Long time no post as usual. Shop has been open a few months, loads of people have been got rid of for not being good enough so we've gone from over-staffed to short-staffed 🙃 tensions are high as are the targets. There are still people that some see as an issue that are getting away with things.

I may have fibbed to the bosses at work about having family visiting so I could get today off 🫣

If I hadn't I'd have been working 7 days in a row, all 7 hour shifts, all very physical days. 20,000 steps a day roughly. Carrying a lot of heavy boxes back and forth.

A new store that we're setting up.

At this point in my life - 34 - I really loathe past me for being scared of learning to drive. It would probably have been easier and definitely would have been cheaper. Now I'm in a position of needing to learn to better my future (better/more job opportunities) but it's such an expensive thing.

We've pretty much cut ties with my cousin.

Her inability to discipline her kids when visiting, general snobbery and the fact that we - blood relatives - come lower on the chain than random people she knows finally all piled together and enough is enough.

I thought Threads was supposed to be a nice place yet a couple of times I've posted stuff lately and got sarky comments back. Like you don't have to respond random stranger!

One was a post about my cousin's kids and how the younger boy seems behind his age for speech and the older girl is beyond

Had to spontaneously bin my pj bottoms this evening. Three large holes up the backside, sadly not fixable and worn a bit thin to repurpose.

Mum's going to have the top as a spare, I'd have kept it but it was always a bit short in the body for me.

Today's mood: stick a fork in me cause I'm done.

(Was early for the nurse but appointment was 15 minutes late so 25 minute wait, was so long mum was done shopping so couldn't suggest anything/help, parcel that was supposed to come has been delayed, I'm fed up with work + people and I'm just tired.)

A friend interacted with this post recently and reminded me of it.

Since then the brain has run through Whippets, Silken Windhounds (stunning but so rare in the UK) and kinda settled on my pre-Borzoi favourite of Saluki.

Decided I didn't want to go too small and the easier coat care is appealing.

My patience with all this administration stuff and customers constantly asking "when are you closing? What's happening to this store?" Is wearing very thin and I am this close to snapping.

I've been following more people on here but I need to actually remember to use it more.

Latest update: the shop where I work is closing soon. They may be being taken over but it's unknown yet.

Yet another car has perished. Our last one failed it's MOT and we didn't think it was worth fixing

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There's nothing specifically wrong with my family but once my mum does die I'm not sure if I'll actually bother with them anymore. Especially if I end up having to move (very likely as I'd be one person in a 2-bed flat and the UK government charges you for this - bedroom tax).

I hate my brain.

Mum worked out the other day that minus the car stuff (because I still haven't learnt to drive) I could pay all the bills solo on my part time wage and have £144 left for food etc if she died.

Only now my brain is hyper focusing on what if she did die? All the other stuff.

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When I started my job a year ago they were on winter opening hours of 6 o'clock close. This year they are not only sticking with the normal 7 o'clock close but actually near Christmas we've even got a couple of weeks of 8 o'clock closes 😫 and muggins here normally gets 2/3 lates a week.

I actually managed to fix mum's staple gun! Me, total DIY-phobe! She's fixing/altering a footstool and it managed to jam and I managed to get the bit out that jammed!

I'd pretty much decided that when Forest (current 6 and a half year old Borzoi) passes I wasn't going to get another dog but Italian Greyhounds keep going through my mind and then we met two today and they were adorable and so friendly and I think we've decided that we'll probably get one next 😆