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Sat, Jan. 11th, 2025 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annarti
Happy new everyone! 🥳
I keep meaning to do more of a retrospective every year but it just never seems to happen. Sitting down to actually go through everything is a lot, y'know? Maybe if I actually keep up with making entries this year it'll happen for 2025, hah. Not for 2024 cos I~ can't be arsed. Instead, have some 2025 plans.
Holidays were lovely 💚 I made a big effort in getting the garden back up to snuff, which has been suffering from lack of water, so I did a proper rehydration of all the dirt, cut back all the dead bits and bought a bunch of new leafy things to fill in the gaps where stuff died. Also bought new little dichondra for the lawn, which did really well last season until I sucked at watering it, and even then it still lives around the edges. So this year I'm going to make a real effort with the garden, get the dichondra looking gorgeous and lush, hopefully cover the area by next summer. It was really fast growing last time so I'm hopeful.
Also, chillies! I want to get into Mexican cooking, but every time I look at a recipe book they always have like three different chillies in them. In Australia, we have big ones, little ones and green ones. If you have an awesome supermarket like my local, you can maybe get jalapeños. Our exoctic foods are very much geared towards Asian, so if you want galangal or Vietnamese mint or Thai basil, you're good. Different chillies? Not a chance. SO. I asked the Discord of Tasting History for some recommendations of chillies to plant in a Mexican-targeted garden. They gave five different ones, so I bought seeds to grow those last year annnnnd haven't yet planted them. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow >> But yeah, wanna get into Mexican X9
Last garden thing, I want a desert lime. I've tried growing finger lime but keep killing them because I don't water them. I have a regular old Tahitian lime but the sodding thing's biggest season has been to produce six limes. I dream of producing enough limes that I can make a mojito out of the thing, but after 11 years in the ground it's done next to nothing. So. I'm trying to source a desert lime. Surely I can't kill something that lives in the desert.
I know I say it every year, but fitness every day. Ideally lose 25kg but that'd just be the icing on the cake. I want to at least be able to fit into the clothes I bought last time I lost weight, cos I've got some really nice stuff and I can't get it on anymore, which sucks. So yes. Fitness every day. After work is easy, just drive to the beach instead of to work, but doing something on weekends is hard. Motivating to leave the house and take like two hours out of my day for it is effort. That'll be the challenge.
I want to save enough money to finally do up the kitchen next year. I think this is doable? Signs are that interest rates will drop next RBA meeting, which would help. It's not like I spend a lot anyway so I'm not sure what I can do about that, but that's the plan. Kitchen next year.
Also, on the house, I want to sort out the studio. Since Amanda moved in, she has a lot of hobbies that take up a lot of space: beading, sewing (three sewing machines and so much fabric), knitting/crocheting (HEAPS of yarn), a lot of painting and art supplies. All of this is awesome except that everything's literally just dumped in the studio right now. Piles and boxes and boxes and it's just a nightmare opening the door now. Used to be my favourite room in the house, now it's all but unusable with my tiny little corner for my computer. So this year that's getting sorted out. If it means installing a wardrobe type effect for storage, then so be it. I just can't handle it the way it is.
Writing I already went into so won't touch on that here.
I want to try posting on Insta daily, and here weekly. Not a bad start, but if I drop a day here and there, try not to let that get to me and just keep up with it.
That'll do :D
I keep meaning to do more of a retrospective every year but it just never seems to happen. Sitting down to actually go through everything is a lot, y'know? Maybe if I actually keep up with making entries this year it'll happen for 2025, hah. Not for 2024 cos I~ can't be arsed. Instead, have some 2025 plans.
Holidays were lovely 💚 I made a big effort in getting the garden back up to snuff, which has been suffering from lack of water, so I did a proper rehydration of all the dirt, cut back all the dead bits and bought a bunch of new leafy things to fill in the gaps where stuff died. Also bought new little dichondra for the lawn, which did really well last season until I sucked at watering it, and even then it still lives around the edges. So this year I'm going to make a real effort with the garden, get the dichondra looking gorgeous and lush, hopefully cover the area by next summer. It was really fast growing last time so I'm hopeful.
Also, chillies! I want to get into Mexican cooking, but every time I look at a recipe book they always have like three different chillies in them. In Australia, we have big ones, little ones and green ones. If you have an awesome supermarket like my local, you can maybe get jalapeños. Our exoctic foods are very much geared towards Asian, so if you want galangal or Vietnamese mint or Thai basil, you're good. Different chillies? Not a chance. SO. I asked the Discord of Tasting History for some recommendations of chillies to plant in a Mexican-targeted garden. They gave five different ones, so I bought seeds to grow those last year annnnnd haven't yet planted them. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow >> But yeah, wanna get into Mexican X9
Last garden thing, I want a desert lime. I've tried growing finger lime but keep killing them because I don't water them. I have a regular old Tahitian lime but the sodding thing's biggest season has been to produce six limes. I dream of producing enough limes that I can make a mojito out of the thing, but after 11 years in the ground it's done next to nothing. So. I'm trying to source a desert lime. Surely I can't kill something that lives in the desert.
I know I say it every year, but fitness every day. Ideally lose 25kg but that'd just be the icing on the cake. I want to at least be able to fit into the clothes I bought last time I lost weight, cos I've got some really nice stuff and I can't get it on anymore, which sucks. So yes. Fitness every day. After work is easy, just drive to the beach instead of to work, but doing something on weekends is hard. Motivating to leave the house and take like two hours out of my day for it is effort. That'll be the challenge.
I want to save enough money to finally do up the kitchen next year. I think this is doable? Signs are that interest rates will drop next RBA meeting, which would help. It's not like I spend a lot anyway so I'm not sure what I can do about that, but that's the plan. Kitchen next year.
Also, on the house, I want to sort out the studio. Since Amanda moved in, she has a lot of hobbies that take up a lot of space: beading, sewing (three sewing machines and so much fabric), knitting/crocheting (HEAPS of yarn), a lot of painting and art supplies. All of this is awesome except that everything's literally just dumped in the studio right now. Piles and boxes and boxes and it's just a nightmare opening the door now. Used to be my favourite room in the house, now it's all but unusable with my tiny little corner for my computer. So this year that's getting sorted out. If it means installing a wardrobe type effect for storage, then so be it. I just can't handle it the way it is.
Writing I already went into so won't touch on that here.
I want to try posting on Insta daily, and here weekly. Not a bad start, but if I drop a day here and there, try not to let that get to me and just keep up with it.
That'll do :D