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nineveh_uk ([personal profile] nineveh_uk) wrote2020-06-06 05:59 pm

I love my new hoodie

There, that is my positive spin on today. I have a new hoodie (aubergine) from Tog24* and it is amazing and warm and cosy and a feeling of pleasure even as I lay on the sofa with the head pulled over my eyes, because they hurt and I was exhausted. I have a sudden fellow-feeling with all the teenaged boys in Skam who are clearly wearing their hoodies and baseball caps and beanies as mobile comfort blankets in a time of teenagerness. It has been a long week. Actually, it has been a short week, but the step from an average of 4 - 4 1/2 hours to 6 hours a day has been more than I'm physically able to cope with. I slept 10 hours last night, didn't leave my bed until after 11, and I'm still utterly flattened and there is a small fire somewhere beneath my breastbone. It is going to be day 6 of eating food I have previously made and frozen because I can't cope with actual cooking. I feel that this is not sustainable.

It really is an amazing hoodie, though. I am about to order a blue one with a zip, because clearly this is not a year in which I am going to get much use out of my summer work wardrobe, so I should spend money (and time, in the case of sewing) on casual clothing for the current situation.

Otherwise, this afternoon I sat on the sofa and have made a cunning hinged widget for linocut printing my latest creation (a SARS-COV-2 virus :-) ), and marked up some paper for printing tomorrow. Unfortunately, the cunning jigs that you can buy involve instructions for use like "First glue your lino to a piece of MDF that you have cut to size". Not having an inexhaustible supply of MDF or a workshop to cut it in** I am making do with the backs of defunct clip-frames, cereal and shoe boxes, and a childhood of watching Blue Peter.

* For reasons that are unknown to me, they seem to have sized this season (unlike the coat I already had from them that gave me false confidence in ordering my usual UK12) for Dutch landgirls. If tempted, size down if you are less than 5'10. But the quality is very good otherwise.

** And no longer working in a science department I cannot, as I did many years ago, go down to the workshop with a piece of MDF on which I had drawn outlines of a load of daggers and a large sword and have them cut them out for me for a pirate-themed fancy dress party.
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[personal profile] alithea 2020-06-06 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Very sorry to hear you're struggling - can you go back down to 4 hours?

That hoodie looks wonderful, I'm glad it's comforting.

Any chance of a kind local friend popping a prepared meal or two round for you?

*hugs*
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[personal profile] white_hart 2020-06-06 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think you should feel that guilty given that you almost certainly got infected at work in the first place! I hope you can work a shorter week this week, and apologies for any annoyances which are down to my lot ;-)
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[personal profile] white_hart 2020-06-06 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think anyone is looking forward to that meeting!
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[personal profile] alithea 2020-06-07 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I can see that's awkward and frustrating but better to take another week to recover than have reduced capacity drag on even longer IMHO.

Some restaurants here are doing delivery, maybe time to treat yourself to something a bit special
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[personal profile] mrs_redboots 2020-06-06 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
The hoodie is lovely - I'm tempted to order one for use in the motor home, only I think perhaps navy rather than aubergine. But who knows when we'll be able to use the motor home again?
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[personal profile] mrs_redboots 2020-06-06 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
And - I just have bought one! Oops.... Still, at that price it would have been rude not to.
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[personal profile] mrs_redboots 2020-06-06 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)

I hope we do, too.  But I'm even dubious about our Christmas markets trip this year.....  sigh....  And we have just run out of beer - I know we can buy it in Lidl, but it's Not the Same!

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[personal profile] azdak 2020-06-07 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
How do you think you're going to get better if you keep overdoing things? Do you imagine that without you all hell will break out at the office and no one but you can fix it? Stop trying to protect your boss and just tell her the truth, for crying out loud! Get back onto that sofa at once and watch some TV! Lino-cutting? Don't you dare!!!
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[personal profile] azdak 2020-06-07 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
PS I really like the hoodie.
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[personal profile] azdak 2020-06-07 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
Physician Yan will wag his finger at you!