I did it! I got the contact I interviewed for. I just need to go through reference checks and I'll start in a week. Everything has worked out and lined up for once.
This will get me on the other side of Christmas if I don't get anything else, and it will give me recent experience in the space I want to work in again.
God work is over. I need sleep and maybe some uber eats.
Tbh I'm still buzzing.
When I first got sober, the guy I lived with had a friend who ran open mic nights in Brunswick.
He got me to go along to watch and I ended up doing them for about a year every week. Was probably one of the few things that made me feel good about myself in those early days. Where you try to figure out who you are and what the hell normal life is supposed to be.
Once it was my birthday and they brought out a cake which was probably the happiest I'd been in more than 5ish years.
I stopped when I got into bands playing guitar again, and with Tafe and work, just stopped singing in general.
The band I was mainly concentrating on, and had an album recorded, gigs lined up etc died when lock downs happened.
Last night was a real big step back into live music. Thanks again everyone for all your support over the last 12ish months.
HR dumped this on a random desk in my office to show their gratitude for all we do. Starts off with "Hi team". There's two people who work in this area, me and someone else and we aren't in the same team, not even in the same site technically.
Dunno why they couldn't be honest and just say they found this at the back of their cupboard when doing a clean out. It would have been less insulting.
As a fundraiser, the school sent us to a website where you can view some art your kid has done and then order it as a pillow, tote bag, calendar or a bunch of other options. Only this website lets you look at every piece of art that every kid in the school has done and pick any art any kid at the school has done. You just say I want this kid's art on my $15 tote bag, thanks.
My dilemma is my kid is not the greatest artist in the school.
Something that's not getting as much publicity as it probably should. This got put up in the Coburg library, a friend of mine alerted me to it last night.
It's a Friday and I'm still feeling despondent and miserable in my bones despite every effort to cheer up. What a drag... At least I'm meeting up with a friend on Sunday as a reward for the mega-clean I gotta do tomorrow. Booked in 4 rental inspections for Sat, Mon and Tue. None are exactly ideal places but I gotta start inspecting at least for my own mental health.
Drank last night, drinking tonight (because I forgot my FIL was coming over from Perth, and always goes to the turf bar lol), prolly drinking tomorrow (races that FIL must do when he comes to Melbs).
If I end up depression-posting, remind me I've been drinking for three days straight please
Sox is being unbearably cute today. Cuts through the ennui a bit, even though I've been neglecting her, lost in my own darkness. I've carefully kept away her very long whisker from last night as a good luck charm for the weeks ahead.
Damn some lowlife has put a cigarette lighter to every single intercom camera on the apartment buildings along my street. Some people really fucking suck
Ah red wine my old friend
I've popped you open again
I am drinking and I am dying
Mickey is playing and is biting
And the sounds of the neighbours watching tv
Float up to me
Is less than silent
Just ate a toastie that when I saw it I thought "hmm, it doesn't look great, but slim pickings, so whatever"... how wrong I was proven. Mushrooms, cheese, pesto, perfectly salty and heavenly and happiness!
so, word on the street is that it is going to be a hot, humid summer. Any ladies here able to give recs for a hairdresser who can deal with fine....ahem....frizzy hair that has a tendency to curl? Shorter, rather than longer styles.
I dug out what I thought was a combination DVD and VHS player and plugged it into the TV, turns out it was just a really big DVD player. I couldn't get it working with the RCA inputs into the receiver so I've just hooked up the other DVD player for the moment. The current DVD player also has RCA output and that didn't work either, so it could be the cable.
I put on some DVDs for the kids and it was so much better. You know what you're in for, the shows have a proper start and end, and they can pick out a DVD like they do books when they're ready
Just had a chat to the ol' man about how to go about this new potat patch. It's almost there and I said the shovel is the one to use for the rest. He said "you mean the spade".
And it reminded me of my late grandma's saying :"A spade is a spade and not a fucking shovel".
Miss Meow was missing from the lounge room tonight, and I thought she might have been hiding in the sewing room. Nope, she was having a lovely nap in the wardrobe. Apparently, my underwear is quite comfortable.
For a few months now we've been experimenting with soju. The aussie soju is like Black Douglas and the South Korean is like Johnny Walker double black. The difference is very distinctive.
Been getting into baseball this year, with the playoffs going on right now and there is nothing so satisfying as the sound the ball makes off the bat when they crush a home run.
Do we have any art instances in Aussie Zone? I thought we did, I subscribed to some art instances somewhere anyway, but not seeing them nowโฆ
Trying to sub to other instances remotely and itโs saying Aussie Zone or AussieZone are not validโฆ
Edit: Ok nvm, found the ones Iโm subscribed to. But theyโre Lemmy World, tbh Iโm trying to build our Aussie instances up as well and get them active.
Work is cutting my only consistent shift to train other people for the next few weeks. I have no idea how I'll be able to fit work with study next year because I'm doing an accelerated course with placements, so a bit iffy about quitting and going part-time elsewhere.
Hopefully I can get an education support role for one or two days a week ๐
Definitely soggy out there today. I'm glad the food market is now fully under cover. There wasn't a lot today, but I did get some nice beef sausages and some strawberries.