Just Another Day

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I am currently lying in bed listening to a storm approaching.

It’s loud but there’s not been much (if any) rain so far. LOTS of lightning and thunder!

I enjoyed another quiet day, rising very late, after a restless night with tummy issues.

After Harley play, Adoring Husband and I caught up on last weeks Gogglebox episode and then decided to check Netflix.

I have been searching for the Clare Dane/Leonardo Di Caprio version of Romeo and Juliet for about 2 years and today, it suddenly popped up on Netflix!

So I prepared my lunch/dinner at 3pm and set myself in front of the TV with AH beside me and enjoyed every minute of this great movie.

AH had never seen it. The only thing that he knew about Romeo and Juliet, was that it was written by William Shakespeare. He didn’t even know the story.

Even though the language is difficult to follow, the movie is done well enough that you can easily follow and understand what’s going on.

AH remained awake and even became a little emotional in places. That’s saying a lot!

After that, we watched some live golf and I came to bed at 7pm, have already napped briefly (until Harley jumped on me), and I’m ready for an early night to make up for last night.

Nite all.

Coupla Dayz

Shared by Doctors for Covid Ethics:

“Dancing nurses were never about the morale of healthcare workers or stress relief. They were a test, a sorting mechanism, revealing who would accept the contradictions and who would resist them. These videos on TikTok, which appeared simultaneously across all continents while governments declared medical emergencies, represented something unprecedented in the history of propaganda: the authorities showed that they could make populations accept two mutually exclusive realities at the same time. [Hospitals were "overwhelmed" and yet doctors and nurses spent hours rehearsing dance routines.]

What we witnessed was not traditional propaganda aimed at persuasion, but something more akin to what abuse experts recognize as gaslighting on a large scale. The psychological mechanism was elegant in its cruelty: it presented citizens with an apparent contradiction—hospitals that were both overcrowded and empty enough for choreographed routines—and then punished them socially for noticing it. 

This essay explores how this technique fits into the broader context of psychological warfare 

The dancing-nurses were a test for the distortion of reality. Once populations accepted this initial contradiction, they were prepared for more: each accepted absurdity weakened the public’s ability to trust their own observations.

This technique seems to draw inspiration from what Michael Hoffman calls “method disclosure“ — the practice of cryptocracy revealing its activities in plain sight, knowing that public inaction in the face of such a revelation produces a discouraging effect. The message becomes: “We can show you the contradiction between our words and our actions, and you will do nothing. You will accept both the lie and the evidence of it.” It is a form of ritual humiliation that works not through concealment, but through unabashed display. Almost four years later, we can see how this enterprise created precedents that persist.

On Thursday, while BGWLBH spent time in The Bay and Adoring Husband played golf, I had a very pleasant couple of hours at the local club with an old friend who I haven’t seen for over a year.

When I arrived home, both BGWLBH and AH were home too. Unexpected that was!

I heated up leftover crumbed chicken for dinner, served it with leftover coleslaw and potato salad. I made a fresh garden salad to go with it.

Today was a fabulously luscious bed day where I learnt more about quantum science, I journaled, I caught up on Jet lag the game and MAFS UK, and at 5pm the Indian Golf Championship was televised.

I made myself a pizza at lunch time and ate 2/3 of it so I didn’t need any more food. AH made some soursop tea for me this evening.

Friday night is chicken wing night (cooked by AH) so I didn’t have to spend time in the kitchen.

Now I need to sleep! It’s almost 11.30pm!

Nite all.

Precious Time

Time alone is rare and precious for me.

Today gave me some of that precious time.

BGWLBH drove into town and I declined Adoring Husband’s offer to join him in The Bay, so I had 2.5 hours alone in the house.

I spent most of that time in the kitchen! I made a lemon cheesecake and 4 mini cheesecake tarts with the leftovers. Quite delicious, but not as lemony as I’d hoped. I even doubled the amount of lemon in the ingredients list. Anyway AH enjoyed it.

Last week, I bought some chicken, spinach and pine nut sausages from Go Natural - they are from Eumundi. I cooked them today and they are delicious! So I’ll buy them again.

I did a quick and easy spaghetti bol for dinner with the last of the frozen stores, but AH didn’t eat it because he was feeling unwell.

I am in bed early and I’m going to write some of my book and get in a couple of hours of productivity before sleeping.

Nite all.

River Chat Time

It was easy to get out of bed early this morning for meditation - easier than it’s been for some months and I arrived at the hall a few minutes early. It was a full class again and the 90 minutes passed quickly.

