welcome to the new age
Broke up with my long distance girlfriend, I couldn’t handle the distance, it’s the most painful thing I have ever done, but I just felt so sad knowing that it might be years before I ever get to see her 🥲
New Year’s Eve was typical for me. I fall asleep way too early. We watched the fireworks from Sydney streaming live. Wow what a show! My goal is to get everything in order to retire this year. There’s so much to do, wading through all the healthcare options is probably the biggest.
I’ve managed to migrate from air mattress and blanket to couch and blanket and I think avoided being hungover, so not too shabby.
So far pretty slow. Work has been a slow drip (unsurprising) and everyone is just slowly getting back to normal after the holidays. But hey, I’m caught up on sleep so I’ve got that going for me!
I’m excited about the new year. I’ve made some new friends and want to explore that. And I might be falling in love but a part of me also hopes that’s not the case.
Everything hurts
Coffee? CHECK. Baked bread? CHECK. Not dead? CHECK.
Off to a good start.
Absolutely the correct order of checks
Certainly can’t check for dead before coffee
they’re the same picture meme
did my traditional new year’s day bike ride. had about 12-15 people show up! rode ~15 miles at an easy pace and feeling great.
Can I come?
sure!
That’s awesome.
Last year hasn’t been a good year for me, to be fair. I’ve been having some health problems (luckily I’m on medical treatment and it’s nothing serious)
I don’t expect much from this year, but I hope to be able to do more things (and be once again active in the fediverse) now that my health issues are more controlled.
New year celebrations were alright. I expend it with the family.
I’m to be dismissed from my job Jan 3.
I guess I have prospects. Still, it’s a hell of a kick in the teeth, I’ve never been involuntarily terminated from a job in my entire life.
Sorry to hear that 🫤
Any positive learning experiences to take away from the situation? I hope that any gap in between work is as low stress as possible. Best of luck!
I know I’m lucky – I’m in a senior position in my career, so it’s likely I’ll find something new for the same or similar salary.
Still, it was completely unprovoked. I had nothing but glowing performance reviews, nothing like an HR writeup or anything.
Got a dogshit performance review because I did not conform to the pointless metrics we’re judged against, like ‘Positivity’ and ‘Responsiveness’ (because I didn’t smile every day and I don’t answer teams messages after hours.) I hate this job. Fuck capitalism.
Ugggttyuuuuhhhhhhhhh
Dystopian shit right here— you’re not allowed to feel anything but joy
Oh not joy, Fake joy!
Hang in there OP, I left the company I worked for early last year for reasons like that. Sure isn’t the easiest thing to do (x-gen here) but I feel like it’s always tm a good solution when your job sucks(the soul out of you).
What are y’all up to tonight?
Last night consisted of reading and a surprise visit from one of our good friends! It’s always fun to hang out and spice up the week nights.
Super busy hahahahaha
Painfully. Ribcage & sternum in bits following some overly exuberant dancing on the 30th. Hopefully just bruising & fractures and not soft tissue damage, but extra uncomfortable with a bad cough.
Still, should help me quit smoking as in too much pain to want to & likewise to shift pattern of seeing boyfriend to something far less frequent.
EDIT: realised I had to end things with boyfriend, so did that then got a barrage of super-manipulative texts, complete with vague suicide threats, so definitely dodged a bullet there. Very supportive message then came in from a mutual friend, so was able to clear up a few things.
big yikes at the ex. i had something similar several years ago. block that turd!
So sorry that happened to you.
Keeping him unblocked but muted, just in case he threatens to approach. Having forewarning (and evidence if it really escalates) is useful & my feelings are now such that he’s incapable of upsetting me.
Happy to report he’s gone quiet for now.
Quiet as usual, all same old really just lots of rain!
