{"id":175674,"date":"2023-02-04T19:18:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T19:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175674"},"modified":"2023-02-04T19:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T19:18:15","slug":"february-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/02\/04\/february-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"February Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yes, it does. there is no escaping it.<br>This why beer and hobbits were invented\/discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s ok. Though things are not so bad at the moment I have at times very dark negative thoughts that must be managed somehow. When I feel like this I expect the universe to hand out some weird punishment aimed especially at me because I failed to do some good thing or was unkind in the past. These thoughts wash over me at times. Then they go away. This is my normal mental landscape and climate that I live my life in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funny thing re music. I never had any notions of a career, not even a minor one as I came to the party so late (48 years old). But I have done a bit and had fun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out again briefly today. I do seem much better with:<br>a) People and regular company<br>b) getting out more<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I don&#8217;t go out I get anxious, then I get anxious about going out\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel its not depression in the sense I used to experience it previously. It&#8217;s more like exhaustion and as though I had used up all my mental energy. My instinct is that it is in apart some sort of long term post covid effect as it feels different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At present I am just finding it more difficult to keep cheery at home. I have actually done a huge amount of recording stuff here during Lockdown and so forth. About 200 different songs and instrumentals over maybe 2 and a half years. I am sort of saturated a bit at present with it all. Imagine how many canvases that would be if one were a painter. A shed full of paintings. That&#8217;s why yesterday&#8217;s trip out to the shops was actually quite enjoyable. It&#8217;s just having too much of my own company I suspect. Its worse when one has been out a bit. Also winter short days send a signal to hibernate.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1437728848&amp;color=%23d0346c&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/would-you-like-some-cake\" title=\"Would You Like Some Cake\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Would You Like Some Cake<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I have been feeling a bit morose today. Weird as I have had some good days recently, but thats me and how my life is basically. Push on through the bad sticky, days and enjoy the good ones.<br>Hard to believe I have been a Bedfordshire bumpkin for 5 years now too. Occasionally I do miss London but I haven&#8217;t been back to my old turf at all really. No further south than Enfield in fact.<br><br>I have been out and played live a few times last month which as given my spirits a bit of a lift.<br>Also I have entered a song writing competition (for geriatric crusty people) which is something I have never done before, or if I have I don&#8217;t remember it . You never know, I might win a gift voucher or something? A year&#8217;s supply of baked beans maybe&#8230;.<br><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it does. there is no escaping it.This why beer and hobbits were invented\/discovered. It&#8217;s ok. Though things are not so bad at the moment I have at times very dark negative thoughts that must be managed somehow. When I feel like this I expect the universe to hand out some weird punishment aimed especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/02\/04\/february-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">February Begins<\/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-175674","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-JHs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179767,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/02\/03\/february-2026-thoughts-on-getting-older\/","url_meta":{"origin":175674,"position":0},"title":"February 2026, Thoughts On Getting Older","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 3, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, a funny old day. 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