Weeknotes for October 2023

🐶 Orla monitoring

Spent a lot of time monitoring the pup, had a couple of follow-up blood tests, all of which are looking good. She is totally back to herself now, which is the biggest marker for things being OK. We certainly dodged a bullet. This month, I also took some time to make a shrine to her on Neocities.

🎂 Birthdays

Had several birthday celebrations this month. All with cake and merriment. My dad, my fiance's nan, and one of my good friends all turned a year older.

🍂 Made autumn wreaths at work

Part of my work's culture club activities was a group session making autumn wreaths. I used dried hydrangeas, craspedia, bunny's tail grass and eucalyptus to create mine. I've hung it indoors so it will last longer than being on the front door. Such seasonal vibes!

🌟 8 year anniversary with my boo

We aren't very good at celebrating and it fell inside a very very busy week, but we hung out, did a sunrise sea dip together to mark it.

🐶 Walking Murphy

Helping out my fiance's mum, who had knee surgery this month. We took her pup Murphy for a few evening walks whilst she was recovering.

🐶 Dog sat Effie

Love looking after the Spanador, Effie, Orla's bestie.

🌟 Work anniversary

It's been 4 years at my current place of work. A good time to take stock and see how far I've come. I wrote an article on my developer story and decided to...

💸 Became a Neocities supporter

Which also gives me access to a custom domain and all file types!

🌲 Walk in the woods

On a free (original plans fell through) weekend, we took the car out to a local woodland I hadn't been before. It was gorgeous, quiet, and earthy. The trees weren't quite as old and the canopy was not as thick, but it reminded me of the forests in Vancouver from our trip in April 2023.

👯 Rescheduled sister visit

My sister originally cancelled a visit earlier in the month because she was poorly. We haven't had a sisterly catch up (just me and her) in probably about a year, it was long long overdue. We had a lot of heavy, deep and meaningfuls. It was so good to catch up and want to do it more.

🎃 Halloween event at work

I hosted a Halloween event at work, getting people to submit photos, artwork and code based tools and games for a gallery. It was nerve-wracking to put myself out there and run it, and I sunk so much time into building the webpage for the gallery and writing poems and RPG style posts for the company channel to get everyone onboard, but I am super proud of hosting it and will be running one for Christmas too! Here is a screenshot of the gallery with the final submissions:

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