{"id":177865,"date":"2024-09-01T17:57:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=177865"},"modified":"2024-09-01T17:57:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:57:44","slug":"are-the-wheels-coming-off-the-bus-as-they-go-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/01\/are-the-wheels-coming-off-the-bus-as-they-go-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Are The Wheels Coming Off The Bus As They Go Round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just maybe they are. Start of a migraine this morning. Felt a bit stressed last night. Don&#8217;t know why. Anxiety can be managed but it never quite goes away. Everything feels a bit stale suddenly and the seasons change is becoming very visible due to the dry weather. Today I feel old and perhaps now also a little irrelevant. Is there a prescription for that? Apparently not it most cases. <br><br>The older I get the more I realise that it&#8217;s not about being right or wrong it&#8217;s just trying to do no harm. My legacy (if I were to have one ) would I hope be that one or two people liked me and maybe enjoyed my music and didn&#8217;t think I was a too much of a c****. If I am singing Bessie Smith&#8217;s&#8217; &#8220;Me and my gin&#8221; people like the racket I make and that weird noise that comes out is me, not me pretending to be somebody or something else&#8230;. Much like when I am singing my own songs I guess. I have some rude songs that I have never recorded as well. What am I like \ud83d\ude09<br><br>At present I am trying to convince my sister that with regard to her arm injury and the NHS screw up related to it a bad deal may be better than no deal as I think the best she can get is a compromise. Also I think the original consultant may have been over optimistic. Perhaps even to keep her spirits up. I don&#8217;t want to stop her trying to get the best fix possible but the effort required for an uncertain outcome may be frankly a waste of time. So that is a bit of a worry.<br>She is back in court very soon and hopefully to finally sort out a final ruling on inheritance from her partner which has been going on for about 3 years since he died. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"395\" data-attachment-id=\"177892\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/01\/are-the-wheels-coming-off-the-bus-as-they-go-round\/wayback\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Wayback-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1672&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1672\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wayback.\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Wayback-scaled.jpg?fit=604%2C395&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Wayback-1024x669.jpg?resize=604%2C395&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177892\" style=\"width:620px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Wayback-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C669&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Wayback-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Wayback-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C502&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Wayback-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1003&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Wayback-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1337&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Wayback-scaled.jpg?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Wayback-scaled.jpg?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything is fading. Really it is. I have been working on some new music, but it&#8217;s got very hot and I am taking a break. Yesterday it was 20C today its near to 30C. Crazy weather. <br>Played through some stuff on the piano to loosen up and I am totally knackered.<br><br>A few tunes<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1419570142&#038;color=%238c8cc8&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;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\/sets\/diana-stones-latest\" title=\"Diana Stones latest\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones latest<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just maybe they are. Start of a migraine this morning. Felt a bit stressed last night. Don&#8217;t know why. Anxiety can be managed but it never quite goes away. Everything feels a bit stale suddenly and the seasons change is becoming very visible due to the dry weather. Today I feel old and perhaps now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/01\/are-the-wheels-coming-off-the-bus-as-they-go-round\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are The Wheels Coming Off The Bus As They Go Round<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-pictures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KgN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":177527,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/06\/19\/learned-hopelessness\/","url_meta":{"origin":177865,"position":0},"title":"Learned Hopelessness","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I mostly just mumble a bit about depression and mental health mixed in with other stuff on this blog. 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