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

Karmacat

Competition... yeah, it wouldn't be a full time job, thats for sure. But this woman had half a dozen clients, and tho she was cagey about what she earned, it was upwards of £25k... I'd only want one! Office and computer skills are about the only other skills I have that are saleable, apart from the skills I currently use in my employment, and for office work *I'm* not saleable, so to me its really attractive idea.

Plus... ooh, there are 3 tiny little jobs I've been putting off all week, just done all 3 in 10 mins, and I feel great! :rotfl:

elantan

hello mrs just been catching up with your diary looks like you have found some spare energy can i get some? badly needing some right now

Karmacat

:wave: Hi El - sorry you're feeling low in energy. I'm just having a last look on the board before I go to bed - are you getting enough sleep? Eating well? I find that if I'm in the house, I don't really need that much sleep, but my Friday and Saturday were both up in London & out of the house for 12 hours, and it took me days to get over - I think thats why I didn't do those tiny jobs. I'm comfy in my house, even tho it isn't particularly comfortable, it works for me, that helps a lot with the energy. :j

And I have been naughty this week, I bought some proper chocolate, and have had a few squares each night- doesn't sound much, but it adds up for me. Mind you, the rest of my diet is astonishingly healthy, tho a little monotonous at any one time, cos I'm a single person using up a pound or even a kilo of foodstuff. I buy packaged - baked beans, rice etc - but the only processed things I have, I think, are cheapo tesco cornflakes:money: oat crackers and mega-expensive gluten free bread from Waitrose, so it really is disgustingly healthy. :rolleyes2

And sometimes, I do think, well, good grief, hypno's doing all that, or think of pandapaws and how pregnant she is and still getting loads done - I'd better get my finger out! Of course, sometimes I just sit here and play one of the games on Martin's email.....:footie: :wall: :shhh:

Gemmzie

KC, what counsellor training do you have? Are you a psych MD or a counsellor?

Karmacat

This isn't a total non-sequitur... just plugging away with the m.b.ing, finding it hard to find a match at the moment, especially as I'm only confident dealing with matched odds - when I've finished the current run, I may have to take a little break and investigate the other markets (half time/full time etc, still looks like double dutch to me, only cos there's so many options, I guess).

Trying to think what else I've been doing... a few surveys.... a late offer of mystery shopping that I couldn't do, so I offered when I *could* do it, they didn't like it, but when they reoffered and I said sorry no, they went with *my* re-offer. I did check the cost of the train fare to make sure its worthwhile doing, but it does make about £6 net for me, so I'll do it.

All the news about the credit crunch, and just this morning hearing that 30,000 people lost their homes last year has terrified me - I WILL NOT go down. I will not. There was one poor bloke on TV, he was an admin worker, been in his flat for 13 years - it wasn't spiffy, he didn't even have double glazing. But he'd lost his job, done temping work, started to need to pay the mortgage on credit cards, and now he was losing the flat. Awful, poor bloke.

Otherwise, not much. I'm saving my mother some photocopying costs and some stamps by scanning and emailing a small chapter of a book she wants sent to half a dozen people we know: Irish Nationalists in Bootle, 1868-1914. Anyone? Anyone? Why are you all running away? :rotfl: . My great great grandfather was from Dublin, was brought to Liverpool by his parents during the potato famine, and after his wife died (of TB, aged 41), went to New York and became an American citizen, made illegal whiskey. He was a sailor, but I bet if he was in this country long enough, he'd have been at it with the Nationalists, he hated England, its not hard to understand why.

Karmacat

Did find a m.b. match before I went to work yesterday - ye gods, tho, its taking its toll on the cash flow.

Made a decision yesterday to stop doing surveys, only keep on with yougov, lightspeed and maybe toluna. Feeling worn down to a crisp, and yesterday I realised I was going to turn down a friend who's coming to my town tomorrow and wants to see me. I was going to turn it down cos I just feel too tired, and thats mostly about stressing over money. So I'm going to stop doing the thing that sometimes only brings in an entry in a draw, and yet can take up an hour or so a week. I'll see what else I need to do to redress the balance, because there will be more. And I *am* going to see the friend.

hypno06

Morning, from yet another chaotic counsellor to another :rotfl:

I am glad you are going to see your friend - all work and no play is not so good!

Seaxwyn

Hi karma, sounds like a good plan. I too find that these online things are very energy-sapping and, heretical as it is, I seldom do surveys and didn't even to the bingo.

Don't let money bring you down and miss out on friendship and fun. That's been happening for me too for too long. Just keep positive and you will find a way to pay off those debts without exhausting yourself in the process. Since we can't see hypno next week (boo hoo) we can have a good old chat about these things.

pandapaws

Probably a good decision about the surveys - I seem to do zillions of them but never seem to see anything from it. But then I suppose I only do them when I've got nothing better to do (i.e. when I'm at work!) so it's nothing lost.

Enjoy the day out with your friend and try not to stress too much over cash. your health is far more important, so don't let them take that away!

Karmacat

Thanks for the feedback, guys - *very* interesting! I thought I was being blasphemous in not doing surveys, so I'm really glad to find I'm not the only one. Daft thing happened about the friend coming down - I emailed her first thing Saturday morning, and she didn't get it, because, quote, she doesn't switch her computer on at weekends! I mean, if you send an emal Friday morning about Sunday, doesn't it make sense to check your emails beyond Friday lunchtime? We spoke, anyway. and have arranged another time.

What have I done the last 24 hours?
- went into town anyway, satisfied my addiction to pesto.
- did a m.b.
- sorted some things to pass on and to send to charity shops, which felt *sooo* good.
- decluttered some paperwork - much more to do, but thats okay.
- :eek: confirmed that my mother's coming to visit some time before June. She wants my shower working before then.... a new task list for the house looms.
- printed paperwork for a mystery shop today, and have nabbed 2 more for tomorrow, which makes tomorrow a bit hurried, but since its two at one station, its worthwhile.
- this last one (um, next to last one), I'm really chuffed at: a *lot* of paper goes into these mystery shops, & I was getting a little bit low, and have just had a brainwave: I've got some paper in my counselling room, dating back 20 years or so, and it fits into the printer! Must be a thousand sheets in there, so finances and ecological concerns are both addressed in one action! Yay me! :T
- this last one is a downer, actually. I've been going to go on the trip to Moors Valley, near Bournemouth, organised by benben and tigzem. But the warnings on the nation rail site about what interferes with the journey are horrendous - 45 minute delays and cancellations, basically seems to be saying that you shouldn't trust the timings they give. For a day out, when I'm tired after London, its too much, so I've posted a no-show ....