It’s 5:16 in the morning and I can’t sleep - and wanted to see what I had posted here in the past. All I keep saying is “you brave little Raptor” when I look at my updates. My last post was in 2019 and since then I did a thing I have wanted for years. I secured an associate role at work! I have wanted an associate role for years and to get one ( Read more... )

Reading through past entries on here makes me realise that I really did go through a lot of shit in the past. I feel more than a bit good I got through it and I can see the sheer amount of depression, anxiety and PTSD that I was going through.

I have to say one thing though - I am damn glad I got help, that I am now a mental health champion at ( Read more... )

I recently moved home - where I am living is great and was secured by noticing a Facebook post form Multiclassgeek whose parents were looking for someone to rent his parents' rental property. The place is lovely but the move nearly broke me. Actually, it did - several times ( Read more... )

Sunday had an interesting start. I managed to try and make it for a 09:00 meeting and collapsed. It was more that my energy levels had a major fade out and I ended up being all but carried to the Gopher Hole and laid on the bed where I was revived with coffee and noms. I am not a morning person, my mum knows I am not a morning person and how I ( Read more... )

Saturday was completely and totally nuts. I had some time to Shop for Lovely Tat in the dealers' room and niffled some cheap and lovely stuff which made me smile - "niffled" being a reference to nifflers in the Harry Potter World which are little platypus like creatures who like shiny stuff they put in their pouches. I had a fair amount of ( Read more... )

On Friday I ran the First Timers Meeting and I rally enjoyed it. Admittedly, I was in a verging on defunct state, I had made sure I had sufficient coffee and that I knew what I was talking about. It hinged around the Read Me book for the event I had reformatted at work using Arial Narrow, bullet points and left and right justified margins. Yum ( Read more... )

It's about time I blogged about this. It was really good... I just had a minor hassle travelling up there. When I say minor, it was actually more than that. I had a migraine when I called a cab, got in said cab and managed to throw up over myself in pain. I say MYSELF as the cab escaped absolutely fine and my reaction was to clean it like my ( Read more... )

I had a really nasty fall on Tuesday evening, on my way to a midweek LOTNA meet i had arranged.  I was nearly at the pub when my foot hit an uneven paving slab and I went over.  All I could think was "PLEASENOT THE BOLLARD, PLEASE NOT THE BOLLARD, PLEASE NOT THE BOLLARD -" and then... my face hit the frakking concrete bollard I had hoped to avoid ( Read more... )

I had to do something totally adventurous and out of my comfort zone... after my phone breaking, breaking and breaking again, dropping calls and generally driving me mad I bought myself a new phone.  It's an Alcatel handset and the first time I texted on it I found I wasn't very good at it.  I seem to be getting a bit better now.  I tried to text ( Read more... )

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