Visited mum for a few hours. She’s in good hands… those nurses at the eye and ear are really caring.
That’s great news, glad she’s in good care.
thank you :) truly amazing staff.
Sending you love, I hope she recovers well 💜💜
Thank you :)
It was my birthday today, headed down to Ballarat to spend it with family. Replacement V/Line coaches did my head in though.
😘🎂💐
Happy Birthday!!
Happy Birthday! 🎈
sigh Really cannot complain.
Had a great night practising. I have 3 new songs ready which I’m super happy about ❤️
Here’s my number one fan hiding in the cupboard in the studio
Goodnight everyone, and thanks for listening to my vent :)
just want to say thanks to everyone for the support yesterday regarding mum’s fall. truly is a great community here.
She’ll be home tm or the next so that’s a good thing.
I didn’t see that, best of luck to your mum
Good luck. Lots of hugs for your mum, she must be really scared too.
I saw your post but fell asleep before replying, just wanted to say it’s a huge undertaking you’re doing but you’ve got a very good head on you and I have faith you’ll get through this next hard bit well even if it’s gonna mean several hard conversations with your mum. Our favourite witch had some excellent suggestions. Feel free to vent here any time
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a poor idea with our favourite witch.
And thank you. Was a bit of a confronting day. Tm will be reducing hazards.
♡ You got this, your parents are very lucky to have someone so switched on and conscientious as their son :)
I will probably be facing the same conversations in the next few years with the added bonus of both parents overseas and almost no-contact with one.
I missed that post, but I hope she recovers well. It’s scary when they get to the stage of having falls.
in non pooh news, got a wild hair up my arse yesterday and ripped up half the backyard paving. His Lordship toppled the rest this arvo (I left it for him to go SMASHY SMASHY with the sledge, he so rarely gets to)
IN MY DEFENSE it’s a pathway we’re gonna replace anyway because 1) it’s too narrow for my garden trolleys and 2) the bloody thing’s subsided to the point where it’s at a 40 degree angle and 3) I need the new level for the end point between the food garden ground level and the path for aforementioned trolleys. And I didn’t mean to. I set the goal of moving my fruit trees to the other side of the greenhouse, and edging down it so we could plot.
But then I looked at those nice clean edges and thought “I could get a pry under there, I wonder how easy it would be?”
Surprisingly easy as it turned out. Especially with a 2 meter lever. But then I had a meter and a half of 15cm thick concrete with bluestone chips embedded through it at a 90 angle. No point in letting it back down after all that, and I couldn’t leave it propped up. what if it fell down on wildlife? To the sledgehammer! So then I had pieces that will become the crazy paving on the new path.
Then I started wondering if the next piece would come up that easily and, well, curiosity, cats and now we’re missing 8m of pathway. Birds are going apeshit on the rolly pollies.
Living vicariously through this
I live cathartically through your epic backyard landscaping adventures, looking forward to the day I can go in on buying a house and bitta land with someone so I can potter around/go manic as needed (well as much as I can, considering I’ll probably be arthritic by the time I can afford that).
Already arthritic, embrace the pain!
Smashing shit up in the backyard is very therapeutic, too. Or, at least, some heavy-duty gardening, and you get a bonus full green bin
Fun as hell, too
Ted is spaced out. All knots and dags have been removed and he’s been brushed nicely.
close up of Ted seeing magic stars
This is inspirational. My goal for tonight is to emulate this level is consciousness. Fingers crossed
hehe ted never stood a chance with them dags and drugs.
He’s gorgeous! I want to ruffle that fluffy tum
I knoooow. 😻 I got to brush and pat his tummy, 💖 normally he’s all bites and scratching and thrashing about but it did need to be done, he was getting some mats under there.
I’m looking to replicate this energy shortly lol
He’s off with the fairies. I wish that was me…
What a beautiful little corner of the internet this space is. Thank you for all of the love and support lately, I really appreciate it and will absolutely keep passing it on and lifting you wonderful people up where I can!
I’m glad I talked myself into the gym.
Incoming vent:
Birthday being next week, it’s a real rough time to be honest. I can’t help but think about how I don’t have any family to spend time with. I know I’m not the only one in this position, but still feels bad.
