I've finally been referred to a 'local' M.E. clinic - it's miles away but they also work via Teams apparently & I'll have my hearing aids & lipreading, so will hopefully be ok.

Also applied for PIP - not for CFS/M.E. as I doubt I'd get it on that, but for my lifetime deafness + hearing aids costs. NHS don't offer the ones I need & I'd only get one anyway! My hearing aids are £2k+ & I'm on my second pair 😭 So expensive 🙄

#PersonalUpdate #deaf #chronicIllness #CFS #PIP #HearingAids #LifeStuff

Prepping for a landlord walk on 5/30 and taking care of/ celebrating my fiancée birthday ( They have a headcold) is why I haven't uploaded lately. Will be back up by 6/1/2025.
#Apologies #bebacksoon #Lifestuff

I will always share the best advice I was given growing up second to "Learn how to relax."

Be a regular someplace outside your home/work. Maybe a bar, a group, an activity with peers. Be a regular somewhere.

Make friends and have community. It goes beyond you. Help build and contribute to something larger.

#advice #regular #lifestuff

good morning friends, it's time for another round of #LifeStuff, the tag for trying to get things done. it's been a while since I've done one

to-do list:
✓ eat breakfast
- start a load of laundry
- unpack/put away blankets and towels (now that the linen closet is accessible)

... and idk, maybe I'll do more, but that list is making me tired already. me wanting to do a Life Stuff post is usually a good sign that I'm climbing out of a #depression pit, but I've been very depressed for many months, so I'd rather not overdo it

anyway, here goes! I just finished my breakfast, let's start some laundry!

#mentalhealth #unpacking #moving

I'm having issues again. Fudge.

https://cmweller.com/hello-from-periodicals/

#weirdwriterwednesday #lifestuff #angst

The List:
✓ eat breakfast
✓ laundry: washed, a few things are dried, the rest is hanging to dry!
✓ move bedside table back to the bedroom and put stuff back on it
✓ put the cedar chest at the end of my bed
✓ wipe down cedar chest, inside and out
- find homes for: ottoman, brass container, two green glass chickens, candy dish, CD player, some large paintings
- put woolens in cedar chest!
- collapse, probably

so really, I got a ton of stuff done! also I started reading my TLoZ The Minish Cap/Phantom Hourglass manga that I got in San Francisco. it's very cute so far EXCEPT for the bit where Link, in tiny form, looks up some woman's skirt, like, what the actual fuck???

#LifeStuff

okay, to-do list check!
✓ eat breakfast
- start laundry
- move my bedside table back to the bedroom and put everything back on it
✓ put the cedar chest at the end of my bed
✓ wipe down cedar chest, inside and out
- find homes for: ottoman, brass container, two green glass chickens, candy dish, CD player, some large paintings
- put woolens in cedar chest!
- collapse, probably

also, @ninsiana0 wants to go to Trader Joe's, so I probably won't get all of this done today ... okay, I need to focus on laundry and the bedside table ... and charging my phone 😁 no more updates for a bit!

#LifeStuff

this thing being in front of my bed is going to take some getting used to lol I keep barking my calves (the back part, not the shins) when I try to flop onto my bed 🤣

I do kinda want to try to get it refinished, with ideally a stain rather than paint, so we can see the wood grain

also, in the second photo there's two long nails poking through the bottom, bent so they won't stab me, at least. not really visible, in the top left corner: a screw sticking out of the bottom, just poking up, ready to stab my hand

so, even if I can't get it refinished anytime soon, I do need to come up with a diy fix for at minimum the screw

but AAAHHHHH I'm so excited about this piece!

#LifeStuff

my mother's mother's mother, Mary Green, painted this. at first I thought it was a sparrow (one of my favorite birds), but apparently it's a tufted titmouse, which is still a good bird 😅

#LifeStuff #art #painting

good morning, y'all! I've got a bunch of stuff to move around today, to get my apartment back to normal, so the plan is:

- eat breakfast
- start laundry¹
- move my bedside table back to the bedroom² and put everything back on it
- put the cedar chest at the end of my bed where it belongs and try to find homes for all the stuff that's on top of it³
- put woolens in cedar chest!
- collapse, probably

#LifeStuff

¹ found a bunch of warm clothes (including some woolens) I'd forgotten about in a bin under the bed
² it was moved to the kitchen to give me more room to move boxes
³ other stuff from my parents: an ottoman, some art, a fancy CD player

just want to brag about:

✓ laundry folded and put away
✓ clean bedding on the bed
✓ Link is back for more cuddle time

#LifeStuff

#aimsForTomorrow:

- play Grand Master level #furnitureTetris with shelving and seating in the kitchen to fit things in and reach the dishwasher;
- unpack what's *hopefully* the last of the kitchen;
- watch a goodly/ungodly amount of #RacetoWorldFirst coverage;
- actually put the dishwasher on;
- maybe manage to set up my @mastodon.art account.

