Sunday Thoughts

Hello from sunny Sligo, now there’s something I don’t say very often! It’s a beautiful Sunday morning here, and it’s so nice to see blue skies and sunshine, after what feels like months of rain and dull days. I hope it’s sunny where you are, and that you get a chance to enjoy it.

It’s been a really busy week for me, and a few sleepless nights leading up to it. I don’t know about you, but I overthink everything. I play things out in my head to try to visualise what will happen. I don’t know why I do it because things never work out the way that I’ve thought they would, so it’s a waste of time. I’m always way more anxious if I don’t get a good night’s sleep too. Thankfully the chemist suggested Piriton to help me sleep, and they work like a charm, I don’t take them every night, only when I really need to be on good form the following day.

Everything this week went much better than I expected. I met some lovely people, and I really enjoyed the things that I did. I even took some event photos, and it’s been almost a year since I’ve done that, I amazed myself at how I just fell back into it. I’ve always felt comfortable being a camera anyway, so I guess that helps. I was really quite proud of myself, at just how well I did, it makes a change from me beating myself up about things. It was also quite an achievement to challenge myself, and to see how well I did. Go me!

I’ve started a podcasting course, it’s just part-time through MSLETB, and again it was something I was really worried about, but Keith Walsh, the facilitator put the class at ease right from the beginning. He explained that it’s an informal class, and if we felt we needed to take a break we could, or if we didn’t want to do something we didn’t have to. Coming from an anxiety point of view this was brilliant. In the past I was in a mindfulness class where I wasn’t listened to when I said I didn’t feel comfortable doing part of the class, the facilitator didn’t listen, and I ended up having a panic attack. You can read that story here. Anyway, the class was lovely, the people were great, and it was a pleasure to meet them all. I’ll write a dedicated blog post when I’m further into the course.

I also got to test drive the funkiest little vehicle this week. There’s a blog post on the way to tell you more about it.

I visited the bluebell woods in Roscommon, and I was sad at what they did to it. I posted on Facebook (I should learn not to post anything negative there). I’ve had people questioning my intelligence, it’s a sad day when we aren’t allowed an opinion, but I suppose that’s the joy of social media.

For now, I’ll say farewell, and wish you all a good week ahead.