It's a Friday afternoon, I'm sat in my car having 10 minutes to myself before my next client, as I check Facebook a friend posts to ask if there is anyone out there who would like to house share? An opportunity? I took a second or two to think, this would be much better for me, this friend works very hard and is very trust worthy and I'd be living with someone I know rather than a couple of strangers.
I reply to say I was interested, I'm not sure I hid my excitement very well though.
On top of all V's other qualities she is very organised and over the weekend emailed me some potential houses. By Monday afternoon, we had met for a coffee, I'd met her mum and arranged our first viewing. The house was nice but not quite all we'd hoped for.
Tuesday: We had arranged to meet to view another property, when we arrived there had been a mix up and the estate agent thought we where there to look at the 3 bed house opposite.
As it turned out this was to be a stroke of luck, the house was perfect, recently decorated and spread over 3 floors it was everything we'd hoped for.
We decided to give it some serious thought, if the numbers add up and the landlord allows the dog it was a goer!!
As I head back to work, I receive a phone call from one of the faith schools, this school is not one I visit regularly, for what ever reason, so I was interested to hear what the lady was calling about.
"Our school, will be joining up with Bryan Bounds, who has written a one man play called My Name Is Bill" she declared in a well pronounced voice. Now, I'd not heard of Bryan Bounds but I did recognise the title of the play. It's a true story about a man called Bill Woods, he lost his wealth during the Wall St collapse and fell into alcoholism, through this he set up a support group which went on to become Alcoholics Anonymous.
"Our School, would like to develop an educational package around this performance, and as your the local 'expert' we were wondering if you would be kind enough to help us?"
In the excitement of the new house I'll admit I was only half listening to the posh woman but I agreed to meet with her and Bryan which we would arrange via email to come to a mutually convenient time. Again I'll admit that when I put the phone down I'd already forgotten most of the conversation.
My Tuesday was to get even better. I sit down at my computer and log on to my emails. My boss has emailed to say that the personnel dept. of a large drug treatment charity would like to arrange a time on Monday to negotiate my contract and transfer of my service to their organisation.
This day brought so many things together, stuff I'd been working on for some time..Career opportunities, a move to a larger organisation where I could move up the ladder and somewhere to call home. All this has been my focus for some time and it all fell in to place... on the 13th March...My lucky day!!
Saturday 17 March 2012
Saturday 10 March 2012
New Life Update
So after leaving the current Mrs B and all I know that is comfortable, I honestly believed within a week or so I would have got a room in Harrogate to rent and begun to feel settled. It's now March 2012 and I'm still in Thirsk, not that this is a bad thing, I enjoy being with M&J they are a lovely couple and we have shared plenty of laughs I've even been able to witness some of their laughs. I feel very privileged and honoured that these are my friends.
Can I just say, that for me, the hardest part of making this change is knowing I've upset someone, that there is someone or two people in particular that have been affected by by decision. I only hope one day they too can experience the benefit of what I have decided.
I contacted K one of the above mentioned people, I wanted him to know that I am still here if he needs me. His response was very mature and polite, he kindly refused, I replied to say that I respected his decision but that the offer would always be there. you see it's not a 'response' I was after, I was offering him something, something without limits or agenda, that offer is still there.
At this point it was clear to me I had to give him complete distance, if he needs me he'll find me and I'll look forward to that time.
My aim is still to move to Harrogate and hopefully before the end of March, though I have doubts this will happen. What has happened though and one of the reasons I made such a change in my life, I am coming across more and more opportunities. I qualify as an NLP Practitioner next month, there is an opportunity for me to go on and complete the Masters, if I had not made the change that option would have come with so much conflict. other opportunities? Well, My cousin Katie gets married next year, had I not changed I would have had to wait until the last minute to say whether or not I would be there, but today I sent a message to say I will be there! this is a tiny, tiny thing but I appreciate it much more because of my experience over the last 4 1/2 years. Who knows, by then there might be a plus 1?
Over the last few weeks I have given this a little thought though not much....Honest! Friend have asked me what is my 'type'? to be completely honest..I don't know. I can honestly say that right now, I know what they mean by saying "Looks aren't every thing" Someone who will encourage me to take the risk when there are benefits to be had, for this to happen this 'someone' would have to believe in me. At the same time someone who will rope me back in when I get carried away. Laughter, now this is vital! Sometimes the sick ironies in this world make me laugh then the fact that others are too cowardice to laugh at them makes me laugh even more so someone who knows what makes me smile and not judge me on the things I laugh at but judges me on what I DO! This is far to open to describe any one I know at present specifically but I'm not ruling anyone out either. To be..again...honest, the thought of relationships at the moment tires me, the last 4+ years have exhausted me. Right now, I just want to be amongst friends.
Night all
Mike
Can I just say, that for me, the hardest part of making this change is knowing I've upset someone, that there is someone or two people in particular that have been affected by by decision. I only hope one day they too can experience the benefit of what I have decided.
I contacted K one of the above mentioned people, I wanted him to know that I am still here if he needs me. His response was very mature and polite, he kindly refused, I replied to say that I respected his decision but that the offer would always be there. you see it's not a 'response' I was after, I was offering him something, something without limits or agenda, that offer is still there.
At this point it was clear to me I had to give him complete distance, if he needs me he'll find me and I'll look forward to that time.
My aim is still to move to Harrogate and hopefully before the end of March, though I have doubts this will happen. What has happened though and one of the reasons I made such a change in my life, I am coming across more and more opportunities. I qualify as an NLP Practitioner next month, there is an opportunity for me to go on and complete the Masters, if I had not made the change that option would have come with so much conflict. other opportunities? Well, My cousin Katie gets married next year, had I not changed I would have had to wait until the last minute to say whether or not I would be there, but today I sent a message to say I will be there! this is a tiny, tiny thing but I appreciate it much more because of my experience over the last 4 1/2 years. Who knows, by then there might be a plus 1?
Over the last few weeks I have given this a little thought though not much....Honest! Friend have asked me what is my 'type'? to be completely honest..I don't know. I can honestly say that right now, I know what they mean by saying "Looks aren't every thing" Someone who will encourage me to take the risk when there are benefits to be had, for this to happen this 'someone' would have to believe in me. At the same time someone who will rope me back in when I get carried away. Laughter, now this is vital! Sometimes the sick ironies in this world make me laugh then the fact that others are too cowardice to laugh at them makes me laugh even more so someone who knows what makes me smile and not judge me on the things I laugh at but judges me on what I DO! This is far to open to describe any one I know at present specifically but I'm not ruling anyone out either. To be..again...honest, the thought of relationships at the moment tires me, the last 4+ years have exhausted me. Right now, I just want to be amongst friends.
Night all
Mike
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