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I thought I'd start a discussion where we can check in with members and use this space to keep in contact. It's a space to be able to say how you really feel and it's a space for the good, the bad and the ugly moments in our lives.
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
Good morning, @CheerBear. 
How are you today?
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
@CheerBear, wondering if that feeling of things that should be done already is because of xmas? For both of us, I wish relaxation of nerves sometimes. Just now, I was making myself breakfast, and had to consciously slow down my movements because I was going too hard and fast at it! Lol.
I guess that says how I'm going this morning, hehe. I've been up for three hours, after about 90 minutes sleep. You guessed it: video stuff. Mostly catching up on watching some by artists I know and follow, but haven't been able to get to while taken up with the competition. I've seen some beautiful videos overnight.
My evening: video. LMAO. 
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
@CheerBear, feel free with the phrases. I sometimes think about how we kind of evolve certain common words and expressions between us on the forum. For example, the 'feels'. I think that's one from you.
The videos are sometimes on YouTube, more often on another site, which I use too as a kind of 'home' for my work. I've just updated my own YouTube channel recently though, adding lots of the same videos there as I have on the other site. YouTube is more popular by far, so it might mean my work reaches a few extra people.
Hard and fast. I can sense how that might be a way of things for you, at least partly related, I imagine, to how much you have on a lot of the time! Maybe, like me, some hard-wired nervous system/brain chemistry stuff too. I consciously slow down my actions a lot actually. Seems to help keep me a bit more in control of my propensity to just ramp up and up, with the rising body and mind tension that goes with it.
Today I want to do washing. Also clean my bathroom. It would be a miracle if I could tear myself away from the flat and go for a walk on the beach. Will check tides later, to see if I can time it for low tide, as that's the only time I walk there due to the leg and feet trouble. Aside from that, video. 
What's your day looking like?
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
Hot air balloons in the sky at dawn sounds so wonderful, @CheerBear. Reminds me of when I used to live in the big city just north of us here. It was the fifth floor of a high rise apartment on a hill. I remember the balloons so well floating high in the early morning sky. A special sight to start the day.
I once set up an anonymous YouTube account under my name here, Mazarita. In earlier years, I was able that way to share a couple of videos I made with PeppiPatty's poetry. Can no longer do that due to tightening of privacy on the forum. Probably just as well, as even anonymous personal sites can can have threads leading back to identifying us. But I'd love to be able to share some of my creativity in this area with friends here. You'll just have to put up with me continuing to rave on about them, without ever knowing whether they are quite good or pretty crap.
Ah, you are spending time away from for the rest of the xmas days. Despite the possible chaos factor, I hope you find warmth in the familiar company, and some joy mixed in too.
We are spending xmas day with our close friend. She's home alone aside from that, as her brother is going to the big city a bit north, to spend time with his closest friends. We've spent quite a few xmas days with our close friend over the years. It is likely to be very low key but enjoyable.
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
Love how you snuck in that your friend is there, @CheerBear, just as you are leaving. 
Yes, those videos with PP were very simple compared to what I usually do. Also my level of skill and creativity has developed quite a lot since then. It's kind of cool that you have to imagine the videos, as then you will be able to imagine them possibly better than they are. 
Have a good one today, my dear bear of cheer. 
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
Good morning, @CheerBear. Just leaving this here in case you are still around. Guessing you might have instead started taking on the day by now. Hope it's a good one.
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