Me too fluffball. Me too.

This is the contented face of a boy who got some salmon for tea.

Big day today. We got into Carlton early and had second breakfast at Brunetti's, went for a walk where the boys pressed all the pedestrian crossing lights, then went into the movie.

Plopped the boys down and the new Wallace and Gromit was great. They pretty much sat and watched the whole thing. Anything longer and it would have been a struggle. It's a direct sequel to The Wrong Trousers so good to refresh on that first if you want to watch it.

Then home and to a friend's place for early dinner. We did a lot today, but it doesn't feel exhausting, which is a nice feeling for once

It's done.

Finally, the gardening project I've been working on since the start of December is complete with everything I have available (still waiting on two citrus trees).

120+ plants (of which ~90 are chillies). At least a couple of hundred meters of piping have been laid for the irrigation system. Also then extended the irrigation system to also include the two garden beds and solve a pressure problem in zone 1 with an additional output.

So many hours. Now I just need to tidy up, but that can wait until the New Year right?

Edit: forgot to add that as a renter and not technically able to make holes etc the project had significant additional complexity (I should also add our landlords are lovely and defo wouldn't have minded some drilling, but I know they'd have been round helping do everything if I asked about drilling holes)

So the big clean up is still happening. I did a vicious prune of the pot plants, but it feels so light and airy now at the front door.

I didn’t finish indoors, but I managed to do a light carpet clean of the dining area and set up the table for a lovely cheese and gin evening for NYE.

I’m still slightly weirded out by following the conventional layout meaning the couch is right in line with the front door, but I cannot deny how crazy spacious it feels after all this time. And the relief on my eyes. Being further away from the idiot box has really helped.

Right now it’s:

• Culling all cables to go to Officeworks recycle
• Moving some old camera bodies on

In the pipeline:

• Sort out misc crap
• Hard clothing cull
• Finally get rid of old HD that I was only keeping to sort old photos (very stupid, it takes me ages to get to the decision I should have made at the start).
• Unused items to the op shop

If all goes well, next clean out will be the storage.

I've done nothing except leisure stuff since xmas. I think tomorrow I'll kick off productivity. Maybe.

Hopefully.

Ugh!! Insta is grossssss 😭 it's ads or old classmates from HS. So many posted their "influencer" new years eve stories, about their mlm "success" (pfft), getting married, having babies, filtered videos and pictures of baby feet and food and A E S T H E T I C artsy things.

It just feels all so fake to me, idk. Maybe I'm just a loser stoner still finding my way, but I'd rather be this than them. I can't imagine going to cool places and posting about it on a platform like that where people like, know my real name and it's all super filtered. I dont understand the appeal, who is the performance for? Idk. I'm just out of touch I think.

Tried to make cupcakes. Split the cupcake mixture everywhere. Lost the lid for the milk and while trying to find it spilt about 500ml all over the bench and floor. Burnt my cupcakes. Burnt my wrist trying to get the cupcake tray out of the oven.

E: oh and I also dropped and broke a cup while I was trying to measure the milk

E2: I realized I forgot to make the icing so I went to wash my measuring spoons. It slipped back and flipped soap and hot water into my eyes

I'm doing a new year fridge cleanout, and apparently I should have done it a while ago. There are a few vegetables in there that are now liquids.

I caved and bought the mini countertop dishwasher because it seems like staying on top of the dishes is really hard for me.

Hopefully the generic Coles dishwasher powder works in it. I need to tighten up on money again

Never been to the airport viewing area before. This is wild! It’s like a party or something.

Ooft. Bad day. I've been drifting in and out of sleep since 3 something. I've got that classic hit by a truck feeling too. Also woke up feeling unhappy out of nowhere. Don't think I'll make that biryani tonight, that can wait til tomorrow

FFS.

I’m trying to build the nanoblocks model I got for Christmas, and there’s one specific bit that keeps falling apart when I try to do it. This is my third attempt

done a bit of housework, tired now ...lol

what has been really good today is that the young Seagoons have said this house is very dusty, very. So it's not me being lax, it really is dusty. They think it's the carpet, I think it's not just carpet but dust from the front courtyard, the windows that don't close properly, the clothes drier adds some dust, the cats, and car and bus exhaust all combining to make this extra dusty.

so tired

good night everyone, sweet dreams, luv you all 😘

Watching a video where a guy talks about the Werribee line for over an hour. It's quite interesting