Cranky janky mood dissolved after a fantastic, uplifting and inspiring one on one with friend (and great food, and a walk both ways due to being in my hood).

I feel blessed to have friends like her - so deeply intelligent, capable and adventurous yet more than happy to get in the weeds with little ol’ me 😊

How unfathomably mean to provide office doggo and then renege! But that’s fantastic that your first day has not yielded any red flags. Hopefully it continues to be decent.

Reduce, reuse, recycle ♻️

Just SO cranky and short-fused today. Didn’t help that I woke up late and realised I was late for a job I’d been assigned. I was super perfectly productive after but I feel no satisfaction at all. Meeting up with a friend for dinner and feeling kind of ugh about not being in the right frame of mind, hopefully it gets better after! … though I haven’t heard from her all day despite sending a message to check in, if she’s forgotten about it or had to cancel less than an hour ahead of time I’ll just be all justifiably sad and angry in my cave lol. okay never mind she replied. Me and my oversensitive nervous system today

Oxalis is one of my sworn foes (stupid thing leaving little bulbils in when you try to yank em out) so that’s pretty rad that there’s a way to really deal with them. I could really go for some therapeutic weeding atm

Woof, you definitely deserve a bit of time and space after all that energy going around. That’s great that you have this space to get a breather because it sounds like A Lot. It also sucks to be the only child stepping up (I note crickets around the sibling’s involvement).

Your little dim sims almost look like dangerous marshmellows. Very cute. I kind of want to try grilled dim sims too. (Also good idea from melbaboutown regarding your dad doing Manly Barbequeing - though it depends on whether you mother can eat that or needs softer foods)

I need it to be back 😭 The cold and dark is getting into my bones!

Hope you have a good week too. My entire back is sore for no good reason and I feel like I’m coming down with something rather than recovering from it - I’ll chalk it up to having absolutely no coffee or tea today and all the grog from last night. Gonna have a light dinner of steamed brussel sprouts and a fish fillet… and thanks for the reminder, need to take my weekly vit D and iron tablets. Feels like winter is getting me down but I just need to hold out for a couple more weeks!

Oh bummer, looks like the ATO still haven’t received info about my voluntary deductible contribution and I have an estimated return date now so they’re almost done finalising it. So they’re going to slap me with a huge tax bill even though I cleared out so much into super and I’ll have to call or some shit to amend it. Uuuurrrrgh I thought this was going to be much more straightforward. I followed all the steps! If it wasn’t for that bonus I would be ready to cry.

I only emerged out of bed at 12:30 feeling parched and gross. Just going to power through my chores for today - including washing and drying my hair which is A Task - and book my WA flights and call it done. Thank fuck I cleared up the kitchen last night.

Okay all that booze (not even that much!) was not a great idea, shot awake at 3am from a bad dream, couldn’t sleep till 4:30, and now it’s 9 and ughghgh… Should’ve drunk more water. This is why I don’t drink much.

Oily potatoes are generally really great in the airfryer.

It was enough for me to permanently switch to Firefox. Not being able to add custom blocklists on the so-called uBlock Origin Lite (which I used to block the stupid AI Overview BS) was the last straw

Didn’t do very well with the curries I made to take to a friend’s place - spice levels were all over the shop and I ran very late and spilled a whole lot in the bag (thankfully not onto the car carpets or seats). Past me would’ve been agonising over it all day but I’m glad I could get past it, hang out with friend, head to pub and socialise with other friends, and make it back in a good mood 😀

Bonus is I now have plenty of food for the next few days albeit not the best tasting but it’ll do…

Edit: my hands still smell of garlic. Whoops. Oh well

E2: glad that I managed to summon up enough energy to load the dishwasher and clean the kitchen countertops at least - don’t need to wake up to a warzone. Helped that I did all my friend’s dishes at her place because I know how hard she’s had it lately and that put me in a positive place

I hadn’t been following any news about The Pitt for a while but all the allegations coming out now about Tracy Ifeochor (Dr Collins) being asked to leave and not being in s2 are really sad. I can’t believe she is part of a virulently homophobic church that promotes conversion therapy. Like how do you even get into TV and film acting in the modern era with these kinds of strongly held beliefs? Puts a new spin on her portrayal of a character handling some difficult conversations about abortion…

For real, if not for the silly situation I put myself in my clearing out all my readily accessible cash last FY, I would’ve put it all straight into super. Since my super is anaemic for my age and I am hoping to use the FHSSS in a couple of years if things go well.

I decided to put about 25% of the bonus in salary sacrifice and the rest paid out, and have my extra hours this pay cycle counted as TOIL which I can use to buffer the unpaid leave time over my break.

At the end of next FY I can always put the rest of the bonus money into super and claim the difference in tax back so if I understand correctly it is essentially the same as salary sacrifice, just at my own pace and with extra steps. I don’t think I’ll do regular salary sacrifice from my pay until I have a much better financial position, I kind of like being able to control the timing of my contributions and have the money on hand in the meantime in case shit hits the fan as a single person without much family support in Melbourne…

I called my super fund about why my voluntary contribution wasn’t showing up in my ATO profile and had been changed to $0 in my in-progress tax return - they advised me that it was strange and they definitely notified the ATO about my contribution and to just wait and see if it resolves in the next few days as things could change while the processing is in progress.

They also reassured me that if the ATO finalise the tax return without my contribution, I can get it amended and provide the documentation I received from my super fund, so I WILL get a refund instead of a bill eventually, but that will be annoying because I don’t know how long it will take to process. I’m relieved I have this bonus money coming through because at least I can move on with my life

Yay: I’m getting a bonus! I totally forgot they give them out at this time of the year

Nay: not sure how to handle tax vs salary sacrifice into super. Especially with having to wait one whole year to claim any additional tax back.

I kinda really really need the cash so think I’ll take most of it as cash even though it’ll be taxed to all buggery. I swear to god I have not had to think so much about tax rules my whole life until this year.

I kind of hope Hungs Bakery doesn’t sell out and go up market because the tofu banh mi is absolutely legit especially for that price and speed. But I’m guessing so long as those commission housing towers are the, Victoria Street won’t gentrify like the rest of Richmond

I could do with a wattle bot 🌳 hot or otherwise!

I’ve been living in my oodie all day today. Tomorrow I will Be Productive ™