Learn to control money but do not allow it to control you

Cheery_Daff

Oh dear cherisong, how absolutely mortifying! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

MrsMoo2U

I know but the way she told the story was hilarious. I am laughing now when I picture her telling the story. She was a great character. She often missed her bus because she was reading her book at the bus stop and wouldnt notice it coming, she would read in the shower, turn up to work in odd shoes because she had been reading when she got dressed. She was a great person. She taught me lots of new words. Including some that I really didnt understand until I was a lot older.

savingwannabe

And even now she has made me laugh. Thank goodness for people like that.

Firewalker well done. You do cheer me up.

MrsMoo2U

Thank goodness indeed. And even though she was very different to FW I find that I think of her when I read your thread. Probably because you are well read and witty just as she was.

Nym_Mcfroglet

I've walked into broom cupboards countless times, usually when I was at university trying to find a different classroom. You walk in, unaware (well you do when you're me) then you agonise. Do you try to do the stealth route out? Or just brazen it and leap out at someone or do something random that appears to be rehearsed and hope they think you're a Drama student?

I have also missed stops from reading too much, never read in the shower though. I regularly turn up to work with clothes back to front or inside out. I would blame being academic but I think it's just that there's something missing on the sensible gene front

And Firewalker, Northern Lights is a brilliant book and I'm looking forward to my son discovering it. And it's about bloody time the Universe starts rewarding you, to more and more bountiful days and months in store for you xx

thrifty_fifty

Hi

Just thought I'd pop in to say thank-you FW for the Paul Coelho post. I've just located his blog and this has given me the lift in spirits I needed this morning. All of this is so true, and so today I'm going to be more appreciative of the small things. Hope you're having a super time in Paris.

Firewalker

cherisong wrote: »

Thank goodness indeed. And even though she was very different to FW I find that I think of her when I read your thread. Probably because you are well read and witty just as she was.

Cheri, we do not believe in coincidencies, do we now? From what you are describing I probably have a double somewhere around here. I have been know to miss trains (my Dad was really upset with this one), busses, my stop etc. because I am reading; the shower...have not tried yet (note the 'yet' please).

Nym, being an 'academic' seems to say it all. At some point I was worried that there is something seriously wrong. When Little Boy was about 18 months old I was working at home (writing) and went to the back kitchen. On the way back I wacked the door open, having forgotten that LB is not at his childminder's but home. Yep, he was behind the door and the whole thing looked like Tom and Jerry. So when he grew up a bit I had to explain that his 'mummy is not worse than other mummies, she is just different'.

But seriously, the forgetting thing is mainly preoccupation and obsession - two necessary attributes of academics. Not sufficient, though...

Firewalker

Firewalker

Right! The plan for today is:

Run
Read
Mop bathrooms (now that the furniture is there and mirrors and all)
Clean kitchen (optional)
Do washing (compulsory)

But first, another cup of coffee.

Firewalker

MrsMoo2U

HA! I love your compulsory and optional plans. Must remember that.
Another cup of coffee for me then tackling the kitchen!!

Nym_Mcfroglet

Firewalker wrote: »

Nym, being an 'academic' seems to say it all. At some point I was worried that there is something seriously wrong. When Little Boy was about 18 months old I was working at home (writing) and went to the back kitchen. On the way back I wacked the door open, having forgotten that LB is not at his childminder's but home. Yep, he was behind the door and the whole thing looked like Tom and Jerry. So when he grew up a bit I had to explain that his 'mummy is not worse than other mummies, she is just different'.

But seriously, the forgetting thing is mainly preoccupation and obsession - two necessary attributes of academics. Not sufficient, though...

Firewalker

My dear and sensible son has to remind me to feed him because I forget he may be hungry... he's 9 in the summer! I tell him all the time that I don't always know automatically how to be a proper mummy so sometimes he has to remind me. He finds that quite fun though.

Preoccupation, obsession, yep yep. Strong grasp on reality and life tasks? No chance!