Afterwards, I met The Gypsy down by the river, where we chatted for over two hours.

The weather was absolutely glorious! The tide was high, the water was clear and blue, the breeze was cooling and pleasant, the birds were singing and friendly enough to land on the seat beside me!

There were people walking their dogs, families barbecuing their lunch, a man feeding the pelicans, a couple of guys fishing off the bank and a woman sitting on a bench seat reading a book.

The morning was quite lovely.

I had to visit the butcher before heading home where Adoring Husband and Harley were happy to see me.

The couch was my happy place for the next two hours and after Harley play, I crumbed chicken, whiting fillets and prawns for dinner. I also made a coleslaw, potato salad and chunky salsa.

Now I need to sleep.

Nite all.

A Different Angle

25 English Words That Perfectly Describe Feelings You Can’t Explain 💭

1. Sonder → The realization that every person you see has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

2. Vellichor → The strange nostalgia you feel while standing in an old bookstore.

3. Monachopsis → The subtle feeling of being out of place — even when you belong.

4. Lachesism → The desire to experience disaster just to feel alive again.

5. Onism → The frustration of knowing you’ll never experience everything in the world.

6. Ambedo → A trance-like state where you become completely absorbed by vivid sensory details.

7. Nodus Tollens → The feeling that your life story no longer makes sense to you.

8. Opia → The ambiguous intensity of eye contact — both invasive and vulnerable.

9. Mauerbauertraurigkeit → The inexplicable urge to push people away, even when you love them.

10. Altschmerz → Weariness from the same old emotional struggles you’ve had for years.

11. Hiraeth → A homesickness for a place that no longer exists (or maybe never did).

12. Saudade → A deep, melancholic longing for someone or something absent.

13. Desiderium → The grief of missing something lost — a person, a time, a feeling.

14. Ubuntu → The sense of being connected to others — “I am because we are.”

15. Mångata → The reflection of moonlight that looks like a path on the water.

16. Sehnsucht → An intense, bittersweet yearning for something distant or unattainable.

17. Resfeber → The restless, nervous excitement before a journey begins.

18. Zenosyne → The feeling that time keeps moving faster as you grow older.

19. Rubatosis → The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

20. Déjà rêvé → The eerie sense that you’ve dreamed this moment before.

21. Natsukashii → A sudden fond nostalgia triggered by something small and familiar.

22. Chrysalism → The calm, safe feeling of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

23. Kairos → A fleeting, perfect moment when everything feels right.

24. Ubuntu → The comforting sense of shared humanity and belonging.

25. Eunoia → Beautiful thinking; a pure, well-balanced mind.

#learnenglishwithteacheraubrey

I had a busy, but pleasant day in The Bay with Adoring Husband.

I had an extensive ‘to do’ list and both of us added to the list while we were there.

AH needed keys cut for work and he needed a new filter for his coffee machine.

I got to visit a lady’s boutique and bought 3 new tops. I’ve lost weight and my old clothes are too big (I always buy a size too big so now they’re REALLY big!). My new tops are size 10! That feels weird.

We went to Go Natural and bought a box of goodies including lemon balm, organic garlic paste, organic GF muesli for AH, chicken, spinach and pine nut sausages from Eumundi, ACV with the mother (not Braggs) and a few other things.

The butcher was our next stop … mostly for Harley’s bones and chicken necks (they didn’t have any chicken feet).

We stopped at Petbarn and got some treats, balls and a toy for Harley.

At Stocklands I renewed my lotto tickets and did a big grocery shop at the supermarket.

I did a huge fruit and vegetable shop at Farmgate.

Fresh seafood was last on the list

I was exhausted by the time we got home and it was only 1.30pm!

Tonight’s dinner was sweet potato chips, chicken thighs in onion and tomato gravy served with garden salad.

Now I need to sleep because meditation is early tomorrow.

Nite all.

Typically Sunday

Not much to report.

Number One Son sent through pics and videos of his trip out on the boat today, where they came across pods of whales!

That’s pretty special!

I spent the majority of my day in bed (because Adoring Husband was watching the Bathurst race) watching MAFS UK, more Quantum Science, more journaling and cuddling Harley.

I made curried lamb pastries with tzatziki for dinner.

I also made a berry smoothie for my breakfast.

I brought my washing inside and had Harley play by the pool.

Now I’m ready to sleep.

Nite all.