Night Shift

I think I am going to make you laugh at this @Mazarita ........

After staying up late last night cleaning up after the party, I decided I was going to have a pyjama day today ...... only I had to go out ...... to drop my Dad to an appointment ...... catch up with a friend for lunch - impromptu - D3's feet swelled up since the party across the last 36 hours - hyper-mobility issue - so suddenly didn't have to do the school run - and the hire gear got picked up early ..... and WH called needing something picked up from the shops on my way home .......

So. My jammies could pass for fancy boho pants ..... threw a cardi on over the top, pulled on boots, a necklace and whatever, scarf too - and hey-presto incognito pyjama day !!!! Had my friend in fits of giggles ......

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@Angels333

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Well my son has called 🙂 Hooray!!!! He has finally arrived in Amsterdam. He sounds tired but he is ok.

Today is his birthday but unfortunately no favourite dinner or birthday cake for him tonight; but we will make up for it when he comes home.

I am so glad he called, he knows just how anxious I get. Even though I have heard from him it sort of eases my anxiety but I still picture him in this huge place that is unknown to him.

I will say my own little prayer tonight for his safety while away.

Thanks to everyone for supporting me the past few days and today as it was really hard for me to cope with having my son away. I hope my anxiety eases up a bit.

I am going to to hospital tomorrow and do outpatient program. Looking forward to going because it is my 'safe haven' when i am there. Even though i don't know all the inpatients, just knowing the staff are there and if i need to talk i can with one of the psychologists.

And I will try again to do art therapy. Don't know how i will go with that but we'll see.

@Angels333

I try to go every week to outpatient program. I only have one day off work and that's when I go.

You're so right with art therapy - it's the process not the end product. I think for me it is also dealing with a lot of my emotions that I have 'closed up' for a very long time.

I'll let you know how I go tomorrow 🙂

Take care, I hope you have a good night sleep.

@Mazarita

Just so you know ..... when I am doing an oil painting that takes a week or more to complete, I let other things slide. The creative process for me is a zone I need to get into, then commit to being in it, and ride that wave until the painting is done.

i started one a couple of months ago, but my head wasn't in the right place, and the canvas is just sitting there outside my room with a few background colours on it, nothing more. It's 'parked' for the moment. I am just not in the right headspace to tackle it ...... maybe when WH is off again ....... and then the house will manage on a lick and a promise for a week or so in favour of the creative process.

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Hi @Faith-and-Hope, love the image of you going around incognito in pajamas! You rock! Also great to hear you relating to the demands of the creative process at times. There's definitely a manic and obsessive edge to me at those times but it's not uncommon I think with creative types.

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I don't know if this will help you in terms of your house feeling like its home but ...... I have a friend who has been renting and has had to move home quite often as a result of properties being sold, or owners moving back in, or whatever .....

This is what occurred to me after I had watched her move several times ..... as she unpacked her things, it was like her last house had emerged out of her packing boxes into a bit of a different size and shape ..... they were her same utensils being unpacked into the kitchen .... the same clock going up onto the wall ..... the same ornaments finding their way back onto the coffee table, the window sills, the hall stand ......

She unpacked photos and placed them in similar places she had had them preciously.

Her choice of linen was back on the beds.

Her fridge magnets were back in the fridge door.

She loves plants, and postponed plants were roughly in the same places - kitchen bench, by the front door, one in the bathroom .....

It didn't take long before the place was looking like her place again, no matter what it was to start with.

I mentioned this to another friend who had lost her home and had to rent, moving several times, and was in tears about it, and she started to recognise that she could do that for herself too - bring her home back up out if the boxes and re-settle it into its new environment.

I hope that helps you.

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