@Dreamy 

Oh, well see... the Lego incident is the exact reason i hate those scanners.  Lucky you knew the woman there and it wasn't too embarrassing... well as much as it could have been.  What Lego did you get by the way?

I'm the same with Coles as well.  I only go there if I have no choice.  Even the 3 express checkouts have recently been replaced so that the first two are self serve.  So when i wait for the 1 express checkout to serve me, i'm standing there in the way if anyone wants to use those two self serve stations!  It's like they don't want me there.  I'm happy to oblige.

Yep, our brains will do that, which make it hard to know when we are overreacting and when we're not.  You definitely aren't in this case though.

I'm doing okay.  I think just a lot a stuff has happened withing the past few weeks and it just took it's toll.  So i've listened to advice and am just taking it easy.  So I haven't been online much recently, just answering a few of the posts directed to me.  I'm feeling a lot more back on top of things but it is nice to take a lot of the pressure off myself to always be there for everyone, and more importantly i guess, to want to fix things that i can't.  So i've learnt a lot about caring for myself.  A bit like all those decades of people-pleasing for people who never appreciated it, I've learnt that I can take some time for myself and people who care will understand, and that it's not letting anyone down to wind back my 'activities' for a few days.