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Doing what you LOVE to do - before, during & after BC! What's YOUR favourite?
Hi guys
I am really lucky in that I have 2 BIG passions that consume a lot of my time ..... and (no surprise to some of you ....)
Ukulele Playing - this was a library gig we did last year .... (I am 4th from left, front row.) Our ages range from the 50s - 80s. Every 4-6 weeks we play 'gigs' at 4 Nursing Homes - and we practise weekly at another nursing home ... so I guess you can call us 'volunteers'?? Some of our members are older than the people we are playing for! LOL
and
Kayak Fishing - I love nothing more than hitting the lake with a bunch of buddies.
Yesterday, I was getting cabin fever from lack of fishing (wet & windy here for the last week), so I grabbed a warm jacket
& walked the edge of the Boat Ramp .... I was busted off on the first fish :( (a good sized Flattie from the power of it's head shakes!) then dropped the next few that spat the hook .... then finally landed another nice one, that came home for dinner!!
So WHAT IS IT that puts that 'gleam in YOUR eye' - is it Golf (I play it badly), Playing Bridge (never tried it - I think you have to be 'serious' to play Bridge), Singing (that goes hand in hand with Uke Playing), Community Groups/Volunteering, Tapestry, Running (I couldn't run round the block to save my life!), ..... that gets you out of bed quicker in the morning if you know you are going to 'do it' ........
How has your surgery/treatment impacted on you doing 'YOUR TIME" stuff? Have you had to stop doing it or can't do it as often due to your treatment? Do you find you find you are still expected to do EVERYTHING ELSE at the expense of 'Your Time'?
Prior to my surgery, my uke group were amongst my greatest allies - I had to tell them straight away as we were gearing up for a big performance at the Blue Mountains Uke Festival - and I didn't know if I would be there for them!! After my surgery, I was back playing again 2 weeks later - but was very mindful of where my uke sat - as it was right across the affected boob!! The Blue Mountains gig was 3 weeks after my surgery - and luckily, I made it!! 4 of my Uke group have had BC & were able to offer info & support.
My Fishing Buddies were also an immense support to me as well (as indeed they were when Hubby was going thru his cancer in 2010) - I've caught up with a fair few of them since I was diagnosed & it has just been terrific. A bunch of my kayak fishing ladies had also had BC and were a wonderful source of info & advice!
Part of my philosophy to recovery is to try & keep 'busy' with 'stuff' so that your mind is kept active & is a 'happy thing' compared to what we are going thru daily just now (Hmmmm - tho I REALLY should be decluttering our home - but that doesn't excite me as much! LOL)
SO, let's get a list going of all your favourite pastimes ..... then, if anyone on the forum is living near you or passing thru - you may be able to share your passion with them to help them 'while away' the time!!
I am really lucky in that I have 2 BIG passions that consume a lot of my time ..... and (no surprise to some of you ....)
Ukulele Playing - this was a library gig we did last year .... (I am 4th from left, front row.) Our ages range from the 50s - 80s. Every 4-6 weeks we play 'gigs' at 4 Nursing Homes - and we practise weekly at another nursing home ... so I guess you can call us 'volunteers'?? Some of our members are older than the people we are playing for! LOL
and
Kayak Fishing - I love nothing more than hitting the lake with a bunch of buddies.
Yesterday, I was getting cabin fever from lack of fishing (wet & windy here for the last week), so I grabbed a warm jacket
& walked the edge of the Boat Ramp .... I was busted off on the first fish :( (a good sized Flattie from the power of it's head shakes!) then dropped the next few that spat the hook .... then finally landed another nice one, that came home for dinner!!
So WHAT IS IT that puts that 'gleam in YOUR eye' - is it Golf (I play it badly), Playing Bridge (never tried it - I think you have to be 'serious' to play Bridge), Singing (that goes hand in hand with Uke Playing), Community Groups/Volunteering, Tapestry, Running (I couldn't run round the block to save my life!), ..... that gets you out of bed quicker in the morning if you know you are going to 'do it' ........
