another war week over

work:  today was a real struggle, i feel like i've spent most of the week hitting every possible snag, edge case and weirdness. the successes were limited.

gd and i dropped mr smear off at school this morning and then walked together to the clinic, then did some shopping and came home. unlike the last couple of days, i feel like i was relatively focused work-wise.

after picking mr smear up from school, gd put on a brave face and went through to her piercer to get her nose ring switched - i'm actually quite proud of her, under the circumstances, leaving the house by herself and taking the bus was a really big deal.

mr smear was pretty cool today, although bedtime shenanigans turned into bad feelings. not as bad as they could have been, though. i do sense improvement.

i returned to the orthopaedist, who could immediately see wear around my hips. that's troubling. so i have a referral for a joint specialist and i guess we'll see...

i'm tired, i'm contemplating going to bed soon. i did play some inscryption this evening, i'm enjoying it but i wasn't in the right mood.

i've expressed to gd my concern that her with her ptsd and lack of context should really be avoiding news in general. i suggested she'd be better off with cat videos, and she didn't disagree... everything is toxic right now, and i'm personally struggling with the "need to know" FOMO and sense of powerless despair that comes with it, even if the "knowledge" is always suspect at best.