Don't let anyone or anything dull your sparkle today. I got a job after being a stay at home wife and mother and you will too. The right job is not ready for you yet. For some reason I think you are too lively for an office. I know you need a job but what would your ideal job look like? Winning the lottery does not count.
Is it inside or outside? Regular hours or flexible between days and nights? Physically demanding or more of a cerebral kind of job? Dealing with the public?
Gwen - You are so right, I am not an office person but at this point I am anything anyone wants me to be if they will give me a job !!
My ultimate goal is to buy a small cottage with lovely gardens and open a tea rooms/gardens - serving traditional high tea (mini sandwiches and cakes on tiered stands), selection of teas, cakes and Devon cream teas - making my own clotted cream. Homemade ice-creams and gelato. - and yes I need to win the lottery to make it happen !!!
Originally Posted By: nero
i'm picturing robin hood's bay/ or blackpool? weston super (night)mare; skye; a bazillion beaches & shores - or some place on north coast of scotland once; or east anglia - can't remmeber all the names but can picture the coasts. . what beach town are you in? i'm curious as heck. maybe i can actually visualize you trudging forward - we used to go to uk for a month every yeear for 10 or 15 years, drive around, stay in b&bs - it was great. many many happy memories. i love england - you have best pastry in world. i can never get over every little tiny place having a bakery with wonderful cream goodies. i sew, paint, garden, create, cook, homey girl- travel girl- family girl (well, was), etc. i love the traditional seeming life there
Nero - I live in Devon (not sure I am allowed to say where on here - don't want to get in to trouble) I live in a small village - mainly surfers and the bucket and spade brigade. The main beach is 3 miles long and then smaller coves dotted along the coast. Its set in a valley of green hills and in a lovely bay. Cream teas and pasties. It definitely not Blackpool - which is fish & chips, knotted hanky hats and amusement arcades. England does have some very beautiful places and I am fortunate to live in one of them.
Originally Posted By: nero
i fantasize about running away- but know my "problems" will still exist. no solution no matter where. tho, who knows in future -
Have you ever watched Eat Pray Love ? I dont think its running away from our problems - I think it is to help us find the answers. I am told that travel is good for the soul - that you return as a different person to the one that left. Nero this could be the answer you are looking for - lets go .........
Nero - I left NZ to heal, to rebuild myself with solid foundations, to find out who I am and what I want. I hope I will return next year a stronger, more confident and focused person - I left h too it, left him to live his craziness. Who knows where this is all going - h may find his happy place, ow may turn out to be his soul mate and they spend the next 40yrs loved up - Or he could realise that the grass is not greener and regret throwing our m into a grinder. I dont know. But I am trying (in my very haphazard way) to act upon advice I get from here - GAL, stop pursuing, stop being his fixer and focus on me. Then if he comes out of his fog and wants to reconcile with me, then I will be in a better place, a stronger place, I will be back in control ......that's the theory ..... hope maybe one day I will see if it works in practice
