Reply To: Wannabefree’s Friday night Blog…

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Hi everyone… Well, we’ve had about an hours sunshine! I opened the bedroom windows to get some fresh dry air in. The room is easier to heat that way. I’ll be under the bedclothes tonight if necessary.

I’m treating myself to tiger bread, with butter on… It costs a little more but the taste is wonderful. And chocolate… Just a bit. It does seem to help if we treat ourselves once in a while. We need to give ourselves a bit of self value, self pampering, cos no one else does all the time do they?

We are each our own number 1 supporter. We each of us know ourselves best. We are each of us in just the right place to put ourselves first occasionally. It is a basic human need, important to everyone on the planet. It is built into us before we are even born. And it isn’t linked to having lot’s of money. It is an inside ourselves thing. It can be as small as one chocolate biscuit and cup of favourite tea… Whilst listening to your favourite music… In your favourite spot… Even a favourite book…

It is important to make time for ourselves, because if we don’t, then we won’t be so able to help others around us. There are people in the world who only take, take, and take again, until you have nothing else to give. This is dangerous in certain areas. If a surgeon gets too tired and removes the wrong thing… Well! Not good!, that can be a challenge, cos the minds’ cogwheels are still turning when we try to sleep.,

So… Allow time for lot’s of sleep… Now… For us OCD’ers that can be a real problem…

Next to the bed… A pad of paper and pencil/pen, to write down any to-do’s for the morning… It saves trying to remember things, when we should ideally be at rest.  A glass of cold milk.

If possible, have a radio on quietly… Music from someone else can help to break up our thought patterns.

Some people find comfort in the sound of a mechanical alarm clock… The louder the ticking the better, But no chimes!

During the day, I actually write… Stories… I make them up as I go along. No one else need see them, it is just for our own enjoyment. Photography… A mobile phone can reproduce some fantastic images and print. But be aware of other people who may not be comfortable with being photographed. Once Spring gets going there will be a lot nature to photograph, and we don’t have to worry about running out of film!

For my main meal this evening, it will be pizza, and garlic bread. Handled with the fingers of course.  Before eating, I don’t use anti-bac gel, on the skin it tastes foul! I use ordinary soap and water, so that I can lick my fingers clean after pizza, before I usually wipe them dry on my trousers! Well… It is harmless!

I find cooking to be a useful challenge… It is a very satisfying thing to do, and then share prepared food with a partner. Their saliva is basically the same as mine… So it won’t do any harm.

One last thing for this week… When my grandchildren come to visit, I sit on the floor with them… If it was harmful, they would be ill all of the time. But of course, they aren’t, well, not due to me anyway.

It is great fun to be at their eye level, seeing once again, the world as a child sees it. Mind you, I often end up on a cushion, cos I’m not as young as I used to be. Try it!

In the park, sit on the lawn. Feel the texture between your fingers… Then, if they look clean enough, then they are clean enough. So no need to wash hands again until after using the loo.

Okay… Let’s relax, and see what the week brings… Let’s allow stuff to just ‘wash over us’, much like a wave machine at the swimming pool, or in the sea, if you can find some warm enough!

Until next Friday then; 02/02/24, at about the same time. Right here…

Wannabe