgot about the rice being in the rice cooker being on warm and left it all night.

Least to say 1 serving of rice was lost :(

I'm thinking tonight might be a risotto night.

Muting people on my Insta excessively posting about being in Europe. I’m happy for them and all, and yes I’m jealous, but I don’t need to see daily stories & every-other-day profile posts about your trip.

"Oh hey, sorry I'm going to need the rest of the week off. My cat is having seperation anxiety."

Edit: I had my first random endorphin rush today. And my first real laugh in a decade.

Felt great :)

Was meant to catch up with a friend at 3. Last night she changed it to 3:30 because a new update for a game she's playing is out. Whatever, that's fine. I tell her to text me when she's leaving so I can leave then. She's fine with that.

I decided to leave earlier and get there at 3:30, because I have a jazz playlist I want to listen to. But it hits 3:30, and she still hasn't texted me saying she's left. She sends me a picture of her game asking which option I liked more. I asked her if she's left and she said no. She does live a 5 minute drive away from where we're meeting, so I guess that's not too bad. She is apologising profusely. Now it's been 15 minutes since we were supposed to meet, and she said she has to brush her teeth and wash her face. She is nocturnal because of her (undiagnosed but probable) gaming addiction.

Am I overreacting? I am pissed off even though she's going to be 20 minutes late, but it wasn't because of something like traffic or PTV issues. She could control it. Last week she also pissed me off because she's unemployed and using her dad's money. She said, when buying food,

"It's not my money. I don't care."

I need new friends. I downloaded Bumble for Friends today. Hoping I can get a group of people together and make at least one friend from there. I need friends that don't trauma dump on me or are selfish.

Good news: test results came back, i am not a pencil

Bad news: noro

Getting my daughters room painted tomorrow. Any advice on what to use to hang pictures, etc on the wall? I want to avoid using blue tack or anything that could pull paint like it has this time around?