So like one in five desks at work have some sort of issue. Screens/docks not working. Chairs are missing or broken. Meeting rooms can't connect to the network. Absolutely amazing.

Whoever is sabotaging this, I applaud you, you mad mad bastard.

I'm also being super vocal about stuff not working correctly, making sure the managers who really push for office days hear me.

- pruned my monstera. Decided to go with a minimalist/beetlejuice look

I want to keep sleeping wah

My short holiday is over. Waiting to board the plane to come back to melb. Really don’t wanna go back to work tomorrow 😭

some winter orchids, the plants sit outside all year and I cut the flowers to bring inside

I own a plastic plant

I'm naive AF and I probably treat people with too much trust but I've recently seen some pretty ugly stuff at work. People who are nice to your face but will throw you under the bus as soon as you turn your back because you mean nothing to them. It's disgusting and I'm losing faith in humanity.

So yesterday I bought 5 new calligraphy brushes, cost $70. I bring them home and start to prepare them for use, this means soaking in water to remove the starch from the bristles. I did this and 2 of the brush handles soaked up water and exploded. I looked at them carefully. They were made of particle wood, ie sawdust mixed with glue and moulded. ffs, I would prefer a cheap brush to a fake brush.

And this is why I usually buy plastic or bamboo brushes

It's warm! Time to wash EVERYTHING

Video interview done, back to sleep I go

Anyone remember reading Cloudstreet in school? My friend and their family are trying to move, and I'm gearing up to do the same soon, so I joked that with this economy we should start our own Cloudstreet. They missed the reference though, and now I'm asking others and they're also not getting the reference.

One of those nights where it felt like I was both asleep and awake, so now I'm super tired and it's going to be a very very long day.

Day 8 mate! A rest day for me so I just did my tummy exercises. Weighed myself this morning and I've lost 4.6 kg, and I can definitely feel it! Woo! I'm still overweight but I can at least hide it a bit better with my choice of clothing, whereas before there was no hiding my gut. It's really whittled down, and my bras fit better too.

My bus smells like Strasbourg but it's a beautiful day out there. I'll get to see some of it because I'm making lasagna sheets today. Hope you all have a great day!

The people running the competition I commented on earlier got back to me. Apparently the five $2000 gift cards they are giving away are all being given to one person, they are not separate prizes. So you could probably feed a family for a year on that after all.

Had a competition pop up on Facebook advertising you could "win a chance to feed your whole family for free for a year". The prize is a $2000 gift card. Just over $38 a week. Yeah it would be nice to win, but the false advertising with this sort of ad is bullshit.

I'm back. My day has been filled with cheese and eggs. Hope yours was too.

Got Metro’ed pretty hard this morning. Gonna be at least halfa late. And yet the status page doesn’t show any delay. This is my 3rd run in with them in a week. This service ain’t worth 5 bucks one way.

I was quietly panicking, trying to find my webcam. I had moved it when I was cleaning my desk, but I just could not remember where it was. Partner gets up, hobbles to the study (which I had been in 3 times already), and "Spud! It was just on the floor next to the desk."

Like, just there, out in the open. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Got it now, so alles gut! 😅

Tea is excellent this morning.

Four bags of donations dropped off at the op shop, beachside walk done, delicates in the wash to be line dried, windows opened for the cats to disport themselves at, protein powder ordered and yellow bin brought in.
Now to take advantage of the good weather to open up the garage ~~and dodge the resident rat~~ and haul out some more stuff to be sorted.

I’m digging the plant posts today and adding my monstera with a new winter leaf

This is Sid, proprietor of Sid's Bar (my balcony where I drink and sing haha)!

It's so lovely to see the sun. But right on cue my nose starts running and I can't stop sneezing... yay for early spring?

Throwing into the monstera pile:

Would be 30 something years old. Completely rootbound and I ain't even gonna attempt changing that pot.

Ooof. This 'holiday' is brutal. I need a holiday from it

(Family funeral abruptly happened on Tuesday, extended family are down from every where including a lot of people i deliberately do not associate with )

My new acupressure mat arrived this morning. I had low expectations: I'll buy anything that might give me some relief from my chronic migraines, but most of the random stuff I get doesn't help, and this looks like a torture device. And I'm not sure this will help with the pain either, but wow. I actually have energy? This could be my new favourite thing.

Blue Hyacinths from my garden.

After that massage I'm done for today. I'm sorry but my entire being needs to completely retreat. It is functionally impossible for me to use my brain to think about anything other than lying down on the grass in the sun. Good afternoon.

(Although, I am still concerned about one very upsetting discovery: the aldi near here does not stock frozen hash browns. Granted I haven't been to an aldi in half a year because there isn't one near where I live but is the case elsewhere?!?! Thankfully, there were potato gems)

I have no cactus on monstera.

Adding my lovely desk friend who has insane aerial roots that I just keep letting do their thing!

... sorry for the angle.

Someone started an argument at work yesterday, and its sucked what little of the "give a fuck" I had left for this week.

SyncForLemmy is out if anyone is keen. That guy is going to make some money on the first day I think.

Some things making me happy today:

• everyone smiling in the sunshine
• some young tradies playing handball at the shops
• the lovely receptionist at the physio complementing my hair
• having the day off work

No houseplants to be found here so how bout a nutrition unit?

Wangs, carrot, bean..

Brilliant weather today but I just know Melbourne weather has a habit of giving you a real backhand, and I'm waiting for it.