Time

Today marks six months since I picked up the keys to my New Life in the City.

Monday will be six months since Brandy, Whiskey and I moved in and had our first night sleeping here.

Tomorrow will be twenty years since I wrote my first entry on the Meanderings blog. A Sunday afternoon shift at the Psalter Lane library, sun shining, few visitors and me looking to see what this blog thing was that I had been invited to explore by the computer system. (I didn't know then, really, what a blog was.)

If I am surprised to note that it is six months since I picked up the keys to the flat (and I am) I am astounded that it has been twenty years since the genesis of Meanderings, both that the time has passed and that I kept at it. My attention span doesn't normally run for two decades.

Time is a funny thing. It has been passing at speed this week. Whole days have been vanishing without me properly noticing them. 

I did very little on Sunday. I managed to stagger out of the flat to go to the supermarket for some cat food and that was pretty much it. 

I went to work on Monday, which was more challenging than it ordinarily is. Trams aren't running along Spencer Street for two weeks while they repair the tracks.  So I took a tram up Collins Street and changed to the 86 at Gertrude Street in Fitzroy. I intended to  change in the city but I got on a tram which I knew intersected with the 86 at Gertrude Street, so figured I might as well stay on. 

Yesterday I finally gave in and went and bought a carpet sweeper for my two rugs. I had a carpet sweeper in Eilish Court. I didn't bring it because I knew the flat didn't have carpets. I didn't want to buy another one. Moving is expensive enough without replacing things that you DECIDED you weren't going to need and now find that you do. My broom does sweep up the cat fur but it doesn't do a very good job of cleaning the rugs. The carpet sweeper does - and picks up quite a bit more cat fur. Money well spent, I suppose but if I should ever be foolish enough to move again I am going to take absolutely everything with me and sort it out once I am settled 😂

I met briefly with Freyja while I was at her end of the city and came home on the City Circle tram. If you catch a tram which was primarily intended for tourists, it should not be surprising that tourists use it. It does surprise me, though, how many people use it. I wonder if there will be as many visitors over the winter.

And now today is also in serious danger of disappearing on me. It is only mid-morning but I am still not dressed, nor have I yet done anything particularly useful. I had better put myself into gear and get myself moving!

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