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How Are You Feeling Right Now?
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Pretty tired, bit of a grim day. I'm suffering from seasonal stress, everything involving meetings and people goes crazy this time of year. At the moment I'd much rather just be doing my remote job from the comfort of my sofa, but my brain is totally fried and my other job diary is absolutely hammered so I can't even look at it. I could be working 24/7 if I wanted and could actually pull it off - but am too tired, my brain is dead. Plus there's another storm rolling in, every storm there is I get paranoid about damage to my house. I'm insured for storm damage, but I know they'll try to pull a fast one if I ever had to claim - something like "well if the roof had been kept in better condition, it wouldn't have been destroyed by the 100mph winds, so tough". Oh well the house has survived storms before so hopefully get through this one in one piece. Just in time for the weekend when I am completely exhausted 😟
I don’t know anything about UK insurance regulations, but that sounds exactly like what they would do in the USA. A roof replacement is serious business though. I don’t suppose there’s any way to head that off? I’m not a homeowner, so I have no clue, but from a business standpoint (I have graduate level education in mgt), I’d want to mitigate the risk, in this case by generating some tangible proof that the roof is in acceptable shape for the house, or similar.
FWIW, although I have studied business, I am not interested in managing. I have ethics and compassion. Either of those alone would disqualify me.
FWIW, although I have studied business, I am not interested in managing. I have ethics and compassion. Either of those alone would disqualify me.
I'm just hoping for the best. There isn't really any tangible proof I can offer, I did have repairs done in the summer and the guy said it all looked OK, but anything is possible. Fingers crossed I suppose, I was hoping to save up for a good while yet and get it looked at in the spring/summer in any case. Just have to hope it survives this latest storm season!
I had major problems getting anyone competent to do a much smaller job, there don't seem to be any properly regulated companies, all the firms I hear about usually demand paying in cash so they don't have to pay tax, I don't actually understand how people manage to get new roofs, there are so many rogue traders out there 🤨
I had major problems getting anyone competent to do a much smaller job, there don't seem to be any properly regulated companies, all the firms I hear about usually demand paying in cash so they don't have to pay tax, I don't actually understand how people manage to get new roofs, there are so many rogue traders out there 🤨
The construction trades in general, and roofing in particular, are rife with bad actors, either through deception, or just not quite knowing the right way to comply with building codes. If one can make $3-7K replacing a roof, and the homeowner is not careful, the chance of getting ripped is higher than not. In the US we can take care to check licenses and insurance before hiring someone, but that's not always possible. I currently need a repair in the bathroom done and it's driving me batty trying to find someone willing to deal with the repair without wanting to take a sledge hammer to the whole bathroom. I need a sink basin replaced, but not a jacuzzi in the bathtub, tyvm. 
I’m feeling quite exhausted. Work has been difficult the last week. There have been more entitled and annoying patients than usual. Patients demanding appointments in two days when the waiting time is usually 4-6 weeks, a patient telling us that he’s going to call us back every few days to check if there is a closer appointment slot (it’s only for teeth cleaning, nothing urgent 😭 and he has an appointment just 3 weeks away!), patients who are clearly malingering - when I triage them they say that they have had 10/10 teeth pain for two months (without seeking any treatment before this? 🤨) or 10/10 canker sore pain (???) to secure a walk-in emergency appointment, patients registering incorrently at the kiosk instead of going to the reception counter for triage like I told them to over the phone... it’s frustrating. I know it’s bad but sometimes I want to scream at them. I’m scared that one day I will.
I had an appointment with a military psychologist yesterday and it didn’t go so well. I told him about how the situation with my mom was really unpleasant over the last few weeks ever since my eyebrow shaving incident and he said that he intends to arrange a house visit to check on the situation even though I begged him not to and told him that it would make things worse for me. He was nice, but I feel like he didn’t really understand my problems very well. I have an appointment with my counsellor next week and I’m looking forward to that, she always understands my problems and makes me feel at ease. I really hope that the house visit doesn’t pan out. It would be disastrous for me.
One thing that has kept me happy though is redecorating my Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp campsite for Christmas
. I’m redecorating my ACPC cabin as well, I’m decorating it as an airport. I like the new feature on the app where you can have your favourite animal follow you around. Rosie the cat is my favourite although I have an Ankha profile picture here 🤭
I had an appointment with a military psychologist yesterday and it didn’t go so well. I told him about how the situation with my mom was really unpleasant over the last few weeks ever since my eyebrow shaving incident and he said that he intends to arrange a house visit to check on the situation even though I begged him not to and told him that it would make things worse for me. He was nice, but I feel like he didn’t really understand my problems very well. I have an appointment with my counsellor next week and I’m looking forward to that, she always understands my problems and makes me feel at ease. I really hope that the house visit doesn’t pan out. It would be disastrous for me.
One thing that has kept me happy though is redecorating my Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp campsite for Christmas
. I’m redecorating my ACPC cabin as well, I’m decorating it as an airport. I like the new feature on the app where you can have your favourite animal follow you around. Rosie the cat is my favourite although I have an Ankha profile picture here 🤭I’m weary of isolation. The isolation of having no friends. The isolation of having no one to love and no one to love me. The isolation of being gay. The isolation of having no purpose. The isolation of suffering in silence. I’ve carried it my whole life stack upon stack to no end. It’s as overbearing as it is pointless.
I had a friend for a while when in the midst of my addiction. She lived close to me and drove my husband and I to the methadone clinic every day because we all went to the same one. Sometimes she'd come over or vice versa. Sometimes we'd even go out together. We set her up with one of my husband's friends and they got together. But then they started using together, and my husband and I did the same. Not much of a surprise, I suppose. We were all addicts, after all. But now that we haven't spoken in years, I honestly can't say I miss it much. A lot of the things I used to do with her, I did to try to please her (i.e., going to NA meetings--I didn't like those much...), whereas now I do whatever I want. Perhaps, I never really got a hang of this whole "friend" thing, with addiction in the way, and all. Perhaps there's more to it. I just don't really miss having friends as much as I once thought...idk.
Swindled. I just completed the supermarket 4 week threshold spend buying stuff I would need to stock up on anyway (rather than useless stuff just for the offer). My app says congratulations, 12000 points have been earned (worth £12). My account history says 12000 points added, my points balance is 1,919. FFS utter robbing bastards.
