welcome to the weekly how’s your week going thread
this thread is a pretty straightforward and relaxed one for giving updates on how your week is going and chat like that. nothing special
on my front: last week was total chaos, so hoping for things to calm down this week because it is completely fucking up my groove; unfortunately reddit is not making that easy. this is also not ideally timed for my emotional state. anyways, read book 20 for the year (America City by Chris Beckett). on book 21. maybe i’ll marathon through a bunch of these in between keeping the site from being on fire
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My partner lives in the US, and I’m Canadian. It’s been stressful for both of us to pay for visits and to be constantly saying goodbye. I need to get a stable income, then we’ll be able to live together. We’ve been working on an indie game together, and I hope it’ll do well. Our Steam page just went up, which feels really nice.
I’m rooting for you!
My wife and I decided we will start trying to get pregnant. we have not, because we live check to check. shes 41 now, and we are just getting older so why not take a chance?
Self love, and self compassion are new concepts in my life this week. I typically rely on repression, and pushing how I feel down. I aim to replace my coping technique from repression, to a more positive and healthier self love.
Like a few others here, this is my first comment and I look forward to new possibilities and new friends, and I hope you have a great rest of your week.
Good luck with trying for the baby! Have a great week.
I was just approved in the community, so still exploring.
My university exams are going on so I have been busy with that and only 6 days left before my college life ends (temporarily at least) and it’s daunting for me how adult corporate life would be. I am already making a list of things to do in vacations like joining a gym, starting to read a book that was pending since past several months(any readers of Red Rising by Pierce Brown here??), learning guitar and so on…
I am over all the place, but happy.
Oh man I remember that feeling.
Every time my life has moved on to the next phase things have just gotten better. That doesn’t mean there aren’t bumps (sometime serious giant bumps) along the way or the stuff that came before wasn’t great too but I feel that each new part of my life just enhanced everything that came before. This is a feeling that I know is shared by most people I know too.
I hope that’s the same for you and that everything goes well as you move into “adult corporate life”. Try to turn that daunting feeling into excitement as the new bit starts!
idk, i’ve been stuck between a rock and a hard place for awhile but this weeks been rougher than usual. Weirdly I’m feeling hopeful for the future though, maybe it has to get worse before it gets better.
Slowly. But it’s almost hump day.
My little boy is just at the tail end of Chickenpox… so that has made it a tough week with long sleepless nights (had to be cuddled all night long) and unhappy days. Thankfully he’s a lot better now.
On the plus side, it has been nice having some solo dad time while mum worked and as he started feeling better we’ve been having lots of fun running around the house and playing in the garden.
Now I’ve just got to get caught up with work… of course it suddenly gets really busy just as I had to take last minute leave!
I’m waging a losing war against the squirrels for my flower bed. So far, I have saturated the area with Irish Spring soap shreds and sprayed a mix of Repel All/Tobasco sauce on everything. The smell is nauseating.
Does anyone know if those sonic repellant machines actually work?
I have no idea, but now I am imagining tiny squirrels in WW2 helmets planning an ambush on your garden, so thanks for that!
Can’t comment for squirrels but the sonic repellant worked really well for cats that had been doing their business at the bottom of the garden. Squirrels are basically small cats right?
I hope so. They are going after my potted plants now.
Ever since I took on a new role at work, I’ve been busy attending more meetings with Very Important People than before. For someone like me who prefers not have the attention of Very Important People, it’s nerve-wracking.
Honestly, finding this place has been the highlight of my month! This week has been crazy busy at work. About 4 different projects all started going on at once on top of my normal work load and it’s been a bit draining. But, i put in for a couple vacation days a month ago and am going to be spending it at a friend’s doing lán parties and just general hanging out.
I hope all y’all’s is going well! Or will soon be!
Doing well, thank you for this thread. I’m having a bit of career crisis as I don’t know what job I want to get next. Tired of tech and feeling lost haha. I’ll figure it out :)
Don’t discount the trades! I am very happy in my programming job, but if I ever found myself out of work again, or burt out on the career, I would definitely heavily consider moving my skillset that way!
Finished work early so I’m happy. It’s been a tough week as my chronic back/shoulder pain has been acting up. Thankfully work has been relatively relaxing and got a surprising amount of positive feedback from the directors. What that says for my performance when I’m not in agonising pain I’m not sure!
Going to my sister’s to watch her cat for the weekend, should be chilled. I intend to drink the pain away as my meds aren’t working.
It’s been good so far. We had thought one of my cats had cancer, but we got a call from the vet yesterday and it turns out she doesn’t, so that’s excellent.
I’m trying out this timer app to try and keep myself on some kind of schedule. So far so good!
It’s been a rollercoaster… I’ve been stuck on the step to make cabinet doors for a project I’m working on at home for the last three weeks… but as of last night, it seems like I’ve broken that barrier wide open, and I finally finished the assembly of four doors, and they all look absolutely fantastic!
On the down side, my kids all got pink eye, and on their “field day” week at school… Which in and of itself stinks, but the on who has considerable FOMO did this exact thing last year, too, and missed all the stuff then as well. I feel pretty bad for them.
Work is actually pretty cool. But, the MVC architecture for .Net doesnt make a bit of sense to me, and I can’t wait to be done with this app so I dont have to use it again.
Adding that to my TBR. I got back into reading 2 years ago, it’s helped my mental health so much by replacing social media. Hope your week calms down＼(- )
