Not keeping up with the news is the best thing I did for my mental health in 2023. I have a vague idea of what's going on but not insisting on keeping up with the latest and worst has been a good move.

We're doing Christmas Lunch today, since yesterday was a bust. Mum is hosting and out of all of us she's the only one without a dishwasher but she will NOT let anyone take over from her, lol. We haven't done gifts for several years and have always stressed that it's a low key affair but somehow having it on not-Christmas-Day seems like a much more attractive idea.

Question for the group: will you be venturing out into Boxing Day Sale Madness? What have you got in mind to score cheap?

Thanks :) So far it's been the most chilled, laid back Christmas of my life.

For Christmas I got food poisoning, yay. Not feeling too miserable but a bit guilty that we've now left Mum on her own when she loves all the hype of the day. Have rescheduled for tomorrow when a few more family members will be able to make it.

Okay, here's mine. I messed with a few different sliders and ended up with a grainier look than the original but I really like it.

Garden Marlborough fete is on today so I'll be trailing my aunties as they spend up large. As much I want to be a gardener I know nothing about anything so it'll be a good chance to pick their brains. And this year I'm telling myself I DGAF about how stupid my hat looks, I am NOT getting sunburned.

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today's mission: set up dual boot on my laptop and hopefully not melt or defenestrate the entire thing.

I changed to a super cheap mobile plan recently, since I'm usually on wifi and don't actually make calls so I really don't need much in that regard.

I've also just cancelled my kobo sub and have been going to the library. I mostly used kobo for indie authors so the library is a nice change of pace.

So with all the nostalgia for Web 1.0 lately I signed up for an account on eternal-september and now I'm trying to remember all the usenet groups I used to be obsessed with oh, about 25 years ago.

I had my old car for four years before I realised that the random hole in the side of the glovebox was an aux plug for the stereo. I'd been putting up with shitty FM transmitters the whole time.

Congrats on the unexpected shower upgrade, especially BEFORE you dropped the dosh on a new one. We put one of those shower heads in a few months ago and it's amazing.

Work pc had a meltdown so of course Microsoft decides to upgrade office on a hasty reboot.

Such is Friday!

SO's boss is meant to be heading over for the ranfurly shield game tomorrow and was suffering jokes yesterday about the ferries getting cancelled. It's definitely not the most reliable mode of transport lately.