Here's to the end of a pretty ordinary week. Mr P had to give bone marrow sample and has had appointment at Peter Mac. We're waiting to find out if he has blood cancer, leukaemia or whatever they call it now. Elder minipeeler is still having major issues with anxiety and school refusal. My MIL offered to pay for him to go to a private school she thinks would be better for him.. would've been nice to offer that last year, when I was having to enrol him in the only (really big) public school in our catchment and I was saying that I didn't have a good feeling about it, that I felt that there'd be problems for him given the issues he'd had in the past, but had no choice financially. I was equally anxious and bummed out about it and she knew that back then. Now she wants to sweep in with her money and save the day, by uprooting him and plonking him into a new schoolβ½ I feel bad for being ungrateful. Miniest is going through a very testing rebellious and wilful stage. I'm trying to give her as much of myself as I can and my patience, as she is jealous of Elder and her dad being home all the time, which is perfectly understandable. She is academically gifted but puts in a bare minimum of effort and is wasting her awesome potential and it's hugely frustrating, but she doesn't give a shit. I am feeling older and more tired in my body and it's depressing. I've been bingeing dystopian shows on Netflix and find them comfortingly awful. I gave up on the "comedy" category.. maybe Americans just laugh at different stuff, but I found little humour there. Thankyou for reading my grumbles.
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It sounds like you've got an awful lot on your plate. Just keep swimming mama, your strength is a beacon for your family.
Girl, you have so much on your plate. Like, you're the only one holding it all together. Your strength is admirable. I'm sorry you're going through all of this, it's hard! If you ever want to, or able to, catch up for a coffee and a debrief, I'm available. It sounds like you need some serious "me time". Sending you all my love and postive energy π
I'm so sorry to hear it. Please, if you can handle doing it get in touch with carers supports right now. If someone could help you with it that would be great.
I am so excited. Tonight I'm off to London for a month for a holiday woop woop!!
Pls give recs on things to do! Currently planning on visiting:
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Cornwall
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Bath
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Oxford
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Cambridge
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Scotland / Wales
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other places in and around London
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all Premier League stadium tours in London
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hopefully Old Trafford as well
London: Camden Town is a cool place if you're into markets and food. The usual spots in London (Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, The Mall, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London if you're into history). I enjoyed a low-key stroll through The National Gallery in London. Southbank is great for a walk too from Tower Bridge down towards Blackfriars or even Waterloo Bridge. Oh almost forgot.. Ye Olde Mitre pub. It's a tiny traditional 1547 real ale pub. I fell in love with hand pulled ales over there.
England: If you're in the south/the coast I preferred Eastbourne and Hastings to Brighton even though Brighton is the most famous. Also if you're after white cliffs, Eastbourne has more impressive ones than Dover even though the white cliffs of Dover are the more famous.
Scotland: Definitely try a nice sit-down meal of Haggis if you haven't had it before. I spent a bit of time in Edinburgh just unwinding and soaking it all in. Obviously the castle is a focus point. You can't really go wrong much there. Went to bingo at Meadowbank and that was great if you like bingo.
Wales: I only went to Cardiff and the main thing I went there for doesn't exist anymore (Doctor Who Experience). The streets and Cardiff Castle are lovely to see though.
Wanted to show a couple of photos from the cliffs near Eastbourne.. the first one gives you a bit of scale with the lighthouse. The second one was me demonstrating that there are absolutely no fences or safety measures of any kind.
My mum hates that second photo.
Declining a work social event is a great way to get a secret afternoon off if everyone else is going
The words work and social do not belong in the same sentence.
Especially if youβre so not popular that nobody notices youβre missing
Kinda just laying here in a stressed out but exhausted state from the week. Had a bite to eat but too tired for much else. Think I am gonna pour a drink and make a list of the work life things that have to happen next week then go to bed. I hate feeling like I left everything in a mess but nothing seemed to get finished this week and I can already feel the wave building up for next . Gah hopefully it's just grey day blues
Dins, some music and bed. Going to stick to this 6am wake up thing. It'll make it easier for when I find a role.
