Best Friends Club

@lonemushroom g’day please to meet you. How’s your Friday night?

Do you have any hobbies? Sports? What do you enjoy doing the most?

Hello and welcome @Caz5 , @Dreamit19

how are you going today

making myself a cuppa

hello @GuySmily , @rav3n , @Appleblossom , @Oaktree , @Glisten , @lonemushroom

heyy my @Glisten 😍

how are you going today

from your shazzy

hello @Adge , @Ed1975

@Shaz51 Shazzy this a little note to say thank you for everything you do.

You have such a beautiful impact in Forumland.

Our world is a better place because you are in it 🫂 Hugs of gratitude 🙏

My darling darling @ENKELI

I think the lack of motivation is also just getting older.

It's a nightmare when we get our first hiccups of getting older but at least we can manage it.

It's like walking backwards and forwards from one side of the loungeroom to the other.

It's exhausting but if all is what you can do maybe that's all You can do. Since iv come back from over East, iv been manipulated once by someone who lives near me and wasted $50 on her, but the good is I'm slowly walking up and down the streets more.

I'm copying @Meowmy

And having a cuppa at the cafe I like.

My life has just absolutely changed.

Thinking about you @Oaktree

@Oaktree @Glisten @Shaz51 @Appleblossom @TAB

$50 is a cheap lesson @PeppyPatti someone got me for thousands once ok over years , and I kept going back and going back

I totally am there @TAB

They just have nothing - no feelings- about anything but their only bank balance.

their care the leave in the world is like the little toothpick in the sand scratch that they care about you.

We gotta forgive ourselves ......because the only reason why they didn't take another $150 is that the shop assistant didn't charge me and though I enquired she refused to still put that charge down.

@Shaz51 @Glisten @Oaktree @TAB

@PeppyPattigood you are walking whether its in the lounge room or in the streets… cough cough I mean the “nice” sort of walking… lol

hello all …. Especially new people reading along…

I am utterly exhausted. Just back from driving across town 2 1/2 hours, 3 hours rehearsal, and I hour food shopping. Mostly a very good day, made a few jokes and many people were noice. Has apple finally “arrived “. That is become a social person with respect.

Had to set a few boundaries. Spilled a few beans about a dominating dude to a lady I had never met, but it ended up being another music teacher who knew exactly what I meant. Jeez when ya been in the business many decades we don’t feel the need for showing off, we know how to blend into the wallpaper and shine only when the music wants and needs us too. She had to put up with him as a group leader, but she also had more experience…. Ah…we agreed we had to manage him….

I also said to him… I would give him space… but added… “don’t try and control me”… cos he was trying to tell me what to do with my music stand while I was trying to fit in with the least amount of trouble. He is addicted to being in charge and growing more control in a few groups. The great thing was that I connected with 3 other music professionals, consolidating friendships. Learning not to let the amateurs rile me up. It’s their problem, keep a firm boundary, but still enjoy my music making. So figuring it is about me learning broader interpersonal skills, and being assertive and differentiating with individual relevance, without collapsing and withdrawing into social isolation again.

The badly behaved psychiatrist spoke to me about how proud she was about restraining herself from interrupting the rehearsal all the time (she did it at least 5 times today… she loves challenging the conductor, or other attention seeking gambits). She didn’t have the self reflection or insight to see my grimace, as me being restrained and not bopping her on the nose. lol. Maybe my full feelings will come out eventually, it wasn’t the time. We are all performing 4 utterly stunning pieces tomorrow. the things we go through for love of our art.

yes it's sad @PeppyPatti

Hello @Jynx 😊