… doing therapy again
Retail therapy, creative therapy and friend therapy!
On Thursday we went into the city (that’s Norwich 🙂 ) to buy some new saucepans. We thought that with all this healthy eating we’re doing, maybe the fact that we also appear to be eating the non-stick coating from the pans could be counter productive so it was about time for some new ones! Food does seem to taste better, it’s probably psychosomatic but it works for me. It will sound ridiculous but just spending an hour shopping for something as mundane as pans, something that has nothing to do with the current situation was great, normal, refreshing.
When my friend Claire came to visit with Trina, she brought me a lovely transfer for the wall. I was reluctant to stick it to the wall because I love it and wasn’t sure how you would decorate around it without spoiling it and I want it to last longer than until we next decorate. I have been thinking about it a lot. I bought a canvas a few weeks ago but it wasn’t until Wednesday that I decided what to do. I sketched out a plan and then Thursday I painted the canvas and Friday applied the transfer – this is the result, I’m thrilled!
This is the kind of project I would have done in less than a day in the past. As well as struggling to make a decision about anything and getting worn out at the thought of doing anything at the moment, I have lost some of my confidence. In the end I had to say to myself ‘for goodness sake – its an £8 canvas, just get some paint on it and if it doesn’t work try something different!’. I’m sure that once we have a containment plan and I begin to get into a routine that is my ‘new normal’ it will all come flooding back.
One thing that I know helps with that is my friends. I know that I keep banging on about how important all the support I get from you all is and I’m never going to apologise for that because its true, and I will continue to keep banging on about it!!
We are a group of six, who all worked together at May Gurney in the past.  Kerry, Sam, Hayley, Sarah, Louise and Me. We mostly now work in other places but we still get together for each other’s birthdays which are conveniently quite evenly spaced throughout the year. I missed the last one in June because it was too close to a chemo session but last night we got together.
We had a lovely time with good food and banter and it really lifted my spirits – thank you girls 🙂 the two and a half hours we were together disappeared in the blink of an eye. I’m already looking forward to the next one.
All this therapy has done me the world of good. I am in a completely different place mentally from where I was this time last week. Thank you for your support.
Talk to you soon
Lots of love Mand xxx
Lovely to see your artwork all done….it’s perfect! Great that you got out with the girls…nothing like a girl’s night out to cheer up the spirit!! Fun “chatting” with you today XX
Lots of love from Big Sister Booie XX