General Commentary on Life – Page 13 – Everything Is Better With Dragons

Saturday

Morning, hope you’re having a good weekend?

I am; I’m having a little holiday – spending the weekend at my sister’s while she’s away visiting her in-laws. Someone needs to look after the animals; the rabbit who has his own room, the hamster named Loki who only surfaces for hamster-chocolate, and the new resident hamster – acrobatic Sophie. There’s a children’s picture book in there somewhere, I’m sure.

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Tea and a good book

A recently finished embroidery project, my current reading material and a cup of tea on a sunny day.

Perfect.

W H Smith’s: Enforcing gender stereotypes for generations; Or, actually some girls really don’t like pink.

I went for a trip to town at the weekend; I needed some canvases and to look for a job. All very boring, but something I saw while in the shopping centre irritated me.

The poster that fills the window of W H Smiths, Freshney Place Shopping Centre, Grimsby.

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Going to the doctor was a waste of time

Went to the docs about my relapse, waited half an hour, got told what I was feeling was ‘normal’.

That was really worth a week’s worth of lost sleep, anxiety and exhaustion.

Not.

After yesterday’s eruption, my mind is clear

Other than not sleeping well, or at all, last night and having an horrendously vile cold that won’t give in, I’m feeling better this afternoon.
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I think I’ll just keep quiet from now on

This weekend was great, until I came home.
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Jobcentre Experiences

It’s been some time since I had to make use of the JCP’s services, and this time round it was relatively painless.
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A four-day working week? Only if I can have a pay rise.

Britons should cut down to four-day working week, leading doctor claims http://t.co/CTyB4NIgfN — i newspaper (@theipaper)

My morning check of emails and social media was one of my favourite procrastination methods while I was working part time. Now I’m out of work I have resumed the morning email/social media rummaging.

Today it has proven fruitful; I hath a blog post out of it 😀

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