General chit chat

[Mazarita]

Hi @Former-Member, went offline then to do something and only just got your message. I'm heading to bed soon too. Hope you sleep well tonight, lil sis. 

[Mazarita]

Good morning, @Former-Member, hope you got a good night's sleep despite the extra coffee yesterday. I'm up early and just thought I'd send this greeting for when you wake. I may go back for some more sleep before my appointments start around lunchtime cos it was after 4 when I got to sleep. Take it easy today and hope it unfolds well. 

[Former-Member]

Good Morning @Mazarita 🙂 I love waking up to good morning messages from you . . . not that I expect them, they're a bonus when they're there! Hope you do get a little more sleep, think that might make appointments a little easier. Once I layed down I hardly tossed and turned at all and I've only just gotten up 😉 If you can't enjoy your appointments, maybe you can enjoy some of the sights and sounds on the way there and back? Wishing you a beautiful day 🙂

[Former-Member]

I feel like talking . . . so I'll type. I went to my favourite Weir to take the dogs for a walk today, but it was a little disappointing. I have a favourite side of my favourite Weir, but I couldn't get into it because it was still too boggy; so I went to the other side and parked up. Let the dogs out, who did the 'Tasmanian Devil Dance' just for a moment before we took off 🙂 We had barely taken a dozen steps when I noticed a couple of upturned white containers with signs on them. I had to get close enough to read them, but it was obvious that one had a red Warning sign on it. They bait out here, although the only reason I know that they do that for is wild dogs, and either side of this Weir is Cotton farms - so I don't know how the dogs would bother them, but that's what the signs were about, from that point on baits had been dropped. I immediately turned around. I put the leads on the dogs and we walked over the little bridge to the other side. I did the Merry Mud Dance through the bog, it was quite the Waltz with 2 dogs pulling me along, and we started walking along the other side. We got to walk a little further before the same upturned containers, with the same signs. So we turned around and went back. When I hop in my car and drive somewhere for a walk, I kind of hope it will make me feel more up . . . it didn't work. I think I stuffed up on the Forum last night, I think I offended someone on another thread, I didn't mean too, but then I never mean to, I guess I just have the knack.

[Former-Member]

Just popped on to say Good Night @Mazarita, though I'm not really tired, I don't want to slip into a bad sleeping pattern, so I'm going to lay down.

I hope your day had different sights and sounds for you.

[Mazarita]

Hi @Former-Member, love reading your accounts of your days. I would have felt weird too, seeing dog baiting happening where I went for a walk with my dogs. But I grinned when you described doing the Merry Bog Dance.

Uncomfortable feelings do sometimes arise between people on the forum. I was involved in what you are referring to as well. Most of us here (me included) are extra sensitive in our minds and emotions. We're all negotiating boundaries with each other in a place where unusual vulnerability is the norm. That's one way of looking at it anyway. Gently gently, as much as possible, seems best to me in these situations (though I haven't always handled things well). But gentle is what I'm trying to do with myself tonight anyway.

That's also because I've had a rough ride with moods today and some tears. Didn't make it to either of my appointments. But feeling considerably better at the moment, thankfully. 

And I just saw your goodnight post. Sleep well.

[Former-Member]

Good Morning @Mazarita  I would like to give you a great big hug - so I'll send you a virtual  one . . . in fact I'll give you a dozen!

I know I'm oversensitive, but I also know I can be completely insensitive and not realize it . . . oh dear, there's that conflict again.

I hope today feels better on the inside for you 🙂

[Faith-and-Hope]

Loved the Merry Mud Dance too @Former-Member .... can just see it ❣

[Mazarita]

Good morning, @Former-Member. Thanks for the hugs, back atcha! Me too with the insensitive side of the sensitivity equation. Ah well, we are only human. Hope the morning is treating you well and the rest of your day has some good moments. 

Good morning, @Faith-and-Hope, wishing you peaceful times amidst the whirlpool of what's going on around you at the moment. And hugs.

Very tired again this morning, struggling to keep eyes open. Got to bed about 1am. Woke around 9 with a violent cramp in my right calf muscle. Pain and yelping at the moment of coming out of a vivid dream and into waking reality. Okay, got through that. I've also cancelled my gym appointment for today. Still post-viral, feeling too unwell. As I've now missed three sessions, I think means I am out of the program. A pity how it's worked out because I liked the one session I did. Trying to tell myself that even just one session of something like that is better than no sessions. Phew, a free day now ahead of me. 

[Former-Member]

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