When I was unemployed, I lost a couple of really close friends who I usually hang out with, but I’m grateful for the people in my life that I do have.
It sounds funny, but I’ve kinda felt like a stray human since I was young.
Things could always be worse, and I try to keep that in mind. I just have moments of weakness where I wish for things that seem so out of grasp.
/end vent
We’ll be here!
Also, yes people may have it worse, but it’s a very human thing to want to satisfy our need for connection and belonging. It is not weak.
It’ll be okay, the birthday sads are real. You belong, and I’ll be coming to celebrate. We can make our own families :D
We are your chosen family my friend, we’ll always be here for you. You’re fine, you will be fine, and what you’re feeling right now is completely normal ❤️
Also happy birthday for next week!
Yeah mum used to say something like that ❤️
Just back from a lovely walk with my kid. We got to pat 2 very friendly cats, one of which climbed into his lap when he sat down to get closer to it. The other one was called Bruce.
It’s reignited the ‘should we get another pet’ conversation, but can’t decide cat vs dog
DO IT
I think we’ll have to
I’m still trying to get a 3rd cat.
It depends on your family and the dog but dogs are lovely. 💖
Yeah, I’m a bit keen on a dog and it would be nice getting out for more walks. It would be left alone a bit with us going to work though, and cats are more self-sufficient. So hard to choose!
Success!!! Got the big unwieldly couch dismantled with my friend’s help both physically and mentally. Now I can hopefully get rid of it sooner and if there’s no takers at least it’s a helluva lot easier to move myself. That’s a big ticket item cleared.
Next up, gotta keep culling and packing clothes… made a bit of a start this am, but I’ll probably do most of it tomorrow. It’s been a big day today with long chats, grabbing a coffee, going to Bunnings together, dismantling this couch in confused stages, going out for lunch, dropping friend home…
That’s great news.
Has update on when you put in your notice to vacate?
Did the LL communicate back to you in any way?
LL did finally get back and acknowledged receipt at least so she won’t kick up a fuss about leaving early. Hasn’t said yet how she wants to organise key handover but I don’t really care, it’s on her now. Just focusing on next steps. REA is pretty sloppy where I’m moving to so I gotta have my wits about. Still pretty chuffed I got away with paying the original listed rent thanks to their lack of attention to detail.
Some other big things I need to do are fill in some small holes where I’d put a blackout blind (relatives lent me spakfilla and a spatula) and try to remove some scratches in the toilet bowl.
Don’t forget about your bond as well after you’ve sorted out everything.
Anyway you’ve done good today and it’s time for you to rest up and have some R&R.
I’ll be claiming my bond the second I hand my keys over. I can wait the two weeks if it means I don’t need to do anything further and the landlord has to take it up to vcat if she wants to fight.
Yep pretty chuffed with today’s efforts. Been sat in the car for 90 minutes doing crosswords, gonna haul myself back up home and go through some clothes then wind down with some Poker Face episodes.
What’s the Poker Face show about it and what is it on?
You reminded me about Only Murders in the building season 4 and Fisk so I did a couple of episodes in my downtime.
It’s about a rough-around-the-edges casino worker who has the gift of always knowing if someone is lying, who finds herself caught up solving mysteries and murders while on the run. Directed by Rian Johnson so it’s very visually appealing and slick but also has some very memorable characters and a sense of showbiz to it that I like, it’s good fun.
It’s on Apple TV in Australia I think, but I sail the fine seas for everything…
Ahh ok.
Thanks for the tip.
I was sailing the seas earlier today, it’s where I found the buildings.
Seconding a checkout of pokerface, natasha lyonne, human lie detector
This pretty bee at my uncle and aunts property
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🐝🥰
My kingdom for chicken salt
and not for a kiss upon her shoulder…
I dropped my Darth Vader keepcup and completely shattered the glass. I’m thinking if I find the same size glass keepcup I could put it all back together.
But I’m going to keep an eye on marketplace because damn those things are expensive new
First flowers have appeared on the volunteer tomatoes from the compost heap. Several on one stalk so I fink they’re cherry toms. I hope.
I bet they’re gonna taste sooo good.
Yeah, home grown food always tastes so much better!
I’m curious now. :)
