Melbourne

We bought a new car. Cheers 🍺

Bit of a health scare for the ol' girl yesterday. Fainted, collapsed went to bed. I was in the garden and had no idea. ol' boy was down the bellarine gave me a buzz to see where she was. I found her completely out of it with fever symptoms. He comes racing back directing me on what to do / look for over the phone. Fuck she's lucky to have a medico hubby.

but jeez ol' boys language / demeanor changes when there are problems like the ones we've seen in the last 6 months. Shit gets calm, direct and accurate. He's normally a grumpy old bastard. We have our differences but with mum's polycrisis, we're both on the same page which has completely surprised me.

There are children screaming outside. I have closed the door and drawn the blinds.

This photo perfectly encapsulates the first few months with Gibson.

Also this is adorable:

They've gone out again so old panic guts will sit here all day and wait for them.

Mama sea

DOOM. For I am blind to my most important need and ran out of coffee on this fine morning ...

...guess after such a long time I shall treat myself to a cuppa outside, at the laundromat. And then promptly pick up supplies on the way back.

Because of the sunny days I've been able to resume my prematurely terminated data collection for uni - definitely finishing today and then tomorrow I head back to some of the initial sampling sites out west to see how the readings might've changed from the same time of day between early March to now.

I'm so glad I'll be seeing a friend for dinner tonight. I would hate having to spend the entire weekend on uni.

E: I have finally finished PHM. Face may have leaked a bit near the end when somebody went back to find somebody else. Fist my bump! 😭 I found out they're doing a movie adaptation, I won't get my hopes too high as to how they'll pull it all off but I have to watch it just to see how they depict Rocky!

Yesterday the husband and kid went and looked at a few cars. They rock up to used car yard. Spot a car. The husband says to the kid "jump in. Have a look around" then a stranger appears and in his limited English and no teeth starts a convo with the kid. Then she jerries and apologises profusely. The stranger laughs and says "no worries. No worries". Yeah, she made herself home in a strange old man's car.

What he was trying to say was "this my car. This my car".

I sat and guarded the food while the cats ate so the religious nutcase didn't throw away their food.

This is what it's come to lol

God I fucking hate this suburb and it's demographics.

After 10 days of no guitar, I played non stop for about an hour without thinking. All improvised and it was fucking awesome.

Goodnight everyone ❤️

Skipped out on a family event because I'm just not ready for it, so went paddle boarding for hours and am now having wine and cheese in the back yard. Cheers all!

yay, I managed to buy 2 dozen eggs, first time in 6 weeks

Can definitely tell there's been a slew of reddit refugees, the cunt quotient has upped in various comms this past week

Took Minipeelers to lunch and a movie (Minecraft). By the time we walked out of the cinema it was pretty warm. Went to buy a couple of things grocery wise and some new summer hats because I have no idea whatsoever where the other summer hats have gone. We all chose identical cane cowboy hats, so we looked like some odd hick family lol.

City excursion with family today.

Always a great bonding and sharing experience for us.

Both kids confided in us about different things.

Parenting win.... hopefully.

Korean BBQ for dinner and jamming out to 80s music on the ride home.

Life isn't perfect but this was pretty close

Every time I start practicing on the guitar, Mickey curls up on my chair and falls asleep 😂

I'm the cat whisperer now

bored

Used my new glasses at work for the first time yesterday and it's crazy toggling between glasses/no glasses just how blurry the screen of the computer is without them, and I'd just been dealing with it for so long.

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Watching the footy?

You’re leading at the moment.

Gym achieved. I will now market, before I have a lovely chill afternoon

I'm trying Ritalin today instead of Dex. Feels different. Clearer sort of, but also calmer.

Report back later.

Up early, washing done and on the lines, fresh brewed coffee from the stovetop made.

Ahh time to relax then make lunch!

I knew there was a car show in Reservoir this weekend but I wasn't sure when it was. There was a community Easter thing on today that had cars at it so I took the boys there.

I checked my calendar and I did put a reminder in my calendar. It's on tomorrow, so we can go down to reservoir tomorrow and look at cars again

🎶 I love sausage rolls. Put another one in the airfryer baby 🎶

another lovely day here, will go into the city 🙂

then back home for more unpacking and cleaning 😐

I just realised I'd forgotten about cancelling the insurance on my old car. Sorted now and a refund should be arriving shortly. Not exactly a windfall given the new insurance is nearly three times as much, but good to have back in my account anyway.

And so to chillaxing

Show us your Moon

I'm putting together my shopping order and feel like there is something I wanted to get that I've forgotten. No idea what, I'll probably remember when I need whatever it was.

Collected all the data and then did a big detour of shopping - stocked up on vegan snags and the like and then thought while I'm in the car I might as well go get the dog treats my brother wanted me to bring over from here. Turns out after going to one and finding very little, most petbarns around me were out of stock, so i had to brave the insanity of driving and parking in South Yarra to grab the missing flavours.

I wish I didn't have to drive far out tomorrow for the final data collection but the good thing is, that should be it for uni (frfr as the kids say), and I shouldn't need to drive much in the coming weeks for work or personal stuff. I'm a bit over driving

E; also just realised I haven't had breakfast or lunch. No wonder am cranky

Lovely walk this morning and crashed out into emergency nap when I got home. Now. up. Quick shop and tidy up and then to a friend's for drinks in the sun.