Yrae Chronicles

Today it has been:

o 33 degrees and dry
o hailing
o not just hailing, but golf-ball hail. In ADELAIDE*
o still 31 degrees at this point
o bright sunshine again not even 20 minutes later
o more giant hail
o while it was sunny
o ALL THIS in the space of an hour and a half
o it is now humid af and still 23 degrees

Yeah climate change is ttly a myth =|




* Adelaide hail, ftr, is ball-bearing sized. It has never in my entire 31+ years been bigger than ball-bearings. GOLF BALLS WTF.

38, 39*, 40**, 41, 42... Just as we were thinking, well, we've had a few spikes but no holy-shit-heatwaves yet... HELLO SUMMER. Meanwhile Sydney's getting pummelled by fricking tornadoes and hailstones the size of golf balls. What the actual shit. Amazingly we're not on fire, but eh, early days yet.

I'm not going for runs right now. We get a cool change on Sunday though! Only 30, yessss. See if that sticks.

In other news, I got a hair cut yaaaaay. And a second ear piercing! Which I've been wanting to do for a while but never thought about it while I was actually at the hairdresser. Even less ouchy than I remember it being the first time around, and I don't remember it being particularly ouchy then, either. So that's cool.

It's quarter to eleven at night and it's still over 31 goddamn degrees.



* That was today's forecast, actually ended up being a touch over 41 so this bodes well.
** That's what yesterday said tomorrow's forecast was, but it's now up to 42. It was just nice how it was slowly counting up, degree by horrible degree. Now the bomsite's just decided 'nope screw it. all of the hot. aLL OF IT.'

HAH I'm not the only one who uses Maya to cheat get the perspective right.

...I have so much more exciting stuff to update on than that. I just never feel like actually typing it all out once it's done XD;

o Welcomed cousin back to Australia from the UK! She's only here for Christmas til she goes back again for New Year, aww. Big Christmas-esque lunch with her and family, followed by the most epic game of backyard cricket we've had in YEARS. Mostly we just sorta halfarse it out of tradition. No idea what made it go for an hour this time XD

o You're not the only ones who can do snow in December, bitches. DIDN'T I TELL YOU IT WAS COLD? I THINK I DID.

o Graduation was boring as all hell, I was number 29 of about 300 who walked across the stage of the Convention Centre to accept my degree. It took two hours o/ But then we went out to lunch after, which was lovely~ and tasty~ but not as good as Alphutte, where we WANTED to go but they were full.

o It's supposed to be 34 on Christmas Day. I'm dubious.

o Official move-out date is now officially 15-16 January. It was going to be this weekend, but then engagements cropped up to postpone it. Either way, Anna P's current housemate is moving out first week of January, so I'll move in the second weekend :D

o Work Christmas dinner was last weekend! Man that was fun. Jan got us balloons and we had a balloon animal/hat competition. It was unanimously decided that my 'lion' looked more like a poodle with haemorrhoids.

o We actually won a cricket match! Like, a real one, not backyard cricket! I wish we could've had that match here. Day three of the Perth Test was so much more epic than the day three at Adelaide that we went to =(

Tour Down Under's going through my part of the Hills today, so naturally it's 40 degrees. I swear this happens every year. Who'd be a cyclist, srsly?

Welp, plastic bags at the supermarket checkout are officially banned. Only in SA, of course, cos we get subjected to weird things like that. So now the whole state is asking, as we have been since the announcement a year ago, what the frig do we use to line our bins with now? How many plastic bags ACTUALLY just get thrown out, without being used as bin liners, as storage for dirty clothes or bathers on the way back from the beach, covering up food to keep it fresh in the fridge, stop bugs from eating it on the mantlepiece?

And apparently all the greenies are pressuring other states to take up the bag ban. NO, REST OF AUSTRALIA, DON'T DO IT. It's more stupid than the upcoming ban on incandescent light globes D: (which IS nationwide. Yeah.)

Again, I say, I didn't bloody vote for 'em. Well, Mr Rann? What do YOU line your kitchen bin with, hmm?

And as if four months of uni holidays just isn't enough, Adelaide Cup public holiday~ HURRAH! ¬¬ Why can't our public holidays be more spread out? We have ten throughout the year, and nine of them are all in the space of six months. From the Queen's Birthday in June through to Christmas, there's only Labour Day in October =/ Adelaide Cup and Queen's Birthday we could so move to some time in spring. Not like it's her actual birthday, after all.

HI I'M BORED :D HOW ARE YOU?

Sakuuuuuu I got my scarf today! I love it so much~ <3 I can't wait for it to cool down so I can wear it :DDD The colours are GORGEOUS and a scarf with pockets is just an awesome idea <3! THANK YOU SO MUCH HUN! And to the Sallie for buying it for me!

OUR COOL CHANGE HAS HIT. Yes, we now have a south wind, blowing straight off the Antarctic and crossing thousands of kilometres of Southern Ocean to drop the temperature by ten degrees. It's now only 33. Poor Melbourne's in the middle of their hottest day on record hitting 46.2 I think they said on the radio? I FEEL FOR YOU, MELBOURNIANS OF THE FLIST. WE HAD THAT LAST WEEK, TOO D:

Spent most of yesterday afternoon/evening in the pool~ which was lovely, especially after dinner when the whole family was in, glass of wine/bottle of beer in hand, floating around talking about Bali, and the potential for going back there this winter. That would be lovely <3

Updated~ just a coupla piccies.

Still hot, aircon still the best invention ever. You can keep your wheel and sliced bread, I'll take the aircon.

37 on Australia Day. Yesterday was 41, today was supposed to be 41 but so far it's hit 42 even here in the Hills, tomorrow is FOURTY-FREAKING-FOUR, Friday 41, Saturday 40, Sunday 40... Monday 39, Tuesday 38. And that's as far as the forecast goes.

And yaknow what? I'M COOL THIS TIME. THANK FUCK FOR AIRCON. OH MY GOD THIS IS BLISS. IT'S FORTY-TWO DEGREES OUTSIDE AND I'M COOL.

I was going to say I could also rest easy in the knowledge that this time, the rest of the country is getting it, too, but really it only seems to be Melbourne. Everyone else is sort of puttering around the mid 30s for the next week. WEAKLINGS. Perth gets a cool change by Sunday~ so maybe we'll get it next Wednesday. We can only hope, cos that's when I want to go buy my laptop~ =DD