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chihibunChanging the scenery will hopefully do me some good. ☕
I've been fluctuating between a slump and vaguely functioning for a good while. Don't even remember when it started. What hasn't helped is the environment at my parent's house during key times where I want to relax after a hard day's work.
I don't like the sounds at home. It's a perfectly nice place. But my grandparents have different living styles and cultures. And we've got possums in the walls that even professionals couldn't keep away. It's not the possums that bother me, it's the ultrasound Dad's installed that does. It gives me a headache. But if we don't have that switched on, they'll wake us up at 5 in the morning.
Though even before the possums, that was already a problem. I still wake up at precisely 5:40am every morning because we have this family of birds that's been with us for as long as I can remember. They'll start chirping very shrilly at that time daily. When I get woken up, I have to put earplugs in because I just can't go back to sleep with that sound. They typically stop within an hour.
Then it's earplugs back in at around 8:45am when my grandparents come back upstairs to brush their teeth.
I'll be staying at an apartment in another suburb for the next two nights. It's a little nerve wracking because I've been driving alone for less than a year due to my overprotective parents and I have yet to park in the underground carpark by myself. It's just a little awkward turning in at the security gate and there's poles there that are very easy to bump into. The car that I'm driving already has a literal hole in it from a screw up once early on when I was parking at work. Don't want to get it fixed anytime soon either since it costs so much and I'm sure I'll dent it some more trying to park in other areas with poles.
We'll see how we go. Poor car. It was pretty much spotless before I started driving it. But you gotta start somewhere.
I've been fluctuating between a slump and vaguely functioning for a good while. Don't even remember when it started. What hasn't helped is the environment at my parent's house during key times where I want to relax after a hard day's work.
I don't like the sounds at home. It's a perfectly nice place. But my grandparents have different living styles and cultures. And we've got possums in the walls that even professionals couldn't keep away. It's not the possums that bother me, it's the ultrasound Dad's installed that does. It gives me a headache. But if we don't have that switched on, they'll wake us up at 5 in the morning.
Though even before the possums, that was already a problem. I still wake up at precisely 5:40am every morning because we have this family of birds that's been with us for as long as I can remember. They'll start chirping very shrilly at that time daily. When I get woken up, I have to put earplugs in because I just can't go back to sleep with that sound. They typically stop within an hour.
Then it's earplugs back in at around 8:45am when my grandparents come back upstairs to brush their teeth.
I'll be staying at an apartment in another suburb for the next two nights. It's a little nerve wracking because I've been driving alone for less than a year due to my overprotective parents and I have yet to park in the underground carpark by myself. It's just a little awkward turning in at the security gate and there's poles there that are very easy to bump into. The car that I'm driving already has a literal hole in it from a screw up once early on when I was parking at work. Don't want to get it fixed anytime soon either since it costs so much and I'm sure I'll dent it some more trying to park in other areas with poles.
We'll see how we go. Poor car. It was pretty much spotless before I started driving it. But you gotta start somewhere.
