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  • Another Easter weekend spent with the close fam.

    I'm kind of resentful that my kids didn't grow up with the extended family, just for the gathering experiences.

    But the relos are so toxic, there's nothing to miss except for a headache and anxiety.

    Also, Severance season 2....what in the fuck am I watching and why can't I stop watching it.

    • Severance S2 almost feels like a different show that's for sure.

      I feel you about the tension with family. Sometimes I feel sad I only have one subsection of my family I really can connect with. But I'm glad that I have the option of avoiding so much drama as well. Creating better choices now that I have them....

      • I'm kind of upset I started this show now. It's still going and the suspense is gonna get to me 😁

        Yeah families are complicated at times for no real reason.

        We've made the choice a while back and gotta deal with it.

  • yay, finally finished housework for today

    that's what happens when I sleep in

  • Chicken wings cooked. Can’t wait to eat, resting for a couple mins then I’ll dig in.

  • Going through some old shit.

    Here's an original propaganda pamphlet dropped from ze germans from me old grandfathers days when serving in Tobruk 1941 (!).

    Also have 'classified' maps. I had no Idea the ol' boy kept those until today.

  • I knew it, this rain was a total lie - all I ended up with was a car with dried dusty splotches all over! I'm not confident it'll rain much tomorrow either... it's so dry out there.

    It took so much effort but I've done my most important duties today: cleaned manky kitchen and bathroom, vacuumed disgusting gross carpet, washed and dried some seriously dirty sheets and clothes, put new sheets on, and gave my own oily unwashed hair a good clean. 1.5hr chat with depressed cousin (both of us significantly more cheerful after talking), and a decent dinner later, I'm certainly feeling gruntled.

    This will sound awful but I think I'm just going to frigging go into the office tomorrow and work (and count it as hours for later in the week), because I'm just not in the mood for a 4 day long weekend when I have a LOT to do before Thursday and will be pretty much unavailable for 7 working days after during which time several deadlines will come up.

    I'd rather clear my plate early, and also do it on a day when I will have zero distractions (but good coffee, ergonomics and lighting).

  • New plan hatched (heh) in terms of buying gifts for people back in the Soup. Because they get nearly everything there (albeit marked up) it can be hard to figure out what to bring back... and I have the perfect idea.

    Discounted fancy Easter choccies! I shall head to Leo's on Tuesday or Wednesday after work and see if there's some premium local brands on sale, the kind you won't get overseas. Monsieur Truffe on discount would be nice.

  • Easter party 2 doors down w/ heaps of kids.

    Neighbour has 2 dogs going off at the noise. I start digging out a tree on the boundary and one of the doggos starts going off at me.

    You're not going to win a war w/ 2 fronts doggo. Learn your history.

  • No eggs for me this year :(

    But every easter I remember my old doggo Hecate, a black lab. The first easter after we got her, P's hid the eggs the night before in the garden, and us kids would woke up to find a whole lot of doggos poo on the lawn with foil in it. She was always gonna find them. She didn't get sick surprisingly.

    Miss that dog.

    • My dog once stole half a block of chocolate off the coffee table. I left the room for 2 minutes and when I returned he was acting really shifty in his bed so I checked it and found it buried in his blankets with 2 squares nibbled out of it.

    • I had a childhood cat demolish an Easter choc basket. Also miraculously seemingly unharmed. Bloody rascals.

  • 3rd load of dishes done

    now for a walk at the beach and then home to clean that vintage furniture set

  • I haven't seen anything like that for sale here, so I think I'll have to make my own. I'm thinking of getting one of the mesh side garden carts and using the framing from one of the cheap metal hammer together shelving units to provide a support. Lots of holes for attaching things to and (if the sizing works out) fairly simple.

    All these shopping plans, I need to work out the budget before things get completely out of control!

    • I have something like the green cart in the pic for my garden. Shovels & rakes and implements of destruction go horizontally/longitudinally resting inside 2 x 15 cm sections of plastic sewer piping fastened to the bottom of the long edge at each of the corners and I just insert the handles in the tubes. Holds 3 implements easily as most of mine are long handle type and don't have a big plastic 'handle'. Works well as long as you remember to keep the cart oriented properly when going down steep slopes so they don't slide right out. An el cheapo hook-on bike basket on the back section holds secateurs, gloves & packets of stuff, and is easy to remove for storage. Inside is completely clear for better fitting bags/tubs for prunings, autumn leaves and lawn clippings etc. Easier to lift them out too as I find tubs easier to manage than bags if I'm going to empty them into the compost. I do harvest autumn leaves from street trees for mulch and compost, and this set up is very effective for that. The rack imo is overkill and not really needed. But you do you.

      • I'm thinking more of all the power tools and bits as well - as well as the tools themselves there will be lots of stuff like spare batteries, replacement lines and blades, oil. Prunings and things I'll probably use my current garden cart for - maybe I can hook it up behind this one and have a road train!

    • There's free roaming shopping carts all around my suburb... Just saying, they're well built and easy to repurpose.

  • So I think the friend outing I planned went well. There’s existing cracks there but when we’re all together having a good time, it’s really good. I had fun.

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