tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124153942009-09-25T09:55:34.953+10:00WOW! This year has certainly started off with a bang! Dramas at work, eviction from my unit of 6 years, and a knockback of my application to Australian biggest loser - again. Think I'm going to let any of that stop me??? So, agenda for this year: buy my own place, lose the weight anyway, and maneuver my way into a dream job. Think I can do it? One down already...Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-16413981786534225122008-03-28T06:32:00.002+11:002008-03-28T06:53:54.836+11:00

It seems like even paying out for a subscription email hosting service isn't enough to keep the spam from getting through and two more messages actually got sent out this week, to my horror. I'm paying as much as I can afford to, considering the ezine is free, but I'm not happy. If I can't find a solution, I'll end up closing the ezine down, unfortunately. I'd rather do that than take a chance

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-74625736796309328752007-06-11T15:53:00.000+10:002007-06-11T15:57:32.184+10:00

Hi again. Long time no hear, but 14 hr days tend to do that to you. I'm travelling to and from work now, between 5 & 7 hrs a day. It's given rise to a new passion to build something online that can support me all the way out of this. So, between that and the fact that I lost the self-positivity domain while Mum was in hospital last year, I've re-kindled an old website and am blogging to that

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1167091557381863662006-12-26T10:28:00.000+11:002006-12-26T11:05:57.436+11:00

As part of my end of year process, I like to look back at what's happened in my life for the year, and what major lessons I've been facing (and hopefully learnt). This year, of course, has mostly been taken up with the battle at work, facing off against a management culture of bullying and harassment who decided I was their next target, fighting to get the equipment I needed to do my job instead

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1162038384541105672006-10-28T22:13:00.000+10:002006-10-28T22:34:49.796+10:00

In Memoriam: Lyla Catherine ELLIOTT15 November 1945 - 21 October 2006My Beloved Mother, and Treasured Friend Yes, this is who was in hospital a few weeks back - when we got the news she decided she didn't want people seeing her unwell, and also wanted to spend her time with family, so we kept it to ourselves as she asked - she has so many people who love her that last time she went into

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1159714044335480912006-10-01T22:34:00.000+10:002006-10-28T22:12:15.556+10:00

I actually followed one of the google links above my email today, and discovered one of the coolest resources I've seen in a long while. I generally don't believe in personality testing, because people seem to like to limit themselves based on the results, but the whole site I found here is oriented around finding the ways to improve your results instead of definitions about who you are and what

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1159712424675479692006-09-28T21:06:00.000+10:002006-10-02T00:34:05.100+10:00

Can't believe where the time is going. Has it really been that long since my last post? Still, there's been a whole lot happening. Work is still playing games. I've been certified ok to return to 'suitable duties' for over a month now, but they're delaying on getting me any. They're finally organising it at a vacant placement I told them about! So, meanwhile, they're having fun sending me

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1155907532546866092006-08-18T23:14:00.000+10:002006-08-18T23:30:18.313+10:00

Hey there again. After a few days focussing on taking care of myself and studiously avoiding as much as possible anything to do with the dramas at work (not always possible with phone calls flying everywhere as appointments were arranged, paperwork requested etc), I'm starting to feel a bit calmer and more together. It got really bad for a while there. On my worst day I washed my hair three

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1155716766064352132006-08-16T18:01:00.000+10:002006-08-16T18:48:14.073+10:00

Hard to believe it's been three weeks already. After my last post, things got dramatically worse at work. In fact, I'm now getting anything and everything possible thrown at me, up to and including threats, bullying and intimidation tactics. I refuse to give in and quietly leave, though it's becoming ever clearer why they have a continuous problem with staff turnover...My health ended up

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1153574268469772862006-07-22T23:01:00.000+10:002006-07-22T23:21:52.353+10:00

No, the weight hasn't shot up again. I'm learning and developing myself once more. The past few weeks have been quiet because I've been battling work, who decided that holding back my grade increase for 3 months would be a great way to help the budget (at least that's the only reason I can think of for it). So now, after having spent most of the past 6 months struggling to work despite needing

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1151823887932018172006-07-02T16:40:00.000+10:002006-07-02T17:24:46.570+10:00

