Melbourne

Got the word from the insurance company before - Felicia is a write-off.
Body looked fine so they must have fucked the engine 😭.
Anyway already talked to my mechanic (who also sells second hand cars, and actually sold me Felicia) and he has another car ready to go, so I'll be having a look tomorrow.
But my poor car...

Not sure if it was here or reddit where I saw it recommended, but the virtual ED service is awesome. Unfortunately had to use it today and call an ambulance. I wasn’t sure if it was serious or not, so this service was just what I needed.

Hope this post lets more ppl know about it.

Woken up by a giant raindrop hitting my face. Was very confused until I woke up a bit more and closed the window lol.

This lightening is wicked!

So my ADHD medication definitely needed to be reduced. Was starting to have weird interaction with the new anti depressent.

Forgot to reduce this morning and I felt like Id had 10 cups of coffee in a row.

Reduced this evening and am feeling really good. Hopefully things settle the next few days so I can start the job search again next week 🤞🏾

Argh. Got a bit of a situation - interviewed for a role and they have come back and said I am a preferred candidate, but they want to follow up with reference checks. I have provided all my former managers but they said it's company policy to interview a current manager and something they need to move forward in the process.. My current manager doesn't know that I am looking for work and they've also had a few people leave the team lately (they are also kind of the culprit as to why) so I'm a bit stressed about having to bring this up with them. Any ideas?

Last night I made some caramel to go with a cake my partner baked. Melted sugar and butter, the food version of napalm.

And I splashed the tiniest droplet of it onto my thumb knuckle - worst pain I've felt in a long time. I immediately ran it under cold water for 20 minutes and kept it on ice for the rest of the night, and it's looking pretty wack tbh

my thumb now - not Gorey, just a blister

pretty confident I got a stomach bug. 0 outta 10, would not rate.

I don't know if it's my shoes, new undies or the weather but everything I touched in Aldi gave me a zap. I apologised to the near by shoppers who heard me say FUCK while reaching for the rice because it hurt.

I did not get a stick vacuum nor a carpet cleaner and I'm unimpressed.

Bill Cat is becoming jealous of Ted. If I pat and scritch Ted Bill comes running and boofs his way in. Bill doesn't like Ted sleeping too close to me either.

I think much more cuddles for both of them is required I think.

Miss Meow has been helping me sort out my sewing room and is firmly of the opinion that I should throw out more stuff and keep the empty boxes.

Got my battery replaced for my car today, hooray!

Unexpected expense, boooo. Going to be slim pickings for the next fortnight.

I've actually emerged from my apartment to go into the CBD and it seems like I've caught the cool change. It's rather pleasant out!

Rego and car insurance due. It's gonna hurt.

gees, you know you're tired when you fall asleep while sitting up

Dan Murphys has jars of Italian maraschino cherries for like $6 and they're so good. I've just been eating a few of them each day from the jar even though I'm sure they're meant to go on top of drinks.

Went to the office to reimage a laptop but of course that meant that people I know spotted me and came over for a chat. Turns out talking for a bit completely flares up my cough so now I'm fucked again.

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It's a bit steamy out there this morning.

I had a bit of minor damage to the garden overnight, including a tomato frame toppling over. It has been picked up, but I am a bit concerned about the lean my climbing bean's frame has developed.

In good news a lot of the hard rubbish stuff I put out yesterday has disappeared today, so I have space to put more things out. Which means I have more space inside 🙂. Space is good.

Mental health day today. We had a whirlwind trip interstate for a family wedding over the weekend, and the hot weather has made sleep difficult this week so I’m super tired. I was very anxious about the wedding because it was very Christian and I was worried about how much singing/hands in the air/blatant misogyny might be in it. In the end it wasn’t too bad. Just minor amounts of 'the man leads and the woman submits' and that our niece "hadn't been able to find someone yet" (at the ripe old spinsterly age of 21!) Still, she hadn’t even met the guy a year ago and they’re already married 😬 I worry that she’s rushing into things and I don’t think there’s anything I can do about it. Just hope that I’m wrong and they live a long and happy life together.

I've tried three different pathologists phone and websites trying to find out if I need to book for a glucose test (because it runs over a couple of hours) and so far - I can't get through to a human, I can't find anything on the websites, I am getting conflicting information about whether a couple of them even exist anymore. WTF? I guess I just walk in and take my chances on the day?

Boom flash rain

Think I might lush out and pop the cooling on earlier than I usually would, the house is already feeling a little uncomfortable.

Slept suuuper well after yesterday's hard work and my hand is blissfully okay. My thoroughly under-exercised muscles were whining from DOMS so I've pottered a bit on the balcony (sans any sun protection which was incredibly dumb).

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I also finally harvested all the chillis off the balcony after forgetting about them a bit too long. (The manzanos in the box were harvested 3 weeks ago and kept in the fridge and need to be used asap.)

chillis chillis chillis

I think I'll do another nice chilli and garlic paste for the manzanos and freeze em. They are hot but mellow out with cooking and are very flavourful.

The hot Thai chillis OTOH stay mouth-punchingly hot even after cooking. What should I do with them?! Any ideas? One full sized chilli is enough for a stock pot worth of stew. The plant is very productive - last season I just chucked most of them.

I think I'll freeze the small ones as is, but the bigger ones... Get the gloves out and deseed them before making a chilli paste to freeze, maybe?

Woken up by a combination of the first rumbles of thunder, my bladder and Zooki, got out in time to rescue the washing.
It do be Margeing, folks.

Going to see Groundhog Day: The Musical tomorrow night :)

so tired from back pain I think my brain/memory is gone

Butternut Snap with wasabi spread. A curious treat for today

I hope my next door neighbour is ok, his was has been having some complications while pregnant.

At about 2:30am last night the ambos rocked up, the noise caught my attention so I went out to have a look.

I checked in with next door via text and they let me know that they were having some pains that might be contractions.

I think at the moment they’re about 25-30 weeks into the pregnancy.

I really hope all is well with them and things come through ok for his wife and the baby.

I’ve already offered any support if he needs because they have a young daughter and he might need to go off to hospital at a moment’s notice.

Sky very pretty, sad I missed the storm but this is just beautiful

eastward

Ended up at Mr Grubb @ Oakdene in Wallington for dins last night for the first time.

Really nice relaxed place. Had the parma (they called it a parmie tsk tsk) which was really good.

Apparently the place is owned by an eccentric older lady who collects rusty.. everything. Big open shed out the back dedicated to rusty farm equip, bikes (maybe 50 of them), a rusty tram(!).. huge hoarding gene there.

9/10, not cheap but great atmosphere if you're ever down that way.