Melbourne

I might be breaking up with my boyfriend the next time I see him.

I think I put in much more effort. I go to his house because I have my license (he never got his). He doesn't text me to make sure I get home safe, so I might as well have just left his house and see how long it took him to notice I wasn't reaching out to him. On that note, I generally am the one to reach out first. Listen to him talk about himself and his interests. Today I listened to him explain about how a sound mixer works because he was so excited about it. Yet the whole card thing. He couldn't even write me a bloody card after he said he would.

Most recently, he's been ignoring my text messages if I've sent long stretches of messages. He will leave me on read for ages or just not reply, which makes me feel like he doesn't give a shit about him. And today when I brought it up, he just said, "Do you want me to go back and read all of those from ages ago?" making me feel like I was in the wrong. Not even a "I'll reply later". His excuse was that he gets overwhelmed by long stretches of text. HOWEVER, if I ask something about him or his day, he has no trouble talking about that. Selfish prick.

I got so pissed at him today that I gave him an ultimatum over fucking text message. I told him why I was mad and said if he doesn't step up his game, we are over. We have a musical to go with tickets THAT I GOT HIM FOR HIS BIRTHDAY and then I AM FUCKING DONE! I AM GOING TO SUCCEED IN LIFE AND I AM NOT GOING TO LET ASSHOLE IMMATURE BOYS STOP ME.

Thank you and good night.

DRAMATIC EXIT in style of ANGSTY TEENAGER

Not a teenager but I almost feel like one right now sadly. I shouldn't have to revert back to such an awful period in my life.

I might go and get my nails done (even though that's kinda silly and I've never done that) and head to the gym to feel better.

There must be a german word for the slight feeling of disappointment when your test results come back negative, and it's not that you want something bad wrong with you but you do wish someone could tell you why you are so tired and run down lately...... (other than just being tired and run down ..)

This is the bestest weather don't @ me. No sun, 18-22c, no rain. Bliss.

Great, I jinxed it. Drizzling now.

Huh. I was just thinking there should be chocolate toothpaste with fluoride, and saw Chemist Warehouse has it. There are a bunch of novelty flavours (some of them half off too) but I couldn't justify the price.

Ah man... I feel like I have a tendency to accidentally stick my oar in a lot, or sound like a know it all. Just know it isn't intended that way. I have little pieces of random info and am trying to contribute to the convo, tend to infodump, or am genuinely trying to help. I'll rein it in.

Che disastro, my street is blocked off for the next month for tram works, and the council promised I would still have access to my driveway. The construction company has decided no we won't have access. So now the council is pissed, and I have one car stuck in the carport and one car that can't get back in, and I don't have permits to street park. All a complete cluster fuck, but at least the council are actually being really proactive about finding a solution for me.

Took little one to the circus on the weekend. It was really awesome but this moment scared the living christ out of me.

How was everyone's weekend?

Since moving out on my own, I've put on weight. I don't know how. I'm eating healthy, my dinners are usually a combo of chicken, veggies, and rice (sometimes no rice), I don't eat much during the day and don't snack as much. No soft drink, mostly water, very little chocolate or sugary snacks. It's frustrating so I decided to do some more active work. I went for a run on Sat and Sun morning and feeling it today.

Old age is a killer.

I also bought some boxing gloves and a punching bag to do as well and plan on getting a bike to do rides with little one.

I got three concept ideas for my next book cover and all three are amazing. I'm stuck between 2 to choose from. Good problem to have.

I've definitely caught something today, been feeling dizzy, sluggish and nauseous with an awful sinus type headache and a bitter taste in my mouth all day. Made myself eat but I think I'm gonna have a very early night tonight.

Finished reading The Ocean at the End of the World so I can finally return it to the library.

Now I'm gonna reread one of my favourites, Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey - or as much of it as I can before I fall asleep or throw up from this nausea - before the long awaited sequel Red Side Story drops tomorrow. 14 years!!!! @lemondrop@aussie.zone I dunno if you come here much but I'll be keen to know your thoughts when you read it.

Camping was amazing. The Mt Oberon hike was... intense but super fulfilling. Might need to upgrade the swag's mattress though. Also gotta shout out to my new car, AC that actually works is a freaking treat!

oooh first habanero for the season:

Also has some corking! normally see that shit on jalapenos. I guess that means the water do be good.

Generally pick the smaller ones when they're ripe so more energy is diverted to the bigger unripe ones.

Which brings us tooooo today's not so rave choon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJdMjRHRLfg

I work in an old double brick building and I forgot how they stay hot for DAYS after a really hot day. Someone's turned the office air con off and it's immediately hot. I want to turn back on but someone will whinge that it's too cold. Can't win.

And… we have Easter Eggs…

Sometimes I just wonder whether they’re from last year.

I saw a $10 Kmart paint set that includes a few cheap brushes and tubes of medium... but my attempts at blocking in on the drawing app didn't look good. I also don't know how to mix/choose colours yet, and the chance of my sheets and my cat participating in the creative process are non zero. There may also be a sip of paint water on the cards.

Must... not... collect... more hobby clutter

I haven't even done another test run with the charcoal because I'm physically wrecked and spend all free time sleeping

I have a new art project I've been thinking on a few weeks, now I have my ideas on paper and have a plan. Have some skills to learn but that's always the case. I am calling it The Spud Project. 🥔🩶🖤🩵

Is it COVID? Is it a cold? The flu? Idk but I've had a sneezing fit this morning, and my brains splattered against the wall. As they slide slowly down I send a callout text to my boss and wish I was someone else.

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

Quick laundry question. (Figured I'd ask as there's parents on here and it's probably similar to dealing with cloth nappies.)

For a small amount of fresh cat urine: A pre-wash cycle with biological detergent + dissolved sodium percarbonate in both the detergent and the bleach dispenser should take care of it right? Or do I need to soak the items in a warm/cool bucket of an enzyme powder like Pink Napisan first (or add an enzyme powder like that to the prewash dispenser) and then do the hot percarbonate wash? I sprayed the towels with enzyme pre-treater first but don't always.

I've been setting the machine to 40C to not damage the washable puppy pads but apparently it's more effective to use 60C with the percarbonate... With the prewash setting it uses cold water first and the Trimat Advanced Sensitive claims to be effective in cold/remove sweat stains... so rather than setting the stain, hopefully that's washing most of the pee out first and then the percarbonate hot wash is releasing peroxide to get the last of it. 🤞

Got attached by mozzies and March flies when watering plants last night. Soooo itchy

I keep getting cheques in the mail from Medicare addressed to doctors who charged an out of pocket fee. The letter is addressed to me, the cheque isnt if that makes sense. This has only just started, but makes 0 sense that Im getting cheques addressed to the doctor right? Like, it aint my job to deliver shit to the doctor after they charged an out of pocket.

Is this some weird new thing Medicare are doing? I keep throwing them in the bin because its not addressed to me.

I'm reading a book on western/latin alphabet calligraphy and it has a page on Carolingian. I've been there, where the monk Alquin of York made this!! I've been to Charlemagne's Scriptorium in Aix le Chapelle.

Imma practice this one , it's kind of exciting to have that personal connection with history, even if it's just being there in the rooms 1200 years later to see where it happened.

https://smarthistory.org/carolingian-art-an-introduction/

I may have cried a little watching the tribute to Tina Turner at the Grammys. Woo.