Melbourne

Birthday breakfast is a go

The stranded astronauts are being rescued right now. The capsule is bobbing around in the water.

this is a five minute walk from my new place 🙂 It's more of a snorkleing at the reef place but there is sand too, if I want big sand I can walk another 10 minutes

Feel free to fucking cool change anytime now. The dogs giving me evils.

2 waves tonight.

Another of my former clients is leaving.

$120k revenue a month lol

Love watching this place burn to the ground.

Well well. Guess who I found sitting on my seat at home? She never does that.

Unless... She actually missed me? lol

Made chunky bolognaise in the Thermomix we inherited from my dad and it fucking rocked. Wasn't sure about the worcestershire sauce and the chilli flakes, but went with it - very glad I did.

Good night everybody. 😘

My kid did a little tidy up in my kitchen yesterday. The kettle was unplugged, the frying pan was put in the cupboard where it doesn't belong, green teabags mixed in with English breakfast and I don't know where the sweet potato went that was on the bench.

The hot air balloons are out again this morning. Now it makes me think they're up to something

I definitely listed my coffee grinder too low when I put it on Marketplace (leading to a huge number of responses). I put it on eBay late afternoon yesterday for more than twice that amount and it has sold already. I guess those things hold their value more than other small appliances. And I almost took it to the op shop instead of bothering to list it!

gave five guys another go today. Second time for them and holy shit the bacon is so bloody good! Took a lacteeze so I could get that sweet sweet plastic cheese as well. Thats what I was missing the first time. Incredible! 30 something bucks for the bacon cheeseburger, small chips and a coke though. a rare treat then.

It's so quiet in the new suburb. 🙂

A short break from packing. I'm off to the new house , will take pics of the beach. 🙂 laters 😘

Today was a weird day. Whenever I leave the house, I ask myself if I've forgotten anything material or just my sanity. Today I said just my sanity, but I felt off about that.

I was almost at the bus stop when I realised I forgot my earbuds. Not a necessity, but I wasn't going to spend half an hour walking home and back to the bus stop to get my earbuds, and miss the bus. They are not super frequent, and sometimes they arrive at the stop a few minutes early. So I got some cheap wired ones, and realised that was a waste of money. Should've just looked out the window.

I must bring a notebook to write in when commuting.

Just came back from a walk around the park. The crickets are very LOUD. My ears are ringing a bit.

Getting up when it's still dark, but not too cold is one of life's great pleasures. Seeing the sun rise illuminate the parklands. Seeing people walking, jogging and riding their bikes first thing. And of course seeing rubbish strewn (yes STREWN) all over the court because the rubbish truck driver could not be bothered to stop and clean it up.

Not my bin thankfully, but it's been cleaned up, council notified and note left for neighbour that their bin hasn't been emptied.

excitedly planning out purchases for the van. We threw away/donated tons of stuff and are basically starting again (plus I don't wanna carry heavy glass and china that looks pretty breakable) and we have tons of our own camping gear we can just put in the van but now I'm just filling the gaps. I can finally justify bringing a kettle and toaster. I still love camping in my swag, and I'll still do it from time to time. But camping with power (until I can get a basic offgrid system) its going to be very very nice!

Lots of rain forecast for tomorrow. I’m looking forward to it.

Sky pretty. Birds not awake yet. 🙂

I meant to set up my uni stuff last night. Ended up having a 2 hr phone call from a friend in distress... Every cell of my being is happier that I used the time to help a friend when nobody else could've (it was a very specific situation)

But I ended up only finishing data prep at 1pm today. It's now too late for me to collect data today. I have "wasted" the one last suitable day (clear sunny skies) in quite a while and I may not be able to hit my Absolute Latest Deadline of collecting all the data by the end of the month :/

I've accepted that I made my choices (esp slacking on the weekend, which would've avoided this whole situation)... and tbh I had such poor sleep and other issues that frankly I really need the rest more than anything else.

Now to just desperately hope there's just a couple more sunny midday periods before the end of the month 😖 🙏🏽

Accuweather and BoM have wildly different forecasts for next Monday in the northern suburbs. Please let Saturday and Monday be sunny enough, pleaaaase

Augh. I am not feeling good. Really dehydrated and been sleeping all day because I couldn’t get up. Spent it sipping ginger ale between naps.

Went out and did the bare minimum for garden. Water, then some eco oil and fungicide spray on the pumpkins. They’re getting bigger but aphids found them and there’s also powdery mildew and whiteflies starting.

I found a ladybug on the dying zucchini and thought to move it over to prey on the aphids but wasn’t sure if the sprays would harm it.

One of the peas washed to the surface - it seems to have swelled and might sprout. Covered it with dirt again.

I trimmed my hair last night. I seem to be getting worse at it, but oh well. Tried a new way then gave up and did the usual. It looks acceptable and is back to a more manageable length.

sky pretty

Australia Post decided not to leave my parcel and to make me go to the post office instead. How rude.

I've been watching Peaky Blinders because I never have. It's not as good as I expected it to be. Feels a bit generic olde London town crimey. It's not bad and it's well acted but I'm don't see what all the fuss was about.

Finally on the work WiFi in this service black hole. Trying to do anything on my phone here has been hell otherwise.

I've been able to get by through ROMS and downloaded podcasts

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Was super deeply asleep when alarm went off. Heart rate went rapid and disorientation hit. I hate waking up like that. Argh.