Saturday, 1 July 2023

Monthly Musings: July 2023

An overview of opinions and observations for the month.

01/07/2023 @18:01
Really hope Lysh finds a new passion soon, because we've spent another reluctant day vegging around on the sofas watching Ranboo Tik Toks most of the afternoon, with the intermittent request for snacks or Amazon purchases. Love this kid to bits, unconditionally, but I'd be lying to say days like today don't make me feel like she's slipping away and I don't like it! My brain logics like thus: if she doesn't enjoy visiting me and finds it boring, why would she want to continue visiting me? ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ˜”

02/07/2023 @18:16
Been a good day. Went walk Reggie at Westport Lake with Stace ๐Ÿ•๐ŸŒฒ then Charlie came to visit for a change - wasn't sure if he'd bring me anything for Father's Day after not getting me anything last year - nope. Second year in a row so I guess that's done. I still remember the time he broke my heart asking if he could call me Dad - bittersweet. Today's visit began with my Mum telling me that if Charlie mentions he wears a body shaper, then be supportive - because it's giving him confidence back. I was baffled; surely helping him to lose some weight would be the answer, not just finding a lazy workaround ๐Ÿคฆ‍♂️ the day then legitimately began with him scranning a full tube of Pringles, a Wrights meat & potato pie, a bag of Terrys Chocolate Orange bites, and necking a bottle of Lucozade, then promptly throwing up in a bucket outside the front of the house as a result ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ’‍♂️ but we actually had a fun afternoon watching Don't Flop, making him a custom phone case, listening to tunes in the garden whilst he did some weeding, then he shaved my back for me ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿบ


03/07/2023 @23:57
Just did a 2-minute plank! ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿ’ช

04/07/2023 @19:10
Tonights 'Just Run' was my first tracked one outdoors and it has wrote me off ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿป‍♂️


04/07/2023 @20:14
Cold Hands training is actually lowkey painful ๐ŸงŠ๐Ÿ–


05/07/2023 @00:25
2m 15s plank!! ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿ’ช

05/07/2023 @00:48
"And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?" - Charles Bukowski

05/07/2023 @15:02
Reached the point of 'Hunter x Hunter' where Gon enters 'Alice in Borderland' ๐Ÿฅด๐Ÿคฃ

06/07/2023 @20:50
Lovely night on video chat with Lysh dancing to old songs we love ๐Ÿฅฐ "I come from a land down under!" ftw!

06/07/2023 @00:03
2m 30s plank! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ



07/07/2023 @23:10
Tonight has been fun with Frog; danced to old songs and crafted a DIY tamagotchi ๐Ÿ˜…

08/07/2023 @00:16
Hmm, what should my first Tweet be?

08/07/2023 @11:15
UK Summer Weather.
Expectation: ☀️๐ŸŒค️☀️☀️☀️
Reality: ☀️⛈️⛈️๐ŸŒฆ️⛈️
๐Ÿ™ƒ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿผ‍♂️

08/07/2023 @21:37
Went Chopstix for lunch, and discovered very quickly that Lysh does not like Chinese food beside Yumsu Noodles ๐Ÿ˜‚ then went grab snacks from Poundland, Joe's birthday present from Entertainer, and nipped H&M and bought bug some flared jeans and a new top ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿผ then we went Cineworld and watched Elemental in 3D ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿ”ฅ got home and messed on ours phones, kiddo had a shower, and now we're crafting a 3D papercraft model of Zenitsu ๐ŸŽจ




09/07/2023 @10:47
Kids cannot differentiate between 'being a little bit peckish' and 'being on the brink of starving to actual death' ๐Ÿ™ƒ

09/07/2023 @13:04
"Satisfaction is looked for and found in failure, decay, pain, misfortune, ugliness, voluntary deprivation, destruction of selfhood, self-flagellation and self-sacrifice." - "Man, the bravest animal and most prone to suffer, does not deny suffering as such: he wills it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering." - Nietzsche

09/07/2023 @16:10
Been a nice afternoon down the park with Lysh whilst the sun was out ๐ŸŒž Played football with a couple kids using a trashed casey that was down there when we got there ⚽ Nipped Cafe Indi for a drink & ice lolly ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿน then got home just as the Heaven's opened!



