Luke Hand Diary

Errands in the morning. At midday, they fired the cannon at Flagstaff Hill. I walked up. It sounded great! Got fish n chips. Did the lawn. Cut back a lot of weeds along the boardwalk. Hard yakka. Did my nails - mani and pedi. Did some pro bono after an email. Napped. Hit the trees like Sonny Bono. Snacks. M: 4. E: 4. 😐😇😎

Work. Did some bonsai on a cactus. Beautiful, misty day. A few plants in the house have new leaves unfurling. M: 4. E: 4. 😐😴🙂

Work. Lazy day. Will get back in gear in earnest from next week, I swear. Snacked a lot. Napped. Fed the cows. Bin night. Did an apple fitness + workout. Took it easy. Must work out more often. Glutes felt activated. A storm came through in the afternoon. Low, growling, constant thunder. That was interesting. Went out in the rain to check on the cows. Not any shelter in the paddock. They were standing beside each other beside the one structure in the paddock. Cut my lip while shaving. Fucked up! Djoker turned away by border force. That was a fillip to my mood. I needed a good belly laugh. Bet he’ll worm his way in and be allowed to play though. Fuckin maggot. Will finish the cute book I’m reading before bed. The couple in it better stay together! M: 3. E: 3. 😐😴😑🙂

Work. Cleaned the microwave. Did a shopping run for Sai [friend] who’s child tested positive for Covid today. Eek. Neighbour who probably has it got home today too. Getting pretty close to home now! Had a nice hot bath with my book and a cup of tea. I’m seriously unfit. Jesus Christ. Pretty crumby day. This year doesn’t seem to be starting off with much gaiety. M: 3. E: 3. 😐😆😟😇

Back to work. Easing back in to work gently. Slow day. Cooked some pasta sauce. Covid kicking off pretty massively. A bunch of people I know of are getting it. And a new variant is emerging out of France. Wonderful. Walked Rosie with mum and [sister]. Signed up to the Seeing Red patreon. More content to binge! Fucking tennis star granted access into Victoria despite not revealing their vaccination status. Fucking infuriating. Had a call with an old friend. Would love to hang out with them in real life sometime. Bless her. M: 2.5. E: 3.

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Noel painting turned out ok. Liam painting turned out very bad. Skated with [friend] and his children in the morning. Walked Rosie. Made a bunch of fruit juice and froze portions for the week. Watched Im a celebrity get me out of here. Hopefully it gets good. Took a couple Tylenol - slight headache. Saw a fly come right up to the fly screen at the kitchen window and then turn and fly away. I get so angry at flies when they’re in the house, so seeing that was good. Grateful that it didn’t get in. Eric dropped off a part for my Vespa that should come in handy when getting it roadworthied. Fed the cows. Back to work tomoz. Gulp. M: 3.5. E: 3.5. 😇😐😑

Felt so relaxed last night - like I sunk a few centimetres further into the mattress. Slept well but for some reason was totally zonked all day. Market. Napped. Tidied a bit. Painted. Took a long walk with [friend] at sundown. Good chat. M: 4. E: 3. 😴😐

Painted. Walked. Had fish n chips with [sister] and her family, and [sister] and her family, and mum. Damn good chips. Saw baby [niece] with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Pretty cool. Organising day tomorrow I reckon. [Sister] and family leave tomorrow. [Niece] is so lovely and so ridiculously cute. Hopefully get to see her again in a few weeks. M: 4. E: 4. 😐

Slept very well. Early walk. Coffee at the beach. Had Nerds and Snickers for breakfast - just to show the nephews that being a grown up rules, and being a kid drools. Lazed around. Went for a paddle beside Merri Island at low tide. Need to remember to take snorkels some time. Rode the motorcycle. Fed the cows. Did some painting that I’ve been meaning to do for ages. The sun at dusk was really unusual. Had a weird colour and glow. Cool clouds. Had some drinks and chill with mum and [sister] on the deck. Walked up to the early fireworks with mum. Pretty nice. Two years off the turps. Interesting. What a funny old year. Resolutions for next year include: losing weight, eating more fruit, eating breakfast regularly. Doing some more painting and hanging out alone for a bit. M: 6. E: 6. 😇😍😆🙂😎😁

Slept well in the Airbnb. Nice and firm mattress and good traffic sound. Had to shake a tail feather as soon as I got out of bed to make it out in time for check out time. Messaged Reiko about the pizza that I couldn’t cook in the apartment and I dropped the pizza off to them. She and Andre have a super cute apartment in East Melb. Jealous. I sweated through a t-shirt while talking with them and looked like a bedlamite. Met Harry at Jolimont and walked into the city. Had a souvlaki with him. Then had to hurry for my train. Train ended up being cancelled for a bus and being a whole drama in itself. I helped a lady put her bag up in the overhead rack. Then when we arrived at Warrnambool, I was helping her get it down and a bunch of stuff had tipped out. There were a bunch of people waiting for us to get out of the way, so I was just shovelling things to her - fistfuls of knickers, a well worn hair brush, etc. She said it was embarrassing. She was nice! Warm day. Walked home. Hung out with [sister and partner] and baby, and [cousin’s family]. Had Indian dinner with mum. Walk with [sister] and mum. Very glad to have had a shower and not feel gross after a couple of hot days. I’m glad I got out of town, even just for a night. Looking forward to more trips in the new year. Need a beach swim tomorrow I think. Fed the cows. Bin night. Listening to harp music in bed with the fan on high. Very comfortable. M: 6.5. E: 7. 😇🙂😍