- Joined
- Jul 28, 2018
- Location
- London
Just over two weeks to go and we are coming towards the end of the year. In the Dojo Awards thread, the question of what your favourite game of the year was asked. Thinking about it, I had my short list as: Mortal Kombat 11, Shenmue III, Red Dead Redemption 2 or Spider-Man. It then came to my attention the last two were released and completed by myself last year and not in 2019. The weeks have flown by and I can't believe in a few weeks we'll be in 2020. For me, it's been a bit of a crap year relatively speaking.
Main problem has been my job. Started the year flying out of the gate and completely out of no where, I was given a formal warning for something that was absolute nonsense and have been walking a tightrope ever since, including almost losing my job a month or so ago. That demoralised me so much that even now with a second child on the way, I am doing the minimum I have to do and care little if I was to leave.
My son was diagnosed with a glue ear and needs to have grommets inserted. The NHS being a bit of a mess at the moment means that he's on a waiting list that will take at least 6 months. He also does not communicate properly and was recently referred to speech therapy (which has a 3 month waiting list). Just really annoyed because we bought this up with both the health visitor and the nursery ages ago and both said "he's doing absolutely fine! If anything, he's advanced for his age" and because we are first time parents, we believed it. He should have actually been having his operation and doing therapy 9 months ago at least.
Lastly, I have not spoken to my wife in over a month. Can't even remember what it was now but we had a falling out and have ignored each other since then. Well, I started to ignore her. Every second I was getting back-handed comments with everything. For example, I'll be working (I work from home) and instead of simply asking if I could watch my son whilst she done XYZ, it would be "can you pay attention to your son for once and look after him whilst I.....". I will be cooking in the kitchen and have a kitchen towel on the table which I am using. She'll march in, snatch the towel and either huff and puff very loudly or start going on a rant about how I always leave it out (she will then leave it out herself and the hypocrisy is one of the reasons I simply stopped talking to her).
So all in all a eventful year in parts but it's mostly been shit events. I need a career break and a good year to gym, meditate and just relax. I know it's something I can do now but work seriously takes up too much mental space for me.
Main problem has been my job. Started the year flying out of the gate and completely out of no where, I was given a formal warning for something that was absolute nonsense and have been walking a tightrope ever since, including almost losing my job a month or so ago. That demoralised me so much that even now with a second child on the way, I am doing the minimum I have to do and care little if I was to leave.
My son was diagnosed with a glue ear and needs to have grommets inserted. The NHS being a bit of a mess at the moment means that he's on a waiting list that will take at least 6 months. He also does not communicate properly and was recently referred to speech therapy (which has a 3 month waiting list). Just really annoyed because we bought this up with both the health visitor and the nursery ages ago and both said "he's doing absolutely fine! If anything, he's advanced for his age" and because we are first time parents, we believed it. He should have actually been having his operation and doing therapy 9 months ago at least.
Lastly, I have not spoken to my wife in over a month. Can't even remember what it was now but we had a falling out and have ignored each other since then. Well, I started to ignore her. Every second I was getting back-handed comments with everything. For example, I'll be working (I work from home) and instead of simply asking if I could watch my son whilst she done XYZ, it would be "can you pay attention to your son for once and look after him whilst I.....". I will be cooking in the kitchen and have a kitchen towel on the table which I am using. She'll march in, snatch the towel and either huff and puff very loudly or start going on a rant about how I always leave it out (she will then leave it out herself and the hypocrisy is one of the reasons I simply stopped talking to her).
So all in all a eventful year in parts but it's mostly been shit events. I need a career break and a good year to gym, meditate and just relax. I know it's something I can do now but work seriously takes up too much mental space for me.