09/07/2023 @18:06
I'm watching my weight ahead of Tough Mudder. Lysh was telling her Mum about my calorie I/O being perfectly aligned yesterday, only to be told, "calories aren't important". Uhm, what? ๐Ÿคจ๐Ÿค” I mean, sure, if you don't mind being fat, then yeah, calories are irrelevant ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผ‍♂️

09/07/2023 @20:25
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." - Aristotle

10/07/2023 @11:00
"They promenade in our midst like living reproaches, like warnings to us, – as though health, success, strength, pride and the feeling of power were in themselves depravities for which penance, bitter penance will one day be exacted: oh, how ready they themselves are, in the last resort, to make others penitent, how they thirst to be hangmen! Amongst them we find plenty of vengeance-seekers disguised as judges, with the word justice continually in their mouth like poisonous spittle, pursing their lips and always at the ready to spit at anybody who does not look discontented and who cheerfully goes his own way." - "These worm-eaten physiological casualties are all men of ressentiment, a whole, vibrating realm of subterranean revenge, inexhaustible and insatiable in its eruptions against the happy, and likewise in masquerades of revenge and pretexts for revenge: when will they actually achieve their ultimate, finest, most sublime triumph of revenge? Doubtless if they succeeded in shoving their own misery, in fact all misery, on to the conscience of the happy: so that the latter eventually start to be ashamed of their happiness and perhaps say to one another: ‘It’s a disgrace to be happy! There is too much misery!’" - "The sufferers, one and all, are frighteningly willing and inventive in their pretexts for painful emotions; they even enjoy being mistrustful and dwelling on wrongs and imagined slights: they rummage through the bowels of their past and present for obscure, questionable stories that will allow them to wallow in tortured suspicion, and intoxicate themselves with their own poisonous wickedness – they rip open the oldest wounds and make themselves bleed to death from scars long-since healed, they make evil-doers out of friend, wife, child and anyone else near to them. ‘I suffer: someone or other must be guilty’ – and every sick sheep thinks the same. But his shepherd, the ascetic priest, says to him, ‘Quite right, my sheep! Somebody must be to blame: but you yourself are this somebody, you yourself alone are to blame for it, you yourself alone are to blame for yourself’." - Nietzsche

11/07/2023 @00:19
Going well so far; a staggering 16 followers, and even one of them is clearly a bot ๐Ÿ˜‚


11/07/2023 @08:21
Trying to understand the gap in the market that Threads is intended to fill ๐Ÿค” so far, it's just the exact same content that I see posted on my Facebook & Instagram ๐Ÿคท‍♂️

12/07/2023 @13:32
Had no idea Assassin's Creed drew on Nietzsche for inspiration! ๐Ÿคฏ "When the Christian Crusaders in the East fell upon that invincible order of Assassins, the order of free spirits par excellence, the lowest rank of whom lived a life of obedience the like of which no monastic order has ever achieved, somehow or other they received an inkling of that symbol and watchword that was reserved for the highest ranks alone as their secretum: 'nothing is true, everything is permitted'." - Nietzsche

12/07/2023 @00:13
Go brush my teeth and there is a slug climbing up the outside of my bathroom window... because of course there is ๐Ÿ˜‚


12/07/2023 @19:14
Tonight's 23-minute, 2.4 mile run was gruelling, blowing out my arse by the end of it! ๐Ÿฅต๐Ÿƒ‍♂️


12/07/2023 @23:44
This Breathedge is pretty decent, can't lie ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐ŸŽฎ


