Author Archives: Raeyn

With things like chronic pain and chronic fatigue, it’s amazing what you can get used to. Like, today — severe headache, and I’m like… should I take something? Do something? In the end, I put some Vaporub on my temples, and will probably call it done unless it finds some new novel way to be stabby and severe. I finished… Read more »

In that whole bodies get older and shadier thing, I’ve had this situation where there’s a pinched nerve in my back. It’s not pinched all the time, but when it goes, it goes. It went earlier, and while the pain level of it was a smidge less than normal, the intensity was a bit worse. Thankfully, a pair of co-codamol… Read more »

I surprised myself today — I messaged my Member of Parliament. I consider him by and large useless since the *first* time he was our MP, so yeah. Someone had asked in one of my Discords how tariffs were going to affect a band on tour, and my brain was like… actually, our MP used to be a Treasury Secretary,… Read more »

So, the current law in regards to selling to the US means that anything under $800 doesn’t require paying tariffs on; this is called the ‘de minimis’. While the White House hasn’t out and out said that this, the de minimis, will be going away with all the new global tariffs, but the small print seems to suggest that it… Read more »

Stars, so. We made a point to watch the ‘Liberation Day’ broadcast last night. I’d referred the tariffs on the UK as ‘mate’s rates’, so that’s apparently never leaving my head now. Z kept commenting on just how made up the numbers being used were, and yeah, news reporting overnight/this morning backs that right the eff up. I’m not quite… Read more »

Uh yeah, so, um… hi, yeah. *laughs* I’m kind of impressed at how long I fell off the wagon here. I’m still managing daily elsewhere, but I don’t know. I guess I didn’t know what to say here about anything. I can report that if I did find my missing friend (now better known as ‘idiot fren’), he didn’t want… Read more »

Stars, I will get back into the habit of blogging here at some point. I mean, it’s not like there’s tonnes of exciting things in my life. The last couple of weeks have been me dealing with the absolutely dumbest shit. I had a dream about an old friend, which slammed me into the deepest grief I’ve ever experienced in… Read more »

Again, the cats with their various nap tubes. Vivi likes to nap at the midpoint of the tube, where he can be ‘alone’, but can also receive pets through the gap. He’d kind of lolled when I was petting him on this day, so he’d flipped his head out. Then rolled over and gave me A Look™®. Mate, mate. *laughs*… Read more »

Stars, I’m alive, honest. Things have been *waves hands* busy-ish. Which means me up to my usual gaming and crafting and work, the things that make up my normal day-to-day. We also had our annual family holiday, which was rather nice. The main thing a soul needs to know about that is that it was more accessible this time around,… Read more »

I keep surprising myself by pulling out opinionated posts on FB this week. Like, self, do we really have the spoons for this? But with the one I just posted, I hit the question of questions — why do people persist in doing things that hurt my friends and family? In this case, consuming anything Harry Potter, due to Rowling’s insistence… Read more »