First time going to someone else's house apart from our home. Technically our parents' houses our still our homes. Almost all my belongings except essentials are still at home (and no way will I have time to go through and chuck uni/high/primary school stuff, let along junk accumulated in 20 years). For Blair who has moved out before, he has moved most things since there's less to move. I can't be bothered going there on my day off to clean my old stuff, so most of the things are important enough to get I guess. I prefer cleaning our apartment lol.
It's good to talk to my parents irl, since with language barriers, it's too hard to communicate on social media. Tbh, I rather not talk to them on phone and just make the effort to go there.
I've always thought (more when I was young) that flowers are a 'rich peoples' thing. I guess now as a FT worker, it's more the thought and gesture behind it. I've been thinking how to have some home decor stuff in the apartment without creating more junk. Flowers are hard, fresh flowers smell lovely and gives a nice subtle scent to the place, but cutting it and changing water every 2 days is too much hassle for me. Also, not to talk about the cost of always getting fresh flowers regularly when I'm not even home most of the time. Artificial flowers look nice, but imagine all the dust it'll accumulate, and the extra fiddly dusting you have to do makes me celebs, and I prefer real flowers. Dried flowers could work, and I've seen quite of lot on Instagram lately, but again, they serve no purpose apart for looking nice, and collect dust. At least green plants give oxygen, but pot plants aren't easy in an apartment since there's more soil involved and everything is indoors. So in the end, cbh for home decor. Looks nice when other people do stuff, but I'm not as passionate.
Flowers for occasions are nice though. Won some flowers from Poho and a vase through Insta. I love the way Poho do their flowers with the blue wrapping, and their smell of their roses is my favourite. I'm not a big fan of rose perfumes and hand creams, but these roses smell better than roses from elsewhere. First time I got them was a year ago for my grad, now a year later and I have a small arrangement. The vase here cost $220, still can't believe how it can cost so much even if it's handmade...One of the taller flower snapped and was hanging on by a string, so I sticky tapped it, and it's still alive after a week.
For Blair's Mum, flowers ordered from The Ministry of Flowers. She was the kid ministry worker in my old church like 10 years ago, now turned into a florist. The whole bunch was so tall when you held it.
Mum's flowers ordered from The Ground by Silva. The wrapping and foliage covered the flowers inside the bouquet, so front on it looks like a small bunch and not many flowers.
Top view and there were about 3 roses and some other flowers hidden away. I'm not good with flower names...
Delivery for this bunch was not cheap at $55 (which could buy half a large bouquet and a small one), but when I ordered online they had a sale, and also free gift with organic body scrub, so I thought why not. Tbh, I've never actually got flowers for Mother's Day, since it's not really a thing in our house holds, despite what the marketing world says, but because I'm not able to spend more time with her now, decided to get something a bit extra. It was quite a large bunch and also has some dried flower bits which I might ask if I can get if Mum doesn't use it, and see if I can do a dried flower bouquet without purchasing one...
A cute posy from Nara and Joel after their wedding in March. Can't believe it's been almost 2 months ago...thankful for their friendship
The extra time not working full time has mainly been cleaning and iso-baking. Ordered a puzzle which doesn't come until September, but decided to keep the order and do it for when we have friends over. Don't have any gaming consoles, since PS4 still at parents home, and sort of lent to my brother. All Switches sold out in April, and expected to come in June, but I don't have time to game anyway. I need a break from k dramas since I've watched 4 in less than 4 weeks during March-April. Still watching other shows, but when May hit, definitely have been watching less things. So much online shopping has happened, didn't realise we needed so many things, even though I could get it at the shops in person, the lines were always too long.
Clothing shops have been starting to open up last week, and more this week. At work, were back to 30min appointments, and don't have the extra 10mins for a deep clean. Probs no more free parking soon.
Our Qantas tickets were finally refunded after 2 months. Still waiting on some hotels though. Most European budget airlines have given us a flight voucher, but I doubt we can even travel to the same places we wanted to within 12 month period.
Although I miss eating out and hanging with friends in person, I've quite like this isolation period of just staying at home. If only our couch would come soon...Hope people continue to be responsible so lockdown can be lifted soon.
