Saw a small herd of deer on my morning walk.
That’s unusual for our neck of the woods. Most of the time, one only gets to see one or two at a time.
Taking it as a good luck charm for the day.
(I am not superstitious but pragmatic - good luck is always good. 
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Ooooo I haven’t but just looked it up and sounds super fun
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I mentioned a few days ago that my anxiety and panic attacks have been the worse they’ve ever been, but it got to the point last night where I was throwing up and genuinely felt like I was unable to breathe.
Spent three hours up at A&E checking myself over and having an ECG done in case something else was going on. Turns out it really was just symptoms of my anxiety, and there’s no easy way to stop that apart from calming down.
My mam put it best - I keep putting pressure on myself. Whether it be writing as many reviews daily as possible or forcing myself to get the courage to talk to my crush.
Was late when I asked my parents to go A&E with me last night cause I was worried, and my step-dad went ballistic thinking I was overreacting. Atmosphere at home isn’t great right now.
Sorry for rambling. Just needed to vent about the past day and night.
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No need to feel like you have to apologize. I mean, the thread is precisely for talking about moments good and bad in our lives
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I’ve spent a bit chunk of today in the forest with my wife and my boys. Everything is just so much better in the woods, and just what my boys needed 
I made a bonfire and roasted bacon/cheddar Frankfurt-style sausages on it for our lunch 
And some kind souls that were there with their kids had made way too much pancake-batter so we got to make pancakes over the fire for dessert 
We even got to help a dehydrated hedgehog, it was scuttling around through the leaves a couple of hours later 
Overall a really good day with the family - pure Danish Hygge
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I am not a nature guy but that sounds awesome even to me 
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Please, no need to apologise. Everyone is welcome to share how they are feeling here. 
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Awesome. I have spent just over a week back in Devon visiting family. Couple days off but also lucky to be able to work from home so could work down there. Really good for my mental health.
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That’s great 
Never heard of Beer Stone before, it’s really fascinating to learn about how things were done pre-industrialisation.
I was recently in the largest limestone quarry in the world, which apparently is only a 45 minute drive from my home, who knew?
When Christianity really became a thing in Denmark about 1100 years ago most churches they built (at it was a lot) were covered in limestone, all dug out by hand with children as young as six years old helping to drag the limestone out of the tunnels.
Really scary stuff how different and difficult life was for our ancestors.
(And the thing that annoyed me yesterday was that my favourite kind of baked beans had changed their recipe 
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I start my biology course at uni tomorrow. Exciting but also terrifying!!
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I’m really struggling with studying for my next exam right now, I find it incredibly hard to motivate myself and then I also get so frustrated when I can’t manage an exercise and get angry at myself because I failed this one on the first try. I try to be more forgiving with myself because with the first try I pushed myself into a really bad mental breakdown (with hindsight I’m really lucky to have gotten out of that one as well as I did and with only three permanent scars) and that took a while to recover from (well more return to my baseline of ‘i can mostly deal with this’ than recover but whatever). Today my mental health was immediately so bad that I just decided to give myself the day to rest. I don’t know, it’s just hard trying to figure out how much I can safely push myself.
For something good though, I went swimming yesterday and i hadn’t been for a while, and it’s really fun. I think buying myself some swimming shorts was a really good decision since it feels much better than wearing a swimsuit.
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It was huge fun. Live actors in an old Western town with everyone following their own trails around the site trying to solve mysteries through various clues and it seems they switch it up on a regular basis so we’ll definitely be going back. And it really wasn’t that expensive for what is a four hour experience.
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I’m not getting enough time or energy dedicated to my big, like, really big exam. I feel this dread of not performing well.
That being said, I do enjoy most of the other things I do and they keep me from feeling lonely and depressed, the way I always end up being when I retreat too much.
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Suddenly got put in charge of organising a surprise overnight party for my husband (it’s a big birthday) and this is totally not my forte.
Currently thinking how do I even pack a bag in secret.
Argh!
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Of course it involves packing a bag! Surely if you start packing bags he won’t even bat an eyelid - you do that every other day in your house, don’t you
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You begin by packing the front, and the rest comes naturally, you’ll see! 
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I know I often say I have conflicted feelings in here, but I do have conflicting feelings again.
The group that are renovating our Brunswick shopping centre here in Scarborough have announced Odeon will be taking on the planned multiscreen cinema: Odeon To Anchor The Transformation Of Scarborough’s Brunswick Centre
Although I am very excited to check out the new cinema when it’s built, I also feel sad about what it means for the cinema I’ve been visiting frequently, the Hollywood Plaza. I’ve got to know the owner there quite well, and I’ve been such a regular that he knows me by my first name. Whilst multiscreen cinema chains may offer the most comfortable and advanced cinema experience, they can’t replicate the community feel of a family-run cinema, like the Hollywood Plaza.
The Hollywood Plaza is already up for sale, and whilst the estate agents’ are saying they are courting offers from independent cinema operators, I just can’t see anyone wanting to keep it as a cinema now. It’s a real shame considering it has such a long and storied history in the town, and I had a personal connection to it, because of my late Granddad (who the current owner knew) who worked as a projectionist. My gut tells me that if I was a businessman and I saw that an Odeon was being built, I would see a single screen cinema as a weak business venture rather than something likely to make me money though.
If the Plaza goes, then I will lose the one building in the town that made me feel a connection to my Granddad, who I was very close to. It was years ago now, being back in 2007, but I still tear up when I remember before he died, my Mum rushing home from the hospital to pick myself and my brother up, because he requested to see the two grandchildren he was closest to.
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I go on TARDIS wiki and spend the best part of an hour editing something and it then gets reverted cause I didn’t understand the point of the page (it was meant to be overly simple, as it turns out). Annoying, but ok, my bad. That’s on me. Cause I’m in the mood I spend a load of time editing ANOTHER page… but I can’t publish it cause it’s ‘closed for maintenance’ and there’s no indication of when it’ll open up again.
I stg, it’s like it’s actively discouraging me from trying to do anything. This is a faultless series of events and yes, this is ultimately inconsequential, but it is still very annoying and is dampening a lot of my enthusiasm.
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Getting my wisdom teeth out today, so I’m quite nervous right now.
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