Goodreads 26 books for 2024 achieved, in February

 By reading Jasper Fforde’s Red Side Story I have completed my Goodread’s goal already.  Yay for books.  And for my eyes forcing me to hide from screens.

Trying to think of things I have done this month that I should have mentioned.

I haven’t gone out that much.

Dinner at my mother’s for her 65th birthday.

Managed one dinner out at Black Sheep with Simon, Joe and David this month.  Was supposed to see them again today but illness is going around so things were cancelled.

Plans being canned for other people’s illness have been almost as common as me piking for my own recently - which is nice as it stops me having to feel like I am always the one screwing up plans with sickness.

I made myself Lego roses for Valentine’s.

Otherwise I really can’t think of much to say.

I have been unwell and done not a lot of not a lot, and the state of my country has made me sad.

Were it not that it is generally a bit fatal, I could rteally culturally appropriate some demigraning trepanation about now

 So migraine

Such crippling muscle fatigue

Have had a run of barely being able to walk

Sleep is so messed up

Was awake until almost 6am yesterday, lying in bed with painful pin and needles in my face style headache

Such fucking fun

Winning

The run of my health being shit has meant I have got through a lot of audio books, and some actual reading, as I have been needing to avoid screens a lot.  Have almost finished my whole Goodreads challenge for the year already, 25 books of my 26 book goal done and February isn't even over yet.

Predictable

 As expected, things continue.

I continue to be exhausted.

I have been doing fuck all of anything.

Mostly still too tired to do anything, have been listening to a bit of the Pern series as audiobooks and none are as good as I remember them being when I read them as a teenager.

Have been playing a bit of Tales of Maj'Eyal, which I bought about ten years ago, as it mostly plays itself.  And I am too tired to play games the require me to actually play them.

I did get taken out of the house a couple of times by Tavendale while he was still in town for the summer.  Even went to a movie at the cinema, and saw All of Us Strangers, which was good, if too much of a heavy-handed punch in the feels type movie.

Otherwise just continuing to be disappointed as my countries gets worse.  The new governments corruption is so open, it is very much going to drag New Zealand down in the least corrupt rankings.  We had done so well for so long, but now we are in the pocket in the tobacco lobby and everyone can see it.

So depressing.

Oh, and I had my preliminary ACC review meeting and messed it up - so I failed at any chance to get bumped to the conciliation pathway by mostly failing to talk during the meeting as the whole thing was kind of a bulldoze situation even when the lawyer running it was 'keeping things fair'.  It was me who has no information versus someone whose job is to stop people getting anything out of ACC.

I probably should have had a support person.  But that would have involved asking someone, which was a non-starter.