When the master colourist asks if you’re feeling adventurous, you say YES! 😂

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The end result: a more intense, pinky-red. And yeah, I kept the streak. 😎

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It’s turned into a lovely day! We went for a cheeky afternoon beer at Staves. 🍻☀️

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Friday night in Chippendale – meat pie, chips, peas, and a craft beer! 🍺

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My sewing machine is on the boat from Germany, so I’m sad to say there won’t be any Oscar sock monkey contest this year! But if there was, it would’ve been a set of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” monkeys, with multiple changes of clothes/universes for each. 🥯🦝

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Chicken scaloppine and Caprese salad. The Snook is really outdoing himself in 2023…❤️

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Me: “You don’t use ‘scungies’ very much.”
Rodd: “I prefer ‘grundies.’” 😂

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Let the record show that I INVENTED THIS in the third grade science fair in 1985, with my overly ambitious project “The Solar Heated Home of Tomorrow,” in which my Dad built me a plywood house with a hole in the roof and I taped Ziploc bags of water inside. 👩‍🔬😂

I’m glad conventional science has finally caught up!

• https://boingboing.net/2023/01/09/can-windows-filled-with-water-help-you-heat-and-cool-your-home.html

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Blog post: I’m having fun geeking out with my new mechanical keyboard. I figured out how to remap one of the keys to be a physical mute button, with a persistent state indicator via desktop notifications!

Keychron K8 Pro and a physical mute microphone button

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A trip to the Opera House to see Michael Sheen in Amadeus! 😍

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I bought this H&M dress in Munich before we left but didn’t have an occasion to wear it until now! 👗

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Post-theater izakaya dinner at Nakano Darling. I missed having easy access to excellent Asian food! Karaage chicken, corn cheese, gyoza, and beer. 🍻

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Is there an escaped herd of elephants running through Sydney?

Nope. Kris got a mechanical keyboard. 😍💥

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Lots of folks post on social media when they change their mobile number, right? Well, this is the rare post to announce that I’ve managed to keep my old, pre-existing Aussie mobile number thanks to several helpful folks at Telstra. (I know, right?!) So if you know it, it’s the same one. 🙂

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So lovely to finally catch up with @jpofoz and @_gadgetgirl_! We always pick up right where we left off. Missed these ladies… ❤️🍷🧀

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The neighbours across the street have been feeding the rainbow lorikeets. That was charming and very “We’re not in Munich anymore!” for, oh, one day. Since then it’s been three weeks of constant screeching of parrots every time we open a door or window. 😩

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Sydney folks with longer hair – can anybody recommend a nice salon in the Inner West? I used to go to Noddy’s on King and I’m happy to go back there, but thought I’d check first if there are any other suggestions…

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On days like today, it’s hard to remember why we ever wanted to live anywhere else!

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We built one shoe organiser, two night tables, and a dresser and didn’t use a single hex key! Did IKEA phase them out at some point?! 🤯

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Went for a walk around Blackwattle Bay and stopped in at the Toxteth in Glebe for a ($10!!! 🤯) schooner of VB on the way home… 🍻

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