{"id":176420,"date":"2024-01-17T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176420"},"modified":"2024-01-17T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T19:45:08","slug":"moving-on-up-and-intrusive-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/01\/17\/moving-on-up-and-intrusive-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving on up and Intrusive Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-light-brown-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">Got to on keep trying.  Apparently. Even when you are running out of steam. And I am a wee bit I must confess. Today I assembled an exercise bike and it was quite a workout to be honest. Outdoor exercises at this season plays havoc with my arthritis, so it a useful winter compromise. Keeping fit when you don&#8217;t regularly gig is I find a problem. So I am slowly trying to build up a little bit of stamina again if I can. Also activity can help alleviate or mitigate depression too which is also a very important for me as well.  So in-between practicing and recording and mixing there is now exercise to work in as well. It&#8217;s worth a try at least.<br><br>The worlds in a pretty bad state now and there&#8217;s little that an individual can do really. Public out cry about injustice may well make us feel we are doing something, but it seems that we have less and less power to achieve any sort of leverage and change the mindset of those that rule over us. Power is a drug and those that don&#8217;t have it are doomed to waste away.  There is no sense left in the whole wide world now.<br><br> Here&#8217;s a world\/jazz genre instrumental. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Intrusive thoughts&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1719964035&amp;color=%23e49864&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/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 style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Intrusive Thoughts And Other Sorts\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/intrusive-thoughts-and-other-sorts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intrusive Thoughts And Other Sorts<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#5ab1df\">Facebook: Yes it&#8217;s useful and mostly benign except for one thing. The endless rubbish that comes through  on messenger from spammers and scammers and phishers. I get it in industrial quantities at times. the messages start like this &#8220;Hi&#8221; or &#8220;How are you&#8221;.  <br>Nobody tells you why they are getting in contact for example. It&#8217;s almost never anything genuine. Ok its a nuisance but it stil annoys me. Ho hum. Also it is always worth remembering that pretty things may  be toxic and dangerous. So don&#8217;t always believe what you see. <\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/11\/05\/and-so-it-goes\/\">And so it goes.<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Time passes and I wait. Yep. I am totally wrecked again psychologicaly. So I just have to stop thinking about stuff \ud83d\ude43 Lots of octogenarians go home after procedures here. Plus already met 2 90 year olds one perfectly ok with diabetites had a new pacemaker. Then there is me. Waiting and stiil scared. Very scared. I cannot say much more than that as all my cleverest words desert me now. No clever words. So near and so far from home from home. Just a mile and a bit from my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/11\/05\/and-so-it-goes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And so it goes.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/11\/02\/42-days-in-hospital\/\">42 Days In Hospital<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Well, here i am watching the world go by from my window looking south across Bedford. A little bit of a hint of late autumn sunshine. So many pills, some good.news and some bad in equal measure, but ultimately moving slowly forward towards hopefully a better place. Keeping it together is though not so easy. No pretty pictures from.her .Todays breakfast starts with this little lot. My little plastic pot of delights 6 pills.Then after lunch a similar offering.This is indeed a garden of earthly delights. Bonus, only one stabbing for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/11\/02\/42-days-in-hospital\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">42 Days In Hospital<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/10\/26\/i-rang-the-samaritans\/\">I rang the Samaritans<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Sunday night I ran the Samaritans. It was a great help fortunately. As I hit a massive low sadly. I just despair of ever getting home right now to be honest. its week six. That is a very long time. I ran out of spoons. Finally. Its Monday start of week 6 in hospital. And it got worse.I had a Cystoscopy which was agony. but then it turns out I might have cancer,Fuck&#8230; Its raining right now for sure. Thats a real kick in the head.What can I say. I feel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/10\/26\/i-rang-the-samaritans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I rang the Samaritans<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/10\/25\/hospital-days\/\">Hospital Days<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Indeed it is a dull day today. Today specifically I am trying to get outside my head a bit by you know watching YouTube and and plenty of Radio 4 as you do this afternoon I&#8217;m going to try and Ride some stuff for my blog is it may be interesting some people because I do have people that regularly follow it also it&#8217;s quite good therapy well I&#8217;m feeling a little bit less overwhelmed as you can imagine my immediate concern is the mass that they found in my bladder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/10\/25\/hospital-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hospital Days<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ESHarringay.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ESHarringay.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ESHarringay.png?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ESHarringay.png?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ESHarringay.png?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-attachment-id=\"180476\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/09\/09\/dont-panic-whoops-too-late\/esharringay\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ESHarringay.png?fit=1087%2C906&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1087,906\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"ESHarringay\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ESHarringay.png?fit=604%2C503&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/10\/21\/i-had-a-heart-attack\/\">I had a heart attack<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">I&#8217;m still here but it&#8217;s been a hell of a ride so far 5 weeks in hospital which is not fun I&#8217;m waiting surgery for that dependent on my having cleared and infection and it might take a while With a fair wind I might make it home Christmas I sincerely hope so This is what is holding up my surgery it&#8217;s an infection that normally is in your gut but if I where to have the op it could kill me. Typing this from my hospital bed or rather dictating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/10\/21\/i-had-a-heart-attack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I had a heart attack<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got to on keep trying. Apparently. Even when you are running out of steam. And I am a wee bit I must confess. Today I assembled an exercise bike and it was quite a workout to be honest. Outdoor exercises at this season plays havoc with my arthritis, so it a useful winter compromise. Keeping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/01\/17\/moving-on-up-and-intrusive-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moving on up and Intrusive Thoughts<\/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_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-176420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JTu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":174846,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/02\/15\/feb-2021-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":176420,"position":0},"title":"Feb 2021 part 2","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Thank goodness its warming up a bit finally.\u00a0 So a chance to take a bit of stroll is now possible in relative comfort again. 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If you find this video disturbing and I find this profoundly disturbing myself , then ask yourself the question how have we sunk so low.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;disabilty and health news&quot;","block_context":{"text":"disabilty and health news","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/disabilty-and-health-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1369,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/06\/06\/still-not-right\/","url_meta":{"origin":176420,"position":2},"title":"Still not right","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I had been feeling a bit healthier for a couple of months, but seem to have lapsed back somewhat. Over the weekend I had a bit of a flair up which was hard going as we had 3 gigs in a row. They were all pretty well received too. Its\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":177285,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/05\/07\/definitely-getting-older-now-says-recent-opinion-poll\/","url_meta":{"origin":176420,"position":3},"title":"Definitely Getting Older Now Says Recent Opinion Poll","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Yep, I am creaking and groaning it's fair to say. I played a fairly long gig and it went well but I really have felt it the day after. I was ok but very much aching all over. And it's lasted a couple of days. 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