Wednesday, 1 November 2023

Monthly Musings: November 2023

An overview of opinions and observations for the month.

01/11/2023 @15:40
"He who dares, wins." #33

01/11/2023 @15:43
"Fortune favours the bold." #35

02/11/2023 @13:22
£70.70 for a filling 🦷🤮

03/11/2023 @10:09
Uncomfortably reporting water damage issues with my house to the estate agent 😬 always terrified I'm about to compromise my cheap AF tenancy by pissing off the landlord with expenses!

03/11/2023 @19:19
Boom! I think I've executed this domain transfer to IONOS flawlessly! 🙌🏼

03/11/2023 @20:12
Legit having a relaxed chill weekend with Lysh after the recent frequently manic ones!

04/11/2023 @16:57
Woke up around 11am. Cleaned out the pitched guttering to ensure I can't be blamed for the water damage 😂 and then literally spent all afternoon watching Corpse Bride and playing Theme Park Tycoon 2 with Bug 😁🎮

05/11/2023 @14:11
Today so far; a summary. Oakley was born at 02:17 this morning - congrats Lo & Keanu. In high spirits, I went and bought 6x storage boxes for £60 from Bargain World, then proceeded to accidentally drop them whilst carrying them home and smashed one to pieces wasting £10 instantly. Got home, knocked off the photo frame of Nana Scott and broke it. Now sat with Charlie trying to play co-op OG Fortnite but my PS4 is estimating 5hrs to install it, rendering it highly unlikely we will get to squad up. Ugh.

05/11/2023 @20:19
Been watch some fireworks and buy overpriced burgers and donuts at Alderley Edge Cricket Club with Sammie and Lance 🎆🍔🍩

05/11/2023 @22:04
"Eren, thanks for wrapping this scarf around me." 💔 /AoT

06/11/2023 @00:48
"But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

07/11/2023 @15:25
On lunch at this hour, actually watching the real finale of Gen V after wrongly thinking there were only 6 episodes 😂 going book up Dimensions Snow Pool Party for Lysh after this finishes 💯

07/11/2023 @16:50
The inconsistent insanity of saying no to Tik-Tok, but yes to Snapchat 😐

07/11/2023 @17:46
Fucking group of dickheads setting off fireworks on the footpath in Hanley Forest Park 🤬

07/11/2023 @21:17
Uber productive night cleaning and reorganising my bedroom 👊🏼

08/11/2023 @21:17
Tonights productive activities included hoovering Lysh's room, reorganising the airing cupboard, filing 12-months of paperwork, and breaking down numerous hoarded cardboard boxes for recycling 🤣😂

09/11/2023 @23:18
Nowt like a spontaenous Fortnite OG Duo's with my killy Lewis T & securing the bag with a vic royale immediately 😂 fucking donnys fr 🎮💯

10/11/2023 @14:35
Waiting to get Lysh from school, get ready, then it's off down Wolverhampton to see Melanie Martinez perform! 😁🎤

10/11/2023 @23:55
Attending the Melanie Martinez Portals Tour with Lysh tonight was absolutely amazing! 😍 all the way from the unexpected UPSAHL opening to the tears of joy when Mel finished her set 🥺 I thoroughly feel like Dad did a good job on this one! 🙌🏼

11/11/2023 @16:32
Been for a Starbucks, then an autumnal visit to the park with a kid who was adamant she didn't need a jacket, and is now too proud to admit she was wrong! ☕🍂

12/11/2023 @18:11
It's been a day of Adopt Me & Anime ever since we woke up at 11am 😂🎮📺

13/11/2023 @23:56
Today has been spent liaising with contractors about the gaff repairs 🏠 catching up with Staylew 🤳🏼 watching Brassic S5 📺 and playing Endling 🎮 and being amused with an unexpected message asking what I've been up to for the past 5-months 🙃👻

14/11/2023 @23:18
"Am I to blame for my sick, frantic brain? When toxic shit tastes just like candy..."

15/11/2023 @22:56
Just had a bash on two short games; Dagon was a really intriguing narrative, then The Feast was fucking odd!

16/11/2023 @20:12
Core Server Migration seems to have gone perfeclty without issue! My guy Rosty! 🙌🏼

17/11/2023 @18:44
Today on "things you never anticipated needing to deal with as a parent". Kiddo has announced unexpectedly that she is a 'therian', started scurrying around on all fours saying it's 'quadrobics', and added me to an Amazon basket of 'gear' (mask, tail, gloves). She says it's not her choice to be therian, it "calls to her" and then proceeded to show me videos on YouTube where the creator says "you don't choose to be a therian, it chooses you" (as 'proof' that she is not making it up). I said it kinda reminded me of Furries, and now she is upstairs crying 🤦🏼‍♂️

17/11/2023 @21:16
Just found out that Jamie has broke up with Lysh 😟

18/11/2023 @19:05
Had Bill, Pete and Tony out today to fix my bedroom window hinge, replace the extractor fan in the bathroom, reattach the cladding on the front doorframe, and complete the annual gas safety check. Feel like a lot has been acheived, but that I haven't got to spend much time with Lysh. After the fellas all left, we sat and watched The Fallout together, but she's gone home now and it just feels like I barely really saw her this weekend at all 🥺

