Then & Now

Like John Farnham, just because I say it's the last time, doesn't mean it has to be... ;-)

I've got a 4 day weekend, had planned to garden today but it's already almost 30 degrees (86 Fahrenheit) with a predicted top of 30 and its only midday, no clouds in the sky so I think it may exceed the forecast. Plus UV levels are rated as very high so best to keep it to indoor activities only today.

Think I might have to go shopping. It's Halloween today which is not really celebrated in Australia the way it is in America. Sometimes you get a bunch of kids trick or treating but most of the time you don't. So I'm not sure if I should buy lollies just in case, I could end with a huge pile of lollies and no one to eat them but me. I made a batch of witches fingers and took them to work yesterday. Try carrying a see through box of fingers to work, lots of stares on the train, the woman sitting next to me told me they were gorgeous and everyone at work was quite impressed.

Took a couple of photos of my backyard to compare to what it was when I moved in. It's still a work in progress.

Daisy bushes before

Daisy bushes after

To blog or not to blog?

I have been contemplating ditching my blog. I think I'm running out of things to say and even I am over hearing me complain about work.

Also, I am constantly worried someone I know is going to come across my blog...

I think I might just switch to facebook, yeah I know, I resisted it and now I find that I actually like it and it's actually refreshing being able to say things as me. Of course I can't complain about work or my mother (I really shouldn't anyway) but I think having to be more positive in my comments will help me be more positive.

In short, I'm over complaining... if you're interested in being a facebook friend, let me know. I'm going to deblog in a couple of days.

Dinner & a movie

Went and saw Julie and Julia this afternoon (caught up with my work pretty quickly with no interruptions). I thought it was a nice enough movie, not great but not bad.

I had an eggplant and some rainbow chard that I had to use up so tonight I made eggplant cutlets with tomato sauce and olives (from Vegan Italiano) and cooked the chard with garlic, olive oil, white beans and a little salt, tasted pretty good. Well tasted much better than it photographed.

Sunset Walk

Keeping the tradition of leaving at 4 on Fridays, my team and I left at 4 and caught a tram out to St Kilda Friday afternoon. Went to a vegetarian restaurant on the beach and had a couple of drinks, then one of my colleagues and I decided to go for a walk. It was really a beautiful evening, sunny and warm walking along the beach at sunset, so nice we ended up walking all the way to Port Melbourne.

Daylight Savings is great but

it takes about a week to adjust... it's quarter to 11 (quarter to 10 if not daylight savings) and I'm wide awake. I have a 9am meeting in another building which means I must be up at 6:30, thanks to my new alarm clock that climbs all over me and stares at me purring loudly and willing me awake at the crack of dawn, I have been managing 6:30 the last few weeks, but 6:30 is really like 5:30 for the first week.

Yes the all of a sudden longer days are an exciting sign that it's halfway to summer but how does one just switch their clock forward one hour and start going to bed an hour earlier.

And one does not really feel summer coming on when the forecast is a top of 14 with rain, hail, thunderstorms and possibly lightning for the next two - three days.

Gardening

Spent 6 hours working on my backyard yesterday, relocating herbs, planting new ones and covering the backyard with mulch. My soil if you can call it that is dense clay, the top couple of inches look better after 6 months of applying gypsom and clay breaker and I think a year of two of mulching will improve it further. In the meantime, digging to plant anything is back breaking work. I went to get out of bed this morning and realised I could barely move. I'm chilling in front of the tv for a bit before I go back out to finish this weekend's jobs. Gotta get things done before it's too hot to get out there.

Oh and I've covered the pergola with solar powered fairy lights, they are so pretty and it makes me feel like Christmas.

I shall take some after photos when I'm done.