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Hello Everyone 🙂
@Bunniekins
Ye Ha for hanging out 3 loads of washing, washing up & getting some leggings 🙂 I did
feel like yesterday was an achievement (although the roof stuff is something I do every
year) It's nice to have it comfirmed 🙂 
Thank-you 🙂 The members of this little
group can be a little hard on themselves at times, but when you read along . . . we are
all super-achievers 🙂 XxX
@outlander
Well done you outlander!!! Giving me & so many others support, when I know your in such pain. I hope your feeling a little better today
Mazy @Mazarita
Sorry you didn't feel rested & peaceful yesterday & yet glad it was a wakeful full day. I'm very happy for you rekindling a friendship that you thought you'd lost from your life & I think knit-bombing sounds pretty awesome too 🙂 About the friendship of a few months ago, I think I'd be careful about re-connecting with someone who I had only a brief involvlement with & in that time they were a little . . . obsessive {don't know if that's the right word} Though I'm sure you will be & this time you'll enter the situation with a little better understanding. You may think I'm an amazon because I sweep the gutters, but I could never even contemplate speaking to someone who had caused me anxiety, to me that shows the real warrior woman within! Who cares if it was 3.30am, your more than aware of your sleep pattern needs, something that's different for each individual; it was worth it for the experience of trees softly whoosing in the gentle night breeze, as the first early morning bird sang 😉 Bringing you that rested & peaceful feeling that eluded you through the day ❤️
My little dog isn't just cooler {though that is the main reason I do it} he's also freer.
Over the course of winter he develops many knots, I do clip through winter to alieviate
some of them {behind the legs, face, belly, feet etc}, but he still gets some that must
pull his skin. I imagine he also gets lighter 🙂 having had dreads myself, I know the
weight of them became a really uncomfotable problem. He's easier to bath, check for
ticks & fleas {though my puppies get monthly chews designed to battle those & intestinal & heart worms}. It's like I have many, many little dogs all rolled into one; I love all of them, but baldy, well that's as little as he gets & it's the cutest 🙂
@CheerBear
I want to come visit you! Especially in summer! Left all the windows & doors open again
last night {with the curtains closed} & ended up getting rid of the blankets all together.
I have flanelette sheets on the bed at the moment, I'd say a bed-change is on the cards,
time to get cooler bed linen out 😉 Sorry the cold woke you, wish I could take some of
it for you
Special Hello's to @eth @Shaz51 @Faith-and-Hope @Teej @Appleblossom @Maggie @Sans911 @PeppiPatty @saturnzoon
Love to all that want or need it
Hi everyone,
@Bunniekins, glad to hear you are having a (big) child-free day. Mighty mum needs time out from him at times to recuperate, I reckon. I love leggings. They are wardrobe staples for me. I need to buy some more too.
@Exoplanet, feeling for you in the growing heat and hoping the summer is not as bad as anticipated, especially that there are no fires anywhere near you. Reassures me a bit to know that you are well prepared and have a good routine to look after yourself and your canine family.
Thanks for remembering the events from a few months ago, with that woman I know. She and I have actually known each other for a couple of years, but only through friendly encounters at the mental health centre, and bumping into each other on the street a fair bit. I haven't forgotten how very anxious and actually paranoid I felt for quite a while after our phone calls that were meant to kick start a proper friendship. She is very erratic and dark in her mental health and just too triggering for me to have a friendship with. I couldn't feel safe with her that close to my life. But, as we are still likely to run into each other at group activities and on the street, I think it would be great to somehow clear the karma between us so that we could at least go back to being okay, and not freaked out, when we see each other. Not sure if that's possible, but I think it would be good for both of us. I heard from someone else at the mental health centre that she has been in hospital for her mental health lately. I sincerely hope the trouble between us didn't contribute to that, but I don't feel guilty as I had to look after myself in that situation and everyone has a right to choose their friends.
@eth, bummer that your back is still hurting today. I guess with the massage you were out of practise and your body not used to doing it. I know from trying to give C massages how physically demanding it is to do. Maybe you could do shorter massages for sil's mum for a while until the massage fitness starts to come a little easier. Great to think of you getting out for a walk with your support worker today. Hoping that relieves the back for you. Nice that you reconnected with four friends over FB. Fantastic that you feel more clear-headed today too.
The meeting of the five bipolar bears yesterday was really a good get together, the first of something I'd like to see continue, though I stressed myself to the max about getting there beforehand and only made it by a hair's breadth really. Even though it only lasted an hour, it was pretty intense, as you might imagine, lol, all of us at different stages in our condition.
The closest friend to me in the group is very elevated at the moment and is talking non-stop, including all tangents, in a rapid stream. She's very social and often a big talker like that, which I find a bit difficult, but I love her for who she is and dig hanging out with her. She lives a fair way from me, and because we are both kind of undependable in making meetups, we often don't see each other for months. We have interesting commonalities from our childhoods, were born in a country area not far from each other and our dads were both horsemen. Her partner, who is transgender, has been in and out of hospital for the past month after going off all her meds. Yesterday was her first outing in the wake of that. It was good to see her looking and seeming well.
There was also the woman who I thought I'd lost after an angry exchange between us about a year ago. She is a mental health peer worker at the public hospital but is off work at the moment due to stress and generally doing too much, and was in a 'break place' for about a month.
And there was a man there too, who I've only met once before, a friend of my closest friend in the group. He, like me, tends to the depressive end of the bipolar spectrum, but, also like me, still seemed lively enough in the social situation. He, like me, almost didn't make it. Glad we both did.
That's probably a lot more than you needed to know about the event, but you know me and my long raves. 
Best to all for the rest of the day. 
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