The War Between

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A photo of my cat Halo. He is mainly white with a tabby patterned cap on the top of his head, with stunning green eyes. He is inside of a slightly lopsided blue play cube.

The current war in the Middle East is nothing if not surreal. Like, this is the thing that I was told my entire life should be prevented at all costs, and yet. Here we are. Will this start World War III, or will it end up being a damp squib of a war that Trump will claim to have ended?… Read more »

J’Existe

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Maaan, did I fall off the wagon here, ha ha. Life has just been… existing. It’s not been bad by any stretch, just… my version of busy, I guess. So, things of interest. I finally got my eyebrow pierced after putting it off for, uh… nearly 30 years? I kept waffling about what side I wanted it on, but eldest… Read more »

Drift

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A photograph of a purple flower in front of a brown hedge.

I have been doing the generic existing thing; there’s not been a lot spare past that. I had a spell of unexpected bad back pain, which, rude. And then just a higher grade of exhaustion which again, rude. But eh, I’m still alive. That’s always good, ha ha. I’m still doing the things I like, and I’ve got some crafting… Read more »

To 11

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A photograph of me. I'm a white person with long brown hair in a braid, glasses, a lip ring, and a rather dissatisfied smirk on my face.

So uh. I was sitting here earlier, and all of a sudden it felt like someone had turned the gravity up to 11. Like, everything suddenly felt super heavy and like… what the actual? I’m still not sure how to parse it, like… was it pain, or what. I thought about taking pain meds, but I’m not convinced it would… Read more »

Weak

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A headshot of our cat, Vivi. He's a tuxedo cat that is mainly white underneath and black on top, and his eyes are closed, with one paw resting against my torso. You can see the 1994 Blue Byte classic game 'The Settlers' on the monitor in the background.

I woke up this morning feeling really weak and exhausted, which, rude. Like, with chronic fatigue that’s the baseline, but this was worse than normal. Still, I’ve managed to get a few bits done today, so. Not the fun thing we had on the books, or the out-of-house chore, but hopefully we’ll manage both of those in the next two… Read more »

Downtime

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An accidental photograph from next to the postbox. You can see I'm on the edge of a drive feeding into the road, and across the way is a tree above a bench in a green verge. Behind that is a wall with a notice box on it. And of course, the tip of my finger on the left side, proving it was a delightful cock-up.

So yeah, life continued in the Slightly Too Much™ vein for a bit, but now. But now Bank holiday tomorrow, and then we’re booked off work the rest of the week while the kids are in school. So it’ll be nice to have some *proper* quiet around, hee hee. And at least amongst that slightly too much, I got a… Read more »

Way Too Much

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A photo of three of my cats on the back table in front of the window. Vivi is the tuxedo cat with brown eyes standing at the left, while October is the white-and-tabby girl sprawled out in the middle. To her right is her brother Halo, who is also white-and-tabby; he is leaned over slightly sniffing in her general direction.

So yeah, had the video call with my MP. I would have called it mainly good, had I not seen what he’d posted on his Facebook wall later that evening. ¬¬ I didn’t see it until this afternoon, just after I’d sent him a follow-up email with links that I’d intended to give at the meeting yesterday. Between those two… Read more »

Recovery

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A photo of our three boy cats on the back table. Vivi is the tuxedo cat on the left, sitting loaf style and looking down. Raven is the tuxedo cat in the middle; he has white paws and is sniffing his brother's backside. To the right is Halo, who is white with tabby markings. He's yelling at Raven for some reason.

Z and I had a wedding reception to attend yesterday, which — we were happy to go, if only for a little bit. It’s fair to say we’re both kind of lump-like today, because leaving the house for a couple of hours is Too Much™® for either of us. But yeah, it was really nice to see a lot of… Read more »

Too Much

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A photo of our cats, Vivi and October. Vivi is the tuxedo cat sitting on the left, while October is the white-and-tabby girl laying on her back with a paw thrown in Vivi's shoulder.

I am doing Entirely Too Much™® this week. First it was emailing the Prime Minister, which wasn’t too bad. Then I got it in my head yesterday that I should book in a video call with my Member of Parliament, so that’s booked for Monday. I’ve even done a wee bit of article herding and added a few notes, though… Read more »

Antsy

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A photo of my cat, Vivi. Vivi is a tuxedo cat with a large white blaze on his face, and a little pink nose. He has brown eyes. He's laying on his back in my lap, with one of my arms around him. He's generally unimpressed with being held, but he's in no rush to move either.

I’m feeling weirdly antsy right now, and I couldn’t tell you why. I guess it wouldn’t be as weird if I could, heh. It almost feels like I’ve forgotten to do something, though I can’t think of anything that I’d forgotten. Which… well, y’all see the circular logic there, ha ha. I’m sure it’ll be fine in a bit, whatever… Read more »