Hot Chocolate Anyone ?

Hey peoples. @Appleblossom@Former-Member@Faith-and-Hope and all.

I was probably awake while you were chatting last night, but I don't like to disturb hubby, so lights out = computers off. Have just seen our youngest off to her school bus, ooh she was hard to get out of bed this morning. Genuinely tired after a school camp, but today is auditions day for the school production, and she's really been looking forward to participating in that, so no sickie for her.

Appleblossom, I tried to make my little things beautiful, and enough people bought them that there must have been at least some that thought I'd succeeded. 🙂 I had to wind it up as our daughter's mental condition deteriorated. You need a certain amount of emotional energy to do creative work well, and I didn't have enough of it left over. I hung on to the kiln's gas bottles for a few years hoping I'd be back to it soon, but eventually came to the hard decision that it wasn't happening in the forseeable future. I've wondered about dropping in on a casual ceramics class that runs in our town, which would be a little odd, but would give me an excuse to get my fingers muddy again.

I'm a bit low key with movies mself. I like something fun and relaxing, so our family often ends up watching kids' stuff. Mind you, we're also the sorts who'll sit around and discuss the sociological and interpersonal subtleties of "BIg Hero". I enjoy the odd Marvel movie, but again, I don't like the violence part of them. I like the characterisation of the cast, and the often very ludicrous situations they end up in. So "Antman" is about my happy-level, "Capt. America" pushes it a bit, I'm not touching "Deadpool" with a 10 metre pole. If we watch an "adult" movie it needs to have something really special going for it. The Matrix, LOTR/Hobbit, V for Vengeance was conceptually interesting but pushing my limits for heavy themes.

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@Shaz51 wrote:

Hello @Smc, @Faith-and-Hope, @Appleblossom, @Anony18, @Former-Member, @Former-Member, @Determined

Well it is Here --- My BIG BIG family reunion weekend

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Hi @Shaz51 ..... I didn't lose this in all the other posts yesterday ... just ended up too busy in the moment to respond ....

I cant npbelieve its here already, after all that planning and preparation you did ...

i hope it goes seamlessly for you ,...

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Good morning chocolatiers 😄

@Shaz51- I have not been around for the preparation, but your family reunion sounds like it has been a while in the planning. I do hope it all goes smoothly and you have a very rewarding time with them all

@Appleblossom- Hello to you and have a great day. I will hopefully catch up with you later.

@Faith-and-Hope and hello to you lady. I'm beginning to see a trend that pumpkin hour is your general cut off time to try to get to snoozeville. Would I be right in that observation?

@Smchad to chuckle at your comment on movies "The Matrix, LOTR/Hobbit, V for Vengeance was conceptually interesting but pushing my limits for heavy themes." . I wish those were the standard fare, although I am aware they are on the limits not to everyone's taste. LOTR being the exception perhaps because in the genius of satire a lot of the cerebral gems are masked in beautiful parody and satire

I also really agree with your sentiment "You need a certain amount of emotional energy to do creative work well", someone else eluded to this in their own way in another thread.

I would say creatitvity and emotions are definitely linked somehow in our neurology. I know when I try to creatively write, all sorts of unexpected emotions bubble to the surface even when I'm not directly on the subject that should have elicited the response. So yep, I have to agree that to do creative work well it definitely quite a bit of emotional energy and I really like the way you put that.

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Well that's my morning contribution for the moment.. I'm off to find a quote and make it pretty enough to post in the quote section. I've decided, at least for now, to try to do one a day on my chosen theme. Just to give me a nice little gem to keep in my head for that day. 🐣

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Good morning @Former-Member

Aiming for pumpkin hour as the boundary .... but h!t and miss at the moment ....

Last night was a bit of a mess .... D3 woke me with a. 2:30am or something text to say she had IBS Issues and asking advice. Hardly slept after that, but did doze off before 12 ... and again this morning for an hour before S2 told me his uni start is 2pm on Thursdays .... :face_with_rolling_eyes: .... so might try to snooze for most of this morning and get my equilibrium back into gear.

@Former-Member, I'm rather enjoying this conversation. In most circles, if I said "I watched Capt. America last night and I couldn't sleep afterwards because I kept thinking about how hard and sad it would be to be displaced from your time and all the people you love"... ermmm... a lot of people would think I was a bit weird? 😄 Maybe I am, but that's ok, I'm me!

V for Vendetta was a movie that our son introduced us to. He'd watched it, either at school or with some friends, and wanted us to see it so that we could talk about the rather involved mindtwists in it.

Was that V for Vendetta @Smc ?

Right on that page with you !!

There are some movies I just can't watch .... and those depicting completely senseless violence totally spin me out .... my hubby's family were raised with it as a hall,ark of manhood or sumthin' I still don't understand .... perhaps a desensitisation they deemed appropriate ... dunno .... but I am known for crying easily in regard to movie content .... much to my baby dragons' hilarity .....

And yes, movies circle my mind space for exactly those reasons @Smc .... being able to identify so succinctly with the emotional world of a ficticious character that I have to keep boundaries on my imagination ..... same with news reports. I can "live" the range of confronting emotions of people caught in reported news stories and have to tune out for my own welfare and self-preservation.

These are all forms of language and intelligence as far as I am concerned .... and I recognise that I have been an empath from a very young age.

Youre not alone ....

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@Smc I watched V for Vendetta a while ago now. There were a lot of similar alternate low budget documentaries and other creative bytes along the same theme at the time. Mostly accessible only through youtube. It was more or less a social movement I was involved in, so I was very much in tune with the themes it presented. Vendetta was the first "big" production telling the narrative that others had been trying to in their way.

I find it really interesting how not only does state of mind influence interpretation, so too do emotions and perspective sometimes collectively sometimes one more dominant than the others.

It sounds like your son is quite an interesting person, in that he likes to broaden his experiences with your involvement. That sounds very healthy. 🌹

I know @Faith-and-Hope crazy ay

Yes @Former-Member xx

organizing a Family reunion with my cousins over the last few months

You see My grandma had 2 children and my Grand dad had 2 children and then together they had 4 more children -- so that is 8 children all up

so we are getting everyone together for the weekend, and I have done a family tree book

now , we just have to put it all together now

Hello @Smc, @Anony18, @Appleblossom, @Former-Member, @Determined