handwritten threats, stained with a kiss of lipstick

One thing about me is that I always have music playing - pretty much from when I wake up in the morning to when I go to bed, and hell half the time I fall asleep listening to music as well. Even at work, when I'm just working by myself, I'll have one earbud in with some music playing. I think I'd go mad if I wasn't!

I like a lot indie/folk, especially Bon Iver and Hozier which I'm aware make me sound like a total hipster but I love the sounds.

So today I want to share one of my favourite Bon Iver songs which is Holocene.

Holocene was the second single from their second album Bon Iver, Bon Iver. It was nominated for song of the year at the 2011 Grammy's.
Justin Vernon has said that it's partly named after the geological era, but it's also a metaphor for when you're not doing well. It's also a song about redemption and realizing that you're worth something; that
you're special and not special at the same time.

Enjoy!

One of my favourite things about interacting with people online is that everyone just accepts it when you have a non-traditional name. No-one questions it. There's no look of confusion, no repeating myself, no having to spell it out.

I have spent my whole life confirming that yes Blaise is my name, this is how you say it, spell it, and yes I'm sure that's my name. Don't get me wrong, I love having a 'different' name, I loved not being a Jessica, an Ashley, a Louise, a Michael, a David, a James and so on like everyone I went to school with but oh I got tired of confirming my name at times.

But sometimes I enjoy the telling of the story about it - because it has a story.
Blaise.
It is the French form of the Roman name Blasius, which was derived from Latin blaesus meaning "lisping". I do not have a lisp. Or any other kind of speech impediment. No-one in my immediate family, that I'm aware of, has or had a lisp or speech impediment.

There's a Saint Blaise who is the patron saint of, among other things, wool combers (and the wool industry as a whole) and ENT illnesses.

I am named after the French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and philosopher Blaise Pascal who my parents bonded over when they met in university. Mum did something involving statistics & probability (don't ask me what, my brain glazes over at the mention of anything maths-y) and my dad did philosophy & religion.

I low-key think that's a pretty cool origin story for me

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Today’s topic is: A Job I Wouldn't Be Good At
I suffer from chronic pain and fatigue so anything that involved a lot of physical manual labour would not be a good fit for me. Even the thought of it is exhausting!

As much as I love being outdoor and in nature, it needs to be on my terms due to aforementioned spoonie issues, so anything outside wouldn't work for me.

I couldn't do customer service or retail because I couldn't cope with the people. Although my job does involve some interaction with people, they're mostly volunteers or training providers, or internal stakeholders, certainly not the general public at large - they are just horrible

The last thing that stands out as something I'd be absolutely terrible at is a cleaner. I both hate mess/dirty, AND hate cleaning - I have my own cleaner who comes to my house because of it. She's amazing and I don't know how she does it!