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A bit self indulgent recently
12 years ago
“And it is still true, no matter how old you are -- when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.”
This weekend is almost over and I have to apologise to my commissions that are pending. The stress of this weekend and past week and upcoming week just really properly flattened me.
Yesterday Paul moved the server rack from the top floor down to the ground floor and when he booted all the various machines back up, the one dealing with all our external websites went a tad on the crazy side and killed several websites. He fixed it after four hours of trying to work out why for some reason it was reading the 2nd ethernet port before the one on the motherboard first and then overwriting....im not gonna go all technical...basically stuff went wrong and he got all the other websites up and running again no hassle but it only came to light 30 mins ago that my main site ikklespace had gotten its knickers in a twist and he had to poke the name server again and now thats back so everything is working again.
But That was just the tip of the ice berg this weekend.
Our shower got seriously broke started leaking really badly had to buy parts and drill holes and blah blah blah thats fixed, then the bathroom sink got really really blocked randomly and after clearing the trap and shoving drain cleaner down it nothing was shifting so the way our stupid house is configured....designed.... meant we were looking at having to remove the ceiling of the kitchen. With only 11 days until our house move this really was like just gut wrenchingly stressful. luckily by the mercy of the gods the sink unblocked. But for a good few hours this evening we thought we were going to have to start cutting through walls and ceilings. I am sooo unbelievably relieved that this is not the case.
Now tomoro I have the yearly external audits. monday and tuesday in fact. Im proper stressing about that and the boss from scotland is coming down as well 2moro to supposedly have a chat with me about my lack of career path and dead end job. So...yeah thats playing on my mind somewhat.
So TLDR (as the cool kids say) upshot of it is life has been really freekin stressful at the moment and as a result ive found myself drawing Gem waaaaay more than I should be. I get a lot of comfort and escapism delving into gems world rather than my own and its kinda whats keeping me afloat a lot at the moment so whilst I have been working on commissions i havent been working on them half as much as I should be but thats cause im finding it stupidly hard to concentrate and well im being pretty self indulgent. Sorry.
Yesterday Paul moved the server rack from the top floor down to the ground floor and when he booted all the various machines back up, the one dealing with all our external websites went a tad on the crazy side and killed several websites. He fixed it after four hours of trying to work out why for some reason it was reading the 2nd ethernet port before the one on the motherboard first and then overwriting....im not gonna go all technical...basically stuff went wrong and he got all the other websites up and running again no hassle but it only came to light 30 mins ago that my main site ikklespace had gotten its knickers in a twist and he had to poke the name server again and now thats back so everything is working again.
But That was just the tip of the ice berg this weekend.
Our shower got seriously broke started leaking really badly had to buy parts and drill holes and blah blah blah thats fixed, then the bathroom sink got really really blocked randomly and after clearing the trap and shoving drain cleaner down it nothing was shifting so the way our stupid house is configured....designed.... meant we were looking at having to remove the ceiling of the kitchen. With only 11 days until our house move this really was like just gut wrenchingly stressful. luckily by the mercy of the gods the sink unblocked. But for a good few hours this evening we thought we were going to have to start cutting through walls and ceilings. I am sooo unbelievably relieved that this is not the case.
Now tomoro I have the yearly external audits. monday and tuesday in fact. Im proper stressing about that and the boss from scotland is coming down as well 2moro to supposedly have a chat with me about my lack of career path and dead end job. So...yeah thats playing on my mind somewhat.
So TLDR (as the cool kids say) upshot of it is life has been really freekin stressful at the moment and as a result ive found myself drawing Gem waaaaay more than I should be. I get a lot of comfort and escapism delving into gems world rather than my own and its kinda whats keeping me afloat a lot at the moment so whilst I have been working on commissions i havent been working on them half as much as I should be but thats cause im finding it stupidly hard to concentrate and well im being pretty self indulgent. Sorry.
Lotsa huggles and snuggles
Princess Sylphie
Point is, getting stressed is of course a natural things that happens too all of us (unfortunately)... and, when that is the case, we seek to channel our stress and other emotions into things as a way of blowing off steam (and i don't mean the gaming website by the same name, lol).
Point is, we do what we must to keep on keeping on. And, It's fine.
*hugs*
You be fine ok.
I Feel your pain and I hope everything goes as smooth as possible from here on out, Just remember to stay positive and try to focus on manifesting good outcomes! Your awesome, and I am sure you will get threw this just fine! :3
*gives you some gentle hugs*
Oddly enough, we just had to recover from networking issues ... the cable TV was acting up, the guy on the phone gave us advice that took our internet down but didn't fix the TV, and then they finally ran some kind of test that showed there were issues with the line (and why didn't they do this test first?), so they sent out a technician who replaced all the coaxial cable in the house with Cat5.
The boss from Scotland should come down and apologize on behalf of the whole company you work for, because they don't treat you right there! He should make you the boss of your own office.
Ugh, it's so awful when things are wrong with water and drains! I hope nothing else crazy happens between now and the move, which will be crazy enough as moves always are!
I can completely understand you want to just get away for a bit because that sounds pretty stressful and getting away is probably the best thing for you right now gem.