Time just flies in Stuff

I couldn’t think of what to do today. I was kind of just wandering around aimlessly.
So I went into the city, as I tend to do, just for something to do. I’d already seen the new Jumunji movie, so not much else on I wanted to see there. I wandered around a few shops. I’ve been wanting to get a new bedside table, as the one I have is small but decent, but it’s not tall enough to match my tall bed, and I currently have my crappy little air purifier on top of it so that it actually lines up with my head while I sleep. It’s currently propped up by one of my CD stands haha. So I’d rather a taller one so I can do away with the prop and maybe also have a bit more space on it.
I found myself wandering around target and was surprised to see that they sell linen bedsheet sets. $109, so steep, but man, I’d never seen them anywhere except for hotels haha. So I ummed and ahhed for ages and decided that I will give them a go. So I now have linen bedsheets! :o I figure if I like them, then great, and if I don’t, I’ll just go back to the cotton ones I have. I also had to buy some european pillowcases to go with them to match the new colour, but there weren’t any linen options for those, so I went with a slightly whiter smooth option that they also had there. Unfortunately I don’t get discount at Target like I do at Big W, but the range there was just so much better so I’ve ticked it off as hopefully an investment. I’ll find out tomorrow night, as I’ve washed them when I got home so they are currently drying, but given how hot it is these days, they are probably ready to be thrown on the bed already. I can wait.

I also booked in for a haircut for tomorrow after work, so I won’t look so scruffy, but then I found myself playing with my longer hair at the set of lights and thinking how much I actually like having longer hair. It’s just not practical in this weather though - too freaking hot. I almost went in the pool again today. I probably will soon.

I got an updated text from mum on her sister (Aunty Eileen). They’ve moved her from emergency into the wards, so that’s good. She has a tube from her nose to her stomach so they can give her food and medication. Apparently she opened her eyes and looked straight at her granddaughter’s and then closed them again. It’s hard to tell how she really is from text updates. Mum says they have given her a “new drug” that they have so far had no success with, but if she doesn’t respond to this drug, there will be no chance of survival. So that’s pretty bloody depressing. A new drug with zero success so far?? Geeez. Anyway, after I read that bit of the message, mum said that the only side effect that Eileen seemed to have from the new drug was that she had a sneezing-fit 30 minutes later, but has improved a little! One of the grand-daughters was crying lots, and it’s all a bit too much for them to witness. She still holds my mum’s hand without letting go. That’s the latest update I have. I have no idea if she’s going to make it or not. I woke up this morning half-expecting an update that she’s no longer with us. It’s sad that I’m thinking this way. Maybe she will be the first to react to whatever this “new drug” is? I get the feeling it’s still not looking good.

I went to one of my favourite cafe’s today after buying the sheets and i was about three-quarter’s of the way through my eggs benny when a guy sat in the chair across from me at my table. At first I thought it was someone I knew, but then I looked up and the smell of piss hit my nose and I saw it was a raggedy old homeless guy. Talk about some gall - actually coming into a cafe and sitting across from me! “Can you help me out man? I’m so hungry.”
Old me probably would have given him something, but I was immediately annoyed at the situation. I don’t come into a cafe to relax and enjoy a meal on my day off to have this interrupt me. I’m a right asshole, it seems. But Christ, I hate, absolutely hate, trying to be guilted into things and I was having none of it. “No, sorry,” I must’ve said four times. I could have just given him the last of my meal. I could have. But I didn’t. “Well can you give me 5 bucks then?”. I said no again. I was very uncomfortable. Eventually he moved on. I half-expected him to throw something on the table at me. He went and tried the tactic on a group of friends also trying to enjoy their meal sitting on the other side of the cafe. Ergh.
I was actually wondering if I should have something at that cafe before I went in, and sure enough, this happens when I decided to. I thought about saying something to the waitress that this guy was harassing people, but I didn’t. What am I suppose to say? Should I be that entitled white guy who has a job and can afford a meal and a roof over his head who complains about a homeless guy stinking up the cafe who just wants a feed? When I was ready to leave, the waitress asked how everything was and I said, “Fine thanks”, without adding in, “Could have done without the side of homeless, thanks.”
Call me a bitch, but man, some gall that guy had. It must work for him though if he’s going into cafes and SITTING THE FUCK DOWN ACROSS FROM PEOPLE.

Anyway. Still no reply on the lease renewal. The landlord is probably annoyed that I asked if there’s an incentive haha. We’ll still sign on even if there’s not. I’m glad I checked my internet banking today because I set the scheduled payments to stop when our lease is up. I can’t believe I’ve been here almost a year. No wonder I was at the last place for 11 years. Time just flies.