One of my friends from work finally gave me some good news.

Her daughter who went holidaying in Israel finally made it back home to Melbourne after being distraught at the situation and having multiple flights canceled trying to get out of the country.

She sent me a photo of them hugging each other at the airport after landing this morning.

So happy for her and relieved.

Had a visitor (or 2, one not pictured)

I swear they’re the same ones that’ve been going at that lawn for years and years now.

Doing that thing where I have a big life change coming so everything is being clean, rearranged, and then cleaned again. My pc/desk has never looked so good though, the glass panel is bordering on mirror status.

This is a wonderful morning for some buttery French toast.

Made by someone else.

Brought to my bed.

I got an invite to the NGV Gala.🙌

I am seriously considering making some chocolate pudding and custard, but am currently trapped under a cat so cannot move. This is a dilemma.

Edit: apparently Miss Meow thinks I should make the pudding, as soon as I hit send she got up to have another round of dinner.

Edit 2: custard made, pudding in oven. Dessert night is Go

I did 2 workouts today. One yoga and one cardio. Every time I do cardio it gets easier and easier and recovery doesn’t take as long. I’m gonna start incorporating strength training a little bit more now. I’m 10 minutes away from earning a garmin challenge badge. I feel good. That’s all.

Fucking woo, Boyo is employed again. A few more days of the pacing panther to deal with but hooray!

I’ve just made a pot of tea. I would share, but I do in fact need all of the tea

Oh Melbourne. One day of beautiful weather, next day pissing down. You’re a little tease, you are.

Really missing having a warm cuddly cat right about now

For the heck of it I’ve started binging ST:DS9

Love me so 90s sci-fi cheese.

Funder and lightning in Fornbury. Big splats of raindrops. But the horizon is clearing so probably won’t last long.

Beautiful rainbow out to the east of Thornbury - one end appears to be anchored to the South Preston Woollies. Which seems suspiciously appropriate.

Mini rant: Went for a drive last night down to St Kilda to claim a free small sundae as I had a monopoly ticket thingo, figured it’s a nice night out so why not? Got to the drive-thru and the lady asks what I want “Just a small chocolate sundae please, I have a monopoly ticket for it”, “Ok check your order on the screen and drive to the window”. I note the $3 next to the item but continue to the window thinking it’ll get wiped when I hand over the ticket. I pull up and she passes the eftpos-on-a-stick out and I offer her the monopoly ticket. She takes a moment to buffer then says “you didn’t give me the code at the speaker” (not a requirement) and I says “I told you I had a monopoly ticket” and she says “you didn’t give me the code, can you just use it next time?” and I says “I was really hoping to use it now… it’s why I came here” and then she took another moment to buffer, said something into her headset (I only caught the word monopoly) and then cancelled the transaction and did it properly, which literally took about 5 seconds maybe, then took my monopoly ticket in a huff. I said “thaaaanks” and drove forward.

Sundae was really nice too. Nicer than usual. Drove down the esplanade and ate it by the waterfront. Had my emergency ice cream spoon with me so I didn’t have to use their awful wooden one.