» Dani’s Diary
Dani’s life is thrown into turmoil after going to too many festivals
So has anyone else been hooked with the GenesReunited.co.uk bug yet? I have and I’m so excited. It’s so interesting finding out all sorts of things about your family history. Well it is to me, possibly because I’m really sad! I can’t stop, even when I get stunted by the fact that every time I click on something I have to pay some money. I plan to keep going as far back as possible along my family tree and (fingers crossed) find my fortune. Only joking! Although it would be cool.
I haven’t found out anything massively interesting, but I’m hoping I will. Who wouldn’t want to find out something intriguing? What I have found out, which is totally un-family tree-related, is that if I spend two weekends in a row at festivals, my habit of biting my fingernails is cured.
I have tried funny-tasting nail varnish, elastic bands to ping instead, wearing fake nails, and telling people to hit me when they see me do it. The cure is to spend far too long with your only toilet facilities being portaloos. Ta-da! I have white bits! And, sadly, that’s about it for my news, and lets face it, that doesn’t really count as news, does it?!
“If I get too tired, I feel anxious, which leads to anxiety attacks, which makes me unhappy”
Other than geek out over finding my ancestors, and filing my nails, I have spent the rest of my time either working or trying to catch up on my sleep. It’s been very dull to be me recently!
I’m trying to catch up on lost sleep, which is hard, because I find it really difficult to sleep during the day, and every morning my aching back is hurting and wakes me up, which is nice! And if that doesn’t wake me up, the bin men will, and it’s all very crap, and if I get too tired, I end up feeling anxious, which leads to anxiety attacks, which means I skip meals, which means I lose weight, which makes me unhappy, and makes me anxious and it goes round and around and around and doesn’t appear to ever stop. It’s like my whole life is dependant on getting proper good sleep and eating regularly.
I know it sounds stupid and, yes, everybody needs sleep and food, but I used to be able to go out for the evening and have three hours’ sleep and skip breakfast and be up till 11pm and feel fine the next day. But now I can’t. Now I am like a Nan. I can’t do too many things all at once, and I have a problem thinking too far forward into the future and planning things for my life because I think, how can I plan for my life when my life is being lived by a body I have no control over?
