Decided not to have a wild one tonight. Mood was a bit eh for historical reasons, but still go to see my friends which is awesome.
All in all, a really great day.
Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes, you guys are amazing. You've all been an incredible support during some of the hardest times I've had in recent memory.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart ❤️❤️❤️
Time for some ambient and down tempo music making I think.
Tonight I am playing the groovy sounds of Burt Bacharach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Vm2KoPsQE
Banannana planted! Went to add the babaco and found out its somehow gotten fckn wet feet and rotting out. Carved up for sticks, two hormoned and in sand, the rest to try the traditional 'dry a few day's before planting'.
Apart from that, shit day for a shit week
My friend has helped me move out about 70% of my stuff (deadset legend).
But I have vastly underestimated how much stuff I have, and how much stuff I can realistically store at this next place...
I am REALLY working hard to keep myself together. Wow this is a huge huge downgrade. I really did not prepare myself for this. Even my friend looked at the other place and (reluctantly, after I was whinging) said "yeah... it's a place to crash at after a long day, not a home - it's a good thing you're only there for six months".
The plan will work, I just need to get everything out of here by the 19th. I will cull and sell further once it's been moved, none of it is too heavy.
Life lesson for today. When you buy a remnant of corduroy to make something, please please please zigzag the edges BEFORE pre-washing it. I am now going to have to run a cleaning cycle on my washing machine which I did not plan to do today. The lint was abominable.
Made a thread ✨️
Today was a big day but the party went great. These council community centres are perfect for parties like this. I could tell things were going well when people didn't start leaving immediately after cake and presents. We just left out some toys and large janga and connect four and all the kids had a great time
I feel like the internet has turned really shit and at some point it’ll be so user unfriendly that it’s barely usable. I miss past eras of it (well the ones I’m old enough to have known) and the niches I like of current day are the ones most similar to that. I want to go back.
Lemmy is like a cosy comforting old school forum.
Summer doona is now on the bed.
Okay, for all that I've whinged today, I am pretty damn chuffed with how much I've moved out at short notice on Marketplace. Super happy that a big bench is going tonight. Gone are a whole heap of side tables/plant stands. The elephant in the room is the effing couch. I will have to just move it to my friend's myself and we will problem-solve from there.
It's kind of interesting meeting all these randos who are grateful for a good bargain and they all come with their own little stories. All walks of life, ethnicities, cars, clothes...
Melbcat is sometimes refusing to eat her wet food which means I have to crush/mix her meds into a syringe and feed that to her directly… not ideal.
She’s also vitamin B deficient so
injections
needs shots… she should be having them weekly but I’m scared to accidentally hurt her when doing them at home.
I know cats go nuts for brewers yeast and Marmite has B12 (I think Vegemite doesn’t) but it’s salty which is bad for her kidneys. So I bought some nutritional yeast and sprinkled a pinch. Yes, she likes it. She ate some of her meal.
She still needs to be wrangled to give the antibiotics directly, same for the anti nausea stuff which she absolutely needs right now. But I’ll remember this for when we can go back to only the normal meds that can just mix into the food.
My knees really hurt. I’ve done something to them but don’t know what
I feel like I should save and back up any pictures or music I want to keep onto a hard drive and maybe even have a few versions.
Annoyed that I haven’t done so already because it’s a complete no brainer but life has basically been survival mode for a very long time and any kind of organisation has fallen by the wayside. Even now it seems like a mammoth task.
Physical media just seems like a sensible way to go. I envy the people who are organised and disciplined enough to ‘go caveman’, and also the people who can wrangle Linux.
While going through saving old pictures to my computer I found some of my old art. Doxable so I won’t post it.
But how the hell is it better and more prolific than my art now? To be fair it was basically just copying pictures I liked but there’s some original stuff in there. And back then I didn’t have access to any of the resources I do now, no education on fundamentals other than some completely forgotten lessons as a kid, nothing. I didn’t know to do frames or shapes. I just did the contour lines and paid close attention to the space between them. The hands are a bit wonky but I drew hands wtf.
I guess it’s just elbow grease. Which I’m currently so very short on 😮💨
One of the things I pray for is my nephew to have a secure life full of love, so that they aren't pushed into some of the scenarios and resulting relatively harmless but nonetheless questionable choices that I've made.
I want them to be able to choose the right thing secure in the knowledge that even if it blows back on them they are safe enough in life to withstand it.
I want them to be able to grow rather than just merely survive.
Minipeelers were up at 7am to do craft and have already ran out of red polymer clay. Did a quick shop and am now on way home to tackle Mount Washmore. I'm tired as!
People are walking their dogs in the local indoor shopping centre. What even.
Oh it's for pet photos with Santa.
What an awesome night!
Goodnight all ❤️
Here's the schedule for mum's eye things. Was a bit drunk with the rhs I will redo that.
I've tried phone alarms / apps but this way seems to have a higher success rate. She's also supposed to be dropping 2 times after 8pm but she likes her baileys so that's up to her.
i'm trying I hope it's logical :( it's a lot of drops.
Woke up from a nightmare in which Mike Ehrmentraut was following me around for allegedly shoplifting. It was already so hard to go to sleep. I need it for today, my friend will be here at 8:30, body please...
I have been so tense and anxious over the sense that maybe I've made a horrible mistake and prioritised the wrong things. I hate this stomach-pit feeling... gotta suck up my choices though.
Good news everyone.
Saturday plans - which I WAS looking forward to, but am not heartbroken to lose - have fallen through, so I can have a day to get my shit together. I sorely need this day
Movie Review. Moon with Sam Rockwell. Pretty harrowing . I love how these guys are still so very human. Will watch again, I expect it's one of those movies that you think about.
3.5 hobbits
TV Review. Benidorm. Amazon.
I just couldn't watch it so I watched every first episode and the last. Too histrionic for me but I can see how this series is made with love and respect for those who like the all inclusive holiday camp holidays.
2 hobbits tho it must have appealed to many as it had 10 series made.
Good morning
I have a friend who I'm not super close with whose best friend I've met a handful of times. This best friend of hers is very social and has a bunch of friends that she's met from various places, including online. She messaged me saying that she's going to do a giant "group hang" in a few weeks and to save the date. I replied to her message almost two weeks ago and she hasn't responded. The other friend hasn't responded in a couple of weeks, but she's overseas. I doubt she'd be able to survive that long without internet because I know she's basically glued to her phone, and we also discussed the whole communication in a relationship thing.
I suck at replying too. For instance, if it's someone I don't speak to that often and I'm in the middle of something, I'll forget to respond. Maybe that's the case for them as well.
Ping for sijn ?? Dunno how personal rather than group follows works
Wooooooooooooo 42!!!!!!!!!!!!!
