ABC Classic (which is my alarm clock) mentioned this and decided to play O Fortuna from Carmina Burana in homage. Well, if I wasn’t awake before…

The weekend’s looking pretty ordinary too. Ugh. What are the chances it’ll all start magically improving in August by the time I go away?

Seems like the day for activity after yesterday’s blustery weather. The sun is making all the difference - that and the yucky feeling after rotmaxxing on YT all day yesterday in bed/on couch.

So far aside from the usual cleaning, have given the air fryer as best a clean as I could (I suspect I need Jif and steel wool to really do the job), and done the big task of the day - cleaning the air purifier filters after over 6 months non stop operation in this awful dusty carpeted place. I should’ve done it ages ago; there’s arcs of very fine dust almost embedded into the plastic of the outer panel that I needed to scrub very hard to get it off. The cleanable parts are getting a good sun propped on my bed after the vacuum and wash. The carbon and HEPA filters probably do need replacing but I’ll do it when I get back (just two weeks before I go, seems pointless to replace it now).

I so very deeply miss my plants… sigh…

Yeah, I’ve decided I’ll keep my current rental for now and treat it like glorified storage I can live in and don’t need to pack everything to fit into. As cathartic as it would’ve been to leave Vic free from the past in some ways, I think I would’ve been putting too much stress on myself to pack everything, find storage, movers, rehome my indoor plants, then come back and crash at a friend’s place until I find another place, move again… I need to cut myself some slack.

I’ll try other ways of motivating myself to move somewhere better for my psyche rather than falling into a rut when I get back

Today was a beaut of a day after all that incessant cloud and gloom. Really motivating me to gtfo from my unit because even when there is sun I hardly see any of it in my living room. So it was good that I was out all day today, took some lunch to a lovely low key event then went to my aunts to fuss over removing silicone residue from the bathtub for hours, super zen. It is so good to be working with my hands and helping someone else. I’m going to plan to do that as much as possible at my aunt’s in WA. Need to break the screen addtction…

One of my goals for wherever I move long term is to have birb friends. Specifically maggie friends.

The older I’ve gotten the more it’s worth it to have that peace of mind to save time and stress. It was always about being stingy with my parents (for diabolical reasons I did not find out until my late teens) and much of my extended family but I have to ask if the arguments, anxiety, etc. were worth the money saved. It’s meant to be a holiday.

I make it a policy now to have enough luggage for the reasons you mentioned, and also book flights at reasonable times - no more red-eyes to save money and throw off my sleep cycle.

Welcome back btw 🤗

It took me all day of getting distracted and bullshit avoidance strategies, but I’ve finally booked the campervan. That’s the biggest hurdle over. I splurged an extra $300 for a newer model that has cruise control even though I don’t like the layout as much and it’s not as spacious. My right knee isn’t the greatest these days so I am not putting it through 1000s of kms solo.

I’m just going to book campsites tomorrow because my brain is fried. I will definitely feel a lot more excited about this once all the bookings are over!

Yeah, gutting that public amenity and infrastructure once again takes second place to private corporate interests. I kinda think the public should find out what Mecca paid in compensation to shut down a section of PT for their own profit.

Well that’s this work week over, i haven’t counted down the hours this much in a long time.

Looks like it will take 5-7 working days for both the ATO and super fund to get their stuff organised and both parties are all ‘this is weird it’s never happened before, this needs escalation (10 minute hold)’. oh well, this is why people get accountants even though this really should’ve been very straightforward. I’ve done what I can for now.

On a vaguely related note, really glad that mandatory payday super is kicking in next year. Kinda BS knowing how much is just sitting around not earning interest for 3 months.

I have to finalise my campervan/campsite bookings tomorrow and then it’s just a matter of waiting till the end of the month and going on my veeeeeeery badly needed break.

It appears to be very rare for the contributions to not show up with the ATO, according to both the ATO, the super fund and two accountants I spoke to, and there is no paperwork to “see” really (everything was good on paper) but thanks for the condescension anyway I guess

They haven’t put in a due date yet but typically I think you have until 21 November unless you filed with an agent and/or have requested a payment plan.

24 minute wait to get a call back then a 15 minute call from the ATO done, now on hold with the super fund with three callers ahead of me in the queue… blaaah… At least the ATO staff member was super helpful and escalated my issue but she did say the super fund still needs to report the contribution before anything can be processed. I have Words for the super fund about not being clear regarding how soon they send contribution info to the ATO

I filed the return myself, followed all the instructions to a tee, turns out my super fund is not being very truthful or clear about how quickly they then send that info to the ATO.

No, I filed the tax return well after the NOICC was done and I received an acknowledgement. But the super fund has still not submitted the data to the ATO despite repeatedly saying they did on the phone when I noticed the discrepancy

Grrrr got my tax return back and as expected, my bloody super deduction is not available and I owe them a huge chunk now AND I’m out of pocket for the substantial amount I deposited… guess I will have to make those phone calls when it’s 8am. Not happy Jan. I foresee a lot of “no you need to contact ATO!”, “no you need to contact your super fund!” back and forth…

E: and it’s been three hours now, 4:30am and I can’t get back to sleep. Do they put something in these pizzas?

oh damn that’s some hot competition. I concede.

Pizzas on sale today… pants have been feeling tight recently… but pizza… after the day that was… pizza. At least it is economical enough to last for 3 meals. Then I might watch something. Red Rooms has been on my list after it was mentioned in the DT

E: gotta love Quebecois French and how they randomly drop in English words with a totally North American accent.

The extra one is for me. Thanks

Nah I don’t. Maybe I might, sarcasm could be a great way to get them off my back without coming across as unengaged - thanks!