Enjoy your evening everyone β€οΈ
I have a Velcro kitty this morning. Probably just a function of weather and Iβm wearing wool, but makes me a bit nervy. Both WhiteBoy and Miss Tortie behaved like this when terminal. Stupid brain, just enjoy the hugs!
Miss Meow was velcro overnight. She's happily snoozing in her own bed now the heating is on, so I'm putting it down to weather.
My velcro kitty just got a health check and came back fine. Deffo something in the air at the moment.
Ted bitted me, I held him. You would think I was torturing him the noise he made. πΉ
Interview was rescheduled. This is fine, I am still fucking drowsy.
I miss feeling awake π like cotton-wool over my brains and constantly yawning.
Puss has been chewing on my toes, since I took away the wooden fork he was gnawing on lol
Half my team is out with the lurgy. Week got derailed by random urgent requests and bugs and feels chaotic....
Need a strong coffee and a list I think. Flu season/COVID return seems bad and early this year. And the general level of unhingedness and stress is high out there
Physio visit today to ward off any future migraines this weekend. Need the study time.
Expensive insurance, but hopefully worthwhile in the end!
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OH HELLS NO. I've barely entered 2024. Geeezzzus
I tried to post on a tolkien site, it was like trying to post on a fundamentalist site where all answers have to be from tolkien scripture π΅
I have a dilemma. Boyo will become 40 in the not too distant future. Heβs asked I not do a big thing because not trusting people to turn up. Based upon his 30th this is valid. So WTF do I do? Self fulfilling nothing or attempt a Thing that could end up worse?
Go away somewhere nice for the weekend.
Yeah this is my advice. Pick somewhere super duper fancy or somewhere hes always wanted to go. And just.... chillax. Maybe organize a small pub meal for anyone willing to rock up the week afterwards?
Feeling sick still today from the migraine yesterday so am chilling in bed with fluffy butt. Might get some music done today because the weekend is all IT learning time.
As an aside, windows server seems pretty straightforward. Nothing too crazy as yet.
Fuzzy girl is still a bit quiet and was fussing about something unknown last night, but she had a midnight snack and has eaten her breakfast. She's under the doona sharing the hot water bottle
I seem to have flipped my sleeping around to the other extreme. Now rather than sleeping at 6am, I'm sleeping at 6pm. God at this point I feel like the only time I'm happy sleeping is if I'm bucking social norms and sleeping like a madman. Besides it being an odd time to go to sleep, it hasn't been working too badly for me, especially since it's dark by those times these days. Unfortunately I forgot to tell Alexa that I took the bins out so she started making noise at 8:30 yelling at me to take the bins out (bin day was yesterday, but the reminder goes off every 24hrs til I mark it complete)
Can't get back to sleep, but I'm too tired to get up and try again in a couple of hours
Oh god I tried spicy chicken ramen. My lips! They are ACTUALLY on fire.
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I have been looking at a lot of real estate listings recently and was complaining about too much grey. I think I found an antidote.
I am currently pinned down by a snoring void.
When you snore with the V O I D, the V O I D snores with you
Re-watching The Expanse...such a good show.
Really keen on adding Belta-lingua into my everyday's vocabulary.
Belta-lingua is the language spoken by those born and raised in space aka Belters, for those who aren't familiar with it.
It's the Klingon of the 2010's
dammit I have rosacea again, looks like I have red eyes, will be scaring people over zoom and such.
( just shows how tired out i've been from sciatica )
Mr Woof pushed me into second walkies. It was the right call, but it is definitely on the chilly side tonight.
What's the deal with people putting the lemmy @user in their comments when they're replying to that person? I see AJ doing it, and elsewhere on lemmy it seems everyone is doing it.
It's because you can access Lemmy from other fediverse sites, like Mastodon. Iirc, Mastodon is like Twitter, so when replying to a thread or comment, the reply will @ the users they are responding to
Twitter used to do the same thing in reply tweets. Since mastodon basically just does what twitter did, they decided to clone that feature too. On mastodon, Lemmy posts just look like really long tweets a lot of the time, but with the magic of federation they can reply here too.
It is quite annoying when it gets deep and comments begin with 20 different @'s, but it's just something mastodon does and I don't think they can control it
Replying from Mastodon here. Sorry to be annoying, I like Federation π