{"id":1011,"date":"2011-04-03T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2011-04-04T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T23:01:00","slug":"april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2011\/04\/03\/april-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well its been a funny old year so far, I have to say. It got off to quite a shaky start one way and another but I am feeling a bit more positive about stuff now. Hooray. I have been doing a lot of musical woodshedding particularly on the Piano to delve in to pastures new, but I have been avoiding writing anything new for the moment as I am some what direction less musically right now.<br \/>\nWe have had quite a few well received Delta Ladies and Elephant Shelf gigs so far which is very gratifying too. Money wise there is just about enough on tick over to keep rolling too for the moment but long term solutions are still needed. What these are remains to be seen! It often seems the case that what ever I get involved its one step forward and two back again. I still don&#8217;t react well under stress so I try to organize my life to avoid unnecessary tension. It doesn&#8217;t take to much to set me off even at the best of times, but I don&#8217;t want to medicate myself out of consciousness either. I have a good bunch of supportive friends but they are also people that I work with so again life can get a little awkward. One of the big problems is that I need space to do my own thing with out distraction, but I can get quite morose when left on my own. I do have to be a little careful as if I get two excited or enthusiastic if can often swing into mania eventually. Thats quite difficult to explain to people as they don&#8217;t really know what mania is.<br \/>\nBoth my parents suffered from extremes of mood, so its not that surprising that I seem to be similarly afflicted. The worst aspect of this is that there are times when I can&#8217;t concentrate on anything which makes me worst than useless. I seem to have been getting towards that state recently rather too often lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well its been a funny old year so far, I have to say. It got off to quite a shaky start one way and another but I am feeling a bit more positive about stuff now. Hooray. I have been doing a lot of musical woodshedding particularly on the Piano to delve in to pastures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2011\/04\/03\/april-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April 2011<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bipolar","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-gj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1197,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/01\/23\/small-worlds-and-village-pubs\/","url_meta":{"origin":1011,"position":0},"title":"Small worlds and village pubs","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This week has been a more of the same kind of week. 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I was on the radio in St Albans with the 3 5ths of Elephant Shelf and we managed to get 3 tracks played from the album which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":177736,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/08\/08\/facebook-people\/","url_meta":{"origin":1011,"position":4},"title":"Facebook People","author":"diana Stone","date":"August 8, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The stuff of nightmares, some of them. This weeks been the worst. Who can you trust anymore? This week I have had a bit more of a fight that usual with depression again. Its crept up on me. 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