Just needed to be heard for a little while

lostinrates

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Hahahahahaha! I fall for sad eyes everytime. Animals can run rings around me, I would be fluffing up his pillows and covering him with blankets (and he would probably be snickering at me).

That sounds lovely, LIR! I do like having a couple of waking hours a day to myself. Granted they are usually spent lounging in bed with the laptop and drinking coffee while waiting for my carer but I like the peacefulness.

I have to be fairly resistant to sad eyes. I'd get nothing done here ever, all the eyes there are.

For be as well as the solitude its a bit of a control thing. While cohabiting with people not your partner always involves compromise and benefits at times the compromises are very much harder. I think when you feel 'introspective' or a tendency to feel more sorry for oneself than one ought its easy to get hung up on the compromises more than the benefits and that's how I'm feeling a lot of the time.

Some space should help.

whitewing

I have got wanderlust now.

I would love to go to Peru.

I have also been listening to Evita this afternoon, with DH's headphones on. WaS, I can't remember everything we have said before about the effects of music on your symptoms. I was wondering how you are about listening to musicals? Would you get them muddled up with your own life, or do you find that most people in the real world don't wander about singing with a full orchestra and so you are able to understand that it is fiction?

I love Les Miserables and Miss Saigon too. Has anyone else got any recommendations for musicals that I can get to know?

elsien

Blood Brothers, if you get the chance to go to the theatre. Didn't sound like my sort of thing but it was the only thing I could get tickets for and I really liked it. Bit of a weepy though and I'm not sure how the songs would stand up on their own.
The Miserables and a shirtless Hugh Jackman. Sigh.
(Hated Marti Pellow in Evita, avoid at all costs.)

(The Galapagos and walking in Patagonia is on my list for when I win the lottery. )

lostinrates

whitewing wrote: »

, or do you find that most people in the real world don't wander about singing with a full orchestra and so you are able to understand that it is fiction?

I love Les Miserables and Miss Saigon too. Has anyone else got any recommendations for musicals that I can get to know?

They don't?


Gypsy? musical, very good story, and beautifully done. I love that technicolor sort of era of musicals.

Trying to think of the name of something else is bugging me. But that golden era was fab,


Also the Barbara Streisand ones......like ,.oh bottom, its not my day for memory...hello dolly.

The slipper and the rose is one of my favorite for children. I still love it.

oldestgnome

Lion King is awesome on stage, would make a great treat for the family and particularly for DD whitewing, my family went as big kids to celebrate a mid thirties birthday for my sister!


Peru, Patagonia and Galapagos are all part of my trip, it really is the trip of a lifetime, feels a little surreal as it gets closer! I promise to share pics

whitewing

Ooohhh, I'd forgotten about Lion King. Now that is a great idea.

oldestgnome, I am really looking forward to hearing all about your trip.

I feel wonderfully cheerful for a Sunday night now (in the past has been a time of dread of the coming week). Seems like there is a lot of good things happening on the thread. WaS, don't lose sight of all your achievements and things to look forward to in the next few months (birthday and Christmas). You'll have some wonderful times ahead, even if finances are tight. I may not get to the theatre this year, for practical and financial reasons, but to just dream of it for a bit makes me happy.

oldestgnome

Whitewing - I intend to write a blog of my trip, if you would like when I have set it up I will pm you the link. That goes for others too


Looking forward to something no matter how big or small is a great coping mechanism when things are stressful. Birthdays, Christmas, seeing/speaking/hearing from friends and family, receiving a card/letter in the post, gifts that are on your list and you know you will enjoy, how someone else will enjoy what you have planned for them, baking, a midnight trip to the beach, this list is endless

whitewing

Yes please!

Waves_and_Smiles

Aw dibuzz, what a beautiful dog! I love the paw over the nose!

I would love a link to your blog, too oldestgnome!

I think happy musicals might actually be ok, I haven't considered them before. I am fine with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory so at least I know musicals don't make me flee in horror.

Do enjoy your time to yourself, LIR. I sometimes fear being alone and other times I love it, I am there with you on the introspective thing. When WaSp left earlier I spent 10 minutes staring up the ceiling thinking all kinds of self-pitying thoughts. Then I shook myself out of it and carried on as usual because nothing good lies there but it is a relief to spend a few minutes indulging oneself and something that only really works in solitude.

Hello Sir Pugliet! Please tell JM not to work too hard and eat lots of chocolate and curry!

whitewing

I spent virtually the whole day in my bedroom today, just needing to be as alone as it is possible to be with a young child.

DD decided that she wanted to rub moisturiser into my legs (and arms and tummy). She roared with laughter when she squeezed it out of the tube and blobbed it first. She is definitely laughing more these days and mostly behaving extremely well.

I was so chilled out after that that I had a nap.

I used to hate being in the house on my own.

I still like it sometimes in the early morning when no one else is up yet.

10 minutes is a very short self-indulgence, Was - see that is great progress too.