Memorygirls - The Matrix Re-inspired

thriftyscotslass

Well done on posting script off MG :j:j:j but nuts to tax credits.

Happy hols Crickett :beer:

Take care of yourself Greenbee.

Feeling all-at-odds today. Been for a haircut this morning, haven't had one in 18 months :eek: and spent the grand total of £12.10 on a dry cut - last of the big spenders me . But... I was sat there in the waiting area watching the receptionist ring up bills of £70 and £80 for cuts, colours, the works.

Now in the past I was one of those people (at least 4x a year) and I sat there wondering who actually had the money to spend and who was spending money they didn't have just to conform or because they were worth it. I feel like I don't belong any more, I just don't know anyone like me in real-life - don't really know what I am saying, I don't want to go back but it feels odd being "outside the machine".

Another example, my friend wanted me and dd to go with her and her dd to Disneyland Paris. I told her that we couldn't afford it. Her answer was that if I really wanted to, I would find a way and get the money somehow - !!!!!! was that supposed to imply. Anyway the answer remained no, what I really truly want is to be free. I don't want to owe a single penny to anyone.

I'll stop wittering now, just wondered if anyone else felt at odds with the world around them.

The_Dragon

Go to Boots and speak to the pharmacist, they can give over the counter stuff (Dr Dragon had to call in for me once as I was so bad I wasn't leaving the flat! :eek:)

Dorastar

thriftyscotslass wrote: »

Feeling all-at-odds today. Been for a haircut this morning, haven't had one in 18 months :eek: and spent the grand total of £12.10 on a dry cut - last of the big spenders me . But... I was sat there in the waiting area watching the receptionist ring up bills of £70 and £80 for cuts, colours, the works.

Now in the past I was one of those people (at least 4x a year) and I sat there wondering who actually had the money to spend and who was spending money they didn't have just to conform or because they were worth it. I feel like I don't belong any more, I just don't know anyone like me in real-life - don't really know what I am saying, I don't want to go back but it feels odd being "outside the machine".

Another example, my friend wanted me and dd to go with her and her dd to Disneyland Paris. I told her that we couldn't afford it. Her answer was that if I really wanted to, I would find a way and get the money somehow - !!!!!! was that supposed to imply. Anyway the answer remained no, what I really truly want is to be free. I don't want to owe a single penny to anyone.

I'll stop wittering now, just wondered if anyone else felt at odds with the world around them.

Sometimes feel at odds with others as they all have new cars and foreign hols (people I work with) and we are camping and have an old focus which has seen better days. But then that means I do treat myself to the more expensive hairdo (never £70 though:eek:) as I tend to look like shaggy off scooby doo otherwise! I do feel strange that people my age want new things all the time and feel horrified when I look at all the gifts I got from work and then there are pictures of children starving on tv but people here moaning that we shouldn't spend on foreign aid.

A lot depends on priorities and personal choice and there are a lot of people out there for whom these things are barely a consideration. I count myself lucky that I have an awareness of money that many people don't and am trying to teach my two and any children I teach at school about the real value of things. Don't think of it as being at odds with the world - in the grand scheme of things you are at right the world and they are at odds with it iyswim. Or put simpler sod 'em!

Memory_Girl

I always think I am odds with the world - getting better at being in harmony with the universe though.

Just been for a coffee with mate - after years of telling me she couldn't possibly produce a meal without meat for her OH and how he was to blame for their spending - he's decided to go veggie for health reasons and she is after all the recipes I produce for the boys.

Chatted to Mr F - to get on the log-in screen for the other side you need to type:

thematrix.org.uk/forum/matrix

- seemples!!!! Mind you took me a while to figure it out.

Hope this helps

MG

thriftyscotslass

I think I feel at odds because I am changing, this is new territory and I am not sure where it is leading (I believe it is leading to a good place tho').

You see, not so long ago, I would have been sat in the hair-dressers going - it's not fair, poor me, I want a £70 hair cut too. Also, not so long ago, I truly believed all these people had money and that we were doing something wrong, that we were somehow failures. Now I know better, yes some of them will have money but others will have debt and some will have lots of debt.

Today I just sat and marvelled, thinking exactly how far I can now make £70 stretch. Strange the journeys life takes you on.

Dustykitten

For you thriftyscot



As my sister would say 'you need to find your people'

Bitsy_Beans

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

I've been drinking a carton of that Ocean Spray Cranberry juice each day for 2 weeks now - so goodness knows how much worse it would have been otherwise!

I've heard of Cylamon, I will pop into Boots on the way home and see if they have it.

Can I take it with codiene based painkillers (wot doc gived me for meye agoneez like)?


Sometimes bosses are lovely - what's with this giving all to the BF though - i don't approve of that

Personally TMIF I don't think Cylamon is going to do anything That stuff is more for the onset of mild cystitis (sp?) and won't help a kidney infection. Mine wouldn't clear until I had the "demestos of antibiotics" which rathe helpfully left me with thrush afterward BUT it was worth it to be rid of the pain.

Not been posting much. Not been in a great place last couple of days. Hoping I am on the upslide now as I feel a bit chirpier.
Have a great weekend, I shall be spending most of mine at kids parties. Again. :rotfl:

greenbee

TMIF ... How about seeing the out of hours GP? They can prescribe so you don't have to wait till Monday for drugs...

My brother is coming with me to the hospital on Monday, which is great, because he's a doctor and can ask all the right questions (and understand the answers) Luckily he doesn't work on Monday afternoons....

Memory_Girl

Dustykitten wrote: »

For you thriftyscot



As my sister would say 'you need to find your people'

:rotfl: I think I would like that on a t-shirt :rotfl:

MG

Memory_Girl

I've just been trapped on the phone for an hour with a lass I was at school with and used to be quite friendly with.

I feel drained, emotionally wrung out and could kick myself for not pleading a "toddler emergency" and getting off the phone PDQ!

But you know the theory that the stuff that annoys you about other people is stuff you need to look at about yourself??

Well now I am really depressed

No, seriously - its a great theory, but that doesn't make it easier to handle. So time to fess up.

She spent ages whining about how crap her life is ............ I mean ages ........ does that mean that I am spending too much time whining? Maybe ........ mmmmm!!!

Everything is always done to her - everyone is out to get her personally - and how I hate that Victim mentality. Perhaps I have been guilty of feeling like a bit of a victim recently too - gotta shake that one out.

Whatever suggestion I make - its never going to work because of X and y!!! So time for me to start listening to - and taking , other peoples advice and stop making excuses.

Everything is too difficult, too hard, not worth bothering about. She feels she should be entitled to ......... Oh Boy!!!!! Ok I do have CBA days - but I hope I am still a proactive peep.

Oh - and the "piece de resistance" - I was LUCKY to be asked to submit a script :rotfl::rotfl:. Sure - and the 80 hours in the last fortnight to write it was happily overlooked.

So I have learned a lot aout the kind of person I am, the person I want to be and the erson I don't want to be in the last hour.


.................. I've also learned that I am going to start screening my calls again :rotfl::rotfl:

MG