If you stay away from mirrors, a bit like stoves, you won’t have to acknowledge the things you can’t see 😂

I’m very very excited to hear there’s going to be an Archie in your life! It’s causing me much more happiness than you can possibly imagine! I have furpeople in my life and they’re the best kind of people. How long until he does his first waltz in your lounge room?!

Tomorrow evening I’m going to dinner with the uncle that hates me. I’m not sure if I mentioned him before but I think I might have. My lovely cousin and I decided to give the idea another go, seeing as my cousin is in town for one night and catching up would be impossible if we couldn’t combine everyone, as the parents are much more important to see – okay, them finding out cousin was in town and didn’t stay with them is much scarier than me 😂 I’m fairly anxious about it but going to pretend to myself nothing horrible will be said by my uncle. I’m going to pretend it’s going to be a lovely family affair.

I met someone from meine home country today, who’s having their kidney removed on Monday, due to cancer. I said, ‘all the best with it.’ And you know what he said? ‘It’ll be alright. I’ve had a good life, a really good life.’ I think the universe is sending me messages. Not that I’m miraculously going to start dancing a happy dance over my life, but just at this moment in time it’s a good life. I’m warm and dry at night, have an interest I love that hasn’t killed me yet and brings a handful of lovely acquaintances into my life, I have plenty of food and the things needed to sustain me, and I enjoy my work as far as work goes. I DON’T HAVE INSECT BITES OR COVID EITHER!! The sun shines, it sets, the birds sing, no big hurdles have presented themselves for a while, LG.

I hope the itchy bites and awful throat are mending themselves while you sleep. Thinking of you 🪷

Crazy chicken. I don’t suppose the advice of not over doing it will be helpful 😂

Oooh man. I have to live today. I don’t want to but the efforts of throwing up and lying down for 36 hours have left me in more pain than it’s worth. I often worry about how bad life will be when I’m old and have to be bedridden. If I don’t move I get so much pain.

I love your poem. Thank you. I’m not my usual unobservant self so I missed thanking you for it.

Yup, I’m your AniTantrum fan 😂 but oh how my tummy is so awful today. I’m having struggles finding my brighter self.

You are watching very serious things. The world is not friendly in many places.

I love it, Anitantrum!

I am starting to feel like throwing up again.

I got woken up by someone attempting to make enough noise to wake the dead in Siberia with their knocking on my door. They were booked in to do the job two weeks ago and didn’t show, so rebooked for 19th July, and showed today. WT? I would not have been here if it weren’t for being ill.

Oh man. My tummy is not good.

What do you normally do to keep yourself entertained when you can’t mow? 😂

I didn’t notice 😂

I’m airtight. Tired. How are you? Any improvements in your day?

Oh no! I must have given you the pox by association online.

I’m my mind I’m making you dinners of braised chicken in onion gravy, baked potatoes with lots of butter, cheese, and sour cream, and steamed carrots broccoli and cauliflower. That’s what I had every night when I was sick because I had the chicken already cooked in the freezer. My phone corrected steamed to stabbed, which is okay by me if that’s what you think of veggies 😂

Could it be from the bear spray? I know, probably not, bear spray isn’t designed to give bears the flu as a follow up deterrent for trying to eat people.

I will share my delightful morning with you on the hopes it brightens yours: the sky is clouding over in preparation for the forecast rain – how unusual more rain hmmmph, the birds are whispering to each other – an odd thing when rain is on the way, as they usually tell when this is going to happen. I have two of my floofs perched on me in utter horror at how cold they think it is, although it is not cold at all. The coffee is fantastic, although I must have done something wrong with the prep of it because it spat out of every fitting in the pot it could find, so my clean stove top is no more 😂 And so far I’m not late for anything.

One of the things I managed to not post yesterday was that a met a girl who lived in the road I used to do my sport on, in a whole other country, while I was. growing up and at the same time, although I imagine she was a fully fledged adult whereas I was a kid. To add to the unlikely chances of this, she is also mad crazy about my sport, although I don’t think she participates in it anymore. I asked her the things people seem to ask at a first meeting – I’m not very good at creating conversation odd seeing as I don’t think I do too badly when writing to you, like where do you work, and she works two jobs, 15 hours a day across them, 6 days a week. I stupidly asked who did she kill and what ransom was she paying to cover it up. Turned out her young daughter died last year and she’s keeping busy. Oooh. Now I’m crying for her. The point of this, apart from what are the chances you meet someone from meine home country who not only came from a similar area but the same suburb one street over kind if thing, is that I feel like my problems are nothing next to what she’s working 15 hours a day to get through. Occasionally I’ve considered that the world couldn’t throw much more at me, but it absolutely could.

There was just a little sunshower accompanied by a bird close by yelling, ‘run, get inside people, you’ll get wet!’ The rest of the birds ignored him because it was only a sprinkle.

I hope you don’t come down with the pox too badly. Actually, I hope it’s a false alarm! If there was anything I could get you, I would. I hope you’re able to rest up, dear Anita. I. hope your world has room in it for being able to take time out to do this.

The sun is shining again and I can’t decide if the weather report has any truth in it. It’s warm on my cheek and I would love to stay a while longer, but alas, I must fly! I’m late now 😂 cross your fingers I find the submit button and and don’t lose this long narrative!

I’m about to have a tanty. I just wrote another reply and in the process of trying to find the submit button closed down the internet page. Jeeeeez grrrrrrr. I will already pepper spray on this stupid phone in a minute!