Constant Brain Dump

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i can’t cope… we have a candidate going in the office today for a final interview

one of the other designers is interviewing this person, with a head of one of the departments.

this designer hasn’t done a final interview before so she’s been asking questions which is fine of course… but she’s clearly overthinking and fretting over nothing..

she just messaged me saying when she had her interview here, she doesn’t remember if people had laptops or not. so she’s assuming she shouldn’t take her laptop in. but in our recruitment software there’s a lot of questions so she’ll have to try and memorise them as best as possible.

i read it about 5 times just thinking….. how the fuck have you come to this conclusion 😅 WHY would you think that’s expected of you. of course you take your laptop in!? you have to ask questions and write notes about their answers into the software?! we do the same thing in second stage interviews, which are online, and she’s done loads of them.

i’m absolutely dumbfounded honestly .. it’s just such a bizarre thought process and i can’t understand how she came to that conclusion at all 😂

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oh the interview got cancelled. the guy accepted another job offer. shame cos he looked really good, but i’m glad to have 90mins back where i don’t need to talk

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ugh i have a call with a client today and then immediately after i have a 90min interview

so that’s over 2 hours of talking a lot and listening really carefully

disgusting

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classes went fine and i didn’t feel horrendous so that’s good!

tomorrow i have so many meetings and another interview (third this week) ughhhhhhhhh. but on saturday i have a rly fun workshop after class so that’ll be good! and then my lashes and brows and then going for lebanese food mmm

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i have a day off today cos i was meant to be getting my lashes and brows done which is a 90min appt so i figured me and M would go for a nice brunch as part of his bday celebrations too. my appt got moved to saturday though so i came to the studio early to put some choreo together and also to try some stuff id planned for a class im covering later.

the choreo is for an event in a couple of weeks which is like an open mic night but instead of a mic, it’s a pole lol. so you can sign up to perform on the night. so i’ve planned smth for that yay!

but i spent 90mins doing that and then tried my stuff for class for 15mins and then i was shaking cos i’m hungry and tired from all of that… and i have 2 hours of classes to teach soon 🫠 so i’m sat eating all my snacks now to refuel and rest for a lil bit and hopefully i’ll be okay!

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it’s M’s birthday today and so i finally gave him his present (Ninja Creami) and he’s so chuffed! he had no idea what id got him cos we’d agreed to just spend the money doing smth nice on holiday instead. but i booked that too 🌝

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so i got new furniture last week and sorted bits of the house didn’t i.. i posted a pic on instagram of the gym and my mum replied saying it looked good, so i sent pics of other furniture too. and she wants to come see it when it’s done.

then on sunday morning she asked if she should bring M’s bday presents to the cinema or wait til next weekend when we go for a meal.

i said she could bring them to the cinema or could come to ours for a bit after the cinema, thinking she’d come and see the house like she wanted to.

instead she just went “we’ll just park near you instead”

shit like this always pisses me off because they rarely come to our house and it’s always been like this. when we lived in salford, they’d often go to the trafford centre and not visit us, despite us being a 10min drive from it. and i barely saw them back then either, so it made me feel shit that they could be bothered driving all the way there, but cba driving an extra 10mins to see their daughter at uni.

and now it’s the same even though we live 20mins from them. they don’t often come round, it’s usually us going to them. but they often come to the town near us, which again is 10mins away. and not once have they ever messaged asking to pop round whilst they’re nearby?!

i just find it kinda rude and also hurtful. like yesterday after giving M the gifts, my mum said they best get back and make tea…. then her and my dad both commented on the fact they’re not even hungry… like exactly so you could have just come to ours for 30mins to actually spend time with us couldn’t you?! cos sitting in the cinema isn’t spending time together really cos you can’t exactly talk.

ugh.