18/11/2023 @22:12
Tonight is being spent eating £18 worth of peri-peri chicken and pizza, and binging the rest of Loki S2 🍕🍗📺

19/11/2023 @11:34
Checked in with Char to confirm he was coming visit today, and he tells me he's just going to go have a ride on his mate Jaydon's KX125 motorbike first, then will be coming over 😂🤦🏼‍♂️

20/11/2023 @13:15
Ree messaging me about Paige is actual jokes 😂 "I've hit a pothole with Izzie's mum! She's being a right stubborn prick as per" - compared to Marie, who is not stubborn at all? "You know how Izzie's mum can be, I just saw it coming, I was waiting for it to happen" - hmmm, yes, I've been in the boat of always waiting for the other shoe to drop since Lysh was born. Always fucking something. "The heartless monster would be Paige I'm afraid, the messages are just utter spiteful and very very selfish!" - Selfish! 😂 Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Marie who left me off Lysh's birth certificate, told me my family could never meet her, forced me to swap weekends when I should have had Lysh on her actual birthday, took both tickets for school nativities so I couldn't attend, chose to put her own desire for vanity surgery in Turkey and couples vacations with Ash over taking Lysh abroad, and that's literally a fraction of examples I could give! "I'm sick to death of her trying to dictate how we earn a wage and spend time together as a family" - loooool, this coming from Marie who literally stopped me seeing Lysh for 6-months! Tried to dictate that I could not take Lysh to my parents homes! Tried to control who I could invite around my house when Lysh was here etc! Literally dictating how me and Lysh could spend time together as a family! 🤯 "I've always said it's only fair on the kids to be together and to have equal time between the parents too" - She's always said it's only fair on the kids to have equal time between the parents!!? 😂😂 Was that the 1hr a week? Or the not being allowed to see her at all part? 😂 "she treats us like a babysitter rather than thinking about the impact it has on Izzie" -  oh, not thinking about how your actions impact a child... what a novel concept! Like not wanting your kid to have their biological Dad in their life? Like repeatedly getting in new relationships then tearing people back out of your own kids life! Step-dads, step-siblings? "She made out like it's such an inconvenience having Izzie 300 days of the year so I said I'd have her full time then? That was a no, obviously because she'll lose whatever she gains financially and imagine a father having full custody, her street cred would be shot and she can't pretend on social media that she's number 1 mum" - I literally had this exact conversation with you Marie when you were on my doorstep demanding that I had to have Lysh on Wednesday nights! I said she could come live with me and you shot it down 😂🙃 "Every single Sunday that we take her home, she changes! She goes really really quiet and she's obsessed with the time and she hates when it gets closer to "home" time, it's heartbreaking" - been there! For actual years! Ree dragging Lysh into her house kicking and screaming, or having to bribe her into leaving my house! Lysh bawling my house down in tears because she doesn't want to go back to Marie's! It's fucking WILD! 🤯 How does she not see the irony? How can she not draw the parallels as she types this out to me? Shoe on the other foot now huh, hun!? Fuck me. Getting PTSD over here! Fucking clown world! 🤡🌍

23/11/2023 @19:23
Actually smashing Xmas prep this year 🙌🏼🎅🏼

23/11/2023 @23:11
Thursday Night Footy for the first time in 2-months 😂 closely battled & ended it as a draw after 80-mins ⚽

24/11/2023 @20:27
Sammie visiting and giving Lysh ~£100 worth of skincare products this close to Christmas makes finding stocking fillers even more difficult 😂🙈

26/11/2023 @02:24
Took Lysh up the Potteries Centre to spend her remaining birthday money... we went Entertainer, Menkind, and Starbucks but then had to come home because she was having painful stomach cramps to the extent she just wanted to lie down and rest. We got home, I sorted her a hot water bottle to hug, ran her a hot bath to relax in, then we had a Zeeshan takeaway since she was feeling better 🤗 and spent the night on Adopt Me whilst watching films together 🥰

26/11/2023 @18:11
Tad bit early by my reckoning, but I put the Xmas decs up today whilst Bug watched & played Adopt Me 😅 (though she did pop the star on the top of the tree 🎄). Christmas is coming 🤍

26/11/2023 @23:28
In what is both a moment of insanity and a moment of excitable naivety, I have taken PlayStation up on their Black Friday offer to upgrade my PS+ subscription to Extra for just £8.11 for the next 100 days 🙈 this comes shortly after financially committing to Tough Mudder 15k in 2024 😂

27/11/2023 @21:30
Another Platinum trophy for the collection from Unpacking 🎮🏆

28/11/2023 @00:34
Played through the entirety of Untitled Goose Game in a single sitting but not bothering chase the Platinum 🦆😂🎮

28/11/2023 @08:12
Content in simplicity 🤍

28/11/2023 @18:46
"Adventure Time, come on grab your friends. We'll go to very distant lands. With Jake the Dog and Finn the Human, the fun will never end, it's Adventure Time!"

30/11/2023 @00:56
And that makes Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion my 2nd Platinum this week 😂🎮🏆

30/11/2023 @23:34
Well, Erica has been an interesting experience. Couple of playthroughs to try different approaches, but I am not replaying it over and over for the Platinum 🎮

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