The “don’t know what I’ve done or how I did it” injuries are so annoying.
Very sore neck, so I’ve done something around my neck/shoulder/back. Here’s hoping tomorrow is better than today.
Edit: I’m glad to say that today was much better than yesterday, so I’m hopeful this will be back to normal in fairly short order.
I think a large part of it is that they didn’t let us know that they were doing his 3-year autism evaluation as well during the IEP.
Basically the step where they agree that our kiddo is autistic to receive services. We didn’t find out that this part was being done at this meeting until afternoon the day before or something like that.
During the meeting, occurred one year to the day after my son had surgery to remove the broken root of his tooth.
Right after he was being wheeled in, when Chris and I had gotten a bunch of phone calls suddenly and that’s when we were informed that the school had discovered a bunch of bad they had been doing to my kid.
I know my body stores that kind of stuff as muscle memory. I am doing so much therapy these days. Bi-weekly like therapist therapy and then every two or three weeks ENDR therapy. (I had some trauma after the ENDR this last week and I think it reacted badly and I just couldn’t seem to stop crying.)
And so it was more than just a little bit ironic that at this meeting this school district had to apologize to us for moving him into a private classroom placement without prior notice to the parents nor the support of an IEP that the parents could have had concerns or questions answered prior to the move.
They are arguing. It’s not really seclusion. But unless my son has equal access to the other learning spaces, I don’t see how they can argue that.
I think I took on a bit too much trying to overly support @COMaestro ? Because I know his parents mean the world to him. And I’ve lost 3 of favorite people. One to violence, old age, and young illness.
But instead i just kind of burnt out. It doesn’t help that my kids stop eating sandwiches. Which sounds small but it means I need to basically make an extra fold out dinner every two days for them to have lunches for school. I am a lone girl, livin with four guys. Two are going through puberty. I feel like I’m always cooking.
I’m really glad that you’re getting therapy, I hope it helps you! I, a random Internet stranger, believe in you! You can get through this!
I don’t know where you are, but maybe there are programs you guys could look into to help lighten the load? Like just having someone who comes over and cleans the house once in a while, or pre-made meals?
I’m doing… not great? I’ve had a week off my muggle job, and I’ve spent most of it working on my other job (painting commissions) to try and pay for my writing.
I recently bought some software called “Publisher Rocket” that’s designed to help make better Amazon marketing campaigns. Historically (for 8 years now) I have run “Automatic Targeting” campaigns, and they’re a pretty consistent $11 of ads lands $1 of sales. Since switching to “Manual Targeting” in early Feb, I’ve made exactly 1 sale, and by the end of the month it’s at $20 of ads for $1 sale. Which is super frustrating because when I landed the sale, for the first time ever it was a profitable sale (for a few days it was $0.4 for $1 sale). By since that was the only sale for the month, the ads kept spending… the one particular campaign (out of the 15 I’m running over 3 books) is at $5/$1. But one data point isn’t enough to figure out anything useful, and even if it was I’m pretty sure I’m not smart enough to know what to do with it. Spend more? Spend less? Get a refund on the software because what’s the point?
Last week I decided to try a “professional” ad, run by a company called “Written Word Media.” Basically they have a huge chonkin’ email list of people who buy books, and for $40 I can get in on their daily emails to 150K sci-fi readers (one of their smaller lists: their Romance lists have 500K people, but costs $200). Figured, hey, it’s only $40, I’ll give 'er a whirl.
Ad ran yesterday. I landed a total of 1 (one) sale. That got me $4, so that makes the ad cost… hey $10/$1.
I try not to swear, but ooh boy do I want to.
I’m just so tired. I just want to write my stories and make a little money. My wants are humble! If I made minimum wage I would be ecstatic. If I made close to minimum wage I’d be ecstatic! But Novel 8 is almost ready to be sent to my editor, and she’s going to (rightly, justifiably) charge me $3200 for substantive editing, and then the cover is going to cost me $200, and then I’ll sell… a few dozen in the first month?
I just… I don’t know what to do, and I’m so tired.
Anyway. Whine whine whine, life is hard, blah blah blah.
I was hoping to spend some of this week shooting a LEGO stopmotion movie (I’ve written the script already, and I have friends who are willing to do the voices), but I haven’t finished the World Eater commission I’m working on.
Oh, fun fact: I crunched the numbers for my painting commissions, and they’re currently averaging about $5/hour. But I only have 2 clients, and I can’t bring myself to charge them 3x as much for my work. It’s an extra $500/month, more or less, which is nice, but gosh it’s a lot of work.
