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  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 9,915 Forumite
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    Sometimes it happens that way. Everything at the same time. It will ease eventually. Good luck with the interview :)
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  • RosaBernicia
    RosaBernicia Posts: 4,909 Forumite
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    doingitanyway wrote: »
    Sometimes it happens that way. Everything at the same time. It will ease eventually. Good luck with the interview :)

    Thanks DIA - much appreciated as I want all the luck I can get with this! :)

    You are absolutely right - the end of last year was a kind of fallow time with little going on, and now things are moving, but the pace will change again. Also, I was just saying to a friend that I'm finally realising it's not the number of things you have going on, but whether you enjoy them or stress over them that makes the difference. I officially decided I don't care about a couple of the work related bits, they are much lower priority than my personal goals and so even though I'm not doing those things as well as I could - that's absolutely right.

    As we said, if it doesn't support my real goals it doesn't get any* of my time :D


    Rosa xx

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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    I'm thinking that I want to sort out doing some exercise now that life is calming down a bit

    And healthy eating?
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  • RosaBernicia
    RosaBernicia Posts: 4,909 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »
    And healthy eating?

    Maybe even healthy eating not pre-calculated by Messrs Marks and Spencer...
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Maybe even healthy eating not pre-calculated by Messrs Marks and Spencer...

    You can't believe a ready meal when they say they're healthy. Descriptions like that are about as believable as dating profiles...
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  • RosaBernicia
    RosaBernicia Posts: 4,909 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »
    You can't believe a ready meal when they say they're healthy. Descriptions like that are about as believable as dating profiles...

    Now you're exaggerating. I can see ready meals on the shelf and exactly what's there through the plastic just by shifting the outer layer. I don't necessarily want dating profile photos without outer layers...
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Now you're exaggerating. I can see ready meals on the shelf and exactly what's there through the plastic just by shifting the outer layer.

    Sing it with me: Mystery, mystery, mystery meat! :dance:
    Mystery, mystery, mystery meat! :dance:
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    I don't necessarily want profile photos without outer layers...

    Is that what you focus on? The photos? :eek:


    :rotfl::rotfl:
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  • RosaBernicia
    RosaBernicia Posts: 4,909 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »
    Is that what you focus on? The photos? :eek: :rotfl::rotfl:

    :rotfl:I immediately discount any profiles which have photos with inappropriate lack of layers, yes...
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    :rotfl:I immediately discount any profiles which have photos with inappropriate lack of layers, yes...

    It could always be worse.

    And I am thinking Borat here of course... :eek::eek::eek:

    So what interests you in a profile?
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  • redofromstart
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    I spat tea over my laptop at the point of 'mystery meat' :rotfl:
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