Melbourne

Tonight's wave:

Not a soul on the beach tonight.

Early night to night. Good night everyone, sweet dreams 😘

Tomorrow I'll finish some garden work, go for a walk , do some stuff around the house and listen to some vinyls I bought at the opshop today . Just a relaxing day.

Family gathering on Sunday for the October/November/December birthdays, including my dad.

As a present to them, I'll be baking pretzels :3

Gathering ingredients tomorrow and prepping dough, shaping, and then bake Sunday morning before making the trek to Doreen.

I hear cousin is making tiramisu, and uncle (host) is doing something in the smoker or bbq (I'm hoping smoker).

Should be fun!

Edit:

I am being O B S E R V E D

DSLR cleaned and ready for the sunset swim and dins. C'mon waves I need pretty pictures.

Interesting work week. My manager is moving to a new department - and our whole team is actually devastated because she's a legend. Had a few very good client interactions. One was a vulnerable person, homeless, and a bit abusive - his experience thus far with our company for what he was trying to do left a lot to be desired to be fair. He spoke with me and I decided I would not end the call until I'd resolved his issue. Ended up having to call him back 7 times to get the job done, but we did it, and he was very thankful in the end. My efforts did not go unrecognized internally either and I got a few shout outs. Felt good!

G'night

I've been eating really clean for a while now.

I had a Burger at a pub and now I have a migraine from it.

In other news I have a short video of the strays. How can I get it here to show you guys?

I've played three games of chess today and won them all.

Granted, my opponent is 11

Amusing interaction at shops. I bought a plush capybara, guy at next shop wanted to know wtf it was, cue me & the person behind me in line both delivering a mini seminar upon their awesomeness. Gigantic Guinea pigs Rule!

My irritating next door neighbour is having visitors over tomorrow during the day.

Guess who's going to be gardening and using each and every power tool available.

This guy right here.

I actually have to do gardening, but now I have a reason to be very thorough and meticulous.

Came home from work sick - chills, fever and shaking in every joint. If not better by this arvo, will contact nurse on call.

edit: Courtesy of nurse on call, the nice paramedic has just been and filled me full of antivirals. Back to bed until they kick in.

Stripped the bed and put on clean sheets. Did a little vacuum. Doing laundry.

Anxiety is going nuts though

People keep giving me lemon curd. Help.

We have a massive, decades-old lemon tree so guests and family keep asking "can i take some lemons?" And i am "please god take some lemons they are everywhere and the ones i miss that drop make the yard smell like pine o cleen as they rot yes please take the fucking lemons here's a large bag fill it, fill it to the brim for christ's sake And lo, they taketh of the lemon.

And then. Aaaaaand then. They feel bad about rescuing us from lemons and GIVE US FUCKING LEMON CURD IN RETURN. Always lemon curd. No tarts no cheesecake, no marmalades, no limoncello, no lemonade, no lemon cakes, no lemongeddon solo derivatives no, just lemon curd. Curd upon curd upon curd. My life is becoming a hell of small repurposed cream cheese jars.

Update on the cricket: Oh fuck 🏏

Balnarring has its charms

Mickey is so funny. He asks to be picked up, so I do, but sometimes I have to put him down quicker than he prefers (water boiling, toilet, usual home stuff).

When that happens, he'll rush back over to my legs and bite my calves or bat at my ankles. No real damage or pain to me, but let's him display his displeasure at the cuddles ending sooner than he'd prefer 😂

My plans for a toasted sandwich for lunch have been completely ruined by forgetting the bread. 😭

Edit: I have been saved! There was a course with a catered lunch today. I have now dined on leftover sandwiches and rockmelon.

@CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone's card from yesterday reminded me of this movie I watched a while ago. Burning Hell is one of those so bad it's good movies where a pentacostal preacher is telling you how bad hell is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Pvkl0d_Z0&pp=ygUSYnVybmluZyBoZWxsIG1vdmll

Be warned if you watch this you'll never be able to get the way he says 'hell' out of your head.

I watched this and the documentary Jesus Camp around the same time and I figured something out about these religions, especially in the States; they spend all this time telling you how bad hell is and to not be bad, but never tell you what a good person does. This movie is an entire hour about how bad hell is, with no explainer on how to be a good person or how to get into heaven. Imagine living your entire life only being told what not to do with no direction on what you should do. I think things over there start to make sense by seeing this as the mentality people were brought up with and how they impose their will on others.

Wicked For Good has been seen! The costume department absolutely knocked it out of the park, so many beautiful pieces. I wore sparkly green eyeshadow and sparkly shoes, love me a theme.

Booked flights to Sydney - been invited to a client Christmas event which I can use as an excuse to claim flights / accom on the business, and also using the trip as my "work" Christmas party. I've been feeling so wound up and stressed lately, looking forward to a couple of nights away.

Attention! I hereby redeem my monthly Au etc. card for 3 mild misunderstandings, 2 wtf my fault, and hope to carry over a massive good overreaction

This park near me should be finished now. It's a nice big space and should make cutting across the hills to work easier if I ever want to go that way. I think I'll take the kids there at some point this weekend to check it out

The metro tunnel is not on any line near me, but I still want to go through it just for funsies. I reckon other people will have the same idea when it's free on the weekend. I have wanted to try a Footscray banh mi for some time though, and hopefully it will be worth the whole train switcheroo situation

Cheers everyone 🍺

Update on the cricket: Aussies are doing good 🏏

Fuck yeah it's Friday!

Sweet fuck all tonight, night out tomorrow then renaissance fair Sunday.

Have a great day everyone ♥️