Had to put my cat down on Monday. She was with me for at least 18 years. That morning was rougher than I expected. I’ve lost several pets and all four grandparents without shedding a tear, but this was much harder.

I put on a youtube video of birds for her to watch, as I had many times before. Seeing her watching it as if she wasn’t feeling sick, knowing it was my last day with her, it fucking broke me.

Rough, got laid off last week my sister is going through a divorce on the other side of the country

Already off to a better start than last week. Last week my 1 year old tested positive for Covid. My wife and I both got it, but had to suffer through while parenting. By the time the three of us recovered, my 3 year old ended up getting it. Seems we’re all finally healthy again to start off this week.

My sleep has been horrible this week… more than usual. To pour some salt in the wound, I paid $17/pill for a sleep med not covered by my insurance that has not yet helped. (luckily only 10 pills)

Great job review, but no salary adjustment despite additional role and responsibilities. I’ve saved the company half a million dollars a year, it would cost them nothing. No thanks.

Judge gave me permanent guardianship of my almost teenage niece. She’s been with me 18 months now. It’s about time.

There was a sudden heat wave, so temperatures went from 0°C at night to 30°C at day in the course of a single week - and my body hates it, so I got a fever.

Eventually I said “you know what… fuck it” and spent the whole day in on the bed. It worked like a charm!

EDIT: “on” the bed, muppet me. It’s weird and scary how much my mental faculties (reasoning, attention, memory, communication…) degrade when I’m sick. Got the same happening IRL yesterday, as I was asking someone to bring me my bottle of ginger tea - saying something roughly translatable as “could you *send me here my tea?”.

I have two shifts totaling 14 hours left in the job that I hate, and will start at the job that I actually want next Monday. Life is looking great.

Could be worse. My DND character is in a precarious spot until next week and has a chance it could do very poorly.

I’ve also only had meetings at work today and I’m hiding under a blanket on my couch before this next meeting in 1 minute.

Looking forward to getting some better sleep and getting some gaming in later.

Tough and getting tougher, we’re releasing a major system into live usage in 2 weeks and we’re nowhere near ready