Just checking in.

[CheerBear]

Morning @Mazarita and @Teej and anyone who might be up at this early hour. (Tagging you both in case you're up and feeling up for a chat)

❤

[Mazarita]

Good morning, @CheerBear. 

How are you today? 

[CheerBear]

Hey @Mazarita 🙂 I'm good this morning thanks, aside from feeling a bit like there are things I should be doing alread yeven though I know there really isn't. That feeling isn't as intense as it can be though so that's a good thing.

How are you going and how was your evening?

[Mazarita]

@CheerBear, wondering if that feeling of things that should be done already is because of xmas? For both of us, I wish relaxation of nerves sometimes. Just now, I was making myself breakfast, and had to consciously slow down my movements because I was going too hard and fast at it! Lol.

I guess that says how I'm going this morning, hehe. I've been up for three hours, after about 90 minutes sleep. You guessed it: video stuff. Mostly catching up on watching some by artists I know and follow, but haven't been able to get to while taken up with the competition. I've seen some beautiful videos overnight. 

My evening: video. LMAO. 

[CheerBear]

Haha @Mazarita! I had a feeling you might have been videoing. Are the videos you watch on places like YouTube?

That feeling is definitely an xmas one for me. Interesting you say about needing to consciously slow down too. I feel an extreme sense of needing to go hard and fast often. Last night I was with friend and he described me as being super charged and like I had way too much coffee or other stimulants. It felt like I couldn't sit down and like I was looking for the next thing to do on a never ending to-do list. It was actually kind of scary for a bit 😏 I'm enjoying the slowness of the morning and listening to the birds today - it's calming.

How's today looking for you (love the way you phrase that and have borrowed that one from you!)

[Mazarita]

@CheerBear, feel free with the phrases. I sometimes think about how we kind of evolve certain common words and expressions between us on the forum. For example, the 'feels'. I think that's one from you. 

The videos are sometimes on YouTube, more often on another site, which I use too as a kind of 'home' for my work. I've just updated my own YouTube channel recently though, adding lots of the same videos there as I have on the other site. YouTube is more popular by far, so it might mean my work reaches a few extra people.

Hard and fast. I can sense how that might be a way of things for you, at least partly related, I imagine, to how much you have on a lot of the time! Maybe, like me, some hard-wired nervous system/brain chemistry stuff too. I consciously slow down my actions a lot actually. Seems to help keep me a bit more in control of my propensity to just ramp up and up, with the rising body and mind tension that goes with it.

Today I want to do washing. Also clean my bathroom. It would be a miracle if I could tear myself away from the flat and go for a walk on the beach. Will check tides later, to see if I can time it for low tide, as that's the only time I walk there due to the leg and feet trouble. Aside from that, video. 

What's your day looking like?

[CheerBear]

So much wishing you could share your channel @Mazarita! I was thinking there may be another site you watch and share videos from. If there is ever one you come across that could be forum shareable and something you feel comfortable sharing, I'd love to see, though I understand that might be a stretch.

I would love to be more able to slow down like I sense you do pretty well. That may have come from a lot of practice for you though. Can add it to my to-do list to try more of 😉

Hoping the tides are right for you and you get to the beach as I know how much you enjoy that one.

Today I will pack up some furballs and head away to join my people. We'll get busy (theres the driver for the supercharge!) organising and preparing for a full house over the next days. Big and I are doing their little home made gift today which is a dairy free, gluten free chocolate peanut fudge, which I am really looking forward to doing with them 🙂 Other than that Itll be enjoying (or not lol) the excitement of late December with a little crew.

I see hot air balloons peacefully floating in an amazingly still, clear sky ❤

[Mazarita]

Hot air balloons in the sky at dawn sounds so wonderful, @CheerBear. Reminds me of when I used to live in the big city just north of us here. It was the fifth floor of a high rise apartment on a hill. I remember the balloons so well floating high in the early morning sky. A special sight to start the day.

I once set up an anonymous YouTube account under my name here, Mazarita. In earlier years, I was able that way to share a couple of videos I made with PeppiPatty's poetry. Can no longer do that due to tightening of privacy on the forum. Probably just as well, as even anonymous personal sites can can have threads leading back to identifying us. But I'd love to be able to share some of my creativity in this area with friends here. You'll just have to put up with me continuing to rave on about them, without ever knowing whether they are quite good or pretty crap. 

Ah, you are spending time away from for the rest of the xmas days. Despite the possible chaos factor, I hope you find warmth in the familiar company, and some joy mixed in too. 

We are spending xmas day with our close friend. She's home alone aside from that, as her brother is going to the big city a bit north, to spend time with his closest friends. We've spent quite a few xmas days with our close friend over the years. It is likely to be very low key but enjoyable.

[CheerBear]

I was able to see one video between you and PeppiPatty, possibly just before the guidelines were tightened there @Mazarita, so I have some kind of idea of them though I don't remember what it was exactly (just the feeling I had watching it). I'll continue to listen with interest, knowing they are awesome (not crap lol) even if I don't actually know that, and using my imagination to fill in the rest 😊

Low key with your close people sounds like a great way to spend the day. We will be away with not a huge amount of people but enough to have to step over sleeping bodies scattered through a little-ish place and plenty to hang out with. There will be our furballs plus a puppy which will be interesting too. Definitely will have company and joy over the next days 🙂

Speaking of company, I'm going to be annoyingly bouncy and wake up a friend who has been here while I have an emptier house than usual. Wondering how he'll take my way too early for him "rise and shine"! 😆

Lovely to catch you this morning. Hoping your day has good in it for you ❤

[Mazarita]

Love how you snuck in that your friend is there, @CheerBear, just as you are leaving. 

Yes, those videos with PP were very simple compared to what I usually do. Also my level of skill and creativity has developed quite a lot since then. It's kind of cool that you have to imagine the videos, as then you will be able to imagine them possibly better than they are. 

Have a good one today, my dear bear of cheer.