Mutterings and Musings

Rapid fire 2017 review

After an unintentional year-long hiatus, the smallest fungoid on WdC is back.

The year started well, if busy, with Mr Mushroom & I well into the building MM ourselves a home and rewarding ourselves with a rather elaborate holiday in April that may or may not have involved the islands of Hawai'i.... (bearing in mind we're English, that is a pretty extreme trip).

Unfortunately, it went downhill from there.

A few weeks later I moved stores with my job and stress levels went from SNAFU to DEFCON 2.

By June Mr M's younger sister was diagnosed with breast cancer (their mum had died from b/c when best beloved was at university) and put on an aggressive chemo regime. She found out just before her first wedding anniversary
Mr M and his uncles have been recommended to have gene-testing; if either of the uncles test positive, their daughters will be pulled in. If best beloved tests positive, it will have ramifications for future children.

Younger Sister has since successfully completed chemo, had a double mastectomy and reconstruction. She is 29yrs old and the most ridiculously upbeat person I know. (NB The StoryMaster , The StoryMistress could we please have a pink awareness ribbon please?)



Work DEFCON shifts to level 1.

On the evening of our fourth anniversary, Mr Mushroom proposed

...and the following day I (finally*) agreed to be signed off work with depression I am currently starting my fifth week off work. I have had low-grade depression since my mid-teens, but this is the first time I have required time off work. Poor Mr M has taken quite a bit of stick with the timing....
*it's been brewing since job change and Younger Sister's diagnosis, but I will always and forever give best beloved afore mentioned stick.

But the last few days had been a massive improvement and I've picked up my pen laptop and started writing again. Cause or effect of improvement is hard to say, but I'm glad to be back.