Melbourne

I got the job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh thank fuck. Thank absolute fuck!!!!!

Uber eats for me, and the super fancy cat treats for Gibson!

I know perfectly well that I shouldn't eat all the cherries on the first day of cherry season (well, the first day I have cherries, same thing). They're soooo good. But my gut might not thank me later.

Much sauce has been turned into many sauces.

One sauce was also turned in to dinner.

Christmas shopping is awful. Everyone is getting book vouchers or chocolate.

Had a fam dinner last night and my daughter's granma was there .

I didn't let gran eat off my plate 🙄🙄🙄 and the evening went down hill from there. Again.

I think today is perfect weather to cook the big pot of bolognese sauce I have been planning on. Unfortunately this means I will need to physically go to the shops myself to acquire onions. I guess if I have to go I might get some cheese as well. You can never have too much cheese.

Back in Melbs from the Bellarine.

Already miss the ocean :( There's something calm but also panic inducing about being alone, 50m out, getting dark.. the mystery of what's below. Could be a giant squid, a horny dolphin... If something went wrong no one would know. But that has nothing on the shitshow that is southern x station just after 5pm.

Gosh... changing my sheets makes me realise how disabled I actually am. Jesus Christ.

But hey, the summer sheets are on, though this week it'll be cold so...

i would like to thank hans zimmer for writing music that gets me to CONCENTRATE when i want/need to

me: yoo I need a teamviewer access for about 5 mins to update your firmware. Normally I could do it without you even noticing, but this one actually disables our tunnel software as part of the process, so I need a fallback. Won't take long, very quick.

chain A: Bah too much hassle, send me entirely new units for these sites

chain B: Why? This is metro. Send a tech out

ASK ME AGAIN WHY TECH STAFF HATE PEOPLE.

I didn't get to buy myself a present for my birthday this year, but now I have this new role, I'm dreamily browsing for a new piece of music equipment lol and fancy cat trees of course.

Much sauce has been created. #singlepeoplecooking

A few taste adjustments to go, dividing up into individual jars and and a stint in the pressure canner to go.

Nursing my jammed finger. That means no tennis for a bit 😩. But I guess that's also good because it gives my other injuries time to catch up because I play way too much anyway.

So our super food spread yesterday definitely broke the diet. I normally only weigh myself on Sunday, but I had to know: I'm 2.3 kg heavier this morning than I was 24 hours ago. 🙄

Here's hoping it mostly comes off again. I swam 1.5km and ran 9km afterwards, so I hope it mostly gets burned and not stored.

Still, special occasion was special. No real regrets.

It's fancy schmancy instant noodles with curry sauce again except this time I added some frozen vegan chicken in and added a bit of garnish.

appetising

I'm amazed that I focused on work quite serenely for 8 solid hours today and remembered to take the necessary breaks, etc. Need to see how much time allowance I've used up for this project though. Taken way too long on one section so gotta cut back on some others.

commented to the wife we were running low on baby Panadol as I was getting a dose ready for an unhappy kid, only to drop the bottle and spill everything everywhere. Turns out the next after hours chemist is like 20km away from my suburb, so that was fun.

Reading His Dark Materials after watching the series and can't stop thinking about the sort of daemons* Australian's would have. Like how many people are wondering around with huge arse kangaroos and koalas or the random arsehole with a full-blown cassowary. Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.

*Daemons are a physical manifestation of the human soul in animal form, they are not pets/animals and can speak and have their own thoughts and feelings, though you feel everything they do and vice versa (to an extent).

Covid seems to be taking turns around with the staff at work these recent weeks. I wonder how many people it's going to go through before we knock off from work for Christmas.

Onions have now been aquired. Time to start on the sauce. I will need to decide whether to use the big stock pot or the really big stock pot.

is the bom radar glitched, it is clearly raining but the radar shows barely anything

So.. I have an espresso machine and I have both brandy and plain eggnog. Science must happen.

I was thinking this morning thank God I don't have to work today, and when I called into the office to check on something they offered me a shift this afternoon.
Thanks but no thanks, people.

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Does anyone have any proven methods for stopping mosquito bites from itching? A few of them are now massive and I scratched two of them so hard that I bruised the skin beside them.

All this because I put insect repellent on my arms and neck for my zoo based Christmas party but didn't think about the exposed skin from my ripped jeans and they had a FEAST.