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I still have three weeks of work before I finish up. Time is dragging along, every day slower than the one before. But with every passing day, I am becoming more and more certain that moving on was the right move. I am ready for something new.
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I am watching a conversation on Slack between the editorial and sales teams. It’s already 100 messages long and they don’t seem close to reaching a consensus. I should weigh in, but I’m feeling pretty sick today and don’t know if I have the energy.
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Absolutely devastated for my little girl, who is going to have to miss her first camp tomorrow (technically it’s a day camp) after 2.5 years of lock down and general crappiness because she’s too sick.
So far the entirety of the 2020s has been one great big disappointment.
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Last week a colleague told me she was pregnant.
While congratulating her, I had an insight: Now that my own kids are a bit older and more self-sufficient, I feel like I need them more than they need me.
I wish I could have given them more of my time when they really needed it.
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I am currently trying to migrate my morning coffee from a latte to a long black. Short blacks are just too intensely bitter for my taste. #coffee
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I’m listening to a playlist created by my 13 year old. It’s filled with rock from the 90s, peppered with some tunes from the 80s, an echo of my own teenage years.
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🎬 Am I going crazy or did Monsters Inc. have credits scenes playing out parts of the “play” they invented in the movie? Just watched the Disney+ version and there was nothing. I am now questioning my memory.
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I wish I was exempt from getting sick. I’ve been battling illness all week and it’s exhausting.
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I must be getting old because I was feeling daunted and overwhelmed by the idea of signing up to Mastodon. But it was pretty easy in the end.
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Damn, the whole Twitter situation is just live-action car crash TV, isn’t it? I can’t look away. I don’t want to see it, but I can’t look away. It’s horrific, but I just can’t look away.
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So today forced me to think about my admiration list:
- My wife, who is always an inspiration
- Teachers, who give up so much of themselves for so little in return (we should fix that)
- Nurses, who do the same
- Paramedics, firefighters and those who risk their lives to help others
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Ironic enough for Alanis: My freelancer ABN - the licence that allowed me to operate a small business - was cancelled from lack of use two months ago. Now, for the first time in 6.5 years, I need it for potential freelance work.
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The PSVR2 is going to cost $879.95 in Australia.
The disc PS5 will set you back $799.
PS+, which is required for any online gaming and is therefore essential, starts at $79.95 a year.
Is anyone else feeling like their hobby is trying to take advantage of them? 🎮
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Parenting a teenager: A poem
At least we can feed the beast
Flour, water, sugar, and yeast
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I’m trying to figure out what the next chapter of my life should be about. My 20s were about discovery, 30s were about family, but my 40s seem a bit lost. All I’ve come up with is that I need a change… and so I handed in my resignation. Let’s see what happens next.
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🎲 had a pretty good month playing board games over October. The winning stats are well down from repeated attempts to beat the Dark Side Rising and Death Eaters Rising
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My greatest achievement today was not throwing up. It took all of my energy to hold it in, but somehow, against all odds, I succeeded.
(Celebrating the small wins.)
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Coming to the conclusion that the “Rising” board games are impossible to beat. Played almost a dozen times across the Star Wars and Harry Potter versions and never come close to winning. 🎲
