First run

 Been pretty hectic and working non-stop on the new place since June. Making progress!

Went for a run - first one since 28 June (according to my records) where I went for a run on my own account. We do some exercise for work, but even that has been lacking due to all the downtime I've had. Not too bad - did 2.9km in 18min, going to be feeling it in the morning!

Edit late 25 Jan - yup, really feeling it in my legs!

Joys of Palmerston

Waiting in the carpark, all I can hear is a constant stream of fighting, shouting, cursing and breaking bottles. Kind of admirable really, that they have the energy to keep on carrying on non-stop.

And it's a Wednesday night, not even the weekend yet.

And still busy

Making some progress, but still very time poor. I don't expect that to change any time soon.

So, so busy

New place, lots of space but so much work to do. Not enough hours in the day, or dollars in the bank. :(

Got my Vivillion

 Yay! Took a while and I was way behind most other people, but I finally collected from the last region. Turns out I had enough friends (other players, not actual friends) from around the world to get most of them. Savanah and Sandstorm I was able to get relatively easily but the last one - Tundra - proved quite elusive. I had needed just one more for ages!

Another box ticked, wheee!

Making an offer

We've found another property and have made an offer on it. Fingers crossed!

We had a nice big property we'd been chasing for a few years (long story), it finally went to auction a few weeks ago but we were outbid. And of course my pet peeve, the reserve was higher than it should have been. Seems like such a waste of time to me - just come out and say what the seller wants for the property rather than running through the charade of an auction just to wrap it up with "reserve not met".

If we don't get it, we'll keep looking. If we do get it, we'll have a few busy weekends... for the next year or three.

Everything everywhere all at once

We tried watching this movie the other day, it's meant to be some you-beut aweseomsauce movie ... but we just couldn't get into it. Very muddled, hard to follow - not for us. Loads of people liked it (I believe it won a bunch of awards as well), but not our thing.

In a similar vein, a few weeks prior we watched the Queen biopic. I can honestly say I never thought about Freddy Mercury's name. Now that I've spent three seconds thinking about it, it is kind of obvious that it was a stage name. I didn't realise his ethnicity either - again, probably because I don't spend a lot of time thinking about celebrities.

The way I normally work is I'll like a specific song (or songs) from a band but not be a fan of their other stuff. No idea why, but I know some other people love bands and all their works. I'm not a fan of country music, but there are some specific country songs that I like.