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Father dead. Zero clue what to do with this information. Boyo no help would be celebrating demise of his.

It's just been Mr Woof and I at home since the middle of the week, and at first he was super duper anxious, lying near the front door, waiting for everyone else. Last night, I went upstairs to my room to check the temperature, and he started fluffing up my bed to sleep on. He's only ever done that if my mum is in my room.

now he's enjoying the sun

Shadow box completed.

Now on to the Avengers tower 😁

Poor fluffball.

Edit: I legit could go to bed right now.

Baku, we are time-travelling once again 🫡

I didn't even realise for a moment.

I have to go to the shops for foood. Pray for me.

EDIT: Thank you all for your good thoughts. I have returned unscathed, bearing watermelon and icy poles and lettuce and jelly. And boring bread & milk etc. We will survive this. The cool change on Sunday night/Monday morning will be EPIC!

In Albury for the night on the way back. I've definitely had my cup filled (but already missing being out in nature all day and all night, and physically very tired from various tasks). It's an absolute oven outside. Thankfully the AC was running at my accom before I arrived so I'm just chilling for now (got a free upgrade to Queen, score!).

Debating whether to get a proper meal for dinner or just some ready-to-eat stuff from Woolies... Might splurge on the meal tonight and get some crackers and dip for breakfast and the rest of the drive home tomorrow.

Sunset tonight will be spectacular. All those wispy bits of clouds will light up I reckon.

Half price freezy stuff for those who want:

Zooper doopers half price $3.60 for a 24 pack) at Coles

Golden gay times half price $5 for a 4 pack at Woolies

Bulla Splits and crunches half price $4.50 for an 8 pack at Coles

Connoisseur half price $6 for a 4 pack of full size or 6 pack of minis at woolies

The forecast's back up to 40 for today and tomorrow for us northern suburbs types. Which isn't a big difference from 38 in real terms, but psychologically...

I've been to the gym (which is also a large council pool, it was bananas) and I'm hibernating with the cricket for the rest of the weekend.

Stay cool! Remember to eat all the icy poles.

Solidarity to my fellow no AC gang. Going to be a rough next two days, but sure we can make it!

Ok I have my torrent box set up properly now.

Downloaded 20gb in just over 5 mins!

Today at the opshop I found an antique book of autobiographical travel essays, Across the Plains, by RL Stevenson. 🙂

I've brought great shame upon youse. 10 - 9. I lost. Good competition. Good game. Sorry.

After trying to work up the courage to get ready and then go to the shops for the last 2 hours, I've given up. The shop I want to go to requires a 15 minute walk, but is open late. Given that, I'll wait until it cools down a bit

Bird bath full ✔️ Sun's out guns out ✔️

3 things that make me lose my appetite

seeing people who eat with their mouth open

not washing hands

licking fingers and hands

just sayin'

Having a lazy day after washing blankets (great weather for it). I can't believe it's almost time to start thinking about dinner 😦

Miss Meow is trying to help with my assignment by pressing the F1 key at random times. She has also managed a complete paragraph of ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

I had a sneaky late night choc cross buns. Bleh. The ones I get from Aldi have something chocolatey inside. The woolies ones I got don't, they just put cocoa powder into whatever mixture they used and got rid of the fruit

Yeah… there’s soap powder residue on my cutlery so I’m having to rinse everything under the tap again before use. Hopefully it’s only because it was in the rapid cycle but there’s nowhere to put rinse aid in this machine and it’s not very convenient to load. I’m also having to put things on a dish towel or dish rack to finish drying.

Buyers regret. Like I am happy the dishes are getting done because it’s my hardest task but it’s also creating more fiddly little headaches. Pisses me off because of the money.

Guess I’ll use it in the meantime but will start saving up again and this time actually get something better, something I can see in person. When I get another one I can ask if anyone I know wants it or donate on Givit.

Have to abort my heat hibernation to go to friend kid’s birthday, I really want to stay under my air con.

They have a pool and told us to bring bathers so I will but dunno if I’ll get in. It’s so hot that I might. There will be pizza too.

The situation in Korea is wild right now. There's an arrest warrant for the president (call him in for questioning related to his declaration of martial law, which could amount to treason I think) and his personal security guards (and public supporters) are physically blocking the arrest from happening, and apparently they only have a few more days to wait until the arrest warrant becomes invalid. What the actual fuck

The Big BOM's cancelled the heatwave warning

Somebody should probably go outside and tell the heat. I don't think they've quite got the memo

Dammit. I have a split mail on my finger. Think I made it worse after snagging it on some clothing.

Got a spplit right on the side and about my probably 2 or 3mm long.

Put a Band-Aid on it for now so I don’t make it worse.

I never would have thought I'd prefer to stay in Queensland weather wise but even with humidity I'm regretting booking my flight back to Melbourne for tonight. I suppose I'll miss a day of it but my apartment is going to be a hotbox when I get back.

The garden has been watered, and I picked my first ripe tomatoes. Apparently I have an unexpected tomato hybrid, with trusses of yellow tomatoes. I was expecting red, so failed to recognise some earlier tomatoes had actually ripened.

Nice cool breeze outside!

Well that was a bummer.

Only a mouse but yeah :(

Melbcat was also sick on the bed while I was briefly out. I’m still trying to get her to give me a urine sample for the vet

Discovered last night that taking Zoloft can sometimes cause the worst avid reflux you've ever had in your life.

It still hurts the morning after

I've caved and turned on the portable air con. It's still really inefficient cause I can't really block the window. But I hung a sheet to try and block extra sunlight and some air getting though. These stupid blinds aren't helping cause they're rigid and the entire dimensions of the window

RIP my electric bill, again

I've got a smart metre thing so I can see my electricity usage, and the day I had the portable air con running for like 2 hours, I used 2kw more Ecotricity than my previous highest usage day. That is only like 80 cents, but still.

Too hot to be hungry. For lunch I ate a bowl of diced mango with a scoop of vanilla icecream. but now I’m peckish, maybe shall make myself a Vegemite toast.

First jelly of the day has already been consumed. Sweet, solid water. What more could anyone wish for on a day like today?

10 yr outta date electrolytes down the hatch ✔️

It's what plants crave.

I took some pics of the mini dishwasher. Sorry there’s no banana for scale. They’re also kind of minimal because I didn’t want to post any clutter or my reflection. You will get the rough idea though.

I didn’t use the tap attachment but let me know if you want me to try that and take some pictures.

I hope everyone survives today. I think I'm probably going to sleep most of the day. Fluffball will probably not move from in front of the fan.

tropical meat is not pleased with this lack of humidity

Qube trains are so cute

Let’s go!!! 🏏 🍟