Friday Fread

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1. Determined to have a Sunday roast… it will happen.

   I need it to happen.

   I need the moral.

2. Going to a gig tonight so currently on the bus to work listening to the setlist because I’m excited. Packing some earplugs because I’m not as young as I once was and you know you have truly hit adulthood when you start seriously considering your auditory health.

3. I can barely bend my knee which means I can’t sleep all that much as I can’t lie down in a way that isn’t extremely uncomfortable, been up for nearly 24 hours now. Watched The Game Awards stream earlier and it was fun watching Expedition 33 wreck face. The orchestra performance this year was a bit of a let down though.

   In other news I’ll be going to Wales over Christmas as my parents own one of those static caravans there, and I’m really looking forward to it. 🙂

4. Taking daughter for another driving lesson today, she does really well under pressure, I however found a whole new vocabulary (fuck you with bells on white van man)

5. Steroid flare in my knee is still going strong and it’s swollen up like a lumpy grapefruit. I haven’t slept well at all, can’t get comfortable, and I’m supposed to be putting my mum’s shopping away for her later. Looks like I’m going to have to delegate it to her carer. I’m not normally one for self pity but I’ve had a bit of a cry. Need to snap out of it.

6. My Ménière’s condition has flared-up AND I have a bad back… going to try to forget this week, limp through today and spend the weekend curled-up in bed.

7. Last day of term, 3 weeks off for Crimbo. Yes lads

8. Finally getting around to putting the tree up this weekend.

   Also, cursing HubL and HubSpot for what seems like the 10,000th time in the last week.

   In better news, I have now built a train timetable scraper for Thameslink that grabs the train timetables for the trains I use to commute to and from work and shows them in a nicely formatted web app. Also shows how awful Thameslink is as a service.

9. Currently enjoying the side effects of the antibiotics I’m taking to fight the infection caused by the last load of antibiotics I had to take.

   Thought about going to the office but need to be within dashing distance of the loo.

   TMI I know but that’s my Friday plans.

10. Trying to use my 2nd day off until Jan to set up a new project but I woke up this morning with the normal, lifelong subdued pain in the base of my spine REALLY intense. It passed but I’m feeling a little bit…fragile today. Still determined to get stuff done but I know I should probably take things easy instead and watch some Christmas stuff.

11. Got a lovely tonsillitis/conjunctivitis combo so off work sick after struggling in for the first three and a bit days. Going to have a big steamy shower and drink hot lemon on the sofa all day until I feel right again.

12. My phone that usually lives on silent with maybe a low ring for work was not on silent and woke me bright and early today- DPD are delivering a parcel between 14:37-15:37. I do not appreciate this. 
    I could go back to sleep but bucket coffee would also work. 

    Have found that mystery side pain appears to be my ribs being unhappy with where they are and taking five minutes of ouch to put them into a happier place does wonders. Also wtaf body. Why?! 

    After bucket coffee going to go get some beans and make a cassoulet. Hunt for some crusty bread too. 

13. Happy Friday! It’s been a long week, some of my teammates are under the weather/ill, I’m WFH today, I went to a co-working space/building Xmas party last night, was fun but tired (coffee will hopefully sort me out).
    Anyway met some new people and caught up with some familiar faces.

    Also had Royal Mail delivery come through, that’s a first for me before 9AM!

    Plan for today, steady working pace, sort out my work laptop and hope to finish early but let’s see how it goes.

14. Wife’s got her work’s Christmas do tonight, so this evening I plan on putting our boy to bed and watching a Christmas movie under a blanket. Just need to decide which one…

15. Goodness, I’m tired.

    Nice weekend ahead – brunch with friends tomorrow, then I’m off to see my mum to meet her new cat. Then I’ve a night alone as my husband is out, so I’m gonna eat a lot of cheese in front of the TV and then starfish across the bed all night.

    Should probably also get the Christmas decs down from the loft…

16. My dog had a little bark and woke me up, and bloody hell I ache. I have somehow damaged the area just above my wrist joint which is a new one for me. It’s very tender boo hoo. Luckily bog standard painkillers work at the moment.

    One of my colleagues is off sick, which means the rest of us are taking some of their hours to cover. This is good and bad news – I start later which is nice but finish later and then have to get up really early the next morning which is horrible. Oh well.

17. It’s been over a week and I still feel unwell. Started as a pain in my throat on Monday and it seems to be making it’s way down my body as the week progresses. Now I’m developing a horrible, painful cough and have started having a pathetic little cry because I’m just so tired of this now. I think I’m annoying the Mrs with it too so have shut myself away in the bedroom so she can concentrate on work and I can weep in peace. It’s like every time I feel like I’m getting a bit better I suddenly feel unwell with something else. Wtaf is this and why can’t I just be ok again 😭

18. I’m feeling pretty drained and all my joints still ache. Sleep was piss poor and saw every hour until the point I needed to get up and was sleeping soundly. Always the way.

    We’re at half capacity today and Monday so i’m praying for hardly any tickets to come in so I can have a quiet one. Famous last words, of course.

19. It’s Friday! Yay!

    That means it’s nearly Monday! Boo!

20. Last day of work so waiting for a late train to take me into London to drop off uniform/other misc equipment. Will treat myself to a nice coffee on the way home because I know how to have a wild Friday.

21. I might need that big coffee. Stayed up late watching the Game Awards. Bad idea.

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