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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2017-12-08 10:17 pm

Random

When your socks go into holes, cut the leg parts into bands and use them as elbow warmers for tendinitising joints. When your long socks go into holes, cut the feet off and use them as gaiters/ leg warmers with cropped pants.

Made it through the sneezy week, survived my early shift today, and shall now relax and let this cold/ allergy do what it will. If it stays in abeyance, shall go see aunt tomorrow (didn't last week because of blahs.) Might even go to friends' annual Christmas do Sunday, though I didn't respond to their invitation when it came because this year more than most I don't feel up for social occasions.

Am signed up for a guy's blog who distills studies on happiness and effectiveness and reports the findings. Overwhelming evidence says having close personal relationships is what makes for happiness. So I should cultivate those few local friends I have. But! Studies also show that dealing with friends you're ambivalent about is more stressful than dealing with open enemies. And I'm *very* ambivalent about just about everyone I knew from university. And these friends are. And so...

But that may just be head cold and snowy weather thinking. Shall reconsider in the morning.