#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A man (30s?) greets a friend with a hug and a booming: "Hey Big Man! Wanna catch up so you can tell me about your mahi*. It's been ages. Ages!"
His friend laughs and returns the hug. "Yeah. Why not now? I've always got time for you, my bro."

At a community plant swap:
A woman (70s?) hones in, shark like, on another woman's plants.
Scowling, she says: "They're from stolen cuttings from MY garden!"
The other grins. "Yep! They were hanging over MY fence."
The Great Cutting War of 2025 starts!
(And soon ends thanks to tea and cake.)

A man (30s?) is wrangling a jelly-boned tiny human (1?) who is doing her best to be sideways, upside down and diagonal in Dad's arms.
But no fear!
He's obviously a Jelly Human Wrangling Master and is managing to calmly eat a bowl of ramen without spilling a drop.

A total bubble of a woman (20s?) is cheerfully greeting people who've come to support her on her first day working at a popular bar and beer garden. Her enthusiasm is catching and everyone who chats to her walks away happier.
Her new boss watches on, stoic but for a fleeting half smile.

A man (70s?) sits across from a teen (14?), placing a big slab of caramel slice** between them.
Minutes later they're having an animated conversation about Japanese cinema and movies.
Grandad loves Godzilla movies.
Teen loves Dandadan.
Expressions animated. Crumbs flying as they laugh.

(Continued Below)

#Journal of a slightly tired Dutch Pixy (Monday, 08/09/2025).

Due to me wanting to catch a glimpse of the Blood Moon, I had little sleep, and what sleep I got, was rather broken. So of course my scores were not enthusiastic about me and my health choices at all 😂. I think I got my lowest sleep score ever, and my phone almost seemed worried over me. It was a score of 14! With less than 4 hours of sleep, and that being broken up... Yeah, that wasn't my best idea! But, I did see a bit of that red moon and the eclipse! My energy score was at 54, but I don't think that it will get any better, as long as Samsung keeps telling me I need to sleep when it's dark because that's better for my body and recovery. I guess Samsung doesn't know about "silly NeuroSpicy 🌶️" folks that thrive better on a night owl routine... 🤔

I got up, as I was already dressed and I had used the scale before watching the moon, and I slowly got ready to head to the gym. The moon was normal again, and Skoosh brought me to the gym without any issues. I started my "gym routine" by enjoying the protein shake and checking my social media bits. Then, I got to the seated bike for half an hour. I even rode a wee bit on level two. It felt harder, but somehow, it also made me feel a bit better for being able to do it for a while. The small improvements can be really helpful when you've had so many setbacks since the first surgery...

After that, I got to the treadmill. I was aiming on getting a bit faster walk, as I felt that the slower walking was one of the causes now for making me hobbling more. I walked for 15 minutes and managed almost 1500 steps in that time. I got to 0,87km, which meant that my average speed was near the 3,5kmh. Not too bad, if I may say so myself. I wanted to walk a bit longer, but there was a man that came to the treadmills when I was riding the bike. And it seemed like he was ill in some way, as he kept coughing and scraping his throat and spluttering as he went... It sounded so gross, and he never held something in front of his mouth while he did all the gross bits. I had taken the treadmill the furthest away from him, and I gave him a disgusted look, as the gurgling was making me a tad nauseous 🤢 (I am really sensitive for things like this, especially when I see the person taking no precautions for keeping their germs to themselves). Even with my NC headphones, even with a TV series on my phone, I just had to go away after 15 minutes... Ugh!

I headed, with a big detour, to the strength machines and I used the leg abductor (cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2023/… - hope the link works, it's to a little bit I wrote about it a few years ago on my blog) for a bit. Then, I decided to slowly start my arm training again (I do miss my better looking shoulders 😇 ), so I started it with the converging chest press (cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2023/… Press - another link to the same post on my blog, just to this machine). After a few simple reps on both these machines, I was really annoyed with the gross dude and yeah, I just got ready to leave. I didn't even enjoy a massage in the chair, as I wanted to escape the nasty sounds... 😔 So I switched my shoes, packed my bag, and headed back to Skoosh.

