The law of diminishing returns

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Probably the one time you want to see it working is when you are losing weight - yes I know what it really means.... Had another good day yesterday. Clearly I do not want to write everything in this public blog, but yesterday was a very good day.

I must get all my finances together. 

I have finally licked the fly problem. All food scraps are now stored in the fridge until it is time to bin them. And the food containers are the same. As a result no flies because no smell. It's great.

We are approaching the height of summer... it will soon be the solstice.I have forgotten when I have put my phone. I went out with it yesterday and it is now gone. That is REALLY annoying.

Honestly, I have no idea where it is. I looked again.

I was talking to Emma about the hooks that people send out. The barbed comments they make when they what to be mealy mouthed and ungenerous. When they cannot bear that you may be even considered an authority about a thing which they are good at - good in.

But thanks to year of ungenerous behaviour towards me, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE. I am no longer Cinderella crying in the ashes. I am now FREE. I am beyond their reach. I am treading my own path. And it feels AMAZING. I am here doing my thing. You do your thing there. 

You do what you want. I don't care. Literally don't care. And you can be as mean and as bitchy and as awful as you want, you do you. Everyone can see that.



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