Melbourne

Aww! Just came home to find this hanging from my door handle. The other doors on my floor have the same.

I'm going out tomorrow night to see if I can find my "I have no family either" soul mate at a hole in the wall bar. Who knows right?

Day 70/70: Final day of week 10 weigh in:
Down a total of 8.1kg for the 10 weeks.
I was dropping roughly a kilo per week until the end of November, when there were too many parties breaking the diet. I only dropped 400g last week.

Most importantly, my running pace has improved. I managed my first 10km in under 50 minutes for the first time since my accident. More than dropping weight, this was the main purpose of the diet.

I'll try not to go too crazy with the food over the next few days, I don't want to put 8kg back on. 😃

Chores and shopping done. Hopefully now the only reason to go outside in the next week is to enjoy the sun and/or eat myself silly with others.

I stopped on the way to Anglesea at the Waurn Ponds plaza because I remembered they had a shirt I wanted in stock at their Target. Got a park 1 spot away from the entrance immediately. Bought 2 shirts without waiting in any lines. Walked right up to Donut King and got 2 cinnamon donuts, no line. Drove to Anglesea and got a park immediately in front of the shops.

Even got a free surprise chip!

Today is going pretty well!

Survived a social day. In reviewing today's play I can only see 1 overreaction and maybe 2-3 oversharing moments.

No anxiety though which is amazing. And didn't cause a scene (mind you, i generally tend to avoid those). Bloody exhausted though.

Over-cater, me? Never!

Hey is anyone old enough to remember when TVs had Teletext? I used to like fiddling around with it when we first got a tv with it ( I was about 10 or 12 maybe). There was a stock market page that was insanely busy.

I was there 3000 years ago when the interwebs was just starting

and trolls were seen as trouble makers who would post to get people riled up and arguing . They thought it was fun and they liked to disrupt.

Now legacy newspapers and tv are trolls, posting bait to rile people up to get hits. They don't even believe half the shit they post.

It's not good enough, we deserve better.

Choose your news sources carefully.

I had to go to the shops (full shopping centre) and it surprisingly wasn't as bad as I expected, but I am very happy I have decent noise cancelling headphones. While there's kids melting down, people yelling at the underpaid security people, checkpoint alarms going off everywhere all I can hear is

🎵Do you like pina coladas

And getting caught in the rain

Are you not into yoga

Do you have half a brain🎵

Sore back is sore.

I have braved the market for Christmas errands. Now I wrap.

I’m going to fuck this up but good

First attempt at making pad see ew. I tripled the sauce recipe as I made a bigger serve, but I only needed to double it. Maths fail. This is very saucy! Will make again tho, much simpler than I expected.

Being an absolute Nana and crawling into bed mega early to read and pass out before things don't stop for 48hrs.

Psa. If you are having trouble with log ins and replies and such it's not you it's technical stuff going on. Don't make me explain in more detail because I couldn't possibly. Details are on the home page.

Sister just sent me the pics she took. Me, hubs, niece A all sitting nice and grinning...and niece B rolling on the couch on her face with her skirt up around her ears

Just braved highpoint to grab a click and collect. That joint is chaos at the best of times. Stupidly grabbed a few more things and now I've got bulky items to carry home🤦🏻‍♀️ At least I bought myself a treat: The Body Shop vanilla eau de toilette and a white musk deodorant roll on. Love those two fragrances and haven't bought anything from body shop for myself for about 30 years. I will wrap them and put under the tree as gift to myself.

I promised myself I wasn’t going to go out again and shop and here I am.

Luckily I could do a click and collect at a less busy place away from a shopping centre.

Parking was super easy too thanks to that but must hurry. Have to get home for the BBL cricket!

Cricket is a silly game anyway 😤

Anyone braving the shops today best of luck.

ahahha. ahahaha. MAWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

I have discovered bickfords iced coffee syrup. No carton of milk is safe.

I haven't bought gifts yet

Wooo mini Christmas with sis done. Oooh dem kiddies gonna sleep well tonight

O oh @[email protected] CEO - 2 Duenan - 0. Good luck with the Hurricanes buddy. I love watching Dooley play btw. 🏏

I was just watching something before about becoming professional mermaids/mermen. Yeah I'm not talking about kids parties but actually grown ups making this a career. Not sure how it works, whether you need a sponsorship or perhaps advertise KFC on your backside but it's a thing. So if you are sick of your office job you too could become half human half fish and somehow get paid for it.

Sky glowing. Gonna be chilly tonight.

Ow my freakin ears. Cricket got spicy.

AI nightmare. You're welcome.

slow careful activity all day and my sore back is so much better

The year is 2024. The world's food vendors issue a press release indicating that pickles will no longer be included by default inside burgers. How do you react?

Oh boy these Hard Solos are indeed quite dangerous. If I was served this in a glass I wouldn't know if it's boozy Solo or normal Solo.

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

Okay, I found a solution to my salad drama. Fennel!!! I freaking love the stuff - if it's roasted, usually, but maybe I can try shaving it very finely... For about 10 months of the year I forget it exists... got some green apple, pea shoots, arugula, Victorian walnuts, have a carrot and if I can find some raisins I'll chuck them in for colour. Amazingly, the fancy grocer had no oranges of any kind, so I've grabbed a lemon for acidity. That should do it, I hope!

I was right. My wrapped presents look like eldritch mysteries unto God.

On the bright side, this means no one is going to have a clue what they are until they unwrap them…

I AM HUNGRY