I don’t want to be a thousand years old but I just ordered takeaways for two people (I’m not even having anything!!) and I cannot BELIEVE HOW MUCH THIS COSTS 😭

I’m a lil stinker but apparently married an appropriately stinker-appreciative spouse 😘

Pro tip get your milk from the Indian supermarket - our local has 2x2L for $6.50 (also they’re very nice, shout out Super Spice & Grocery in Wairau)

Over the past week our neighbours have chopped down a lot of tall trees and hedging between our houses, on their side of the boundary so fair enough, but now I feel very self-conscious when I stand in the driveway yelling Baby baby who’s a baby? Oh look, big boy big boy, who’s the biggest boy?

Post-lunch depression (I ate my lunch and now I can’t eat it again).

Put raspberry essence in my coffee to feel something new; can’t really recommend.

Failed at blood donation 😰 Haemoglobin, I do not have it.

The wind is winding so hard the whole house is shaking 🌬️ I have to go out soon! (Luckily not across the harbour bridge.)

Christmas Eve is probably not the best day to Revenge Bedtime… I was staying up to mind the pav but the oven went off 20 minutes ago 🙈

Oh my god do not drive anywhere the traffic the traffic

Visiting one of my favourite food stores (Davis) because they’re just around the corner from IKEA and once that opens on Thursday I won’t be able to cope with the traffic for… forever? 😰

My favourite sort of dog is medium brown, medium coat, medium size. The absolute middle sliders dog.

Got an MMR booster because I’m in the age range that only had one dose as a kid. Easy and free! Let’s not let measles make a comeback please 🤞

If it’s true that travelling helps you discover your true self, I have discovered I am never happier than when I see a cat in an unexpected place and eat an unusual ice cream.

On the ground in Hong Kong! Flight was smooth, now to stay up as late as I can to get used to the time difference ☺️

On Friday I get to eat TWO AEROPLANE MEALS and then I’ll be ON HOLIDAY how good is that?! (I’m too busy and overwhelmed to really think beyond the plane meals yet 😅)

The entire week @jsr.com and the kid were away I was worried that Naboo was being distant and withdrawn bc he never joined me in bed and didn’t want to hang out much, but since they got home last night he has been glued to JSR like a surgically attached koala. Guess we know who’s the favourite 😳

I drank an extra coffee, for my agonies. Now I have different agonies.

ESPECIALLY when it’s something like exercise where every random drive-by person will have some irrelevant opinion. (I know, I know, just talk to people in real life. Don’t even get me started on how hard that is these days.)

There needs to be an accepted etiquette for “I just want to comment on something about my life but I’m not looking for advice” 🥲

Our current family thing is to be aggressively loving to each other so we will enter the room and yell “GET LOVED, NERD. GET ABSOLUTELY VALUED AND CHERISHED.” (I figure at least we’re giving the kid prime memoir material.)

That was all in between running my Saturday errands, keeping up with Courtney and Ruth running UTMB and finishing a knitting project. I will try and take it easy tomorrow though 🥲

I baked banana choc chip cupcakes, peanut butter brookies, frosted London Fog biscuits, garlic focaccia, sandwich bread & sourdough. (Well, I prepared the sourdough dough, I’ll bake it off in a day or so.) HAPPY.

I am revenge bedtiming because right now I am Warm and Horizontal and when I wake up I will have to be Cold and Vertical 🥲

I like a lot of things about running but not least is the feeling that by 8am I’ve already accomplished one big tick off my list for the day ☺️

“Mum, do you have a small jar I could use for witchy purposes?” I’m sorry? Do _I_ have a _small jar_? Son. Son. Let me show you. Let me show you my jars.

I really like cauliflower but must it smell so… caulifloric?

Ooops, forgot about the tsunami thing until I got the 6.30am emergency alert… while running across a bridge over an estuary 🫣

The heating is on. I have a wheat bag (neck) hot water bottle (lap) electric foot warmer (feets) hot coffee (hands, belly) and I’m STILL SO COLD 😰

Sometimes I look at my own Instagram grid and think wow, how lucky am I to have the means and access and ability to eat like this?! (I don’t spend a lot of money either, it’s mostly time and willingness and planning.)

Bring back Peppy Chew you cowards (yes I know it’s in the Kiwi Favourites box that doesn’t count)

You know the weather is bad (and your house is bad) when it’s raining inside the carport.

“I’ll make a quick trip to Costco” actually I’ll get caught up behind a police incident on the motorway and get badly routed through the back roads and end up in Riverhead and Costco will be its usually Sunday chaos so… Not Quick. But I do have the $10/kg butter (unsalted; we take what we can get).

This morning the kid observed “You and Nana just trade containers back and forth forever… Thank you for the relish, here’s some cabbage. Thank you for the cabbage, here’s some soup. Thank you for the soup, here’s some tomatoes.” which is both ACCURATE and A DELIGHT TO ME.

Me: I bought some mugwort dumplings. @jsr.com: Mugwort Dumpling? Is that your roller derby name? Me: Well it is now.

Half of a Carolina Reaper was almost too much chilli for a single serving of soup but I Persevered. My nose is very clear now.

You really understand the phrase “like trying to herd cats” when you have to actually herd cats.

This whole week (Lemon, it’s Tuesday) has been like “if one more thing happens I will LOSE IT” and then one more thing happens 😡

It’s been a long time since I did development work but it turns out the feeling of getting all your code to validate and tests to run and expected outputs across the board is STILL VERY GOOD.

Tried to write “potato” and ended up with “botapo”… early night required 🥲

It’s tough to feel like you’ve eaten too many lentils but tonight I have managed 🙃

Driving around between op shops on a Saturday afternoon with Liz Phair and Sleater-Kinney blasting. The dream of the 90s is alive in my car.

Also have a massive headache ibuprofen isn’t touching so looking forward to all our phones screaming soon.

I’ve come to accept I’ll never feel “rested” from a regular weekend, but I finished two books and cooked nice food and did some chores so that will have to do.

My dad had a knee replacement yesterday and he’s up and walking around today! Amazing how routine some of these procedures have become.

I’m working on a project to sort my photo library properly but I’m currently in 2014 when the kid is small and all my cats are alive so it’s rough on the old emotions 🥺

Nutmeg is a) a beauty b) completely neckless.

My suburb has a museum that’s open four hours per month. (I’ve never been though because… four hours per month. I hope it’s everything I imagine.)

Oh no, it was the first day of the year where the lump of Spreading Butter we keep out of the fridge was no longer spreadable 😭❄️

I don’t mind our neighbours having a party with music; it’s a Saturday, enjoy yourselves. But must this involve INCESSANTLY PLAYING A COWBELL⁉️