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Remember last year, when I posted this clip to demonstrate Viv’s and my insane talent avoiding Covid? Well, our luck has finally run out (or at least Viv’s has, so mine probably will shortly). Viv got a very positive RAT result this evening 🙁

A few weeks ago, Viv confessed to me that when he can’t be bothered finding the pairs of all his freshly-washed socks, he just dumps all of them in the laundry hamper to be washed AGAIN. On days like this when I swear I just hung up two to three dozen of his mismatched socks, I remember that…

Knocked off the BIG item on my to-do list today before it was even noon, so I’m feeling pretty accomplished 😮‍💨

You know when you have a long to-do list, and you manage to knock ONE thing off your list, and then you have to fight the urge to sit back satisfied with what you’ve accomplished? Yeah. That 😂

Three Things I Learned About Miscarrying

It’s been pretty quiet on this blog for several weeks now. At first, it was because I had a lot going on IRL that was stressing me out (and is still stressing me out, to be honest, except I’m giving myself the grace to put worrying about it on the backburner for now), and also I was experiencing quite some fatigue during my first trimester of pregnancy. For the last couple of weeks, it …

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Was trying to sleep a bit before 11:45 when I heard the windows and felt everything shaking! Immediately went “Did you feel that?!” to my partner… who had actually been sleeping and didn’t feel anything. But good to know I didn’t imagine it(external link) 😆

After a weekend filled with MANY beach walks, we’ve returned Gizmo home. Tomorrow, I have a Covid booster shot booked – my first one with the bivalent formulation. Hopefully it’ll keep me healthy over the autumn and winter 💪

I’m so used to my appearance with glasses now, that when I see old photos of myself without them I’m like, “wtf, I look so weird! Why are my eyes so small?” 😂

Unfortunately, this “being used to it” doesn’t extend to remembering to put my glasses on in the morning. Every day, I get up and just go about my routine until I finally go, “Hmmmm, why are my eyes hurting? Oh yeah… I was meant to put on my glasses…” 🤦🏻‍♀️

Making Myself Vulnerable

When I created this blog, back in November 2020, I had one clear guideline in mind: I was never going to post anything that made myself feel vulnerable. I’d done a fair bit of that on previous blogs in previous times, and honestly I always regretted it. Sometimes it feels good to get something off my chest in the heat of the moment, but in so doing I just create a piece of writing …

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Tonight Viv and I went to some pub in Abbotsford where they were having a Mario Kart 64 championship 🎮 Unfortunately Viv was knocked out in the first round (he’s the Mario coming 3rd in this pic) and I didn’t compete but we still had a good time 😅

a game of Mario Kart 64 is being projected on a screen inside a pub with brick walls. at the bottom of frame are the backs of a few seated guys' heads
a cartoony avatar of Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.