I don't know if I ever mentioned this before, but I am a Wedding Planner, or at least I was. I suppose having since closed down my company and being laid of from my job I technically have no weddings to plan.
As a Wedding Planner you can appreciate that I love all things wedding... [bet you're surprised and grateful there isn't more wedding related content here! - I have a wedding blog just for that!] and so I read alot of wedding articles, blogs and tweets. Today I read a very special newspaper article: Brides Against Breast Cancer; bringing wedding-gown sale here. For those you who don't have the time to read the article, in brief, its about about collecting and selling new and once worn wedding dresses around the States in aid of Making Memories - who make wishes come true for Stage 4 Cancer Patients.
It got me thinking. I have the time now, I have the resources [my skills], I have the inclination and drive, I have the contacts - why not?!
So pending some research and exact direction, tentatively I am saying - I am going to hold the first [hopefully annual] Brides Against Breast Cancer Wedding Gown Sale this coming September [TBC] at a time and venue yet to be decided.
If you are a former bride [or you know of one] interested in donating her gown please do get in touch with me.
If you are a venue, dress shop, caterer, website developer, graphic designer or anyone with a skill, product, interest, need or want to take part in this fund-raising venture in aid of Breast Cancer please do get in touch with me; either through the comment box below, or you can mail me direct on whatbladidnext [at] gmail [com].
Wish me luck and I'll keep you all posted on my progress!
P.s My Brides Against Breast Cancer Gown Sale will be taking place in Ireland, most likely in Dublin.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
I've just realised I am a robot.
Its sad to say this is true.
I over slept this morning, ironic really when I no longer have a job to get up for. But still I slept past my 'getting up time'; that time that gives me some 'extra time' to faff about so that I can still sit down at the laptop at 9am.
You see, even though there is no work to fill my day and I've yet to really start the next book I'm writing I still sit from 9am to 5pm 'working'... on what, I'm not entirely sure... but I feel compelled to sit. In fact I get ansy if I don't.
The only logically explanation I can think of is that the school milk is tampered with. They lace it with some weird pre-programmable robot introducing hormones or chips or something because obviously I am totally normal!
I knew I shouldn't have drunk it as a child. [*reaching for the tin foil so the aliens can't read my thoughts* ]
Today's task: Screw the working hours... am going to do what the hell I want, when the hell I want to!
I over slept this morning, ironic really when I no longer have a job to get up for. But still I slept past my 'getting up time'; that time that gives me some 'extra time' to faff about so that I can still sit down at the laptop at 9am.
You see, even though there is no work to fill my day and I've yet to really start the next book I'm writing I still sit from 9am to 5pm 'working'... on what, I'm not entirely sure... but I feel compelled to sit. In fact I get ansy if I don't.
The only logically explanation I can think of is that the school milk is tampered with. They lace it with some weird pre-programmable robot introducing hormones or chips or something because obviously I am totally normal!
I knew I shouldn't have drunk it as a child. [*reaching for the tin foil so the aliens can't read my thoughts* ]
Today's task: Screw the working hours... am going to do what the hell I want, when the hell I want to!
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Loosing your job isn't the hard part!
I know I'm not alone.
I know I am not the only person out there who has [at this time, or any] lost their job and somehow, strangely, there is some comfort in that. And I know that I am not the only person to face huge difficulties and obstacles when trying to establish what my entitlements are [if any] for social welfare.
[This isn't a 'woe is me' post, ok maybe it is... just a little but] I am totally flummoxed as to way this process is so down right painful and humiliating!
Having lost my business to the recession I am now loosing my job to it to [and most of my sanity].
That sucks, it does. BUT because I was self employed, and I don't have the right credits in the right years, or the right order or whatever cock and bull story I happen to get on the phone from all the Government Agencies I've phoned and because I was born on a Thursday, under a full moon I probably wont get a cent in benefits or allowances - but nobody actually seems to be able to give me a credible answer on this.
You hear stories of my 'uncle's, brother's, hairdressers, cousin' got the sun, moon and stars; is still working part-time and at college and on full benefits [ok I have no evidence to back that scenario up, but you get the type of 'stories I am referring to] and I wonder... why? Why is it that after 7 years employment, followed by almost 4 years of being self employed to I qualify for nothing... nada... [or so it seems... cause nobody can actually seem to give me a straight answer and every where I turn there is contradictory information...]
Loosing your job is heart breaking, emotional and scary... applying for [or at least trying to] social welfare benefits or allowances is worse... way worse... the system will chew me up and spit me out... and at the end of it? Ill be battered and emotionally bruised, with nothing. - Thanks social welfare! I feel my welfare has been really catered to!
I know I am not the only person out there who has [at this time, or any] lost their job and somehow, strangely, there is some comfort in that. And I know that I am not the only person to face huge difficulties and obstacles when trying to establish what my entitlements are [if any] for social welfare.
[This isn't a 'woe is me' post, ok maybe it is... just a little but] I am totally flummoxed as to way this process is so down right painful and humiliating!
Having lost my business to the recession I am now loosing my job to it to [and most of my sanity].
That sucks, it does. BUT because I was self employed, and I don't have the right credits in the right years, or the right order or whatever cock and bull story I happen to get on the phone from all the Government Agencies I've phoned and because I was born on a Thursday, under a full moon I probably wont get a cent in benefits or allowances - but nobody actually seems to be able to give me a credible answer on this.
You hear stories of my 'uncle's, brother's, hairdressers, cousin' got the sun, moon and stars; is still working part-time and at college and on full benefits [ok I have no evidence to back that scenario up, but you get the type of 'stories I am referring to] and I wonder... why? Why is it that after 7 years employment, followed by almost 4 years of being self employed to I qualify for nothing... nada... [or so it seems... cause nobody can actually seem to give me a straight answer and every where I turn there is contradictory information...]
Loosing your job is heart breaking, emotional and scary... applying for [or at least trying to] social welfare benefits or allowances is worse... way worse... the system will chew me up and spit me out... and at the end of it? Ill be battered and emotionally bruised, with nothing. - Thanks social welfare! I feel my welfare has been really catered to!
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