Hello Journal My Old Friend
9:06pm: I've come to greet you again...
I wonder how many times over the last few years I've posted on here saying that I'm hoping to get back in the journalling game and then never posted again...LOL...probably at least three times.
Anyway, I'm watching Back to the Future Part II on TV right now, and it reminded me of the good old days, when I was young and free and full of stories. I honestly have no idea where my creativity wandered off to. I did start writing a fanfic a few years back, but I ran out of steam and never got around to finishing it. I also gave up on NaNoWriMo. Although I was reminded of it the other day, when I finally got around to fixing all my passwords using one of those password generator apps. It's still going...maybe I should give Camp NaNo a go this year.
So, as ever the issue is what do you update about in your journal when you don't have much to update about? I'm still here in my apartmento and I'm still gainfully employed (hell yeah, whoo!) I have thus far avoided the Rona, although my little bro, and parents have caught it. Fortunately, all were fully vaccinated and have recovered just fine. :O) The power of science.
There's also great news politics-wise (I know, good political news? No wai!), last week we had our federal election here in Australia and joy of joys...the Labor Party won! Hell yeah! Finally the general population woke up and smelt the bushfire smoke among other things and decided to kick the former conservative government to the kerb. In a reversal of 2019's election the state of Queensland actually came through! Unfortunately, there were some serious floods up there earlier this year and I think they finally got the memo. Now obviously it won't be all sunshine and roses, but I feel like we're going in the right direction. A lot of Independent candidates got in as well, including my electorate, which used to be hardcore Liberal (Conservative) voters, so this is also new.
The rest of the world news, is, of course, nowhere near as good...especially the war in Ukraine :O( Beyond the horror of the fact that people are being killed and a country destroyed because of one guy's insane push to achieve a place in history, there's the impact on the rest of the world with the price of everything going up and on a more personal and first world problem aspect there's the impact it has on figure skating. Namely, Russian athletes (subsidised by the Government) are not allowed to compete, which due to Putin's shitty habit of using them to glorify himself, is fair enough. But it does mean many of my favourites are probably never going to reach their potential and compete on the international stage.
Also...my favourite skater now coach, Plushy kind of...came out in support of Putin and is bascially a persona non-grata in the figure skating forum I'm on. There's lots of students in the Academy he set up, including my favourite current skaters, so like...I'm in a strange position where I post about them while ignoring their coach. At first I was fine with that because I was super pissed off at Plushy for being a dick. But...it isn't as if he gets up every day declaring "I love Putin" on social media and I suck at holding a grunge, particularly when I saw that he'd basically become the lightning rod of anti-Russian sentiment in the skating world. There are others who have supported Putin, but Plushy is the only one who's social media is flooded with death threats, "hope your wife gets raped", "hope your sons are killed", "you're the worst person in the world" stuff. Plus, it's kinda of hard to hate someone's guts when you also get glimpses into their life, coaching kids, playing with their son, hugging their dogs and whatnot.
But, I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, of being an apologist and all that jazz, so I keep flip flopping about never ever mentioning him again on the board and...mentioning him. Although, I've kind of already mentioned him, because someone posted about him "getting away" with being a Putin supporter, which I thought was pretty BS considering...you know...all the death threats and stuff.
But wait I did get up to something today, I went to my parents place as did my little bro for lunch. This was a belated Mother's Day/Little Bro birthday lunch, with roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, roast vegetables and a sponge cake I bought from the supermarket. Seriously yummy! :OD There was even a bit of ice cream, noice.
It's always good to hang out with the family, I actually thought we were going to my grandparents place, which I've been hoping to do so I can catch up with M (grandma) because I got her a playing card holder, she has shaky hands these days so we've had trouble playing Canasta together. Guess I'll have to wait until next weekend.
Oh! And I also went ice skating yesterday for the first time in months, I got new skates at the beginning of this year and due to the lack of skating I'm still getting used to them - I think the toepicks are bigger on the blades then on my original skates. Also, it's super crowded and when I first arrived the ice was pretty gritty from all the skaters, but not long after I arrived the Zamboni came out and smoothed everything, so I ended up having a good time. The only downside, I'm still a nervous driver, so I took public transport and it took like an hour and a half to get there and another hour and a half to get back. I really should try and work on my driving, I can do short distances these days - like between my parent's place and my apartment and work and home, I even drove the little bro to his apartment today because alas his car had a problem - but seeing as I have my own car and the rink is a forty minute drive, or maybe less I'd save quite a bit of time if I could drive there.
Anyway, I'm not sure really wanted to read all that, but if you did, good on you!
On that note though I better wrap this up as I left my kitchen a mess and I've really got to work on not doing that, because I'm an adult God damnit (for real, I'm 38 years old o.O)
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Hygiene
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Reach for the laser with Antic's Sims-ulator!
