Time to read

Well, being in the Philipines really helped to destress myself, however it also gave me ALOT of time to reflect...hmmmm.....not a good idea for the depressed I found out. I think I handled it realatively well....but I guess my travelling companion can only really be the judge of that! While sunning ourselves on the beach I was able to start a book about the dreaded diagnosis and was pleasantly surprised to be laughing at parts and discovering new things. The journal is helping and I even have a new idea for an art piece, that is prgressing slowly and has derived from the song lyrics 'This is me'. Yay, let's cross fingers it keeps going somewhere! My first art piece in a few years........ Also, the book mentions starting a time diary of your day, writing down, food, drinking and drug habits. Well, you can scrap the last one, I have never been an avid pill user and I hate needles. The others are VERY relevent....coping mechanism for living where I do! Not keen to put too much pressure on myself with my 'assignment' journal and keeping another, I am putting it off and starting on another suggestion - music. Already a HUGE music listener and fan, it talks more directly about playing an instrument.....Piano.....my return is near....watch out! I have been haunted by the tuants of 'Fur Elise' (Beethoven), so I have printed it out and hope to start on the keyboards at school today - not quite the same as the real thing but I can't complain! We'll see how I go!