#lottieface

But also my wife just texted that she’s coming home early from work drinks and she is so soft to cuddle and smells so nice, and my son always runs across the room and furiously hugs my knees when I come to collect him from daycare so I suppose things could be worse, and I don’t crave the drama of my 20s but I just didn’t realise how beige things would be.

So I’ll be doing Honours next year instead, and I’ll still be able to do neuroscience papers. But I don’t wanna speak to soon in case I ruin it but I MIGHT have an Honours supervisor who is the goddamn shiz nizzle - super popular lecturer at my university who I am very surprised even has places open for Honours students, and he’s got a large project on adolescent mental health that he’s running next year which is exactly the area in which I want to work, and I’d get to do data collection and all of that.

SO it’s not confirmed yet but it’s looking positive and I’m really happy. And also I applied for graduation and have been accepted so I graduate in April next year and like, I FINALLY HAVE A DEGREE AT AGE 28!! Six years after I went back to uni lmao. It’s very exciting.

Also I got all As this year (three A+s and two As) so I kinda nailed it and honestly thank fuck I got diagnosed with ADHD when I did because being on medication has made a huge amount of difference.

Unfortunately I still have other health problems going on, most importantly the excessive daytime sleepiness and severe headaches. Megs did some research and thinks I have sleep apnea, because it has a high comorbidity with PCOS and liver problems, and I have both. Doctor agrees, and I’ve been referred for a sleep study. HOPEFULLY it will be done before I go back to uni, so that I don’t have that getting in the way of my doing Honours. But that’s probably quite optimistic of me, so I’m going to have to just muddle through. Things are better, anyway, now that M and I are living in our own place. It’s not damp and mouldy so I finally got rid of the cough I had, and we eat mostly vegan meals for lunch and dinner (subscribed to a vegan food box thing so we get ingredients and recipes sent to us weekly, it has been AWESOME so far) and smoothies for breakfast. And soon we’re going to start doing aquafitness, because we’re old ladies and we’re both extremely unfit, and it’s supposed to be really good (M has problems with her bones so the low-impact nature of aquafitness is ideal). So hopefully I will finally start to lose some weight and that will help with my sleep problems and possibly my liver and PCOS symptoms.

So that’s all, really. I’m busy with work most of the time, and hanging out with the love of my life when I’m not at work (and she’s also not at work - alas, with Christmas I’m busy with my retail job, and she does shift work with the ambulance, so at the moment our days off are really NOT coinciding).

Oh, and tonight I’m going to a gig for one of my favourite local bands, and it’s going to be awesome. And on Sunday I am going to play boardgames with friends. And next week, our Son will be arriving at last!