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01 Jan 2018 12:58 PM
01 Jan 2018 12:58 PM
woops its afternoon already
Hope you got your coffee @Faith-and-Hope
@MazaritaLovely you are coming down south. I remember your last trip to see your mum, but it has been a while. Wish we could meet up one day, but c'e la vie.
Your talk about planning resonated with me. I sometimes stress by how much is on to do list and have gradually learned to be flexible about transferring stuff not yet done ... to a new list.
When I started on the forum I did not have much sense of future dreaming. I just could not do that before but connecting online has helped open a space in my pressure of "duties" to be a bit more relaxed about what I actually would like.
@CheerBearGo for it re study. Lots of women start their professional work late in life cos ... yes ... funny that ... they needed to take a lot of time rearing their bubs. It takes as long as it takes. Chip away. Not kidding anyone. Who knows where it will lead, just go with the flow of how much you can manage surrounded in your lovely tropical reef with beatiful fish ... mixed metaphors ... but them maybe that is super wise ... as the nest is for you to recuperate. Get essay extensions. Children usually benefit from mothers who are educated. Blind faith can do a lot but ignorance has a way of tripping us all up.
Llived experience and training make a pwerful combo.
01 Jan 2018 01:02 PM
01 Jan 2018 01:02 PM
Hi @Appleblossom, good to see you this morning (only just about to turn midday here as I'm writing this). Anything on for the day? Nothing planned here, just taking it as it comes really.
01 Jan 2018 01:16 PM
01 Jan 2018 01:16 PM
01 Jan 2018 01:23 PM
01 Jan 2018 01:23 PM
@MazaritaToday is relaxing at home alone, on the forum, in the garden and doing music with one cat. Maybe a few phone calls.
@CheerBearThe funniness of fish in a nest just occurred to me as I was writing.
I dont regret my time with my children either. I hope one day my daughter realises that. She had gone gung ho in the career thing but slowing down a little.
01 Jan 2018 01:36 PM
01 Jan 2018 01:36 PM
@Appleblossom, I'm heading off for another nap. Was up most of last night. Enjoy your peaceful day, the cat and the music.
01 Jan 2018 01:45 PM
01 Jan 2018 01:45 PM
01 Jan 2018 03:19 PM
01 Jan 2018 03:19 PM
Happy new year @Mazarita, @Appleblossom, @CheerBear, @Faith-and-Hope, @Bunniekins
01 Jan 2018 09:31 PM
01 Jan 2018 09:31 PM
Happy new year, @Shaz51! Are you still away visiting family? Sending hugs and best wishes for 2018.
02 Jan 2018 02:33 AM
02 Jan 2018 02:33 AM
Getting on to 1.30. Was asleep for a couple of hours, then awake again. Slept a lot of yesterday too. I seem to recall that many a new year has been like this, partly because I tend to stay up on new year's eve and catch the sunrise on january 1. Not that this old girl needs much of a reason to stay up all night.
Today I will try to have a blood test if the pathology place is open. I hope so, otherwise the results won't be available for my gut specialist appointment next week. That's if they'll even be processed by then. Can't be helped, may be lucky anyway.
Then I may end up at my friend's place again, possibly some more slow packing for her move on Friday and otherwise just making the most of each other's company while it lasts. After Friday she will be some distance from here and we won't be able to see each other anywhere near as much as we have since we've both been living closeby (about 10 years now). It's going to be a big change in my life! I imagine there will be a sudden void. I am going to miss her.
Aside from that, I need to tidy up this flat. As was the case last week at xmas, four days of C and I together in the flat has left it fairly messy. Would be great if I could get that done too. And that will probably be about it for the day.
One odd thing about the first day of the year. In between sleeps throughout the day and evening, I taught myself how to do something I've been wanting to know for ages: how to make animated gifs. It's a slow process and I don't have a full grasp on it yet, but I have made three of them to completion from bits of old movie footage I found. A small thing, but happy to have achieved this on the first day of the year even when most of what else I did was sleep!
Sending good vibes to anyone still reading.
03 Jan 2018 06:18 AM
03 Jan 2018 06:18 AM
Another wakeful dawn from out of the night. Woke after a few hours sleep at 2.30am and have been awake until now, getting on to 5.30am as I write these words. Didn't do anything I planned yesterday. Slept most of the day and night instead. In between sleeps, doing stuff on the media software. I expect that today will be different, pretty sure my friend will want help today. I hope so. Not that I hope she still needs help, just that I could use a reason to get out of the flat and talking with someone. C and I are often not big on conversation for some reason, and I can easily feel starved of it when it's just me alone during the days or the two of us in the evening (often in front of separate screens). I haven't been out of the flat for two to three days. Weather is moody at the moment, stormy, warm and very humid. The beach seems too hard at the moment, haven't been getting out there, though I've had good intentions.
Good morning, @CheerBear and everyone. New year is feeling a bit blah here so far. How's it going for you?
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