When I got back home, I changed my clothes and then got to the couch. I grabbed my tablet and worked on my journal toot. When it was done, I grabbed the laptop and I added the journal bit to my blog post, and I added the needed images and alt texts. While I had my laptop, I installed my journal app to it as well. As I have been using the journal app for quite a while, there were a few 😉 entries for the laptop to gather. While the laptop did it's thing, I got to the treadmill for a morning walk. As the weather was rather wet, it seemed the better option to just walk on the mill.

I had a movie on the tablet and I did my best with the walk. I walked for 30 minutes, which was a bit challenging (when walking outside, you have some "rest" points where you need to wait for traffic and such, on the mill, you just keep going). I had managed an average speed of 3,4kmh, which was rather decent. Especially since I found out that I had turned the knob one click too far when setting the incline, that it had been on 3% for the walk. After the walk, the laptop was almost done with the downloads. So, while it kept working on that, I "jumped" in the shower, as I needed to wash my hair and all, as we had a hairdresser 💇🏼‍♂️ appointment that afternoon.

It is still a bit challenging to shower, as it takes some extra spoons at the moment. When I was dressed again, the laptop was done. I used some of my old blog journal posts to copy in entries that I had forgotten to add to the journal app when I wrote them for the blog. There are still quite a few days that I did write my journal for my blog, but never entered it in the app. 😔 I finished all the missing entries for January 2024, and then I got ready to head upstairs.

I was riding my half hour when bestie called on her way to work. I managed to ride on level 2 for a while, yay me! But, the weather was rather humid, and that was noticeable indoors as well, so when I was done with my half hour, I felt like I needed a shower again. 😅 I relaxed for a while, while using my phone to add some pictures to the diary app that I had been adding the entries to earlier.

As a friend was coming over this morning, I did my best to try and clean up bits here and there. I swept the floors and was all ready when she was on her way to me. My friend was a bit later than I had expected her, but we had a nice chat. I fixed something to drink and after a while, I made some snacks. We had been sitting and chatting for a while, when my leg was getting a tad cramped. I suggested a little walk, as the weather was good enough for it, and my friend didn't mind a walk, so we headed out.

The walk was indeed what my leg needed. We had something more to drink afterwards, and then we got ready to head out. She went home and I went to my parents for the hairdresser. Dad had asked me to help with his laptop, so I figured to go a little earlier to see what we could do. But, when I got there, he was in bed, and he stayed in bed until shortly before the hairdresser arrived... 😔 Ah well, I can use mine so...

The hairdresser weeded out my big bushy hairdo and when she was done, it was nice and shorter again. I got my things and headed back home again, as I wanted to beat traffic and I was hoping to have a parking space behind the house. The neighborhood is still a big mess and I fear it will only get worse before it may ever get better... They were working in the street that leads to the parking. If Skoosh were any bigger, I could not have even reached the parking due to a big sandtruck being in the middle of it all. But, even though there were 4 free parking spots, someone thought it was necessary to park near the little entry/exit bit, and again, if Skoosh were any bigger (or I would not know her well enough), I would not have been able to park. Ugh, I was so cranky for all the asshats and their parking. And I fear what will happen when the need to do the street bit leading to the parking, as it's one of the only bits here where we can safely park... 😔

I made myself some soup and relaxed with some telly until it was time to get ready for bed. I went to bed a little earlier as I was really exhausted due to the short night leading to today. While watching a movie on my phone, as there was noise outside that I needed to mask, I dozed off... When I woke up for the loo, I saw a long message from a sweet friend that I had been worried about as I had not heard from them in almost 2 months, even though I had sent several texts their way. So, I had to read their message before trying to sleep some more again.

I dozed off again and then I woke a bit after midnight. I got up and started my day/night. I didn't have a whole lot of sleep, according to my watch, but it was a bit over 6 hours, so a little improvement... I can't wait for the silly bruises and the last bit of edema to finally sod off so that I can be more comfortable in bed again. I went to the scale, which was a bit nicer now. Then, I got dressed and I was ready for the Tuesday...

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PS. The image added was taken Sunday evening, but I edited it a wee bit, so I unclude it today, as I had no new snaps made this day...