It could be worse. I joined a facebook group which required you to type the word ‘cat’ as the answer to two questions. I messed that up. Twice.

My app is telling me I have an average of 81 days, with a variation of 103 days. I get the old PMS symptoms that used to be a warning almost constantly, so I really have absolutely no idea. Mostly not heavy, but with a couple of ‘am I bleeding out?’ level thrown in just to keep me guessing.

I’m envious, mine is looking quite tatty at the moment. It’s hard at this time of year to get a patch of weather that is dry enough to mow - although at least once I do the next cut it should not need another for ages because it’s not growing much now.

If you ever want cringe lyrics the stuff Tim Rice wrote for Andrew Lloyd Webber are amazingly awful. And look how popular they were!

Lyrics are an interesting thing, when blended with the music they can often convey emotions and ideas in a way that transcend what the actual words themselves do. Language is an amazingly intricate and complex communication method that can sometimes convey more through imperfection than when you get everything right.

I would like to thank my past self for freezing some cheese sauce that went very well on my cauliflower and broccoli to serve with some baked salmon. I would also like to thank yesterday’s self for making enough apricot crumble that I could eat it two days in a row.

I tend to err on the side of assuming really, really dumb, but part of me doesn’t want to believe people are actually that stupid. But I don’t engage unless it’s something that I think will be useful to other people to read anyway so it’s not like it matters that much.

I’m having one of those Reddit conversations where I’m not sure if the other person is a troll or just really, really dumb. It’s a bit of a coin flip at this time.

I’m always a bit perplexed by people who troll that way. Why do people find coming across as really stupid to be something to aim for?

Ouch. This is why I have ended up in Ballarat. I just count myself fortunate that I could move my job too. Trying to find an affordable rental that was appropriate for a dog as well was not looking likely.

A bowl of hot porridge and a strong latte, please.

It’s been steady and ongoing out here.

It’s a bit wet out there this morning.

I followed up pizza with apricot crumble. Today has been a very good day.

I had a busy afternoon getting some cooking done for the week ahead. I made a pot of pumpkin soup, a dozen herb & garlic scrolls, a sandwich loaf, four serves of overnight oats and a rattatouille and beef sausage dish to share with my mother in a couple of days. All followed up with pizza which is in the overn for dinner now.

I thought I was running really late getting everything done, but it’s just fooling me by getting dark so early.

Yikes, I think the wait was about 3 months with my specialist and I thought that was bad. It’s also frustrating when you have waited that long for an initial consultation and then have to wait that long again for whatever procedure they are doing.

I just spent half an hour fixing my budgeting spreadsheet because my calculations and my bank balance are out by 9 cents. The complexity of rounding numbers.

My tooths are having a group portrait taken this morning. The next step in rhe process of adopting a couple of artificial siblings.

Edit: They also got a fancy 3D scan taken! Technology is pretty amazing. I’m all booked in for the next implant, then early next year I should actually have some teeth instead of gaps, finally! I had no idea how long this process would end up taking - with Covid delays, bone grafts and moving house thrown in it’s been a few years since I started.

I got fancy today and rotated my mattress. It feels so firm and unsquished!

I made some long-overdue changes to my design to account for the tapered jars so they sit better - slightly annoying to cut because I have to cut a curve instead of a straght line, but it does work much better.

28 jars of beef chilli and all of them sealed. They are cleaned up and just need to be labelled and put away. I usually have one or two that don’t seal, especially the reusable lid type that are a touch more finicky, so having all of them seal is a very good result.