Karmacat: I'm passionate about my DFW journey to riches

pania

Sorry Karma My bad, I thought afew weeks ago he had to get beten up in stargate so he could go and record another show? or have i comPLETEly lost my marbles!!!

Karmacat

Oh wow, Pania, now *thats* what I call a memory! You're right - he had bad stuff happen to the Daniel Jackson character so that he could have bad stuff (and *be* bad stuff ) on '24' - the lurve interest that was betraying secrets to the Russians. You haven't lost your marbles, I've lost mine!

Off to London in 15 mins - I *wish* I was staying on here.... byeee!

Karmacat

Phew! :j Finally withdrew the £8.33 successfully from the Lpool Echo bingo scheme - I could *not* have posted on any more diaries, including my own, if I hadn't got my finger out and finally done it, I'd have died of shame. So I'm :money: :money: :money: again, and have also done the next bit of my wager through requirements on PB. Not at quite as good a percentage as I found last night when I was starting to check it out, but I was too tired to be safely m.b.ing last night, and its still about 94%, so its okay.

Otherwise, I had a good low spend yesterday. I needed some CPD hours (Continuing Professional Development) by 11th Feb, so I was up in London getting 6 hours worth. Not a bad cost for the day, £60, which is less than half the price of some of it, plus a bit of networking on the side - not by any action of mine other than showing up, I had to get up at 6.30 on Sat morning after getting in at 11pm from work, and I just find that really hard to do. But I went, I did it, and I got quite a bit out of it.

Fortunately, also managed to take my own food - just cooked up some broad beans, threw feta and pesto over them, took a packet of oatcakes. Things are really expensive round central London - I posted v gloomily on hypno's thread last night about it (sorry hypno!) cos I felt quite isolated by my debt, but feel better this morning - had the evening to myself to recover, managed to get 6 hours sleep, there's sunshine, and I don't have a headache any more... I don't really ask too much of life! :rotfl:

Going to get a cuppa tea, and do some more bingo-ing.



PS copying pandapaws, and putting my present sig into my diary, in case I haven't understood whats going on:
DOACC 16.DFW Nerd 581.MFW 91.Long Hauler 63
NRock was £10,862.51 now £7134.73 5.7% fixed
Mortgage £43000 Sept 1987 now £39900 5.78% interest only
Mortgage E76,140.00 now E69,811.77
Olympic Challenge £221.61, hurray!
1 Dec 07 pay off £20k by Xmas 08 £3826.10 so far

Keeping_Motivated

Hi Karma

I don't mean to pry so if you'd rather not say then tell me to mind my own business, but is it Counselling that you do for a job?

Karmacat

Hi KM

Don't worry, not prying - yes, I'm a counsellor/therapist - done it a long time now, but you still have to keep up to date with what's going on in the field, which is fair enough - it was on Shame, the client's, ours, society's, and how it affects what goes on in the therapy room between us - v interesting, actually.

How are you? I'm afraid sometimes I only keep up to date with the diaries on the first page of the board, but now I've got my head round m.b.ing, and I've done my accounts, I'm going back to keeping up with people. Hope you're doing okay.
xx

pandapaws

Hiya! Goodness, you sound so organised but chaotic at the same time - how do you do it?! Glad that you've just about got the bets sorted out - it can be so sticky sometimes. We've just received a free £10 from William Hill as an existing customer - I think I've been spoiled with all the free £100s lately, as I can't be bothered going upstairs for a tenner (to the twin screen PC -makes MB soooo much easier when you can have bookie open in one screen, BF open in the other to compare!).

I'm not much further on with Elantans book, but if you'd like it whenever I'm at the end then let me know as El kindly said she doesn't want it back if I can send it on to someone else. It's good stuff, although very hard work!

Keeping_Motivated

Thanks Karma my interest comes from having qualified as a counsellor last year. I have secured a part time post (yay) and I also still do some voluntary hours. My next goal is Accreditation with the BACP, I printed the 65 page application off last week :eek: So my ears pricked up when I saw you had wrote 're-accredited'. You conference sounds interesting. I am on a course soon about addictive behaviour and I am very much looking forward to that.

