Mr and Mrs K's New Journey to a Debt Free Life.

AlexLK

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Yep, my school had sweatshirts...but they were brought in after a spate of ties being used as bullying tools!

You'd have hated me in high school, Alex. Heavy eyeliner, purple hair, long swooshy skirt or short suede one, Doc Martens and a fitted shirt

Mind you, I still dress in black, wear eyeliner, and prefer boots to shoes...I'm just fatter these days but look more groomed

HBS x

How the other half ...

:rotfl: How on earth did you get away with purple hair / dressing like that at school?

I do hope you managed to grow out of the purple hair.

debtfreewannabe321

Well done on the volunteering :T I can't wait to start mine but am very nervous about it!

If i'd gone to school with purple hair I think it might have given the headteacher heart failure :rotfl:shame no one ever tried that (just kidding ). I remember putting lip gloss on once (clear one too) and being marched to the toilets to scrub it off so embarrassing I never tried that agin! You should have seen me when I left school and went to college though...full on rebellion :rotfl::D

Goldiegirl

You are braver than I am Alex, no way would I be able to speak to a group of people I had never met before.


Nice one!

heartbreak_star

AlexLK wrote: »

How the other half ...

:rotfl: How on earth did you get away with purple hair / dressing like that at school?

I do hope you managed to grow out of the purple hair.

It's vivid red now :j not pillar-box, but very bright, and waist-length

I got away with it because I was an excellent, polite, hardworking student who behaved herself in every other way. The ones that always got pulled for uniform misdemeanours were the troublemakers

The only time I ever left a class was when I queried why we only learned Christianity in RE, not Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, Wicca or any other religions. I was told "well why should I teach you that, I am a practising Catholic". I walked out and asked to switch to the other RE class.

HBS x

AlexLK

debtfreewannabe321 wrote: »

Well done on the volunteering :T I can't wait to start mine but am very nervous about it!

If i'd gone to school with purple hair I think it might have given the headteacher heart failure :rotfl:shame no one ever tried that (just kidding ). I remember putting lip gloss on once (clear one too) and being marched to the toilets to scrub it off so embarrassing I never tried that agin! You should have seen me when I left school and went to college though...full on rebellion :rotfl::D

Thank you, have you completed the course you were doing? Yes, I cannot say I fully knew I was going to go ahead with it until I walked into the class.

Goldiegirl wrote: »

You are braver than I am Alex, no way would I be able to speak to a group of people I had never met before.


Nice one!

Thank you.

However, I'm not sure about brave, stupid may be more apt.

heartbreak_star wrote: »

It's vivid red now :j not pillar-box, but very bright, and waist-length

I got away with it because I was an excellent, polite, hardworking student who behaved herself in every other way. The ones that always got pulled for uniform misdemeanours were the troublemakers

The only time I ever left a class was when I queried why we only learned Christianity in RE, not Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, Wicca or any other religions. I was told "well why should I teach you that, I am a practising Catholic". I walked out and asked to switch to the other RE class.

HBS x

You are Jonathan Ross' wife and I claim my five pounds.

Granariesgirl

AlexLK wrote: »

Unfortunately, I cannot do better for my son than me parents did for me.

Piffle! :mad:

If he gets to your age & he is a happy, confident man who has found what he wants to do in life (even if you don't approve), who can come to you & tell you all his worries / problems because he knows you won't carp on at him, who has good friends he can trust, & childhood memories of good times & laughter he can cherish when times are hard - then you have given him something worth intrinsically more than all the money your parents have ever given/ spent on you.

All that stuff I listed isn't shiny & hasn't got a designer label on it or a Sotheby's sticker but in my opinion it is worth FAR more than all the money & things that you & your parents possess. So just keep on giving him the tools to live a happy & confident life rather than sweating over the posh nursery school & the bigger house!

:TI'm with the others here, I think you're great for going to volunteer & DEFINITELY think that Dr Who or Sherlock is the sartorial way forward unless you invent a style that is totally your own! :rotfl:

I reckon that if you stick at it you could be one of those teachers one remembers for years & years, long after all the others have faded into the mists of time...


Ooh I can't wait for the next instalment of "Alex & the Teenage Musicians"! Reckon it could be a great serial! :j

Iwillsucceed_2

Alex!

Why you keep stating 'you cannot, you cannot! You Will NEVER offer your son what your parents offered you because YOU! aren't them!! You need to STOP comparing yourself to your parents and stop comparing your son to the young you!! You aren't your parents and your son isn't you!! He appears happier to the spoilt ££££££ young you! :-)
Anyway, stop referring to your past! You will be on the right path only when you are living the present and excited about the future!

You are the result of the small choices you make everyday, you can choose to be happy or miserable but you are the one you decides.

Choose to be happy! :-) :-)

Regards

Iwillsucceed_2

Self fulfilling prophecy Alex! Self fulfilling prophecy! If you say YOU cannot then you cannot! If you already know you can't! What will it take from you to chance that path?
I guess I am just annoyed that you are most of the time sooooo negative, and referring to the past, when you had, when you did etc, etc I personally couldn't think of you less or more because you had! You are who you are now!! And you are the only one who fails to see the brave guy, etc that we exchange with in this forum! :-)

arsenalbarnie

arsenalbarnie: I can't say I like the idea of having hypnotherapy. However, having one of those days today when I think I want to move forward and away from being miserable all the time. Unfortunately, this only ever seems to last for a couple of days at the most then I go back to having to force myself to do anything. Not sure how to overcome that in all honesty.

It was more like half an hour talking about all the good things that had happened the previous week and then relaxation hypnosis. You then had to listen to the same stuff during the week. A bit like a relaxation tape. I used to feel so chilled out after for the rest of the day. I am supposed to still listen to it a few times a week but have lapsed a bit. It hasnt cured me but I don't tend to dwell on the negatives. I was an only child until I was 18, I think it makes a difference. We have more time to dwell on things and no siblings to turn to. I went on to have a family of five am bloody mad!

:rotfl: Funny you should mention Benefits Street. Yes, she watched it - I had to hear all about it this morning, along with a "what are you doing wasting more time, Alexander?" about the music in schools project. I have to admit the children made both my wife and I laugh.[/QUOTE]

Take her with you next week! He he, she would have them all behaving in five minutes flat :rotfl: she sounds quite a challenge your mother.

mum2one

Alex - great the school went ok, its hard going in as a volunteer in what ever avenue, but to go in with a talent to give like your music is going to make a massive difference to those teenagers lives, take for example the girl that asked about clay pigeon shooting ok off target, but shows shes thinking and respected you enough to ask.

I know its easier to say but I use to do this I did that, I was better off at x/y/z time, - a penny to a pound we could use a point in time where we were better off financially, emotionally, free for what ever reasons.

Christmas 2012 I'd just come back from Lapland with DD, this Christmas were all laid with bugs, and Christmas and New year were literally just another day for us. xx