Out early so as not to wake the house

Stressed, for no reason what-so-ever and awake at 4 am.
I decide to sneak out for a coffee because if I'm moving around the house, making a drink etc, the dogs will wake up and then wake up everyone else.

At least with coffee and my book, I can relax and watch the other insomniacs come in for food and a drink.
Eventually got tired again around 7 am, went home and caught a few more hours of sleep.

Quiet start to the day

7 am and sun rise is still 30 minutes away.
This morning (aka 4.30 am) with the dogs sleeping on me, I decided move to the lounge and test my sleeping bag. The label says I should be good down to zero, but the lounge is still about 10 degrees and outside on the front deck it's not much colder.

Anyway back to a 7 am wake up, dressed and out the door by 7.20 for a coffee

After coffee, I head out to Mitre 10 hardware for a canister of camp stove gas. Kids laugh every time I buy something from an overseas web site, but my little camp stove arrived 2 weeks early, with everything it promised and once home with my gas, it tested beautifully - reckon apart from some serious hiking clothes, I should be good for hiking up to the snow line by November when the weather warms up a bit.

 Before getting home, I visited Kmart, hoping to find some nice fashionable, aka trendy tights, looks like I was too late but somewhere here should be a neoprene one piece swimsuit (probably only 1 mm) but no sign of any and checking just now, their online store has also run out. Bugger, I would have loved a super tight neoprene one piece, hopefully they will re-stock soon.

Home again.
Wife's just woken up and I'm about to make her morning coffee, that's her in the background attempting to pat the dog (he's so fast, it would be easier to pat a bird as it passes by).

Renovations have stopped, builders have moved on to another job and have been away so long, that the bags of cement they left here for the next stage have nearly turned into concrete paving slabs.
I'm hoping to get to the rock climbing venue soon, I want to learn single rope ascending, would love to go in girl mode and wear tights as they are flexible and comfortable, but I think the harness strapped around the top of my legs might cause an issue 😄

Lost my Girl

The cold bug lasted longer than I expected (9 days) and at the end, I realized Rachel has been missing since last Monday.
Without Rachel in my life, I'm starting to get hairier than a Wookie convention.
Normally, most people would "purge" their inner girl stuff (clothes, make up etc) during one of these phases, goodness knows I have about 3 times in my life, but Rachel always returns and hates it when I throw her stuff out.
I'm kind of expecting Rachel to "turn up" once I'm 100% fit but to be honest, I'm glad she's away at the moment as it allows me to think about cool boy stuff (rock climbing, skiing, motorbikes etc).

Sick day

Woke up late, whole body in pain, following 2 of my trans friends down that "flu" path, least it can't be "man flu".

10 am Coffee and muffin

You know it's a bad day when you have to wipe your nose 20 seconds after putting foundation on.


















Just enough time for coffee before my nose kicks off again so it's a race home and back to bed for 2 hours.

Lunch time, first stop the library to return a programming book, then off for Burger King (Hungry Jacks for you Aussies) "Hawaiian Burger". The nice staff at the shopping mall food court took this photo for you girls, sorry the background looks empty, there were some loud boys near the Indian food outlet and about 18 other elderly and families down the quieter side.

 After lunch I managed to get another hour and a bit of sleep before picking up my youngest daughter (16) and taking her for driving lessons. She enjoyed it until I made her drive back home where traffic was quite a bit heavier.

Building renovations

Our double garage / laundry refit is progressing nicely.
It was a nice functional area, but needed extra work to become a "habitable space" - ie, bedrooms
In the mean time our laundry is outside on the deck.

Luckily, rather than stressing me, this is the wife's project and she is okay with the progress.

Me, I need girl time to relax, although now it's cool in the night, I end up having a cat and a dog sleeping on me, while I stay awake trying to kick the buggers off me.
So half asleep, I do a few hardware pickups and then had brunch at Columbus Coffee with my girlfriend

 

Brunch for me was a nice sausage roll and coffee while JJ had pancake breakfast.
During our walk around Sylvia Park shops, we stopped and tried on some stuff at H&M. She bought a new dress for work while I tried on a beautiful blue top. I'm trying to save money for a trip to Australia and had to focus on that.