So much to continually keep learning in this field but I soak it all up I find it very interest until it comes to the legislation stuff which is obviously important but so :rolleyes: .

Don't worry about not catching up with my diary it be because I rarely update it Things are fine here though. Bit annoyed with myself that I have not made bigger strides with this last bit of debt. So small in comparison to most and I could do so much better :cool: I need to pull my finger out with ebay I have done it in the past and done very well but can't seem to get the oomph to start again :mad: I will though

Thanks again

Karmacat

Keeping_Motivated wrote: »

Thanks Karma my interest comes from having qualified as a counsellor last year. I have secured a part time post (yay) and I also still do some voluntary hours. My next goal is Accreditation with the BACP, I printed the 65 page application off last week :eek: So my ears pricked up when I saw you had wrote 're-accredited'. You conference sounds interesting. I am on a course soon about addictive behaviour and I am very much looking forward to that.

I'm BACP too! I remember the horrors of that first accreditation so well - pm me if you need anything. The reaccred used to be almost as bad, but I think they had so many objections about the detail and the repetition involved (it was ridiculous, actually) they've pared it right down - you have to have backup paperwork etc, but the stupid elements have gone.

So much to continually keep learning in this field but I soak it all up I find it very interest until it comes to the legislation stuff which is obviously important but so :rolleyes: .

You've scared me now! I'm sure I'm not quite up to date on that - the only thing I really keep my eye on are the issues about reporting crimes, and child protection. The BACP legal helpline is brilliant, I was able to help a father with a teenager much more effectively because of it.

Don't worry about not catching up with my diary it be because I rarely update it Things are fine here though. Bit annoyed with myself that I have not made bigger strides with this last bit of debt. So small in comparison to most and I could do so much better :cool: I need to pull my finger out with ebay I have done it in the past and done very well but can't seem to get the oomph to start again :mad: I will though

See Pandapaws' *very* accurate description of me to show how well I understand this! :rotfl: Not going to use the embarrassed smiley about it, even, I'm just accepting of it now, tho I try not to do it.

Keeping_Motivated

Thanks Karma :A

Karmacat

pandapaws wrote: »

Hiya! Goodness, you sound so organised but chaotic at the same time - how do you do it?!

Are you sure you're not a counsellor too? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Thats very accurate - I'm kind of schizo in some things!

Glad that you've just about got the bets sorted out - it can be so sticky sometimes. We've just received a free £10 from William Hill as an existing customer - I think I've been spoiled with all the free £100s lately, as I can't be bothered going upstairs for a tenner (to the twin screen PC -makes MB soooo much easier when you can have bookie open in one screen, BF open in the other to compare!).

Naughty panda! I know what you mean tho - I do think I should have learnt on the £10 bets, but £100 is so alluring.... still, I'll do the tenners on re-offers, for sure - looking at Donglemouse's diary, ss's too, thats where a big percentage of the money comes from.

I'm not much further on with Elantans book, but if you'd like it whenever I'm at the end then let me know as El kindly said she doesn't want it back if I can send it on to someone else. It's good stuff, although very hard work!

Actually, that would be great! Let me know when you've done, and I'll pm you my address. And, panda, the bit below is not a dig at you - I've been quite open about being a counsellor/therapist, and about being scatty etc, so I just wanted to put something like this in just in case.


For people who need counselling

By the way, if anyone reading this is in despair about the thought that their counsellor might be as organised/chaotic as themselves, please don't worry. In all seriousness, now, counsellors are professionals, with a long training and often a lot of experience, but they're also people, and usually people who've had a lot of pain themselves - thats often why they've become counsellors. And a counsellor isn't there to be perfect, s/he is there to provide you with a safe space where you can unburden, heal yourself and go forward into the next part of your life with more freedom and more contentment - not necessarily happiness, to be honest, but the chance to live your life the way you want to live it, not to be buffeted by everyone else's agendas (whether past or present).