The past few days I have been doing a trial with Nerd Fitness using their app. It gamifies fitness and nutrition and today’s task was to write a 1 minute journal to answer the question:
What can I do today to keep drama away?
It is now nearly bedtime. Yes, I went through the day without answering the question. Though today’s answer would have been to remind myself to stick my birds’ foodbowls back into the cage after filling them so they would not be able to escape the cage first thing in the morning. Yeah, they escaped while yours truly was having an amazing beauty sleep for the first time in weeks, and not just that, I slept in. So it was 1 pm before I got up to open the curtains in the living room and check in on them. They weren’t where they were supposed to be!
In stead, I found one in their favourite spot on top of the fridge, but no trace of the other. So I called out, expecting the other to show me where he was. All I got was a sad squeak. When I looked behind the curtain, I was horrified at the sight: here he was dangling by one leg on a piece of sewing thread that the two of them clearly had managed to pull loose. He did not appreciate the help and started biting me, although in all fairness, it may also have been to tell me “what took you so long hooman!”. Thread removed, I saw no injuries and both feet felt equally warm. But when I placed the little fella carefully back in the cage, it turned out his leg was lame and though he tried to use it, he could not really put any weight on it. So off to the emergency vet, who, thankfully, told me that there were no obvious injuries and gave me pain meds for him.
In short, my day was one big drama. The little guy is now pretty doped up on pain meds and has been sleeping a lot. His partner in crime, has been leaving him alone for a change, but then again, it was the first time ever that he was alone in his cage, so I’ll bet he’s been a bit shook too. So yeah, I need to stop being absentminded (there are reasons for that, but that’s another story).
Now you might ask, what would have been my answer had I not been absentminded? I am home most of the time, so not much chance of drama. Except for online drama. And I have been working on that, in the sense that I removed negative people from my social media. The other thing I did last year, was turning off my notification sounds for everything except a few select contacts. It’s so nice and quiet now, defo 10/10 recommend doing so!