A hug a cookie and a juice box

Suffering usually relates to wanting things not to be the way they are. How true. Having a dream a goal is crucial going forward,  I am constantly reminded that this is going to take months if not years to get to some level of "recovery" but I need done realistic dreams and goals along the way

"Let go or be dragged" I saw that on the visible site, very powerful,  but how much do I have to let go? 

It's coming up for my 2 year retirement anniversary I want to have hopefully my first drink, pink prosecco, just one glass 😊

I'm looking back and seeing all my walks around the lanes, how I missed them, this is what I want to get back to, I don't actually need anything else. My itch to get out and about has been scratched

Adventures with Scoobs any adventure with him

Steak frites with Jacky plus prosecco natch!

Sunrise dook with selkies

Coffee with Andy

Kaleidoscope with Kim

Bonnybridge weekend plus Kaleidoscope with Irene 

Mowgli with Wendy

OK I wasnt going to do this but then decided I do love looking back and really remembering how things were.

So let's have a page dedicated to retirement and especially at this point my first dance with covid, the title is taken from one of my favourite threads accounts - and mayhem ensued. He signs off each of his sketches he's with "have a hug a cookie and a juice box" it's just lovely, he pierces the MAGA crew mercilessly but also with some compassion I feel. I'm really enjoying threads at the moment very much like twitter in the early days.

Instagram feels stale and a but echoey just now

I'm going to start a list like I did when I had chemo, I can still see the wee book I wrote it in, it was a William Morris notebook it was my Tyoona juice and treats book, after Rosie and cheeto on IG, things to look forward too, things to tick off 

I'm completely reshaping retirement and it's not all bad, I love my house why would I spend most of my week away from it? I want it to be clean and tidy and well looked after it's been my haven and sanctuary more than once it deserves to be looked after.

Today I cut ties with training and with TT, I will miss training and my frites after but not TT, they were taking the piss they really were. I'm sad in many ways but also quite excited, this is giving me the chance to shape my retirement having learned the lessons of the last two years, thats actually quite powerful.