Today is a new day!

InaPickle

P.S. I just got a letter from Cancer Research telling me that I got a place in the London Marathon next year! Maybe my stroke of luck just happened!

POSITIVE_AND_FOCUSED

InaPickle wrote: »

P.S. I just got a letter from Cancer Research telling me that I got a place in the London Marathon next year! Maybe my stroke of luck just happened!

Thats fantastic In a Pickle. Ever so well done. You will really enjoy it. Ive done the London to Brighton cycle ride before now. Always had a trike when I was younger. The roads best friend - I dont think - taking up half of it!!! But I completed the ride one year with my dad. Dad wanted to go on ahead which was fine by me, I liked chatting to other people on route and stopping for a cuppa here and there. When I reached Brighton finally, I called my mum to say I couldn't find dad, hed arrived home a couple of hours previously. You had to laugh, family joke to this day how long that ride took me. I was well known at the train station, not many people had a bright yellow trike like I had, and the staff were ever so sweet. I was dead to the world asleep and one of them knowing I had to get off to get home woke me up. Oh they were good memories! But as you sort of said in your earlier message its the taking part that counts. They are a great experience those sort of things, and I wish you well.

Thank you for your post! Its over now. I heed what you say, I know what you say is true deep down, and like you we've just got to get on with it. With regard to positive things happening, the greatest gift of all to me was my dd. I genuinely thought I wouldn't have any children and thought time was running out at 38 as I was then, but she was truely a miracle and I often wonder where I would be without her, fortunately Im not! I look at her sleeping and sometimes can't quite believe shes here. I could cuddle her forever!!! Take care In a Pickle!

InaPickle

POSITIVE_AND_FOCUSED wrote: »

You will really enjoy it.

Ha! I wouldn't go that far! I don't know, maybe I will. I've never set myelf a physical challenge before: I've always been a thinker, if you know what I mean.

And :rotfl:at your trike riding! :T I've got a lovely metallic turquoise bike in the back garden which rarely gets exercised. I think I'll have to take it out after reading that.

And particularly well done regarding your daughter. She is blinking lucky to have a mum like you. :A

elantan

InaPickle wrote: »

P.S. I just got a letter from Cancer Research telling me that I got a place in the London Marathon next year! Maybe my stroke of luck just happened!

great news pickle really delighted for you when did you apply for it?

InaPickle

elantan wrote: »

great news pickle really delighted for you when did you apply for it?

Ooh...the official ballot for normal runners opens the day after the race. (It closed after 3 days as the demand was so great this year!) I don't know when the offical cut-off point is for charities (some say it's right up until the end, according to availability), but I applied for those at the same time to give myself the best chance. It's really hard to get a place so I knew I had to get in ASAP. I still haven't heard about a 'normal' place, but I'll run that for charity anyway if I get it, and I won't hear until next month.

POSITIVE_AND_FOCUSED

Thank you Scrooge. I do go through these patches where I feel totally done in and hard done by when dealing with life in general. Prob why I nevergot on with The Secret book in the sense that I do not for one minute think disability and such like is because of the person thinking negatively ( Put v simply I know). Some things are just the way we are as we live in an imperfect world and thats that. Your son will be absolutely ok in his life with his determination and attitude. Please dont think for one minute I do think Im really hard done by and ungrateful, I m just selfish sometimes! I actually like being me and proving peoples pre conceptions of me wrong. Its become a part of me over the years!

My disability was the result of a whooping cough jab as a baby so I was born ok. Ive made my peace with that, and my parents have fought for me every day and never gave up on me. I have given up on ever receiving compensation from the govt who have flatly denied it ever happened when it most definately did and have since conveniently lost my medical records covering the 6 crucial months in question, bu I feel life is too short to be adding them - the govt - to the fighting list! One doc told mum and dad I would be a vegetable and it was wise for them not to have hope. That was in the olden days as my dd calls them - the olden days are when I was born in 1965! Anyway, they wouldn't give up on me mum and dad. I couldn't walk till I was about 4/5 and regularly visitedGreat Orman Street for checks etc. Had an op etc etc. Now, In my mind I visualise myself as normal, I generally dont even refer to my disability in my day to day life, just I let my negative thoughts come out about it somewhere from time to time, as its when you try and merge with everyone else in life. I want to be nrmal, and I work really hard to be that, however the fact remains that as much as I may visualise me doing sometghing in an hour say, the truth is treat me like the weather, double it and add 30, not quite that bad but you get the idea. It takes longer to do, it takes up more energy and effort, I get tired, and I simply can not do as much as I would want to in my mind!!

Anyway, moving on today is a new day! Am looking forward to the weekend as sun is ebay day! Yeah, and tomorrow - sat - I will be working with dd for some of it but that will be because we are travelling to my sis after school with mum to celebrate my neices 5 year birthday today, so a shorter day working today. Dd is beside herself with excitement to see her cousins. It will be an hour and a half in the car I should think with rush hour and all. Anyway, looking forward to it.

Take care and thank you once again xx

POSITIVE_AND_FOCUSED

Good, Egg have taken the dd payt that was due on the 9th, so upstraight with them. Due to pay my Natwest card payt today, and waiting for an updated s/s from Sainsburys, then will know my exact debt left o/s and will be able to update my signature! Everyone is then upstraight with payts owed.

Aniya

Good News PAF :T Great diary x

POSITIVE_AND_FOCUSED

Just picked up 12 eggs for a £1 from Iceland. A good size they are ideal for baking. Plan today:

Banking done,
making cakes for neices party later in a mo, get sorted with change of clothes for dd and me for when I pick her up from school in readiness for travelling to sis.
Load car with the above.
Leave home for working, do bus banking, pick up 15 books, deliver as many books as poss before 2.30pm. Call 2 prospects, go to Post Office on way to school, collect dd, change, leave with mum and dd to go to sis.

Plan tom, Treat ourselves to boiled egg and soldiers, a dd and me fav for brekkie!! Do whatever needs to be done left over from today re books, have a picnic in the middle of doing that, make it nice for dd, call prospects, do the washing, deliver a couple of orders, make a nice casserole for supper. Cuddle up with dd and watch X factor!!

Sun, do ironing, tidy up the garden a bit, do my ebay things, email 25 prospects, do a nice casserole and crumble for aunty who is unwell. mum and dad are seeing her on tues, and so they can take them over with them for her fridge/freezer. Prepare for next week. Enjoy time with dd of course. She will prob want to be my asst!!!

On with todays plan, bake the cakes and get on with building my business!

The_Golden_Goose

Sounds like a whirlwind of a plan!

Busy is best. In fact, when I am busy, even if I do say so myself, I am super. When I have nothing to do or something without a deadline...... I am my own worst enemy. Procrastinator extroadinaire. Busy is best.