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MrsMoo2U

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

I love how positive you are! Your holiday sounds fab. And I love the idea of imagining your new life and projecting it forwards :j

Aww thanks Cheery. All of my friends used to say that I was a positive person. I lost my way for a while there so I am working hard at changing my mind set. It does pay to have positive thoughts.

Onwards and upwards, to infinity and beyond :j:j

MrsMoo2U

polesalot wrote: »

I think your life sounds wonderful. I'm not really a dog person but I love hearing about your walks in the forest and by the beach. I would love to be able to start my day like that The last 2 mornings I have overslept

I will think of you on the last night of the proms. is it televised? can you wear all purple so we can pick you out in the crowds?!

I can see you dogwalking in October and beyond.....how wonderful to be paid for something you enjoy so much.

Well you have a pretty good life too, running in your lunch hour, a gorgeous DD to share girly laughs with and Plumbers bringing you JD. What more does a girl need?

Right the proms. Well if you live in or near London, you too could go to the proms. It is on every day from end of July to the 11th September when it culminates in the last night. This is the first time in a couple of years that I havent been several times. The most famous orchestras/conductors/performers in the world come and play and it only costs £5 if you are prepared to queue up for the arena or the gallery. I go in the gallery as it is more relaxed up there. You wont see me because I am way up at the top of the RAH. It is shown on the TV every year. Some concerts are also shown on BBC 2 and 4 throughout the season. You wont be able to see me because I am way up high. BUT if you watch the tv then when the camera pans out from the stage, look up to the top left hand corner of the stage, just above the organ. You will see flags all around the gallery but we usually have the union jack, the japanese flag and a scottish flag hanging in front of us. (we are an international bunch) and we are right in the corner above the stage. We always stand there. In fact we queue up from 8 in the morning to make sure that we get that spot. It is a great atomosphere.
If any of you are in London on the day, drop by and say hi. You do need 6 ticket stumps to be guaranteed a ticket for the last night but you can also queue on the offchance you might get in.

I am soo excited.

vasseur

Well I am already out on the 10th (Muse) so won't get a babysitter 2 nights running (not fair on DD) but I will look out for you on TV - give me a wave!!

Isn't it lovely having something to look forward to? :T

moo2moo

£20 an hour to walk a dog? Gobsmacked is an understatement!

MrsMoo2U

moo2moo wrote: »

£20 an hour to walk a dog? Gobsmacked is an understatement!

So was I but as she is the only dog walker in the area and Moo is very picky as to who he likes I am stuck with it for those days when I have no option. Next Wednesday being one when I am off to Meirionydd show to work which is in Harlech. 1 and 1/2 hours travel each way and 7 hours on an information bus. What can I say?

MrsMoo2U

And so another lovely day draws to a close.

No TADA lists for me today, just a quiet contentment and private thoughts about the things that I have achieved today. Not things that have anything to do with debt busting but in the overall picture serve to make my world that little bit lighter and easier to exist in.

So I have had a lovely day doing lots of personal growth kind of things. I revisited my springboard book this afternoon and I was rather pleased to note that objectives that I set myself back in 2001 have been met and this has helped me to understand that life changes often and I just have to move with the changes and adapt. So debt is my current burden to carry and by remaining positive I will sort this out. Thank you to all of you for the support so far. I am doing ok so far this month on the make £10 a day challenge and that will help a lot, although, in truth, I havent really put as much effort into the making money as I could do. There are currently 4 lightspeed surveys in my inbox but I just cant face doing them at the moment. I know, I need to give myself a good kick up the behind.

I read this tonight and it has got me thinking. It struck a chord because by sharing diaries on here and reading other peoples posts I have most certainly been inspired to get on with things and I think this sums it up.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech

And with that I am off to climb the apples and pears and get some well earned shut eye.

moo2moo

You're sounding v. positive although a day spent on a on information bus would be my idea of hell on earth. Cheerily grinning away at every passing moron who approaches you only to check out your freebies. Still clearly it pays the bills.

Funny though. I'd previously thought that paying £22 for 5 hours "childcare" (aka paying someone to sit around drinking coffee whist the kids amuse themselves palying football and wathing tv) for two children was expensive. I certainly notice the crater it leaves in my bank account at the end of the summer. The alternative is to leave them with a friend who would happily do it for nowt but whilst she means well I wouldn't trust her with my children or at least I wouldn't trust her children not to influence mine in a negative way. Miaow. I am such a biatch.

Proms sounds fab. I've never been although I used to live at the v. end of the tube line I hated the city. Too many depressed people wedged into too little space.

Love the idea of being paid to walk dogs though. I spend almost three hours of my day doing that anyway and I love every minute of it, well apart from the getting up at 4:30 to get an hour in before OH goes to work that is. There are some mornings when we play ball in the garden for half an hour instead because sleep is more important. Equally the impromptu jogging session that ensues when I realise we've been watching rabbits or kestrels or hawks or chowing dew covered blackberries and are still 30 minutes walk from home whilst OH needs to depart for work in half that time. Better still is being remote enough able to slap my hiking boots on with my PJs and go for a wander. Its very rare I do bump into anyone anyway.

MrsMoo2U

Oh Moo2Moo you are a woman after my own heart. Have you been watching me working on that bus. I have a rather fixed smile. Although we dont give freebies away as such (we make the people work for their "marketing materials) I do seem to attract the nutters! I have fine tuned the art of extricating myself from the long drawn out nonsensical (?sp) monologues whilst looking into the far distance types in a very polite and courteous manner ( as I walk away with an insane grin on my face whispering NUTTER under my breath). And that is just the other staff I work with :rotfl::rotfl:

yep I do the walking at 1am in the morning in my PJs, although I dont think I am as remote as you I still see very few people at that hour of the [STRIKE]money[/STRIKE] MORNING what am I like - money on the brain!. What I love most about that is there are no street lights and it is pitch black. What excitement! Coming from a town where it never goes dark means that seeing the stars and I mean SEEING them shining like bright gems in the sky is awesome and I use that word in the true sense of it not like the Americans say it about everything.

Now today is going to be a good day. I know because I told myself it is :T Although I have to work at home again I am only doing short days this week to build myself up for the long hours that next week brings when I start by attending the Bedwellty show. Oh the joys of County shows. Which would be brilliant if I got more than a quick half hour dash around them. Maybe next year I will get to visit them rather than work at them. Who knows.

I think that later I will have to do myself a money post, take stock of where I am up to. I also need to take another foray into that room which is to become the guest room. Nearly there - only about 20 boxes to go now.

Different_Corner

Oh How I would love to do the PJ walks !
I'm just going to have to walk further afield to find that kind of solace. Cheri stars I love stars, I love the science behind the light years time formula. In particular Sirius which appears in Autumn.

MrsMoo2U

I am impressed DC, I like to look at the stars but I have never learned anything about them. Always fancied a telescope but another thing that takes a back seat. Maybe it is something I should add to my 101 in 1001 days challenge list. Ok so lets start learning What is Sirius and where should I look for it?