It’s been a bit up and down over the last couple of days, a mixture of good news and bad. Yesterday we had some very upsetting news, I won’t go into detail about it here, but it’s the sort of thing you never really want to hear, even if it doesn’t directly affect you. It’s odd how some things help draw a family together, but I think we’re all very lucky to have one another about.
On a cheerier topic, I’ve just had it confirmed to me that my job isn’t going to end. Everyone who works in local government in Cornwall at the moment is feeling a lot of stress and uncertainty as the county council and the local districts are merging into one super-council. Inevitably, when something like that happens people lose jobs, but the problem here has been that everything has been left so last-minute. The new council takes over on the 1st of April, and people are only finding out over the next couple of weeks if they’ll have a job to come back to at the start of next month. As I work for an arm of the council I’ve had the worry, but as I mentioned before, today I’ve had it confirmed that my roll will carry on as it ever has been. While it’s a massive relief for me, we still have to wait to find out about my other half’s job, hers is very much in the balance. Fingers crossed on all fronts.
I’m coming down with a stinking cold as I write, so I think the Red Nose enthusiasm tomorrow in aid of Comic Relief might be a little low, but we should have a bit of a laugh anyway. I managed to get through training well enough last night at least, despite the mildly sadistic methods employed by my instructor! Intentionally draining your muscles of energy and oxygen and then throwing repeated power kicks was an interesting experience, but quite a good one in terms of coping better with continuous fighting. Training’s a real double-edged sword for me lately, I’m really enjoying it and loving working at new things (and making my older things better), but I’m in a lot of pain nearly every time I put my dobok on. My hip is still playing up, and while I can deal with it and adapt better now with experience, I still find myself taking ibuprofen before sessions to help. I’m waiting on a physio appointment to have a proper look at it, but it worries me sometimes and has already led to me stepping down what I do, and not being able to attend kick-boxing as well as Tang Soo Do for the time being.
Games rot tonight, that should get me somewhere back to normality for a few hours.