Yrae Chronicles

RIGHT THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS, SELF. Regardless of... whatever excuses you come up with... neglecting LJ is Not Cool. I do read it daily, but apparently I don't update, like, ever. So this changes now. Minimum weekly updates from here on. Because the last one was in frICKING JUNE. AND THAT WAS ONLY A NOTHING POST. Actual life update was MAY wtf. So yeah.

Winter happened. Not much went on in winter. I dropped the ball on fitness which I firmly blame on the weather. The fitness thing I was doing started requiring daily walks, which is Hard when you get home at bang on sunset and literally every walk is in the dark and cold and potentially wet, so that didn't go much further than mid-June, sadly. I picked it up again this week, so this program will take me through til Christmas, and the weather will only improve in the runup. Also, daylight savings means I'll hardly ever have to do the outdoor stuff at night.

Also in winter, some family drama that I've been sworn to secrecy over and that has been going on since lasts December all came to a head. That week I didn't manage to go a day without crying about it, and I still can't make it through a week without at least one or two crying-fits about it. This has been consuming me all year, but even more since it 'finished' (it didn't) in August. UGH shutting up now before I say anything incriminating.

IN OTHER NEWS. Art of Cocoa is becoming a thing. That is a purely default layout, btw, including the header image that has nothing at all to do with cocoa. I was going to keep it totally secret until I was ready to make it properly public, but I'm too excited. I love that logo. I had so much fun making it! The plan for this month is to make up a welcome pack for ten local cafés, with a sample jar of the mix for the café to distribute to customers and a short survey for customers to fill out. This is to see whether the idea is even viable as a business, and whether people are likely to buy it. First plan is for selling it to cafés, then if that goes well, see about getting it into supermarkets. I'M SO SCARED BUT SO EXCITED AT THE SAME TIME. After job hunting for over four years (well, three, since I've deliberately not done any job hunting this year) and getting nowhere, I thought I'd give this a shot as a backup plan. omfg how awesome would it be, though?

Last weekend, Joe (boyfriend) and I drove to Melbourne for the AFL Grand Final because MY BOYS MADE IT! omg the week leading up to it was so awesome. Crows stuff all over Adelaide, streamers and balloons in cafés and supermarkets and hanging from fences and letterboxes, excitement everywhere, EEE! I knocked off work early on Friday and we headed off at 3pm, driving up the freeway with hundreds of other cars with Crows scarves on the dashboards, hanging out the windows and on the back shelf. Every town was decked out in the navy, red and gold all the way to the border and it was so exciting 8D Then we got over border to Victoria and even the electronic street signs were saying 'Welcome, Crows, to Tiger Country.' Really they should've said 'Tiger Land' being as that's their theme song, but whatever.

For the game on Saturday, we went to a local pub with Joe's dad and his wife, who live in Essendon, so while the pub was full of Victorians, it at least wasn't Richmond and they were more just jumping on the Richmond bandwagon rather than actually die hard supporters. As we Crows were X)

The first quarter was AWESOME. We came out of the blocks hard, scored the first two goals in emphatic fashion, and I was super confident. All through the year, as long as we've won the first quarter, we've been sweet. If we stuff it then we're playing catch-up and we suck at that. But we came out hard and it was SO MUCH FUN waving my Crows scarf around amongst the half-hearted Tigers. Won the first quarter, then lost the second by not scoring a single goddamn goal all quarter, but we were still only nine points down. IT'S FINE it's only nine points, that's bugger-all in footy, not even two goals. But somehow, we just collapsed after half time. Couldn't kick straight, fumbled everything, did not at all play like the team we'd been all through September. Eventually the final siren ended our agony at 60 to 108, so that sucked. Felt despondent the rest of the weekend, didn't turn on the telly all Monday, but at least we didn't lose by anywhere near as much as Port did in their last Grand Final, so we've still got that over them :D?

ALSO I got into work on Tuesday (public holiday on Monday) to find my workmate had managed to secure me a mini SNES over the weekend! So I promptly paid her for that and now have it in my hot little hands here ♥

Rory continues to be an adorable tiny kitty, though he's probably fully-grown now. He's SUCH a sweetie I love him.

This month I'm going to replot the end of Gold AGAIN and maybe get back to writing it. Also going to make a genuine effort at commenting on friends' stuff cos damnit that's the only contact I get with people. AND POST MOAR omfg. Weekly! WEEKLY POSTS! DO IT!