Breaking Through, Travelling On

Lula-Hula

Hey KC,

happy coincidence you mentioning doing the Reiki course; only yesterday I was talking about it with a friend of mine who has completed 1 & 2, I'm very tempted now myself, look forward to hearing about yours

Karmacat

:hello: Morning all!

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I geddit! :j It's only been in the last 10 years or so since I lost touch with what's in the charts. When they all went in to the studio last week for the new Band Aid single, I only recognised about 3 of them

Yep

I have isolationist tendencies too, fortunately so does Mr Goldie, so we don't do social stuff that often. When we do go out I enjoy it, but just don't want to do it all the time. In fact I'd find it very challenging to be out several times a week

We're not visible, by definition, but there's a lot more of us than you'd think

Our Christmas cards are now out of the loft - maybe I can do a couple a day. Writing the cards out is not something I relish.

Yep, I'm really not fond of the writing out, I try to focus on how beautiful the cards are these days

Hope you have a nice walk and it's not too damp

It was lovely, thank you! Lots of new sights: a fish jumping out of the water to nab a damsel fly, a deer ran across our path, and, um, a landrover pulling a trailer full of game birds that had just been shot _pale_ Plus an Elizabethan mansion in the middle of nowhere with outbuildings converted to 21st century standards. Amazing.

gallygirl wrote: »

I managed:
Bob Geldof
Midge Ure
Roger Taylor
Bono
Sinead O'Connor

then from the youngsters:
Olly Murs
someone that may or may not have been Paloma Faith (she wears red lipstick doesn't she?)
someone that may or may not have been Ed Sheeran on the basis I think he had red hair
and I think I saw Harry Styles

Does that make me hip and happening? Thought not :rotfl:

Nor me, kiddo

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Hey KC,

happy coincidence you mentioning doing the Reiki course; only yesterday I was talking about it with a friend of mine who has completed 1 & 2, I'm very tempted now myself, look forward to hearing about yours

This is Reiki 1, it'll be happening on 4 December, I'll let you know I'm glad its just 1, I take stuff on quite slowly, I need time to integrate.

I'm off out to one of my board game evenings tonight, so a quiet day. I might even have a nap and there'll probably be Christmas card writing, or present-wrapping. Determined not to do it all at the last minute this year

Hope everyone has a good day, in spite of the weather

Karmacat

So, its the end of week 93 in the countdown to retirement … thinking about where I am with that. Not bad at all, actually.

• I finished gathering in the dosh from accounts I hadn't been looking after, the spreadbetting accounts. Pension shortfall now made good to the tune of 5%.
• I managed to stop looking after clients instead of looking after myself – found a way forward to do both, which I was really pleased at.
• looking after the next year for the paid work with clients – got the insurance done, and did another hour on the CPD – that needs work, I need another ten hours by 10th Feb, which is a bit close. I just need a couple of relevant books, I think.
• allowed my brain to contemplate both Christmas and the 2013/2014 accounts, which has got to be a good thing.
• acknowledging that I finally seem to be recovering from the long drawn out viral illnesses … I'm not sure, and I'm not as strong as I was before they hit 5 years ago, and I'm certainly still avoiding crowds (which isn't difficult at my level of income, sadly, as I can't afford to do that much). And that means I'm finally well enough to do the Reiki 1 course at the beginning of December, I had to cancel it twice last year, I wasn't well enough. Garden is still a mess too, though some of it is under control.
• never as much done as I want to do, of course! Travel book is still not published, cat designs still not finalised, let alone done, and I've not started matched betting.

Priorities for week 92, well, the “undone” elements of week 93 give a clue:

• travel book (publishing).
• cat designs
• matched betting
• financial accounts
• Christmas cards and wrapping presents.
• garlic planting, pruning everything else.

Not much time for any of that on Monday, as well as 1.5 hours client work, I'm going to see my business partner, and picking up my mum's Christmas present that I ordered on Friday. Actually, thats a tick in the “Christmas” box, thats good! The rest of the week gives me more time, and it looks like there's some time each day when I can get out into the garden to do 20 minutes work.


And now … board games!

Karmacat

Week 92 in the countdown hasn't started in the way I intended I locked myself out of the house last night, and the locksmith another friend found didn't have anyone to come out on call, so instead of starting off bright and early, I stayed with my business partner, got a coach to my home town early this morning, and phoned a locksmith again. This one turned up, and let me in within 30 seconds. I learned a lot, very quickly, about needing to use the deadbolt when you leave the house :eek:

Paid work had to be postponed, I'm focussing on keeping warm, eating hot food and making my time count! Locksmith cost £90, so I commit here and now to making that back on matched betting before Christmas.

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That experience sounds horrible, Karmacat:eek:. These things always seem to happen at night, don't they? I'm glad you're back home in the warmth.

I once locked myself out of my car one cold night miles away from home(and a good distance from any sign of civilization for that matter) and with my spare keys and mobile phone locked inside:o so I certainly empathise with you. I don't think its possible to lock yourself out of cars these days but it was then with cars of that vintage:(

Have as good a day as you can once you've recovered:beer:

gallygirl

carbootcrazy wrote: »

I don't think its possible to lock yourself out of cars these days but it was then with cars of that vintage:(

It is possible if you only open the boot, put something in, including the keys, then close it again :eek:.

Not a great start to the week Karma .

Karmacat

Thanks both! I must find out more about this, actually, for the blog thats to do with the book - I might pick your brains (both of you ) about cars and locks.

What the misfortune *did* do, actually, was cement the existing friendships, which have been bumbling along, for the most part, for years. Both friends were suddenly called upon to step up, and they did, they were really great. If I'd been on my own, I'd never have even tried to call a locksmith, it was too cold to wait, and I didn't have any numbers on me - I'd have walked to the nearest hotel and paid out for that, as *well* as for the locksmith.

Today ... I think I do want to do something physical, after all of that, so I might do 15 minutes in the garden, finishing the garlic bed. And I really need to do some proper cleaning before Christmas turns up, around skirting boards and boring stuff like that. If I can't face that, I'll do the fun stuff and wrap Christmas presents :j

Cheery_Daff

Goodness me KC! :eek: Glad you got in eventually. Bizarrely, someone else I know online managed to lock herself out yesterday too - although she managed to break in to the shed, retrieve ladders, and somehow let herself in through the cat flap (no, I don't know how that works either!)

And I too can testify to the fact that it is possible to lock yourself out of the car :rotfl: I'd spent years with an old post office van that it WAS impossible to lock yourself out of because the windows at the back just slid open and you could climb in through those. When I got a newer car that didn't have broken slidey windows, I managed to lock the keys inside.

Fortunately I'd just arrived at my mother's house (at 2am - no idea why!!) - I would have left it til the morning but keys were on full view and her neighbourhood isn't so nice... RAC were very nice and broke in with some kind of inflatable thing - didn't charge me extra either (although they said they would if I did the same thing again... :rotfl: )

Aren't we a right lot!

[Deleted User]

Karmacat wrote: »

- I might pick your brains (both of you ) about cars and locks.

Won't take more than a few seconds to pick mine:rotfl::rotfl:

Goldiegirl

That sounds like a very stressful experience.


Glad you are back in your house once again.


When I used to go on repossessions, we'd engage a locksmith to get us into the property, and it was astonishing how quickly he could get into the house.


There'd be me from the building society, a bailiff, an estate agent and the locksmith, grouped on the front doorstep, basically breaking into the house. I'm surprised no neighbours called the police, as it must have looked very suspicious.


Hope you've had a nice day to make up for the trauma.


Also I'm excited that you've undertaken to do some MB - I'm your MB cheerleader:j