Thanks for checking in on me and standing up for me re the Reddit post, pals.

Rough times over here but everyone’s alive so it can’t be that bad. Miss you! ❤️

This year just keeps giving. Got some bad news at doc today and being sent for scan on Monday. Currently panicking about cancer.

😭😭😭 just got an email from the palaeontologist guy I sponsor on patreon, he was contacted by Make a Wish who asked him if he could take a little kid on a dino dig. The kid just loves dinosaurs. He and the foundation seeded a beach area with bones and megalodon teeth and the little kid had a great time finding them all .

- doggo found the sun

Garden is looking good today, I really should be doing some weeding. Image is a magnolia with a hot pink rhododendron in front on a sunny day

I was just browsing r/melbourne and came across u/lemondrop post. Maybe someone can reach out and tell her it's nicer over here.

https://reddit.com/r/melbourne/s/MNvDqEyfCQ

I hope I did the link right. Lol.

I'm going through all my papers and I found this

::: spoiler spoiler ::: And I'm keeping it. Forever.

::: spoiler My miniature garden aqueduct is working well. I have an old sink near here that I use for garden stuff which is not plumbed to drainage, so I put the green tub under it to collect the water, which I used to just empty directly onto the garden. I have a bunch of concrete spoon drain pieces and bricks from old paving around the house, so created this to take most of the water across to the base of the apricot tree. A fair bit leaks along the way too keeping other plants watered.
:::

Cheers 🍻 lactators and non-lactators. 🥛

Well Dymocks has now confirmed that the basic contact information has been stolen and published on the dark web.

That might explain the barrage of calls I’ve been getting and ignoring since Monday.

Don’t like that my date of birth is out there now with my name.

I had to activate my new debit card. I couldn't quite do it on the phone so I called them and I failed the security questions so now I have to go into the branch so they can ID me. I've been flagged. Lol

Taking my sun prescriptions right now eating peanut butter toast and having a vanilla latte satchel while listening to a podcast.

Will have to move soon after as my long pre order is ready for pick up and I’ll get a haircut too at the same time and pick up some coffee supplies, hash browns and maybe some fruit juice?

Eh? I planted the spinach seeds 4 days ago and they’re already sprouting. The cat grass took so much longer.

I think I sowed them too thickly as well, should have left room for more staggered plantings. Wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing. The carrots were definitely sown too thickly and will 100% need thinning once they’re up which feels like a waste of good plants.

I might just leave the spinach as is, uproot any that get ratty and reseed the empty spots. Or thin some of them for microgreens. (Might do that for the carrots too as the tops are edible.) It’s possible some will bolt when summer hits unless they’re brought inside.

I really wish I could plant pumpkins and zucchini or tomatoes but cannot take on that much garden

So I'm going axe throwing tm for a bucks and it was a very confronting waiver.

I don't have a beneficiary or executor :(

Piedmonte's has $5 choccy mud cakes. Pray for me (and my waistline).

STORM WON!!! Gotta get behind our only Melbourne NRL team, @MELBOURNE I DON'T KNOW HOW TO OR IF YOU CAN TAG A CHANNEL OR WHATEVER IT'S CALLED IN LEMMY

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💜 ⚡ ⚡ ⚡ ⚡

I’m not up to running around doing guerrilla gardening myself.

But how cool would it be to seed bomb abandoned lots with native wildflowers for native pollinators? (Not only bees - though they’re important).

You can make seed bombs as clay-soil balls, soil bound with flour, dried paper pulp, or soil filled eggshells.

Legality is dubious so check beforehand if you want to do it. And don’t use anything poisonous or invasive.

Edit: Scratch that. This video is saying not to use regular wildflower mixes as some species may be invasive. The natives may be a much better choice until I look at what’s in the bee/butterfly mix

Does anyone hate the media covering the AirBNB levy, through the "your weekend stay is going to be more expensive" angle.

Something funny to me is that out of the 5 weeks I took off work, traveling throughout the US and spending almost 2 weeks in Vegas.. it's the Friday night before I go back to work that I finally get drunk. At home in Melbourne. By myself.

Sitting in the company truck while our tradies do the hard work. What a lovely Friday!

This weather is too nice for productive working. I'm just flapping about and staring out the window today. Going to get some sun soon.

Are we on top of the milk situation yet?

Sooooo I bought some groceries to make a fish sandwich. I nearly accidently ran over my budget doing it and almost didn’t have enough for a haircut after finding out it went up in price by a few dollars.

I however did manage to grab some juice, coffee supplies and magical hash browns. Sadly the price of the hash browns also went up slightly.

