Being Mentally Normal: The Theory and The Actuality

[Mitchy1nge]

we must be on part 11 or something by now?

I'm in john Lewis, being mentally normal ish

Well done on all achievements.
I think the porridge in mouth thing is to do with drinking enough. I can't remember all the details though.

It's just taken me an age to drive back as I forgot where I lived and couldn't turn right onto lanes as I couldn't remember which one was which. So I have driven most of north Worcestershire which is annoying as I don't live there.

Millie if you're still there can you see if wool is on sale? I'm going on Sunday.

ahhhh John Lewis my spiritual home

just the thought of it gives me a sense of well being!

caulk you sound a bit mentally disordered hope you are safely home now

am going to put on about 50000000000 more layers and Do Riding, yawning my head off despite a good sleep last night

worried that have gonococcal hip, unlikely as it sounds, might tell people that is what is wrong with it anyway, hope orange horse won't mind me getting on from 'wrong' side - mine are used to me boarding them from all directions, in motion, but she is very young and very very green (as well as orange)

Am lying on the rubbish sofa wondering whether I am actually safe to drive at the moment. Probably not, if I'm having to consider it. Keep forgetting to change gear, and would rather just keep driving than think about turning at all. I'm meant to be going to see friends tomorrow but they are an hour drive away and it would be a whole day there. Have been cancelling them since September November though.

How do you find out if it is hip stuff?

We don't have a JL here, it's half built though, so the nearest is Solihull which is posher than here. I would move into JL if they let me, but it's unlikely I suppose.

I relate to that driving thing (is prob why am medically disqualified so much of the time) but have been driving since before I was 12 (tractors, vintage cars, lockheed f-117 nighthawk stealth bomber etc) yet randomly I have this utterly paralysing 'fuck I've forgotten how to drive' thing, it's awful when it happens far from home or even just half a mile away, anxiety innit

Yes! That's exactly it. Have been driving since I was 15, but didn't have a car for a few years as I was too poor, and too often it made noises and I did nothing about it other than panic.

I stopped driving through anxiety a few years ago and have never got back into it. Maybe some refresher lessons would be good.

Mum has ms and so drove illegally for some time if dad was having a strop and she needed to be somewhere. Island police seem to not pull over erratic drivers unless you are drunk and speeding over a gold course like my neighbour!

(I didn't really drive the nighthawk but I did have a love affair with the sr-71 blackbird)

island sounds like Norfolk!

my mother in law (who dated Tony Martin, the famous Norfolk farmer who shot some children after repeated burglaries, one in the back, talking of police apathy) doesn't have a valid driving permit for the UK, she passed her test in Texas in about 1903 and has never converted it

Am watching top gear and they habe just landed a helicopter on a car. That wouldn't happen sans island/Norfolk.

Did Texas even exist in 1903?

DP used to live just down the road from that farm

did he! I know the area really well, wonder if I know him?

Texas has existed for ages, it was at least its own nation by then (why don't I know this for sure) or maybe was still mexican?

I thought there were 52 states until a couple of months ago. I can name all the counties of the UK but have no idea of the history of anywhere. I can name all the states too now but only in alphabetically order.

Just cancelled spending tomorrow with a friend because I'm mentally disordered currently. Wish it was a broken leg or something so i would feel less like a fraud.

You probably don't know him; he was only there for a few years in the eighties.

I thought there were 52 states for years, too

It's the whole 50 plus Alaska and Hawaii thing.

Just had lunch with a friend, who is sort of a friend and sort of work. She is also a counsellor so nodded and things at the right time rather than letting me get away with talking rubbish.

It's not too early for pyjamas, is it?

Never

Phew. How about bed?

Caulk, no wool or yarn reduced in JL
DD has been a little.....challenging today. I bought her some new shoes and she's refusing to wear them :/ She also tried to kick the (uber patient) shoe shop lady

Thanks for the wool news.

Is she tired from keeping you awake? Can you relax and enjoy peppa pig together?

I've managed to email CPN. Having a quiet afternoon, trying not to think about things.

Well done snowy, am super proud of you.