13/07/2023 @20:28
Unexpected group video calls with half the family ๐Ÿ˜‚ and now off to lose at footy because the teams are unbalanced AF! ⚽



13/07/2023 @22:52
Predictable absurdity ๐Ÿ™„⚽


14/07/2023 @09:22
Rain forecast for the entire day ๐Ÿ™ƒ tried exchange Lysh's new top from H&M because the stitching has come apart under one of the sleeves, but they have completely sold out of that line so I can't swap it ๐Ÿ™ƒ and now I'm late for work as a result! ๐Ÿ˜ค

14/07/2023 @12:37
My bro is in Turkey at 9:54am, the temperature is 43°C. I would actually be dead ngl ๐Ÿฅต



14/07/2023 @23:27
Rushed home from work to wrap Joe's birthday present & sew Lysh's top ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿผ‍♂️ had a lift to Trentham Hotel off Stace (with Lo); Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous was our soundtrack ofc. Lysh was not impressed that she couldn't have chips with her nuggets, so ended up just having garlic bread & nuggets for £9, of which she barely ate any because it was grim ๐Ÿ˜ I had a mediocre carvery & let Lysh eat my yorkie puds out of sympathy ๐Ÿฅบ though she did have a Dairy Milk sundae for pudding ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿผ‍♂️ tbf we were there to see the Aussies moreso than for the food anyway & that part of the evening was an absolute pleasure ๐Ÿฅฐ Moz gave Lysh 50p for a claw machine as we were leaving AND SHE WON ๐Ÿคฏ - then we got a taxi back to Burslem with Moz, got home and Lysh had some crisps & a yoghurt since she was still starving ๐Ÿ˜‚ ...then she hurt her newly pierced ear whilst getting her PJ's on and has been cautiously aware of it ever since ๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ˜ฃ


15/07/2023 @15:32
Been Hanley Comic Con with Nezuko today; she'd arranged to meet up with Zenitsu (her mate Alyssa) and also Ava who unfortunately was a no-show ๐Ÿ™ˆ she had a KFC and bought a Jasper U-pillow which should help her sleep at night with these new earrings ๐Ÿฅฐ




15/07/2023 @15:56
Spend £8.50 on travel, £8 on a KFC, and £15 on a Jasper Pillow, then £1.55 on some sweets for Lysh... with zero thanks for any of it. No gratitude. No appreciation. Then she starts asking for Dessert Club too; tell her I can't afford, as I've already spent £33 today on her (plus £40+ last night on going Trentham Village) and I'm not made of money. She storms off complaining that I'm "annoying" because I can't afford to buy her Dessert Club ๐Ÿ™ƒ living the dream mate, I must be a special kind of stupid to keep spoiling her when all I get in return is entitlement and insults ๐Ÿคก

16/07/2023 @02:14
I really need to get out of my own head. Laying in bed, struggling to sleep, overthinking whilst reading articles about "why do I never feel like I'm good enough" is really not the one ๐Ÿ˜”

16/07/2023 @11:34
Charlie isn't visiting again, because he has a headache ๐Ÿคท won't see him now until after his 14th birthday ๐Ÿ™ƒ

16/07/2023 @16:27
My mental health is threatening to drag my discipline down with it today. 197 days alcohol free. Strict calorie management. Consistent training regime ahead of Tough Mudder. And honestly, right now, I just want to relax with a greasy takeaway and a few beverages, and just shut off the world.

16/07/2023 @17:11
Most people have very short memories, and I struggle accepting that my sacrifices have diminishing returns. I have begun to see most friendships and relationships as liabilites, not assets. There is usually zero return on investment of your time, energy, and effort; only depreciation in value in the long term. I used to believe there was value in long-term stocks, but it seems pump-and-dump is the only approach worth bothering with nowadays. It's a sad state of affairs.

