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There were a few high points last year but there was a great deal more shite that happened and a fair chunk of that has carried on into this year.

Work has been falling apart after takeovers/mergers/redundancies etc and I don't see it getting any better any time soon, it's just chaos with all the management running around like headless chickens achieving the square root of feck all and getting in the way of everyone else.

At home, two of our three cats came down with serious different conditions, to the point we're lucky they're both still here. Despite what we assumed was a fairly generous pet insurance, it cost a lot of money and hit my savings to look after them but if you've got pets and you love them, you do what you have to. Currently, we have managed to stablise the one with pancreatitis but he's effectively on pallative care for the rest of his life, while the one who had a series of urinary blockages and to have his remaining boy parts removed (he was already neutered) is also on a specialised diet for the rest of his life to reduce the chances of it happening again.

In my band, the lead singer upped and left us this January. He didn't turn up to rehearsal and then sent a text that evening saying he was leaving. I had seen it coming for awhile to be honest as he was communicating less and less for some time. There's a lot of history around it that is too much to go fully into here, but I get the feeling we have been well and truly stitched up. He'd joined another band January 2025 at the time claiming he was just helping them out until they found a singer of which there was no evidence they were looking. He had our band email address and never gave anyone else access to it as although he gave us the password, he had the phone number for the two factor authentication and has refused all contact since he left, and his new band are now playing gigs/venues that we had previously done so I think any enquiries we might have had got directed their way. Hopefully karma will bite them in the arse.

Good points of the year were winning a Gibson Les Paul and a Boss Katana Gen 3 EX 50 Watt combo on an online guitar raffle website. Also still being employed and able to pay the mortgage.
 
pmc100 said:
I was thinking about this thread just yesterday but was too lazy to post. So now I will:

I just got a replacement bank card. It doesn't expire until the 2030's. FUUUUUUUUUUCK!
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Rangers will be on 5 in a row by then :embarrassed:

Life's been ok here. House still has work to do but we're getting there, put a lot of graft into the garden last year so I think it's going to look great. The rendering was fucked so we got it fixed and painted just before Christmas and it looks brand new, from the outside at least

My gran (who is about to turn 96 TBF) is losing it. I try to visit once a week after work on a Friday and each week she gets a little more forgetful and deaf. She's in a sheltered accomodation type set up so she's well looked after whilst still having her space but it's hard to watch. Last week she said "I keep going to phone our Joan (,her sister) and then I remember she passed last year." It's inevitable I suppose and she's had a great run of it but it's still hard to witness and I'm going to be in bits, my other 3 grandparents passed suddenly when I was a late teen / early 20s but somehow I feel less ready to deal with this.

Apart from that life is much of a much. I've recently been considering doing the "into headship" qualification but Im not sure I'll go for it, not yet anyway.

I've also been in the management team at work long enough now that I'm definitely "one of them" which is fine. I don't think I've changed though my take on what happens in the school and how it needs to be dealt with has - I need to be a lot more politically aware of the wider landscape (policies, authority, government, parents, external agencies etc ) which a lot of staff dont get, if we excluded every autistic or complex disability kid who lashes out (, generally off the back of a staff member doing something wrong!) we'd be empty. :shrug:

I always try to do my best for my staff and Ive always told people (generally on a night out when they've had a few giving it "you're really good up the stairs, you're not like the rest of them") that someday I won't be able to solve their problem or tell them what they want to hear and that opinion will change. There's stuff coming to our door imminently that will definitely put me over that line. It's unfortunate but I'm much less bothered about being talked about in the staff room then I used to be.
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jbj said:
Rangers will be on 5 in a row by then :embarrassed:

Life's been ok here. House still has work to do but we're getting there, put a lot of graft into the garden last year so I think it's going to look great. The rendering was fucked so we got it fixed and painted just before Christmas and it looks brand new, from the outside at least

My gran (who is about to turn 96 TBF) is losing it. I try to visit once a week after work on a Friday and each week she gets a little more forgetful and deaf. She's in a sheltered accomodation type set up so she's well looked after whilst still having her space but it's hard to watch. Last week she said "I keep going to phone our Joan (,her sister) and then I remember she passed last year." It's inevitable I suppose and she's had a great run of it but it's still hard to witness and I'm going to be in bits, my other 3 grandparents passed suddenly when I was a late teen / early 20s but somehow I feel less ready to deal with this.

Apart from that life is much of a much. I've recently been considering doing the "into headship" qualification but Im not sure I'll go for it, not yet anyway.

I've also been in the management team at work long enough now that I'm definitely "one of them" which is fine. I don't think I've changed though my take on what happens in the school and how it needs to be dealt with has - I need to be a lot more politically aware of the wider landscape (policies, authority, government, parents, external agencies etc ) which a lot of staff dont get, if we excluded every autistic or complex disability kid who lashes out (, generally off the back of a staff member doing something wrong!) we'd be empty. :shrug:

I always try to do my best for my staff and Ive always told people (generally on a night out when they've had a few giving it "you're really good up the stairs, you're not like the rest of them") that someday I won't be able to solve their problem or tell them what they want to hear and that opinion will change. There's stuff coming to our door imminently that will definitely put me over that line. It's unfortunate but I'm much less bothered about being talked about in the staff room then I used to be.
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Grandma mojo sent
 
My forefathers came to both Canada and USA in the early 1900’s from Austria and Romania.. I was always a night owl, i prefered the night shift before I had kids, I’m most creative in the overnight hours.

Do you think that’s because I never adjusted to the time change?
 
Dudeman1967 said:
My forefathers came to both Canada and USA in the early 1900’s from Austria and Romania.. I was always a night owl, i prefered the night shift before I had kids, I’m most creative in the overnight hours.

Do you think that’s because I never adjusted to the time change?
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Either that or a vampire :embarrassed:
 
pmc100 said:
Either that or a vampire :embarrassed:
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I've been quite preoccupied. Work is busy (but fun), spent an amazing month in Norway at CoGF's aunt and uncle's place. Had an absolute blast. But biggest thing right now is dealing with Kiira's PLE. It's been an ongoing problem, with loads of vet visits and whatnot, for nearly 3 months now. Especially all the uncertainty and constant stress in the back of my mind is really exhausting.

She's kind of "alright" now in the sense that she's active and happy, but she's still quite bloated. We went to the vet yesterday, and unfortunately the protein values have no increased since last time, the slight glimmer of hope being that they also didn't decrease. She does act healthier, and lost a kilo worth of fluids that were bloating her badly, so that's the positive. Now a diet change (even lower fat diet, homecooked :facepalm: ) and another 3 weeks of uncertainty and then check again.
 
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