How Was Your Day/Week?

[ShiraNoMai]

Handed in my notice at work on Friday. It's been 8 1/2 years with this place, and it was a very hard thing for me to do (less so the move and more so the detachment from my boss, who I'm quite close with). It's gonna be a rough next month but it was the first step towards a better me for this year (and beyond).

[Mr EliteL]

Dang, 8 1/2 years, been that long already huh? Or perhaps it feels longer than that. Hope the fresh new start into whatever you're doing next proves to be worthwhile and indeed better.

Finally got my old and technically still my room emptied ready for Tuesday today, however got some temporary stuff in there for the night. My old bed came with a seat that opens up into a second bed which is what I'll be using to sleep in for the meantime. First instance I've used the seat for that purpose too because I did not have the space to open it up like that before. So my year can finally start to turn around as once the room is painted, carpeted I can get a new bed, sort through all my crud and reorganise everything. A long necessary process and hope to be in a better place mentally afterwards because frick the amount of stuff I have.

[Kyng]

I've spent the last four days with my girlfriend. Unfortunately, it wasn't the happiest visit, because she's been very anxious about her health issues - but, I tried to support her as best I could. And we did go on a nice day trip to Bristol, where we saw a couple of the historic sites!

Tomorrow will be my dad's birthday, but I still haven't got him a main present. Will have to sort that out tomorrow morning!

[Moonface]

Had to go to a walk in clinic this morning because I'm still not getting better, and turns out I have a really bad case of the flu so I'm written off work until at least Tuesday. I came down with it on Friday so it's been a really rough week so far. x.x

[Kyng]

In the end, I got my dad a bottle of Cointreau. Was a bit of a faff, though: they forgot to remove the security tag, so I had to go back to the shop to get that done. Fortunately, he was very pleased with it in the end!

Also had my second attempt at getting a filling today. The first attempt was back in February, but it fell out towards the beginning of March - so I had a temporary one put in, until it was replaced by a permanent one today. Let's hope this one lasts longer!

[Mr EliteL]

Ah my last post in here, my room is now carpeted and painted for a while now. All that's in there is a temporary fold out bed (was the seat I had that came with my previous bed frame) and begrudgingly a dresser that technically isn't mine but some drawers which have my clothes in. Will be getting a wardrobe instead, plus a proper bed at some point then what else will go in there will be decided on after.

Had three days off work (two normal, one was shift change as I worked on Sunday), on the Tuesday came down with a bad stomach ache and other physical ailments, slowly getting better. Thinking it may have been the amount of dairy I had so I'll cut back on it.

[ShiraNoMai]

Glad your room is turning out to be quite lovely. Can't wait to see photos when it's all done!

This week has been interesting. Been a weird mix of "senioritis" at work, but also "oh god i gotta prepare for these people not being able to do anything without me". I redid all my file directories today so they make sense to more than just me, which was quite a task. It wasn't in a complete state before but it definitely had some bits that only I knew where they were, you know? Now they're all in nice, distinct folders that make sense to navigate through. It's a nice bit of tidying I wish I just did for myself years ago

[Kyng]

Wasn't great, to be honest.

On Wednesday, my dad and I went out to a local Indian restaurant in order to celebrate his birthday. I was really looking forward to it... but then, I ended up choking on a piece of my starter, which stayed in my throat for over an hour (long after I got home). It's not the first time this has happened - but it is the most severe incident of it.

On Thursday, I had a doctor's appointment to discuss my choking issues. They did give me some general advice (apparently, it's better to try and swallow it if you can't cough it up immediately), and they've put me on a waiting list for a follow-up appointment (which I'll hear back about at some point over the next two weeks).

Today, though, things got a bit better. I got a takeaway from that restaurant, with the main course that I would have had on Wednesday (Gobi manchurian). I thought it was rather nice !

[Moonface]

In the end, I got my dad a bottle of Cointreau. Was a bit of a faff, though: they forgot to remove the security tag, so I had to go back to the shop to get that done. Fortunately, he was very pleased with it in the end!

How did you get out of the store with it without the alarms going off? Those tags only get disabled using the same system that removes them.

Today is rough for me. I've been up since 4am for work, got off 20 minutes ago, but am now at @ShiraNoMai's work because she needs my help to pack up all her shit since today is her last day at her job so I'm not gonna be getting to properly relax today for a few more hours yet. x.x

[ShiraNoMai]

Day one of temporary retirement has come to a close. Not a very eventful day, just feels like any other weekend-day despite it being a Wednesday, but I'm sure it'll sink in by next week. Tomorrow and Friday I got my mom coming by to help tidy the house with me cuz it's sure in a state.

[Mr EliteL]

Did you at least have this weekend to enjoy doing whatever you wanted? Can't believe it's Sunday already.

Had my dad over Friday then family friend yesterday, we sorted out one of our shed's roof as it had been leaking for a long while now, just finding a decent dry and warm day to do it. I had the sun on me as I was on the actual roof laying down the...whatever it was called and luckily didn't get sunburned as I usually get being in the sun for a prolonged amount of time. Work as usually too in the mornings, in tomorrow as well for the bank holiday but only 5 hours, so up early and out early to have the rest of the day to relax after the past 5 days of quite a lot of work.

[ShiraNoMai]

We wound up doing it Friday and Sunday in consideration for my mom cuz she overdid it a little with a friend on Wednesday and worked hard on Friday and I wanted her to have time to rest. Still, I'm having some time to myself here and there. I keep having this drive to do something with my time but unsure what exactly it is I want to do Something I'm working on with my therapist

Hope the time spent with family/friends was nice, despite it being... work, technically I mean, I guess the same with me and my mom I suppose lmao

[Eric]

I'm absolutely exhausted from university finals and my adhd is not being kind to me. I just cannot seem to make it to the finish line with this mountain of work still left I need to turn in before week's end.

[Mr EliteL]

Hope you got all that sorted now Eric.

Fun times at work, busy day yesterday by myself (mostly) and stayed an extra hour for 11 hours, then today was relentless as usual from opening time until 1PM. Good weather recently and today so no wonder it was mad, everyone going for the fruit and salads...yet we still crap tons of bananas, why? At least I get a break for three days, going over to my friend's again for Scrabble and possibly a walk if the weather stays good.

[Moonface]

I'm absolutely exhausted from university finals and my adhd is not being kind to me. I just cannot seem to make it to the finish line with this mountain of work still left I need to turn in before week's end.

And now I'm trying to remember if I knew you had ADHD before now or not. I feel like the subject has come up between us before because I have it too, but I can't remember for the life of me.
Are your finals just for this semester or was it the finals of the overall course?


I'm....trying to remember my past week because Shira being home all the time has made me lose all sense of time. Uh, I went to work on Wednesday last week instead of Tuesday because of inventory, then had therapy on Thursday followed by a trip to Ikea in the afternoon. I haven't been to Ikea in ages it feels like and it probably has been a while because every single one of their rooms were completely redone. They had some really nice room layouts in there this time even in the kids section, and we got a few things including something Shira will probably post in the Latest Notable Purchase thread.
Friday's shift was horrid because the inventory team screwed up so many counts that I got over 100 cases of extra stock I didn't need that I had to recount, but fortunately my shifts on both days of the weekend were increasingly better. Unfortunately I spent most of Monday with a headache to close it off though.
Tomorrow I have to go a luncheon that's being held by my job for anyone who has hit a 5-year increment anniversary with the company this year, with the theme being to come dressed in 90s clothing. I wasn't sure whether to bother going but I'm curious to see it at least once.