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Dec. 15th, 2019 12:02 amThat feeling when Christmas shopping means you see a bunch of things for yourself, and then you're just waiting for the January sales.
Dec. 15th, 2019
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Dec. 15th, 2019 07:56 pmWell, it's been quite a week. I don't really know how I feel about the election results. Well, devastated obviously, but I don't know what else I would have wanted. I voted Labour in the end - turns out there was no Change UK candidate in my area, only the Brexit party playing silly bastards, so in the end I just voted tactically against for the candidate most likely to beat the Tory. I didn't want Jeremy Corbyn to win, given the anti-semitism thing and the fact winning would have probably just made him double-down on everything he was doing, a lot of which I thought was wrong. He wasn't a very good leader. But I knew if he didn't, it would mean a new Labour leader but also five more years of Tories, and five years of Boris Johnson. But now...I guess I was hoping for a hung parliament, and none of the people I was dismayed by to be completely in charge. And not this huge massacre. By very, very hardline Tories. But here we are. I have three nephews now in the social care system, and a government that is not that interested in supporting the social care system. So that's...yeah. Pretty devastating.
One of the post room guys from work - a fairly nasty so-and-so, deaf, and who scowls or doesn't even acknowledge us when ever we try to ask him something - didn't turn up to work on Friday morning, then showed up at 11am drunk, shouting "the country's saved!". And had to be sent home. Yesterday, I was on the bus, and I overheard a little old lady talking to a man near her, saying something was good, and it would be even better next month when we were out of the EU, then talking about how her daughter had had to move because of abuse she received, but her daughter was a 'traitor', 'she was a traitor', 'she betrayed me'. It's very odd living in Yorkshire.
And I know Corbyn was weird, and that was probably a lot of the reason Labour voters didn't vote for him this time. But I also remember that people didn't vote for Gordon Brown when he was running, or David Milliband. And I remember that Gordon Brown's campaign went quite downhill after he wasn't too polite about the woman asking him "what are you going to do about these Poles?". And it makes me worry a little bit what it will take to get people to vote for Labour again, if anything.
But for now we just have to deal with the Tories. And Boris Johnson. And the fact the UK voted for Boris Johnson like the US voted for Trump. But at least he wasn't up against Hillary Clinton, I guess.
Anyway. Last week was rough for other reasons. We really didn't know what was happening with my YN's birthday until the night before, and I didn't get to see him because the foster mum could only come in between the times I was working for. And some stuff has been happening with my MN, although I'm hoping that's calmed down now. So yeah, I got to Thursday evening, was suddenly paralysed by fear that I'd somehow voted wrong for a while, and then realised on Friday I was completely wiped out. Had basically used my energy to get that point. And I'm still tired now. Also I checked my bank balance on Friday and found I had less money than I thought I did, which makes some of the Christmas stuff I wanted to do slightly less possible. Or I'll have to be more careful about it, at least, and careful isn't really what I want to be doing right now. But, I do have some time off. I've booked Tuesday to Friday off at work this week, so I only have to go in tomorrow, and then I have the Friday after Boxing Day off. So it's only one day of work this week, then only two next week. And I've done all my Christmas shopping, pretty much. And I get paid the Friday after Boxing Day, so if there's anything I want to do or get I can do some of it more easily after then. So yeah. I think I will be resting a lot. But I will be able to relax, at least a little. So I'm very much looking forward to that.
One of the post room guys from work - a fairly nasty so-and-so, deaf, and who scowls or doesn't even acknowledge us when ever we try to ask him something - didn't turn up to work on Friday morning, then showed up at 11am drunk, shouting "the country's saved!". And had to be sent home. Yesterday, I was on the bus, and I overheard a little old lady talking to a man near her, saying something was good, and it would be even better next month when we were out of the EU, then talking about how her daughter had had to move because of abuse she received, but her daughter was a 'traitor', 'she was a traitor', 'she betrayed me'. It's very odd living in Yorkshire.
And I know Corbyn was weird, and that was probably a lot of the reason Labour voters didn't vote for him this time. But I also remember that people didn't vote for Gordon Brown when he was running, or David Milliband. And I remember that Gordon Brown's campaign went quite downhill after he wasn't too polite about the woman asking him "what are you going to do about these Poles?". And it makes me worry a little bit what it will take to get people to vote for Labour again, if anything.
But for now we just have to deal with the Tories. And Boris Johnson. And the fact the UK voted for Boris Johnson like the US voted for Trump. But at least he wasn't up against Hillary Clinton, I guess.
Anyway. Last week was rough for other reasons. We really didn't know what was happening with my YN's birthday until the night before, and I didn't get to see him because the foster mum could only come in between the times I was working for. And some stuff has been happening with my MN, although I'm hoping that's calmed down now. So yeah, I got to Thursday evening, was suddenly paralysed by fear that I'd somehow voted wrong for a while, and then realised on Friday I was completely wiped out. Had basically used my energy to get that point. And I'm still tired now. Also I checked my bank balance on Friday and found I had less money than I thought I did, which makes some of the Christmas stuff I wanted to do slightly less possible. Or I'll have to be more careful about it, at least, and careful isn't really what I want to be doing right now. But, I do have some time off. I've booked Tuesday to Friday off at work this week, so I only have to go in tomorrow, and then I have the Friday after Boxing Day off. So it's only one day of work this week, then only two next week. And I've done all my Christmas shopping, pretty much. And I get paid the Friday after Boxing Day, so if there's anything I want to do or get I can do some of it more easily after then. So yeah. I think I will be resting a lot. But I will be able to relax, at least a little. So I'm very much looking forward to that.