Sunday Coffee and Chat -- 21st September 2025

@RebelliousAngel i love your spider cobweb broom story lol. 🤣 thank you for sharing it. 🙂

@Appleblossom sounds yum! How nice to hear your son made/shared dinner with you. 🥰

Hoping you had a lovely coffee day @Shaz51 even though we played message a tag a few times today!

@AlwaysMyself hehe you're welcome 😀. I needed the laugh today so the spider succeeded at that 🤣

Ahahaha 'This was NOT in the manual' @RebelliousAngel 🤣

Hiya @AlwaysMyself lovely to see you!

@RebelliousAngel thank you…overall it was good,

though I was a bit intense in conversation, when someone was feisty and talking about being brought up to fight. I was trying to be balanced and blurted… I guess I have been too self controlled for most of my life so it feels very scary….

I did church in the morning and music in the afternoon

it has taken a while to get a life.

l liked your spider story too.

I found a neighbour’s black cat in my house this morning. My cats were curious, not sure if there was hissing during the night. They seemed a bit scared. Yep. I let it out, too.

@Jynx @heartathome @AlwaysMyself @Shaz51

@Jynx haha, no, no it was not 🤣. Those spiders are always keeping us on our toes 🤣

@RebelliousAngel @Jynx

Update on the ear seal solutions

I got the transparent conforming tape, cut it to size, stuck it to my ears and then used food covers folded over to make sure it worked.

Then I wrote this

tonight was the first day

I got to wash my hair

after 6 entire weeks

of stupid ear infections

with waterproof tape

cut to ten by five

to keep the water out

despite condensation

then these plastic food covers

to make just doubly sure

no water getting in them

not completely secure

so I finally washed my hair

it feels good to have it clean

three washes did it

then brushed my teeth

taking the plastic off

that was the easy part

it was just elastic

keeping it on

then it was the tape

the screeching through my ears

hearing it so very close

I really wanted to scream

ears sore and painful

red like they're infected

from the sensory overload

of pulling tape off my ears

it's just once a week

I have to endure this nightmare

where I'm rocking back and forth

to try and settle down

there has to be another way

and I have to find it

no I can't use ear plugs

nothing in my ears

just to wash my hair

because of this stupid doctor

who didn't understand

hopefully next time someone else

@Appleblossom glad it was good overall 🙂.

I find it so hard to stay balanced when having conversations with others mainly cos I struggle to hold conversations with anyone. Can understand the fear behind it but it sounds like you've come a long way with it and did your best in the moment 🩵.

Sounds like a nice day with both church and music 🙂.

The spider story makes me smile which i needed today 😀.

Cheeky black cat sneaking in, hopefully your cats are ok now?

@avant-garde oh hun I'm so glad you found something that worked (although only a temporary solution) so that you could wash your hair, I bet it felt so good to have nice clean hair after so long 🩵.

I hear your pain with the tape on the ears, the sound and feeling is horrible 😢. I understand the sensory overload that comes with it and how hard it is to settle after that. Wanting to send some gentle hugs your way, I'm sorry that you're going through this just to be able to wash your hair.

How has your evening been since then?

@RebelliousAngel

That was yesterday, back to the shower cap tonight

I had fish and chips for dinner, haven't had the stomach to eat much since writing out my whole rehab trauma story yesterday

I have the leftovers in the fridge now

@avant-garde fish and chips sounds delicious and I'm glad you were able to eat something 🙂.

Can understand not having the stomach to eat much, trauma has a big impact on us both physically and mentally.

Bonus to having leftovers 🙂.

Have you got any plans for tomorrow? You still up for making your phone call? I gotta psych myself up to make mine, that's going to be fun 🤣.