One of my friends from work finally gave me some good news.

Her daughter who went holidaying in Israel finally made it back home to Melbourne after being distraught at the situation and having multiple flights canceled trying to get out of the country.

She sent me a photo of them hugging each other at the airport after landing this morning.

So happy for her and relieved.

Had a visitor (or 2, one not pictured)

I swear they're the same ones that've been going at that lawn for years and years now.

Doing that thing where I have a big life change coming so everything is being clean, rearranged, and then cleaned again. My pc/desk has never looked so good though, the glass panel is bordering on mirror status.

This is a wonderful morning for some buttery French toast.

Made by someone else.

Brought to my bed.

I got an invite to the NGV Gala.🙌

Fucking woo, Boyo is employed again. A few more days of the pacing panther to deal with but hooray!

I've just made a pot of tea. I would share, but I do in fact need all of the tea

I did 2 workouts today. One yoga and one cardio. Every time I do cardio it gets easier and easier and recovery doesn't take as long. I'm gonna start incorporating strength training a little bit more now. I'm 10 minutes away from earning a garmin challenge badge. I feel good. That's all.

I am seriously considering making some chocolate pudding and custard, but am currently trapped under a cat so cannot move. This is a dilemma.

Edit: apparently Miss Meow thinks I should make the pudding, as soon as I hit send she got up to have another round of dinner.

Edit 2: custard made, pudding in oven. Dessert night is Go

For the heck of it I've started binging ST:DS9

Love me so 90s sci-fi cheese.

Really missing having a warm cuddly cat right about now

I've finally given in and ordered an air fryer. If I do not get crisper potatoes than my small convection oven I shall be most displeased.

Fuck.

Oh Melbourne. One day of beautiful weather, next day pissing down. You're a little tease, you are.

I guess my bins will have to stay out in the street today after being picked up.

Funder and lightning in Fornbury. Big splats of raindrops. But the horizon is clearing so probably won't last long.

Beautiful rainbow out to the east of Thornbury - one end appears to be anchored to the South Preston Woollies. Which seems suspiciously appropriate.

My goal for today's work day: drink a cup of tea while it's still hot.

And don't stab anyone. I guess that's two goals. I'll see how I go.

More tea. More

I love storms so god damned much but they're even better when I'm watching them happen comfortably from my balcony in Docklands and laughing maniacally at the cars stuck in the in inevitable traffic because people lose the ability to drive when it rains.

Gaza is now under complete siege… journalists are no longer reporting because of the danger, 7 of them were killed. This is fucked.

Mini rant: Went for a drive last night down to St Kilda to claim a free small sundae as I had a monopoly ticket thingo, figured it's a nice night out so why not? Got to the drive-thru and the lady asks what I want "Just a small chocolate sundae please, I have a monopoly ticket for it", "Ok check your order on the screen and drive to the window". I note the $3 next to the item but continue to the window thinking it'll get wiped when I hand over the ticket. I pull up and she passes the eftpos-on-a-stick out and I offer her the monopoly ticket. She takes a moment to buffer then says "you didn't give me the code at the speaker" (not a requirement) and I says "I told you I had a monopoly ticket" and she says "you didn't give me the code, can you just use it next time?" and I says "I was really hoping to use it now.. it's why I came here" and then she took another moment to buffer, said something into her headset (I only caught the word monopoly) and then cancelled the transaction and did it properly, which literally took about 5 seconds maybe, then took my monopoly ticket in a huff. I said "thaaaanks" and drove forward.

Sundae was really nice too. Nicer than usual. Drove down the esplanade and ate it by the waterfront. Had my emergency ice cream spoon with me so I didn't have to use their awful wooden one.

Rain eased up with a bight of bright sky.

Neighbour is out watering his trees and hedges. Clearly the downpour wasn't enough.

Got paid from work (not PAX yet) and I finally bought that planner I've been dreaming and talking about for a few months now. And got some pens I really like, two highlighters and some stickers. I'm keen as for next year, last time I had a proper diary was ten years ago when I was in my last year of high school.

Edit: I think I bought the last one, oh my God.

Ted Cat has been sleeping a lot and is very grouchy. I am a little worried so I put him where he can sleep in peace and eat and drink without Bill harassing him.

Ok I think I'm done hearing about the Voice and the Israeli-Palestine conflict and I'm tuning out. Both lead to extremely toxic debates on both sides of both issues.

I think it might be safe to brave an afternoon walk. If I'm wrong Mr Woof and I will get soggy, which I guess is not the worst thing that could happen.

so...if you had a tenage nephew who wanted to learn about the stock market, where would you direct them?

like the true son of a hippy, my nephew has a job and wants to buy shares, but for himself, not through a broker. I'm talking small amounts, to kinda practice/learn, I guess.

Think I’m gonna chuck some fertiliser over the garden so the rain can water it all in over the next few days.

Morning guys. Fire shenanigans last night mean I slept like shit. Ugh

i am very hot

Papers finally submitted to the conveyancer yesterday afternoon to get things moving.
I swear I never saw them in my inbox before they arrived, but date stamps showed them arriving earlier this week: mind you, I've had that happen with the legal firm that handled Mum's estate, when a resend of an email showed a date when I know I'd been checking the inbox every hour on the hour, but... nada.
Anyway, hoping the weather holds off long enough for me to do a quick Aldi run - I got soaked just opening the gates and bringing the bins in.

Dealing with work and personal stress today. Work is more I'm having to work around someone in my team who is... Shit. Personal is just relationship stuff. We need to sort out our communication style because right now we escalate fights because of miscommunication. We're sorting it out and going to see a relationship counsellor which will be good,

So just stressed as both personal and professional stuff is meh. Also my deep-fryer overflowed tonight and I'm pissed about it since it shouldn't have happened and now cleaning up the mess. :P

Wet doggo on the run this morning. Feeling better all the time... My knees have stopped hurting.

It appears I slept through this mornings wild weather, I was rather looking forward to a bit of a storm! Although to be fair my suburb never gets so much as a trickle, stupid meteorological blackhole.