Playing on the heartstrings of desperate people

Thursday 12 February 2015

4 degrees rising to 15!

Rose early to listen to the replay of E Herv Eker's 'Masterclass' on MindValley.  If possible, it was even lighter on content than that of Christie Sheldon and lasted two and a half hours. The joy of the replay is being able to bypass the obligatory sob story (76 minutes) and then, what a surprise, he makes a breakthrough by embracing the idea that he can be spiritual and really, really, really (he loves repetition) rich.  He also gives us the nugget that your route to success must match who you are.  Much, much later, he does a visualisation of being at a fork in the road and going in the right hand direction and all is bad etc etc and how does that make you feel and then back to the fork in the road and take the left hand road and all is wonderful.  And to take the right fork, you have to buy his Spiritual Laws of Money products and they are nearly 300 dollars.   Apparently 147 people signed up for this crap on the first day.  Oh, sad and desperate people.   If Eker is indeed a multi, multi (counted to ten on his fingers) millionnaire and desperately wants to help people, why the fuck is he charging them?   The first step to being a millionnaire is to have your scruples cut out and burn them.   Decided to write a help book myself.

Dropped off utility vehicle for MOT then back home to drop off OH and go to meet today's clients.

Hung around in a car park, waiting for the clients, and they were waiting in a different car park.  Finally met up and took them to the house and they were impressed by the interior, which is indeed lovely.  They were not so keen by the barricades erected by the frankly strange neighbour and also there were quite a few trees.  They are selling because there are a lot of trees and the guy is fed up of picking up the leaves.  We are there for well over an hour.  They are going to draw up a list of favourite properties to revisit next week and will then make a decision.  I suggest two other properties and send them the details.

Back home and find OH just about to take the dog out and did I want to trail around in the mud with him.  No I didnt.  Not pleased to find that, yet again, no dishes washed and crap all over the floor.  Cleaned up, in bad mood.  Filed papers that were trailing around everywhere.  Looking at my meter readings for the rental units, I really hope I have read them incorrectly because the difference between last years consumption and this one is absolutely vast and over 1000 euros.

Made chili and did the VAT return online after having turned out all my bags and pockets to find the maximum of chargeable receipts.

Down at the gym, my subscription card had disappeared and no one was available to help so I took the card of a person with a similar sounding name and dived into the blissfully warm and frothing waters.  The lifeguard did notice and I said it was a mistake and he said OK and went back to throwing the bikes in the small pool for the aquabike session.  They landed with some force and large waves splashed over the people who were still doing lengths.  Sod health and safety.  You have just got to love it.

Did 30 lengths and the sun shone on the water and steam rose off the wavelets.  Heaven. Watched GBSB.  Very difficult waistcoat as first task then some brilliant relooking projects and then a 3d construction exercise.  Puffing, pouting black haired lady bunged off.  Men are very strong contenders this year.

Je suis Charlie

Thursday 8 January 2015

Back to frosty again

1 degree

Down the market wearing one of my new jumpers bought online and miraculously delivered in just three days!!  Well done, House of Fraser.  Today's model is a bright turquoise with cable pattern and went very well with a gorgeous capelet in thick multicoloured wool that I ran up over a year ago.  I often find my knits difficult to wear as the Season never seems quite right.  OH says some of my knits look better in the drawer.  This is because I knit in front of the TV and sometimes they are undeliberately asymmetrical...

The cold weather had kept quite a few stall keepers away and the remainder were wrapped like babushki and stamped around at the back of their wares, their breath curling up into the clear, sharp air.  Bought two scarves for the charitable project I am involved in - got bright colours in the hope it will cheer the recipients.  Decided to attach little message to let the new owner know someone cares. Other members of the project have already sent items.  How terrible it must be to be on the streets in this freezing weather.  How terrible that people are on the streets in the 21st century.  How terrible that all those journalists in Paris were murdered by islamist extremists in order to intimidate and suppress free speech.  Not a single newspaper other than Charlie Hebdo will publish these cartoons. Je suis Charlie signs in all of the shop windows.  Vigils in Paris.  One minute silence at midday.

Get home and find OH has been reading about Muslim faith and is in a state of high agitation and says that they want to take over the World and kill all infidels.  I try and calm him down with a tuna sandwich and point out that what were the Crusaders other than radicalised Christians who were happy to go and murder and rape and pillage the infidels between the 11th and 15th centuries and that the whole idea of the Crusades was thought up by Pope Urban II.  It is payback time and there is as much chance that the Muslims have forgotten the Crusades as the Irish forgetting the Battle of the Boyne.  Religion has always, and probably always will be, used by extremists as a reason for gaining power and territory.   I also point out that radicalism is facilitated by the fact that the Muslim populations are kept poor and ignorant in places like Afghanistan.  OH counters with the fact that the Muslim leaders are not willing to let the religion evolve and that the Koran says that all infidels should be killed.  I look this up and references state that this can be taken out of its context.  OH thinks muslims coming to Europe should sign a charter saying they will integrate and that faith schools should be abolished.  I look up more about the Koran and discover it says that infidels can be lied to so the charter idea just wouldn't work.

I have, unfortunately, to go out and do some work at this point.  Go and see property where I dropped the card off the other day and had surprise phone call inviting me to go and see the property.  The house is on the heights above our village and has lovely views.  It was jaw droopingly clean.  It was so clean that I wished I had parked my filthy car at least two hundred metres further up the road.  The owners were in their 80's and absolutely charming.  The house has been for sale unbelievably for nearly a year on exclusive contract with another agency.  Agree a very reasonable price, take pictures, measure up, eat a lot of lovely buttery biscuits and drink excellent coffee.   Disabuse them of the idea that the Queen owns all of the houses in the UK (a lot of French people think this).

Back home to find OH playing with his leaf blower.  Take down most of the Christmas decorations.  Leave up the stags heads in the kitchen, plus the sparkly lights and the hearts in the living room.  Hoover.  WF phone still switched off.  Ring the recruitment agency he was supposed to be seeing yesterday and they confirmed that he had indeed been there.  He is not looking at his emails either.  RJ rings to say that the bank have deducted huge bank charges.  He insists on not having online access to his bank account in case of hacking.  The only danger to RJ's bank account is RJ himself.  He never manages to save a penny.  Not like WF who is as tight as the proverbial bottom of a mallard.

Listened to the MindValley Clear Your Abundance Blocks 'masterclass' with Christie Sheldon.  It was a recording so you couldnt see her actually talking.  OH kept on popping in and out of the kitchen and saying 'dont give them any money'.  My abundance blocks are

1.  Feeling money is very hard to come by and I need to work very hard at things I dont enjoy in order to get it.

2.  Feeling that my career doesnt nourish me and that I am not paid for being me (unlike Christie Sheldon who apparently is)

3.  Feeling that I wasnt given support and encouragement at a very early age.

It was of course a sales pitch for the course.  If Christie Sheldon is a multimillionnaire, she should be giving to the poor and desperate people who come to webinars like these, instead of taking nearly 300 dollars from them.