Welp, I guess this microwave has had it. // #IsItSalvageable ๐Ÿค” // #random #LifeStuff

I've finally been referred to a 'local' M.E. clinic - it's miles away but they also work via Teams apparently & I'll have my hearing aids & lipreading, so will hopefully be ok.

Also applied for PIP - not for CFS/M.E. as I doubt I'd get it on that, but for my lifetime deafness + hearing aids costs. NHS don't offer the ones I need & I'd only get one anyway! My hearing aids are ยฃ2k+ & I'm on my second pair ๐Ÿ˜ญ So expensive ๐Ÿ™„

#PersonalUpdate #deaf #chronicIllness #CFS #PIP #HearingAids #LifeStuff

Prepping for a landlord walk on 5/30 and taking care of/ celebrating my fiancรฉe birthday ( They have a headcold) is why I haven't uploaded lately. Will be back up by 6/1/2025.
#Apologies #bebacksoon #Lifestuff

I will always share the best advice I was given growing up second to "Learn how to relax."

Be a regular someplace outside your home/work. Maybe a bar, a group, an activity with peers. Be a regular somewhere.

Make friends and have community. It goes beyond you. Help build and contribute to something larger.

#advice #regular #lifestuff

good morning friends, it's time for another round of #LifeStuff, the tag for trying to get things done. it's been a while since I've done one

to-do list:
โœ“ eat breakfast
- start a load of laundry
- unpack/put away blankets and towels (now that the linen closet is accessible)

... and idk, maybe I'll do more, but that list is making me tired already. me wanting to do a Life Stuff post is usually a good sign that I'm climbing out of a #depression pit, but I've been very depressed for many months, so I'd rather not overdo it

anyway, here goes! I just finished my breakfast, let's start some laundry!

#mentalhealth #unpacking #moving

Hello From Periodicals

I have a joke that I use when things are piling up on me: I have so many issues that I could run a periodicals library.

C.M. Weller

The List:
โœ“ eat breakfast
โœ“ laundry: washed, a few things are dried, the rest is hanging to dry!
โœ“ move bedside table back to the bedroom and put stuff back on it
โœ“ put the cedar chest at the end of my bed
โœ“ wipe down cedar chest, inside and out
- find homes for: ottoman, brass container, two green glass chickens, candy dish, CD player, some large paintings
- put woolens in cedar chest!
- collapse, probably

so really, I got a ton of stuff done! also I started reading my TLoZ The Minish Cap/Phantom Hourglass manga that I got in San Francisco. it's very cute so far EXCEPT for the bit where Link, in tiny form, looks up some woman's skirt, like, what the actual fuck???

#LifeStuff

okay, to-do list check!
โœ“ eat breakfast
- start laundry
- move my bedside table back to the bedroom and put everything back on it
โœ“ put the cedar chest at the end of my bed
โœ“ wipe down cedar chest, inside and out
- find homes for: ottoman, brass container, two green glass chickens, candy dish, CD player, some large paintings
- put woolens in cedar chest!
- collapse, probably

also, @ninsiana0 wants to go to Trader Joe's, so I probably won't get all of this done today ... okay, I need to focus on laundry and the bedside table ... and charging my phone ๐Ÿ˜ no more updates for a bit!

#LifeStuff

this thing being in front of my bed is going to take some getting used to lol I keep barking my calves (the back part, not the shins) when I try to flop onto my bed ๐Ÿคฃ

I do kinda want to try to get it refinished, with ideally a stain rather than paint, so we can see the wood grain

also, in the second photo there's two long nails poking through the bottom, bent so they won't stab me, at least. not really visible, in the top left corner: a screw sticking out of the bottom, just poking up, ready to stab my hand

so, even if I can't get it refinished anytime soon, I do need to come up with a diy fix for at minimum the screw

but AAAHHHHH I'm so excited about this piece!

#LifeStuff

my mother's mother's mother, Mary Green, painted this. at first I thought it was a sparrow (one of my favorite birds), but apparently it's a tufted titmouse, which is still a good bird ๐Ÿ˜…

#LifeStuff #art #painting