Saturday Soiree - all welcome!!

Thanks for the shout-out @outlander

I am back from Queensland and it was hot up there and today it's fine and sunny in Melbourne - okay all Melbourneites - I did bring it home with me

Today I am sorting out my luggage - I washed my clothes on Thursday before I came home and I have to cook something - I missed my vegetables when I was away

I am cooking a Chicken Kiev - one of my favourites

Let's hope everyone's Saturday is the best it can be

Dec

Spring has sprung - time to get out the sunnies, sunscreen, shirt and sunhats

Hi @outlander and others passing through. I have a rare child free weekend, so treating ourselves to dinner and a movie out. I've had an awful week, so this is much needed.

Have a lovely day all🌻🌻🌻

Hi everyone!!! I'm back from my trip. Really happy to see the Soiree continued while I was away. Haven't read back all the pages yet so I don't know who's around other than @outlander @Molliex @Owlunar @MDT @Former-Member @TAB .

Hoping this finds you well and having some happy times.

Best wishes to all. Eth

hope your trip was good @eth

Hi @TAB and @MDT I had a lovely trip mostly, hanging out and helping with my 5yo and 11mo grandchildren. Baby still needs a lot of lifting, nappies etc which my adult child has been unable to do since major surgery (double mastectomy). So all that was fun except for some of the nappies! Really loved hanging out with my 5yo granddaughter - we had some great laughs. And lovely to see my adult child so much happier after the surgery. But it was also a bit intense at times taking care of dressings etc and seeing my adult child's scars. They are healing quickly thank goodness.

Also had a bad afternoon on an outing with the local support agency I accessed when down there. Really bad. Knocked me for six, then I had no time to process what went down and how far it set me back until I came home last night. Will be doing a formal complaint about it for sure. 1 baby support worker with 3 of us (2 men and me, all with MH issues - I'm usually female only because of past experiences - nothing personal to you guys) and 1 of the men misbehaved and she had to chase him and leave me alone with the other guy and then he flared right up when he was taken home. Thought he was being taken to hospital. Freaked me out. I had 4 panic attacks in the course of 2 1/2 hours. Not at all what I went out for. I cried all the way back to where I was staying, 40 mins away. It was meant to be a meditation walk at a river in a nearby town that I'd never been to. Sounded safe enough, but it f'n wasn't.

Enough about that.

How are you guys doing?

@Judi9877

Ive heard that the greatest showman is good. Bummer its not on netflix

Well i just had the best upper back free massage.

They have them once a mnth free here at the massage school.

Im going again tomorrow!

Having a quiet weekend cause ive spent a lot over last fortnight

Not game to go near shops for fear of spending more lol

Ill just enjoy my massages & piano prac

that sounds rough @eth re agency sorry that happened

Hi @Former-Member I'm a massage therapist (not working now but did for 28 years). I used to do freebies in a student clinic too, as well as some really interesting volunteer placements - an aboriginal womens refuge, a teenage drop-in drug clinic in Kings Cross, and iron man events up and down the east coast. I learned so much from all of the above. Happy to hear you are feeling the benefits without major expense. When I started it was only $25 per hour anyway, these days at least $90. I just feel that with my own health challenges it's not right for other people to put their health in my hands. Not good for me. But I still always say yes to family and friends who ask. And don't charge anything. Thank goodness I kept my massage table when I moved here. I culled over 30 cubic metres of possessions and all my furniture from a 2br flat I was in for 11 years that was chockers so that I could move into a one room cabin my bro built for me in his back yard. So that I could have family support. There's not a lot of that which I regret leaving, just books and artefacts mostly.