Snooker from yesterday + dance practice today
Wednesday, 4 September 2024 14:13![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zimenaSo, yesterday's snooker was partly very nice (thanks, Ronnie!) and partly very painful (because Mark lost 3-5 to Neil). I must admit that it took me a few hours to get over the painful match (I love Mark very intensely right now), but I also had a friend over to watch Ronnie's match with me in the evening, so I had to refocus because of him. We ended up having a very nice evening together - not only because of the match, though.
So, about this friend, I haven't talked about him that much in my journal before. We first got to know each other in my former workplace, more than 20 years ago. Only, we didn't really make friends then, we just... knew who each other were, since that time. Our friendship only started about a year and a half ago, when I started attending an exercise group he was already part of. That group is also part of a local activity centre, where I've also become more active since I first joined the group.
Anyway, he's blind, so most of our other friends don't really understand how he is able to enjoy following snooker with me, as it's such a very visual sport. I suppose I also do not truly understand what he gets out of it, but I try to explain a bit about the game and which possibilities are on the table when we watch things. Plus, he picks up on what the commentators are saying, and on my emotional state really well. It seems to me that part of his enjoyment of it is the intensity, the emotional side of things. It's obviously hard for him to appreciate the shots individually - and things change too fast for me to explain these nuances to him while watching a match. Either way, we see each other fairly often, and talk on the phone even more often, so you should know about him now.
Maybe I should start calling people by initial in my journal, like I've seen some of you do. If so, I might make a separate post about who's who soon. But as for this guy, let's call him C.
So, the match finished in... I guess about 90 minutes, so around 8:30pm or something? But he still stayed until past 11pm, so that probably tells you that we had a nice evening together. (Also, before you ask, we are friends and nothing more. He has a girlfriend, HG, who is also a friend of mine, too.)
Then, this morning I was already out at 8:30, because they're starting up a new Morning Dance group at the activity centre. This idea started as a joke between me and a couple of other women back before the summer, and now it's actually being set up. Because I was part of the group that first came up with the idea, I felt that it was important to be there for the first session. It's very informal - we put some music on, and we dance however we feel like. The main point is just to move about and to enjoy the music - it's not a "class" in the sense that the aim is to "practice" specific skills. It was also fun for me to get spun around a couple of times, because with the new active wheelchair that I got a few weeks back, that is now a possibility - whereas it would have been a lot harder to dance in my old one, because was so much heavier to move.
Either way, I stayed at the centre for a little while after the dancing, just to talk with people and be around them for a bit. Went back home when I started to feel like I'd had my fill of social interactions for a while, because I'm still kind of shy and might feel a bit awkward around people, even though I'm working on it, and it's "better" than it used to be.
Now I'm about to go out with my cousin, because we're going to look at the new Google Pixel 9 XL phones that got released recently. I'm looking forward to it, and let's be honest - I find those phones very interesting, and I'd love to buy one. I'm not sure I can justify buying a new phone, though, as my current one still works (apart from being a massive battery eater), and it's only 2 years old. I start putting aside money for a phone soon after getting a new one, though, so I have the money... and there's some resell value in my old one, too. But still - buy a phone? Now? Can I? I need to think it through. But I can definitely look... right?
So, about this friend, I haven't talked about him that much in my journal before. We first got to know each other in my former workplace, more than 20 years ago. Only, we didn't really make friends then, we just... knew who each other were, since that time. Our friendship only started about a year and a half ago, when I started attending an exercise group he was already part of. That group is also part of a local activity centre, where I've also become more active since I first joined the group.
Anyway, he's blind, so most of our other friends don't really understand how he is able to enjoy following snooker with me, as it's such a very visual sport. I suppose I also do not truly understand what he gets out of it, but I try to explain a bit about the game and which possibilities are on the table when we watch things. Plus, he picks up on what the commentators are saying, and on my emotional state really well. It seems to me that part of his enjoyment of it is the intensity, the emotional side of things. It's obviously hard for him to appreciate the shots individually - and things change too fast for me to explain these nuances to him while watching a match. Either way, we see each other fairly often, and talk on the phone even more often, so you should know about him now.
Maybe I should start calling people by initial in my journal, like I've seen some of you do. If so, I might make a separate post about who's who soon. But as for this guy, let's call him C.
So, the match finished in... I guess about 90 minutes, so around 8:30pm or something? But he still stayed until past 11pm, so that probably tells you that we had a nice evening together. (Also, before you ask, we are friends and nothing more. He has a girlfriend, HG, who is also a friend of mine, too.)
Then, this morning I was already out at 8:30, because they're starting up a new Morning Dance group at the activity centre. This idea started as a joke between me and a couple of other women back before the summer, and now it's actually being set up. Because I was part of the group that first came up with the idea, I felt that it was important to be there for the first session. It's very informal - we put some music on, and we dance however we feel like. The main point is just to move about and to enjoy the music - it's not a "class" in the sense that the aim is to "practice" specific skills. It was also fun for me to get spun around a couple of times, because with the new active wheelchair that I got a few weeks back, that is now a possibility - whereas it would have been a lot harder to dance in my old one, because was so much heavier to move.
Either way, I stayed at the centre for a little while after the dancing, just to talk with people and be around them for a bit. Went back home when I started to feel like I'd had my fill of social interactions for a while, because I'm still kind of shy and might feel a bit awkward around people, even though I'm working on it, and it's "better" than it used to be.
Now I'm about to go out with my cousin, because we're going to look at the new Google Pixel 9 XL phones that got released recently. I'm looking forward to it, and let's be honest - I find those phones very interesting, and I'd love to buy one. I'm not sure I can justify buying a new phone, though, as my current one still works (apart from being a massive battery eater), and it's only 2 years old. I start putting aside money for a phone soon after getting a new one, though, so I have the money... and there's some resell value in my old one, too. But still - buy a phone? Now? Can I? I need to think it through. But I can definitely look... right?