Tuesday, 20 October 2026

#BlogLife1154 - Does stress overrule you and stop you moving forwards?

I wish it was a better night's sleep but some rest is better than none at all.

I didn't hear back from the penpaller so that's that. A pity but maybe I'm not in the right headspace anyway..

I keep forgetting about the chronic pain binaurals. I was so focused on the anti nausea, the hand pain was creeping up and now typing is pretty sore..

EDF (gas/electricity), wrote and said they are upping my bill by £20 so that £10 saving from EE (broadband), seems void now.

I'm tired of stressing about money. I'm as careful as I can be and whatever will happen, I'll deal with it.

I was freezing last night and took the blankie off prematurely. I still only put the boiler on every other day..

I don't want to make myself ill though.

I'm still enjoying Reddit, despite the immature downvotes. People thinking only their opinion matters and leaving gross comments on my posts.

Despite saying Keep it clean and respectful but some posts have taken off and the nice users far outweigh the negative ones.

I should have joined years ago :)

Something that was bothering me I recently addressed. I wrote about it on here first but probably ran out of steam..

The post titled Talk with words, not pictures..

Anyway someone asked for feedback and I thought because they brought it up..

I can safely admit, something your doing which I'm not a fan off is...

You use a lot of gifs instead of talking to me and that doesn't work.

I'm burnt out on gifs because I'm a word person and it's a bit meaningless to me.

I don't feel you've read what I've written or bothered to answer my question so that disturbs me.

And they took it onboard and said they won't do it anymore. Which I'm pleased about.

I was in the minority which surprised me, other people don't mind them but for me, it was affecting me a lot.

But I didn't know how to address it.

At home or around family, I could never speak my mind. That menacing look or tone, scared the hell out of me.

I got used to not talking at all, I'm presently still trying to unlearn that and speak up..

Well I wasn't expecting that. I completely forgot about the government heating allowance.

EDF wrote and said I quality for a £150 rebate so 3x months ish really or probably closer to two months paid..

The Warm Home discount scheme for the electricity only, not the gas...

But I have a gas combi boiler... I'm never sure how that works exactly but it's automatically applied so I can start using the boiler normally again.

Thank goodness. One less thing to stress about :)