Merry Christmas y’all
One of my two Baby Yodas/ Grogus! I also got a completely soft one who is ideal for living with the sofa cushions. Sorry about the horrendous pigmentation on my face but it turns out Cushing’s Disease exists and it sucks balls.
Well 2020 has definitely sucked balls. Worldwide viral pandemic that makes people drown in their own blood. Not being able to see anyone for months at a time. Having to move house because our landlords (who bought their house in California for two fucking million dollars) decided to deny all knowledge of our house being a pet-friendly let, despite the previous tenants having a dog we saw with our own eyes, and the neighbours telling us about the woman before them who let her dogs bark in the garden all day.
I lost someone I loved and I don’t know what to do with all those memories now. My sister is still without her own house keys because she left them here at Will’s birthday and hasn’t been able to get back. My MIL has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (probably because of her work in healthcare) and so has been mostly stuck on the 3rd floor throughout Christmas, and we all can’t leave the house until New Year’s Day just in case. Thankfully she seems to be doing OK aside from normal cold symptoms.
Some things were good this year. I think Will and me both had the best possible birthdays. Christmas is as festive as it can be. I’ve been knitting and crocheting for a year now. Even though work from my agency was suspended until 2021 at the first lockdown and will have now been pushed back even further, I started streaming and that at least makes me feel like I’m doing something and connecting with people.
And, we figured out which devastating medical problem has been plaguing me for +10 years, though unfortunately referrals are slow and it has to prove itself through testing ten times over before the NHS will do the lifesaving surgery. You’d think they’d just cut out the middleman and go for it, but apparently not.




And unfortunately there’s always someone who needs telling every fucking year: