So for the last 8 years I take a medication that blocks out opiates (in case of a lapse). It has been hugely beneficial in moments of weakness. There's no point if you literally can't feel the effects.

It used to come in film form that you take everyday, but now there's an injection you take once a month.

I started taking the injection about 3 months ago and it's played absolute havoc with my body and psyche.

For some reason, on Friday, I just felt normal. Motivated, confident and ready for whatever is ahead.

I guess it finally kicked in properly.

I've decided to seek a better employment opportunity. Where I am now is am absolute shitshow. My skillset is better put to use elsewhere.

Enjoy this beautiful day everyone ❤️

Have to share this pic of my cat being upset I wouldn't share my after work cookie with him.

I'm not gonna lie, I didn't realise that Israel and Palestine being at war again was such big news because I kind of thought they were always at war...

Thankyou @Seagoon_@aussie.zone for starting the thread today - the whole computer shut down and Bot#001 was unable to work. The computer has now been rebooted and I gave Bot the morning off to recover from the ordeal of being temporarily homeless.

I went out for most of the day with a long time friend, talked about lots of stuff, good food, good sun, good walk... but not long after that ended - still feeling really on the edge of something in the background.

Gardening update!

Everything seems to be going really well!

The basil (edit: parsley not basil) in particular seems to be loving it's new life outside of a bunnings.

The mint is.also going really well, although the rosemary is looking much the same

(I tipped that water in the corner out. It seems to have copped a lot from all the rain recently)

For anyone who's interested, here's how it was looking 17 days ago:

The Minipeelers just presented me with all their cash savings and asked me very nicely if they can have new Halloween costumes. Elder wanted a Scream costume with retractable bladed knife and Miniest wanted a Headless Horseman costume 😂 We have a party at home every year, just our household and no trick or treating. Looks like it's gonna be crazy this year!

Side note: somewhat dismayed by the girls and women's costumes. The girls costumes were all "cutesy little skirt" type things, and the women's costumes were all sexy nun/nurse/dead person/anything with a short skirt and thigh high stockings. Miniest is a classic "tomboy" (for want of a better term) and I'm overweight and middle-aged.. we ain't no shortie skirt wearers and I'm more than happy to leave that look to those more appropriately aged/proportioned to wear it!

My google feed is all food related. How to make roast potatoes in the airfryer. Aussie cheesecake jelly slice.

Now I need to make a jelly slice.

Went down to Bonbeach for the anniversary farmer's market, but spent too much time getting out of bed it seems. Literally ran out of food on three stalls while I was in queue, with one cutting off right in front of me. 😅

Gaaah, did my back gardening yesterday it seems. Hope it settles down soon. No leg pain/sciatica though so that's a plus.

Ok my place is in a state where I'm happy enough for my married platonic friend to visit tonight.. I'm done lol

I'd scrub a few more things if I were trying to impress but it's pretty good how it is. Feels good too.

My PC is still a bit of a mess with wires but fuck it.. that's a job for Ron.

Edit: SHIT I HAVE NO CLEAN SPARE TOWEL WASH WASH WASH. I absolutely do not have time to dry this thing.. I'll have to duck out to the laundromat or something. I can't even tell her to bring one coz she'll be on the train by now lol

I let Ted Cat out on the balcony today. He liked the fresh air, the sun and the interesting new view. :)

Nothing like a bit of Pine o' Clean to remind you that you cut your finger earlier today!

Breakfast burritos time 💃💃🌯🇲🇽

This morning I looked at the scheduled exercises and thought, nope! The routine very quickly turned into a whole lot of exercises that are beyond me and would probably lead to me injuring myself. I was a wuss and wasn't willing to risk it, so I went back and restarted a routine I did a while ago, the total body shred. It gives me a workout, breaks a sweat and is doable, plus I noticed the best results with it.

I think we need a third option in Referendums: the "yeah, nah" vote. For people who agree with the general idea, but not the specific version presented. If the yes and the "yeah, nah" vote combined equal a majority, there should be a compulsory period of community consultation to come up with a better proposal to go back for another vote. Or just a preferencial system where more than one choice is presented in the first place.

The Northern Territory's tourism minister says "all Australians have a social responsibility" to visit the NT, as new figures reveal visitation is struggling at the territory's famed landmark of Uluru.

I'm sorry but if you have to guilt people into tourism then you've missed the mark.

As is the case with Australia more broadly, tourism is obscenely expensive here for the average worker and unsurprisingly it's better value for money to fly somewhere else (i.e. south East Asia).

I know my mistake was getting a tram outside the convention centre. But being that walking takes me forever, it's the only option I have. But man. I FUCKING HATE IT when people don't move out of the way for people getting off the tram. Like I have to push through people who have bags and stuff but I just want to get off the tram for the love of GOD. I just, ugh.

Let me just vent/rant.

Another assignment done with too many words. Now I have to cut out half of what I wrote 😢

Edit: I cut out a third, that will do. Fortunately they are not extremely focused on the word count, so it should be ok.

I have three weeks of glorious freedom from work ahead of me. I really need to get stuck into finishing the garden beds while the weather is fine so I can do the summer vegetable planting. I have been a bit slack over the last week, and I can't blame it all on the weather.

Been awake since about 4:15 - brain isn't out of 'go, go, go!' mode evidently. Cold didn't help. 🥶
Anyway after a long snuggle with Zooks I got up, eyed off the sunrise ~~which we hadn't seen since the neighbours built the extension~~ and lit a fire. Planning on taking today at its own pace. Meanwhile Sammi is in my lap enjoying the fire.

So I’ve been somewhat busy, but I haven’t forgotten my list. Recap for the week, plus the missed ones to take us up to today:

1. Enter Sandman - Metallica
2. Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3. Spooky - Dusty Springfield
4. I Put a Spell on You - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
5. Cry Little Sister - Gerard McMann
6. Werewolf - Cat Power
7. Season of the Witch - Donovan
8. (Don’t Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Happy Sunday Evening!

Spent all day mounting things in the garage. 8mm through very good brickwork. Giant shower and 8 hours later and still all i can smell is hammer drill motor ughhh

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

Oh… Melbcat is using the ’I need something’ door jump/bang and leading me to the back door. She wants to go outside in the sun but she’s going to get eaten alive by fleas if she does.

I can spray the garden with beneficial nematodes to eat the flea larvae but it’s $40 for an application, sometimes the bugs can just die in transit, and the visiting intruder cat is just going to bring more back in.

And if I set her little pipe frame cage back up I’m afraid he’s just going to approach it and they’ll punch on through the mesh.