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PetraPhoenix

@PetraPhoenix@mendeddrum.org

Sporadic Twitch Streamer and yarn based crafter with chronic pain and a Tiny Dog. I found out at the age of 45 that I had ADHD which has been a huge relief!
Currently studying Environmental Studies with the Open University.
Located in NE England

Will likely toot along with Strictly Come Dancing and Eurovision
I wish to be a Discworld inhabitant please

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dgar, (edited ) to random
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Long night so far.

A call from my sister just after midnight that she’d taken mum to the hospital.

Been holding bedside vigil while sister goes home and gets some sleep. Doctors running tests and whatnot. Morphine for the pain. Machines that go “bing”.

It’s about 4:30am and mum’s snoring with a plethora of tubes and wires.

Eyes are heavy. Chair is uncomfortable. The nurses showed me where I could make a cup of coffee for myself.

PetraPhoenix,
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@dgar

How are you doing? Much love and strength to you all x

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Mar 4

  1. This morning there were goldfinches in the tree out the back
  2. The daffodils in the back garden were delightfully bright in the morning fog, they immediately gave me hope for sunnier times
  3. The sun came out this afternoon and was beautiful
PetraPhoenix, to random
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Contrary to what I was taught about history as a child, I now firmly believe that Europeans didn't export civilisation, we did our level best to destroy it.

Every place we went we took greed, individualism and an erroneous sense of superiority.

That is our legacy. And now the people we bore down upon are living with most of the consequences of our actions, both historical & current.

"Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things." - Granny Weatherwax 'Carpe Jugulum"- Terry Pratchett

DJDarren, to random
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I know I complain about Word alot, but that’s because it’s absolutely fucking awful.

PetraPhoenix,
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@DJDarren

Word is a sodding bastard and I hate it with every fibre of my being.

I swear it was better in the '95 version!

PetraPhoenix,
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@DJDarren

I have spent a LOT of time recently yelling things like "You fucking dickhead, I told you I want that there, not at the bottom of page 7"

Or, "You asked me if I wanted to add a caption, why do you think I now want the caption for the picture 2 paragraphs above the picture, wanker"

Etc, etc, etc, etc.

It thinks it knows best, but it does not.

At least you could turn Clippy off.

PetraPhoenix,
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@DJDarren

Unfortunately I have to enter my assignments in .doc or .docx format. I should try open office, but I spend so long arguing with Word that there isn't time.

*Petra adds this task to the ridiculously long list of things I think I can accomplish in the summer holidays

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@DJDarren

I've never got on with apple, I find it counter intuitive. For some reason it does not go with my brain

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Big shout out to the Drum’s publican, @patrick. I’ve yet to receive a single item of spam.

Bravo, that man.

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@DJDarren @patrick

Absolutely!

Thanks also to the mods 💜

PetraPhoenix, to menopause
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Can anyone point me in the direction of information regarding increased libido during ? It's impossible to search for online as you just get a gazillion bits of information about the exact opposite.

PetraPhoenix, to random
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Psst, (non-gender specific) lads,

I'm not sure, and I could be wrong, but

and hear me out here,

I'm not sure that is actually about owls.

No idea what it is for, but apparently, not owls? Who knew??

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@DJDarren

SuperbOwl day is about souffle??

DJDarren, to random
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Watching the first Taskmaster Champion of Champions, and there’s little more delightful than the absolutely insane way Bob Mortimer’s brain works.

PetraPhoenix,
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@DJDarren @pdcawley

Also worth looking up the "Would I lie to you" clips with Bob on. His interactions with David Mitchell are wonderful.

PetraPhoenix, to random
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Feb 3

  1. I think I just about finished my bit of the group work I have to do for a uni assignment
  2. I have been crocheting again
  3. I didn't have to cook dinner
PetraPhoenix, to makershour
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@Maker_of_Things

Thank you for the warm welcome to my first I'll bring the biscuits next week! @makershour

PetraPhoenix,
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@alexisbushnell @Maker_of_Things @makershour

I make a very good chocolate chip cinnamon cookie!

PetraPhoenix,
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@alexisbushnell @Maker_of_Things @makershour

Well I have to freeze the dough and only bake what I'm going to eat right then or I end up eating the entire batch in one sitting - an unfortunate yet delicious snaccident!

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After just a year of hobbling about on a sore knee, I’ve finally made a physio referral.

It’s been x-rayed, and apparently there’s nothing wrong with it. But being woken up at night by it suggests that there is something…

PetraPhoenix,
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@DJDarren

Except that pain doesn't necessarily mean there is anything physically wrong.

dgar, to random
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I like waiters.

They bring a lot to the table.

PetraPhoenix,
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@dgar

Honestly, the psychic damage I get from following you 🤣

DJDarren, (edited ) to ADHD
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Fellow folks who have a formal diagnosis:

When you received your diagnosis, was it a massive anticlimax?

I ask, because my kid got his yesterday and told me that it felt underwhelming, and I distinctly remember feeling the same way when receiving my own, four years ago.

There wasn’t this great moment of relief, just a calm, almost bored psychiatrist saying “Yes, it sounds like ADHD. Let’s try you on this medication and see how you get on”

PetraPhoenix,
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@DJDarren

It wasn't until I took meds and the stimulant medication sent me to sleep that I believed I might not have tricked the psychiatrist into giving me a diagnosis.

But when I was told, yeah, it was completely underwhelming

PetraPhoenix,
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@DJDarren

I must admit to really wanting that moment of sudden clarity, but yes, as you describe it's been more of a gradual realisation of an ability to do stuff rather than scroll forever.

I was 46 when I first took meds. There's a whole lifetime of woulda shoulda coulda I'm constantly trying to ignore!

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Big generalisation incoming, but the numbers kinda hold up... A thing that I never can work out is why my grandparents' generation (born 1910s) never trusted the govt or establishment, but my parents' generation (born 1940s) believe whatever they're told by a man in a suit. What changed?

PetraPhoenix,
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@ametonym

The ones born in the 1910s lived through 2 wars, and a pandemic, and remembered the reality of it. The ones born in the 40s were mostly too young to remember the wars and we're brought up 'knowing' that we were brilliant, because of winning the war and how great of our leaders to do this.

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Jan 28

  1. I've been doing a jigsaw

  2. I didn't cook dinner

  3. Being greeted by Tiny Dog when I got up this morning, and watching her trying to persuade me that I needed to make coffee and sit on the sofa. (I was making the coffee at the time, I was just apparently Too Slow)

PetraPhoenix, to random
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Jan 27

  1. Making cinnamon cookies

  2. Fish & chips at the seaside

  3. A wander with Tiny Dog

PetraPhoenix, to random
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Jan 24

  1. warm cinnamon cookies and cream
  2. Chatting with pocket pals
  3. A really interesting evening seminar at uni
PetraPhoenix, to random
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Jan 23

  1. Dancing, today we were learning some very basic tango
  2. I remembered my meeting
  3. In my course we have been virtually looking round a COP - COP21 in Paris to be precise. It's really interesting watching it so much later on.
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