Pixie's Chronicle: Slow And Steady

Wowzers! It felt so great to finally have somewhat of a productive week! It felt so great to be getting back into the writing saddle again after so long, even if I hadn't gotten as much work done as I would have liked - slow progress is better than no progress! Especially with how stressed I've still been. But words cannot even begin to describe how amazing it feels to be back blogging and writing again. I've missed all you guys. It was especially awesome actually managing to find the time to talk to you all again and have a few catch-ups with my friends. I think I was starting to really neglect myself in terms of self-care.

How long I'll be back like this, I don't know. We all know how my job likes to promise me things will calm down and relax only for them to turn around and take advantage of me again. But right now, things are still looking pretty okay, apart from next week when everyone else seems to have booked that time as vacation time, so guess who's covering multiple shifts at once? Me! But after that, things should be getting back to normal with no more inhumane overtime, meaning I should finally be able to get more writing done! Yaaaay!

I actually had the week off work this week, which was definitely much needed. Though I had no idea just how worn out I was, because I literally couldn't bring myself to do anything. All I wanted to do was sleep and just laze around doing nothing. Slowly but surely, I started to get my motivation back though. Mainly in regards to working on my blog. I did start off writing an episode review, but then that evolved into working on my theory of what the powers of the other miraculous will be. So yeah, if you haven't read that already, you can do so by clicking here. I'll finally finish my review of Felix on Monday. I sort of ended up figuring that I should probably get my theories out there before any more information was potentially confirmed to us.

Speaking of which, how awesome does the season 4 content look already? I'm not going to delve into detail since there might be people reading this that want to be totally surprised by everything, but damn I am now super hyped! I hope that the creators of the show are safe and well during this pandemic, and as excited as I am for season 4, I'd rather they were all safe. Unlike some of my readers who are still getting annoyed at me for not updating some of my stories, lol.

I had hoped to update Immortal Bonds this week like I said in my last entry, but that didn't end up happening. Since I had the week off work, I ended up focusing on spending time with the people important to me instead. I felt like I haven't spent proper quality time with my boyfriend for forever, so it was nice to have some much needed chill time with him. We've started rewatching Star Wars: The Clone Wars and I had honestly forgotten just how amazing that show was. I've never really been a huge fan of Star Wars but boy do I love that show. Plus we've also been playing Animal Crossing and Terraria together, two of my most favourite games in the entire world.

I've also had a catch-up with a few of my friends which has been nice. These past few weeks I just feel like I haven't had the energy to talk to anyone thanks to work. I'm all peopled out by the end of the day, so the idea of holding a conversation just makes me want to pass out from exhaustion. I hope that you guys know that if I've been taking a while to respond to messages, it isn't anything personal. It's either because I'm really busy or too tired, and I'd figured you'd rather I responded to messages properly rather than giving a half-assed response because I'm too exhausted. That, and for some reason FanFiction hasn't been sending me notifications when people have sent me a PM. No clue why that's been happening, but it's starting to annoy me.

It was my first day back at work yesterday which sucked. However, my manager was being extra nice to me, so hey, maybe she realised how horrible I had been treated during this whole thing. One can only hope anyway. It was nice not to be snapped at and blamed for everything for a change. That other girl has officially accepted the new supervisor role like I knew she would, and she starts next week. I'm still bummed over the whole thing, but I guess I just have to get over it and stop letting my job take advantage of me like I said last week.

Lockdown is pretty much over in the UK now which is stressing me out. We've done everything too soon and too quickly, and it's really not been helping my stress and anxiety at work. I'm literally so close to just throwing a huge, heavy tub of protein powder at the customers in the hopes it knocks them out. I can't cope with the collective stupidity. And I've got one lady who frequently comes in telling me how to do my job. One week she shouted at me for wearing a mask, and just yesterday, she told me I should be encouraging people to use oregano oil because it's good for the immune system and can cure viruses. A) I already know it's good for the immune system B) I've been trained with this C) It doesn't cure viruses, it can only potentially help keep them at bay, and D) Stop telling me how to do my job!

The old manager used to get into frequent fights with this lady, and even ended up banning her from the store at one point. She's completely cookoo. Probably one of those people who believes vaccines cause autism. She tried to convince me once that my back pain was the result of having a guilty conscience, and that it had absolutely nothing to do with the heavy crates that I had just carried up three flights of stairs. Moron.

I think I'm literally gonna have to start making stories out of all of the crazy people I encounter, just to maybe try and get it out of my system. I'm sure you guys are sick of me ranting about them in my blog. Maybe I'll publish them on FictionPress or something if you're actually interested in reading them.

Happy 4th July to my American readers by the way! Hope you traitors enjoy your day!

Anyway, that's all I really have to talk about this week. I'm hoping to get my review of Felix out on Monday, but as for story updates, I'm not too sure, as work this week is going to be a bit on the stressful side. We have an inspection from the head office, so we're all feeling like we're walking on eggshells at the moment, especially after the news that our buddy store got torn to shreds in the report. Though even if we get an excellent review, our regional manager will still probably find a way to criticise us like she always does. There's no pleasing that woman.

As always, I'll be sure to let you guys know of any updates on Twitter. See you soon!