Arty Kitkat
Okay I'll start a new thread and try and group people by continent.
Posts by Arty Kitkat
I'm so sorry. A big cyberhug is winging its way to you. x
I've done 5 too. This is such fun 
Still nothing from Salvalou?? I hope she's okay.
Me and my bf collect it when we visit his parents in Dorset. We thought about making some kind of mobile to go in the window so that it catches the light.
Me and my bf collect it when we visit his parents in Dorset. We thought about making some kind of mobile to go in the window so that it catches the light.
Anyone got theres? Why not post some piccies - thats the best bit in a swap is seeing the pics of what others have done
Does anyone have Salvalos' address - I tried messaging her for it as I'm ready to send but I haven't heard anything :/
Yeah I've been doing the job a while - about eight and a half years. I have booked a couple of weeks holiday so maybe that will help refresh me. I'm just worried I've become jaded. You see that a lot with professionals, especially in mental health, where people have literally run out off steam. I don't want to happen to me as I think your work suffers and the clients need you to be fresh (ish) and have hope as they often don't. I think I do need a holiday so maybe i'll see how I feel afterwards.
Funnily enough its not the clients I find hard to work with. They are the best bit of the job. The bit I find hard is all the red tape and the paperwork. I work in the voluntary sector at a daycentre. The problem is is that the staff teams at the statutory levels have got smaller and smaller so more and more of our clients are struggling on without the proper help so where I work we seem to end up filling the gaps.
I've worked the last 10 years in mental health and I've experienced mental health problems myself off and on for about 25 years. I've been treated for this recent bought of depression & anxiety for about two and a half years and its only now that the medication seems to be working sufficiently to lift me out of the depression. I still have off days and I'm getting horrendous PMT but overall things a way better than they were.
Anyway this last couple of months I've been feeling brighter in myself but thoroughly meh about work. I just feel like I'm stuck in a hamster wheel and never really get anywhere. I know I'm good at my job and I do good work but there have been so many changes at a statutory level that its become near impossible to do your job.
I've been thinking this for a while that maybe its time for a change but I've been doing this work for so long I don't feel like I'm qualified for anything else. I feel like I've kind of hit a wall in my current job but I'm a bit lost about what to do now instead....
Just on a side issue - being overweight or obese doesn't automatically mean your unhealthy. My bf has had that a lot - he's around 20 stone but he's probably healthier than many people who are apparently a healthy weight. He doesn't smoke, he barely drinks and he cycles everywhere. We both have our share of naughty food but we also have a lot of veg and have our own allotment so grow our own. Also because I don't eat meat he barely does either and says he doesn't miss it. But still people make assumptions. I think some people are naturally larger.
Thats so cool
Me me _o/ I might have to swap mobile numbers as my sense of direction is appalling and I invariably miss the spot where I'm heading for. My friend Gayle and I often meet there but she knows that she may get a text saying oops
It sounds like sour grapes - she's nominated for an oscar, he's having a whinge on youtube! I know what you mean though. So what if she got the role because she looked a certain way, I'm sure she wasn't the only plus size girl to go for the part and she must have been up to the role as she was nominated for an Oscar (I think). Its great that she got the role as its not every day that films producers step outside their comfort zone. Also I think her co-star was also up for an Oscar so between them they deserve praise. Also I remember some of the coverage from the Presidential elections and heard how some people didn't care what Obama's policies were, they just didn't want a black man running their country. So she was also up against all of that shit too. Good luck to her.