We took our Christmas tree down today and the house looks a bit sad without it, but I've got past being sad that my guests have gone and I'm enjoying the peace and quiet.

#ChristmasIsOver #BackToNormal #PeaceAndQuiet

Stop the stealing

#Greenland #denmark #dictator #disrespectful #alliance #backtonormal

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/27/europe/denmark-summons-us-envoy-greenland-intl

Back to Normal

The cats were very displeased with us when we got home last night. They hid for a while before coming into the room with us but keeping their distance. By morning they were being super affectionate again. Actually, they seemed more affectionate than usual. Maybe they were just starved for attention. Two days without humans constantly baby talking to them must have seemed like an eternity.

Jen and I are both back to work. We’re both really tired. We were so busy this weekend that it feels like we need a weekend to recover from our weekend. I won’t be getting one though. This week at work has the potential to be pretty rough. Here’s hoping the universe takes it easy on little old me.

We have to put a pause on the celebration of my step son Harry for a day. Today is my step daughter Bellana’s birthday! Happy Birthday, Bellana! WOOHOOO!! A couple of weeks ago I was sad because I had a birthday that moved me from my early 50’s squarely and undeniably into my mid 50’s. Today sees a similar (though less depressing) thing for Bellana. She moves from her early 20’s squarely and undeniably into her mid 20’s. The poor thing. The poor, still very young, thing. Heh, sorry.

Apart from the birthday celebration everything is back to normal. I even looked at the long range weather forecast and as expected, it calls for rain next weekend. Of course.

#adultKids #backToNormal #backToWork #birthday #catRevenge #Family #grownUpKids #happyBirthday #homecoming #Kids #StepKids #Travel

Yesterday, I wrote a journal about my experiences with long Covid, why I think mainstream society has committed itself to a conspiracy of silence about Long Covid (hint: capitalism), and why I don't have a lot of hope that we'll stop many, many more people from getting Long Covid (also, capitalism.) It was too long to share here on the fedi, so you can find it on my website, NIDC:

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2024/08/23/journal-fuel-for-the-pyre/

Journal: Fuel for the Pyre

"Over time, as the monstrous reality of the Pig Empire’s long term response to an ongoing Covid pandemic became clear, I came to understand that when the rich sociopaths that truly own our society decided that capitalism itself was too important to be interrupted by a silly little thing like the lives of workers and consumers, the very existence of Long Covid became the elephant in the room that could not be acknowledged. After all, if your plan is to “let ‘er rip” while telling folks a deadly virus is no different from a common cold, the very existence of people who did not and could not recover from the after effects of that virus would represent a highly inconvenient counter to your propaganda. You might be able to convince workers to harm themselves in the short term for your profit, but that deal gets decidedly worse if they know they could become disabled for months, years, or even permanently. Thus the price of pretending everything could go “back to normal”, even as the Covid virus raged around the world countless times, required ignoring the existence of Long Covid and Long Covid sufferers. We now know that this is a price our governments and the rich people who own them are happy to make society at large pay while the billionaires benefitting from this capitalist death cult take every precaution they deny us to protect themselves from Covid and the possibility of developing Long Covid."

(This was a very personal piece of writing, based on my own experiences, so I didn't bother with a jillion source links; hence why it's a "journal")

#Covid #LongCovid #Capitalism #Eugenics #Journal #BackToNormal #ClassWar

#Covid19's back, you say? As #disabled and vulnerable people know all too well, it never went away

The government’s policy is to pretend we’re getting ‘#BackToNormal’. The result is millions of us live in fear of losing our lives
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/10/covid-coronavirus-disabled-vulnerable-people
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Health #PublicHealth #MoneyBeforePeople #ToryIndifference #England