International Army July 2020

[JackieClaire]

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Morning and waves to the world,
Duuno who the bloke is but caught me perfectly in what I want to wear on the bus and around town...........but I do get to go to the wool shop. :congratulatory:



Poor Ma-in-Law had a crown fall off. SIL took her yesterday. Dentists are not our forte.

[MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION].....reeling her in

Time to put my big girl pants on..........stomach in mouth situation.

[NoSugar]

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Evening ladies, checking in.
My head is trying to remember a particular quote, a flicker of light, without the darkness we would not know the light but it escapes me right now.

It is true, Tabbers that darkness lets us know there is light, otherwise we'd have no awareness, just like a fish doesn't really know how great water is!
I can't remember the exact quote, either.

Here's the poem about light that I really grabbed on to early in my quit:

“I said: what about my eyes?
He said: Keep them on the road.

I said: What about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.

I said: What about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?

I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”


― Rumi

I felt so bad and guilty about my wound, it was preventing me from moving forward. This poem seemed to offer me a chance to forgive myself.

I finally got totally sick of myself on a random Thursday in January, having missed my goal on the first day of the month and year and all the preceding Mondays of that month. The Wednesday was not better or worse than the day before. They all had become the same - meaningless.

I hope you hit your tipping point soon and can see this differently. It is there. NS :hug:

[rustop59]

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Good luck JC and afternoon everyone else. The weekly grocery shop is enough for me. Have SIL and BIL here so off for hike. Bit breezy but perfect for walking.

[JackieClaire]

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[MENTION=18725]NoSugar[/MENTION]...........this is beautiful. Thank you.

“I said: what about my eyes?
He said: Keep them on the road.

I said: What about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.

I said: What about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?

I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”


― Rumi

[JackieClaire]

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The bus was fine..........its got some seats blocked to keep you seperated and everyone wore masks and town was empty. The only thing we didn't do was Marks and Sparks food hall........partly because we were tired and mainly we've got an M&S up the road. JC enjoyed himself as he gets sick of driving.
Actually the mood in town was very polite and a feeling of we're all in this together so just better get on with it.

Next step is getting my eyebrows done.........luckily I've got a long fringe at the mo. Give it another fortnight and I'll be able to plait them.

[mollyka]

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Evening! Is that your first time shopping Jacks? That's a long time if it is!!
We are in THE most beautiful place..hotel right on big river and a waterfall..sound of it right outside our window...like a little dream place and a big field of donkeys as well...it's fabulous! Stuffed now after dinner so heading to bed
Poxy virus rebounding everywhere including here...poxy poxy!!

[Tabbers (a.k.a. KTAB)]

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It is true, Tabbers that darkness lets us know there is light, otherwise we'd have no awareness, just like a fish doesn't really know how great water is!
I can't remember the exact quote, either.

Here's the poem about light that I really grabbed on to early in my quit:



I felt so bad and guilty about my wound, it was preventing me from moving forward. This poem seemed to offer me a chance to forgive myself.

I finally got totally sick of myself on a random Thursday in January, having missed my goal on the first day of the month and year and all the preceding Mondays of that month. The Wednesday was not better or worse than the day before. They all had become the same - meaningless.

I hope you hit your tipping point soon and can see this differently. It is there. NS :hug:

Thank you NS.
One I always particularly felt touched by was written way back in the 14th century and it could have been written yesterday.
To me it goes to show how us humans still feel pretty much the same inside, the same empathy, love and pain. We may consider the events of a single day seismic sometimes but in reality it is all part of the same big picture.

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
Hafiz of Shiraz

[IamMary]

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Beautiful poems, both of you. Although at a quick glance Tabbers, I read the author as 'half of Shiraz' - giving it a new meaning.

Small steps [MENTION=7008]JackieClaire[/MENTION], although that was quite a big one, good for you. Can you not just do your own eyebrows?
Its funny, I think ive had my eyebrows done once in my life, nails are almost the same (DIYbrow not Unibrow). but I would NEVER take a scissors or dye to my hair!!

[byebyebridgetjones]

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Oh wow! This is such an inspiring read this morning! Just what I needed.
You are very brave going into town JC. I have left you cupcake on the kitchen counter as your reward.
Mary. Seriously? I'd move providers as well.

