Melbourne

Hey, pals. I'm doing my free handmade toys again for 2024; here's the link if you'd like to check out the post on Reddit (boo hiss) and here's the link if you know the gist and would like to make a nomination ❤️

Thank you to all the people who gave me words of wisdom yesterday. I love this little community. And it's nice to have people on my side. 🫶

I've got some self-care to do. Unread books, movies to watch, doggo to pat, new gym to try. Yesterday my dad made me stand in the green waste bin to squash down the leaves and branches. It's the little things.

These bad feelings will pass. I will feel moments of joy again. I will focus on me and ultimately live the life I want to live. I will be okay.

P.S. I'm plugging this now, if you're into seeing your music listening stats - last.fm! Also good to keep up with what friends are listening to (and see who listens the most)!

Treats in bed with a napkin of sorts

What a beautiful looking day! In another instalment of "You Know You're Getting Older When.." You look at a morning like this and think "great, better get some washing out" instead of "great, where can we go/who can we get pissed with" 😆

Kids and I are going through videos on YouTube and we stumbled on The Tea Party (Canadian rock band from the 90s and 00s)

Is it appropriate to tell my kids that I've hung out with the band at a bar and the recording studio.

And yes...many, many lines of Columbiab marching powder are featured in the stories.

A terrible tragedy in the Raven household, the water fountain has died. The pets will be forced to drink still water until a replacement pump arrives. The indignity of it.

It's so hot even the cats are floomping around, instead of lying around blissfully, as is their wont.
Meanwhile I just cracked the bottle of cold prosecco. Yum.

Well, your resident weirdo was walking the Noojee Trestle Bridge at 7.30 this morning…

Embracing my bogan roots and filling up a $20 blow up pool to escape the heat in.

Good morning!

According to my daughter you don't really need cutlery. Steak just pick it up and use your hands. Salad the same. Soup just slurp out of the bowl. I think this is the Arab in her that utilises hands and bread. I will still provide cutlery at my table thank you very much.

Be me trying to reserve an Uber for when my cruise gets back in: "7am from White Bay Cruise Terminal"

Uber: You got it! 6am booking confirmed. Driver will wait until 6:12am.

3 times just to make sure it wasn't something I was doing. Every time. $48 for 15 minutes estimated drive too.

Might try and sneak my way onto the shuttle bus which goes to central then just make my way from there to the car hire place.

Meanwhile! I still have a train ticket booked which I'm just not going to use. Ship gets into Sydney at 4:30am, so when I booked it I figured I'd have HOURS to kill before the 7:40am train. Turns out disembarkation will start at around 6:45am so if something caused any delay I'd miss that train anyway. If I wasn't carrying my own bag out my disembarkation group time is 8:35am so that would have been doublefucked.

The upside to all of this is that last night I extended my car hire by a day and booked myself a room in Albury for the night so I don't need to do the entire drive in a day. So now it's not a big deal if I don't get going from Sydney as early as humanly possible.

Me: pulls laundry completely apart to paint it

OH: so can I do some laundry now?

Me: 🤨

New bakery at the market, tucked in a laneway. They do excellent Portuguese tarts.

This is dangerous.

Cheese, pickles, chutney and crackers for lunch. The crackers are sweet potato, and I'm not overly thrilled with them. A bit strong flavoured, although that works quite well with the chutney which is also strong.

Remember folks it's more efficient to start your air conditioning early in the day and keep it running to manage the temperature, rather than cranking it up when it's already hot to cool down.

And have now had both fans blow in 24hr. FML

I am hating the dog days of this Xmas period. Both very understimulated (normal life is pretty limited as is) but also stressed out by being surrounded by ferals. My art is really coming along but my physical and mental condition are really dipping.

I've been watching high level math videos
To fall asleep to,
I don't know who that Riemann was
But his hypothesis is cool.

About prime numbers and zeta functions,
They woosh above my head,
Correlating with a graph describing something else,
A millennium problem so I've read.

Sky pretty 😍

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Oooh juicy shit.... neighbours are having a blue (again) on the street and I'm standing in my driveway cheering them on.

Nobody likes this lot, and I'm not worried about it getting violent.

Looking for song recommendations to blast on my phone to get them riled up even more.

This is a regular occurrence and the rest of the street is tired of it, but I'm the only one that is willing to kind of engage.

Apparently our neighbour across the road thought 2:28AM is a nice time to set fireworks off in the backyard. I shouldn't find it as funny as I do, it's not really, but most of our suburb is old people, old people who aren't very happy about being woken up to fireworks at 2am, even on a saturday morning

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- great beach drink

Help. Talking to someone on Hinge and we connected over tennis. I asked her if she's going to the AO this year. She says "I'd love to go but haven't booked anything yet" and then asks me if I'm going.

I should invite her right?? I'm just over thinking this aren't I. How do I ask her? Do I suggest it as a potential date? I did initially say we could play tennis for our first date half jokingly..

I have fresh sheets on the bed. Always such a nice feeling.

Just found a few microbats in the outside brolly I just put up. They are cute little things.

Kinda feel bad for disturbing them. Brolly hasn't been opened since last summer so i imagine it was a bit of a shock.

woooooo Fence be braced! And properly (by me, who likes to overengineer)

The whole span needs to be replaced, but the fuckin' developers who bought the properties on the other side can pay for that. Fuck 'em.

i might be addicted to rice crackers

Bloody hell, why are 500mm diameter round pavers so hard to find?

I just finished listening to an audio book of the anthropology of Neanderthals and I feel quite emotional! Truly they were our brothers and sisters and I am so sad they are gone.