Good afternoon friends! How are we going today? The weather in Melbourne is sunny today which is great - we definitely need some sunshine and vitamin D and it's my last ever day of work at my current company so I'm making use of all resources that I have available like I did yesterday.
This morning we woke up a bit later than normal as we had a late night last night - we went to The Imperfects Tour - although we were a bit late as Luke's cricket finished later than we expected. I genuinely thought the event was going to go for a long time but it finished up at 9:30. What we did see of it was pretty interesting though - and funny. Didn't get to see Hamish Blake or anyone like that though. It took ages to drive back from the city though (Melbourne traffic after events/sports is awful - actually, it's always awful - especially to someone who's definition of rush hour traffic is getting home 10 minutes later than normal haha). I suppose those are the pros of growing up in NZ. Anyway, when we got home we also wanted to have a hot bevvy to wind down - Luke's choice of bevvy was a peppermint tea and I had a hot chocolate with marshmallows. I don't think we got to sleep until after 11:30 so feeling it today. Although that could also be the chronic fatigue and health issues also. It's really hard to tell whether the iron is making a difference or not, but we'll keep getting regular check ups and following medical advice.
I've been playing around with Canva's AI tools today too and it's so weird what you can do. I'll upload a pic now - I think I just put in "Pastel sky with rainbows and cottage core vibes" and this is what it came up with:
I mean it's kinda cute but the quality isn't there just yet. I actually think this would be a cute image to paint so maybe we'll keep this one for that later on! I have all my paint gear in the lounge but just haven't had a chance to paint anything yet and I definitely want to! Now I really have no excuse haha. I think a lot of the other apps have better quality but I really am bias towards Canva because of how much I've learned about it and designing. Isn't it weird how AI is suddenly taking over the world?
Today, I've put Luke in charge of our Sundays errands so I can focus on wrapping up the last of my admin tasks at work and hopefully help the team out once I'm gone. So he's in charge of dinner and I think we're also going to do groceries tonight if we can/I'm not too tired after work as we're really low on a lot of things. My brain fog is also quite intense today - and that's a symptom of iron deficiency that people don't really talk about and I get it, it's embarrassing but I just wish people were more open. Although, I get why they're not, after how companies might treat people with chronic health conditions. There has to be a way to capitalise on chronic health issues ahaha (let's see what happens for me).
I'm also getting excited as I'm going to be able to catch up on all my TV shows and YouTube videos that I need to watch. I remember that used to be my Saturday downtime back in CHCH was just watching YouTube and also my snack days. I'd make cute mini charcuterie boards for just myself. I don't know why I go through periods where I don't watch anything at all and then other times, where all I do is watch stuff. It's kinda like playing video games - I'll go for months without playing something then randomly pick it up again one day and play all the time. I guess that it's good this way because I don't get overly addicted or anything like that. It's also insane the amount of money people make streaming their video games. Like why do we watch this? I bet someone is doing research on that as we speak!
I think I'll end today's blog there and hopefully tomorrow is a more coherent one - it might be an afternoon one or an evening one as we have a bit on tomorrow but I'll write about all that tomorrow. For today's question, I want to know what is your favourite day of the week? Let me know in the comments below. Mine is most likely Thursday or Friday because I used to do "Thankful Thursday" as an Instagram post where I would share a photo and list everything that I was thankful for on the Thursday, even if it was really small things and also Friday because Friday used to always have good tv shows on when I was younger and it's the day right before the weekend so always seems to have chill vibes.
Ka kite,
Much love,
Ash xx
Probably Friday or Saturday like a lot of other people 😅