Melbourne

Dinner is served

Kitchen is a mess but worth it. First tempura zucchini flower which was exciting (weird looking thing in the middle). Sort of pointless but it looked nice.

A friend in Queensland sent through this link: https://www.lifeblood.com.au/blood/blood-supply-levels

Even though I figure they're not sending blood from WA to Queensland, I saw that local supplies in my blood type were low. So I dusted off my old donor profile and made a booking.

I fell out of the habit when kids and life stuff happened. I really should have gone back years ago. The process of donating blood is smooth and streamlined. I was in and out in under 30 minutes and back to my day.

Have been bed bound with migraine all day. Just now getting up to have breakfast and a shower.

Crazy how a tiny bundle of nerves in my shoulder can absolutely ruin my life.

Anti-spoiler

This does not give anything away about the plot but if anyone is worried (like me) that they showed Irving's dog early in the severance ep because something was gonna happen to it. Its ok. Nothing happens to the dog.

Carry on ( so traumatized by the trope of show the dog to hurt the dog..)

still packing stuff this evening, I'm up to these Turkish dishes and bowls, never used them, they are too delicate. So beautiful tho.

if anyone knows how to use them without the glaze chipping I'd be grateful

Got my replacement dishwasher in today, did one load successfully - here's hoping it lasts me much longer than the previous one!! I felt such euphoria at clearing so many dishes in one go but had to check myself; don't get attached to it just in case the dw craps out on you again..

Cut up the packaging and dumped it in the recycling, finished the more annoying/tedious half of my desktop work, now doing a bit of laundry and vacuuming and once I get it all dried and am back I'll feel like I truly deserve my week of tv :D

I met one of the neighbours (well, the owner of one of the units) today who turned out to be super nice so that was a real pick-me-up

Playing a pre-alpha game I downloaded from itch.io (Voices of the Void), and my vehicle (ATV) just disappeared 😂 walked into a building, walked out and it was just gone lol

I said out loud "I can't be mad" and cackled as I ran back to my base lol

No! Sleep! 'Til bedtime!

I have made a start on the next lot of cushions, but decided to take a break instead and went to Resource Rescue (craft supplies) and ended up spending the last couple of hours sorting zippers and untangling elastic. Miss Meow tried to help, but her technique was a bit suspect and things went faster when she was diverted to a job as paperweight instead.

Second cushion is complete. My aim is to finish the two back cusions today as well, but I might only get one done. I'm glad I decided to do the sofa with a single long cushion instead of the three seperate cushions it currently has, that would have taken a lot more time.

Another bewwwwtiful one for day/night drinking. Hit it hard, folks. Cheers 🍺

*This post was proudly sponsored by Kelvin The Beeranator - The old fridge that could.

I'm trying to decide what to grab for myself as a "congrats new job, congrats 10 years sober" present.

There are 2 options:

1. eventide h90
2. empress zoia

Please pick either 1 or 2 and reply to this and I'll grab the one with the most votes. I know I'm asking a lot, so all good if not :)

shout out to my neighbor who I'd never even spoken to before for helping me out this arvo. Dude disappeared before I could say a proper thanks but I got his wife to admit what he drinks so dudes getting a 6 pack of Carlton Draught this evening.

In somewhat related news, whilst the car can tow the campervan with ease, reversing it is..... well lets just say it makes the turning circle of an aircraft carrier look good!

The Moon is stunning tonight.

Today was not good. -_-

I got a packet of snow pea seeds though. It’s the right time to sow according to the pack but they expired in August last year so I guess we’ll see how many sprout. Waited til night and planted out 20 seeds in recycled containers (10 with 2 seeds in each).

A colleague and I heard a song on the radio that made us think of this episode of Malcolm in the Middle, probably one of my favourites ever.

It's official. Wine o'clock. Billy Joel wrote a hit song about it - goes - It's wine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in.

just another day of packing and cleaning

at least it's not hot

but it's also Severance day and severance reddit has been crazy

It's really taught me how people can be watching the same show and see completely different things. It seems to attract a bigger share of crazy conspiracy theorists than normal.

Peanut nemnems will help

Driving along I wanted to change the song. must've said "hey Google" 5 or 6 times before I realized thats probably not gonna work on my iphone. I havnt had google assistant in like 6 years, man I'm dumb!

The Brutalist:

Stunning. Brody is astonishing. As well as Felicity Jones. What can I say ? Well deserved Oscar for Adrian. He comes out swinging in the first 10 minutes. I’m not sure why Anora won best picture. ?(yet)

What’s the last awesome movie about an architect you have seen? lol

Sublime 5/5

Alfie can't handle a door being closed. Boyo is exhausted and asleep. I just want to watch bad Netlfix. Alfie is exhausting.

Anyone watching/watched Zero Day?

Late lunch today but I escaped work early

Going to go with a meat pie!