16/07/2023 @23:59
After literally screaming at my keyboard in frustration due to the janky ass controls of Never Alone, I've sought comfort in the nostalgic familiarity of Final Fantasy IX ๐ŸŽฎ

17/07/2023 @00:25
It doesn't matter who you were before, or what you did then; it only matters who you are today, and what you do now. And that is both a gift and a curse, because it applies equally to the bad and the good.

17/07/2023 @09:12
"But there was no life in me because I had no desires whose satisfaction I would have found reasonable. If I wanted something, I knew beforehand that it did not matter whether or not I got it. If a fairy had come and offered to fulfill my every wish, I would not have known what to wish for. If in moments of intoxication I should have not desires but the habits of old desires, in moments of sobriety I knew that it was all a delusion, that I really desired nothing. I did not even want to discover truth anymore because I had guessed what it was. The truth was that life is meaningless." - "I described my spiritual condition to myself in this way: my life is some kind of stupid and evil practical joke that someone is playing on me." - Tolstoy

17/07/2023 @12:34
"My deeds, whatever they may be, will be forgotten sooner or later, and I myself will be no more. Why, then, do anything?" - "It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion." - Tolstoy

17/07/2023 @18:46
Lysh has sent me an Amazon list of stuff she wants for her birthday. It comes to £648 ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ™ƒ

18/07/2023 @19:34
Actually beginning to see some definition to my abs ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿ˜


19/07/2023 @15:02
Komugi is so adorable ๐Ÿฅบ #HxH

19/07/2023 @19:36
Treated myself to a new Under Armour running fit for Tough Mudder ๐Ÿค—


20/07/2023 @23:17
Fuckin' ay! Awesome victory at footy, even a lovely little goal from myself at the end to finish 3 goals up! ⚽ And said it before, the Scott brothers are A+, don't @ me!


21/07/2023 @17:18
Dave Mack is going America for 3-weeks and my head is falling off trying to comprehend how to accommodate his workloads into my own! ๐Ÿฅฑ๐Ÿ˜จ

21/07/2023 @23:32
And that's Lysh officially done with Y5, summer holidays for her now, then into Y6 she goes! ๐Ÿคฏ spent tonight looking through her schoolwork with her ๐Ÿ˜Š she's such a good kid, and that's reflected in her school report and record for the year ๐Ÿฅฐ at one point I saw in her work that she'd read a book called "There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom" and had to reassure myself it wasn't what it sounded like! Thankfully not! ๐Ÿ™ˆ

22/07/2023 @12:43
The plan is to go Starbucks and up Hanley with Lysh for a bit of shopping (spending the £50 I'd earmarked for going Inflato today which she no longer wanted to do). It's going well so far, she's sat here in her PJ's still, eating her dinner & watching YouTube ๐Ÿ˜‚

22/07/2023 @18:08
Useless at sticking to a budget ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿผ‍♂️๐Ÿ˜‚ Starbucks, Smiggle, Primark, H&M... and £80+ later ๐Ÿคฃ

22/07/2023 @22:45
Early night after playing Bloxburg for the first time in a while ๐Ÿ˜ Lysh tried put on her old onesie's earlier too which was frankly hilarious ๐Ÿ˜…

23/07/2023 @19:05
Proper relaxed chill day on Bloxburg with Lysh, and on video chat with Ava too ๐Ÿ˜๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿฅฐ

24/07/2023 @20:22
Stressful first day without Dave, I have inherited a new best friend in Viv. And in other news, Twitter is rebranding as X.

25/07/2023 @18:48
Can I just have my redundancy pay and find a new job? ๐Ÿฅด I cannot get any actual work done when I am replying to endless emails, phone calls, and in-person visits all shift.

