Haircuts For The New Year

Haircuts, for the new year. Get 2026 off to a, well, I guess, it would be, neat start, huh. 

So we walked into town with the (4 legged) guys. It wasn't so busy, so that didn't take very long. Both the walk and the cuts.

We ate Indonesian in a place that Sam had just read about in LaTrobe Street, it was nothing special.

It was a lovely day, though.

I was really feeling exhausted by the time we walked home again.

So, then I slept all afternoon on the couch with the sun streaming in the lounge room window, waking just in time for the 6pm news letting the world misery back into our lives.

Erg! I guess now we might get endless Venezuelan protests on our streets, let's hope not. The middle eastern manage to export their hate to all corners of the world, in the last couple of years, let's hope the South American's don't do the same thing.

Anyway...

We watched the rest of And Just Like That. When we started watching it, I messaged David about how bad the scripts were, and he essentially said, 'buckle in, the writing only gets worse.' I thought it got better as the series went on, but it's been cancelled now so what does it matter.

I'll miss Carrie Bradshaw's fabulous fashion, I'm not ashamed to admit it.

Sunday after New Year

I was feeling just as poorly this morning, as I have been feeling the previous few mornings. Something had happened to my left shoulder, not sure what. I don't recover as quickly as I used to.

Sam told me I had to take the dogs for a walk and have lunch, and after we set off, I forgot all about feeling poorly.

It was a gorgeous day walking through the park to Carlton.

A nice couple sat on one side with a rescue dog, that seemed like it was going to have a problem if we sat next to them, but that couple said it was okay, and we did, and it was okay.

A nice couple, with a handsome husband, and what appeared to be two albino sons sat on the other side. He told us all about his Bull Arab he once owned.

We walked home in the sunshine and I felt fine, back to normal.

We watched And Just Like That, season 3.

Saturday Recovery Day

We lay on the couch feeling poorly and recovering all day. We did very little. 

I caught up on all my YouTube car reno shows. It is amazing how quickly they pass by when you have a few days off. And I watched US political news, of course, as much as Trump that I could stomach, of course.

Sam binged watched The Last of Us, second season which just seemed to go on and on and on, it was almost as if they just didn't know how to finish it.

The Second Day of 2026

I woke up at 6am with Otto on the bed with me. It was a bit of a parlarva getting him off the bed, it woke Sam.

Then Brun was barking at the Kookaburra's laughing, so I took him out for a wee, and he started barking at the rooster crowing at the day breaking.

Then Sam was standing next to me. He told me how difficult I was when he had to put me to bed. I remembered nothing.

Adriana got up and we sat and smoked as the sunlight came up.

Sebastian didn't get up until Adriana was leaving at 2pm.

We left at 2.30pm.

We bought fish burgers and chips on the way home from the 'in' place to buy them in North Carlton. People were lined up in the burning afternoon sun.

I fell asleep on the couch in front of the TV.

New Year

We drank champagne at midnight. We all partied all night. We took party things. Oh wow, what didn't we do? Jesus! It was like the old days. Two of Sebastian's neighbours came over and partied with us. They took party things too. She was really lovely, we had a good chat. He was lovely too, we also had a good chat. We all danced the night away. 

Apparently, he had some drama as they walked home, across the paddocks, about her embarrassing him, sheesh, you never know how people are going to come down, now do you.

Adriana and I were up last, 6.30am, when the sun had come up. We sat up smoking and talking shit.

I got up again at 9am. We did more party things around the pool. We swam. The weather got warmer every day, it was great. 

I conked out late afternoon and went to bed and slept until the next morning.