Today I have mostly been staying at home taking care of myself because the past few days have been pretty rotten and when things get rotten WeeGee forgets to take care of herself. I was all up and ready to go when I remembered one of the important lessons I learned during the last bad patch: sometimes you have to stop until you’re ready to start again. Today is about getting myself back on the starting blocks before everything gets out of hand.
Taking care of yourself is quite easy. It’s about being kind to yourself, and letting yourself relax, and reminding yourself that wherever you happen to be is exactly where the future starts because the thing about the future is that it just keeps on coming at you. That there is another one of those valuable lessons that I’ve learned along the way.
Whilst we’re on the subject of lessons I might as well remind myself of this one: if you find yourself vulnerable, and tired, and a little bit hormonal to boot you ABSOLUTELY MUST eat because if you add starving to vulnerable, tired and a little bit hormonal you end up with the perfect storm on your hands and you start behaving like a proper nutter.
I spoke to Mrs Mountain earlier because it felt like the right thing to do even though we’ve got an appointment tomorrow. As always she was wise, and kind and patient and she reminded me that I don’t have to figure it all out by myself, and that maybe this isn’t really about the things I’m making it about and that I’ve been okay before which means it is an absolute certainty that I’m going to be okay again. She also reminded me that receiving a mahoosive gas bill isn’t really the kind of thing that ought to drive you to almost jump out of the window because it’s only money and money is the thing that matters least in life and if you jump out the window all the things that really matter disappear as well.
Anyway I’m on a bit of a mission today – I’ve got lists to write, and things to face up to, and help to ask for. Above all else I’ve got music to listen to, and a cat to cuddle and an awful lot AWESOME stuff to look forward to. I keep thinking about bouncebackability and remembering the WeeGee is like a weeble because it doesn’t matter how much she wobbles she never ever falls down.
Meanwhile in other news Gryff has been a super little cat so far today. Every time I sit down he takes it upon himself to sit with me purring in that simple contented fashion that cats do – it’s as though he’s trying to pass on some of his contentedness to me, and I think it might be working. Nothing else to report today save it’s upwards and onwards once more……
Loads and loads of love, and a bit of Gryff’s contentedness, WeeGee xoxoxox
How do you eat an elephant? 
Weeble Wooble WeeGee! Sorry, it just made me giggle. 🙂
If I made you smile I consider it job done. HUGEST hugs lovely xoxoxo
Thank you and same to you! xo
That’s so lovely. I’m glad Gryff is one of the empathic ones. Zoe is too and it always surprises me how big a difference it makes. Though this is technically the second time I’ve lived alone and it seems like I’m doing badly, I’m actually doing way better than I did before. Simply because when I start to let those dark thoughts claw at me, Zoe dutifully places herself between me and those thoughts and cuddles.
Pet cuddles chase away so much negativity. We need to figure out how to bottle that stuff 🙂
Happy thoughts and pet cuddles ❤
If we could bottle it we’d be billionaires…… Which is just to say we need to get our thinking caps on! xoxoxoxox
I’m glad to read it is a take care of WeeGee day, very important business! 🙂 Hugs and love to you xxx
Yep – most important thing I’ve worked on for a long time. Hugs and love back xoxoxox
Today is the first day of the rest of your life – time to make it count. Minor set backs are to be expected. Evaluate, learn, move forward. And expect a package in the post soon – I’m mailing your goodies today.
Love, MM
Oh wow! How exciting!! I can’t wait. HUGE hugs xoxoxo