Anyway I managed to fit in my haircut and get my food so I can self help myself early though I did have to give up a pack of lollies until next week and now I’m pretty much broke until I get paid next week.

Now starts the rest and I’m well equipped to bunker down and enjoy it all!

Also the hairdresser was pretty chatty. Took an hour to have my hair cut I think and nearly went over the limit for parking! Was a very nice person though so I don’t mind that at all and we had a good chat about things in general.

wimd hits hard..

Wahhh. Long long day out in the 'Rat using every last drop of my EQ to help smooth out a delicate family situation but it turned out good. I'm just wiped out though. Won't be able to drive back up there again until I buy a car some day but I will NOT miss the Western Highway for a second.

Highlight of the day was this VERY friendly boi. He hates kids but just showers everyone else with tender affection. I love him.

e: also I accidentally drank caffeinated tea way too late this afternoon, help

I pressed snooze, but morning run is a go.

Another jigsaw done. 🤗 This one of birds but strangely I did the vegetation first. Also, it only had a tiny instruction picture .

::: spoiler spoiler :::

Just tried the tap pressure gauge.

Who wants a kilopascal I have 600 of them eee.

what a rush.

Japchae for dins to celebrate.

Decided to take NtccJnr to the beach straight grom school. Best decision. So nice here this arvo.

Apricot Delights are so fucking good ugh

Kmart have already started with the Halloween stuff - so I picked up a pair of ghost earrings but I'm probably gonna wear them all year round cause they are super cute (and spooky! but you can be spooky all year round) haha

- dawn run, admittedly snooze-y day, but then super active evening walk....and he still wants to play

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

Just went to preston bun buns as they were the only bunnings that had the water timers I wanted (the simple dial ones, I don't need bluetoof to talk to a tap).

And jeez that's a big bun bun. almost rivals the one in norlane.

Also got a pressure guage for the tap which I'm far too excited about.

Watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I saw it as a kid, but don’t really remember it. The movie was famous for the technological first of mixing animation with live film.

My kid came home from work experience at 4pm. We ate dinner. She told me she tried out the bidets. She liked them. She said she was tired. I haven't seen her since.

Knock Knock

Who's there

Anubis

Anubis wh......

This is my next jigsaw puzzle. It's the Weighing of the Heart in the afterlife , the sins of the heart have to weigh less than a feather ( it's a totally very heavy feather 😉 )

( this is a better reference )

https://egypt-museum.com/the-weighing-of-the-heart-court-of-osiris/

::: spoiler spoiler :::

I ended up doing a session of low impact exercises because I ate before I remembered that I had to finish this morning's session🙆🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️. I ate ribs and they were delicious. Fat Arse Friday living up to its name in my house!

I've organised a few days off over the next couple of weeks. Partly to spend time with the Minipeelers while they're on holidays, partly because I've been working really hard lately and I feel like I need it. I've also done something shifty: I haven't told everyone what exact days I'm having off because I want a "me" day. I need a day to just do what I want. I have no idea what I'll do yet, but it'll be selfish and self indulgent. Now I'm relaxing in bed after a nice shower, which I sorely needed because hand made lasagna on a commercial scale is bloody messy and I ended up wearing two types of bolognaise sauce and looking like a criminal. Gets me some odd looks on the bus!

I have bruises near my wrist, it's sort of like just peeking above where my watch strap is (so one bruise on my hand and one on my arm) and my wrist bloody hurts. And it's not like I know what I've done to it, like I didn't have a major fall or something. I just woke up in pain.

Maybe if it still hurts next week I'll see the doc. But I'm just like ??? Why did this pain show up all of a sudden?

Time to make the monies... Someone pay me to exist already, please!

@Ceoofmyhouse56

Listened to the first episode Saturday afternoon Fever today.

It’s funny stuff. Thanks for that!

I got a bit of planting done today, and got my potting area & indoor growing area sorted out so I'm properly ready to do more. LED grow lights are so cheap and efficient these days, it makes it feasible to raise a lot of plants indoors. I've had some herbs growing over winter, and have a couple of shelves with varying lights and a heat mat for the summer seedlings. I added a couple of fans today for air circulation and to stop too much heat building up around the lights. It can get a bit too bright because it is open shelves, so I have put a curtain around it with a forest print which cuts the light and looks quite nice. Now I just need to get the garden beds outdoors done so I have somewhere to put all the plants once they are ready.

Tonight we're playing an old Aussie playlist of mine so

What's your favourite classic Aussie song and I'll tell you if I've played it already?