Not pictured: my excitement

Had to go to the emergency room the other night. Lost vision in one of my eyes for about 45 minutes. After some scans they’ve concluded an ocular migraine. Freaky shit! Felt pretty average the last couple of days but looks like it’s finally sorted.

Week 1 of leave is over.

I'm sick of the playstation. It's staying off for a while.

Mr P and the MIL are arguing again. She was up early and woke him up to ask if he'd make her bed when he had the chance. If there was no urgency why wake him to ask? Caused a lot of angry stomping, door slamming and ranting. Might have to take the Minipeelers out for a bit after I've finished doing today's laundry. So sick of this toxic shit. If I had the money I'd be out of here like a rocket.

One of the walking tracks near my place goes behind some quite nice houses, their backyards face onto the track and the fences are generally wire so no privacy from passers by. A lot of lights ahead, end up walking past what seemed like a heated doubles tennis match. Oh to have a tennis court in one’s backyard.

Despite the rather late start to the day, I'm quite tired. Early night i think.

Back is feeling much better today. Tequila really does fix all.

Been a long time since I did a garden update!

Most stuff died off, and I've come to the conclusion I don't really have the time or energy for active or regular gardening. By which I mean getting out every week to rip up weeds, watering every single day, getting rid of pests and insects, etc. the gardens at the last place went fully feral, turned into a jungle. Mostly coriander and kale taking over. The garden beds were never really my domain though, the old LT handled that and I was mostly just in it for the sake of getting into the sunshine for a few hours a week and having a good chat with him on weeding day

The planter box I had packed to the rafters with herbs and such completely died. Not sure if it was the lack of watering, or the overwatering that did them in. But yeah. Completely 100% dead and beyond repair. I've been watering it hoping that there's something still there just waiting for the right moment to come back up through. Worst case, it's a nice planter box still, so I kept it and might just dump the soil and plant something new

The pineberries and strawberries completely died, then they came back, then they died again. I kill them everytime they start flowering and fruiting. Not intentional, and not from overwatering. Mostly lack of attention and forgetting about them. The pineberries (I think) are flowering a little bit, so I might get some fruit soon. The strawberries aren't flowering, but I'm hopeful once they realise it's safe, they will

I gave most of the front patio plants back to the old LT before I left because I don't have the capacity to look after them all, and he bought them out of his own money for the sake of licensing the place up. Seemed a shame to either let me kill them, or leave them behind, and let them die themselves. I took most of what was left

Everybody keeps telling me all about how mint is invasive and will go everywhere with basically zero care BUT I'VE KILLED 4 FUCKING MINT PLANTS, ALL BEYOND RESURRECTION

Anyway, photos:

I've gotten to the point where I've made so many mistakes over the past few days, that I'm asking how many mistakes is too many. I think it's about time I give ADHD meds another go and stop thinking that the one shitty experience I had with one med means they'll all be like that.

Why yes, I am watching YouTube videos of people transforming those insanely expensive Transformer toys.

What of it?

I am really going through it 😞

I'm in my happy place (slouched in my chair with a belly full of Japanese curry)

I've been doing an end of year review of my finances (which is a halfway through the financial year review) and unless I manage to pick up an overtime shift on Tuesday I am not quite going to meet my overtime goal. But I am way ahead on my savings/sales goal, managing to put aside close to my years's goal in just 6 months.

Actually, I just realised at some point I put the overtime goal up for some reason, I've just adjusted it back down a little and I am now magically back on track! yay me 🥳

Here's a cool etymology thing - Arctic means "bears", because you can see the Ursa constellations from the North Pole. And Antarctica (anti-arctic) means "no bears", you can't see the Ursa constellations there. It's coincidence I think, that the Arctic does in fact have Polar Bears, and Antarctica doesnt

Latin and Greek retained the original Proto-Indo European (PIE) root word for bear, "*rtko", in their words ursus and arktos, respectively. We use the word "bear" now to describe that species, and "bear" also comes from the PIE word *bher, meaning "bright/brown". It's theorised that hunters had a taboo on the "Ursa/arktos" name, and instead used euphemisms and nicknames to describe the animal.

Just thought that was neat :3

I've been really shit at cooking recently. I've massively screwed something up in almost everything I've tried to make recently

It's doing my head in

Met up with my dad and his partner for lunch, beautiful day out. Definitely cheated on my no carb diet with noodles... and icecream. Back on the wagon tomorrow 💪

TheStench™️ is still in the bathroom. It seems less bad than a few days ago, but I don't know if that's a good sign, or just a reflection of the reduction in temps and relative lack of sun recently. Still makes me nauseous though, even with Glen 20

The flies are entirely gone. Haven't seen one in a few days. They never really got extreme, just maybe 5 or 6 at any given time, which I sprayed on sight. Again, don't know if that's a good thing, or just means there's a few thousand incubating up there

how much butter is too much butter on buns, hot and crossed?

Good morning friends

Now that was a sleep in!

6 avocados to the bin. My day is ruined.

I've bought a few vintage LPs this week.

The Tchaikovsky is very nice. Never a disappointment buying a Melodya record.

A few Bach albums, various Bachs. I find baroque very relaxing 🙂

Toad of Toad Hall with David Croft ( of bbc sitcom fame ) et al. 1958. This is the kind of indigestible treacle that Peter Cook parodied so well. I suppose it was nice for kids who lived a sheltered life. and couldn't watch American tv. I am glad I heard this.

An American in Moscow. Goodman. English translations of Russian songs. Forgettable.

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Dismantling the tree now. 🎄

Gon' get a pie for lunch

Is it just me, or were boxing Day sales cancelled this year? Went to the shops today for the regular weekly groceries, and it was pretty normal. No extra crowds, stores had regular looking signage and patrons.

I know it was Boxing Day +2, but still it would have been busy still on previous years.

I haven't seen any amazing deals go past my feeds online either.