I’mI was answering a question elsewhere and it reminded of what I saw when I went to Kmart today. The store was in an absolute shambles! I mean when I first went in there was a staff member taking things off the shelves in the ladies clothing section that didn’t belong and throwing them into big steel cages on wheels that were full of the most random stuff; my first thought was “gee that’s an odd way to pick an order” lol. Then as we wandered around I started to notice that, around most of the store the place was in utter disarray. Packages torn open with items missing, and nothing on the shelves corresponding to the shelving tags. But in kids clothing and toys it was absolute carnage. It was like fully 80% of the items had been just ripped off the shelves and thrown back in completely random. I’ve truly never seen anything like it in my life! Shoes weren’t in categories, they were just randomly mixed up and placed on any hanger all together. Shoes were in toys, toys were in homewares, food was everywhere, like a rock star trashed a hotel room. Elder was disgusted by the discovery of random Cheetos and food remnants just shoved in amongst the toys on the shelves, crumbs everywhere. He wanted a NERF gun and had to take care to find one which was unopened and unpillaged from. Many packages were ripped open and presumably stolen from. It was in such a state that I don’t honestly know how you’d even begin to sort it out! A percentage of the stock had just been chucked on the floor and left there. Surely this is not a normal post boxing day sale thing; I’ve seen the old days of Fosseys and Forges and I’ve done boxing Day sales in the past. This was just incredible to see, like in part the store had been deliberately wrecked. I just had to share my middle-aged shock somewhere.

I attacked that holiday to-do list with gusto today. Got some of the painting jobs out of the way and cleaned up the many layers of dirt in my outdoor area. Thinking of hanging up some fairy lights out there for ambience.

Still plenty more to do but feeling accomplished!

Ferret cat

Goodnight everyone. Here’s to a better day tomorrow ❤️

Got startled awake thinking someone was standing outside of my window talking.

It’s Gibson snoring. …

Sorry peeps, I’m about ready to pass out so I might let someone else handle the thread if nobody minds

I did give Jason a go before bed. He did good. Better than expected. There were a couple of things he didn’t pick up that my cheapo from Kmart wouldve

Night!

Saw Anora at the cinema. It’s a wild ride, you can see the car crash is coming and keep bracing for impact, not sure when it will finally hit. Many hilarious moments with the Russian/Armenian fix-it men, but overall a very heavy movie. If I may use the hobbit rating system, I give it 4 hobbits. The lead actress will be an Oscar contender for sure, she made the character so very real in every scene.

Grocery shop done. Took longer than I thought and got caught close to closing time.

Bought a pizza for dinner tonight and will throw it in the oven soon with some extras.

I may have stocked up on too much food I went over my food budget but perhaps that’ll lead to me buying less next time.

Also got some chippies for snacks.

I’m cooking a big batch of corn & zucchini fritters for the freezer. Two dozen done, about another dozen to go. This is rather slow going in my little press which only makes two at a time.

Edit: finished! Three dozen fritters cooked.

Chillo update:

Up they go. No leaf drop.

Pulled off the ultimate prank on the mother in law. They ALWAYS leave cash somewhere when they stay and it shits me to high hell. but she just dropped me off to the airport in her car that she didn’t notice had a mysteriously full tank of petrol. Bloody got her!

Anyone else do the help your parent with their laptop thing and find this…

Jason has been configured. I think. Jason is now sleeping. The instructions say Jason must sleep for at least 4 hours before vacuuming

At about 10:30, Jason is gonna do a lap around the room. Jason is short, but, uhh, a bit wide, so may have some trouble in certain spots but can fit under basically everything

I haven’t entirely Jason-proofed my room yet. Hell try to eat his charger and the blind thingy if I leave them there. Not 100% sure what I can do about either of those though. Don’t really have alternatives

My zucchinis are officially being dipshits.

I have like 13 male flowers in the fridge, the female flowers seem to have died before blossoming and the upcoming ones are still in infancy. One fruit I thought was fertilised rotted off. So between 4 plants there’s one healthy developing fruit which I hand pollinated myself.

The pumpkins can help pollinate them when they get bigger because they’re both cucurbits but I kind of don’t want to cross pollinate because there might be a higher chance of them turning bitter and toxic.

The tomatoes are bushing out and flowering but I’m wondering if it’s too early and a result of stress. I’ve planted everything so late.