Tag: life
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Ghosts of Christmas Past…
I’m trying to be all tinsel and baubles this year, because I feel like all the ghosts arrived at the same time to tag team me. Do any children of divorce enjoy Christmas? Competitive gift giving, one year here one year there, 12 days of pressure. Every Christmas from 8-18 was incrementally worse, and it…
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I’ve Got the Beard For It…
So maybe I should become a Viking? Wear a tunic, learn to throw an axe, and so on. It might be nice to have an interest that gets me out and about. I’m much more likely to plat my beard and go to a renaissance fair than I am to barrack for a sports team.…
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The Gall…
Todays round of Doctors poking me, draining me has pointed the towards “maybe a gallbladder problem”, so I’ll be getting up at 5am to go get a dose of radioactive isotopes, and scanned around the middle. It’s nice that they are all taking an interest, but it would be nice if they could either fix…
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Where’s My Off Switch?
It’s not having lots to do that’s exhausting me, it’s the constantly thinking about the things I have to do that really interferes with my life. I’m not great at just being in the moment and leaving stuff at work, and I really want to be. I’m either worrying about it or doing it, and…
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No Prison Can Hold Me…
My first day of house arrest is going well, I totally didn’t go shopping for food, and definitely didn’t spend any time cleaning. I mean putting on loads of washing and making the bed isn’t really cleaning is it? And it’s only real shopping if you use a trolley and not a basket. So as…
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I Know how it Looks…
A quick note about my use of tarot cards, because I know it seems to go against my personal lack of belief in anything system. I tend to draw a card each day as I have my first coffee, particularly if I have a question I’m pondering. Obviously I don’t expect the card to magically…
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I Get Knocked Down, But…
[record scratch, followed by silence]. Sorry Chumbawamba I’m not felling particularly resilient at the moment so I’m staying down. I don’t know if it’s exhaustion, illness, depression, or good old fashioned per Christmas angst with a dollop of grief, but I’m not up to pushing through it whatever it is. Maybe it’s all of them?…
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I Hate the Spoon Theory…
The spoon theory if you don’t know is popular when explaining how chronic illness etc limits what you can do, usually to people who say things like “you don’t look sick”. Spoon theory explains what it’s like to live with a fatiguing chronic illness. You start the day with a set amount of ability to…
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Just the First Half…
A common movie trope is the selfish single person finds fulfillment through love, or adversity. For example in the film “About a Boy”, Hugh Grants shallow playboy starts caring about people and makes his life complicated. I’m going to say the characters life in the first half of the film seems much more attractive to…
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