Melbourne

Ted Cat loves his little Halloween house.

Odd time to eat but I did it.

Made burger and put it on a paper towel and lightly toasted bun kept it all intact.

Most painful part of all this is the cleaning up.

Patties are minimum 160g I reckon.

Here’s the minimalist burger. Essentially double cheese burger with bacon.

I’m full and stuffed now.

Omg omg omg a RABBIT was in our side yard this morning! It's obviously someone's pet, so I've had to leave Mr P and Miniest to catch it. When I left for work, something larger than football sized and greyish moved in the undergrowth and scared the bejesus out of me. When I saw what it was I tapped on the window and said, "Miniest! MINIEST! Come out here!" She did and just stared and said, "Oh. My. God!" She came out to look and I threw it some lettuce from out of my bag. She said, "Why do you have random lettuce in your bag?" I told her to go wake her dad and tell him and he flew out there to see it. I can't really see how something that large entered the yard. Mr P just messaged me "it's magic, it disappeared." So that's my morning visit from a magic rabbit!

Edit: it's still there! Hiding under Mr P's man cave couch.

The giant ageratum popped when I was away. Favourite plant not only because it looks nice but it's the first to wilt if you're fkn the watering up.

They don't teach you this in school but as an adult you can have pancakes whenever you want.

Someone just left a large box of Hello Fresh on my doorstep. Commencing Operation Neighbourhood Doorknock now.

EDIT: Found the intended target. On another street, a different house number and different phone number from the one on the label (which was smudged a bit). Much gratitude all around. Scored some lemons from target household which was nice. And some early broad beans from another household that thanked me for doing the doorknocking thing even though they weren't the intended target. Today was clearly also the day for WGAC to deliver too, as a LOT of households had these boxes on their porches so to speak.

Monday discovery time. The top of my compost heap is thickly lined with tomato seedlings. Dunno what sort - might be punnet of cherry toms I chucked in there late last summer. Yay free seedlings.

My work laptop exploded so I get two hours free time while new one is set up for me 😀

Started off my holiday with an evisceratingly bad case of the runs on Sat am and I'm just coming a bit better. Not cool, body - not at my aunties where there's a billion and one delicious goodies 😭 and I want to go on walks and everything and have energy... have been sleeping for long long hours. I need to just let myself thoroughly rest. Taken a while for my mind to uncoil itself

My aunt has really slowed down a lot in the last 18 months though, physically and even mentally a bit. It's a looming reminder that she won't be around forever. I'll feel rather lost when that happens.

vacuuming done and I did a really good job of it too, all the dusty corners I hadn't been doing because of a bad back are now done

fricken cat hair is beyond a joke too

People who live alone:

Do you always having something on in the background?

Personally, I listen to horror stories or SCP stuff narrated by YouTube people when I get home from work.

Made a joke to my partner yesterday about racking off for solo week in Japan (well, probably just Tokyo) if I have a week off soon and it’s planted the seed in my mind and now I can’t stop thinking about it. If it was roles reversed, I’d probably encourage him to go.

Well that was unpleasant at this hour. Loud bang and the electricity tripped in the whole house. A heat mat for chilli seed germination has blown after 4 days of use turns out to be the root cause.

Now back to getting all my automation working again. ssh pi@192.168... oh wait, wrong window 😁

I searched for lost rabbit posts online in my neighbourhood: nothing. I didn't notice any signs up around the neighbourhood either. Mr P is getting attached to it, so I'm trying to find where it came from, but also we can't seem to catch it. It seems to come and go as it pleases; sometimes it's under the man cave couch and then it's gone.. and then it's back! I even joined Facebook for the first time ever in an attempt to access lost and found pets groups, but there wasn't anything relevant and I got suspended after about an hour for violating the terms of use or Facebook "identity and integrity" rules or something..I didn't share enough personal information because I don't like doing that. No, I won't upload a selfie. No, I won't share my contacts with Facebook: it'd take too long to ask everyone's permission lol, which I know nobody does but that'd be the decent thing to do wouldn't it. Anyway, Magic the rabbit (Mr P named it) seems to be making itself -occasionally- at home in the tent, slowly getting closer to him. I didn't bother to tell him how I've been laughing all day at the "magic bag/lettuce" comments.

I’m trying to leverage myself out of this hole but going outside in my feral neighbourhood is actively making it worse.

If it wasn’t for Melbcat I kind of wish I would just die already. I’m not being edgy. I’m tired.

My what if machine is on overdrive lately and I want my brain to shut the fuck up because obsessing is not going to fix anything or make things go faster.

Tried online dating for like two weeks. Meant to meet up with someone tomorrow but haven't heard from them in a few days, so doesn't look like that's happening.

Not really feeling it overall, so my matches got some friendly messages because we don't do ghosting. I will be watching Coraline because one of them really talked it up. At least I got some movie and song recommendations out of it :)

Time to start thinking about frocking up for the Brownlow tonight. I'm going fancy- clean trackies and jumper respectable enough that I would wear it outside.

Good morning fellow hayfever enjoyers

Pesto the baby penguin might need to join tge 'no snacks after tea' gang. He's bigger than both his parents combined. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/23/big-baby-melbourne-aquariums-huge-225kg-penguin-chick-pesto-set-to-slim-down-after-becoming-viral-star?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I think my favourite Radiohead album is The Bends.

Eh-oh o/

Amazingly woke up at a reasonable time today after having a decaf coffee late last night.

I need to get more next time so I can have a nice evening coffee even if it’s instant from now on.

I have another 8 jars of gherkins now to go with the other 8 jars of gherkins. I've ran out of room in my pantry so I have to store them in the garage with my other collections like a prepper

Heading back to melbs today. Happy with how much shit I pulled out of the garden and no injuries (that cold ocean does wonders for inflammation). Will be leaving the chillos to fend for themselves for a week. True leaves getting a bit bigger! Will have to think about next steps soon.

Which brings us to the monday rrave.. Come on chillos stayinit

looking at clothes I would like to buy is good motivation to stick to good eating habits

Sleepy because straight after getting back to Melbourne last night and with a 5am wake-up this morning, I still stayed up to watch the F1, couldn't miss Danny's last race. But oh man seeing his post-race interviews this morning... when even the interviewers are crying 😭

I agree it's time for him to step aside, but still not an easy watch for someone who's been a fan of his since 2011.

Insert predictable Monday morning remark here