Bad news: I caught whatever the hell my wife had last week. So far I don’t think I’m doing as badly as she did though.

Good news: PICKED UP MY NEW BIKE YESTERDAY!

Annoying news: The bike came with 44cm wide handle bars. I’m running 40cm wide and have contemplated going to 38cm wide on my current bike.

But still, NEW BIKE!

We had our baby shower this past weekend, and I’m glad to have it behind us. There’s still another one for/from my side of the family in two weeks but it should be very low-key comparatively. My mother drove for 8 hours to be here for the weekend (New England summer roadwork smh) and it was the first time we’ve seen her since last August, so it was really wonderful to have her up. I sent her home with so many plants…

I’m nearly done rebuilding our original bird coop, and it’ll be super great to have that finished and ready. It was a huge pain to move by myself with no tractor access but the frame held up admirably, and the new tweaks should make maintenance way easier - it feels like a prerequisite with all of the additional work we’ll be facing in another month.

Temperature has been haywire for a month or so. Yesterday it said 29° feels like 37°, how lol.

Other than that I have had a pleasant week, I haven’t hangout much with irl friends but that’s because helping out dad with work has kept me tired. Gaming side, I haven’t let go of Peggle Deluxe despite ending the Adventure mode a while ago, it’s such a genuinely fun game that I can’t help trying to 100% it.

Excited to try Portal this week, always wanted to play it.

Of to a good start so far, yesterday I met up with my buddies for a DND night for the first time in 2 months and this morning it was raining for the first time in weeks.

Last week ended on a sour note of having an entire day ruined by a migraine but I still managed to get some stuff done before it went into full swing on Saturday so that’s not too bad.

This week has potential for sure and I’m really hoping it goes smoothly, even though half of my department at work (my department only has 2 people lol) is on vacation.

I’ma include some recent stuff to get it off’ my chest-equivalent <.< >.>

So, eegh. I recently found out someone’s been creeping around lying about me and endangering my actual life this way. That’s pretty stressful. Also, they’ve been involved in tearing up a community I’ve been subbed to (and kindof its instance too), so that’s just (sarcastically) lovely. On the other paw, I got some blockers out of the way and may be able to get some life help soonish. I feel ill just thinking about that sort of thing (phone calls, going places) sooo… might “procrastinate” for a day or a week v.v

[Josh and abuser who’s been targetting me, don’t read this part] Also, it friggin’ hurts to have a special kind of loneliness just festering all’ my life. I’m on some total “different wavelength” from everycritter else and will clearly never be understood and when anyone tries to help or connect with me at all they get most everything wrong, sometimes insistently so. So, people think they understand me (possibly better than I do, which is usually quite offensive) and mostly make things worse. If I tell more, they get more wrong. So I just can’t connect with anyone. Bleh.

I’ve got a constant supply of these, though. So that’s nice, I guess 🤷 🫴 🍬 shares Jolly Ranchers

Hi there! Newish to Beehaw :). Been eating better, working out, and trying to get into greater acceptance about the difficulties going on in my life. This week is trending better!

Um, frustrated.

My parents are eighty years-old, driving for DoorDash (using my car), and they’re putting 1,000 miles on the car a week. There is no lifeline once my car dies, thanks to inflation. There is no other job for them, because no one will employ two octogenarians.

And I can look at the two flavors of conservatism headed our way in November and I low-key hope my mom and dad pass away instead of having to deal with the struggle that’s going to come, because it’s invariably going to get worse. I don’t think civil war is coming, but I do think the capitalists are going to find new and shitty ways to make all of our lives harder.

I love people, but my god do they challenge me.

How often do you repost this question. Seems like the intent is weekly but it’s been 18 days.

Not awesome.

Having a depressive episode that’s messing with my appetite and I’ve woken up early three times this week.

I have everything moved to my new apartment finally (except the eggs, they’re gonna suck to move), but I’m not out of the woods yet. I was raised by a hoarder and having boxes stacked in every corner is making me feel filthy.

I started going back to the gym because I couldn’t stand being away any longer. Not sure if that was a good idea because I’m exhausted all the time.

My neighbor who thinks we’re friends because he talks about himself all the time and I’m too meek to stop him actually invited himself inside to talk about himself today, and I wasn’t butch enough to do anything about it.

So yeah, I don’t know. Technically improving, but still bad.

Well, my father’s funeral service was today. I lost him at the beginning of the month.

It’s been rough. There were a lot of issues between him and I during my childhood which caused me to quickly cut off contact with him after I moved out. But I’d always hoped that eventually there would be a way to fix things, and now that will never happen.

So there’s a lot of guilt. I do not think it was wrong to remove him from my life, but it was never intended to be a permanent thing - it’s forever written in stone as it is now though.

I need to get into some grief counseling, but starting that process has been difficult for me. It doesn’t help that I already have a lot of other medical issues constantly ongoing, and now this is just another thing to add to the list.

I’ve been alright. I’m recovering from a mental health episode, but I’m doing much better. I’ve started drawing again and started playing games again :)

Not great. My company is doing a Kickstarter for a project we are working on and have spent tens of thousands of dollars on and it looks like it is set to fail if our marketing agency doesn’t work it’s voodoo magic in the last week or two of our campaign. Because right now we are fucked and I am going to be out of 2 jobs.

So I will have to go on benefits (again), probably end up relapsing into heroin addiction for a bit to handle the pain.

Kinda funny how easy it is for me to lose complete interest in something and also just how freeing that can be.

It’s nice.