- It’s funny and neat that my morning routine tied to reading a few pages of my book before looking at any screens has made it possible for me to go so long without derailing on my morning toothbrushing goal. Absurd and typical that that was the trick, for me.
- Lisa will be making lemon drizzle cake today.
- Nope, still a lot grateful for the increased tidiness and ease of hoovering the house.
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- Preorders from Portal Bookshop!
- My dad’s finally rigged up something to make my treadmill work despite our tilted floor.
- Cookie dough.
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- Treadmill is not quite functional yet, but we have fairly high hopes.
- Got even more of the house tidied and cleaned properly today. I feel so much better for it, though I try not to kick myself about things falling by the wayside a bit when both me and Lisa are struggling with our depression.
- Last therapy session tomorrow; I should even be able to come off my medication.
- Treadmill! For real this time!
- Therapy done! My PTSD is massively mitigated, and we even ended up talking about rugby. (It was relevant, though, I swear.)
- My appointment for my second vaccine shot has been moved sooner.
- My hair is nice and short now.
- Chatting with my mum and showing her our wildflower garden.
- Apparently we have some oriental poppies in our garden. Surprise!
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- Subtle Blood by KJ Charles - a satisfying end to the Will Darling series. I love her plots.
- This glimpse of what the live-action Sandman series will look like is amazing.
- Good Omens 2 IS A THING!! It will use ideas discussed by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
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- Saturday is my day off.
- Rogue/Ninja is a fun class on FFXIV that takes a lot of thought.
- My sunburn isn’t toooo bad.
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Beeminder and my belated realisation that I can Beeminder gratitude posts.
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Jeremy modified our gas stove lighter gun so that it doesn’t need fuel! It just does a click to make a spark now (previously a cap had stopped the spark reaching the stove’s burner).
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Queensland’s latest covid outbreak seems to be under control after just a few days of lockdown and contact tracing.
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- Watching rugby yesterday was fun.
- @alys, who is the best.
- The heavy rain and thunder today is lovely. I can hear the rain falling over the sound of our washing machine and everything.
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- A friend chatting about the new area she lives in now and seeming so happy about it.
- Having an unexpectedly good time with a book Beeminder “made” me read.
- I got a new widget after my computer’s last update, and I was all set to hate it, but it keeps telling me when rain is coming in a way that’s really useful. So, uh, thanks Windows!
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- Jeremy made my favourite kind of cake.
- Burgers with bacon for lunch.
- A lazy day doing not much at all.
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- I have realised that I’m a mature adult who is capable of doing mature things like buying a block of haloumi cheese to cook and eat at home. I don’t know why I never thought of this before but this is life-changing.
- This adorable photo of a bee’s butt
- I’ve started breeding mealworms as a healthy food for butcherbirds, scrub turkeys, and lizards, and the birds love them (the lizards are mostly hibernating right now).
Any recipes in mind? 
We are big fans of halloumi burgers, but most other stuff we find is for salads and so on, which is nice but… moar halloumi is good halloumi.
- Going for a walk today, to somewhere we haven’t been for a while!
- Lisa knitted me pretty socks to wear with my walking boots that make them a bit less roomy, and this is my first chance to wear them.
- Cool, rainy weather.
- Jeremy and his cooking.
- Hot water bottles. It is DEFINITELY that time of year again here.
- Warm blankets over my lap while working.
- Grill halloumi
- Allow to cool slightly.
- Pick up with fingers.
- Chew squeakily.
I am not a subtle eater. 
Jeremy has been putting slices of it on home-made beef burgers and put some in a salad, grilled and cut - both were nice.
- I took some seed pods from a wild oriental poppy and dried them over the winter, then sowed them in the tiny “wildflower meadow” my dad made. We’ve got one and it’s in flower now!
- I got a book token so I’ve ended up ordering a book I want… free!
- Second stabbination today, so soon I will be a fully inducted member of House Pfizer.
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- Enchiladas for dinner last night.
- Our cat snuggling under the covers with me this morning.
- This fascinating Twitter thread about prehistoric cave art and how it would have looked very different when viewed with flickering firelight - some images were created to look three dimensional and to appear to move!
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- I am double-vaccinated!
- I had some side effects, but a paracetamol, a drink and some fresh air made me feel a lot better.
- I feel like I will sleep well tonight.
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- Lunch with a friend.
- The cafe made a perfect cup of tea. They’re always good but this one was especially nice.
- A slow walk along the river, which is flowing strongly after rain.
- 9 hours of sleep! I did pop awake after 7.5, as is my wont, but for once I was able to turn over and fall asleep again.
- Kind of proud that in a training session, my wife used me as an example of someone who has intrinsic motivation to do my job (genuinely wanting to help users). I’m glad it shows.
- Thea Gilmore is making a huge step which sounds really cathartic and important for her. I’ve loved all her music (19 albums!) but, from what I pieced together about her divorce from her husband who was also her producer, I’ve worried about how she was going to go on. It sounds like she’s gonna do great, and even if her music goes in a direction I don’t love, I’m grateful she able to take a step forward.
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