How has your surgery/treatment impacted on you doing 'YOUR TIME" stuff? Have you had to stop doing it or can't do it as often due to your treatment? Do you find you find you are still expected to do EVERYTHING ELSE at the expense of 'Your Time'?
Prior to my surgery, my uke group were amongst my greatest allies - I had to tell them straight away as we were gearing up for a big performance at the Blue Mountains Uke Festival - and I didn't know if I would be there for them!! After my surgery, I was back playing again 2 weeks later - but was very mindful of where my uke sat - as it was right across the affected boob!! The Blue Mountains gig was 3 weeks after my surgery - and luckily, I made it!! 4 of my Uke group have had BC & were able to offer info & support.
My Fishing Buddies were also an immense support to me as well (as indeed they were when Hubby was going thru his cancer in 2010) - I've caught up with a fair few of them since I was diagnosed & it has just been terrific. A bunch of my kayak fishing ladies had also had BC and were a wonderful source of info & advice!
Part of my philosophy to recovery is to try & keep 'busy' with 'stuff' so that your mind is kept active & is a 'happy thing' compared to what we are going thru daily just now (Hmmmm - tho I REALLY should be decluttering our home - but that doesn't excite me as much! LOL)
SO, let's get a list going of all your favourite pastimes ..... then, if anyone on the forum is living near you or passing thru - you may be able to share your passion with them to help them 'while away' the time!!
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- @Blossom1961
No left him for the next tenants to enjoy!
Now I have the luxury of an inside toilet!
Still have plenty of snakes on the block. I don't mind the pythons. It's the "cheeky" snakes I get the heebie jeebies about. Read poisonous for "cheeky". (Kimberley lingo). - @Annie C Did you take your Python with you when you moved?
- @Annie C I used to have a pretend frog sitting near the base of my toilet. He broke after people kept kicking him thinking he was alive! Very cruel. So now I have a number of large (too large to be real in Victoria) pretend spiders that people try to squash but they are rubber so when they pick up their foot it jumps. I bought another frog but it sits on a lounge room shelf.
- @Blossom1961
I well remember the time when my older sister came to stay. She is very "citified", (I have lost my city nanners).
We were living in an old house in town that had an "outback" toilet. My sister asked me to do something about the frogs in the toilet. I told her it was not the frogs she had to worry about, then quietly mentioned "Sam" the big python who lived in the rafters of the toilet and helped himself to the frogs.
She made me move him! Never told her he was back the next day! I am not a nice sister. - @Annie C I loved the green tree frogs when we were up North. And they certainly loved toilet bowls. I remember a backpacker screaming in the toilet next to mine. I ran over where she stood outside the door pointing and babbling. There was the lovely green tree frog she had just sat over. She flushed the toilet and that is when it jumped out at her. Sorry, I laughed.
Mataranka was an interesting spot too. I sat on the toilet and felt something tickling my butt. I stood up, nothing there, I sat down, tickle tickle, I stood up, nothing there. I finished then flushed the toilet. Out came a HUGE spider. After the initial shock, I thought it was funny. None of the other ladies in camp were amused by my story! - @Blossom1961
The crocs and I have an understanding - I keep out of their bathwater and they keep out of my shower!
Just wish the big green tree frogs have the same understanding with the toilet! - @Annie C No need to worry. The word Crocs will keep most of us away.
- Damn I have just realised I have given away my "secret spots"!
- Ladies, there is nothing in this world that comes close to a day spent by the river at Telegraph Pool, or Langie Crossing or out at Poultons Pool chasing a barra while keeping an eye out for the crocs.
- YAY! @Zoffiel ... Another Fishing tragic - feel free to join Team Breasties! ;) ...... yeah - More like $100+ .... but the $ doesn't count, does it!? It is the fun & skill in getting the little suckers to take something fake that they only 'think' looks like food! ;) (And we are not wasting it on gambling or other useless pursuits!) ;)
