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The Matrix - Re-Evolution!!
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I'm enjoying AF plenitude here, having had a great deal of pleasure unpacking my delivery. Beautifully packed, with plenty of boxes within the outer cartons to make removing and checking really easy. Fabulous value. Expanded polystyrene nuggets to fill spaces, all contained within sealed poly bags. Each glass jar lovingly encased in bubble wrap. I'm in for a well-fed winter!
Best of all, is the instant recycling! I've loaded all the smaller boxes into my car as I've emptied them, ready to do service for my office move! And after a wee rest and a cup of tea to recover from my exertions, that's where I'm heading. The actual move is a week today but the packing starts today.If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
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I have a vision of you settled as snug as a bug - and hopefully everyone coming in to view will feel the vibes of calm and abundance washing over them.
I am heads down into one of my monthly Mind Maps today - they are beautiful but they do take quite a long time to create. The reality of it is that this monthly job covers our food, kids spends and pocket money for the whole month so I am so grateful to have the opportunity.
Of course my dream job would be sitting creating Mind Maps all day - but once a month is a great start.
So fifteen minute break over - back to the mind maps
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MG, sorry to hear about DS1's troubles at school. Just wondering whether this may be a complex of things like:
1) He did spend last year mostly 'outside' large institutions (school)
2) Pre-puberty - quite a few of the things you mention can be part of te different awareness that comes with this time of life
3) and of course the 'spectrum'....
I did not make a secret of the fact that I am a high scorer - discovered this recently but have always been 'strange'. For some reason though, I had great time at school - people did not interest me on a grand scale (had very few close friends), I never aspired to be 'popular' (and I thought I never was untill recently a friend mentioned that I am not aware of exactly how popular I am) but I was a geek - not so much technical one but social geek. I can still watch people for ages and figure out what makes them tick. No emotion, mind!
What I am trying to say that if DS1 was mine I would have told him that:
1) Being different is not a bad thing - it is a source of creativity and people who are different move the world foward.
2) Very few people in one's life really matter - one's task is to find these people and work on the relationship with them;
3) Being a geek is great - MrF is right on this one;
4) It is not important what you are called but what you answer to;
5) school is important - it gives us knowledge but more importantly it give us social and cultural capital; this is why one should iam to get as far in this as possible;
6) people shouldn't give up without a good fight;
7) the biggest failure is not when one fails to achieve something - it is when they don't try;
Here I'll stop - thinking of you and DS1.
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Gotta love the universe :
New book arrived for me to Mind Map next week :
"Switch - how to change things when change is hard"
Flicked through (as you do) and my eyes settled on a page that covered Dave Ramsey and Flylady.
Its official - we are now in the mainstream.:rotfl::rotfl:
FW - its an odd things with boys isn't it - he "understands intellectually" your points but they are not necessarily a part of him yet.
I guess like us all he is still a work in progress.
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What FW said! MG I have been reading the trials and troubles of DS1 with sympathy. I have no idea what to suggest though... because it is completely outside of my expertise!
In other news... I have sent the application off to Oxford University. I did the very bestest job I could do on the application letter and CV, and just hope it is enought to intrigue them and get them to invite me for an interview. The closing date isn't until 15th November... so plenty of time. I get the butterflies thinking about the wonderful opportunity this could be... but I am going to let go of all the dreams at the moment. I get other ducks in a row before I think about jobs.
Positive vibes to everyone."A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort"Herm Albright 1876-19440 -
And she's off - wooooweeeee!!!!
Warning though - Oxford has some seriously crappy admin offices shoehorned into very odd places - insist on a Window!!! And when you get the job - can DS1 and I come for tea???:rotfl::rotfl:
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wow, so msers are becoming famous! I am very pleased to say "I virtually know you all
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Hugs MG's DS1, I know what you're going through, keep your head held high and don't let the beggars get you down. I had a very similar experience at school and you know what, your mum is right, the geeks do rule the world and those that are mean to you now are very likely to end up on the scrapheap by the time they leave school......certainly happened to my main bully!
Guess what Matrixers, I sold my house on Saturday to the second person to view it, for the price I wanted!!Thanks to the Universe and G*d for sending me lovely buyers. Now I'm asking for a new home to come easily to me too
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Blimey KK, that was quick! Well done you! :T :T
Fingers crossed Crickett! :j :j0 -
Morning peeps - ahem...some of us got up at 5.30am and I have been networking since 6.45am - when most of you lot were still tucked up in bed! I had a great morning with some potential new suppliers on my books and a toe in the door with the council to help organise events in the area especially around the Olympics where much is going on. I have decided that if there are tenders to be had then I shall tender and sub-contract people to help me where necessary.
I came home via the credit union and squirrelled away £25 from the money that mum gave me (more may well end up in there - I shall see how much my petrol costs - I had used £35 on what I thought were essentials, however, I have been to the bank and withdrawn that amount to replace it). I am saving for road tax next month. When I was in the town shop where the credit union is based, I had a nose at their jobs and have seen an easy peasy barista job going at Cadbury (I refuse to call it Kraft) it pays £6.08 an hour for 40hr week working 7am til 3pm. I can still froth coffee with the best of them and did run the canteen in Cancer Studies for 2 years, turning it from making a loss into turning a profit. I have sooo many skills...wonder if I dare turn my hand to silver service waitressing again..or not (not done this since a yorkshire pud landed on a customer's head after I tripped up:rotfl:)
In other news I have managed to book a speaker for the business club meet on 15 November - a lady who is owner of a crystal manufacturer in Stourbridge who is also President or even Master of the Glassmakers Guild (I forget which).0
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