flylikethewind

The good:
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Last year, we had to clean laptops and I was like "I am really slow with it" and this other guy was like "I'll go slow with you".... so kind - whilst my hubby was going as fast as he can hahaha and I felt super slow.

The other day we went to the fish and ship shop and the nice lady that works there often with a nice smile put an extra battered fish for me for free which I didn't realise until I opened the takeaway box on my trip home!

Going to the Specsavers and realising that the name of the Optometrist who works there was from my primary school - not that I caught up with her yet as she only works there Sundays and Wednesdays but the lady who works there was happy to drag her out for me to say hello should I visit again.

Being given glasses to try on from someone else who has the same *common* surname as me as it magnified things unexpectedly... fun moment.

Being allowed to WFH on the upcoming CNY eve by a manager whom I had mixed feelings about and kinda controls my fate @ work I suppose.

Manager assuming that I'm doing reporting for a project which helped people a lot when it was just updating a spreadsheet and he knows I like to do reporting but I don't think he really knows too much about what reporting is so just puts that word in the sentence when talking to me.

Bumping into my parents at the shopping centre when buying our takeaway dinner

The good and not so good:
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An ex work colleague thought about me (haven't spoken to him really since I was made redundant in my last job) shared a job opportunity from his company with me (although I had to decline it as I felt it was way out of my league)

A cat was camping underneath my hubby's car that was friendly and not shy and 'meowed' back and kept walking around our legs although the downside was that it made it super difficult to get to work as it didn't want to let either me nor my hubby go and a lot of its fur got stuck on our work trousers... but then we can't afford to look after a cat and not sure if it is stray or hungry so just have to leave it alone moving forward. Saw it again again, the white cat with the yellow eyes just before leaving home to catch up with my family for dinner.

Not so good:
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Mum twisted her leg due to uneven dining floor at home

Dishwasher broke down

Heard today that Aunt has recovered from Covid. That was fast!
She apparently had mild symptoms - bit of temperature and bit of cough and that's it.
Hence, my cousin can return home - or maybe he returned home already.

Done election today.

Bought takeaway for lunch from Cabra and did some grocery shopping as usual.

Last night was cold so had blocked nose after going to the bathroom and thought I was feeling a bit shortness of breath as a result but managed to clear some of the blocked nose, went back to sleep and when woke up all normal again.
Sam on the other hand sounded like he woke up and caught a cold with his runny nose but after a shower he seems a lot better this evening, although he still sounds like he got some sniffles.
Hopefully we won't have to postpone our belated Mother's day celebration tomorrow. Will see how he goes. Won't bother with a Covid test though cos none of his symptoms look like Covid to me.

Nothing much else to update really.

Cleaned Chinese cabbage, cleaned oak leaf lettuce.
Minced 1kg of garlic with the help of a food processor.

After the housework I think I got tired and accidentally hit the back of my right arm against one part of the fridge. Now it's bruised and lumpy.

Also got an interesting read from spam mail in my letterbox today - some conspiracy against government in relation to Covid I think. Even though I hope not to believe most of it, whoever wrote it sure has a theatrical mind.
They seem to have done their homework and strong in their views.

Heard my Aunt's granddaughter had Covid.
I believe she studied Medicine so I wonder if she got it from her workplace which I assume might be a hospital setting of some sort.

So today we have a new NSW premier - Dominic Perrottet. I don't think I'm a huge fan of him.
I heard he was born? grew up? in West Pennant Hills.
He's only 1 year older than me - so young for a NSW premier.
He seems business/law/finance-oriented kinda person.
I'm scared cos he seems very driven towards what he wants from what I've read.
Like.. .he wanted less lockdowns and wanted to open up earlier and told Dr Kerry Chant that if she wanted to lock up the state then she should be paid less or something like that.

Found out today from Dad that sis's car is OK and it just required a battery replacement.
Lucky for Dad he doesn't need to buy a new car for sis!

Arm's still sore, most itchiness has gone one week after 2nd Pfizer jab.

Hubby made bacon/egg sandwiches for our brunch and we microwaved leftovers for dinner.

Today wasn't overly constructive - I did do the laundry though and hung up the clothes. I submitted an order via eBay for some clips for our Westinghouse dishwasher. When the dishes get too heavy on the top rack, we waste so much time trying to adjust things within the dishwasher so that the spinny thing doesn't keep scrapping our cutlery container in the lower rack.
I also marinated the pork chops for tomorrow's dinner.
I also started window shopping - thinking about Christmas but didn't make much progress - I have an eye on a Breadmaker for fun though so might buy that for someone or for myself.

Last nite chatted a bit with my sis-in-law on Whatsapp & my cousin although the convo with my cousin didn't last long as she wanted my undivided attention it seems and 2 minutes delayed reply to a chat just doesn't cut it :P I guess she doesn't like to multitask and I don't mind trying to multitask again but I fail to do it well so she can pick up on it each time!

Dad also got a new mobile phone for Mum so he'll have fun transferring everything over for Mum to her new phone and then transferring ownership of her mobile phone plan and porting over from Kogan to Woolies mobile too on Tuesday.

Hubby & I watched a bit of "Hotel Del Luna" on Netflix - it was quite interesting except I wish it was a little more fast paced. A hotel with ghost residents :) Hubby recognised 2 actors in the Korean series - I only recognised the little boy as I'm so not good with face recognition of 'men'.

