hey kathryn,
i’m sorry that i have been slack on reading and posting on other people’s jounals recently. i have been completely opposite to you and been posting lots on my own journal but ignoring everyone elses. i’ve been a bit too wrapped up in myself recently.
good luck with the meeting with bailey’s counsellor. i know you are really worried and concerned about him. i hope that this meeting will be helpful and that the counsellor may be able to offer some advice for a constructive way forward!
i’m now going to be very smug by saying that i have done all of my christmas shopping! i know that doesn’t help you when you’re panicking about all the things you’ve gotta get done but i just wanted to get it in! ha ha! To be honest i’ve only managed it because the benefits cocked up big time last month and paid me double. They will ask for it back when they notice but hey an interest free loan – you can’t answer! I thought that using it to buy all my christmas presents was at least something productive and not just frittering it away on the rubbish i normally end up managing to spend all my money on! It’s meant that I haven’t had to undo all my debt repayments over the last year by using my credit cards to get presents. I have 7 nieces and nephews, 3 brothers and their spouses and my parents to buy for so it really does mount up!
Your christmas tree sounds great! I haven’t got one yet. I haven’t even decided if i’m going to bother. I don’t have any decorations as I had to give them away a couple of years ago when i moved house and no longer had the space to store them. where i live now i do have the space so i can easily get some and keep them for next year but it’s all the cost of buying them in the first place. i’m also not going to be here from 23rd dec for a week as i’m going to my sister’s for christamas. it might be nice to have some decorations though from now to cheer me up a bit! i’m sure i’ll make up my mind soon!
anyway take care and stay strong
alice x"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Ralph Waldo Emerson
