Melbourne

okay recipe thoughts while I drift off to sleep.

I have, leftover chipotle in adobo sauce, frozen prawns defrosting in the fridge, a coupla very ripe tomatoes, reckon I'll cook that with rice and frozen peas. And steam this broccolini to have on the side.

I also have some swede and a parsnip I think that I completely forgot about. And might continue to forget about. I meant to do some ottolenghi recip with them.

...and two chunky knobbly Indian bittergourds. for fun. Idk maybe I'll try air frying some thin slides

Not sure why I waited until 10 days before I fly out of the country to do a bunch of online orders but THE RACE IS ON! It makes shopping more exciting! I'm pretty optimistic.

Got some new shorts + a TMNT t-shirt coming in one order. A new pair of Ray-Bans to replace my existing ones which have had a very good long life and travelled halfway around the world with me. This order is apparently coming from Adelaide (bought online from Myer) so that's fun. A new mattress topper from Catch and I'm considering buying a replacement for my 'holiday' cologne (Davidoff Adventure) because it's just about empty. I like to have a distinct scent for things like holidays, it helps to trigger memories and makes me feel more like I'm on holiday. Which reminds me I need to make sure I pack my coconut scented hardcore sunscreen. Gon' be HOT.

I'll get up in a moment I swear..

Rice cooker purchased and brown rice made. I need to stop eating a dozen or more rice cakes every night as all that spread is making me spread. Late night snack will now be fried rice. Half a tablespoon of olive or coconut oil every night will be sufficient. I make it the vegeta stock and it's got just the right amount of msg in it to give it that shiny chinese take-away vibe.

Been moody as fuck today. Cycle watch on my smart watch seems to check out, day 1 of menstrual cycle. One of my old colleagues reached out to me in such a beautiful fashion I had to get back in touch, but it's severly opened the can of worms about my bad treatment from that workplace and now I'm completely spiralling and having violent fantasies and nightmares again. He couldn't know. He also wants to introduce me to his family, cos they're super interested in my transition. Look it up, I'm not a poster child for trans women, every person's transition is vastly different anyway and I'm not much different to who I was before I realised I was trans, just a ton more emotional.

Is it wrong to want to name and shame the business? I don't want to take action, cos I just want to get on with my life, but I'm constantly thinking of nasty things to write about them online so people are aware what a pack of serial sexual harrassers and complete enablers of assault and have one of the most unsafe places of business. I think I need a night of self care, but I know it's not going to solve much.

The wind blows past the people on the street
There's so many people on the street
Fall in love with every person that I meet
Every person is a treat

The scents of food, the sounds of music on the street
There's so many places to see on this street
Fantasise about every person that I meet
They're so beautiful, such a treat

No midnight snack tonight.

I am on the path... to snackless. There are no snacks.

This is very difficult.

I want a sausage roll

Five hours later and my tattoo session is finished! It took longer than expected and didn’t get to eat any lunch so I’m now at the kebab shop waiting for my takeaway burger as I feel like I’ve deserved a maasssive meal

• Lunch
• Vietnamese Coffee
• Clean
• Afternoon tea
• Read? Game?
• Shower
• Dinner

Going on a shopping spree for cat stuff tomorrow. Lots of boxes to play with and lots of expensive cat enrichment stuff to completely ignore lol

Once again, it took me this long to finish cooking dinner after starting at like 6 (granted, I had to pop out for some ingredients). But I'm actually genuinely proud of myself for tonights dinner. Things I've never tried before!

Secret invasion. I sequel to a movie no one really cared about that’s probably 3 years too late.

Cheesy toast and an apple, breakfast of champions

Crumble tonight was made with two minute oats. Not sure I would recommend.

I'm up. Now to make up for the last 2 hours of chores that have not been done.

alcohol-free beer 🍺

has anyone worn their oodie on a plane? Was it comfy?

My day for today spent in front of a heater playing phone games and falling asleep on the couch and some food procurement.

Feeling really unmotivated due to everything. I wish I had a week off from work.

Left over free pizza for tonight’s dinner at least.

Anyone do the Quizmaster Flash? I couldn't for the life of me remember the name of the city, and now I feel like an idiot.

I decided to have a look at the Canvas australian flag thingy whatsit. I managed to accidentally put a few random pixels in inapropriate places, then moved the template and took forever trying to figure out how to get it back in the right spot. I think I've sorted out how not to destroy anything else now. That is a very big flag to try to fill in with time-released pixels.

slightly burned bacon

Day 10 of exercises and tummy exercises completed. Was able to use the "family" room in my MILs part of the house as she went out in the morning. I like doing my exercises without hitting a door frame accidentally or nudging a storage container full of toys or craft stuff. Have also hung out 2 loads of washing, so I'm halfway through it, but that's the washing line full so it'll do for now. Now I'm gonna be lazy for a bit until the kids notice!

Been to the library and the market, where I scored a free bag of mandarins because apparently Benny from my fruit stand really likes me.

Now I’m going to get my hair cut.

Found out I'm home alone tonight, so I think I'll order a pizza and watch a scary movie.