29th November 2025

14:52 | Mood: Achey

My hand is feeling much better today. It's still feeling very bruised, but I can actually use it now.

I'm feeling sooo achey today, the left side of my neck hurts and I think I'm coming down with something. I kept getting random flashes of hot and cold feelings yesterday at work. I've taken some paracetamol, maybe an early night tonight will help my mood.

My parents are visiting this weekend, I hope I'm well enough to do stuff with them whilst they're here. We have breakfast reservations for Monday, hopefully I'll be able to go. But for now, I'm gonna go make a hot water bottle and a cup of tea.

27th November 2025

21:17 | Mood: Headachey

Well, this week has been eventful for sure. On Tuesday I smashed a glass jar at work and had to go to A&E to get stitches! I didn't even feel it happen. I dropped the glass container we hold all our teabags in (I knew death by tea was a real thing I should be concerned about), it smashed, and then I looked over at my hand and saw a big gash. I immediately knew it was beyond a plaster. It was kinda gross, I could see the yellow tissue beneath the skin but the first aiders at work were very helpful. The wait at A&E was only 2 hours and I ended up only needing butterfly stitches (paper stitches). It's been a bit of a pain (literally) to keep it dry, I'm finding it difficult to do things like washing my hands and opening stuff. But luckily I still have a full range of motion and haven't hit any tendons or nerves. Phew.

Yesterday I had my first Physio session at the hospital (Yes! Frequent flier to the hospital it seems...) and I'm feeling optimistic about it. I've gotten some strengthening exercises for my core and hamstrings to do. I have another visit in 3 weeks time to check on progress, and hopefully begin loading weight onto the exericses. The new exercise regime includes Arm & Leg lifts, 'Dead Bugs', and Hip Flexor and Lower Abdominal Muscle Activation. Wish me luck.

Who forgot to bug me about updating my hobby log?? I'll update it now. peace x

24th November 2025

21:26 | Mood: Good

I got my hair cut today I didn't get too much length off, I just had my layers cut back in and my fringe cut in too. I hadn't had the chance to get my hair cut since before I did my back so it was nice to get a fresh trim and feel like me again.

my hobby log is now live! you should check it out (and maybe hold me accountable for keeping it updated) so far so good though! I'm so glad I managed to get the back panel of the sweater I'm knitting completed before Christmas. I'm wanting to get the ends all weaved in before I start on the front panel, otherwise I'll end up putting it off for months. It's a good little task to do whilst I'm watching YouTube videos or binging Netflix.

My physiotherapy appointment at the hospital is on Wednesday. I'm trying to think of questions to ask them, any things I'm worrying about, and what my goals are with physio. I've been keeping all of these little notes on my phone, hoping that I actually remember to reference it on the day.
I dunno, I guess I just want to be able to lift something without my back tweaking and without worry of completely fucking it up again.

On a brighter note, it does mean I get the rest of the day off work that day! Yay.

15th November 2025

16:09 | Mood: Inspired

I worked an extra 20 mins or so yesterday, I'll be finishing work earlier.

I want to create a hobby log. I would like to have some sort of responsiveness to it, so I'm looking at including some JavaScript... man I do miss PHP sometimes. I'd love for visitors to be able to click on an entry for the day and see what I was up to. Maybe with a 100px x 100px preview of what I did (like a photo of my knitting progress), and perhaps the ability to sort by the hobby? So show only entries where I knitted, or only entries where I painted. Hmm. I'm going to see what I can come up with offline before uploading anything solid. Perhaps each day could be its own page? I can see that getting very large space wise though.

I'd also like for it to be responsive for mobile and different browsers, although the urge to just throw a load of float:left;'s in the chat and call it a day is tempting. the millenials yearn for the position:absolute;........

I'll continue working on it and keep you updated.

8th November 2025

15:44 | Mood: Restless

Feeling a bit restless today. I have a big meeting on Monday to do with our Zine getting bound into an omnibus and I'm really cutting it fine to the deadline. I'm not exactly sure what to expect, maybe just a final 'price' and a final number of copies? I hope so. I'm working on an 'intro' and 'outro' page at the moment; thanking everyone for contributing to the zine, thanking the people we have met who have helped us print along the way etc. It's just a big ol' wall of text in a Google Doc at this point, I'm not even sure how we would go about printing this, will it need to be on silk paper? Or the uncoated stuff? Just doing a bit of a brain dump here I suppose.
It really matters to me that I get these thank you pages right. I want the world to know how much my friends mean to me, and how dear this project is, and every project I do, is to me.

My back has been doing better these past few weeks. I'm still very excited about my physiotherapy appointment at the end of the month. And my follow up with my doctor went very well - I've been officially excused from Jury Duty.
I think that might be all from me for today. I'll fix up the pages so that October has it's own page soon. Peace