Joss

When you're very optimistic about all your relationships that's Pollyannary

Update: it turns out I had a Wordpress account from 2014 that I can resurrect, having deleted the posts that were on there, which were pretty well written but not the vibe I’m looking for this time around. So I guess I’m bringing back blogging 😎 (I’m probably not).

Maybe! I’ll see if I still have one! I don’t even really mind it being public, I just don’t necessarily need ex work colleagues or ex dates to be kept up to date on my crafting pursuits 😂

You were the only person in my list I was pleased to see! But now I must assume the rest of them have also been notified which is bullshit so I will therefore not be using it to do the thing I planned to do 😭

I don’t even have the date’s number saved and I don’t think I ever emailed him so I’m extra baffled about that one tbh. Presumably he has my number still saved (???) and has shared contacts? Anyway, I hate it, thank you.

Will there ever be a time when I don’t secretly yearn for a locked Livejournal? Just set up a Substack, refused to share my contacts & somehow it still suggested I link up with an old manager and someone I went on one date with 10+ years ago. I don’t want to be discoverable! I want to be secret!

Absolutely WEEPING at the end of Celebrity Traitors 😭

Only my recollection of how shit retail jobs are stopped me from resigning without a job to go to yesterday and tbh, it’s still on the table.

I found (the bit I watched of the first series) v dull and confusing but in fairness was watching it at a bad mental health time and was mostly there for Lee Pace!

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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

Went to the Scottish Deer Centre yesterday and still recovering from learning that the bear that lives there is essentially enrolled in an intensive trauma therapy programme 😭

THIS MOMENT DESERVES A BAFTA #CelebrityTraitors

Stephen Fry: The perspicacity of our unseen nemesis is unfathomable

[A slowed-down acoustic cover of We Are The Cheeky Girls plays for no reason]

#thetraitors #celebritytraitors

Other than reality-esque tv I’ve taken the stance that it’s too hard to sift for quality when tv is new and there’s so much of it, so I’m watching stuff from the early/mid-2010s that people deem to still be good (The Americans, Justified, The Fall) and it’s working out well!

Absolutely obsessed with Celebrity Traitors after just one episode. what a great little tv run it’s been recently with Sewing Bee and Bake-Off and Celebrity Traitors!

I love hedgehogs so much I could cry, strong motivation for ‘should I move and have a garden’ is just so I could maybe have hedgehog sightings occasionally.

Forever trying to decide if I want to move out of the city and live by the sea, or stay adjacent to the city but move somewhere quieter & with a garden, or just stay where I am near lots of cool stuff. How does anybody KNOW what kind of life they would like the most??

Complaining about this has jinxed me; I am now ill 🤧

I don’t know whether my downstairs neighbour or my next door neighbour is the one who has a hacking cough right now, and obviously poor them for being ill, but wow I could do without hearing it all night (I am very tired of living in a badly soundproofed tenement).

Because of how my schedule is playing out, I am going to the gym Tuesday evening, Wednesday lunchtime, Thursday evening this week and next week and wow can I tell you how much I don’t want to do deadlifts by Thursday evening ie in 90 mins from now 😭😭😭

This is my least favourite new thing in my life! Cannot sleep well on my boyfriend’s squishy mattress now, 20-something me wouldn’t have cared 😭

I did not mean the little angel to be in there but that’s life, sometimes you have fat fingers when you type and sometimes a book peeks inside all your family trauma and tips it out on the table 🙃

Finished Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano yesterday, 😇 both enjoyed it and was absolutely emotionally devastated by it (and kind of still am today, honestly), what a book 😭

Anyway I booked it because I felt like I was really stiff but the outcome of every stretch was ‘you’re actually really flexible there’ so WHY do I feel so creaky??

Just spent an hour doing assisted stretching ie I bent myself into various stretches and then a man leaned on me in various ways to make each stretch deeper and now I’m made of very long spaghetti.

Have fully lost all my enthusiasm for the gym over the last couple of months and can only partly link it to work being immensely stressful. Just gone from ‘all I want is to be as strong as I can be’ to ‘I guess I’m going cos I guess it’s good for me’ and no idea what changed 🤔

Library hold reviews:
The Safekeep was…fine. Nesting was sort of great but so harrowing I don’t know if I can truly recommend it. A Little Trickerie was very different to anything else I’ve read recently - I liked it but also I did have to go back and look up what the 3rd book had been so 🤷🏼‍♀️

Belated happy birthday! I hope you had a delightful day!

Been refused compensation for the delayed flight so I’m doubling down on my polite emails (but hold out little to no hope because I’m not covered by either UK or EU law). Absolutely mad that a private company can waste an entire day of my one and only life and have to do nothing about it.

Three of my library holds have turned up in one go and are only on loan for 14 days, plus my next book club book needs reading by the 23rd, so I’m basically mandated to spend all my spare time reading for the next two weeks.