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  • Nath@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    It has not been a good week. The weekend will be spent recovering from the week.

    (Kid) Footy and Hockey seasons are finally over. This is the first weekend of not needing to up at 7am for various sports. I need to get my sleep cycle under control. Spent a day and a half sick/sleeping and I’m still not quite back to normal. My watch says I slept from 3am to 7am, but it isn’t counting the bit where I crashed at 8pm and slept to nearly midnight.

    Also, a friend/workmate passed away this week. We’re gathering this evening for drinks and memories/tears. He was roughly my age, with kids a little over my kids’ ages. This feels too close to home, like that could have been me but for a roll of fate’s dice. It could be my kids facing life without their dad. Cancer sucks.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Belated, but sorry to hear about your mate. Reading that gave me chills, just imagining it happening to me or someone my siblings’ ages, though I have no children. That’s particularly rough when it’s someone you worked with. Hope you’ve got some good strategies for handling the grief at work.