The best laid plans, and all that

[white_hart]

I made it 292 days into my year of daily posts, but the last few days have been utterly draining and I simply couldn't manage to come up with anything to say; I don't particularly want to talk about what's going on at work (and probably shouldn't even if I did), but it's blanked pretty much everything else out.

(My Facebook memories today told me that two years ago I got my regraded contract. Given what the last two years have brought, I think I've earned every penny of that higher salary, and then some*.)

Still, a 292 day streak isn't bad.

Anyway, I have nothing cheerful to say, so if you feel like telling me something that's making you cheerful, please do!

*I also sometimes think that maybe the higher grade job is just too much for me, but it's the same job, really, and none of the things that have made the last couple of years so difficult would have been avoided by me not being regraded.

Comments

[kotturinn]

Sorry to hear things are like that. Well done for managing 292 days - I can't even manage one a month.

Something that's made me happy. There's been a very nervous stray, almost feral, cat around here for a year or so. I've been putting out spare food from my clowder's provisions. Very, very gradually he's gone from invisible, to visible at the other end of the garden but run away if I looked, to sitting his ground, to getting gradually closer, to eating within a couple of feet of me. Major breakthrough in last week - I can touch him & gently stroke his head while he eats. Some intermittent growling but nothing serious. He's also spending more time in the garden. Mine have not shown hostile towards him, just cautious and a bit unsure so they're getting lots of reassurance too.

[cmcmck]

I've posted a couple of recent things that might make you smile!

Hugs

[ruric]

292 days is a heck of a run!

[tollers_and_jack]

Got a fun new medieval tat today! One pelican in her piety, coming right up (I'm sorry work is feeling frustrating and discouraging :)

[antisoppist]

If work is going to be an overload of nightmare stuff whatever, you may as well be being paid for it, but that doesn't stop it still being an overload of nightmare stuff, which is not a good thing.

I forgot a cheerful thing. I went to my choir's concert, and I thought I would be bored or depressed due to not singing in it but I enjoyed it a lot and am glad to have had the opportunity to see what we all look like, bits of which were very funny.

[muninnhuginn]

292 days is a tremendous stint! And the posts are much appreciated: your photographs are always lovely.

[kaberett]

I remain impressed and encouraged and grateful re your posting -- it is always really lovely to hear from you, even when it isn't actually every day. <3

Cheerful thing: A got me a Fancy Fountain Pen last week, as a graduation present. I promptly lost its (magnetic) finial... and then yesterday the pet robot vacuum cleaner found it, by which I mean "I turned it over to see what it was grumbling about and the finial was stuck to one of its ventral screws"! So that was pleasing. :)

[hunningham]

Cheerful things..
Our local posh chocolate shop has started selling dried orange slices dipped in chocolate. They are *wonderful* and after 40 years I have now got the point of chocolate-plus-orange flavour combo. This is what terry's chocolate orange is aiming at (and missing but a country mile). Well I never.

I am sorry you're having stressy time of it at work.

[gwendraith]

That's an excellent run of posts! I once did the photo a day for a year challenge. At first it was fun, then became chore and in the end it was a matter of pride that I finished it :)

I saw my younger son and son-in-law yesterday for lunch and had Pastéis de Nata for afters which always makes me happy :)

[aurumcalendula]

292 days is a really good streak!

I made a key lime pie the other day (from the recipe here) that turned out pretty good!