Dear readers,

Ooh that does sound weird saying that in my head. Welcome back to another infrequent post by yours truly, this time coming to you from my smartphone! I've finally motivated myself enough to log in to Publish0x on my phone rather than using the trusty old Chromebook.

I think for this post I'll mostly just vent about my life as I feel I've been having a rather tough time lately (mostly due to work).

My workplace is a very negative place to be right now, every day is a new problem that snowballs into yesterday's problem and there doesn't appear to be a light at the end of the tunnel to get me through. There's new management bringing "fresh" ideas which just seems to be more of the same passing the buck for the actual work that needs to be done but taking all the praise and credit for the work once it's done. Everyone in my office feels the need to get out before things get worse but we all feel trapped as the jobs market is always pretty bleak before Christmas. The only solace I can take from this job is that it is allowing me to put money into savings for the first time in my adult life, not that I'm actually saving much, but it's better than having nothing to fall back on should I find myself without a job. I find myself daydreaming of a better life where I'd invested in crypto at the right time and am able to live modestly off the earnings and spending my time pursuing worthwhile interests, I'd love to own some land to grow trees or fruit and vegetables. 

Moving this on to a more positive note, I've managed to get a Sycamore seed to sprout in a pot in my small home office, adding this seedling to my two tiny Ponytail Palms I have hanging on, a few pots of Aloe Vera and a small Juniper shrub that was sold as a mini Christmas tree, I have a small indoor garden on the go that is one of the few things besides my family and my hobbies that is bringing happiness to my life right now.

Not sure how long this post will be as doing it on mobile makes it seem longer than it might actually be. I think I'll actually mention food now as that's this is meant to be about haha!

This burger is from a holiday earlier this year, back when my work life balance was good and no trouble was on the horizon. It's a halloumi, beef, cheese and pineapple burger with a brioche bun. I'm looking forward to making similar ones in the sun in the near future, even though it's just food, I'm hoping I'll be able to create some happy memories with it and provide you all with a more positive blog update!

I'll sign off for now as it's almost midnight for me, I'll go to sleep and dream of waking up to millions of tips on this which will solve all my problems and I'll get to write gushing posts on here thanking you all for making my dreams come true (it's a joke but I do appreciate anyone who takes the time to read my posts).

Thanks for reading and getting this far. Here's to writing to you all again soon.