Melbourne

This is how close I can get atm.

Some of you know I write books. And I write spooky stories for kids. These stories are set in Tasmania. I have written 7 books in the series over the past 3 or so years.

Why is it only now I have thought up the story idea titled "How I got my Second Head?"

Staring at me this whole time.

The old manager tried to take a swipe at me again today.

Mate, just fuck off lol

I was part of the Medibank, Optus and Latitude cyber hacks, and just received a notification from Qantas that I'm involved in theirs. Protection of my personal information is just meaningless at this point.

This week can kick rocks

shells i got yesterday

these are Pacific Ocean shells, they are big, but then the bigger ones are more likely to survive the rocky shore and waves intact

one of them is just a piece of a tun shell ( these are usually very big ) but I often pick up pieces just to know what kind of shells are around

Early night tonight. Goodnight all ❤️

Today was AWESOME, met so many familiar and wonderful faces at this event and really recharged, invigorated by the presentations and this glorious sun has really perked me up as well. Wrapped up early and probably not working tomorrow, but I'll have at least earned some extra dough this week and have a bit more breathing space to catch up on life stuff. I might even look up what's on this weekend. But for the next couple of hours, it's journalling time before the psych

The bedside tables are assembled!

They may win the award for worst designed flat pack I've ever experienced. Multiple screws with a hex fitting recessed into the wood so you can't get tools into them and can only turn a hex key less than a quarter turn before having to reposition. Plus a couple of instructions that were physically impossible. I had to make a few alterations to make it possible to get them together, but I think they are done solidly enough. The quality of the actual components is good and I like the overall design, but actually putting them together was definitely not something I'd want to repeat.

I opened the ceiling hatch! There are neither dead bodies nor an 80s porn stash.

I've just put together the small bookshelf I bought for the lounge room, now I just need to summon the energy to do the bedside tables and I'll be done with flatpacks. Tomorrow I'll be taking the polystyrene to the recycling centre and finalising the stuff at my old house. Then I'll be able to fully focus on the unpacking and sorting here.

Took today off, just needed it. Did a little bit of shopping (looking for new gym shoes if anyone has any recs), had a yum lunch and a long swim. Twas lovely.

That was actually a really uplifting and lovely psych session?! Yay! ☺️ I might not even need to see her for a while even though I'm still undecided as to whether I should terminate my lease and dump all my stuff in storage, or just pay rent until I get back. Leaving my stuff here is much, much easier, but I don't want to be in the same rut. A lot hinges on whether I can trust myself to courageously move towards change if I come back to the same place.

I can feel a decision bubbling up though. And other ways in which to address that yearning for a powerful driver of change

It's official!

I haven't slept more than 3 hours in a row for a year.

🎉 :(

porridge eaten, dog walked, two loads of washing on the line drying, cat cuddles underway. Today is going fairly well. Except for my grinder dying (with a minor smell of electrical burning just to be dramatic). I shall have to order a new one.

Edit: I have now ordered a new one.

Dinosaur, as requested by kidcalhoon2....

why is my jumper so uncomfortable

looks in mirror

oh

🕐 🐦🪱

Marge ...

and dog tales

I sit having my lunch of coffee and peanut butter toast

out of the corner of my eye I see the dog sit next to me I ignore her dog puts her paws on my thighs I ignore dog moves to other side dog moves to chair next to me dog moves to chair on opposite side of table and looks at me eating , licking her lips and chewing air every time I take a bite

this dog is quite entertaining

Melbcat seems okay. I’m waiting to see if the latest issue resolves but she’s got a good appetite, is washing herself, and got up to curiously follow a visitor around. She doesn’t seem to be uncomfortable or have pain.

She keeps giving me the biggest fright 😅

Slices of pork belly in the air fryer - suitably marinated. Have worked out how to cook them and get the skin crispy. Tinfoil you are my friend in this endeavour.

Whenever I go to the deli I always ask for a big handful of ham. Well the other day the young lass grabs the most pitiful handful so I encouraged her to grab more by saying "bigger" but because it was shredded it all clumped together. I left with 450g of ham off the bone.

I think I'm gonna make ham and cheese muffins today.

Income statement says tax ready but when I got and try to do my tax return it says the pre-filled information from my income statement is not tax ready.

I guess I have to wait another day and hope it updates tomorrow. :(

it's a bit windy , storm blew out my power board

fixed now, jut had to reset

Cheesy garlic bread. You will be mine.

Anyone get any cunning ideas for bandit proofing an auto cat feeder? I'm thinking plate steel and welding sort of level 😾