Bit of a health scare for the ol' girl yesterday. Fainted, collapsed went to bed. I was in the garden and had no idea. ol' boy was down the bellarine gave me a buzz to see where she was. I found her completely out of it with fever symptoms. He comes racing back directing me on what to do / look for over the phone. Fuck she's lucky to have a medico hubby.
but jeez ol' boys language / demeanor changes when there are problems like the ones we've seen in the last 6 months. Shit gets calm, direct and accurate. He's normally a grumpy old bastard. We have our differences but with mum's polycrisis, we're both on the same page which has completely surprised me.
This photo perfectly encapsulates the first few months with Gibson.
Also this is adorable:
Mama sea
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Yesterday the husband and kid went and looked at a few cars. They rock up to used car yard. Spot a car. The husband says to the kid "jump in. Have a look around" then a stranger appears and in his limited English and no teeth starts a convo with the kid. Then she jerries and apologises profusely. The stranger laughs and says "no worries. No worries". Yeah, she made herself home in a strange old man's car.
What he was trying to say was "this my car. This my car".
Skipped out on a family event because I'm just not ready for it, so went paddle boarding for hours and am now having wine and cheese in the back yard. Cheers all!
DOOM. For I am blind to my most important need and ran out of coffee on this fine morning ...
...guess after such a long time I shall treat myself to a cuppa outside, at the laundromat. And then promptly pick up supplies on the way back.
Because of the sunny days I've been able to resume my prematurely terminated data collection for uni - definitely finishing today and then tomorrow I head back to some of the initial sampling sites out west to see how the readings might've changed from the same time of day between early March to now.
I'm so glad I'll be seeing a friend for dinner tonight. I would hate having to spend the entire weekend on uni.
E: I have finally finished PHM. Face may have leaked a bit near the end when somebody went back to find somebody else. Fist my bump! 😭 I found out they're doing a movie adaptation, I won't get my hopes too high as to how they'll pull it all off but I have to watch it just to see how they depict Rocky!
After 10 days of no guitar, I played non stop for about an hour without thinking. All improvised and it was fucking awesome.
Goodnight everyone ❤️
Took Minipeelers to lunch and a movie (Minecraft). By the time we walked out of the cinema it was pretty warm. Went to buy a couple of things grocery wise and some new summer hats because I have no idea whatsoever where the other summer hats have gone. We all chose identical cane cowboy hats, so we looked like some odd hick family lol.
Up early, washing done and on the lines, fresh brewed coffee from the stovetop made.
Ahh time to relax then make lunch!
Every time I start practicing on the guitar, Mickey curls up on my chair and falls asleep 😂
I'm the cat whisperer now
I knew there was a car show in Reservoir this weekend but I wasn't sure when it was. There was a community Easter thing on today that had cars at it so I took the boys there.
I checked my calendar and I did put a reminder in my calendar. It's on tomorrow, so we can go down to reservoir tomorrow and look at cars again
Can definitely tell there's been a slew of reddit refugees, the cunt quotient has upped in various comms this past week
bored
I just realised I'd forgotten about cancelling the insurance on my old car. Sorted now and a refund should be arriving shortly. Not exactly a windfall given the new insurance is nearly three times as much, but good to have back in my account anyway.
And so to chillaxing
Lovely walk this morning and crashed out into emergency nap when I got home. Now. up. Quick shop and tidy up and then to a friend's for drinks in the sun.
Collected all the data and then did a big detour of shopping - stocked up on vegan snags and the like and then thought while I'm in the car I might as well go get the dog treats my brother wanted me to bring over from here. Turns out after going to one and finding very little, most petbarns around me were out of stock, so i had to brave the insanity of driving and parking in South Yarra to grab the missing flavours.
I wish I didn't have to drive far out tomorrow for the final data collection but the good thing is, that should be it for uni (frfr as the kids say), and I shouldn't need to drive much in the coming weeks for work or personal stuff. I'm a bit over driving
E; also just realised I haven't had breakfast or lunch. No wonder am cranky
It was driving me nuts trying to remember song samples I heard as a kid so ended up digging trying to find them. From a few remembered clips I worked out I had Encarta 98 and 99.
I did find a few incomplete playlists but one song still eludes me. I thought it was Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) but that sounded different
I have just bought myself a second hand portable air conditioner on eBay. I'm a bit spoiled where I am with airconditioner coverage in most of the house, but the rental places generally don't have more than a single room covered. I have seen some stuff about adapting vent covers to pull intake air from outside to make the portable units more efficient, so it will be interesting to see if that works - apparently a major reason they don't work as well as inbuilt is because the hot air being exhausted outside causes a vacuum which pulls fresh (hot) air into the room, many units sold overseas have a second vent for that air intake, but for some reason they don't sell them with that configuration in Australia.
Even if that doesn't work out it should be efficient enough to let me sleep in hot weather, and it was a good price only 5 mins away from work to pick up. Now I just have to actually get a property to put it in. They have contacted references so that's a start, but it is one of the places you apply before you can inspect the property, so even if approved at this stage it is still just a short list. It does indicate the application wasn't just thrown in the bin due to having pets or something though, so I guess it is positive news. I'm trying not to become too attached to the idea of this specific place, but I'm mentally working out where all the furniture goes and how I'll decorate, so I guess that's not really working 🤣
The caramelised onion clashes with the peanut butter. They have a little argument on my mouth
Another great jam.
Goodnight all ❤️