I was quite sad to hear that our NSW premier, Gladys has resigned due to ICAC investigations.

I don't believe the media stalked her Jeep (exposing the car plate) all the way to the front door of her home and broadcasted it live. Isn't that an invasion of privacy?
She couldn't even get off her own vehicle at her own home in Northbridge and had to head back out onto the roads.

Anyway...

Covid arm is still itchy :/ I can't wait for the itch to go away. What a nuisance. Have to think positive!
It's definitely less of a side effect to what I have heard a friend's friend tell me about. She had friends who had sore lower back, paralysis in different parts of the body apparently, missing their period (not sure if that's necessarily a bad thing).

Hubby has been looking after me ever since that jab with looking after dinners for us. I'm going to cook dinner tonight even though arm's still weak and itchy.

Also... one of our cats (Blackie), whom found another home for years but sometimes visits, has been back to my parents' home on a more regular basis ever since this house in their neighbourhood got sold.
Unfortunately, we have another male cat (Milka) which has been very territorial and powerful since little who dislikes my family feeding Blackie as well.
Yesterday Milka fought Blackie and Milka won :/
Blackie is gentle and lovely and would not ever start a fight and he knows how to share.
So Blackie's more of a favourite at home even though Milka's so beautiful.
Mum doesn't like Milka - I don't blame her... but then what can you do.
Maybe they should get a cat cage and try to get him neutered to see if it makes any difference to his behaviour.... but he might be too old for any difference to be made.

Hubby also got runny nose all day today... hopefully it's hayfever and not a cold this time.

Sunday arvo had Pfizer 2nd jab.
Felt sore around injection point since the jab.
I don't think I relaxed fully before they did the injection.
Not an entire heavy left arm this time!
Felt easy - only a bit sore around the injection point and a bit of sore muscles around there!!
Had a lovely long shower without trouble!

On Monday - still felt relatively at ease.
Hence, went to clean cabbage - took me about 2 hours and 3 minor cuts (1 on my left hand and 2 on my right hand).
Monday night had Feverish Chills just before dinner. It was a cold night so I turned on heater.
Then I had steam boat (heater was on downstairs as well).
Then head felt heavy (not left/right sided... pretty much centralised near the front mid of my head).
Lied down and put on a blanket with heater but the heat just couldn't sink in.
Hence I went to have a nice long warm shower thinking it might help.
The heavy head went away and I ended up feeling a mild fever. Hands were warmer than usual, and face was feeling a bit warm. Surprisingly, my forehead wasn't really hot.
That said, I still wasn't feeling too comfy (but at least not too uncomfy given my forehead wasn't hot like I'd thought it would be).
Had water to try cool down in absence of panadol (only had expired panadol elixir at home + panamax capsules which I don't know how to swallow) and tried to sleep.
After few hours on and off of getting more water and bathroom trips, finally managed to sleep.

Tuesday woke up - no more fever to my relieve.
Felt like I was going to come up with a cold though - very tiny bit of phlegm, bit of runny nose.
Took it easy.
Arm was still feeling a bit sore around injection point (and feels bruised if touched it applying a tiny amount of pressure) and it also felt like something was pulling my muscle near my injection point. Left shoulder also felt a little sore.
Late Tuesday night - felt pretty good. Stayed up and watched Masked Singer episodes 1-5 whilst working on my resume like a snail.

Wednesday - discovered that I had 'covid arm' by the afternoon when I dared to look at it. The area around my injection point was from time to time itchy, and slightly pink round mark.
It was still feeling itchy, had a shower and tried to leave that arm alone by not getting it hit too hard by the shower water, though I gave it a mild warm / a mild cold shower here and there without applying bodywash this time.

Still quite itchy after shower.

Going to call it a night :)

So .. we have offshore teams working in Bulgaria during Australian business hours.
They messaged me 'Good morning' and naturally I respond with 'Good morning' back to them.
Then I realised.. actually .. it's super early morning for them. Just after midnight their time when they messaged me.

Morning can be between midnight until noon. However, most people would not say 'good morning' to people after midnight but before waking hours of the morning.

Soooo next time I decided I will just say 'good dawn' to them.

Did tax return today. Seems like it has been simplified. So I'm happy.

The only flaw I encountered was the 'print or save' button when completing the website on firefox. My bf and I both had the same error and we couldn't go back to print/save it. Maybe there's a way but I can't be bothered to find out.

Yesterday felt kinda warm for Autumn.

Dad and Mum actually went for a swim. Yes, the pool is heated but it was outdoors and I was still in long sleeves and shorts so it wasn't *that* warm.
Mum said the water was cold and she asked me to call Dad to get out of the pool when it was starting to get dark but I was too lazy. (Apparently he wouldn't listen to her but he'd listen to me). He was coughing afterwards but I think he has recovered today.

As for Dad, I think his reason for going into the pool was because my parents are arranging someone to build a pool enclosure for our pool and Dad wanted to install some swimming pool light before the constructions start to take place.

Today's much colder!
They both declined to swim today :)
I'm glad they are still sane to some extent.

Just discovered it on youtube.. yippee :D

Some wins... after yet another busy day at work.
Work incoming is always greater than Work outgoing. *Sigh*
And backlog just builds day by day.