I wonder how many times over the last few years I've posted on here saying that I'm hoping to get back in the journalling game and then never posted again...LOL...probably at least three times.
Anyway, I'm watching Back to the Future Part II on TV right now, and it reminded me of the good old days, when I was young and free and full of stories. I honestly have no idea where my creativity wandered off to. I did start writing a fanfic a few years back, but I ran out of steam and never got around to finishing it. I also gave up on NaNoWriMo. Although I was reminded of it the other day, when I finally got around to fixing all my passwords using one of those password generator apps. It's still going...maybe I should give Camp NaNo a go this year.
So, as ever the issue is what do you update about in your journal when you don't have much to update about? I'm still here in my apartmento and I'm still gainfully employed (hell yeah, whoo!) I have thus far avoided the Rona, although my little bro, and parents have caught it. Fortunately, all were fully vaccinated and have recovered just fine. :O) The power of science.
There's also great news politics-wise (I know, good political news? No wai!), last week we had our federal election here in Australia and joy of joys...the Labor Party won! Hell yeah! Finally the general population woke up and smelt the bushfire smoke among other things and decided to kick the former conservative government to the kerb. In a reversal of 2019's election the state of Queensland actually came through! Unfortunately, there were some serious floods up there earlier this year and I think they finally got the memo. Now obviously it won't be all sunshine and roses, but I feel like we're going in the right direction. A lot of Independent candidates got in as well, including my electorate, which used to be hardcore Liberal (Conservative) voters, so this is also new.
The rest of the world news, is, of course, nowhere near as good...especially the war in Ukraine :O( Beyond the horror of the fact that people are being killed and a country destroyed because of one guy's insane push to achieve a place in history, there's the impact on the rest of the world with the price of everything going up and on a more personal and first world problem aspect there's the impact it has on figure skating. Namely, Russian athletes (subsidised by the Government) are not allowed to compete, which due to Putin's shitty habit of using them to glorify himself, is fair enough. But it does mean many of my favourites are probably never going to reach their potential and compete on the international stage.
Also...my favourite skater now coach, Plushy kind of...came out in support of Putin and is bascially a persona non-grata in the figure skating forum I'm on. There's lots of students in the Academy he set up, including my favourite current skaters, so like...I'm in a strange position where I post about them while ignoring their coach. At first I was fine with that because I was super pissed off at Plushy for being a dick. But...it isn't as if he gets up every day declaring "I love Putin" on social media and I suck at holding a grunge, particularly when I saw that he'd basically become the lightning rod of anti-Russian sentiment in the skating world. There are others who have supported Putin, but Plushy is the only one who's social media is flooded with death threats, "hope your wife gets raped", "hope your sons are killed", "you're the worst person in the world" stuff. Plus, it's kinda of hard to hate someone's guts when you also get glimpses into their life, coaching kids, playing with their son, hugging their dogs and whatnot.
But, I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, of being an apologist and all that jazz, so I keep flip flopping about never ever mentioning him again on the board and...mentioning him. Although, I've kind of already mentioned him, because someone posted about him "getting away" with being a Putin supporter, which I thought was pretty BS considering...you know...all the death threats and stuff.
But wait I did get up to something today, I went to my parents place as did my little bro for lunch. This was a belated Mother's Day/Little Bro birthday lunch, with roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, roast vegetables and a sponge cake I bought from the supermarket. Seriously yummy! :OD There was even a bit of ice cream, noice.
It's always good to hang out with the family, I actually thought we were going to my grandparents place, which I've been hoping to do so I can catch up with M (grandma) because I got her a playing card holder, she has shaky hands these days so we've had trouble playing Canasta together. Guess I'll have to wait until next weekend.
Oh! And I also went ice skating yesterday for the first time in months, I got new skates at the beginning of this year and due to the lack of skating I'm still getting used to them - I think the toepicks are bigger on the blades then on my original skates. Also, it's super crowded and when I first arrived the ice was pretty gritty from all the skaters, but not long after I arrived the Zamboni came out and smoothed everything, so I ended up having a good time. The only downside, I'm still a nervous driver, so I took public transport and it took like an hour and a half to get there and another hour and a half to get back. I really should try and work on my driving, I can do short distances these days - like between my parent's place and my apartment and work and home, I even drove the little bro to his apartment today because alas his car had a problem - but seeing as I have my own car and the rink is a forty minute drive, or maybe less I'd save quite a bit of time if I could drive there.
Anyway, I'm not sure really wanted to read all that, but if you did, good on you!
On that note though I better wrap this up as I left my kitchen a mess and I've really got to work on not doing that, because I'm an adult God damnit (for real, I'm 38 years old o.O)
Hunger
Comfort
Hygiene
Energy
Fun
Social
Bladder
Room
Randomness
Reach for the laser with Antic's Sims-ulator!