/rant
Hi! How is everyone doing? It’s been fun.
Quick question: “regular” size (15 oz/420ml) or “large” size (645ml)?
Ours is 16 oz, but 15 should be close enough.
Started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) again roughly a year ago, after three years on the couch due to the pandemic (if you’re unfamiliar with BJJ, it’s impossible to train with any kind of social distancing). Here’s a pic of me just before the Holidays, when I’d just gotten my second stripe on my white belt:
I’m about 235 lbs there.
I just got back from my doctor for my check-up (which will now be annual, because I’m 44 and I’ve been stupid for way too long).
I’m down to 220. 
I didn’t start training again to lose weight, but dang, that’s a nice bonus.
Wait, you’re not a bald headed mastermind?
If we didn’t already know that you weren’t English, that photo would be a dead giveaway 
I stopped shaving my head a few years ago, LOL, here’s what I looked like then (I’m on the far right, this pic is 7 years old and OBVIOUSLY in a different martial art):
@Whistle_Pig , I’m actually aware of that salute after consuming so much British media! 
Maybe I was subconsciously giving someone the finger there? 
And hey, speaking of hair style, here’s what I looked like in 2002, when I was going for my very first black belt. I’m in the middle:
Damn it body, stop breaking for no reason. Can’t you at least wait until I fall over or something?
Last time it was neck pain and this time it’s hip pain. I’m really hoping that it’s something temporary. Yesterday walking seemed to ease it, but today I think the walk was a bad idea.
It’s probably not for “no reason”. You have one of those pesky desk jobs, don’t you?
On Friday, I finally have another physio appointment for: pain in the neck and the hip. It’s both from my back trying to tell me I sit too much and move to little while sitting and probably also have bad posture.
Physio helps me learn preventative moves… which I haven’t been doing properly because the sitting too much at work has been too tiring… I need my ass kicked again next Friday.
I am going to sound like that guy, but, have you tried a standing desk? Just standing up for an hour a day makes a big difference.
i have one 
For my part, I’m standing most of the work day, most days (and have done for many years). I wondered whether conceivably I’m standing too much, but then “why now?”. Will be sitting today, in any case.
Just went to put water in my wife’s CPAP and noticed little black spots floating in it. A second later I realized they were ants and they were swarming all over it. Ran to rinse it off in the sink while she started on getting them out of the machine itself.
Not how we expected to spend a good 30+ minutes of our evening. Sadly we got rid of her old machine as it sounded off, so she’s going to sleep tonight without one. I think she will be fine, though may not get as restful a night of sleep as normal (he says while restraining laughter, thinking of how his kids are often awake in the 4 o’clock hour and do not understand the concept of “inside voice”). Tomorrow we figure out what to do with the machine.
Just cancelled my semi-regular call with an old uni mate. Too much going on all of a sudden.
We’re meant to be heading off to the Old Country on Saturday, but due to storms the boats are warning of probable cancellations - we’ll find out at 6am on Saturday which is non-ideal.
Local councillors have also been round to look into various issues. They’ve raised a swathe of issues about the developer and asked if we have assorted paperwork, so I’ve been scurrying round trying (and mostly failing) to find it. Unfortunately my wife only sort of half-remembers what they said, so it’s a bit of a struggle. Hopefully they’ll email me back and explain a bit more!
Just feeling rather worn out and very much waiting for the weekend to roll around.
Last few weeks, we had bright sunshine and temperature in the 10-15 degrees Celsius range. Perfectly normal Smarch weather.
Yesterday, in the evening, it started raining. Then snowing. We actually lost power around 5 PM yesterday, got it back around 8 PM.
Today, well, I woke up to around 10 cm of snow on the ground. Baloney is LOVING it.
Well, the boats are cancelled. Possibly for the best as I’ve been feeling ill since yesterday. Hoping to make a crossing tomorrow instead. We’re staying with my parents today and it’s nice catching up with them.
I have just finished buying a new car, after the old one started throwing intermittent warnings of total brake failure on the way back from Airecon. (The local garage reckoned that (a) it was just a sensor rather than an actual problem and (b) it would be ferociously expensive even to try to fix, and the car was 17 years old, though still running very well otherwise.) Much discussion with wife, trying to find a car that didn’t have too many shiny features like electronic handbrake (we live on a hill), and driving to the back of beyond (technically Peterborough).
Peterborough definitely counts as the back end of beyond
