ups, downs, rounds

yesterday:

waking up at 6.30am to send an embarrassed email to company 1's recruiter to correct for an email i'd sent at midnight

falling asleep again and waking up late, mr smear at home with what appeared to be a cold, rushing to eat breakfast and get to the therapist for a first meeting, a quick stop by the tattoo parlour to discuss sonnet 4's alignment, a couple of tough conversations with company 2's recruiter but with a surprisingly positive outcome, heading to work at my mom's coffee shop

getting an important piece of work complete and shipped, but the rest of the afternoon was consumed with collecting details for a background check: you know that moment when you hit "submit" after typing a lot, and you took so long that the website logs you out? that happened to me, after gathering details that took two overseas phone calls to clarify. but good news! when i logged back in my details were restored. 2019 technology for the win!

a big grocery shopping, bringing it home in time to take mr smear to the temple, a really nice friday night service, a good chat with SxS but feeling really sad afterwards for his sister*, a nice dinner with my mom, watching half an episode of peaky blinders then crashing early.

* she's been suffering from a neuro-degenerative disease for years and without a definite diagnosis they can't get her into clinical trials

today:

waking up in the middle of the night again, stretching and then suddenly fainting, sleeping until 9.30am and waking up tired, apparently having caught mr smear's cold

a quiet saturday morning indoors.

a really nice afternoon at shimmy's, managing to stay out of the sun, a shocking bill at the end of it

mr smear's big fall backwards off the couch and a struggle to put ice on the giant lump on the back of his head

another struggle to wake him up after a twenty minute nap and eventually managing to take him for a walk in the gardens, coming home and showering and feeling ready to relax then discovering that we were all out of toilet paper

pure resentment for a fight with gd being shared with mr smear and my mom, going to her place for a cool-off period and after a long phone conversation returning home to give us another try