We have a new cat, and two days after joining us she curled up on my chest and went to sleep with her tiny soft head pressing into my neck. I think that might be what I needed to fix me. Thank you Maple.

One of the valuable family services @jsr.com provides is that if something happens on the Internet and I don’t have time to figure it out I can say “hey babe, what’s up with the goose?” and I will be Enlightened.

“Which diacritic is most suitable here?” muses our son as he shitposts about the cat. Apples, trees, etc.

Those “my cat: does nothing / me: delighted” memes really hit different when your cat is 19. We genuinely congratulate him for continuing to stay alive hour by hour. YOU’RE STILL BREATHING! GOOD WORK BUDDY!

I may be in a state at the moment but look at this beautiful garden eel card from my kid, I am very lucky 🍀 (I LOVE GARDEN EELS.)

Took the time to make myself a slightly elaborate lunch and feel much better about the day.

True Autumn is when the butter left out on the bench for spreading is no longer spreadable 😭

Made apple and berry crumble, chocolate tiramisu, banana spice cupcakes, cheesy potato gratin, and onion and potato soup. Reckon that’s time to sit down.

I don’t want to be a thousand years old but I just ordered takeaways for two people (I’m not even having anything!!) and I cannot BELIEVE HOW MUCH THIS COSTS 😭

I’m a lil stinker but apparently married an appropriately stinker-appreciative spouse 😘

It’s that JSR@jsr.com · 5mo ago

It is our 17th wedding anniversary today. I continue to have exactly zero regrets about this situation, and m'colleague @annettle.bsky.social continues to be an absolute delight in every possible way.

Pro tip get your milk from the Indian supermarket - our local has 2x2L for $6.50 (also they’re very nice, shout out Super Spice & Grocery in Wairau)

Over the past week our neighbours have chopped down a lot of tall trees and hedging between our houses, on their side of the boundary so fair enough, but now I feel very self-conscious when I stand in the driveway yelling Baby baby who’s a baby? Oh look, big boy big boy, who’s the biggest boy?

Post-lunch depression (I ate my lunch and now I can’t eat it again).

Put raspberry essence in my coffee to feel something new; can’t really recommend.

Failed at blood donation 😰 Haemoglobin, I do not have it.

The wind is winding so hard the whole house is shaking 🌬️ I have to go out soon! (Luckily not across the harbour bridge.)

Christmas Eve is probably not the best day to Revenge Bedtime… I was staying up to mind the pav but the oven went off 20 minutes ago 🙈

Oh my god do not drive anywhere the traffic the traffic

Visiting one of my favourite food stores (Davis) because they’re just around the corner from IKEA and once that opens on Thursday I won’t be able to cope with the traffic for… forever? 😰

My favourite sort of dog is medium brown, medium coat, medium size. The absolute middle sliders dog.

Got an MMR booster because I’m in the age range that only had one dose as a kid. Easy and free! Let’s not let measles make a comeback please 🤞

If it’s true that travelling helps you discover your true self, I have discovered I am never happier than when I see a cat in an unexpected place and eat an unusual ice cream.

On the ground in Hong Kong! Flight was smooth, now to stay up as late as I can to get used to the time difference ☺️

On Friday I get to eat TWO AEROPLANE MEALS and then I’ll be ON HOLIDAY how good is that?! (I’m too busy and overwhelmed to really think beyond the plane meals yet 😅)

The entire week @jsr.com and the kid were away I was worried that Naboo was being distant and withdrawn bc he never joined me in bed and didn’t want to hang out much, but since they got home last night he has been glued to JSR like a surgically attached koala. Guess we know who’s the favourite 😳

I drank an extra coffee, for my agonies. Now I have different agonies.

ESPECIALLY when it’s something like exercise where every random drive-by person will have some irrelevant opinion. (I know, I know, just talk to people in real life. Don’t even get me started on how hard that is these days.)

There needs to be an accepted etiquette for “I just want to comment on something about my life but I’m not looking for advice” 🥲

Our current family thing is to be aggressively loving to each other so we will enter the room and yell “GET LOVED, NERD. GET ABSOLUTELY VALUED AND CHERISHED.” (I figure at least we’re giving the kid prime memoir material.)

That was all in between running my Saturday errands, keeping up with Courtney and Ruth running UTMB and finishing a knitting project. I will try and take it easy tomorrow though 🥲