#WeekendCoffeeShare (June 23, 2023)

Posted on by Astrid

Hi everyone. I’ve once again been feeling really unmotivated to blog. I didn’t even bother with the Wednesday HodgePodge this week. Today though, I want to write. I’m joining the #WeekendCoffeeShare linky. It’s been a while. I already had my last cup of coffee for the day, but we all need to stay hydrated, so if join me for a glass of water, that’ll be fab.

If we were having coffee (or water, but I always start my paragraphs this way), I’d start out by sharing about the weather. Ours has been mostly sunny and warm with daytime temperatures of about 27°C. On Tuesday we had a thunderstorm here and on Thursday it rained continuously all evening. My spouse loves thunderstorms, but Lobith didn’t get any.

If we were having coffee, I’d tell you I have been struggling quite badly lately. The staff here seem to have decided to consistently send the least familiar to me staff member they have on board to do my one-on-one, even when that staff isn’t the least familiar with the other clients. I am of course the one labeled manipulative when I get irritable at the unfamiliar staff. I originally wrote a long rant about this situation, but deleted it because really it doesn’t help anyone.

If we were having coffee, I’d share that, due to these difficult circumstances, I’ve been feeling rather depressed and not as motivated to do much of anything. I keep playing dice games on my phone in an app called Dice World. I also play dice with most staff.

If we were having coffee, I’d share that my sister and her family are coming to Lobith tomorrow for an early birthday celebration for me. I will be in Lobith by about 11AM, though my sister won’t be there till 3PM or so. Unfortunately, on Sunday, my mother-in-law has to be on call for the animal rescue service she does volunteer work for, so we won’t be going there.

On Tuesday, which is my actual birthday, we invited my parents to come to Apeldoorn. We’ll hang out in a park close by where I grew up and then in the evening we’ll have dinner at a Thai restaurant.

I finally decided today that I do want to celebrate my birthday at the institution after all. I’m going to make cheesecake on Monday and we’re going to have French fries and a snack for dinner then.

If we were having coffee, lastly I’d tell you that I finally used my alcohol inks on a polymer clay project. I made earrings, of course. They’re a bit thick and I later found out my particular brand of alcohol inks isn’t very light-resistant, so the color will probably fade rather easily over time. At least now I know I can use my alcohol inks.

Also, I may get my ears pierced someday. I had my ears pierced in 2001, but wore large silver earrings right after the thingies they shoot into your ears when they pierce them. Thing is, I’m allergic to nickel and silver often contains that, so I got bad inflammation and eventually decided to let the holes close up. Now though I really want to be able to wear earrings again. My assigned staff offered to take me, so that’d be really cool.

How have you been?

17 thoughts on “#WeekendCoffeeShare (June 23, 2023)”

  4. Hi Astrid,
    Happy almost-birthday.
    I hope you find a formula that works for you to wear earrings again without the threat of more allergic reactions.
    My wife like to make some of her own jewelry but she does not have pierced ears so she make clip-ons or necklaces.
    It all looks like great creative fun to me.

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    1. Thank you so much. I’m not extremely sensitive to nickel, thankfully. For example, I can wear my Apple Watch, which does contain some nickel. I am pretty sure there are nickel-free earring hooks and studs etc., but they’re more expensive than the standard ones.

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  5. We have had much of the same weather, it’s still about 27C here now at half past 5 in the evening.
    That really is rubbish that the staff in your care home are being less than helpful sending people you don’t know to do your one on one care. You know my eldest works at a care home and they try and keep it consistent, sending the most familiar staff to do the one on one care for residents. Sending love and hugs, it must be so hard and frustrating for you.
    I hope you have a nice time with your sister. Happy birthday for Tuesday!
    My youngest had her ears pierced a few weeks ago and is so desperate to change them but I am making her wait the recommended 6 weeks. Good luck with your piercings. x

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    1. Thanks for your kind words. Wit the other client with one-on-one, but for her it’s full-time one-on-one rather than part-time, they do have absolutely no unfamiliar staff work her shifts. When there’s only one familiar staff, they automatically go to her. The reasoning keeps changing but it’s something to do with her particular challenges, but then again they consider mine (which are in part the same just not as extreme maybe) just manipulative. Then the group needs at least one familiar staff too, which is kind of understandable but well it still feels kind of harsh to me that they almost always send me the least familiar staff.

      It’s good that you’re keeping your daughter to her recommended six weeks before wearing actual earrings.

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