The aquarium was lovely but it did make me a little sad in some ways. The kids loved it though. I got to see some sea dragons and horses (my favourites) and tonnes of their babies 🥹

Hello, fellow kids. I'm back. Slept 16 hours after the flight from Europe. Amazing trip. Work stuff was great, Paris was lots of fun and the Alps were so beautiful even though I had a bit of a lurgy.

But discombobulated now though. Need food, wash clothes and moooore sleeeeps. Happy to be home. We have the best food. And I missed my bed.

Today we attack the remaining trellis and jasmine.

Still no word from the neighbour on the fuckn fence that blew over. The builders doing the renos next door propped it up from their side (without telling me what they've done) so I've propped it up from our side (again). It's like a battle to see which way it'll fall over next lol. I will be victorious.

In better news. Weeping cherry almost there:

Over the years it's slightly earlier every year.

Woo! Just found out horrendous Real Estate agent has been liquidated. Wish more juicy details were available but just their deletion is fantastic on its own 😈

Sunday, hello!

Perth doesn't seem to have a daily thread unless I'm blind. Here's some piccies

::: spoiler mushroom :::

::: spoiler Floreat beach

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I have now confirmed I do not like the beach (loud waves, sand, I get over stimulated and annoyed). I'm a river girl

Stayed up way too late last night after being at a friend's place until midnight and it's made today feel like a total write off. This is why we need three day weekends!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-21/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/105792900
Idk if Witchy is back yet or somewhere over Antarctica enroute, so, quiz! 30/50

My sleep in plan worked beautifully. My furry overlords decided 3pm was enough sleep though and jumped on me until I got up.

So I went to the optometrist yesterday, and they quoted $275 just to pop out a lens and put in a new one with a slightly stronger prescription. Ridiculous. Luckily we have private health, which covers most of that amount, but yikes

Been a while since I've woken up with a headache. Might be a bed day today :(

need more back rest , ☹️, just a bit, also had some panadol

Bwaaaa 'mfulla pizza and gonna exaplooooooode

Is this the Sunday Scaries? I’m having the shittiest time.

More Marie Kondo-ing and laundry.

I’m wondering if I should donate the normal cat food Melbcat shouldn’t be eating or keep it just in case… She’s currently on a special low phosphate food that she likes, but it could also be causing stomach upsets. 😢

Today we watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Big Lebowski and currently watching Being John Malkovich. Is there anything else like these that we should watch?

Headache cleared up thankfully.

Decided to go back to basics with guitar. Sometimes you can get caught up trying to make something sound “clever” instead of expressing yourself.

Too much thinking where there shouldn’t be any, or very little.

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I’ve done a few loads of laundry and swept the living room. I didn’t do behind everything yet but it’s looking good. (I have a vacuum but it’s loud.)

belated second review of the movie The Brutalist

this movie stayed with me, I have been thinking about it a lot

My second thought was it wasn't about the artist or art but about the nature of freedom and the innate nature of human behaviour

my third thought is it's about the artist in different environments and how he sees the world, how he reacts and acts differently to other people, all artists

Every character in this movie lives in pain, suffers abuse because of who they are, they might be a writer, gay, hetero, black, young, old, Jewish, male, female, a manual labourer, a desk worker,

And the abuses the characters suffer are interpersonal, one on one.

But in America there are no cats , whoops, wrong movie. In America there is freedom. ( any political abuses people are suffering now are masked in lies and are unconstitutional ) The federal government doesn't restrict people because of who they are. yes, there is a history but there is also a history of more and more freedoms enjoyed by more and more people. It's an imperfect but improving system.

The artist is different because he expresses the pain in his art, not just his pain but the pain of all who suffer under a repressive government. And those repressive governments might make people suffer , even kill people but they can't stop love.

When governments and civilisations fall and are forgotten people will still see the art and see love.

so I suppose it's about the limits of freedom, freedom doesn't direct all interpersonal interactions, and how some people are driven to artistic expression

( Opinion here, I think people will generally act the same regardless of laws, they will find ways to be good and to be bad within the laws )

5 hobbits

yay, all major housework done for the next few days

I'm pooped