Ready for a scorching hot few days? No? Me neither. Wondering if I can just hide in my kitchen with my face against the cool tiled floor…

Anyway, time for your grumbles.

Got anything you want to get off your chest this week?

by a-liquid-sky

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  2. I keep waking up in the night needing a wee, but if I get up then it takes me hours to go back to sleep. I can’t reduce liquids before bed as I’ve got a kidney condition so need to up my fluids if anything. Just can’t find a way to get back to sleep again after tiddling.

    Also work sucks at the moment so if I’m sleep deprived then it drags on more than normal.

  3. The new pre-recorded announcements we have on some of our local bus routes. They’re much too loud. It makes an hour and a half journey considerably less tolerable when every few minutes, a chirpy voice blares out “the next stop is Greater Snoring”, and “the next stop is Nether Tiddling”.
    I understand that these announcements are useful, but please, turn the volume down a bit!

    Edit: By pure coincidence, it would appear that I am not the only person to have used the word ‘tiddling’ in this thread.

  4. I absolutely *hate* this current weather and this month is dragging on and on and on.

    It’s the temperature specifically. I despise it. Makes me feel simultaneously lethargic and irritable.

    I can’t wait until it pisses off. Sadly these types of heatwaves will become more common. Might need to move to Iceland, or even Shetland might be a start.

  5. My brother and SIL are off on holiday today and of course pulled me into their celebrations the night before.

    I foolishly treated last night as if it were a Friday night, so now I’ve woken up on a Thursday it’s rather depressing.

  6. Not properly relaxed in the evening for over three weeks which is really taking its toll. Plus, it will probably be another week and a half before I can really put my feet up. The things you take for granted when they’re the norm!

  8. I don’t feel very well, waiting for doctor’s appointment. I’ve got a massive to-do list which I’m barely scratching. Family crises going on. Everything is a bit crap.

  9. 4 words that completely ruined my self-improvement motivation last night

    “Are you on mounjaro?”

    4 months of gentle exercise, mindful eating, and calorie counting has helped me lose nearly 2.10 stone

    Daughters making my birthday cheesecake today, and I will be eating both bloody pieces

  10. I have to readjust and regrease all the wheels I bought for the soapbox Derby and ended up having to make a spanner to fit in. The first one I’ve done spins way better but it still feels a little notchy and I don’t know if it will wear away with use… I’m stressing and being anal about it because the team came dead last last year from a lack of orginisation and I want to get to the top 3 this one under my leadership.

  11. Next door neighbours are absolutely lovely best you could hope to have.

    Their cat on the other hand … I was woken up at an ungodly hour on my day off by my normally sweet old kit growling and hissing at next door’s little monster sat on the windowsill outside (has worked out how to get to first floor bedroom windowsill via the extension roof – quite an impressive leap to be fair). This WILL happen again, I think I might need to buy some privacy film so they can’t eyeball each other and get all in a tizz.

  12. My mental health has spiralled and has started to affect my physical health so I’ve decided to call in sick for the rest of this week.

    Also fuck summer and these relentless heatwaves we keep having.🖕🏻

  13. I hate thunder flies. I don’t care if the bugs dying is a really bad sign, the little fuckers can go extinct right this second.

  14. The project I was working on (that I have bleated about on here before) ended up putting me in hospital a few weeks ago now, and I am signed off now. Oh, and last week I had to pass a few kidney stones 😆

    Many complaints. 🤣

  15. Due to a necessary burn down of active cases I’ve been moved teams at work to help reduce the workload by September and make sure the company doesn’t receive a fine.

    But, I just don’t care. I want to sit in the garden and eat ice cream.

  17. I was in Scotland last week it was cooler when I came home to the South West of England it’s boiling and I am struggling to sleep again.I love the sun but I am going through the menopause and finding I am one giant sweaty mess.I ended up lying on my dogs cool mat yesterday in front of the fan to try and stop my hot flushes.

  18. I feel sorry for people commuting on public transport for the next week or so. It’s going to be hell.

    The air quality in London today is probably going to be bad – estimated 70.4 µg/m³ of NO₂, 5 µg/m³ of PM2.5 and 19.5 µg/m³ of Lynx Africa.

  19. I’m doing life admin and man it’s rubbish. Especially money stuff. Why is money so depressing and crap?

  20. I can’t get my sleep meds right. I either over sleep, don’t sleep, or like last night, have very broken sleep. None of those kinds of sleep make me feel very good, but waking up every hour, at almost the exact same time (1:45,2:50,3:51,4:45) feels like a piss take.

    Edit: I have just been back to the bedroom, it seems obvious now that demonic possession was involved. The bed was 5″ from the wall at one side, at an almost 45° angle. The tightly made bed was wrecked, even the weighted blanket that I started the night on top of had been flung to the floor. I can only assume that a demon entered my body, decided against it, then spent hours fighting to get out.

  21. I strained for a poo so hard yesterday that I’ve pulled my abdominal muscles.

  22. Time to renew the mortgage. I either have to pay loads more a month or add back on the several years I shaved off with overpayments. First world problem, I know.

  23. I’d really love to sleep without having absolutely insane dreams. Just woke up from a nightmare where I’d somehow joined a cult that performed blood transfusions and skin grafts on people to shape you into their version of an ideal human. They were being picketed at hospitals for being an abomination and wasting medical resources. Dream-me was trapped in the hospital and desperate to leave before they did any more procedures, but I wasn’t allowed.

    Woke up genuinely relieved it wasn’t something I’d actually gotten myself into.

  24. Finished my old job after 25 years on Tuesday. Had it all planned out, bit wild camping with me and the dog, then a couple of days trips with my one year old. What actually happened? Played 5 a side with people from my wife’s running club (as a favour). That’s sent my plantar fasciitis into absolute overdrive. Nearly able to walk and so aye, sling absolutely nothing.

  25. The heat royally screws with my heart rate, so whenever it gets like this I turn into a vampire. IF I get to go outside, it’s before sunrise or after sunset. Otherwise I’m inside chugging water and electrolytes in front of the fan.

  26. Need to have a good sort-out of our house (there’s boxes we haven’t touched since moving in 5 years ago…) but it’s currently feeling a bit overwhelming. Probably will leave it till next weekend when it’s a bit cooler.

  27. I have a question to people on SSRIs. 
    When you are genuinely annoyed about something or frustrated at a situation.
    Do you get asked questions like “Are you taking your tablets?” By loved ones? 

    It can feel sometimes that any genuine issue I have is is nullified with either “are you taking your tablets” or “should we go to the doctor’s and increase the dosage?”

    No! Let’s discuss the core issue and try and resolve it in a way that’s beneficial for everyone. No? Ok. 

  28. People banging on about the hot weather it’s getting on my nerves..like we don’t live in a country that’s cold, wet, and grey for 8-9 months of the year..it’s fcking glorious this weather loving it…

  29. My hand accidentally got pushed back a bit too far yesterday and my wrist felt really uncomfortable afterwards and it still feels like that today.

    I have no pain in my wrist, it’s just uncomfortable. It feels like someone is holding my wrist and my fingers sometimes slightly tingle, too.

    Hopefully all of that will go away as it’s really starting to annoy me.

  30. Arb Surveyor here, doing Oak Processionary Moth surveys this week where I have to scan all over a tree for 30 minutes looking for caterpillars instead of the regular 3 minutes it takes to do a visual tree assessment. It’s soo boring 😴

  31. Experiencing your period during a heatwave is delightful. 

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