I've got 14 parking tickets to pay, each for $5. (The fact that they're just $5 is the reason why I'm kind of lazy about feeding the meter -- it costs 50 cents to park for the whole day, and they only check the meters once or twice a week, and if you haven't paid on a day they check, then it's a $5 ticket.
My California born-and-bred soul finds this even more baffling than a housing market where homes cost $150,000. What's the point of making it metered parking if you can park all day, and tickets don't earn the municipality any money? It's like parking is for the benefit of the residents or some crazy shit like that.
What's the point of making it metered parking if you can park all day, and tickets don't earn the municipality any money?
I have no idea. Downtown, and for about a block or two out in each direction, you're supposedly limited to two hours, and then the next block or two after that is the system that the meters on my block have -- no time limit, and 25 cents gets you five hours.
And yet not free? That's the confusing part.
Nando's is absolutely everywhere in Melbourne. It is my favorite fast food chain, and has been since before I moved to the States, way back in 2001. (It's the perinaise dipping sauce that does it.)
I just found out (okay, I just noticed) that there's one on my way home from work! Will have to check it out, since I only know of it from the whole cheeky nandos thing. Which I only kind of get.
Moving is a lot of work. I'm going to hire movers who'll also box up my stuff for me, because I remember from the last time I moved that boxing up the stuff is really painful for my joints. I think I'll be driving to Cincinnati sometime next week to look at apartments, so I've got to book a hotel room there for that, and then make appointments to see apartments. Then come back here and book a moving company. Then file all my change of address stuff, and finish cleaning out my office, and figure out what I need to do so that I'll have medical insurance for July, and probably a million other paperwork things like that. But first step, find apartment.
I have eaten at Nando's! It was yummy.
I am so excited about your getting a good job in a location that will be easier for you, Hil!
OOOOH I cross-posted with my coffee pal! Hi DebetEsse!
I saw my psychiatric nurse practioner today. She briefly talked about adding an anti depressant but the one she wanted to try - Effexor is the one that caused me to be manic/mixed state/depressed and suicidal. So that's out. In the end she decided to wait and see and give the lamictal a chance once I increase that.
Then I went to the weekly DBT skills follow up and that was...a disater. I won't go into it but there is someone in that group who was in the intensive outpatient thing and I don't like her. I guess she's nice but she talks all the time. And other stuff. So I was already annoyed and tired and I ended up dealing with something that made me really upset and people were tryign to be supportive and all I wanted was for them to stop talking and paying attention to me and move on.
However, I did go and see my mananger. I learned the store is carrying over 20 new snack items (everyone rejoiced, someone had bought 1 of all of them when I was walking in. Seriously it's nice to have more choices).
And I'm going to start work Monday doing downstocking (restocking the shelves). Normally it's 7am -11 am shift but I thought 7 would be too early...if I take my meds at 5:30 am then around 7 I start coming out of the fog. So I'm going to work 8-noon. The store opens at 10 so I'll have 2 hours where there are no customers.
I'll need to talk to the assistant manager I'll be working with. I won't tell him details but I want to tell him about the struggle with anxiety and that I may need a break to collect myself or take medication. And also that the meds are causing some problems with not serious congnitive impairment but sometimes it's hard for me to come up with the right word or I might forget what I'm doing.
And working this makes me feel like I'm taking a huge step back. But the goal is to work 2 days a week until I feel like I have mastery and add more days and then maybe try some shifts at the register and see how I feel. Or maybe do some roleplaying so I can see if I can get through selling something.
