It's time for me to pick between piano and guitar. Because I'm more beginner at guitar, I was thinking a piano piece a month just for fun and continue lessons with guitar. But I'm becoming demotivated, because my left hand has been randomly locking up doing practically anything, and I think it could negatively affect my playing. I held a glass pot lid yesterday with my left hand and it locked up. So we shall see.
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If I was your mother I'd tell you, "that's not right, you should see someone about that hand."
But anyway: that's not right, you should see someone about that hand.
Yes, definitely going to get it checked out soon
It's great that you've stuck at both enough to need to make a choice. There might be exercises you can do to help with your hand, but if it continues to be a problem the piano might be the better way to go. Otherwise, I'd recommend sticking at both to an extent if you can. Knowing how to play two instruments usually helps learning both
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Ok so here's the deal. First off, please stop practising either instrument.
I would recommend speaking to your teachers asap to give you some guidance with developing strength in your hand.
It would be a bad idea to continue stressing your hand while this is happening.
Will do, I have a lesson today :) thanks
well that was brutal. Got to sleep after 2 hours, slept for 10 minutes got woken up by the kid sorted him out then lay awake for the next 5 hours. Thats my third night of rough sleep. Anyone tried any of those instant script or telehealth script places? thinking might be time for some melatonin cause this cant go on.
I've done instant scripts but just for a sick day off.
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A box of tissues please.
just use a sock like the rest of us. (that was a joke. Im not an animal!)
I beg to differ. Animal.
I know for a fact a few of my mates just go on themselves or their sheets, so lets be real I am a civilized bloke compared to them.
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Good news, it turns out Melbcat already had her Solensia at another place.
Bad news -
Cat medical
I noticed she might be having some issues with seeing. She wasn’t really looking at me or tracking my finger. She did seem to react to light and track a little to thrown cotton balls. But she didn’t react to my fingers hovering near her eyes and her pupils didn’t constrict when I shone the torch.
Having been warned that the enrofloxacin carries the risk of blindness I brought her into emergency and it turns out she has some bleeding in her right eye.
She’s not blind and the doctor said he thinks her retina is still attached but there have been changes to her vision. And he thinks it could be due to high blood pressure from her kidney disease. I thought it would be the antibiotic but who knows.
They weren’t able to check her blood pressure properly due to her being stressed. (The waiting room had noisy fidgety dogs, we waited a while and she was separated from me for examination. They also tried to straighten her arthritic arm to take her blood pressure.) So she’s going into her regular vet to chill for a bit first and get checked out there.
Something disheartening about going to the service desk and asking for directions to some swimmers marked as In Stock online, and the worker saying it's likely that I can't find them because every single size of that item (except 3XL) has been shoplifted.
This is Big W QV and they must get slammed by theft. He was already dealing with someone walking behind the counter and pocketing boxes of Pokémon cards and had walked over to me with a handful of discarded packaging from toys that had obviously been lifted as well.
I mean it's not nappies and baby formula getting pinched.
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Argh. Baby girl missed her Solensia. I got a reminder but forgot to write it down :(
Plugged away at some desktop work that I'd left to the last minute, didn't delegate it though because I really don't want to do any fieldwork when it's 39C next week... this way if there's not enough desktop work to go around next week, I can just use this week's hours. But also super procrastinating on/avoiding uni fieldwork even though it's not too hot today...
Connoisseur ice cream (tub and sticks) is half price at Coles this week. It's awful for my health and my gut and dairy ain't good for the environment but boy am I tempted with this weather coming up. I used to love Proud & Punch ice lollies but they seem to only have the ones with vegan ice cream in them now and like... no don't mix the two up yuck.
Might indulge in a tub for home and the mini sticks to share at work.
Just finished S1 of Severance. Amazing ep, great show so far! Probably watch one more ep before bed 🥱
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Good night everyone. 😘