Shall I leave you alone?

Moon and tree. Sometimes I wonder if we deserve trees. #talltree

"With this system I'll teach you, I've manifested 2 million dollars and my dream life..." Wait, love .... your DREAM LIFE includes making & posting sales videos on social media? Uh ... 🤨 no thanks.

Hey friends, I have availability for eLearning or other training video voiceover / narration in the next month or so. Any topic, but I specialise in medical, pharmaceutical, & technical training. Check my demos here and get in touch. 😁 www.sumarameers.com

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

I dreamt I was singing "Don't Cry Out Loud" by Peter Allen, with Roman Roy from Succession. In one of the huge living rooms in Logan's big apartment. (Watched the funeral episode yesterday. I have many thoughts about those Roy kids.)

Do you like beautiful music? Looky here, beautiful music!

The Esker Fucking Road Leaving Fucking Thrushcross Fucking Summerlands. @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social

The Esker Road is a gorgeous gorgeous book. 💜

The neighbours doing renovations are playing very singable songs today. So now everyone gets to listen to me belting Piano Man and Nikita in my backyard.

Also I dare you to listen to I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love and cry your fucking eyes out. It's so good.

I've been listening to a lot of Peter Allen lately. He was one of Teenage Sumara's absolute favourites. And thinking how fabulous Todd McKenney was in the original The Boy From Oz. I saw it multiple times in Her Majesty's Theatre Sydney.

It's so funny how whenever you remind a teenager to do something around the house, they were literally just about to do it. 😯 Uncanny. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We all know the best food is A Baguette With A Bit Too Much Butter on it.

O my lord, y’ are tardy

She wants to dance like Uma Thurman, bury me til I confess. 💃🏻 This doesn't mean anything, I just think social media lyric status updates should be a thing again.

It doesn't matter what you read in terms of books, just fucking read dude. Read great books, read shit books, who cares just do. Anti-intellectualism is at an all time high and is what guided us here. Read. Learn new shit. Just do it, it's free, nobody is stopping you

It is so bizarre to me that people actually click "dislike" on youtube videos (other than, like, hateful/abusive/obvious fake things). But then I remember how many people spend a great deal of time in comment sections just ... being negative ...for the sake of it? BIZARRE.

Oooh you know what did help, for a little while, earlier? New (2nd hand) clothes! 🤣 These pants are linen and the comfiest pants ever.

Feeling like shit. Chocolate didn't help. Lollies (strawberries and creams) didn't help. Next up: cheese. Fondly reminiscing about that one time when stress made me eat less not more. 🫣

Every single time I open LetterBoxd, I have an existential crisis about whether I've chosen the right four films as my favourite films. I'm pretty sure they're wrong at the moment but how can I possibly know? Four favourites? A terrible crisis.

You know what stresses me out? Stress Management notifications on my fitbit.

Somehow seems appropriate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx3X...

Also, it's so hot here that the pub across the road has cancelled their "Australia Day" event. You know the weather is bad when the redneck white supremacists cancel their racism party.

It's not much, but I emailed some Australian government people asking for a boycott of USA-based Olympic and World Cup events, in condemnation of the administration's violence. Here's some contacts if you want to, too:

Every single day I go online and discover I am not actually a woman, because "women are programmed to...." and "women biologically...." and "only men feel..." Jeez louise, internet. Get your shit together.

I'm so sorry about all the ice and also the ice in the States. But I'm also sorry for myself in my dumb un-air-conditioned house for the next week.

The worst thing about being on the internet is constantly being reminded just how many people have no common sense or critical thinking skills. (the best thing is knowing that your blog posts and live journal entries from 2007 still live out there somewhere...🤣)

does this mean I'm cool.

Today I've been looking at rentals in New York (a girl can dream!) and I'm once again blown away by the weird nonsensical way state borders are drawn in the US. New York, no wait New Jersey, no wait New York again. So much river!

Here, I made a cooler new year word search for you...

FRIENDS CRAB TEST Um. 🤨

Had to verify my age to log in today. Scanned my face and obviously decided I'm older than 16, but didn't say how old it thinks I am. If you're gonna scan my face at least tell me I'm pretty or something, jeez.

I came into the kitchen hungry but so annoyed that I had to make something for breakfast. Then remembered I boiled two eggs for myself yesterday! All I have to do is make toast and peel the eggs. Yay! Yesterday-Me is so cool. 🎉 Of course I'm still here motivating myself to get on with it, but. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Happy Boxing Day! I had Assorted Leftovers for breakfast, I had Frangelico in my coffee, I recorded some audiobook, and we helped the new neighbours move a huge heavy cast iron bath tub. And now I'm gonna eat the rest of my chocolate orange. 😁

Okay Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is the best movie I've seen in AGES. So so lovely. 😍 Really interesting direction. Gorgeous photography. Both Jeremys are BEAUTIFUL. Odessa Young is excellent! Also, the arms on that man, oh boy. 😅

Nuremberg could have been a great movie, but it was crap, and I'm unreasonably mad about it. It's like the US couldn't physically bring itself to contemplate its own humanity. Even this many years later, after everything they've done, they can't stand the idea of not being better than everyone else.

Working on my cat impersonations.

I just described the eggs I had on a sandwich for breakfast today as "really bright happy eggs, like they really wanted to be there" when partner asked me to describe what was good about them. (They were exxy local free range ones he bought me as a thank you.) What a great sentence about eggs. 😆

The new age florist didn't have the right types of leaves for your smudge stick? Problematic sage gap.

It's stinkin hot, so obviously this chonky lump of fluff has an afternoon nap on a pile of blankets in a west-facing window. 😰

I miss the days of social media statuses written entirely in song lyrics. Let's get these teen hearts beating faster, faster... 😂

Listening to Panic at the Disco and wondering what Brendon Urie's up to these days.

Will you please vote for me? I'm a finalist to be a 2026 Door Builder, for Building Doors VO, to become 1 of 12 advocates for equality for women's voices in male-dominated voiceover industries. I'd love to be the token Aussie one! Vote for me by liking this yt short: youtube.com/shorts/aHXOE...

If you take a lot of different sands from various geographical locations and mix them all together in one hourglass, are they still sands? Or have they now become sand?

Google just sent me an ad for the new Pixel. $2700!!! what the helliyo. I could buy a decent old car for that. Anyway this is why I only ever buy refurbished phones and keep them till they die.

Speaking of good movies... I tried to watch a very terrible tv series: Midnight Mass. Oh my LORD (pun intended), what the fuck. 🤣 So bad. Dialogue is like reading a subpar novel out loud, effects are ~special~ alright, the entire world building is painfully shallow and false. Reviews are hilarious.

Today was a very bad day inside my head, but I: -exercised -recorded two chapters of audiobook -cooked lunch, and -made Instagram content. Wow, I'm amazing. 😆

Oh! Also! I recently watched The Usual Suspects for the first time, it wasn't very interesting which is probably why I've never watched it before, but - was that a really obvious twist? Or are we just spoilt by too many good twists in the last few decades?