I have photographic evidence of possibly the exact moment when my brain flipped from being interested in ninja turtles to being interested in ladies.

This is me and a 24 or 25 (I think) year old Kylie Minogue at my dad's work xmas party one year. Judging by my style/pudgy face I'm going to say it was around 1993 or 1994. I hadn't seen this photo in decades but my mum sent it to me over the weekend.

So far today:

• Moved 1.73 shittonnes of crap out of the garage for the hard rubbish.
• Cleaned house.
• Repotted the mini peach tree, the ginger lily and the bonsai fig treelet.
• Two loads of laundry.

Still to do:

• shopping
• batch cooking lunches for next week.

I'm exhausted already. May resort to bort lunches.

This is why I can't use the duster anymore.

Also I downloaded the full seasons of Ninja Turtles and Transformers from the 90's. So much nostalgia!

Fuck! Yesterday, the man decided to kill his sickness with garlic and chillis. Today, I'm living in a second hand garlic cloud. 🤢

Insomnia. Again. So, DDT meet my Tommy. A bit of a belted around alley cat, but 🖤🖤🖤

Bedtime I think. Alarm is set for 6am. Getting back into the swing of a routine for when I've found a new role.

Goodnight everyone, from the fluffy butt household

Right. I've setup a trial Entra tenancy to practice on. I've got my server 2016 VM setup ready to practice a faux migration. I've got a couple of old PC's to enrol in server instead of using VM's which should help make things easier.

English: My IT test lab is up and running lol

A lot to learn!

My month long trip to the UK has ended. I have landed in Melbourne. I am sad, now that I'm back to work from tomorrow. Someone give me tips to beat jet lag? Also surprisingly super sunny and chilly. Loving the weather!

I napped too hard and now I am feeling yuck and discombobulated.

First time making cauliflower "wings", a bit time consuming and a fair bit of mucking about, but came out really nice especially after dunking them in the sauce - made with my lovely homemade hot sauce - and then doing another 5 minutes in the air fryer.

Unfortunately the green manzano peppers I used for tonight's arroz verde ended up spicy as well (Russian roulette with those things), so everything's clearing out my sinuses.

Discovered a bottle of mead in the fridge from goodness knows how long ago and poured myself a rare little tipple with soda water to wash down the spaaaaaice 🥵 🌶

I have been to Outside. The giant purple wooly cape is totally justified. Zero fucks given that it makes me resemble a circus tent. Warm!

The electric blanket was a worthy purchase

Nah. I'm taking my ~bat and ball~ book and glass of water and going to bed. Big busy cold week coming up I might as well get some rest in. Night all.

Interesting little thing I've noticed: my organisation (and thus their complaints page) blocks all the connections from our IP (we have a static IP). Switch to data and it works, turn on a vpn (even a foreign one) and it works.

🤔

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!

Here's hoping my weather app has bugged and that it's not actually going to be absolute zero on Friday!

I tried to be kind, ants.

I tried to be discouraging. I tried to be dissuading. You did not listen.

Now you've got the coopex.

I'm watching old Sherlock Holmes movies and it's so nice to see all the expressions of friendship between all the men.

Dear god Moorabbin dfo's parking lot is a shitshow

One handed bunnings snag consumption is more challenging when the serviette is still in place.

My tongue is really dancing today

Decided to go to MKS today so I could combine it with a cuppa at a friend's place as she very recently had to put down her cat (who I've looked after many times - little black thing).

The big plus was getting to share some cracking vadas from MKS (the best - seriously perfect every time), and giving her some little things from Japan that she loved.

Another friend came over later to help me move the last two heavy planter boxes back to my balcony so I've got all my buddies back now, yay! Feels nice and secure to have a full balcony again and get back into regular maintenance. My one healthy hobby 😄

Pruned back the manzano hard as it's gotten way too leggy and lopsided. Meant I had to take off some green fruit along with the surprising bushel of ripe ones, but surely these'll ripen off the plant. Onto some watering and fertilising, stocking up on veg, and cooking for the week ahead.

I decided to learn Chinese! Day two and I'm bad at it, as expected. But I managed to use words I know to form a phrase!

今天太冷了

I sure hope that's right.

I changed the sheets yesterday and put on my trusty soft-touch blanket that I've been using since 2015. Game changer! A pain to put on as only half is tucked in (so I can wrap myself like a burrito and it doesn't come loose). But 500% warmer and so toasty that I fall asleep much faster and don't even need socks, let alone any heating.

Problem is I think I'm starting to oversleep, heh. Must've been 10-11 hours last night... woke up at 9am today... waking up at 6:30 on Tuesday and Wednesday is gonna be a biatch. Beyond overjoyed at the sun being (partly) out though. Will not try and force myself to do heaps today as next week will be full on, but need to condition myself out of sloth mode too.

I'm feeling incredibly low. The weather doesn't help but life is a struggle for a lot of genuine reasons.

Amassing quite the collection of half bags of frozen chips over here.

I think I nearly fell asleep somewhere between 12 and 1. I was having tons of success with just focusing on relaxing rather than trying to sleep, but it hits a certain point and my brain just snaps and falls back on its defences. Mrs b said to make sure I wake up early, haha that’ll be a no thanks.

curry on stove cooking, much housework done, house doesn't smell catty anymore, even did some work on my terrace garden

I'm feeling so much better :)

How come all the coffee shops shut so early? I wanted a coffee at like 5:01pm yesterday and the only option within walking distance that was open was a 7-11 and the hotel foyer.

Cold cold cold cold cold

Went to Panton Hill Winery today and it was like going to regional Italy.

I'd also say it was like going back in time, but from what I've heard regional Italy is already like going back in time.

Went to the Essendon Farmers Market today and loved it, would thoroughly recommend, it had a really great vibe and excellent stalls. We got a variety of dips, breads, drinks, brownies, donuts, meats and pies and I'm as fat as a flea and regret nothing! Also ethical dishwasher powder and laundry powder. Will definitely be making it a regular thing.

'tis time i dig up them scarf and beanie

Set the temperature of a/c to 19. I've gradually being working downwards to see how I feel at lower temperatures and whether it's going to be acceptable. Seems ok so far.

I've recently learned that to avoid feeling a stretch behind the knees during a hamstring stretch, simply bend your leg a little bit.

The other dune books aren't meant to be as good but it's nice to revisit a style of writing where every move feels calculated and everyone says one thing and uses a tone that means something else.

I've never been a big series reader but I can appreciate going back to a familiar world and style of writing