Melbourne

Hey, fam, long time. Missed you! I went to Bali! Got home at 3 this morning 🥱 My sister had a baby (she lives there) and I got to hold him fresh out the womb, then hang with him for a whole month. My ovaries are on hyper-alert. I sweat more than I have ever sweat in my life. Got a tan. Saw heaps of geckos. Got a bunch of $1.75 Gojecks (then a $55 taxi from the airport to my grandparents' in Glenroy which sobered me right up). Swam like 5km a day (didn't lose a single kg though, annoying). It was a good time. I miss the baby though. Hope you're all doing well ❤️

Things have really escalated with the Oven situation.

Roommate has agreed to pay, but I have had to leave home, as he has become violent and accuses me of "three days of torture, during his recovery"; due to the fact that I snitched on him to the landlord as he didn't fess up.

He also smashes the floor at night, and randomly screams. There's constant rants that my mental health issues are bringing him down, and that I am the cause of his mental health problems. I did once cry when one of my best friends went overseas, but I didn't make my problems his problem.

Meanwhile his recovery is going great. He continues ordering a bottle of Vodka a day on Uber Eats.

At least I'm going month to month on the 17th, so I can break lease under DV provisions without having to get an intervention order.

A random cat let me pet her today and then snuggled up to me. Well, there's the highlight of my week lol

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Scooted out into this magnificent day to get cash and some train snacks for tonight and couldn't pass up a pedi when I walked by the nail salon. I haven't had one for too long. This massage chair is wonderful too.

Otherwise I'm just a shower and putting my toiletries into my suitcase away from being ready to leave this evening on the last train out to Sydney.. almost gone.

Elder minipeeler got the Five Nights at Freddy's cookbook for Christmas and had been wanting to make the pepperoni pizza recipe, so today we shopped for the ingredients and this afternoon made up the pizza dough from scratch. It gave me a good chance to explain how yeast and sugar work, among other things that might be relevant to him studying Food Technology next year. I forgot that, while I make pizza bases 2 days a week at work, I haven't really done it much at home with the kids😞. Miniest was fascinated by how much the dough rises, and the finished result was amazing! I should've taken a picture of them but, living in the moment and not through a viewfinder, we damn near hoovered them down! There was enough dough for Mr P to make a couple of calzones with filling made of roasted capsicums and some of the pepperoni and mozzarella. Now I'm lounging around like a beached whale, but a happy and contented one.

I'm picking up my new glasses today, so I will be able to see in the New Year.

new year resolution is finish the food i bought

i will make that easier by sticking labels on fruits and packages

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After working on the report for a few weeks, and my boss saying it was good and almost done, his boss has had a look at it and removed basically half of it.

So early to the airport my flight isn't even on the board. That's a PB.

Finally back. Created a new account on AussieZone, after lemmee stopped properly syncing so I can't see anything new here.

I have had a very successful morning. I got some turkey from the food cupboard to have for dinner. I picked up my glasses, and while I was out traded in the Christmas scratchie which won another ticket and that one got me $10. I picked the last of the cherries off the tree and got about half a kilo. I trimmed the bay tree and got lots of leaves to dry for the food cupboard. And in a final gross but satisfying win I tracked down the source of a bad smell in the backyard (dead animal in a water container) and was able to get rid of it. So many good things to pack in to one morning 😁

Toastie cooked, cooled to room temp ready for transport to the sunset swim. Shouldn't be too many peeps.

plan on swimming out a fair way tonight as it brings a bizzare sense of calm.. if you see a shadow and.. Don't look twice

Which brings us to today's rave choon;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX9fj016SA8

Today’s weather is perfect. About to lunch with a friend and got a primo outdoor table in the shade. Think it’s a lunchtime beer type of day.

I am now stuffed full of turkey, and finally have leftovers to go in the fridge. I might go and put them away, then take advantage of this beautiful evening and accompany Mr Woof on a post-prandial stroll around the neighbourhood.

As evil as Amazon is.. next day delivery is truly so incredible. I ordered some silicone toothbrush head cover things last night which just arrived.

I avoided anything Amazon for years as some kind of one man moral stand but there's no fighting the tide.

I honestly think time stands still when waiting for a tram to come down Bourke st. You can see it stopped at the lights two blocks away and it doesn't seem to move for an eternity.

Last day of work for the year. Okay

PAKIDGE!! A weekend of instant pot adventures await. I am hoping this means I can whip up evening meals more quickly (especially things like curries and casseroles from scratch) which means I save money on take away and can buy lentils and beans in bulk.

Anyone got any favourite recipes? Ohh I should ask this on the food thread too...

Another beautiful day out there. :)

In my mind new years is still a couple of weeks away. But apparently NYE is all of 2 days away 😬

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