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Lots of jobs; lots of people ? In Grande Prairie, where my parents are, some people cannot even get housing, and so the motels are filled up too. (and basement apartments, and rented rooms in houses, etc) Alberta is a very busy place (oil industry/mining industry makes a lot of other jobs abound also); with lots of work, drawing people in from everywhere.

I don't think we're quite at 0% anymore, but still very low. (though it was explained to me that 0% does not mean that there are NO vacancies at all; just very few)

Peace,
tammy

My official PGCE results just came in. Although I'd had them verbally I am so blown away by this feeling of accomplishment.

I had to leave High School at 14 and get work as an au pair in London because of a stepfather who refused to support me while I spent my youth getting a career in medicine. Later with 2 babies I went back and got my GCSEs to go to Uni. The WTBS messed up those plans after I'd started, so it took me till 2009 to go and get the degree I'd longed for for so many years. Graduating with a First last year at 60 was tops, but there's something so special about this year's post grad achievement. I kind of feel 'validated' and actually quite proud of my little old self.

It hasn't been easy, it's hard work, but the self esteem it brings is just incredible. I'd recommend it to anyone, but especially ex JWs who had to abandon education and now worry that it's too late. It really is never too late. Whatever happens next I am so glad I did it.

Loz x

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I am so happy for you LOZ, and you should be proud! You worked hard and did fantastic!

for you:






Peace!

tammy

Thanks Tammy.

Loz x

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Me as well Loz...

I am also one of those JWs that only went to high school. Got married 3 weeks after my 19th b-day
Pioneered had 3 children and lived the perfect JW life as well. Always been in restaurant, catering, coffee world and never needed an education at least I thought. Now at almost 52 I am going to take a class at a junior college this fall. Have not been to school since 1979 ( except for a real estate class I took/ thought of selling real estate for a minute to get out of food business)
Thanks for the encouragement and I'm so happy for you and your personal accomplishments.

(( a toast )) to LOZ!!! P.s. cuz we can do that now ya know....LOL!

Love Justmom

WHOO-HOOO, for you, dear Loz (peace to you!)!!! I LOVE the challenge of school and know somewhat what it took for you to get where you have so, as all have said, you should be proud!

Peace to you!

YSSFS of Christ,

Shellama

I am happy for you Loz! I get worn out just thinking about school, so I know it is quite an accomplishment.

Happy Saturday everyone.

Thanks everyone! I must admit Ataloa, I've had enough now, lol.

Sunny weekend here. Hubby and I are doing a Car Boot sale tomorrow so I'm busy gathering things to sell. We have lots of good quality clothes that no longer fit which are taking up too much space in our small apartment, for a start.

Loz x

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Good morning everyone. It is a gorgeous morning here, 75 degrees, sunny with a nice breeze. We are sitting out on the deck enjoying coffee and trying to relax before doing more packing and moving. We have tooooooooo much stuff.

Loz congratulations on your academic achievements, you did Great!
I hope your car boot sale goes good, I wish I could do one about now, send you over all my extra stuff. Lol. We don't do car boot sales(trunk to us in the Americas) we do garage or yard sales. Car boot sounds easier as I could sit in the car between sales.

I have tons of perfect cobdition clothes, purses, books galore I will have to throw out cause I can't do a yard sale because I would need help doing it.
John has more stuff than I do believe it or not, he has so many tools and machinery and he has to have it even though he rarely uses any of it. He has to have he says a whole bedroom for some of his hobby stuff. What a burden stuff is.

What a shame to have to throw stuff away. So often I wish we were closer! I'd come and do your yard sale for you, Zoe. In the past we've thrown away during a move, just cos it felt like too much to sort out selling. Hubby is a hoarder too. We have our spare bedroom converted to an office, and it's filled with hundreds of his books, grrrr! I think I have 4 shelves and he has 20 odd. I'm quite amazed that he's parting with anything to sell tomorrow, but we need funds and we need space, so it's a done deal.

Good to hear you're chillin in the sun. When do you actually move into the new house?

Loz x

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Our moving date is July 10th, next Wednesday. I will be so glad to get it over with and not be between 2 places so much. We will have to come back here a few times and clean it and patch up things like holes made by screws to hang pictures etc.
John just went over to the other house now to cut the lawn and then is coming back here with the lawn tractor and will cut this lawn. Both houses have HUGE lawns.
I would prefer to live in a condo myself but John can't stand city living but complains he has to shovel snow and cut grass???
Right now the spare bedroom is our office but since we have no basement in the new place we have to put the guest bed in the spare bedroom and we will have no office. There is a small room they call an office in the new house and he wants that for all his gun hobby stuff and he also will have 2 garages for all his tools and machinery.
I wish John was into books, but No he is into collecting guns, that is the most important thing to him and a huge hobby of his. He also belongs to a gun club and goes there to target shoot and is always doing something playing with them or rebuilding them. He wants to take up half my walk in closet to store his gun cases, grrrrrrrrrrrrr because he has to have them in a secure place. Not my cup of tea but what can you do, I should be glad he does his hobby at home.

Good morning everyone : )

Sunny today for us too. I was going to ask what a car boot sale (I was thinking it meant a sort of yard sale that would include anything from boots to cars, lol)... but Zoe answered that for me.

Sounds like a lot of us are 'cleaning house'. I am renting one of those big garbage bins next week, so I can empty everything out of the basement that has piled up, and try to make sure that there is no more clutter, and Rob can fill it the rest of the way with junk from his shop.

Rob is into guns too, Zoe, and has a gun club membership. He does hunt though in the winter, so it is more than a collection/hobby for him. He has taken over the basement though, lol... and he has the entire shop out back as his man-cave, which is as big as the house ; )


Peace!!

tammy

Our car boot sales are mostly in big fields, Tammy. You take your car full of stuff and pay about £10 per car average, to set up your stall. In actuality, whereas people used to sell from their boot or trunk, nowadays people bring tables or clothes rails to present their wares. Visiting a car boot to buy makes for an interesting morning browsing lots of peoples' tat. But often there's a decent bargain to be had.

The sun often brings out hundreds who visit these, so I'm crossing my fingers for tomorrow.

Loz x

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Now that sounds like fun.

Yard sales here, people have to drive from place to place, but at least in that, you just have to go to one place, for a lot of variety.


Peace,
tammy

Well I like the idea of a car boot sale, we should do that here. We have flea markets where people take their stuff to one location and pay a fee to set up a table and sell stuff.

Tammy, John hunts too, duck and deer hunting. I am not against it but I personally would never do that myself unless we were starving, I don't like duck or deer meat at all and deer have big brown eyes and pretty faces, it just seems to mean to me.