Well, yes and no 
but thanks for the wise words!
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On the plus side, I got around to reorganising my shelf
On the downside, it seems one of my rats has suffered a stroke, and while she doesn’t seem to be in pain, she is going downhill by the day.
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Got this badge yesterday:
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I got my 5,000 Karma badge this afternoon
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I don’t remember seeing karma badges. Kind of wondering now how one gets karma, and by extension, what I’m doing wrong.
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It’s all to do with the Leaderboard
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There is a bit of a confusing spot on it where it’s called by two different things. If you click on your name, when the box comes up with your information, where it says “Cheers” and a number, that’s your karma.
So your karma is 4,346 at the moment. First Karma badge is 5,000.
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Awesome! Thanks, @deltaandthebannermen & @SweetAIBelle !
Funny thing is I looked at the leaderboard and saw I had a mere 775 karma and I thought, sheesh, that’s it?! I thought I was pretty active around here.
Then I realized that was a monthly figure, not the grand total.
Thanks for the information, even if it was only to increase your personal karma. 
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Found out someone on AliExpress has stolen my artwork and has been selling shirts with my design on it. This week just gets worse and worse. I have three different lawyers in my family so I’ll definitely be able to take care of it but it still sucks.
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I think that happens a lot, unfortunately
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Things like this happens too often. Hope you get 'em
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Ups and many downs for me. Trying to get back into other things I used to love doing and my mind …life … sanity been dragging its feet’s . Life gives you a lemon, well I’ll just let a K-9 run over it and have some lemonaid. 
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Things are piling up now… Even more excuses for me not to spend time on my big exam, which I’ve been avoiding doing already. A chat with co-workers drifted to this topic and… I’m feeling anxious again.
One the up side, I talked with this student again. He just came back to school after a six-months gap due to mental health struggles. He checks in with us every Wednesday. He’s doing great now, so instead of counseling we just have a nice chat over tea. It’s doing me so much good, too. Regular human interaction.
It’s been hard to have my friends all in different cities and hundreds of miles away. I only meet them once or twice a year. Not nearly enough.
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I have this crazy ongoing family feud with my aunt regarding an online farming simulation game. It has been going on for years, because my Mum kicked her out of a chatroom on the mobile game because she made an xenophobic remark towards a foreign woman who was playing with them. This is going back to 2016, and since then she has been sending my Mum torrents abuse either directly or through my other aunt, and harassing her publicly over social media.
Now I find out that she’s having a go at myself because I apparently tagged the police into her harassment of my Mum (which I don’t remember doing, but if I did, she’s only upset because what she did was wrong) and I also made a few subtle digs at her on Twitter.
The latter I definitely remember, and I don’t regret for a second. Unlike the harassment of my Mum that she did, I didn’t directly infer who I was talking about, but she has taken it to mean herself. So this probably sounds like a ‘What’s not made your day?’ post, but because of how horrible she has been towards my Mum, it’s actually made my day that the subtle digs left her angry.
She’s talked about court action regarding the online game before, which is ludicrous, but even if a court somehow took her seriously and she brought up my social media comments, I’m safe in the knowledge that I can just deny that they were about her anyway. Especially as even if they found this post on here, I have more than one aunt, so I could just say it is my other one.
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I finally did some paperwork I’ve been procrastinating. I feel relieved now. Finally, I can enjoy my Dark Eyes relisten without feeling guilty
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Went for a 5km run this morning, first proper outdoor run since I twisted my ankle. So I’m chuffed that I’m back in the game.
On Saturday we are doing a 5km inflatable obstacle course run with my Mum, sister, and her 2 kids 
I’ve been anxious that I won’t be healed enough but I think I’m ready! My body is ready!
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Don’t like to talk too soon, but seem to be turning a corner with the challenges of my current class. Two of the biggest characters leaving has helped (although one of those left suddenly and we’re actually worried about where they are going and what will happen to them (but are powerless to do anything except report them as ‘missing in education’).
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Spent so many hours today and yesterday writing this story that just doesn’t want to be done. I can see the finish line but when it takes me ten minutes to write five words it’s really not fun. I was supposed to be done with it yesterday but I was up until 2am writing and just couldn’t anymore, and today is much more of a struggle. I think I’m probably burned out.
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