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    • By Butti 25th Jul 12, 7:49 AM
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    Butti's Journey: A matter of loaf and death
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    Butti's Journey: A matter of loaf and death 25th Jul 12 at 7:49 AM
    Hello Peeps

    Well here we are at my diary or my cry for help as you may like to call it! Shortly, when someone from Aaardman actually get back to me and tells me it's trade marked we may be calling it something else entirely, but in the words of a psychotic lover 'they haven't returned my calls'.

    Oh dear this is going well, I'm rambling already.

    So where am I in my journey.
    At the moment it feels like hurtling towards a situation in which I am waiting for Kharma to join the dots. I have four days in which to declutter, sort, paint and start repairing a hoose. On the fifth day I shall move about 170 miles away and start a new job on the seventh. As the kharmic quote is from Steve Jobs I am kinda hoping for divine intervention from him in helping join the dots. C'mon Steve.

    Anyway having tired of living the high life on benefitsI am getting a job. A real permanant job down south where I am led to believe they still have jobs.

    I have decided to start a diary so you can all keep me on the straight and narrow (you may prefer to call it shouting at me!) I did wonder whether to start in about a month because;
    1. I'll have been paid
    2. I'll have spent MORE MONEY on having a fitted wardrobe put in that actually works with doors that actually slide, paint, more paint and a new sink. Why do I need a new sink? Because my lovely 1970's brown version has a leak and the tap is integral to the sink. Then we let the house (we being me and the friend of a friend who is my agent who in setting deadlines has just made the job real and the timescale real and the amount of work real!)
    3. I shall be living on a narrowboat close to a pub with free wi-fi so in order to;
    a. See any Olympics
    b. Communicate with any of you lot
    I shall have to spend some time in the pub. See how I suffer for your entertainment!

    But we're starting now so I'm just warning you. My debt will go UP in the short term but it has to or I will not let the house when it will start to go down.

    So there we are. I'm sure a budget (or several) will pass in the next few days. I'll have to give you lot something to do .
    First job for today - some paint for the garage door! More money

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    • By Butti 22nd Oct 16, 3:48 PM
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    Life is interesting.

    Fighting a battle at work to keep my mileage allowance. They want to take off my journey to work (80 mile round trip) which basically means doing business miles whilst claiming no business miles (all my sites are closer than the office) and at the end of the year losing the allowance. I am going to put something forward next week about the gaps in the policy and lack of fairness. I have no great hope. I will end up working from home more time than I want to and probably looking for a new job.

    Have just booked 5 nights away after Christmas to see my friend from university. That should be a tonic.

    Also on the spendy front I will be starting my therapy sessions. They look hard but good. Can't keep running away! They are £50 a session so I hope she's as good as she appears!
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    Eek to the mileage.
    Break sounds a tonic indeed.
    Hope the therapy sessions are just what you need.
    Take care of you.
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    “
    Life is interesting.
    Originally posted by Butti ”
    For chinese versions of interesting.

    “
    I have no great hope. I will end up working from home more time than I want to and probably looking for a new job.
    Originally posted by Butti ”
    The great hope comes when they realise they're haemorrhaging staff. Usually takes time alas - far too many senior management are not the sharpest oranges in the fruitbowl...

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    Have just booked 5 nights away after Christmas to see my friend from university. That should be a tonic.
    Originally posted by Butti ”


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    Also on the spendy front I will be starting my therapy sessions. They look hard but good. Can't keep running away! They are £50 a session so I hope she's as good as she appears!
    Originally posted by Butti ”
    If not, then you can find someone who is.
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    • By Butti 24th Oct 16, 8:20 PM
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    Yep..she was very good.

    And we are galvanising at work. Some people are applying the rule literally which will really highlight issues......and possibly introduce some waste products to an air circulator.
    Last edited by Butti; 24-10-2016 at 8:25 PM.
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    Yep..she was very good.
    Originally posted by Butti ”


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    And we are galvanising at work. Some people are applying the rule literally which will really highlight issues......
    Originally posted by Butti ”
    You know as though the new rules are ill-considered or something...

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    and possibly introduce some waste products to an air circulator.
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    And then you get your Management saying "need to be sensible" "need to use judgement" "need to show flexibility" - which is all code for "Please don't ream us a new one with our own stupid rules..."
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    Okay so who knew all over itching was a peri - menopausal symptom.

    I have found this one out at the cinema this evening. Have tried to sit through a 2 hour film without scratching continually. Not easy!
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    Well I dident know!!
    Hope all well in your world.
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    Okay so who knew all over itching was a peri - menopausal symptom.

    I have found this one out at the cinema this evening. Have tried to sit through a 2 hour film without scratching continually. Not easy!
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    Are you sure it's that?

    They're not called flea pits for nothing.
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    Yes. My head was the most itchy not my ankles and nobody else was scratching.


    In other news WTF is America doing?
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    In other news WTF is America doing?
    Originally posted by Butti ”
    Gearing up for WW3
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    Well started my EMDR therapy on Monday. It is £50 a session and I was a bit sceptical tbh. It involves going back to your earliest stressful memory. I was very tired and a bit teary on Tuesday but I have already noticed a difference. If I can give you an analogy it feels a bit like my brain is half an onion with the top layer full of stress and anxiety - this is where I operate most of the time.

    We walked around the memory, through, over and through again and again and again, noting feelings, thoughts, emotions, observations while I had pads in each hand which alternately buzzed. This theoretically connects both sides of the brain to the stuck traumatic memory and allows it to be processed.
    I feel much calmer - that is what I have noticed.
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    Glad you feel it's helping Butti, money well spent.
    mmm...still thinking, planning and plotting for aims in 2017

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    Sounds just right for you Butti.
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    “
    In other news WTF is America doing?
    Originally posted by Butti ”
    Delivering the message "No you don't." to the politicians, reporters, celebrities and foreigners (to them) who thought they had the divine right to tell them what to think, what to do, and how to vote.

    Some reporters understand it now but the vast majority of people do not.

    The times are changing to what would be expected at this point in the cycle - it's a little bit late, but probably we should be thankful for that.

    Things are going to get interesting.
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    Well started my EMDR therapy on Monday. It is £50 a session and I was a bit sceptical tbh.
    Originally posted by Butti ”
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    I feel much calmer - that is what I have noticed.
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    If it works for you, then it works for you.

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    Delivering the message "No you don't." to the politicians, reporters, celebrities and foreigners (to them) who thought they had the divine right to tell them what to think, what to do, and how to vote.

    Some reporters understand it now but the vast majority of people do not.

    The times are changing to what would be expected at this point in the cycle - it's a little bit late, but probably we should be thankful for
    Things are going to get interesting.
    Originally posted by ZTD ”
    That's more than a bit frightening Z.
    Do you think I need to clear my debt and stockpile baked beans?
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    That's more than a bit frightening Z.
    Originally posted by Butti ”
    How is it frightening?

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    Do you think I need to clear my debt and stockpile baked beans?
    Originally posted by Butti ”
    Get rid of debt, yes - that's always been true. The less debt, the more options.

    "Donald Trump drove me to baked beans." - doesn't have that certain ring to it...
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    Well the good news is from Monday I'm on a trial for working from home. So we start working from home and it will be reviewed just before Christmas and then again in January.
    And this means for the first time in 5 months I can claim mileage for the miles I do in doing my job properly.



    What a bloomin relief.
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    Excellent news Butti
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