Melbourne

Gibson's welcome home day is today, and the ten years sobriety.

A good combo lol.

Just chilling today, weekend coming up will nice ❤️

ended up purchasing that campervan over the weekend. Gotta wait a couple of weeks to pick her up cause they towing folks have a bit of a backlog, then will probably empty it, clean it all up check for anything that needs work maybe give it a service and we pick a destination and give it a try!

If you like any good camping spots that work for caravans/campervans let me know. I cant keep going to tidal river all the time.

My neighbour, whom I whinge about regularly, has spent the last week ripping up the grass from his nature strips (each side of the his driveway) and swapping it.

Basically the grass that was on the left is now on the right and vice versa.

In fairness, he used fertilizer, reseeded and all that, but it looks like shite.

Not sure what he's trying accomplish.

10hr day with more urgent desktop stuff to do this evening, but pretty good day out even though I was in a really foul mood in the am after realising either I or someone else fucked up majorly and I started in the wrong location wasting a previous few hours. all good now. I got to see these little cuties too which was lovely.

House looks like a dump, I have a full day out tomorrow plus a bday to go to in the evening, REA comes for inspection on Wed am... guess I'll try to tidy as much as I can now and do some frentic cleaning early Wed morning.

Prolly should've done it on the weekend but oh well!

New band audition Friday!

Goodnight all ❤️

I experimented making a cola drink tonight. Yesterday I had to make a thing called browning syrup for it, because it's hard to buy Parisian essence these days, (and Parisian essence these days is just colour 150). Today I made the actual cola syrup and it's cooling and developing in my fridge. I always thought cola was made out of cola nut, and maybe it once was, but according to wiki it's made of lots of different things like citrus peels, star anise, cinnamon, vanilla, cardamon and other spices. Huh, TIL. The Minipeelers were keen for me to make Nuka Cola from the Fallout Cookbook Elder got for his birthday. Surprisingly it tastes like cola! Plus I saw the soda stream pepsi syrup at the stupormarket which had a horrific amount of numbered additives. Like, is it even food at this point. And 1.25 litre coke varieties were $4, surely they're taking the piss at this point! So I made my syrup and couldn't resist trying it early.. you pour it in a glass and top it up with fizzy soda water. We were all pretty amazed. Can't wait to try it tomorrow with the flavour all finished developing.

Gibsons got some special treats and is sitting in her cat tree.

I'm on the couch with a fancy pizza and my new favourite drink, gatorade.

Peaceful and daggy.

Perfection.

When I went looking at houses in Seaholme I went to the beach too and found some pieces of coral. Seems there are big reefs off the rocks close by. Might be nice to go out and take a look one day. 🙂

here's the bits I found, it's a type of pavement coral, common name Green Coral.

When the day dawns we depart for Ikea. Hopefully the non weekend timing makes this a less earsplitting experience than otherwise. Also reading up on removing yuccas, WTF have we gotten into?!?! 🤯

OK.

I have bought some fancy sheets.

Now for the nap.

First day of school today.

Classes were boring. Hopefully the ones later this week will be better. People were interesting. So was getting lost on a new campus.

Bamboo cotton sheets.

I feel like I have to have shower before I have a nap lol

My finger had an intimate argument with some bluestone / basalt yesterday whilst moving it. Feeling that today.

Spoke about gravity, savlon and poor judgement. Basalt won.

Power is out here inner east I can't see shit

Also fake tax time.

ETA for afternoon tea: 15 mins. Iced fruit bun, highly anticipated yummyness.

Edit: yumminess aquired.

When you're itchy do you scratch under your clothes or on top?

Any Severance fans also seen Dollhouse? 'Cos goddamn.

I read a short biography of one of my fave artists last night.

He was not a good person, he came from a deeply misogynist society , knew better but still aided in events leading up to a young woman being murdered by her husband.

He was also not some magic artist that had no help or training.

I am conflicted as his paintings really are beautiful.

Noticed all my nasturtiums were gone… ran the tape back and a workman whippersnippered them. Forget even trying anymore.

Maybe that’s what happened to the marigolds too (despite bright flowers)

I’m not sure I’m going to bother buying a coaxial cable for the tv if the dvd player isn’t working

That moment of “NOOOOO” when you accidentally open Duolingo after a couple of months. And yet, I feel too guilty to turn off the notifications – even though I pretty much have all notifications turned off on my phone!