I was given the present of love. Baklava.
I am deeply jealous.
omg, that is the best
I 🧡 baklava
I have a lot of tedious, unfulfilling work I REALLY don’t want to do today but need to clear by COB before I go on leave. I’ve had a slow start to the day and a battle of Feels. Thankfully, the sun is shining so that makes it easier to stay on the good side for now
Today’s strategy:
- keep reminding myself of the reward after getting through today
- remind myself efficiency is a good thing too
- enjoy all the good food - today’s medicinal carb is a Woodfrog bakery croissant. Dumplings for lunch
- go out and weed my planter boxes at lunchtime for some serotonin 'n shit
- blast all the feel-good 70s/80s pop rock. Currently on Toto, next up is classic Chicago
- celebrate the end of the day by calling/messaging people I love
I got this!..
e: busting out the ELO now. Thanks to this Russian dude who uploaded 2x 2h complications!
Ha almost sounds like my day, I’m on leave at COB and on a plane first thing in the morning, but have a STACK to get finished here at work.
Downsides for me are being onsite in a windowless dungeon (yay for IT getting the least habitable spot on the site…!) and not having the awesome music!
Plus-side, I have some kickass leftovers from last night for lunch - I’ve been looking forward to today’s lunch since I finished dinner last night!
5 hours 18 minutes to go…
I am infinitely grateful to be wfh on a gorgeous day like this, ngl. Blasting the music and regularly getting up from my chair when I’m bored/frustrated has been helpful. How are you going with the work? I’m making progress, bit spotty but I’m 30% of the way through the shitty reports. If I can get all the worst done by 2pm leaving just banal easy work for the rest of the day, I’ll be winning.
Also what leftovers are these?! I love a good lunch that you can look forward to.
I’m so jelly of the WFH! I’m on track to get everything finished on time thankfully. It’s just annoying that there’s heaps I could have had done already were it not for the dragging of heels by others!
My wife’s pasta, sauce, and killer meatballs (all home-made of course or her Italian mother would disown her!), will surely put me into a food coma for the latter part of the day however :D
Hahaha, I only have myself to blame for this backlog (procrastinating on the unpleasant stuff - bandaid being truly ripped off today). It’s much more frustrating when the delay is caused by others!
And that does sound like a very sumptuous meal to look forward to (succulent, even) - I definitely hear you on the food coma though! Leave the easier stuff to after you get that in your gullet :D
That’s the plan! In fact I’m just about to tuck in to my meal! My Succulent Italian Meal! :D
Edit: ELO are awesome. That is all.
You have to put on Eye of the Tiger, it’s just a good rev up song for me.
Please look after yourself!
This upcoming break couldn’t come sooner, although it’s unfortunate timing for work as it’s a busy period with all the storms and shit. Thankfully they have never made me feel bad about leave as I generally tend to deliver otherwise.
You can do it!
Yass! You have! ✨
Well that was a relief. All made it.
I found that real estate ad I mentioned yesterday
Scroll through the photos to see. Kinda NSFW.
In one way, I get the idea to help people picturing themselves enjoying the space, but on the other hand, oh my god, what the heeeeeck. That bath picture, lounging on the bed in her bra, wtf.
That was a dirty weekend for sure.
Ummm. There’s staging, and then there’s staging.
That’s the agent in the photos?
Kind off weird she’d be treating the house as her own private photo studio.
Ok that is 1000x icker than I was thinking.
Lol thirst trap real estate agent. Yuck.
yeah… 13 year old me absolutely coulda made that work hey.
Here here
Homer: “Do you come with the house?”
At least the bath has a nice view… of a fence.
Wtf?? Hahahaha that is gross. Did she get the photographer to do both the house and her Instagram pics then uploaded them all? That bathroom pic, seriously unnecessary
That bathroom will be a bitch to clean - so hard to get behind and under a clawfoot bath. The naked woman is an interesting selling point, though
Yeah, I detest those raised sinks especially for cleaning reasons
That’s really weird. I don’t mind the house though, especially if it comes with the goat.
The river it sits on is nice. Has a nice view.
This isn’t the first Tassie real estate ad I’ve seen with a random surprise female agent lurking about.
Maybe it’s starting to trend over there ? I actually don’t mind adding a human element to an otherwise sterile advert. Seems like most ads have a human element for relatability.
We did show a different example of this type of ad(also located in Tas) to a mate who owns an agency in WA. He thought it was ridiculous haha.
I saw a video yesterday of a house and the real estate agent was in it. She wasn’t saying anything just all this dramatic music as she flows through the house and looking longingly from the balcony and it reminded me of the ad I posted when I saw it years ago.
Was she flowing through a house in Woodbridge? I get ghost vibes on that one.
Just watched as the local daddy magpie gave a swark at someone who overreacted, swung around and started jogging…so Maggie gave them a bit of a swoop. Guy jogged off shaken and then I went up to the magpie and got a swark too. Said my normal “hello Maggie”. We had a few quiet words and swarks back and forth and I wandered home.
Not gonna lie, I feel a little bit special as a chosen maggie friend.
Whew… Finished up at 7pm, well past when I’d hoped to finish at 5pm, and there’s a couple of small outstanding but non urgent items. But I got through the worst of it - all the yucky stuff that made me renew my deep dislike for humanity and was very much due. Dobby is free!!!
