Melbourne

Fridge is here! Just as red as promised😁

WELL, after a very hectic morning and cutting it very fine, I've managed to do 90% of what I needed to (no time to grab fresh bread from Woodfrog, sorry mum - and no time to mop the floors)

Got to bag drop with 20 minutes to spare, blessed with no traffic, weight all good, waiting for takeoff. I know I've been craving sun and warmth but it's like 32 feels like 36 and 85% humidity over there ahahahahaha fuck me I'll be living in air-conditioning most likely 🥵

About to takeoff, I'll hopefully be spamming the DT a bit less and trying to have a life while I'm away - and stuffing myself stupid with food.

I just want to be loaded. Or at least more well off.

I’d move somewhere else of my choice, nicer area, maybe even with an Aldi really close by. Have a real vegetable garden (hiring help if needed) and share the produce with other people. A bottom mount fridge freezer for meal prep. A big catio and/or catproofing so Miss Moo can sunbathe and play in grass without absconding.

A garage or shed to paint in and enough privacy to play music/sing/learn an instrument if I chose. A fire pit and a zone with times where it’s allowed.

Get less stressed and work on my health.

Above all I’d just like to afford to move out of this neighbourhood and not be squeezed in with other people. I just want to live in peace and be left the fuck alone.

I'm going to test drive an Outback Touring XT tomorrow to see if I like it.

I am genuinely sad to think about giving up my purple car. We've been through a lot together and I just realised it was with me through my entire 30's. It has seen friends and lovers come and go. It has seen highways, backroads, mountains, ocean roads, ferries, muddy trails, snow, sun and everything in between. It was there for the best times and the worst times. It has been laughed in, cried in, sung in, dined in, and has sat with me during countless moments of quiet contemplation. Most of all it has never once let me down but sadly I think it's time for some other lucky person to enjoy it.

Bathe in its magnificence.

First red one!

I remember with my ex a few moons ago giving her a bunch of these and she was dissapointed I didn't buy them. She then went on to say 'jeez they last a lot longer than the florist ones'. Like no shit. I'm still bitter about that.

After going through the process of ordering a replacement myki (due to the old one expiring soon), PTV have just emailed to say that myki’s expiry dates can be extended. Aaargh!

lil carl and mongo chilling in the window bed

Mostly packed, bed is nice and fresh, but I seem to have dislodged a lot of dust as even my air purifier sensed it (the sensors on those things aren't always the best) and thank goodness for that air purifier busily filtering out that dust that I would've just breathed in for weeks otherwise.

Not having a weighing scale is anxiety inducing. Pray that I stay within the luggage limit. goodnight.

running on fumes. Today's just been chaos. And I had a mate chose to be a bit of a prick to someone else so I wasted a fair bit of energy on deciding on my strategy to that.

I start my ADHD meds today. Could be a game-changer. I'm nervously excited. If anyone has any experience or insights that they would be willing to share, I'd like to hear it.

Fridge delivery day today! It is much needed, as my fridge is overflowing at the moment and there is no way it can cope with summer garden produce and meal prep. The plan is for the new fridge to hold preserves and fruit & veg for storage, while the main fridge has the day to day stuff and meal prep. Hopefully my future will contain a lot less fridge tetris.

Once the fridge is unpacked I can spend some quality time with a tape measure and the Kmart website ordering some new containers. This should be the last bit of shopping for my little organisation spree. It will probably have to be, as I'm nearly out of money!

Is anyone else paranoid of accidentally stepping in the gap between the train and the platform?

I have now measured up the space in the fridge and ordered some new containers. I may have also ordered a halloween scratching box for Miss Meow.

Had the urge to reread Harry Potter so put the audiobook on since I already have too many books on the go, and jebus christ I don't remember it being that bad. The last time I would have read the series was in high school 10 years ago, and maybe nostalgia was clouding my judgement, but the writing is just awful.

I think I've officially checked out from work.

I'm just through with doing work and staring off into empty space.

For the longest time I thought Apple watches were just really obnoxious...but I ended up getting a good deal on the new SE model so I bought it and I hate to say it but...I love this thing! And especially cause I work out so much - it's been so satisfying seeing my workout data in real time.

I keep meaning to read and catch up on everyone's life but I get so busy that by the time I remember it's bed time.

But my planner came in today, super excited but oh my God Auspost are something else (not new lbr). But I got the "hey your parcel has been delivered" app message. I'm excited, I check it and see ... That's not my work. It's a photo of a door and some light brick and I'm like ??? Huh? So I took off during my lunch break walking up and down near where work is to see if there's a house that matches the bricks or door but I get nothing.

Until I think "maybe they've dropped it off at 11 instead of 18". I've put down that the address is 18 unit 11 because work is in an office suite. 11 on my street is a retirement village, also private property. Luckily there was a guy coming out to walk his dogs and I asked him if it was okay to go in there (because I've never had to visit retirement homes) and mentioned the misplaces package. He tells me where reception is, I go there, a tradie helps me and tells me where 18 in the unit section is, I go out and a woman who works there said the package is actually in the reception area.

So I was able to grab it. But like Jesus Christ, I'm also in pain because #chronicpain4life, and I wasted half an hour of my lunch break because some idiot couldn't understand that I put the correct information in. I just, ugh.

I am frustrated by the fact I can get a BT adapter for my goddamn SNES - hell, I can get a bluetooth adapter for a fuggin RS232 serial connector! - but I cannot get a bluetooth to PS2 keyboard adapter. And I want one. Because I have a KVM that doesn't need replacing that runs most of my server gear and I also want this.

Diet day 4/70. Hunger is starting to be annoying. There's an afternoon tea/award thing in the calendar this afternoon. Thinking of just wagging it so I don't have to engage in self control.

Shit that was lucky before - checked my email just before I went out to do some yard work and the legal documents the estate agent has been hanging out for had just arrived. phew

Just saw a couple of silvereyes pecking at the grass in my backyard. I used to see them a lot in East Brunswick back in the 80s, but not since about 1990. I'm really glad to know that they're still around. Pecking grass is a bit of a new one, as they mostly like shrubby bushland and lots of cover. Must have been a good season for them, or they've moved in from elsewhere.

I have been sleepless and hayfevery the past two nights. Am about to put new sheets on the bed and have a hit shower and am extremely looking forward to tonights sleep

and so it has come to pass that I have been gifted some tomato seedlings, cherished children of Italian colleague's nonna...

How do I, who can kill even a money plant, look after these babies?

A bit less soil has been moved than I hoped, but I am ahead on the hard rubbish. The garden cart with the damaged tyres has already gone on to a new home, hopefully the rusty wheelbarrow will find a new place too. Not sure much else there would be useful to anyone, possibly the garden umbrellas.

I think I might do the Angry Arthur thing for the "dress up like a meme party".

Time to go find a yellow jumper and blue jeans (yes I only wear black)