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ClootiesMum

You know something - I am sitting here smacked of the gob but in an awe-inspired wonderful way.

It's just suddenly occurred to me what's happened on this & the MDAM thread in the previous 6 months.

Remember the rubber cauliflower? And now you're talking about keynote speaking, visit to China and business starting on Monday....

And you have delegates for 18 courses throughout the country with another 6 in the offing. Mr Big (who most business leaders couldn't afford) is mentoring you & you have a MasterMind mentoring group heckling you from the sidelines........


How the hell did this happen?????

It's great by the way, it's just the enormity of this has just sunk in. Think I need to go for a lie down

AND
KEEP IT UP

Firewalker

Happy birthday Souk - and let your wishes come true and your desires drive you forward.

Firewalker

lisawaters

ClootiesMum wrote: »

You know something - I am sitting here smacked of the gob but in an awe-inspired wonderful way.

It's just suddenly occurred to me what's happened on this & the MDAM thread in the previous 6 months.

Remember the rubber cauliflower? And now you're talking about keynote speaking, visit to China and business starting on Monday....

And you have delegates for 18 courses throughout the country with another 6 in the offing. Mr Big (who most business leaders couldn't afford) is mentoring you & you have a MasterMind mentoring group heckling you from the sidelines........


How the hell did this happen?????

It's great by the way, it's just the enormity of this has just sunk in. Think I need to go for a lie down

AND
KEEP IT UP

^^^ What she said.

x

thriftyscotslass

ClootiesMum wrote: »

You know something - I am sitting here smacked of the gob but in an awe-inspired wonderful way.

It's just suddenly occurred to me what's happened on this & the MDAM thread in the previous 6 months.

Remember the rubber cauliflower? And now you're talking about keynote speaking, visit to China and business starting on Monday....

And you have delegates for 18 courses throughout the country with another 6 in the offing. Mr Big (who most business leaders couldn't afford) is mentoring you & you have a MasterMind mentoring group heckling you from the sidelines........


How the hell did this happen?????

It's great by the way, it's just the enormity of this has just sunk in. Think I need to go for a lie down

AND
KEEP IT UP

I know - :j ain't it fab :j - sh*t hot!!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Wow at the delegates list

and
SouK

smcshane

I love it here too!!!!:D

My Dad has just txt to say he has collected his first footie shirt for me . an old England one, so it definitly looks like I'm going back up North on my week off to collect shirts and hopefully see you guys in Leeds.

Just got to wait and make sure I get my o/t paid this month, as it was messed up last month:mad:

Olive or anyone else. I need the SA Charity number for the Day Care centre so my dad can contact the local press and make a big thing out of Kit 4 Kids with the local kids he works with.

My self-employed job (2nd income) is also starting to pick up again (always does this time of year with mock exams looming) so just trying to fit enough hours into my 7 day week. Really wish I had 8 days sometimes as I love both my jobs so much.

My OH thinks I am bonkers but nearly 2 years ago I did find the job of my dreams and now the hard work is starting to pay off. I'm just hoping all these government depts and quangos disappearing wont have too much affect. We have already been told that they government dept where our companies contract comes from is going but it is just being put back into a ministry dept.

Take care all, I'm just going to do 15 mins of ironing!!!! Anybody, including me can do that for 15 mins:eek:

Sx

Souk08

Thanks all. Tried to explain about us all to Mum the other day and how amazing you all are. She was blown away by what we can do as a group and in MG's story. Sitting here having a wee snotter and cry now as it's my bday and just thinking that this time last year I was in a bad place, in a job I hated with a boss who bullied me on, 7.5 K worse off and still not really on the straight and narrow money wise and now I am managing my own shop, about to start my dream business for real and was able to go today and buy myself lovely new shoes with my own cash, without going mad and buying ten pairs or putting them on a CC.
MG, a year ago you were standing in the bank with your 71p and now look at you. I wish all of you whatever you wish yourself for the year ahead. Things will happen and obstacles will appear in our way but together we can do anything. We are amazing!

