TGIF! It has been one of those weeks where everybody and their mother is annoying for no reason. Nobody has done anything to me, I'm just annoyed with most people. My favorite word for the week has been "Nope!" My use of the word isn't anything new, it is the amount of times I've used that word this week that is out of character.

Clearly I need a time out, so I'm going to change things up. Weekends starting on Fridays are going to be spent touching grass, reading books.... anything that doesn't involve the internet. I'll still check the weather, order things if I need to, ect... but just being on the internet to kill time, have people from YouTube yapping in my ear, whatever, no. That needs to stop. If after a few weeks of taking 'time off' on weekends only doesn't help, I'll chop off internet time during the week as well because this is bullshit. Stupid crap on the internet shouldn't bug me as much as it has this week. The bullshit has nothing to do with me, it is not things I can fix / change, blah, blah, blah. The internet is the internet.

I still need to finish cleaning out my external drives. I've cleaned all of them out, but now I need to organize the one I dumped everything on to. I don't need 4-plus copies of any given screenshot, mods, cc, paperwork from 2019 when I adopted Diamond, the hissing brat tortoise. All of my pets are bratty to some extent, but sheesh. Cole ( he's guinea pig for those that don't know) has earned himself a reputation at the vets for screeching like he's having his toes cut off when he is brought in for a nail trim. If he gives me a hard time about being picked up to put him in his crate to go to the vet, those are the days he's extra special and really loud as in he can be heard from down a hallway with three closed doors between the waiting area and the treatment room where his nails are done.

There has been zero trauma in Cole's life. We've had him since he was roughly 8 weeks and and is treated like a small, potato-shaped king along with his brother. They don't live together because they fight, but they have their bougie pig condo. Cole is noisy, bouncy, neighbor that lives upstairs. Lincoln is a goofball and doesn't care. The more noise Cole makes, the more Lincoln popcorns.

I didn't mean for this to turn into a pig story; I'm out.

@Gargoyle Cat Have you done something with your hair? You look different somehow.

Summer was fun, it can stop now. I'm pretty sure Europe doesn't need 40°C.

Every part of Europe, except of the parts of Europe that have 10-15 C and rain (pretty much all summer except for one or two days in a row here and there with maybe 20-25 degrees if the rain forgets to turn on)

Did get enough of the heatwave last summer, though - more than enough for me...

Honestly, after last summer I kinda prefer the rain... (I'm all "oh no, it's raining..." when everyone else wishes fo the sun to come out - I'm secretly happy it's a decent excuse for staying indoors)

I'd send you some rainclouds if I could, though (I don't like rain, but during summer I'd rather take rain than a heatwave).

I'm getting used to applying sunscreen daily as I leave the apartment. I forgot to put it on today and my calves were burning from the sun on my walk from the gym to the car (it was a 5 minute walk if you count in waiting at the lights). I hope they didn't burn-burn But when I put it on I condensate like a window on a rainy day

New person joined the project at work today. Their deo/aftershave/whatever is disgusting and makes me feel vaguely nauseous and my nose is all stuffy. And they sat next to me for lunch so I had no appetite cos I felt bad

I'm with you with all of that.

A few months ago I had a overnight stay at the hospital as they couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. In the end it turned out I was in respiratory failure. It's was part of one of those chain of events stories.

Anywho, my local hospital loves to use a foul-smelling cleaner that is supposed to smell like apple. A rotten apple smells better, I digress. Every time I get stuck staying at the hospital the nurses get all kinds of pissed off at me because the stink triggers a nasty headache which then leads to a constant stuffy / runny nose until the smell of the cleaner goes away.

To counter my complaining about the cleaner, they tell me to take my allergy meds and STFU, in a nutshell. They don't actually say that, but they may as well for the eye rolls and other loud, unspoken opinions. One would think I was accusing them of stankin' me out of the place. It isn't about them, it isn't even about the people that clean. It is about the cleaner they use which I don't understand. What stank is all the apple "scent" covering? Just recently I was at the hospital for a appointment and it smelled like canned cat food that had been in the microwave. There was no cat food. It was food people were supposed to eat. Absolutely foul! If anybody has ever smelled canned cat food that has been in a microwave, you understand my reaction.

This is the same hospital that is known for not cleaning up their ER area. At any given time you can find blood all over the floor, the walls, the gurney, ect... I understand emergency rooms are not a fun place, but there has to be a level of cleanliness to avoid spreading diseases. So again, what is the apple scent hiding? I bet it is hiding more than I care to know about. Just sayin'... blech!

And with that little lovely story out of the way, whoever sent the heatwave can take it back. It is supposed to be a couple days of this crap. I was over it last night when the humidity rolled in with not a single breeze to be had.