General Life Update

It's been a bit of a week, really. Boss was on holiday from Tuesday to Friday and I swear people wait for her to be off and I'm managing to the office to blow up nonsense.

I've had to find last minute cover for sickness, there's a serious HR issue ongoing that I've had to get involved with as well as trying to do my own work and my boss's work too. And, on top of that, people coming into work sick meant I ended up sick too. It was one of those stupid things where I wasn't sick enough to be off myself. I had a slight sore throat, aches, and I was really, really fatigued. Definitely wasn't covid as I was testing every day to make sure.

I just spent a couple of days going to bed super early and sleep seemed to be mostly what helped. I slept from 8:30-6 on Wednesday night and 10-7 on Thursday night. That seemed to mostly sort it.

I cancelled my Friday visit with my nephew just in case and then ended up having to take my housemate to A&E because she had really bad chest pains that she was worried was her heart. They ran a bunch of tests and said her heart was fine and gave her some medication for heartburn which is what they think it was (she said she's had heartburn before but nothing like that - she honestly thought she was having a heart attack). So, thankfully, it all turned out okay in the end but it definitely wasn't the restful evening at home I'd hoped for.

Oh, and early in the week our shower broke. Nothing quite like stepping into the shower only to find it's freezing cold as a way to wake yourself up. Luckily the landord has now replaced it with a nice shiny new one but for a few days we had to use one of those shower hoses that goes over the ends of the taps which wasn't fun.

Then, just to finish things off, I had a nice lie on Saturday morning and as soon as I got up I had a nosebleed. I've had minor ones before due to my allergy and sinus issues but this was a full on blood running out of my nose type of deal. It lasted about 5 mins and once I finally got it to stop I got back into bed to read for a bit. Then, when I got back up it started bleeding again. Again only lasted about 5 mins. Pretty sure it's because I had my fan on next to the bed and it dried out my nose. So that wasn't fun.

Luckily the rest of Saturday and all of today has been nice and relaxed. I'm getting towards the end of editing my stupidly long DMBJ rarepair fic so I'm looking forward to posting that even though I'm pretty sure only about 5 people are going to want to read it.

Okay, some happy news after talking at length about my shitty week.

Took part in a fic exchange a few weeks ago and the authors were finally revealed. Both my recipients seemed to enjoy their stories and I had a lot of fun writing them

Title: Every Day in my Heart
Fandom: DMBJ
Pairing: Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling
Rating: General Audiences
Summary:
“We should date.”

He has to catch Pangzi’s wrist quickly when his hand slips and he almost slices into his palm with the knife he’s using to prepare dinner. He can feel Pangzi’s pulse fluttering under his fingers, slightly faster than usual.

“Xiaoge? What?” Pangzi sounds confused, but there’s a slight crack to his voice as well. Along with his slightly rapid pulse Zhang Qiling wonders if he’s getting sick.

Title: Pest Control
Fandom: DMBJ
Pairing: Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling
Rating: General Audiences
Summary:
“Xiaoge? How does it look?”

Another moment passes and Xiaoge puts his sword back in its sheath. “Safe.”

“Safe?!” Wu Xie yells from Pangzi’s side. “Xiaoge, are you blind? Look at the lettuces!”