{"id":150486,"date":"2019-10-22T10:55:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=150486"},"modified":"2019-10-22T10:55:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:55:23","slug":"went-the-day-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/10\/22\/went-the-day-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Went the day well?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the day started with the toaster shorting out, but a bit of jiggery pokery and that is now fixed. Hurrah!<br \/>\nAlison wanted to buy a new one but this is only 6 months old so that&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>I had 4 music colleagues\/friends for a visit yesterday and managed to sort a few things out going forward with them.<br \/>\nAlso to clear up a few misunderstandings. which is quite important as certain things relevant to my present situation needed clarifying.<\/p>\n<p>The CBD oil seems useful and helpful in terms of anxiety and dare I say aches and pains after a weeks use so I shall persist with it for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I am still feeling a bit doom laden though and not sure how I am going to get past that to be honest. It&#8217;s a veil of sadness that colours everything. They say it takes about 18 months to get over this sort of thing and that seems likely. I think this coming winter will be hard for me, but hopefully there are new friends and acquaintances that I may yet make?<\/p>\n<p>Once you get to a certain age making friends is not so easy is it? Especially if like me your not particularly good at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the day started with the toaster shorting out, but a bit of jiggery pokery and that is now fixed. Hurrah! Alison wanted to buy a new one but this is only 6 months old so that&#8217;s good. I had 4 music colleagues\/friends for a visit yesterday and managed to sort a few things out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/10\/22\/went-the-day-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Went the day well?<\/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_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-D9c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":118764,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/05\/30\/a-slight-touch-of-the-sad-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":150486,"position":0},"title":"A slight touch of the sad today","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I am quite affected by the lack of sun, it makes a huge difference to my mood and I have one of those SAD lamps which is supposed to give the effect of being in full daylight. 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