Here's what happened in my life over the past week: I caught someone in the act, so to speak – they followed me, I took a quick peek at their site and saw that they were a mental health blog, so I followed them back a couple of minutes later... after which they promptly unfollowed … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: While at the grocery store last weekend I ran into someone I knew when I was well.  He's the husband of a former co-worker, and we all used to play on a beer-league softball team.  He is the epitome of a nice guy, and part … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: Thanks so much to Eilidh from Eilidh Horder for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger award.  (And if you haven't already, check out her  emerging blogger post) My guinea pig Oreo has finally gotten over her UTI.  Poor little munchkin has had a lot of … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: I've been having a hard time handling multiple tasks.  It's not that I actually have that much going on, but if I have an email to deal with on one account, an email on a second account, a blog comment to respond to, and a … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: Thanks so much to Beckie of Beckie's Mental Mess for gifting me the Blogging Leadership award!  I was previously given this award by its creator, Nova Namaste, and I did a post then about leadership in blogging. WordPress informed me it was my two year … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: Thanks so much to Rory of A Guy Called Bloke and K9 Doodlepip for gifting me The Inspiration Award!  The feeling's mutual, by the way! I launched both the Mental Health @ Home Store and my new book Making Sense of Psychiatric Diagnosis this week. I … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Some of you may have noticed this post appeared yesterday.  When I wrote it yesterday morning and scheduled it I set the time  but forgot to change the date.  Strangely, when I took the post down about 20 minutes after publishing, it didn't disappear from the WP Reader.  When I tried to republish it today, … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: Thanks so much to Rory of A Guy Called Bloke and K9 Doodlepip for gifting me with the sunshine blogger award! I've learned that WordPress stats and Google Analytics (which you can use when you have the business plan) don't give you the same numbers.  … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: Thank you to the truly heroic Ami of UndercoverSuperhero for nominating me for the Liebster Award.  She asked a question about being willing to start secondary school all over again; the immediate visceral reaction of disgust I had pretty much covers it, but to add words … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: I had a rather unpleasant exchange with another blogger.  They had emailed me asking for some blogging tips, and it was actually someone who I'd just unfollowed a couple days prior to that after they'd expressed some views about a connection between mental illness and … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: My first book ended its ebook exclusivity period with Amazon, so I listed it on several other bookselling sites.  It should have been a pretty easy process, but it didn't quite turn out that way.  Apple Books gave it a wonky title; I thought I'd … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: The building recladding construction hasn't been too noisy this week, but one of my neighbours is doing renos and there's been a lot of sawing going on.  I hope it's done soon. I worked one shift this week, and it was ok, but I was … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: Yesterday I was walking to the grocery store, and a group of elderly women went speeding on by me.  This psychomotor retardation (slowing of movement) has been really persistent.  According to my bullet journal it's been going on for the last two months. I didn't … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: I worked two nights this week, both covering sick calls.  For the first one, they were calling out the shift two hours before it was supposed to start, and I was asleep.  Normally my first few hours asleep I'm totally dead to the world, but … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up

Here's what happened in my life over the past week: Earlier this week I did a post about feeling down about my career situation.  I got amazingly supportive responses that meant so much to me.  The WordPress community really is a wonderful thing. I had a massage this week, which was lovely.  I also found … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up