Someone used just about all of my butter in the work fridge! I'm probably more annoyed that they left the tiniest little scrape in the corner instead of just throwing it out the container.
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Got the details for the funeral for my old colleague. I'm going to go, even though I haven't spoken to him in years and years, since before COVID even. He made working at Computershare tolerable - guaranteed to make me cry-laugh with the jokes and witty comebacks he had for the micro-managers there๐ taught me how to handle those managers when I took over his role.
It's the least I can do I think, pay my respects and remember how he made me laugh so hard.
That's a really lovely to go about it. Hopefully there are lots of great stories and laughter shared.
There is a package waiting for me at my front door. Now I just have to wait 9 hours until I can go home to get it!
Edit: now there are two packages!! What an exciting day.
I need to liven this place up a bit.
What would be the worst gift someone could give you?
Me: Tickets to a musical.
Rollercoaster or theme park tickets
One Christmas an aunt gave me a ceramic oil burner cork with some wick through it. Just the cork and wick. No oil. No bottle. I was about ten. Straight to the op shop.
Today I guess an ex rocking up with the gift of a child.
More locally, hoppy hipster IPA beers. I like plain beer: aldi blonde, Heineken, corona, Carlton dry.
I know having received them.
Gold class movie tickets and gift vouchers for David Jones/Myers.
Why are these the worst?
I donโt go out for movies and Myers and David jones donโt offer me much and are overpriced.
They gutted their electronic departments and have nothing for me.
Sitting on a David Jones voucher at the moment, all I can think of buying from there is coffee.
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Bottle of Johnny Walker Red (or any JW bottle). Shit's barely fit for human consumption.
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An expensive, gourmet coffee cake. I really hate coffee.
I was given such a cake at work many years ago and felt obliged to eat a piece to be polite. They meant so well. It was so revolting.
I'd step on people to get a gourmet coffee cake.
I once got a pair of Donald Trump socks. Complete with a little turf of hair at the top. They were part of a "Shit Present" gag gifting thing, but they were the most awful and was so happy to swap it for a book of dad jokes.
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They needed to be buried at cross road somewhere far far away.
I was highly unimpressed with being given a calculator and apron for the next school year. Also a 20+ year old hairdryer. A hot pink thong (hilarious ๐). And a cheap bench mixer bought in a January sale so it had 2 weeks warranty
I did like the kitten
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Reasons I don't speak to the bitch ๐บ each might sound small but it adds up.
All you can eat tickets to a baked bean festival
I wouldn't mind that as long as there's toast to go with.
I'll swap you my bean festival tickets for your musical tickets and we'll both be happy!
Deal ๐ค
Karaoke Machine
Yeah, useless these days especially when can project the lyrics on to the telly and hook your mic to a set of computer speakers like a fucking pro.
A Mariah Carey Christmas special DVD
Upvote. Upvote. Upvote.
Fuck. Imagine getting that for Kris kringle.
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Windy.
Pretty yucky heading outside for a site visit just now, thankfully the rain's not here yet...
I thought the house might blow away at some points. There was definitely a lot of rattling coming from everywhere.
The morning dog walk was quite short this morning. I'm not sure if all the wind brings extra smells for Mr Woof or if it blows them all away, but he seems fairly unperturbed by the wind. Maybe because he's low to the ground it doesn't hit him as much. It does give him a very streamlined look instead of his normally fluffy cloud appearance.
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Wake up early and refreshed, get dressed, drive to the train station.......bus replacement service.
So back at home in trackies and debating whether to chuck a sickie.
Gotta love the old bus replacement switcharoo.
What a horrid day to have to venture outside.
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Full English breakfast please. Include the mushrooms. I trust you.
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Thanks chef
I know how to describe what's happening.
My life feels neglected while I was taking suboxone. Now I'm awake and it's like "where is everything?".
It hurts a bit.
deep thoughts for 7am which may or may not be relevant
Maybe what you're feeling is grief for the time spent on suboxone - grief for the wasted time. But taking it may well have been a higher priority at the time, and so should not be regretted in the overall scheme of things. Feel the grief, and move on. This takes courage, which you have in plenty.
EDIT: Like a broken leg: you go to hospital and a plaster cast is put on, then when the bone has healed the cast comes off and your leg is shrunken and muscle wasted, so you do physio to get back function in the leg. Then you can put away the crutches and walk forward freely. In this analogy, the cast was was suboxone, the grief is the physio. Eventually you'll walk forward freely. The physio is not wasted - it's a necessary step in healing.
Thank you โค๏ธ
It makes sense and the analogy is accurate. There is a panic to make up for lost time as quickly as possible.
Which can't be done, which then turns into frustration and sadness.
You've given me a lot to think about, thank you :)
I had too much coffee... several hours of indigestion and burping later, I'm still wired and tired, deep in rabbit holes over what constitutes an employee vs independent contractor for the purposes of superannuation guarantee... and how to word contracts so as not to hand over IP or be stuck in exclusivity classes...