Good morning Fellow Travellers around the Sun 🌞 I'm up early with the parrots today and having a wee cuddle with Ziggy, who has been making her laughing noises at me since I had a bout of hiccoughs earlier 😊 She is currently preening my neck and grumbling away to herself.

Toby is eating his breakfast with his usual gusto, which is nice to see as he wasn't eating much at all yesterday. The reason was that my neighbours at the back were having a shed demolished and the destruction was very loud. All of the parrots were freaked out, but Toby was absolutely terrified poor boy. 🥴 I think the workmen are due back over the next three days - hopefully whatever they are doing next won't be so noisy.

Ziggy is refusing to go in for her breakfast so I guess it's that time of year when Mummy is more interesting than food, at least for the moment 😊 Grant has been having a hard time getting her to go in too, which he has remedied the last couple of times by giving her a bit of dried papaya, but he's been told off about that, because all that's happening is that Ziggy is training him to give her treats. Parrots are very good at training humans believe me 😁

Plans for today are crochet and watching something, as yet to be decided. I think I'm in the mood for a documentary or two.

Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗

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#Journal of an exhausted Dutch AuDHD Pixy (Saturday, 06/06/2026).

Well, I was dead tired. After a night when Koa woke me up every 2½-3 hours, and then making some noise before getting back to sleep, I felt broken. I was so grouchy, that I even snapped at Koa. Of course, I felt such guilt immediately after that, so I cried and tried to cuddle him, while he tried to wiggle loose and bite me, haha. We got up a bit earlier, and we started our “day”.

The scale wasn’t my friend anymore. Where it had gone down a bit earlier this week, it now just keeps going up. I hate dealing with the exhaustion, as it makes me eat way too much… And I am not exercising enough, so yeah… I got dressed, fixed Koa’s meal, and I took my meds. Then, I went to the couch with my laptop, and I started a long reply email to a sweet friend. Followed up by my journal toot. When I was done, Koa and I went out on a short walkies.

I fixed my brekkie, and played a wee bit with some AI. Then, I uploaded several older vacation pictures to my Pixelfed, as I just felt like sharing them… I used the AI to help me with some decent alt texts, and it was nice to see some of the old snaps. Sure, some memories are harder to deal with now, after relationships got broken up, and all that. But there were still good times, back in the day, and it’s nice to see some pictures of those better moments…

I tried to relax on the couch for a while, as I was just so terribly tired. Koa allowed me some relaxing, but I could not snooze for a bit. After some time, we headed out for walkies again, and we had a longer walk than I had thought we’d get, which was nice. When we got back, Koa got some food, and we tried to relax for a bit. Then, I tried to play with him for a while, as I wanted to walk on the treadmill for a bit, and he needed to be relaxing in his crate then. So, we played, and after a while, he got to his crate.

He snoozed, while I tried to walk for a bit. But, my back still wasn’t too happy about it, and I only managed 15min-1k. Still, I had tried, so that was good. I was just annoyed that Koa would have allowed me more time, but my back didn’t. I tried to relax for a bit on the couch, but I just could not get comfortable enough. Ugh, this was going to be a long day…

Koa woke up, and we went for walkies again. We tried to play a bit at times, as I was hoping to wear Koa out a bit, so maybe, he would allow me a better sleep this night. We relaxed at times, had some walkies, played a little bit. And around 13:30, I was so tired, and we just got ready for bed.

All went well enough, until Koa woke me up after about 90 minutes of snoozing. Ugh, I felt really broken again/still. But, he had to do a number one and two, so he didn’t wake me up for nothing. When we went back to bed, he started whining and barking again. I gave him some water, and that seemed to help. But, just as I was dozing off again, Koa got back to barking. I realized that he may be to warm, so I switched the bedding of his crate, and told him I really needed some sleep.

Six hours later, my bladder woke me up! So, that was a good thing, as we both gotten some sleep then. I let Koa out for a wee, but still felt so tired. I asked Koa if I could sleep another hour. And… two hours later, my body woke me up, telling me it was time to start moving again. According to my watch, I got about 8:48 hours of sleep. And they were more than welcome and needed for sure… So, we got up, and we started our “day”.

Thanks to all for your kindness and support during my "journey through daily life" I really appreciate it 💜 as it helps me to keep going on bad/harder days!

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