Melbourne

RESIGNATION IS DONE!

Catchya fucking later.

(I still have 4 weeks notice though lol)

Edit: the person I've been seeing is taking me out to dinner to celebrate. Absolute legend!

oh, and flailing kermit arms, I just signed the lease for the house by the beach 🙂 big exhale, it will be so nice there, like a holiday

and an easier and cleaner house to live in

I got a slow blink from one of the strays!!!!

Well that's it, time to get the good gin out lol

I know I say this a lot, but I am so grateful for this space on the internet. Thanks y'all for being rad. Being able to celebrate, commiserate, rant, share, joke - I really appreciate it.

Hope everyone finds some light and joy in your day today.

Tonight's wave!

At a really fast shutter spd. you can see it's way less splashy than you think in person.. it is blobby!:

Aldi has a kind of crappy web site. I can't search their list of grocery products. I made apricot chicken but had to get the apricot nectar and french onion soup mix from Coles. I prefer to avoid colesworth where able.

Early lunch because NOTHING is functioning at work.

I soothe my angst with a crispy pork rice bowl

Home. Deeply fried. I must stare mindlessly for a while

I just had a dream about buying a new guitar.

Well, time to start saving lol

Pretty bleah fieldwork out west with awful dust, and the woooorst traffic. I think I need to make sure I leave that part of town by 3pm so I'm not stuck tearing my hair out on the M1 (even paying a princely $7+ to go through the tunnel is aggravating)

I feel so mad. I'd treat myself to a pizza but I've already had a takeaway spinach roll for breakfast and a servo sanga for lunch. No more reckless spending, it's pasta with broccoli, celery, peas and vegan chorizo for dinner tonight (easy to make!)

Dishwasher people have contacted some service agent who's then supposed to get in touch with me in 2-3 days. I don't know how long I'll be without a dishwasher for. Still disproportionately frustrated about it.

Grateful at least for chilled coconut water to calm down with...

E: after a buttload of garlic, I am sated

Tax time. Cheating since the doggie isn't mine. Just outside my work.

I was doing an annoying dance at Melbcat and I definitely think her vision is improving. Confusion… her head and eyes tracking movements… disappointment in her eyes… yeah she can see me! And from metres away.

Crawling round my engine bay, looks like I fixed the oil leaks like a god dam baller. I mean I tightened the three nuts with oil leaking around them - two in the rocker cover and one in the timing chain cover. But nonetheless oil leak stopped.

Cleaning out the freezers today as it's bin night. There is.. a lot. Ol' girl had a habbit (when she/we did the shopping down here) of doubling down on shit that we already had. Also brings duplicates of stuff from melbs down and heaps end up in there

Now she's not shopping so it's time for the purge. Some of that shit would be 5+ yrs old. Difficult to know what's good / bad for a lot of it. Seems like a waste but relatively not too bad considering how long it's been.

Does anyone here keep an inventory of stuff in there? Tempted to do a spready (or 2) and slap it on doors to keep it tight. But it might be one of things where it could be an idea but will never work properly.

I fell asleep and was late with my antibiotics again. I’m going to try and get back on schedule.

Also BigW sells mandolins?!! $139 and $159. A few years ago on eBay there was nothing under the $300-400 mark.

But I haven’t even touched the ukulele that I settled on as a (much) cheaper compromise. Not past tuning it. I could try again but the beginner songs are really not to my taste and with how little energy I have I usually just give up. lies in bed like a log

Edit: Ok yeah Melbcat can see! She was looking for another treat and zeroed in on a (clean) piece of paper litter that she’d tracked. Had to stop her eating it. She wasn’t following a smell so she had to be able to see that something was there.

Edit 2: Ugh another sketchy person cutting through right past me. I’ve had a break from it being at night but the past two nights there’s been three. Being on guard does not make for good sleep.

Ted is trying for second breakfast.

Carefully packed by room type and labeled boxes have devolved into throwing random items into shopping bags. So many sneeze fucking dust bunnies!

Catching up with someone from high school that I lost contact with, all because I messaged her happy birthday. I'm excited!

I have been looking at an area of Ballarat on streetview, and as well as being 15 years out of date it appears the car covered a large area with a leaf stuck to the camera. Not helpful, Google.

Melbcat was following with her head and eyes while I scrabbled my hand back and forth! Staring and locked on. She can definitely see from a few meters away now.

She’s getting grumpy because I’m tuning the ukulele and she hates the sound. I tuned it the usual way but might see if I can change it to D tuning just to know how.

(I wish I had the money and commitment for a different instrument but this is purely for occasionally messing around with before giving up again. This is the best option for my budget and space!)

Breakfast time for Ted. 🙂