Melbourne

Two breatho stops already in less than two hours. The second one in Milawa was absolutely massive. At least 25 coppers.

Bickies for everyone! Total fail on the fancy print, but you can't taste those anyway.

My view for the next few days:

4 DAY WEEKEND!!!!!!

Did anyone else take a look at the sky and wonder if Sunday's promised rain was going to arrive a bit early? Rain on Sunday now at 90% chance.

Digging noises next door. Power goes out. Silence...

old nightmares are hppening😫

it's quiet

I want churros but fuck paying 30 bucks for a small box delivered.

Kitten parade.

Why do I have to be up so early on a public holiday. I mean, I did go to sleep very early too but I was angling for a nice long sleep-in... especially because of the very sexy dreams I just woke up from :(

Cleaned out the garage, no sign of dead rodent. I’m guessing it’s somewhere above the ceiling and below the roof and the smell is coming through. Or possibly inside where the roller door spins. So just have to wait it out. Kinda concerning, I hope this isn’t a start of a bigger problem. On the bright side, garage is now clean and tidy!

Yaaaaawn

It has been confirmed - I didn't get the preferred house. After looking at the alternatives available and thinking a bit more about options the house I've been approved for is growing on me. I think my uncertainty about it comes from two things:

1. I'm filling in the gaps that I can't see with worst case scenarios instead of what's likely, and extrapolating a few things into problems that are unlikely. Particularly concern about overgrown trees - where I am now I have a small garden with trees in the neighbouring yards that grow over and block most of my useable garden space. In this house there are big trees, but they are already mature and there is space for a vegie garden between them. They are also deciduous trees, so I should get lovely shade in summer, light in winter and lots of leaf mulch for the garden.

2. The layout of the house means some changes to how I set up my rooms, I can't just mentally swap the rooms I have now into the new house. But when I sit down and think about how to work with the different layout it should work pretty well. I might end up changing the layout from winter to summer - it has a great dining/lounge room with a north facing bay window that will be amazing in summer, and a south facing lounge that should be much cooler in summer. Being migratory depending on weather seems a good option.

One big upside is that it is in the lower end of my budgeted rent range. I should also be able to do a dog door for Mr Woof - there is a window to floor level in the main bedroom which opens onto the back garden, I should be able to get a door put into that and replace it with normal glass when I leave. Doing that with a small window should not be much more than a good quality sliding door insert would be.

The biggest unanswered question: where to put Miss Meow's litter trays. Do they need to be at ground level, or are cat's happy to jump up on a bench for that? I'll have to do some research, I could put a cover over the bath (which I don't use) and put the trays on there.

I’ve done sweet FA today

I've been taking advantage of the windy hot weather to tackle Mt Washmore. I've also just made a Bolognese. What else did I do today? Oh yeah I learnt to play Ludo, which turns out to be Miniest's favourite game. I can see why, I have to admit I kind of liked it. I'll have to have another match this evening after dinner.

I'm 99% sure the 24/7 Gozleme/Kebab place is open today, and I'm tempted to go and grab some baklavas

friday quiz

7/10 haven't been following golf or politics and it shows

Thank you rain. I absolutely wanted you to appear when I was walking around in a singlet

Tuna casserole on a hot day seems wrong.

This is even worse. Trying to follow guides to pause syncing of OneDrive and nothing is as the guide said. So I poked around more and I now have the choice of pausing it for up to 24 hours or unlinking it completely.

At this point I feel like Microsoft is expensive spyware but I don’t have the energy to jump through all the hoops to control it or make the switch 😔

Not sure I actually like milk anymore. Tongue just feels sticky and odd.

brain/motivation stuck so I made a list

am going thru list mindlessly 👍

Come on night time. There's music to make.

Boyo and I dipping our toes into ESO.

I still haven’t been able to get the donations down but packed them into boxes. I’m hoping to shift those next week and get some space back. Melbcat got stressed out by the activity so I stopped and we’re doing phone in bed. Cuddles are required to relax.

One load of washing is done and I’m doing another. Then there’ll be another basket of folding to do on top of the one already there 😑 The chances aren’t great today.

Doesn't seem the helicopter is going away before dawn. Not sure what they think it's helping.

I treated myself yesterday to a red Shiraz, a cheapie from Aldi, I think it was about 4 bucks.

Had a glass or two last night, surprisingly it was pretty tasty and no sharp pang afterwards, my preference is a smooth red usually.

For 4 or 5 bucks a bottle it turned out better than I thought.