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To celebrate every success great or small is vital to my mental health! I took the train from Vancouver, WA to visit a friend in St. Paul. Took a good friend with me and all of us had a great time. Gone 9 nights - which is 4 nights longer than my best since the strokes altered my reality.

Am slowly learning to recognize and celebrate those successes. With something like a trip, the challenge is obvious and the success also. It is the smaller things that I too often fail to even notice. A friend pointed out to me that if I put the amount of energy into hand writing that I put into other things, the writing would improve. I didn't like her saying that! So I am trying to make myself spend a few minutes a couple of times a day writing. I suspect that doing this simple thing is a success, especially in the light of how little patience I have with this motor skill that once came so easily. . . :Tantrum:

Are you ever surprised to find yourself past middle age? I don't spend a lot of time lamenting my age (60) but with the strokes and fibromyalgia placing such unwelcomed limits, it is hard not to notice that other people my age are so much more functional... is there an emtion con for whining? Cause that is what I am doing! There are a zillion people who have less to whine about and a bazillion people who have more to whine about that I do!!

Will give myself the precious gift of rest from the trip. :cocktail:

Linnie58 - no make that 60!