How did I manage to piss off Dr Fate?

It seems fate wants me to stay home at the moment for whatever reason and keeps popping things up to keep me there..

Seriously, what the f*** is your problem with me?

PETROL PRICES

$1.74 for premium unleaded here in Australia isn't the highest it's been but it is high enough for me to not put much fuel in the tank unless I need to. Fate has decided I need to walk more, especially with..

A DYING CAR BATTERY

Oh come on, I finally sorted out the busted brake light problem and now you start to grizzle when starting? With everything else going on this pay cycle, a new battery will have to wait. (It is just me or do those RACV car batteries never seem to last?)

Not my current unit but one of the many it's eaten along the way

NO TIME FOR A COVID VACCINE

I had booked in for the first of my two jabs and the day when I was supposed to have it done, I woke up with two covid related symptoms. Mild ones out of the possible list but enough to convince me to go and get tested.

So into the car we go off to the showgrounds where I get the swab and am told the result would take 24-48 hours due to the number of tests (a quick shout out to the people at the testing site at the Albury Showgrounds - incredibly professional, speedy and working hard in the cold. You rock, all of you.)

So I cancelled the Pfizer jab, cancelled work (I could just imagine how well my career would have gone if I turned up while waiting for test results and then got an answer they did not want to hear) and kept to myself and wow, it's a long wait. A very very long wait even though the house is full of distractions. The entire time you do think 'What if I do have covid? That could change everything in everyone!' Most importantly for a time I thought I was going to miss my son's 10th birthday celebration because I still hadn't heard the result an hour before it kicked off - no way I could have ventured into the public with the unknown.

But with ten minutes to go, the text finally arrived. All clear. God that felt good. I went to help host my sons party but still masked up. Safety first kids.

RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS WEEK

To boost morale, we're doing kindness week at work. Secretly buy your allotted person something they'd like - like coffee or chocolate. I bought mine a block of chocolate and snuck it on her desk without anyone seeing.

What did I get? No idea. Isolation has kept me home (thanks again Fate!) and I'll be bummed if there's a cold cappuccino waiting for me when I finally get back to work..

This would have been nice

(Edit: Thank you to the person who got me for the week of kindness, I arrived back to work to find a bag of Twix on my desk, and I love Twix!) To cap that off, when I went to buy a coffee from the café around the corner, the Twix buyer had already paid for it. Whoever you are, you rock!)

AND ON TOP OF THAT, I'M WAITING FOR MY TAX (CAN'T SPEND WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE!)

Well technically my tax is done (thanks to the tax gurus I employ - they ain't cheap but they're worth it!) but we're waiting on the investment apps to get their shit together. At the time of writing it's 25 days into the new financial year and I'm still waiting on 2 out of the 4 I use to hurry up and get stuff done.

Plenti - first cab off the rank, well done to you. I had my end of year statement with franking credits, overseas earnings and all that other stuff I can't pretend to understand ready to go when it came time to chat to the tax agent.

Raiz - Not great, turned up a week later when I needed it. Still the tax guy has a copy now and at least Raiz has finished it, unlike..

Spaceship - Due next week apparently. I mean we're talking only a couple of bucks in each category you need to fill out here, exactly how hard can it be? It's 2021, surely a program has been doing those calculations I need across the year in the background somewhere??

BT - Jeezuz, the slowest off the all. If you weren't so good at what you do, I would have ditched you years ago.

And since my wife's tax payout is connected to mine, she's waiting too. Thanks for nothing you freaking evil fate binders!

Hmmm, did someone call? Did you need your life ruined somehow?