Month: March 2012

“I’m the kinda girl that likes to dream a lot, dream a lot,
Lose myself, staring into my coffee cup, coffee cup.”

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Hi, I’m a little all over the place as I write this. Not in a bad way, more from a completely disorganised perspective. 🙂 This week has gone quickly. I seemed to have blinked and now it’s Friday night. Still, better that than Monday morning. Hmm, vibes of an old Dire Straights lyric in my head now. Odd, considering I’m listening to Leaving Hope by Nine Inch Nails which is delightfully mellow. But enough of the stream of consciousness, I did have a few things to say. History, Art and Trans Folk I have a thing about history and the passing of time. I guess it comes down to looking at what has gone before and how what is considered cutting edge […]

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You took my light, you drained me down,
But that was then and this is now,
Now look at me

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Hello, How’s things with you? Hopefully all rather good. It is – at least at the time of writing – the weekend and for some of us, that’s two days away from work. Time for you the Jones Massive to duck the treadmill of modern life and kick back into the slow lane. With luck, there’ll be a spot of lunch, a few walks in the park and if the weather stays good, maybe a bike-ride too. Yay for spring! Cheer up, Mrs This week saw the last of my anti-miserablist sessions, or as the NHS like to call it: CBT. The session was fairly brief, just a summary of what we’d talked about and a bit of the obligatory […]

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“When I’m dancing with you,
Tomorrow doesn’t matter.
Turn that music up,
‘Till the windows start to shatter!”

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Hiya, I’ve stalled on writing this post a few times. Not really for any great shakes, more a case of procrastination. I’ve even changed the title four five times as I’m rummaging for the right lyric in my head. Talking of such, I had hoped to go with ‘I’m down with the capital C B T’, only the rapper in question didn’t sing.. umm… rap that. Oh well! Nor can I re-use Lady Ga Ga’s masterpiece to  clubbing as I’ve used that previously. Okay. Time for a hot choccy to stimulate the old brain….. Slurp… Ahh. 🙂 Last Friday Night… Ack! There’s a line I could have used. Oh well, I’m not changing the line again! 🙂 Friday night was a […]

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“But a girl she doesn’t live by only rock ‘n roll and brew”

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Hello one and all, It’s been busy-busy-busy this week. The type of busy that requires three words and two hyphens for emphasis. Hell, any busier and I’d have to throw in an exclamation mark! Oh, there it is. 🙂 Yeah, so work; rather frantic, but in a good way. Lots of things done, items ticked off the list and folk genuinely helped…. which is why I feel I’m there. All good stuff. Therapy time again last Monday – and this coming Monday for that matter – and it went fairly well. We talked briefly about how I’d felt since the last meeting and I did my best to be open and honest. Basically, I felt like sh** after the last one 🙂 […]

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“How can I change the world if I can’t even change myself?
I cannot change the way I am?
I don’t know, I don’t know.”

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Hey folks, In my best New York accent, how ya doin’? 🙂 All good I trust. This week has been…. mixed, which I guess is par for the course for us. Monday meant it was time for another appointment of CBT enlightenment….. and…. and…. Bum. I’ve run out of steam. :- I was hoping to say something positive about the experience, but you know what? I’m struggling. Things went okay, we talked about the power of emotions and the concept of ‘armouring yourself’ against the (Ed: slings and arrows? 😛 ) day to day roll of negative thoughts. We also went through one of the off-line exercises – off-line as in: your task this week is to… – I’d brought in. I’d picked […]

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