{"id":178722,"date":"2025-03-01T14:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T14:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178722"},"modified":"2025-03-01T14:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T14:49:20","slug":"march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/03\/01\/march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a place I was not expecting to arrive at and where we go from here is another matter entirely. I have had a few recurring health issues that are making life a bit less fun.  I am frustrated as I am just not able to do what I was planning on so easily.   Some issued seem to be anxiety triggered as well. There is an underlying cause I am sure, but one that I don&#8217;t see any way of resolving at present.  Also I can&#8217;t get what&#8217;s going on in the world out of my head. That&#8217;s in part due to my isolation to a degree. <br><br>I realised very recently that it&#8217;s not just my physical reserves that have dwindled but also my resolve generally and I can&#8217;t deal with emotional issues so well. If Vicky and I had been able to keep gigging a few more years we would I suspect by now have reached the limit. There is a huge gulf between what we would like to do and what we are still capable of. I can still play OK, but I am all about avoiding stress now. This band is mostly low maintenance so I can just let them chug along hopefully. My personal life is OK. My partner is good company when I need it so I am not lonely. She is comfortable enough though it is looking as she will end up not driving sooner rather than later. She doesn&#8217;t enjoy it now.  So getting the other car back on the road may well be just to sell it if possible.<br><br>In the days when I was gigging 3 or 4 days a week and going with Vicky to get new gigs and help with interviews for Blues Matters and stuff I was in a very small flat but it did not matter as I was only in about 3 days a week day or so at most. So the environment did not matter so much as I was distracted by the other stuff going on. I would go barking mad if we were living there now.<br>We have space and every convenience on hand. Yesterday we had our first bulk supermarket delivery here. Makes life a lot easier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music pretty much has taken over my life. Writing it, playing it, recording it and listening too it. I just wish I had the stamina I had ten years back. So it&#8217;s my thing and it helps keep me sane (to a degree) <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t4c\/1\/16\/1f642.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude42\"><br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<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\/2036452804&#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><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;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/so-low\" title=\"So Low\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">So Low<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a place I was not expecting to arrive at and where we go from here is another matter entirely. I have had a few recurring health issues that are making life a bit less fun. I am frustrated as I am just not able to do what I was planning on so easily. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/03\/01\/march-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March 2025<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178737,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/home1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1244&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KuC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":177695,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/07\/25\/its-a-mad-mad-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":178722,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s a mad, mad world","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"My brain is a bit fried this week. 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