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my day in photos!

we did the food shop and a tip run this morning. then went to a few shops to find some nicer door knobs for the kitchen cabinet. then went to see Disclosure Day.

honestly we didn’t enjoy it. i love the premise but it was just so so so slow. my mum loved it though.

got home and noticed a bloody screw in my tyre. it barely even pierced the rubber though so i think im safe thank fuck.

my parents got M a load of plants for his bday and we have no idea what the one in the photo is lol

and then he put our new doorknobs on!

i plan to sit on the sofa and do nothing for the evening now. other than making food at some point.

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my friend was round last night and we got pizza and chatted for ages which was v nice. i also finished cleaning the house before she arrived and now it feels soooooo much better with all the new furniture and way less clutter. theres still a little clutter but it’ll be gone once we get a shed so its really not that bad, nowhere near what it was like before anyway.

i’ve got classes soon and the main road is closed from 11.30-2.30 for the carnival parade, so i guess im stuck at the studio for that entire time (classes finish at 1.30) cos i literally can’t get home without a 40min detour lol. stupid town only having one main road through it.

one of the girls is coming round after classes for a bit which should be nice. M is out with his mum for his bday and then we’re just chilling tonight. and going seeing Disclosure Day tomorrow with my parents!

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lol came on my period 2 days early 🫠

tbh though i’m glad to be out of the god awful mood i’ve been in for over a week. i’ve felt like a nice human again today and everything felt fine rather than insanely difficult.

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Ms friend quit his job last year with no plan. didn’t have savings. hadn’t even spoken to his gf about it. so she had to start paying for everything and work overtime to afford it. he then decided he was gonna change career. found an online software engineering course, was adamant he’d walk into a high paid job at the end. he didn’t. took him a good 6 months to find a job. he started it over a month ago and he’s yet to get paid. he got told he isn’t in the paid employment stage yet?? guy is clearly being scammed.

anyway his gf is pregnant.

cos of course. of course she is. 🙃

genuinely why is it always the couples in shit situations or shit relationships that get pregnant so easily. and almost every couple i know that have a lovely relationship and have everything in place and start trying, they all struggle. it infuriates me.

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wanted to get shit done today so built the shelves for the porch and sorted the porch out. also prepped the doors for the kitchen cabinets and they’ll go on later. then i just need to put stuff away tonight and tomorrow after work. but i only have like 1.5 hours after work tomorrow before my friend comes round. should be fine though there isn’t much to sort now!

and now i want a new kitchen bin cos mines old and ugly. the one i want is £140?? there is no need for them to be so expensive istg. i refuse to pay that much for a bloody bin.

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oh also we might get married next year 🥰 we will be eloping cos neither of us really like weddings or want to pay for one lol. we’ve been looking at potentially going to Slovenia and getting married in the mountains / by a beautiful lake or something!

these are my inspiration photos:

we’ve found a woman who plans elopements for couples and she goes to some amazing locations. so we might get in touch with her later in the year for a quote 👀👀

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i am once again… so tired. i’m teaching tonight but don’t think i’ll stay for the class afterwards like i usually would. i wanna get the house tidy cos i have a friend over both tomorrow night and saturday afternoon. and currently there’s random shit in the living room and 3 doors waiting to go on the new display cabinet, and everywhere needs hoovering.

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one of my neighbours house alarms goes off most days and it drives me insane, idk which house it is because it just echos around the estate so i don’t think it’s even on my street.

it went off 4 times yesterday afternoon. and then went off at 4am last night 🫠🫠🫠 just get rid of the damn thing it clearly doesn’t work properly my god.

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this is gonna be such a Monday.

i’m in the office so i’ve had to get up early.

it’s raining.

my tram stop that’s 2min from my office is closed so i’ll have to walk 15min in the rain.

none of my teams are in the office so i’ll be sat alone all day. i’m only in for an interview in the afternoon.

ugh!

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also just ordered a shelving unit for the porch for shoes!

spent a small fortune but it fixes 3 things that rly piss me off in the house so i’m very excited