I did a ‘rough draft’ of my tax return and was a bit alarmed that it extimated I owed money instead of being owed a return. Apparently, forgetting to include a really big work expense makes a difference, even with my $1 in franking credits.

This passive income lark is great. $2.97 in dividends plus franking credits, I’m definitely on the gravy train now!

My credit card balance and my own calculations are not agreeing with each other. Looks like line by line analysis will be required. I think that can wait until tomorrow though, I’m far too busy digesting lunch for that sort of nonsense now.

The traffic gods were with me today. Ballarat to Burwood, 2 hours door to door. At work 45 mins early!

$5k is way higher than $1k, that’s like $4k profit. And the motor cost $4k which is less than what you can sell the car for afterwards so that means it is worth doing. And the wrecker is just a scammer, they are trying to give her $1k for a car she’s going to be able to sell for $5k. Obvious rip off, they just want to put a motor in and get all that profit for themselves.

Your MIL knows what’s what. She’s not going to be fooled by your fancy-pants ‘profit=5000-4000-150’. That’s just ivory tower university maths, it’s not how the real world works.

Sorry, apparently I can explain the thought process, but nothing can make it actually make sense…

I don’t wanna go to work today 😭

But I guess I don’t want to go to work any day. But I do like having all the fancy things, like food. and shelter. Dammit, I guess I’m going to work.

It works pretty well (if you ignore dog sabotage). I have found the doona tends to move around in the cover a lot anyway and sheets are actually easier to straighten out than trying to reposition a doona in the cover.

I have wondered how much it would cost them if people started just chatting to their AI bot. Last week I engaged the Bunnings bot in a lengthy discussion on the merits of mulching the shelves in the lounge room (it wasn’t a fan of the idea initially, but I think I won it over).

I used to be on team no flat sheet. But then I got annoyed at changing the cover on my king size quilt and annoyed at fitted sheets that were cut too small to actually fit the mattress, and I am currently on team ‘three flat sheets and a doona’ and I use a flat sheet on the mattress and on top & bottom of the uncovered doona. It would be a perfect system if Mr Woof didn’t insist on pulling everything apart and piling it into the middle of the bed, but there is nothing I have been able to find so far that is able to resist that.

Mine has been dozing a bit, I really needed to mow it weeks ago and kept putting it off. I should have a few months to ignore it again, which will be nice. It will give me a chance to do the weeding and tidying in the garden beds before spring.

I need to start thinking about planting some early seeds for tomatoes and things indoors soon too - I have a tendency to leave it a bit late, I’d like to try and get the timing right for once this year! If all goes to plan I’ll probably end up with a thriving garden just in time for me to move out and the next tenant to get most of the harvest!

Cold, wet and windy weather has resumed. I got the mowing finished just in time.

The lawn is looking very green and vibrant now which is nice, but there are still a few empty gaps that need filling in. I seem to have managed to keep most of the weeds out, but Spring is going to be the big test of that. The font yard is not quite as good, I think they planted the wrong type of grass for that location. It really struggled with summer, as it is in full sun and has window reflections and a lot of surrounding concrete to deal with.

I so wish I could. Two more hours of work before I can go home and head to bed unfortunately.

Feels like minus 3.5 outside. Looks like today will be the first iced over car of the season.

It’s another lovely day outside. I have done as much mowing as I could before the batteries died, I’ll need to do the other half of the back yard tomorrow before the predicted rain moves in. At least the grass doesn’t grow much at this time of year so I won’t have to do it again for a while.

Things have improved now that caffeine has been acquired. I even managed to work out the 9c discrepancy between the bank’s records and my own for the credit card balance.

Morning.

I just tried to make coffee by tipping a spoonful of coffee powder onto the bench next to my mug. This seems like a bad omen for today.

Miss Meow didn’t wake up this morning.

I think I’m a bit in shock and not sure how to feel, this is very unexpected.

It could be worse. I joined a facebook group which required you to type the word ‘cat’ as the answer to two questions. I messed that up. Twice.

My app is telling me I have an average of 81 days, with a variation of 103 days. I get the old PMS symptoms that used to be a warning almost constantly, so I really have absolutely no idea. Mostly not heavy, but with a couple of ‘am I bleeding out?’ level thrown in just to keep me guessing.