OliveOyl_2

Katha Day Centre is the Charity, their number is 031-394 NPO (registered in SA)

I'm sorry I haven't been posting updates but I have (mostly) been answering PM's I receive (thanks btw) A couple pf people have PM'd the wrong OliveOyl :eek: (they chose oliveoyl :rotfl:) and she is on here less often so only forwarded them today - I will reply to them too, but if the senders were wondering why I had been so remiss - that's why

The free warehouse malarky didn't work out I have one more iron in the fire however......
In the meantime Scaredy Cat made a brilliant suggestion, through her contacts she got a quote for shipping the shirts (air freight was :eek: priced) and she suggested that instead of sending to one location; each area cartons up shirts, and sends the carton direct to the port. We would post a label on the fb page to be copied and pasted to each carton so that they'd be uniform.

The pros and cons of shipping are:

Pro
1) Price = hundreds rather than thousands
2) probably more environmentally friendly KC
3) theft is not the problem that it is at OR Tambo airport.....

Cons
1) Time, we either have to bust a gut to get them shipped in the next 3 weeks or so, or MG misses her deadline for that lucrative speaking job, and the kids won't get them by Christmas
2) one heck of a job co-ordinating the cartons throughout the UK
3) organising a lorry this end - but that must be easier than all the other things we'll have done by then :cool:


MG your postings these last couple have days have been amazing and stirring - all the very best of luck with your tour. :A I wish I could attend

(DS2 refused my offer of a place :mad: he said "Anyway, thanks but no thanks. I hate those types of courses, I just don't believe they'll help me at all. Thanks anyway. Nice of you to look out for me" and I can't find the words to get past that brush off. But as he is RETAKING a year at uni, I disagree with him :rotfl: )

Double_Trouble

Well done Souk for making such a difference to your life in 12 months:T:T:T:T

Hope you have a great birthday

:bdaycake:

DTxx

Cheery_Daff

You lot really are amazing :T :T :T

I must confess to feeling somewhat down in the dumps the last couple of weeks. And while reading your post Souk I was tempted to fee sorry for myself again One year ago I was 2 weeks off finishing my PhD. Today, I'm ten weeks off handing it in AGAIN having had to make a year of corrections That in itself makes me sob (literally) and want to curl up and hide away

However - it WILL get done again (and hopefully will be good enough this time!). And this time last year I was working 2 days a week in a job that was 'ok' but not anything to do with what I wanted to do. Now, I've been working for several months in a fabulous job that I absolutely adore - which I would NOT have got without both my PhD and the experience and knowledge I gained from the previous 'ok' job. And for that I am VERY thankful.

I suppose it is about time for me to confess that so far I have done *nothing* for kits for kids To be honest, right now I am scared. Only because I have been doing this PhD for over 7 years now, and along the way have got involved in so many cheery things, that have been lovely, but have taken my focus away from my work. I'm really really struggling to write at the moment, ludicrously struggling, and I must confess to being really wary of getting involved in something else that will take my focus away from writing. So, I haven't sent any emails, or mentioned it to anyone, or put a poster up (gosh, it's difficult writing that with all you lovely motivated people on here!). I suppose I'm scared that if I do, people (even people I know!) will ring me up and ask me more questions, or want me to collect tops, or do *something* that will distract me

Does that sound really daft? It *Feels* daft writing it! I genuinely don't know whether I'm being silly, and that I don't have to commit loads of time and effort, just even asking around people I know will be enough. I've been thinking that I don't know anybody at all who has any interest in football - but in fact the friend I saw today has a son and partner who are VERY into it, and if they don't have any old tops themselves will surely know somebody who does.

So I think that will be my one thing - talk to my friend and pass on the details to her. I really don't feel able (mentally or otherwise) to get involved any further right now - which I'm kind of embarrassed and ashamed about given how much everyone else is doing But I have already failed this silly phd once, and i really can't afford to fail it again through spreading my energy too thin

(gosh, I'm a complete stressed and hormonal mess today - just set myself off crying again writing all this nonsense! Off to do something useful instead of waffling about how dreadful I am! )

Souk08

Cheery that's not like you. And didn't mean to make anyone feel bad, just that the old job was so awful and the boss so vile that if you had told me then that I'd be here now I would have laughed. X