…From one job, at least - next two days are gonna be real candle burners as well with the huge backlog from work trip last week and my not being available the next two weeks. I love that place though, so I’m kind of looking forward to getting stuck into it to help the team out.
48 hours to go before I’m on the way to the airport, yippee. For now, is dumplings time (swapped from lunch), and this week’s episodes of OMITB and Slow Horses :)
Oh poo. Thought I had the afternoon off tomorrow but the client is back sooner than we all thought.
I just hope they haven’t discharged her too soon…They have always discharged them too soon.
You know in 10-20 years time we’re gonna regret not asking Martin Sheen to take a crack at being the president IRL. Its worked out ok for Ukraine so far…
I read that as Martin Short, and thought, yeah if I was American, I’d vote for Martin Short. Steve Martin as his VP.
Martin Sheen is a close second choice 😂
He was asked and declined :)
Personally I’d prefer someone who didn’t start out as a celebrity in the first place.
Oh man really?! Missed opportunity :-D
Totally forgot I own a train engine biscuit cutter. One miniature women’s weekly special added to the schedule 🚂
toot toot
This should totally work, yeah? Two layers of engine glued together, then mini loaf carriages
In yet another sign of the apocalypse, there is an Australian version of The Office releasing soon on Amazon Prime.
The trailer is…well…the trailer.
truly the darkest timeline hey. Edit: OH man, I only got through like 30 seconds of the trailer. What in the absolute hell is this shit?!
Whoever is in charge of development for Prime Australia needs to be shot into the sun.
10 years too late and absolute shite. Like it misses the charm of The Office and charm of being Australian.
I’ll admit, I was never a fan of the original. Just a touch too awkward for me. But isn’t it just condescending AF to be like “heres a tv show as if you dont speak the same language of the previous 2 iterations of the same damn show”?
I wasn’t the fan of the UK one, even though I love everything Gervais has done since. The US version grew on me and did enjoy it. This one though…no thanks.
Oh that wasn’t a joke? 😭
Unfortunately no. It’s legit and it’s happening.
I’m sad that I watched the trailer. The US version is one of my favourite shows… why are they just rehashing the same main character traits? The boss is trying to be like Michael, there’s a Dwight character in there, what the hell.
A colleague was telling me about an Arabic version that’s pretty good. Can’t personally confirm.
Fried my brain last night by staying up like a teenage gamer but binge watching after I couldn’t assignment any more.
Slept like the dead, though.
Out for feed to face, but not enjoying this wimdy.
I literally stayed up until 4am, watching a YT video on a wild af Doom Map (MyHouse.wad - Inside Dooms Most Terrifying Mod) essentially someone took House of Leaves and made a Doom Map inspired by it. Complete with a google drive of journal entries lol.
I just woke up and hour ago.
Haha, YT is the devil. The devil that I love. Just. so. much. random. content.
Also, that is freakin’ cool.
Here’s the link to the video -https://youtu.be/5wAo54DHDY0?si=2dEnW3vjbL1wnQF0
He explains why the mod is just weird AF, in all the good ways. And how it is a feat of technical prowess to make such a thing on the Doom engine.
My favourite yt content is a tie between 1-7 hour long video essays on a niche interest or an investigation, and videos on the degenerates that plague social media (personalities that air all their drama and addictions and nastiness on their platforms, and then bitch and complain about trolls 😂).
I wish I could say what my favourite content is, but I just can’t. I’ll watch almost everything and off the top of my head: lawn mowing, rebuilding watches, building/architecture, vehicles (building/driving/riding), mystery docos/random internet mysteries, serial murder content, court verdicts, pranks/scares, oh lawd pimple popper, surgeries, reviews, lifestyle/fashion/travel, other documentaries, how things work, end of life vlogging etc.
I think armchair people watching… Pretty much voyerusm, haha.
LOL, welcome to a day in my brain. How have I survived this long?
I watched about 30 minutes of that doom video. Strangely compelling.
That map looks fucking awesome lol
I watch Premodernist. Today it’s 115 minutes of vexillology. 😀
Bit of a red flag that.
😐
I wish we had a competent party that would keep labor on their toes.
But no, we have a dipshit that looks like a fucking potato.
I truly hate the politics here.
From my observations it’s the same or worse everywhere else. At least we can vote people out without violent riots.
so beautiful and sunny out there. Fuck it, I;m going out for a walk.
Nice looking day today, I really need to try and get outside for a bit. I should probably pull some weeds while I’m out there too. Or clean the back paving, it’s gotten quite gunky and slippery.
I received my first ever order from Ali Express yesterday. Their website is quite dreadful to deal with, but I managed to get some thread I’ve been struggling to get from any Australian suppliers. Some sewing needles I bought were not all the right type, and I got a refund without having to return - which is nice, because 4 out of 5 were right, and the others I can use eventually, just not what I wanted.
It is frustrating how expensive sewing notions are in Australia, it is generally much cheaper to buy ready made items than the materials to make it yourself.
Dinner has been eaten. Just some left over pasta amongst an entire day of eating cakes and cupcakes.
Time to relax for the night and out my feet up.
Weather was also delightful for most of the day as well I might add.
