Mum’s in the ED tonight after her fall 6 days ago (well 2 falls in two weeks). I’m super worried. Delayed concussion ABI IV (she only has vision in one eye and now the other is gone) this is not good.

Her life is about to change drastically and it’s going to be an awful adjustment for her and I just feel so sad.

i’m not sure how to go about this.

Gibson in her first week living at my place ❤️

It was an adjustment for both of us. I didn’t really know anything about cats, let alone kittens. The day I went and picked her up I bought one of everything at the pet section at kmart lol

The sneak attacks were on a whole other level. She’d jump and stick to my legs with her sharp as fuck little claws 😂

It was a really fun time. Very enjoyable :)

An unsurprising day (mostly) offline. It’s been good, but I still make choc chip bikkies at 9:30pm, so probably says a lot about my state of mind. They didn’t even turn out that good. Went shopping but everything I bought (mostly sparkly makeup) I already have similar stuff to, but I’m taking it as buying things that bring me joy.

Cried when I went into my bedroom earlier, just thinking the little dog would have lifted his head as I turned on the light. It’s gonna take time to break these habits, that muscle memory.

Maribyrnong: Anglecised version of “Mirring-gnay-bir-nong”, which translates as ‘I can hear a ringtail possum’.

That made me laugh so fucking hard 😂😂😂 like it’s just an apt name for the area holy shit 😂💀

Source: apparently my own council website lol https://conversations.merri-bek.vic.gov.au/renaming/names-melbourne#:~:text=There are 31 councils in,Yarra River Melbourne - History

Well I fucking nailed that Butter Chicken. Both kids had seconds. That never happens lately. Put it in the oven for 15 minutes and managed to crisp up the chicken perfectly.

My illustrated edition of the Hobbit did turn up and my god, I can’t believe I got so much book for $16. It’s got gold on the cloth bound hardcover, it’s nice and thick with glossy paper stock, and it’s full of drawings.

Independent book stores could sell this for $36, saying it’s marked down from $70 and they’d move so many units.

My partner has been complaining she’s been freezing cold all day and she just figured out that we forgot to switch the mode back to heating rather than air con from yesterday. Gotta love and laugh at these Melbourne problems 😂

Cheers 🍻

Alright. Pizza and Ps5 let’s fucking gooooooo!

(as soon as I get out of bed after my nanna nap)

Unwinding to some Quincy Jones tracks (so much MJ!) as is the theme across so many PBS programs this week…

I’m NOT going to think about packing or selling items tonight, I’m just tapped out.

Got a friend coming over tomorrow to help work out this couch bizzo and provide some distraction from all the packing and culling.

Wonder what movie or tv series I could blank my brain out with this evening.

E: I’m thinking of Poker Face or maybe Happy Valley, never watched that most famous of UK cozy country cop shows

Today I’ve had 4 coffees, 1 slice of cake, a few mouthfuls of Twisties, some challah, 3 chocolate chip cookies and a can of tuna.

Now I need to decide what to eat for dinner.

Hm. Someone I’ve never talked to with a bunch of mod removed comments (and a couple of identical ones) messaged me ‘hello’. Not to be rude but that seems mildly sus so that’s a block.

I don’t really like DMs at the best of times and usually keep them shut.

Anxiety has been bad today. I’m not even thinking about you know what. It’s just there with the rest of my life and everything is making it worse.

I forced myself to quickly go out for newspaper to line plant pots but they didn’t have any. Some dodgy characters around but luckily nothing came of it.

I’ve planted two of the largest zucchini seedlings out but ran out of potting mix and energy because those pots were pretty big. I don’t eat much or exercise enough for physical work like lifting and shoveling so now feeling kind of shaky… but I kind of had to move and do something.

Also they’re growing fast and I don’t think I can keep all of them.

I wish you could get smaller size seed packs or a bundle with like a few seeds of each type. Maybe a seed library could sort me out but I think that’s enough ‘outside’ for now.

Today’s my first proper ‘in a funk all day due to a shit work interaction with a client’ since I started here maybe ten weeks ago. It sucks that it lingers

Why isn’t frozen mirepoix a thing? In convenient sized sachets? We can purchase frozen everything else, why not that? It’s just finely diced carrot, onion and celery. There’s a marketing opportunity here - a sachet of mirepoix and a bag of good chook stock in the same pack - would save so much hassle assembling and chopping etc.