Melbourne

It's one of those "falling asleep patting the cat" nights. Goodnight all ❤️

Made it to the hotel safe and sound. The hotel room is super hot, but decent

Beautiful sunset out these ways, same in melbs?

The tyre, btw:

Nobody in Heywood, Mount Gambier, Naracoorte, or Bordertown either had a replacement rim available, or could buff out the dent same day. That was an absolutely cooked pothole, but we got out of it safely. Still, we've had to do about 350km with another 150 to adelaide on the space saving 80k tyre. I don't think they're meant to be driven that far, but we don't have a lot of choice. We'll find somewhere in Adelaide tomorrow I guess. We're nearly in Tailem Bend, and about 2 hours away from our hotel in Adelaide

Tomorrow was an intentionally blank day, I basically just want to get some postcards and stamps, nothing else planned yet. So having to spend the day waiting for a new wheel is no biggie. We're hoping to find an auto wrecker or something that has this model of car we can just buy a tyre off, and fix this tyre when we get back to Melbourne. But otherwise, it's a steel rim, so somebody can just carefully hammer it out for us, that just takes longer

I hope that job I interviewed for last week calls me back 🤞🏾

It'd be great leverage.

Lol

Massive lovely win for today: blood test results back in record time, everything's good, new MH plan and a really nice chilled out chat with the Dr... and he bulk billed me!!!! Ahhh!!! That's like Christmas come early these days given that the gap fee is like 60 (70 after 5pm).

...I hate how American that sounds, having to jump for joy at cheaper healthcare based onto the whim of someone else :(

Have been craving mee goreng something heinous this afternoon so treating myself to a nice spicy bowl on Victoria St. This place is always legit. I am riding the high of Nice Things until I can get my kitchen sorted our very soon...

E: saw my old place listed for sale barely a week after I moved out. Well, I'm glad that they're genuinely selling it and not trying to get new tenants at higher prices. LL better be grateful that I've let her get it on the market so quickly and at a good time of the year...

I have a problem with overthinking about things and events that occur or may occur as a result of something.

It's definitely one of the things that gives me a great amount of stress and anxiety.

I keep thinking about things and the possibilities and sometimes bad or unpleasant things that happen stay in my mind for quite awhile.

I don't quite know how to handle those feelings and what I should do.

It's been suggested that I just move past things and forget, or distract myself to take my mind off of things or I be more stubborn about my own feelings and harden up?

There's been other things, like for example I followed all the steps and did things as soon as I realised or possible and I still get blamed for not doing it soon enough and copped some barbed words, I know it wasn't my fault but still it bothers me. (That was what I was stressing about)

There's possibly more to come in the future as the problem hasn't come close to be resolved and I hope I don't keep thinking about what might happen.

Apologies for the rant.

I've been dancing with my cat and singing 'When you're a Jet' from West Side Story, but swapping it to 'When you're a Cat'. I'm sure he loves it.

Finally managed to get a hold of one of my friends.

Been an unlucky day where I’ve been able to reach anyone.

Just talking a little bit on the phone helped me a little bit with my stress and anxiety.

I’m so grateful to be able to do that but I hope he’ll be able to call me back to talk more as I know he’s been busy.

TIL it is possible to fill yourself stupid with too many dumplings.

G'day from Penola, peeps

We're running a little early, although had to sacrifice a few itinerary items because of a tyre blowout before 9am, lol

Massive pothole somewhere in the Moyne LGA. Didn't see it. 100km/h. Wheel absolutely fucked. I mean absolutely fucked, the rim has a massive dent in it, so it's not just the wheel. No Bueno. We've stopped at about 5 places now, nobody has the rim we need. Currently pissing people off doing 80 down a major road towards Naracoorte (stupid space saving efficiency 80km/h restricted tyre thing). Oh well. Not much choice but to hope Naracoorte or Bordertown are able to help us, or leave it til tomorrow after we get to Adelaide

Stopped at a station called Kalangadoo. Fucking beautifully preserved. A bloke there has invested some major time and money into keeping it preserved (there's an ABC article about him and the station, will send pics tomorrow when I have better service). He gave us a 2 hour tour and showed us soooooo much cool stuff. When I get back home, I'm going to post him a couple of the Vic things I've collected and some photos from our side of the country in case he's interested (he did have some Vic stuff, mostly the more fascinating things, so I don't think he'd mind, even if it's not from his neck of the woods). Ripper of a bloke

I had a meeting with the general manager who's leaving. He admitted we have too much work.

So I'm going to my manager this week and talking to her. At this stage, to keep up, I'd have to be working outside of office hours. And that isn't happening.

I do find it hard to trust people. And not without reason, when your own parents abandoned you (both through actual abandonment and through neglect and abuse), then running the gauntlet of a number of toxic workplaces I just find it really hard not to see the world for what it is: a very dark place.

Not watching the news helps. But only to a point.

bloody hell, this diet must be working.

I put a little make up on too and suddenly it's like I'm a visible person again.

which is goddamn awful. 😡

the dogs having their own couch again seems to have stopped the cat bullying them, for now. So thats a win! not bad for a marketplace freebie!

Sort of fucked up yesterday.

Had 'a go' at the ol' man about the way he's trying to tackle his little fence dispute (on top of everything else). Basically long winded combative emails to the neighbour. Problem is the neighbour appears to have literacy issues judging by the way he writes (so they need to be short and to the point).

Anyway so when you have a go, let's just say he's not the sort of person that will take criticism.

So he stood up, calmly said he's going for a walk. That shit never happens it's always far more heated.

On the one hand I shouldn't have done that right now and just let it be, on the other it shows where his head is with respect to mum's issues. It's a completely unrelated issue (a fence and medical stuff) but it definitely says something.

I have no idea how to support someone like him emotionally through this (not the fence but mum heh). He's got a bunch of garden / house shit he's doing which is his 'escape' but I can tell it's really taking its toll.

Some people need to either get to the point or shut the fuck up in meetings seriously.