Spare Notes

Write Like you Used To

I was reading Future Perfect's blog the other day about their ideal blog.

This led to me sending off a quick email and receiving one back. (SIDE NOTE: It’s nice receiving actual email outside of business, or marketing and sales stuff.)

They wished more blogs were like online journals, covering everyday things and less performative then they seem to be these days.

We never really had an audience we had to write to.

So for the rest of this blog post I'll write like I used to, well as close as I feel comfortable doing.

Woke up this morning and felt pretty good, I've been using one of those anti snoring mouth guards for the last couple of months and it's really helping me feel better. I'm beginning to think I've been sleep deprived (or lack of quality sleep) for as long as I can remember. I've definitely felt calmer lately.

I went off to work and S texted me to say "You've left your work is behind" I had no idea what that meant so rung, getting her out of the shower. Is was supposed to be ID. I was super annoyed by myself and drove around to get back home to get it.

If you don't have your ID you have to wait until the front counter is open, then get the ID card of shame for the rest of the day. It just has visitor on it and a different coloured lanyard. It doesn't look too out of place, but you know what it means. For a split second of time you sucked and couldn't find your actual one.

Work was OK. The usual Monday morning greetings and asking about the weekend and other such stuff. Some days I don't give a shit.

Then onto work, staring at a computer for most of the day.

Actually today was a day I felt like I really didn't give a shit about the job. I wondered how long it would take for someone to notice if I just wandered off.

I went for a walk for my first break with L, she used to work in our team and trained me when I started. She's sarcastic as, and some people don't know how to deal with her. We get along fine. She as filling me in about the trip she had taken recently. At one point she proclaimed she wanted a scone. So we went to one of the better places for cafe food and I got one as well.

When I got back to the office I realised it was a cheese and jalapeno flavoured one. It was OK, but don't think I'd get another one.

The rest of the day was trying to sort stuff out, fix up problems and then realising there were more problems.

Lunchtime pissed me off. There were a lot of people on our lunch floor and no tables. Most of out team sit together and while they were heating up food and working out where to sit I was over it. I went back upstairs and sat at my desk. Probably the first time I've ever done that, but mixed with the feelings earlier I was just peopled out.

After work I got home. K was here. She asked to be dropped off after dinner, but I had a meeting later which was bound to run late so I said I could drop her off now, or later, she chose now. Rush hour traffic turned it into a 40 minute round trip.

Got back and S was on the bed, super tired as she hasn't been sleeping well. At least I know it's not from me snoring.

Went downstairs and had this meeting. It's for an event I help out with. It's with good people but another suck of my time. I really don't know why I say I will help sometimes. But here I am yet again.

After that finished I had some food, watched a Dexter episode with S and now her I am writing this out. I better actually go to bed soon and start the whole work / life thing over.

The differences between the above and how I wrote in the past.