The tagline for this blog is “because we’re all normal to ourselves”. My normal deviates wildly from everyone else’s. It will probably never return to what others consider normal. Most of the time, I can deal with it. But what I cannot stand, and what boils me into a pit of frustration, is […]
Health
The Financial Loss That Accompanies Disability
Who’s ready for some depressing discussion!? Woo! As you may know, the place I was working (on a mega-project) went under* this year and there were mass “BYEEEEE”. I can’t even call it lay-offs because that implies that we were paid compensation for losing our jobs. Project staff were mostly labour hire through recruitment agencies […]
When Does CoDesign Become Consulting?
I recently wanted to apply for an art thing. Only it required in person attendance. Which, as a mostly housebound person… didn’t feel doable. I sent in a query about how to have a modified version of this so I could apply for the art thing. I received a thoughtful response, but it lead me […]
Learning and Unlearning
Learning and Unlearning Take a look at this reel: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Charlie Rewilding 🌻 (@charlierewilding)  It’s really good. It’s on the topic of burnout but I feel it’s really applicable for all kinds of chronic and fluctuating conditions. My health has never […]
Take Care of Yourself
Take Care of Yourself The last three weeks have been exhausting. Mostly due to stress. I did briefly utilise EAP chat to talk about the stress of discrimination in job hunting but it basically came down to “I’m sorry that’s happening to you. It is wrong. Can you do craft?” I was hoping […]
The Stab and Twist
There are plenty of moments in life where you get stabbed, but also feel the knife twist inside you. Hopefully they’re all metaphorical and not real, because while the metaphorical sucks, I assume the real also really fucking hurts. I’m still trying to unpack layers of mental crap from my last job. I think […]
Ticking a task box
Ticking a task box I recently completed a task I had been putting off all year so far. I think time turning to May shamed me a bit internally and while shame isn’t exactly an ideal motivator … that’s what did it this time. The task was simple, it was just fixing up […]
When Acute Crushes You
I have no idea where 2022 has gone. A few days ago I was shocked it’s May already and somehow June is racing toward me. In a household of two chronic people there’s always give and take. But we tag team between us and between whatever our fluctuating capacities are. Until acute things […]
April Creative Contemplations
Project updates: My Fictional Life With Kids: Need to fix up hosting. It’s annoying. Totally Normal Dollhouse: Zero progress since I caught covid. Boo hiss to the plague. This month I was: Reading: All the Cassie Coburn novels. Gaming: Got obsessively into high scores on Mini Metro+ …letting it run for hours to get […]
Switching My Brain Off
Four days. I have four straight days off from my day job, thanks to public holidays. I tell you what, I don’t much like Christianity but I’ll take the public holidays they give me. But already my brain is swapping to “what can I get done?” mode. Why? Why do we do this to […]