Being Mentally Normal: The Theory and The Actuality

[Mitchy1nge]

we must be on part 11 or something by now?

Hooray for care coordinator meeting being ok.
Does your cinema (anyone this is) make you book certain seats? One of our local ones does and it does my head in.

Yay for the meeting going well, Enpoid
I've got an awful head ache still, can't decide if it's lack of sleep
Or sinusitis. And DD keeps wanting to be picked up (bending down hurts like hell)
Only 25h of single parenting left this week... Then OH can do his bit. I shouldn't complain, DD is a star, but hard work (and she's not even 2 yet!)
What's everyone got planned for this evening?

I'm knitting, trying to make the most of not being in work by finishing off stuff I began ages ago.

I'm planning to be in bed and asleep by 7 9pm so not long to go.

Yes, specific seats, but the auditorium was almost empty so it didn't matter.

I hesitate to call it our local cinema as it's about 15 miles away but yes, they make you book seats.

Mp- I'm guessing you're not in my city then! We've got three within seven miles, but the booking seats one has free parking, and its closest. I can't explain why I don't like booking them, I guess because it ruins the spontaneity.

I live in a tiny village in the arse end of nowhere Caulk. We're not well endowed with amenities.
And now I'm going home

I grew up on a tiny island, so moving to a CITY was huge and it's still a bit exciting that I don't need to get a ferry and things.

Glad the meeting went well, enpoid I'm Mning (reading not posting) and listening to audiobooks. I grew up in a village like that.

Thanks everyone - you're all lovely. I did chat with my CC about how much being part of a supportive group of people online has helped - the whole reason I went to the GP in the first place was because people here pointed out I was being a bit odd

I didn't understand something she said, though - she said I was on enhanced CPA because I need to access a lot of services, but apart from her, I only see the psychiatrist occasionally, and go to a local charitable organisation which is nothing to do with the CMHT and who I haven't allowed to share information with CMHT anyway. And I'm on a waiting list for psychological services. But really, that's only two - the psychiatrist, and being on the waiting list for psychological services I don't understand their admin systems.

Apparently the care plan is in the post

I've never lived in a city. It sounds like fun

When I told lovely therapist I was on here, and was visiting someone I had met she was very unimpressed and was worried I would be killed. Clearly your people have more sense than my people

I know nothing about CPA, but hopefully someone wise will.

City living is great. I miss the sea enormously, but otherwise it's good.

Enpoid, on line support has been amazingly supportive for me, over the years :) That doesn't sound like a lot of services to me :/

I used to live right in the city centre here, but prefer the semi-countryside. Not enough places to park a horse in "town"
I've had some pasta, going to try and get DD down soon, then stick something mind numbing on TV

I am so so so tired. Putting off the trauma of pasta (I do love pasta though) and enjoying my first negative calorie thing on MFP for a while. Even though have eaten porridge (with honey) cake (guessed amount) 25g of veg crisps and another bit of cake (only 56 cals, the joy of graze light) and Harissa olives (112 cals, also graze) it's still a little minus bar hanging under the line. It makes me feel more mentally normal than anything else I think.

Caulk, I've met lots of people on the Internet and every time, my mum tells me to be careful. :)

I love those Harissa olives. I had to take a paycut a while ago and the graze box was the thing I had to lose.

Go and cook some pasta, it will help you feel more awake. Or something.

Millie- when I drive between here and the cmht I see horses outside someone's house

Pasta sounds like a plan, mitchy

I mentioned that I'd been struggling a bit with feeling I'd lost something when I gave up the old identity I'd had for ages, and she suggested PMing people and telling them who I was In practice, it's more the feeling part of a community thing that I miss, rather than specific individuals knowing me, but like you say it's nice to have a support worker who gets where I'm coming from with online stuff even if I did get a bit of hmm-face off her when I told her it was because I was under threat of legal action and worried about being tracked down.

Ahhhh the hmmmm face. I know it well.

"Nod and smile, nod and smile…"

Felt like finding one of the discussion threads and the e-mail and going, "There! See? I wasn't imagining it!"

And also, to prove that it wasn't because of anything ridiculously illegal I'd done, just some opportunistic fuckers waving threats about.

What are you planning to watch, Millie?

Snowy, what are you listening to at the moment?

Oh happy days, it's veal schnitzel, German potato salad (?) and green beans.

Can I come and join in please? That sounds wonderful.

Ah that sounds lovely. Nothing like a nice schnitzel

I'm having pork chops and baked beans.