Yesterday I got a call to say that I am getting my promotion-they will be paying me what they always should have been paying me. Yay me....
This is happening for a couple of reasons:
1. Another department has joined us and my opposite number is being paid ten grand more pa. They knew this. Now it is embarrassingly obvious and they have to do something about it. Or face Fair Work Australia.

2. They heard that I had another job offer. They heard this because I deliberately leaked this information to the biggest gossips in this chicken shit operation. They are too lazy to train anyone else.

3. I had a massive meltdown in a Zoom meeting and sent them all scuttling.

Not because it is the fair and correct thing to do.

Not because they acknowledge that I keep the place together and enable them to self-promote.

Not because I do three times the amount of work that others at my level do.

I am probably 25 years older and a great deal fatter and plainer than my 'equivalent' colleague.

Is anyone else seeing a pattern emerging here? Why have I had to fight so hard for this while its been handed to others?

There are a few of us here in the army who have alluded to the same phenomenon.

Anyway I've taken a flex day today and will be having a big woman think in the garden about my next move.

[fickle]

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Yesterday I got a call to say that I am getting my promotion-they will be paying me what they always should have been paying me. Yay me....

[MENTION=9170]byebyebridgetjones[/MENTION] Congratulations :rara: A Win is a Win, just sayin, hope you are celebrating in the garden with a new plant or six!

[MENTION=4040]fickle[/MENTION]Did you throw your pivot chart at him or shove it up his nose yet?

Nope, but I changed my reporting line so I don't have to report to the smug little arse hat and I got myself a female mentor so I don't have to ask him any questions either. :rara:

[JackieClaire]

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Morning and waves to world,
We've got our summer today. Garden chairs are being brought out by the neighbours so we can all converse.
[MENTION=8529]mollyka[/MENTION].............I've been to the shops but not on my own, always hanging off Mr. JC's shirttails and I've been learning the etiquette of being a perfect customer
Honestly, this virus has brought back the anxiety that I thought I'd obliterated............its surprised/shocked me.

Have you found a little piece of Heaven where you are?


[MENTION=9170]byebyebridgetjones[/MENTION]..............dare I say its because you're a woman?
Ta for the cupcake. Leftovers of one of Mr. JC's curries tomorrow.

[MENTION=22411]IamMary[/MENTION]...........I've done my fringe for years.............especially when I was a young 'un. Lack of funds for a proper hairdresser for donkey's years. I normally get my eyebrows threaded.............it hurts. What we women do for beauty.

[mollyka]

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Well done Bridge and Jackie...we all have our hurdles!!!
Yes jacks going through the Burren today..idyllic

Unlike you Bridge ..I gave up fighting for what would be genuinely my 'rights'
Pure chicken shit I am but just couldn't face another battle in a long line of career battles..this time I'd to add ageism to sexism and just a step too far for me...DELIGHTED Bridge...stuff the fuckers ;-)

[rustop59]

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Evening everyone. Well done Bridget and JC. You lucky thing Molly, have not been to Clare in years. Himself only wants to go where the fishing is good. Had lovely long hike yesterday, so good to get out again. Beautiful day here so enjoying the garden.

[JackieClaire]

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Phew what a scorcher as the TV people on TV would say. 27C for up in the NE of England...........38C somewhere down south. Although was on the phone for over an hour and a half with my favourite Auntie mother of cousin/Godson who lives in Boston and was due to arrive in the UK next week with her twin grand-daughters.........sadly not happening this year

[MENTION=8529]mollyka[/MENTION]......forgot about ageism......isn't that against the law too?

I love fishing. Used to go with my Dad when I was very a little one. Got into Beach casting in my early 20s. Haven't done any since I was 25/26...........mostly because we were getting divorced and he took my fishing partner and he had the rods. Your friends take sides very quickly...............am I bitter.....nooooooo :harhar:

[satz123]

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Is anyone else seeing a pattern emerging here? Why have I had to fight so hard for this while its been handed to others?

There are a few of us here in the army who have alluded to the same phenomenon.

Anyway I've taken a flex day today and will be having a big woman think in the garden about my next move.

Bridget - it is subtle but it's there.
It's age discrimination - I know it - they seem to think the younger ones know something we can't possibly know..
.... that we're old & crotchedy and they are young things that have fresh new ideas & so eager and lickarsey they'd make you puke.