Category: Work

• Sharing my world

  #shareyourworld #writingprompts #July2022 Here are my answers to Melanie’s questions: What’s your favorite way to spend a day off? Easy – sleeping! Hahahahaha! I love to be able to rest, it’s life. Seriously. If you’re retired, what’s something you now include in your schedule that you dreamed about while employed? Ahahahhaha it’ll be a LONNGGGGG […]

  janetdthomas77

  June 29, 2022

  alcohol, anxiety, Author life, communication, family, Humour, identity, Life, mental illness, shareyourworld, Work

  gratitude, Life, mental illness, questions, Relationships, shareyourworld

• Surviving parent guilt

  Since my Dad died, I’ve come across new things. Like crippling grief. Grief that looks and feels like 80 feet waves pummelling me, tumbling me, confusing and frightening me. Grief like that. Grief that – like waves – doesn’t let you come up for air. It doesn’t stop for a second so you can’t stop. […]

  janetdthomas77

  June 10, 2022

  anxiety, death, family, Family Obligations, grief, Grieving, loss, money, Relationships, Work

  family, grief, GriefsFirsts, guilty, killingme, survivingparentguilt, wavesthatdontstop

• Thankful

  I’m still in pain. Still suffering. Still uncomfortable no matter what position I sit or lay in. So instead of complaining, I’m going to tell you what I’m thankful for. I’m thankful for Alun. He’s going through a lot of grief and has his friend Dave’s funeral on the 8th June. Even so, he is […]

  janetdthomas77

  June 2, 2022

  Author life, books, family, Family Obligations, food, marriage, Mindfulness, money, Work, writing

  Life, pain, Relationships, withdrawalssuck

• I am here at work. That is enough.

  janetdthomas77

  May 13, 2022

  Burnt out, Life, money, Work

  knackered, overwhelmed, tired, workinghard

• You’re welcome 😊

  I’ve started a new job as a “Telecommunications operator” for all the Hospitals North of the city. This job is HECTIC and there’s a lot to learn. Mostly rules that start with “Do not”. Argh. Anyway. Yesterday I took a call and the woman on the other end of the line was clearly very distressed. […]

  janetdthomas77

  May 11, 2022

  communication, family, happy memories, hospital, Illness, Life, loss, Mindfulness, Work

  choosewordswisely, connections, justbreathe, switchboardoperator, takeabreath, telephone

• Happy Memory #2

  Alun and I were moving house. I was SO EXCITED about it as the first home we moved into was something Alun chose while I was working long hours and when I saw it, my heart dropped. It was an old (VERY OLD) yellow cottage on a quiet street near a Primary school and really, […]

  janetdthomas77

  May 6, 2022

  anxiety, Burnt out, family, Fears, Friends, happy memories, Illness, kindness, Life, love, Relationships, Work

  blessed, family, friendsarelife, friendship, Life, mental illness, rainbowhouse, Relationships

• Triggered

  “When bullies win, EVERYONE loses”

  janetdthomas77

  April 22, 2022

  anxiety, bullies, death, depression, dodging bullets, family, Fears, Friends, Grieving, identity, Illness, kindness, Life, loss, love, mental illness, Relationships, suicide, Work

  anxiety, beinghated, bullies, bulliesdontwin, depression, enemies, feelingalone, friendship, Life, mental illness, mentalhealth, Relationships, standUp

• Life in the world of Janet :)

  Sooo much to catch you up on. OMG. Firstly – Alun got Covid, bless him. We were just about to pack the car for our few days away down south “Glamping” (the tents looked gorgeous – I’ll upload some pics of the ‘Glamping tent’ later from my phone) and Alun had a sore throat and […]

  janetdthomas77

  March 19, 2022

  anxiety, Holidays, hospital, identity, Illness, Life, Relationships, rest, Work

  Covid, Life, marriage, PoorAlun, Relationships, Selfisolate

• Choosing the path less travelled

  That’s something about myself that I genuinely like…I don’t give up easily. I am a resilient f**ker, me. I will keep moving forward even when it hurts like a bastard. So, I’m going to work every single day and I’m doing my best on invoices that read like Japanese to me. I don’t understand Japanese. […]

  janetdthomas77

  February 24, 2022

  anxiety, Fears, Friends, identity, Life, Relationships, Work

  anxiety, friendship, Life, Relationships, Work

• Pretty pink imposter

  #scammed #identitytheft #betrayed #used #conned #prettypinkimposter #howcouldyou #shameonyou #why It’s 12:20am and Alun (praise God) is fast asleep, resting tonight (this morning?) before he starts his 12 hour shift tomorrow from 11am – 11pm. He’s hurting a lot and is very unhappy – he’s going through a lot of really hard things so I’m glad […]

  janetdthomas77

  February 6, 2022

  abuse, anxiety, cheating, depression, dodging bullets, Fears, Friends, identity, Illness, Life, loss, mental illness, narcissist, Work

  abused, betrayed, disgusted, dontlistentomyheart, identitytheft, rippedoff, stolenID