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My courgettes (zucchini) have had a germination failure rate of over eighty percent. I am fucked right the fuck off with this turn of events.

Dang. How many plants survived? Zucchini are always the "I can't even give this stuff away" vegetable in my area.

Four, out of twenty five. And not just from the same seed company either, so I can't even blame a bad batch of seeds. I dunno what it is this year, I didn't do anything different. Fresh seeds as well, so it isn't even old seeds not germinating.

DA - I had four zucchini plants last summer and got plenty of zucchinis from them, so I hope it's the same for you.
Four out of twenty-five is pretty disappointing. Could the weather have affected them?

Ouch. How many did you plant?

Twenty five, only four germinated.

Re: How's it going, FS?

(Anonymous) - 2022-06-04 02:21 (UTC) - Expand

Damn, hopefully the four that lived are productive (but not Attack of the 50 Tons of Zucchini productive.)

Meanwhile I bought some patty pan squash starts and two of the three look kind of wilted and sad and have set a couple tiny wimpy flying saucer squash.

One of the three is huge and super happy and ... is a zucchini. I didn't even buy any zucchini plants, wtf?

...So last night I finished editing and posting a fic, then was kind of depressed because I'd forgotten I actually liked that rarepair and I would have liked to write more about them, but that story arc was complete. And I didn't have anything else to work on, which is always depressing.

Then I turned out the light and before I fell asleep, got an idea of a continuation from the fic I just finished. In the morning woke up and immediately wrote the first couple scenes.

Not sure if pleased or exasperated.

Also, my google search history for researching this storyline is now "what is the charge when you kill someone driving drunk" and "how many dog biscuits can you give a golden retriever per day". This fandom... *shakes head*

I'm mentally and physically exhausted. I just feel wiped out. My body hurts, especially my hands and feet. I don't even really know why since it hasn't been a particularly difficult week or a particularly long week given the holiday monday. I just feel drained.

And tomorrow I have to do budgeting and bills, so not going to get to rest.

I did just take a nice hour long bath, though. So I'm feeling a little better than I did an hour ago.

But honestly I really just want to go and spend the weekend in the middle of nowhere with no contact with any humans.

Oh, also, I do have something to look forward to. We've agreed my parents are going to pay for me to get my ears re-pierced for my birthday. I've made the appointment at Clair's for July 9. And I've also ordered some new makeup from Amazon because most of mine is at least 5 years old and probably should be thrown out.

Edited 2022-06-03 22:57 (UTC)

Oww, sorry about it. It's been an exhausting week for me as well as for a lot of people I talk to. No idea what it is. Miasma, or something. Hoping you can find ways to take it slow and get some breaks between your tasks. :)

That's exciting. Thanks for reminding me that I should work on all of that too, lol.

I’ve been following a fanfic for over a year now and I became sorta-friends with the author, but I don’t think we really have anything else in common besides the fic, and the fic is almost over, and I think I’m gonna miss my squee buddy as much as I’ll miss the updates.

Preparing for a massive family event tomorrow and Sunday and I am the host. I should go early to sleep but am wired even though everything that can be prepared is prepared. I'm a bit worried that different ends of the family won't go well together I think.

Nonny who called in sick to work yesterday here

Thank you everyone for your kind words! I feel very lucky to find an opportunity to stay home. I don't take this break for granted at all. I hope everyone on FS gets some good sleep this weekend!!!

Badly. I'm a disabled single woman who's been deputised by the family to look after our very elderly mother who is refusing to move out of her own home. I'm still in my own home, but have said that I won't be the caregiving robot any more (not in those exact words.) Produced a doctor's note to back me up. Now the entire family, except my mother, has ostracised me, especially my sister who took it upon herself to interrogate me about what's going on with one of my internal organs (she's a PhD and is there fore more intelligent than any GP or specialist in her opinion.)

I always knew my family didn't give a crap about me but this is surprising even to me - I thought they were capable of pretending to be decent but no. Mulling ove going to hospital to try TMS treatment for lifelong depression but I'm scared of that too.

If it wasn't for my friends, who are fantastic, and my financial independence, I don't know if I could get through this. I've had 1-2 medical and psychological appointments a day in the last month. Obviously I'm making it up about not being able to care for a nonagenarian. /s

I live in a nice area, and have holidays planned which I'm looking forward to. I have wonderful friends who worry about me. I have the internet. But I can't do much - see "disabled" - I have an hour a day or I pay the price thereafter. So going for a nice walk isn't an option.

Friends are worried, yes, and I try to think of them. But I hope they wouldn't want me to suffer, and I am suffering.

Above F!S's paygrade I know, and I am getting a lot of help. It's still relentlessly awful.

I'm so sorry, anon. It's disturbing sometimes how toxic family dynamics can get when there's a crisis of some kind and being the primary caregiver for an elderly parent is one of those big stressors that bring out the ugliness in one's relatives, unfortunately. I hope you get a break, and some more love and understanding while you're struggling through this.

Thank-you, anon. It really helps to get an outside view; one's own perception of reality can become badly skewed.

I'm sorry about your situation, it sounds really stressful and I'm glad that you're getting help. I wish you all the best with it going forward.

thank-you so much, anon. <3

Sorry about that. I feel like you should protect yourself legally first and foremost if you can. I unfortunately know what it's like to have health issues and not feel protected by your family, and at this point I try to always have a backup plan - in a weird way it makes them take me seriously at least, if not out of love as I had hoped, out of fear.
Please protect yourself :( good luck

I've got letters from my GPs which are legal documents, and have forwarded them to my mother's GP. One of my friends' husbands is a lawyer. I will admit that I'm scared of my sisters, who are bullies, but have no idea what else I need to do, apart from not moving in with my mother, which she has suggested so we can look after each other (in good faith, I think.) Do you have any idea of what I should be doing? I'm in Australia, for what that's worth.

Re: How's it going, FS?

(Anonymous) - 2022-06-04 15:48 (UTC) - Expand

We have a deceased baby gosling chick or whatever you call it right in front of our lawn/sidewalk and (what I assume was) the wild turkey mother hen finally left. No idea how it died.

Pissed off and a little scared. My last period ended May 15, I tested positive for Covid May 17, and I started spotting May 20 and haven't stopped; today it's been heavy enough that I needed a pad. I'm gonna email my doctor but it's one of those things where I kind of don't want to know.

I'm not sexually active and only had my first pap smear a couple years ago, and I've heard covid can do weird stuff to people's cycles and periods so maybe it'll go away on its own. I hope it's nothing or just perimenopause; I'll be 39 soon.

Other than that and a headache, I'm good.

The first period after I got COVID was noticeably heavier and lasted longer than usual and this lasted for several cycles. It sucks, but I also heard this isn't uncommon. It's been about 4 months for me and things are slowly returning to normal, FWIW.

DA - wow, this is... amazing to know? My super-regulated cycle has been a mess and so have been my PMS and hormonal mood swings, I am actually postponing gyno exams but I have been exposed to COVID a lot in my job, by antivax/anti-masking freaks etc. I didn't know about this so I assumed my problematic uterus didelphys were acting up. I love you guys

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