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.

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.

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.

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

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.

No! Sleep! 'Til bedtime!

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!

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.

Wild, white horses

They will take me away

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.

Ah, the dulcet tones of f1 cars from a distance. Hooray, not...

E: had a go with these hot and spicy chicken flavour (black packet) indomie noodles. Love the spices - cumin and some other stuff in there - but dear gods it's fiery. Might put less of the chili oil next time. Or zhuzh it up with veg to offset the heat 🥵

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

My plan today, doing a bit of work, leave for lunch early and not come back.

Also must allow for travel time.

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

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 :)

I have some good news. We've had the old fridge in the garage tarped over for more than 10 years so the other day the man set it up and opened it. It was spotless. I did an excellent job cleaning back when.

Anyway he gave it another clean and it's now a beer fridge which is great because I don't need to tetris my food in the inside fridge every Thursday night.

Tonight we will be celebrating with the original fridge. Also great for storing watermelon in because that shit takes up a lot of room before it gets cut up.

I got no sleep. Work occurs regardless

Peanut nemnems will help

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!

Happy Pi Day (if you can stand American order dates) Need to go buy a bottle of Stout. 🥧

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..)

Lunch. I have sprung for 600ml of full powered Coke in the hope the sugar and caffeine does something

need a coffee. Early start wasnt my friend today.

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.

Late lunch today but I escaped work early

Going to go with a meat pie!

Does anyone here get out of bed as soon as their alarm goes off?

incoherent garbling noise