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

Want_to_be_free

Dear Firewalker

I started reading your diary yesterday, I am only on page 17 - it is not only interesting but so far educational too. Your questions are tickling my brain - I like it , I like it a lot. Let’s see how long it will take me to catch up. I am a quick reader, comes from years of education, saying that I am not just reading but digesting too...

I laughed when you asked ''If you were a car, which one would it be? '' Last six months, I have been keep thinking and shamelessly keep telling people that 'I am a Porsche, small but beautiful, strong and powerful'

I am a foreigner like you, so when you asked ' where are you from ? I exactly understood what you mean by this. I think/ feel ,I am part of this society after 15 + years...So much that I am no longer familiar with my original one, well at least not as much as I would like to ...

By the way, I also have one of those little ones and incidentally I call him 'Not So Little Boy' knowing he will be my little one forewer...

Thank you Firewalker , for making me think, laugh and think again . Now 106 pages to go ...

Firewalker

Welcome Want_to_be_free. Good on the Porsch - I am moving towards being a Ford Mondeo, I am afraid.

Sorry, this is a lot of reading - please do skip over the boring bits. When one writes loads (or speaks a lot) some of it is inevitably carp.

Firewalker

Firewalker

When I last wrote we were on our way out - to sort out the electronic banking and to my favourite coffee bar. So it was; we collected the documents from the bank and walked straight to the coffee bar. It is a serious walk of about three miles (possibly more). It was a nice sunny but not very hot day so we we enjoying ourselves. We had lunch and then went to the coffee bar, ordered and started discussing some of the stuff I write for the blog.

I was noting things in my notebook; pressed on my leg...and the whole universe exploded with pain (and the coffee bar with my scream). Yep, a wasp. Waiters started running around with glasses of ice, OH made a line for my finger trying to get out the sting. What a lark!

Came back home and I got a nose bleed - what is wrong with me? I arrived here training for a marathon and am going back limping and with a swollen finger.

Loads to be recovered...but the universe knows I am getting younger by the minute; that my leg will be formidable when healed and that wasps will keep away - just in case I sting them.

Tomorrow we are coming back. This was very nice but I can't wait.

Firewalker

savingwannabe

Oh dear. That's why the Good Lord invented chocolate, cakes, Minstrels and alcohol - poor you.

I hope you feel better and have a safe trip. My first day back at worky poos tomorrow. After a 6.5 week holiday. And i am still smiling. Yay.

Firewalker

We are back. Just arrived home and...I couldn't believe it. The house is really clean and tidy; DS1 has done a very good job of it. I was so touched that almost started crying.

On a different matter, and MSE one at that, my sister has finally mastered Skype - she is a late adopter bless her. This meant that we just spoke on Skype without paying anything at all.

Oh, and today I had to make another trip to Tokuda hospital - two hours before we left for the airport. Last night I saw a stitch starting to come out of one of my scars - so it had to be sorted. Before the quality of the procedure is questioned I have to say that it is my body that is rejecting them; we - my body and I - have already had a serious chat about all this and I have had a promise that it will be on it's best behaviour from now on.

Rest is called for it seems. Look after yourselves, my friends and will write soon.

Firewalker

Firewalker

It is amazing how exactly when blackness and doubts start spreading and one is about to take the wrong decision something happens to restore believe? Now is confession time! It all started with the Wasp.

When it stung me last Monday I was writing a blog post; one where – as I have said here many times – I argued that personal finance is not about the basic rules that most books and blogs give you (like spend less than you earn) but it is about motivation, persistence, ingenuity and character. It was a hard one to write and my favourite ‘sounding board’ (OH) kept pushing me to clarify it. After the Wasp, I finished and published the post but felt very bad about the whole thing, thinking that ‘it is all carp’ anyway and considering calling it a day. The wasp was saying

‘Look here, an A-list blogger-nerd you are not and you are not going to be. This is such large investment; your time is precious and you should choose wisely what to do with it.’

Stuff the Wasp! The same post got picked by one of the top American bloggers (one I have never spoken to) and he tweeted it. My visits have spiked and people are reading. This makes all evenings and weekends when I research, write and design new tools worth it. But have a lost completely my ability to judge my work?

Today, I was up early again – working is resuming. Hard though – not the work but the preparation. I am still not allowed to sit down for long; this means that I have to be in bed (on the sofa) with all the stuff I need around me. But today will be a good day – I am going to finish (or as good as) the first chapter of a very big (in all senses) and (I hope) influential report that I have to do.

Firewalker

Happytogetdebtfree

Welcome back and yay on the american who tweeted your blog be kind to yourself... im off to bed for my post night sleep and last one to do tonight happy days

greenbee

Great news on the blog FW.

And remember, you're not the only one working from the sofa with piles of clutter around them getting frustrated by it

The sun is shining today, so I'm hoping to spend part of the working day lying in the garden!

Firewalker

greenbee wrote: »

Great news on the blog FW.

And remember, you're not the only one working from the sofa with piles of clutter around them getting frustrated by it

The sun is shining today, so I'm hoping to spend part of the working day lying in the garden!

I do remember, Greenbee. In fact, I was thinking about you when setting up my working space here - in Sofia it was all set up naturally.

You know what, it also has escalated - now my other leg hurts as well (I suppose because I have been walking funny) and I am thinking that this cycle of unwelness has to be broken. Question is how do I do it. Any tips here?

FW

Firewalker

Forgot to mention - the breaking of the cycle may be in moving more. There was a study in the 1980s where healthy fit students were put on bed rest for couple of weeks. After that they were in very bad shape and health indeed - this changed medical post operative and illness practice (this is why we get out of bed much faster after operations today).

Worth a try I thing - but the balance between resting and moving (and working but laying down rather then sitting) will be hard to find.

Firewalker