Long time ago since I wrote, but the day after my last post, work hired a new monitor so I could get back to work for them (of course with no allowance for having spent 3 months straining my eyes) and so of an evening I was so sore the computer was the last thing I wanted to see. I did end up going through a return to work plan, but the actual replacement monitor didn't arrive until June, and it

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1151821422007145062006-02-13T23:32:00.000+11:002006-07-02T16:23:42.020+10:00

Friday the contracts arrived, and I got asked to drop off the deposit. I rang about the deposit bond I was arranging, but the lady I'd been dealing with was off, and so was her mobile that she'd left in case I rang... Later that afternoon, I got the call back, and we arranged that Monday she'd call me at work so we could go through the bond application, and the solicitor might be able to exchange

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1151821499954680152006-02-06T23:21:00.000+11:002006-07-02T16:24:59.956+10:00

I was sure I'd posted something this last week, but suppose it has been pretty hectic. I blinked. Sorry.I've been through the contract - it was held up for most of the week waiting for the owners to check when they'd be able to move into their retirement trust. Saturday I found out not this month. The real estate agent is bound and determined not to let me stay a day after the 28th February,

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1151821563074055682006-01-30T22:22:00.000+11:002006-07-02T16:26:03.076+10:00

Today while sorting through my stuff I came across an old favourite book of mine. On impulse, I picked it up to skim it again (it's a nice thin one) and came across a quote I didn't remember, but REALLY agree with - subject to qualification of one term in it. The quote is:"Our charge on this earth is to exercise our gifts and talents to the maximum - and to care for all the assets that God has

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1151821638670862032006-01-26T10:03:00.000+11:002006-07-02T16:27:18.673+10:00

What a difference a day makes! Yesterday morning I was struggling at work (they still haven't fixed my monitor), looking down the barrel of homelessness with an eviction notice to shift out for the owner to come back end of next month, no place arranged to go, and worrying whether my finances would stand up to the cost I thought I'd end up paying to move into my own place, or whether I'd end up

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1151821707418401742006-01-24T23:09:00.000+11:002006-07-02T16:28:27.420+10:00

Wow. Nerves reign supreme right now! Things seem to be picking up at a pretty much exponential pace... From looking around, I've now put in 2 offers (that first step WAS a doozy!) and the last one was so good I went straight to the mortgage broker and lodged my preapproval application! (hope that last sentence doesn't increase the ten million spam offers for home loans good for the US only that I

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1151821775250169042006-01-12T11:08:00.000+11:002006-07-02T16:29:35.253+10:00

Yesterday and today I started calling mortgage brokers to find out about what kind of loan I'd be able to get if I went for my own place. Turns out that I'm qualified to go well over the range I've been looking at, but if I want easy repayments that fit within what I'm earning now, I'm looking about the right range. If I negotiate a good deal, even better, I'll have MORE money free than I

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1151821843431918642006-01-09T22:10:00.000+11:002006-07-02T16:32:16.486+10:00

It never rains but it pours, does it? I managed to get through my 2 hour challenge, and finished 2005 at 281.4lb, very close to ten pounds off the 291 I started with. Then the first week saw not only new year, but my birthday (three dinners out for that alone) and more dramas with work, who still haven't fixed my monitor, after changing it to something small enough to aggravate my eyes and give

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1114608652196197282005-04-27T22:43:00.000+10:002005-04-27T23:52:41.296+10:00

Wow! Don't think I've done as much on my www.self-positivity.com site in the last few YEARS as I've managed in the last few days, under the pressure from that "disaster" in my last post. So far I've reworked an old article from my ezine, found 3 article submission services, signed up and set myself up on them and submitted. I also sent it in to an ezine I subscribe to that has over 200,000

Crystal N Woodsnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12415394.post-1114408885319818252005-04-25T15:16:00.000+10:002005-04-25T16:32:31.886+10:00

I've been reading a few ebooks lately where there are a whole load of successful people online answering the question of what they would do if they suddenly lost everything, and needed to raise money in 30 days.Argh! Knew I should never have tempted fate!!!Somehow, despite always being careful how and where I use my visa card, the number's fallen into the hands of someone else - and they've

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