i'm slowly slowly starting...

to feel better, but man it's taking way too long for my liking...so today is day 8 since i started to feel sick (sore throat, headache etc) and now after 4 full days of antibiotics i am still very congested and still coughing like some long time smoker :-(

i'm a bit over it to be honest, and as my sister says, gotta get myself better for all the mince pie action! see my mum makes the most amazing mince pies and i am looking forward to sampling many many of them when we get to my parents late on xmas eve...my 8 year old nephew is even clued in to how good they are - so much so, last year, he asked my mum to send him 100 to melbourne - and guess what: she did! well, not 100, but at least 2 dozen...

sooo i'm trying hard to get better - i'm doing all the right things, including taking the drugs, eating healthy food, taking vitamin c, drinking plenty of fluids, resting a LOT...sooooo why aren't i better yet?

on to other more exciting matters: work is coming along nicely! i now have 8 paying clients with a possibility for 2 more in coming weeks (i'm waiting for one client to get paid work before i start charging her and another former employee is now trying to get her employer to pay for some coaching)...i'm meeting up with a broker next week (my initial phone call with her was VERY encouraging), i'm having a phone call tomorrow with a lady who runs a company that does coaching training (i did the course recently and loved it so much i want to deliver it here in Sydney), i'm getting my brochures this week so then i can leave them in strategic places, and another lady who runs an amazing management course/coaching has offered me a chance to become accredited with them....

it's funny but i think that me learning some patience has in fact helped me be successful - that sounds kinda weird right - but i think it's true - i also think (and i told my therapist this today) that patience also means i am a better person and consequently more open and receptive to things, trusting that they come when they are intended, rather than previously i may have been resentful of things that came, but not in my timeframes....interesting learning!

xmas is now only just over 15 days away - good thing is i'm almost finished with my xmas shopping, although i have been remiss this year and probably won't get xmas cards to all my aussie based friends - overseas friends of course, have been looked after - i just hope me mailing them today will mean they get there before xmas!!!

had a weird dream lastnight - was with my parents having dinner with some blokes - one who claimed he knew a guy i used to work with but when he described him, didn't sound like him at all - and in the dream, dad and i were walking down this large wide stone (big sandstone) corridor and i was telling him about a dream i had the night before about my grandfather (who died earlier this year) - in the dream within the dream i dreamt that my grandfather was happy and contented with where he was now...unnerving but also nice in some way :-) i do hope that wherever my grandfather is, whichever spot in the universe his soul is occupying, whichever bright star in the sky he is behind, i hope he is happy and watching over me...he is never far from my mind, even though he is now physically gone from us...

ok this is now becoming a novel so i'm going to go to bed and pick up a new novel - another new library book - finished the 2nd of 5 i borrowed the other week - just loving that richard mason - although 'the drowning people' was much better (in my opinion) than 'us'...next an anne tyler - it looks familiar so i'm wondering if in fact i have it on my bookshelf - buried 2 deep so it can't be seen!

nite
xx