Melbourne

cold 🥶

0.8 outside. 11.4 inside so far, the heater will need to work hard this morning.

Cleaning's just fucking constant isn't it. It never ends.

So I reported a profile on Facebook because it was using my name and my profile picture (and different personal details ripped from someone with my name but a higher public profile). I just got an email to say it's been reviewed and doesn't go against their guidelines.

The profile picture is literally me. From my old website. And it's my name. But that's not an issue?! WTAF?! Can I do anything about this?

Big Talk with Mum went well. She was worried about some of the same things I was and was relieved I've found an option that will work better. Now I just need to make sure there are no major objections from my sister (which I am not anticipating) and we can start actually putting future plans in to place.

It will be a relief getting this all sorted. Having older parents is a double worry, both the direct worry about health problems etc. and also the worry that you don't have the power/authority to actually do anything to help prevent problems, but will be suddenly put into the position of trying to sort everything out in the middle of a crisis if something goes wrong.

I was absolutely famished when I got home and noodled around on my phone in my car (seriously, does anyone else here just love spending ages sat in the car after coming home? I live alone, but procrastinating in the car hits differently.)

But despite that and the cold I am proud to say I walked a TINY BIT today (650m each way to the Further Shops and back) when I didn't have to, as a form of self care that I am usually too negligent to engage in. Maybe I might do it again tomorrow. Take a more circuitous route. I'm so sedentary... I do miss field work :(

你好吗? 今天早上太冷了啊!

wrote that bad boy all by myself(in pinyin anyway). I'm trying to focus on thinking phrases. Things I can think in chinese instead of english to better commit them to memory. So mostly just complaining about the weather.

Alright. Round 3. Didn't end up napping today so should get a full night's sleep and wake up "refreshed" at 6am.

Goodnight everyone ❤️

Alrighty. Back home all snuggled in bed with Gibson. Water is back on. Nap time 😴

Edit: apparently I forgot it's treat time

One of the (many) advantages of moving here is I don't have to worry about getting up at arse o'clock to open the gates for any deliveries - in this case Coles online.
In other news, my pattern of opposite sleep patterns to the DT continues - I had a restless night and weird dreams while y'all seem to have slept well and peacefully. shrug emoji

I go to bed early, I wake up early. I've been getting a solid 8 or 9 hours lately, but I'm still tired.

I can only blame so much on the weather. Perhaps I am hibernating, perhaps I am the bear lol

Had the weirdest 'sleep' these last two nights. It's been a struggle to get to sleep and when I do I feel like I have been awake the entire time, like my mind is still going and only my eyes are closed.

Yet I am not tired at all so I must be actually sleeping but it is a really weird feeling.

My neck, my back, my pussy, and my crack - all frozen solid.

No Bueno.

Everytime I go on Reddit I feel myself getting shittier and shittier. I know that not following current events is sticking ones head in tyevsand, but it has such an impact.

Absolutely wild night of dreams and trips to the loo (uh oh, last time that happened was hit by el rones a day or so after).

None of them made any sense and moved so fast. Get back from the loo, head hits pillow and bam, jump straight back into a very strange dreamworld.

And hyper sensitive hearing.. Road noise dead of night was super deafening. In the shower this morning the white noise from the water led me to hallucinate that was I listening to carnival music ever so slightly in the background. I mean it was catchy, but I would've preferred a different genre.

I hope I'm not going mad yikes.

Lowkey though hope that happens again tonight (except the loo part).. Free trip!

Family just has such a way to get under your skin. This time it isn’t even directed at me, but it’s still driving me so crazy.

Day 2. Tired but awake.

Edit: Water is off. Have to walk to gym to have a shower :(

Yesterday I started watching YouTube on my phone then I thought why not watch it on my tablet. Then today I thought why not through the TV you fucking dimwit. Seriously, I turned the TV down, set up my tablet on the foot stool to watch while laying down with the dog and no one said anything to me.

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

Another day, another box of tissues.

Oh and I had a good sleep. I was probably roaring like freight train though.

It's a bit nipply outside today! 🏔️🏔️

Day 2 of bring me my food, peasants

Pangea Maps look cool but bloody hell they are outrageously expensive.

I've ol' man cricked my back, but it's weirdly intriguing because it's clearly muscles and not the actual spine, which is where I'm used to having my back go (having broken it nearly 20 years ago). Fascinating.

For the welfare of my loved ones and the general public I have bought a big bottle of lacteeze 😬💨

arm fell off my glasses, tried putting the screw back in, the little holes won't line up , so it's back to the optician to get it fixed

damn that was frustrating ...lol

Does anyone have reccos for a decent pair of men's shoes that will last a while? I've had my pair of newbalances for a year and a half and the soles are falling apart and I don't even walk that much. I had a pair of Nike airs for about 3 years until they got irreversibly shrunk in the washer (+ grew out of them), but I'm not looking to go that flashy.

Budget's around $300 max, but I'm concerned with durability more so than anything else.

(It's not the 1940s so I don't care about wearing women's or unisex shoes either, as long as they come in larger sizes and preferably don't have sparkles)

Movie review time. A Murder of Quality. Thames telemovie written by John Le Carre and with an all star cast. So many stars I couldn't guess who the murderer was! Anyway, murder comes to St Custards and George Smiley is asked by a friend to snoop around.

It's really well done, quite enjoyable if you like Sherlock Holmes style who dunnits interspersed with the usual and not relevant to the story Le Carre talk about "the gays in MI6".

3 hobbits.

If Lindsay Anderson and John Osborne had a bastard baby it would be Charlie Bubbles. The painfully artsy Italian movie music made me want to cut my ears off with a rusty shiv. Why?

This movie is 10 years too late if it wanted to show "real" life and thumb it's nose at the establishment. If it didn't try to be artsy or try to tell a message it would probably have been ok.

Watch If, Alfie and Look Back in Anger instead.

1 hobbit , it pointed the camera in the right direction and the lips synched with the sound.

Saw a BYD as an insurance replacement vehicle just now. Smart move.

All the bad press can't beat people driving one for a week if they're as good as people say they are

Life By You has been cancelled :(

I was looking forward to playing it. And it's weird because I've seen YouTube people play it, and it looks fun, but the public release has been cancelled.

The other day, while out and about, I saw an older person with the telltale silver paint all over their gob. Like a junkie Homer Simpsons 3 o'clock shadow.

It looked ridiculous, and was sad, but the constant "gub gub gub gub" sound they made almost had me in fits. Not laughing at them, just a wild sight to see.

Been in a found footage/handheld cam horror mood lately and watched what I think might be the worst movie I've ever seen called Dashcam.

It actually does a good (if not repetitive) job of jump scares but my god, the main character is such a piece of crap. The main character uses the same name as the actor and it's set during covid and she's anti-vax, anti-mask, etc. (apparently not too far off this persons personality), she steals her friends car, steals food, has zero redeemable qualities and to make it worse as she is being chased by this parasite/monster thing she starts uttering these random phrases like 'cm on my tts, fk me in a' etc. It is so so cringey.

Worst of all

Two others I watched are Unfriended, and Deadstream which were both good and I recommend them.