Melbourne

So much to do today. Last day in this apartment and then off to the new house. 🙂

Have sad.

Cleaned my little balcony/sunroom and moved the plants around. That was a good job. I am hoping that I will medidate more now that space feels less run down . . But am so tired lately I just can't get through my basic chores. And have bad anxiety about work this week (just overloaded for reasons beyond anyone's control).

Gaaah. Just needed to vent.

My team won a game. By a lot. 💙🤍💙🤍💙

I think it's time for me to have a break from alcohol for a while.

I've done too much doom scrolling this morning. Now that my morning coffee is kicking in I think it's time to switch to my book. It's one of the old fashioned paper varieties, and although the content is interesting having to constantly hold it open is tedious, the screen resolution is not that great and there is no ability to change the font size in settings.

Goodnight all. Glad to see the arse end of this weekend tbh. Such awesome weather and I still felt like it was one step forward and two back in my pursuit of domestic glory lol. At least I got most of the laundry done I guess 🤷🏼‍♀️ Catchya on the flipside 🤙🏼

Back to bed to read and listen to the birds? Don't mind if I do.

Can't sleep, just spent a few hours tossing and turning.

Apparently I'm up in time to hear the local meth heads lose their minds in the alley 😂 late night snack and a 'radio' show it is!

Got band rehearsal in Dandenong today. Suuuuper long mission to get there but I've been putting it off for a week.

Alrighty, gonna finish this coffee then vacc the back bedroom and living room, and go over the hallway again.

$32 vacc is getting used and abused today!

I'm over my uni fieldwork for sure (it's such a long drive just to get to the start of this second section...) but what I do love is that it's a good few hours off my device; and these past two nights I've been meeting my old school friend visiting from overseas, which has been a really really good balm for my soul..

...my lack of hydration earlier in the day is definitely catching up with me though. Owwww headache owwww... back out in the field for work tomorrow so I need an early night...

I gave 100 bucks of frozen steaks and chicken and an unopened huge bag of japanese rice to the nice neighbours 🙂

Yeah the little rotary tool doesn’t have enough power to enlarge the little drilled holes with the grinder bit.

Bunnings has an Ozito drill for $50 but can I justify it… I would have to buy separate drill bits too and not sure if universal

I realised I have next to no winter clothes that are appropriate for work. I own a couple of zip jackets and a puffer jacket but nothing that screams professional clothing.

Now is not a great time to buy winter stuff as it's the start of the season. Silly me should have thought about this in the middle of summer.

We watched Flow this morning. The animated movie about the cat.

Not quite as kid friendly as Wallace and Gromit, but an interesting movie. We had to leave early so I'm keen to see how it finishes.

It's dialogue free and doesn't beat you over the head with story so it's like watching a cinematic playthrough of a game like Journey. I want the boys to watch it when their a bit older to get their takes on the places, animals, and the world. It's a great movie to get their minds going

I don't know what to do. I have work to catch up on today but I have been resisting it all day. Got the washing done and been for a walk. Just want to lie here and finish my book and then prep food for the week. I can never judge if I need to rest or am being lazy. Or maybe I always feel like I am lazy.

Stuff it. I will just work long days during the week. I will need to anyway and it will be worse if I am not prepped and rested

Decided I wanted popcorn for breakfast, because adults can do that. Burnt it, and fused a not-so-heatproof mat to the bottom of the pot. Thankfully this turned into easily peelable plastic because #NotTheLeCreuset!

quiz

20/50 hard one today.

On my hands and knees on and off vaccuming the floor.

My fucking back hurts. I hate being this side of 30 lately lol.

When I have a job, I should invest in some proper workout clothes and go to the gym to strengthen my back and arms. Idc about looking like a sweaty, unattractive bum, I gotta do it.

Yeah, I’m still in pain and keep tipping back into dehydration so nothing got done today and I spent it sleeping. Hate how this is so chronic and keeps relapsing. I just want to be doing stuff and living my life.

I should be learning about drawing and colour mixing but I can’t. There’s so much to doing art ‘right’ that I’m not really able to take in right now. Major analysis paralysis and lack of focus.

I’m wondering if I should just take the random tertiary colours and paint the crappiest still life ever just to get a feel for the process (and use these tubes up). But I can’t seem to make myself. Even the drawing step stalls. Drawing boxes and shapes is not really making sense to me because I spent so long untrained and just drawing contours by eye. Teaching yourself fundamentals later in life is hard.

Art is probably not the hobby to be attempting when lacking energy and feeling low. Whether you make something bad or just don’t do anything it’s easy to feel like a failure either way.

Ok where's the severance discussion at

Edit: in non-spoilery news, i had to explain to the husband why i was howling with laughter when windmills of your mind started playing

can anyone recommend a genuinely good (jewellry) engraver in the CBD? I used to go to the old dude in port phillip arcade, but he stopped during COVID.

Sigh. Remembered that I saw a moth or two flying around… I forgot to freeze my dry goods to kill any eggs from the supermarket and then didn’t keep them sealed properly. -_- Persistent little bastards.

Whatever, I’ll throw the food out. I won’t eat it anyway. Hopefully there aren’t any clothes moths because I am not hot washing and drying everything and vacuuming is a stress on the cat

I need to clean this place though -_-