daily update

[wickedcherub]

world news
Our covid numbers in Victoria have skyrocketed. It's really disheartening, tbh. We've broken the record for the longest lockdown in the world and everyone in my circle of control and influence is vaccinated. NSW numbers are dropping rapidly so maybe we can vaccinate our way out of this. My kids are desperate to go back to school though. This is going to have lifelong effects on them.

I woke up to find that Facebook and Instagram and Whatsapp and whatever else that company owns was all down. Like, apparently their staff couldn't even get into their building lol. I only use FB for crochet groups and my local neighbourhood group. I could easily live without Instagram, I think I only use it for Humans of New York! I do use Whatsapp a lot though.

There was a bit of a discussion about where people would go if Twitter went down as well. Well, I would be here for starters. I think I'd get my world news/social stuff from Reddit, unfortunately. Maybe I'd head back to Tumblr for the fandom stuff? Some people mentioned that they would be fine just on Discord. I couldn't do it. I wouldn't even know where to start to find my friends that I don't already have on there, you can't find actual people or servers on that thing. Discord is just a glorified group chat to me, I can't operate on the large topic based servers.

life news
I felt blah yesterday so I.. shopped. I bought an expensive set of 150 pencils and some watercolour markers. Yep. Totally necessary. I think that they did fill my criteria for retail therapy though - aesthetically pleasing and the potential to be transformed into something else. It's the *potential* that's important.

My bedroom reno was finished (finally. It's been.. 5 years of sleeping in a hellhole) and I went to buy a new quilt cover set online and it was so hard. I found one I liked from Pottery Barn but it was like $74 for one pillow case or something ludicrous. I found one I liked finally from Pillow Talk, and they took like a week to ten days to even SHIP it, and then Auspost took a good three weeks after that, so it's been forever. But it arrived and it looks so nice I'm so pleased. It's this one. It's hard to find walk the line between masculine and feminine I think!

Anyway, all this to say, it also arrived with a navy blue linen quilt set that I *didn't* buy. It looks really nice for Winter. I don't know if it was an accident or a free gift, but it's mine now and I'm mollified.

I have a tea subscription from Alem Tea and today I'm trying the Lychee Blossoms which has "Ingredients: Green tea, dried fruit pieces (papaya & pineapple), chrysanthemum flowers, safflowers & natural flavour." and it's really nice. It's cold today so I'm all cosy.

fandom news
It was (is?) Xiao Zhan's birthday and I'm not really into celebrating celeb's birthdays tbh.

I'm hearing the Coldplay x BTS song on the radio and on the supermarket radio now, so that's lovely. I maintain that Jung Kook's lines in that song are like, god tier boy band delivery. I haven't heard a line so smooth and so clear in a long time.

I really want to watch Squid Game because FOMO but Adam hasn't been in the mood yet, and I'm sure I should wait for him because people will talk about the show around him.

I think CS Pacat's Dark Rise novel is being delivered today, I'm looking forward to that! I've yet to read the second Ronan novel by Maggie Stiefvader though, I'm really running behind on my reading. There's only so many hours in the day and Toby's been keen for family time after dinner.