Stretch goal is defeat more of the book boxes or the DVDs.

#theGreat2024Move #moving #lifeStuff #sendCoffee

Main takeaways (pun not intended) from #theGreat2024Move:

1. Write on the *sides* of boxes as well as the top.

2. Budget at least 300% of what seems realistic for buying takeout.

Reasons for takeout food in the past week:
- treat night needed
- staying in a hotel
- halfway up the M5
- unexpectedly halfway up the M5
- unexpectedly still in old flat
- total lack of spoons
- can't reach cooker because boxes
- still can't reach cooker because boxes

#livingOnBorrowedSpoons #lifeStuff #moving

So. Today's stage of #theGreat2024Move could have gone better.

Moving van had a flat battery. Turned out that was cos said van needed a new alternator.

Said van, expected at 10am, finally arrived at 2pm.

Movers said an hour to load... proceeded to take over 3.

😣😵‍💫😑

Positives: we got everything done, movers were careful (after a slightly rocky start, literally) with stuff, we are on the road home. We just should have been there five hours ago.

#lifeStuff #sendCoffee #livingOnBorrowedSpoons

On the totally non-spoilery news side, have once again managed to find a Hotel Room Of Funny Noises™.

This one seems to emanate intermittently from the extractor fan which is currently... not in use. It mercifully disappeared for most of the evening but guess who's back, back again, just as I'm about to try and sleep? 🤦‍♀️

🔧😠🔧

#travel #lifeStuff #theGreat2024Move #sensoryStuff #sensoryHell #nureekRetutHanungaSquelookle #nicheNerdTagging

✓ stay home until cannabis is delivered
✓ go to The People's Coffee

me: ooh, can I get a pumpkin spice chai?
The People's Barista: hot or iced?
me: oh, well you can't have an iced pumpkin spice thing
TPB: yeah, we could do that
TPB: *starts to explain the process for prepping the pumpkin spice blend for iced drinks*
me: no no no, I meant, like, aesthetically
TPB: oh, yeah, the vibes would be off
me: let's do hot

#LifeStuff

eyyy, so far I've done:

✓ eat breakfast
✓ have therapy
✓ Blanket Time™ with Midna
✓ get dressed
- stay home until cannabis is delivered
- go to The People's Coffee to work on #writing stuff/character sketches for my #monsterhearts2 one-shot this weekend

I've actually done a little bit of character work for the game: writing lists of simple, divisive motivations for side characters. I still want to: finish the list of names, come up with scene location ideas, and maybe flesh out one or two scene ideas in case my players are shy about starting the game

Monsterhearts is like a nice halfway point between, say, D&D and the DMless games¹ I've been facilitating, in terms of "DM" prep. like, I don't *need* to prep for hours before running a game, BUT, I find having, like, lists of names really helpful

#LifeStuff #ttrpg

¹ Dream Askew/Dream Apart, also by Avery Adler, and Sleepaway (by Jay Dragon) which uses the same engine as Dream Askew

good morning (ish)

I'm gonna try resurrecting my #LifeStuff hashtag. for newer followers, I use it as an attempt to give myself accountability to get things done, and it usually involves a checklist of things I want to get done, like:

- eat breakfast
✓ have therapy
✓ Blanket Time™ with Midna
- get dressed
- don't forget I'm getting cannabis delivered
- go to The People's Coffee for a couple hours before work to work on #writing stuff/character sketches for an #RPG I'm running this weekend (#Monsterhearts by Avery Alder)

I read once that you should include things you've already done in to-do lists for a dopamine hit ... I don't know how well it works, but I like doing it, so 🤷🏻

anyway, therapy was good, Blanket Time™ was had, so I guess I should put on clothes and eat some cereal while I wait for the cannabis delivery

#mentalHealth