Language shifts. Catchy phrases especially. We tend to use our own experiences to fill in the gaps when we first hear them. For me this term just asks a simple question: does this make you happy, or is it a burden?

I’m at the stage where I’m reliving all kinds of memories going through photos of my costumes. There are tens of thousands of these photos, well including copies, including all the cropped versions from my websites and SocMed. But it’s now a joy. Finally.

I think my tendons are finally at the point I can start to rebuild rather than just maintain. I’m able to go up on my toes, especially in my indoor shoes. This means walking will be a joy again and not time away from my research and projects and full of stress about whether I’m going to injure myself again. I did get carried away with walking on my tip toes but even that has settled.

And my gateway project, my Pink Diamonds restoration, is also making me happy. I over engineered the support but even that was fun to fix. And this photo reorganising means I have the history of what I made and how and that’s really exciting. I might have to hunt through my stack of cds (oh yes) for scans because quite a few images were resized for 56.6kb landlines.

So yes, after just back to back issues I’m feeling much more relaxed about where I am right now.