26/07/2023 @23:48
Finished off HxH S5, and hammering through FFIX ๐Ÿ˜

27/07/2023 @09:21
I am so over my teeth, fmal. Currently trying to get an emergency dentist appointment, because I appear to have been rewarded for taking care of my health with an infection under my front tooth! Yay! Horrendous nights sleep too! ๐Ÿ™„



27/07/2023 @23:13
Binged the entire of S6 of HxH today ๐Ÿ˜… had an unexpected video call off Tez & Stace who are still at the hospital ๐Ÿ˜ and now I'm going for a hot bath because this infection is making me feel lousy tbh! ๐Ÿ›€๐Ÿผ

28/07/2023 @13:17
£35.45 later, I've got a prescription for Metronidazole and a predicted diagnosis of bacterial sinusitis ๐Ÿ’‍♂️ at least it should have fucked off before Tenerife, even if I am going to be contending with the symptoms during Tough Mudder!


28/07/2023 @23:43
Lovely night with Lysh. Went down the park & then came back home and played boardgames at 23:15 ๐Ÿคฏ but the funniest of all, was Lysh telling me her Mom had "gotten really sick" in Turkey and had to have stomach surgery and now has "three little scars across her tummy"... ๐Ÿคจ let's be real here... that wasn't no unexpected illness, that shit was planned fr fr! So, imagine chiding me about calorie counting and being overly focused on my health, then flying to Turkey for what I can only assume was a gastric sleeve because you're not disciplined enough to get your weight in check! ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿ™ˆ

29/07/2023 @19:20
Had a really chill day with Lysh - we woke up at 11am, then lazed about watching YouTube and doing some arts and crafts - she even had a little bash on Photoshop making her Melanie Martinez Food packaging ๐Ÿ’› and in other news, my face is actually feeling a little better... although I've taken ibuprofen so maybe it's not, and I just think it is because it's not hurting as much! ๐Ÿ˜‚

30/07/2023 @10:23
Dead babies are delivered by Uber drivers in silver Ford Fiestas, and Lovatt's brother is an obstacle at Lidl Mudders.

30/07/2023 @21:48
Today at Tough Mudder has been absolutely incredible. What an amazing day, surrounded by amazing people! I'll be completing a full write up in my dedicated post about it! Been Red Bull up Church Lawton afterward and treated myself to a fat Angus Burger followed by a Caramel Apple Pie! Got home and excavated my trainers from a casing of grass and mud, had a relaxing shower, and now sat here with a 0% Brewdog feeling mighty fucking proud of our team effort ๐Ÿ’ฏ❤


31/07/2023 @10:51
Began experiencing discomfort behind right nostril on Tuesday 25th July; dismissed it as early indicator of a spot forming, or an ingrowing hair. By Wednesday 26th July it had become much more sensitive, with pain radiating down into my gum above my central incisor. Conscious of an upcoming holiday, I took some painkillers and on Thursday 27th July I arranged an emergency dentist appointment for Friday 28th July as I had began to suspect the pain was indicative of an abscess forming. At the emergency dentist appointment, an x-ray was taken and my self-diagnosis of an abscess was disproven. The location of the pain appeared to be the incisive fossa of the maxilla, and the only other guidance I had seen online had pointed me toward sinusitis as a possible cause. My dentist prescribed me a course of Metronidazole. The pain began to subside from the area around my nose and moved down further into the gum by Saturday 29th July. At this point there had formed a small pocket on my gum above my central incisor which would disappear when I lifted my lip up to check it; my top lip also felt very swollen but was not painful. If I placed my finger inside my mouth and traced it across the top area of my gum where it joined to my lip/cheek, I could feel notable swelling from above my central incisor to my canine on the right side of my mouth. On Sunday 30th July, the pain had subsided and was only noticeable when pressure was applied to the area above my central incisor. Today, Monday July 31st, the swelling is almost entirely gone, and the pain is barely apparent even with significant pressure applied. I have no idea what had caused the swelling, and it did not seem to fit the profile of anything I could see online.

31/07/2023 @18:56
Imagine buying a Pixel 7 Pro for £950 and it doesn't come with a charger ๐Ÿ˜

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