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Oh no. Came home last night to see a white rose placed on the windscreen of my opposite neighbour's car. She's elderly and the only one who talked to everyone and knew everything about the place, but been unwell for quite a while and I haven't seen or heard from her in months. I remember how lonely and weak she was at times.

Just heard some noise outside my door and opened it to see... her sister and niece were there in her apartment and they confirmed the worst. :( RIP, N. You might've been a bit of a curmudgeonly old soul at times but I hope you meet many wonderful fluffy kitties wherever you go. (She loved soxcat)

Had a great day at the op shops. Got special edition copies of Deliverance and The Fifth Element with commentaries and docos, a michael franti cd, a packet of jewellery findings with some top quality crystals for $1( will string a necklace later tonight ) and a good jumper for doing calligraphy in as it won't show ink stains. Plus a cool genu-wine vintage marcasite ring. Nice . 😀

Last night I went on my Twitter for the first time in ages only to find my account had switched from private to public without me knowing. I am furious. I post pics of my child on there and have also talked about my abuser on there. Not to mention everything I share is in the context of it being PRIVATE to my handful of online friends who use it. I am deleting the account today but I have no idea how long it was just sitting there open and who may have seen what.

You know what one of my most favourite things in the world is?

Dogs in raincoats.

We are so blessed to live in the same world as that.

I finished my Lizzo masterpiece!! After many many hours of drawing.

Edit: Pictured is a drawing of US Singer Lizzo in the colours of the rainbow (red, yellow, pink, green, purple, orange and blue) with the text version to the name Lizzo in the colours of the rainbow stacked on top of each other. At the bottom of the design there is a lightly bronzed flute that was also drawn.

I am home from the hospital. Took a nasty fall on my carpeted stairs. I have hairline fractures on my L1, L2 and L3 on my vertebrae. so a lot of rest needed.

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Final night and Mooloolaba turns it on. It's been such a great week.

Little dog and I are staying awake so we can witness Midnight bot's very first live appearance. Plus the cricket's on. Good luck Midnight bot. 🤞

After a good training session today I think Bot #001 is ready to try posting a new daily thread tonight. Pinning does not seem to be working so that bit will still need to be done later, but I'm pretty confident the basic post will work. If if does not work (it should be at midnight) someone will have to make one manually again.

I will need to do some work on the format and exactly what to say - unfortunately the bot is not very imaginative.

What is everyone bringing to pot luck dinner this weekend? I have for you all a passionfruit ginger appletart.

ID: a round tart of sliced apples

Reddit Is Fun appears to have just died. I was using it two hours ago.

So I was browsing r/melbourne and I saw a post that said hmu if your a teenaged girl. I wasn't gonna reply but i thought fuck it. So I asked "How old are you?". Straight away a chat message. I chose to ignore. Then the post was deleted. My instinct says "You dirty fucking cunt".

Goodnight you beautiful potatoes of sunshine

Jfc reddit is now threatening private comms. There go the last scraps of goodwill

I opened the balcony door to look at the lasers in the sky and there was a cat meowing on my balcony (note I am 11 floors up). I've seen this kitty before but last time, I had my door open and I didn't notice it had come in to check out my apartment and it ran out when I turned around and noticed it.

This time it meowed and invited itself in for a poke around. I think it checked out every inch of my apartment then left politely (I left the door open so it knew it could leave). It turned back up 30 minutes later so I opened the door again and it again came in meowing at me and rubbing against my leg, and exploring more. I felt it had probably explored enough after 15 minutes and walked it out but it's still sitting outside my door looking at me.

My new best friend.

i lost both my dogs in the last year to age and illness. i had a dream last night that I got a new puppy (or dog, wasnt entirely clear). probably means it's time, right?

There we go.. went over the road for 5 minutes. Snapped a photo of some fire. Now I can say I attended the Firelight Festival 2023.

photo of people sitting around a fire pit at Firelight Festival Docklands

We are going to a party tonight. First night out without baby… I’m so nervous as he doesn’t do super well at night when he’s tired. Don’t know if MIL understands what she’s signed up for. Reaaaally hoping he does okay and I don’t have to leave early 🙏🏻

I’m going to spend the morning tidying my flat. It’s become a bit…sus while I’ve been sick, and I’m starting to mend enough to want to do something about it.

Day 7 of exercise accountability post. I didn't feel like it because I'd been wandering around the local farmers market and then came home and sampled sunflower seed vodka which I'd bought. It's very nice! But I thought, "if I don't do it now I'll never do it." Looked ahead and tomorrow is another rest day, so that gave me a bit of motivation! I said to myself, as always, it's a 10 minute workout and you can make time for it! I haven't weighed myself yet because the truth is even though I've been exercising I haven't really done anything about my diet at this stage, so I'm not expecting any sudden miracles there. I wanted to get into a routine with exercise before I started fiddling around with my diet.

Went to shops to get some things and left with a new smartwatch, I've been wanting one for ages and the delirium of my UTI made it happen. Since I've been saving for a new car I've not bought myself anything nice in a very long time so it feels good to get myself something flashy.

Min of 9c / Max of 14c

70% chance of rain

I think I’ve just made the worst decision ever.

I decided to wash my oodie and it’s so heavy water now. The washer couldn’t cope with the weight of it when it tried to spin it down (on gentle).

I’m now turning on the heating to help it dry, I don’t even know if I can get it dry at this rate.

I have backup oodies thankfully but this is the worst weather to be washing it in.

Dumb decision by me and yours truly.