20190208 – Friday – Comfort and food

20190208 – Friday – Comfort and food

I have been mentally, as well as physically, all this week, getting ready for my trip to Tassie with Selena. 

The loss of my license has been “hanging over my head,” somewhat, and I have been spending way too much money on “comfort food.”

For example, I packed my breakfast as usual and was heading to Inc Cafe, to eat it, but then I remembered the fruit and nut yoghurt I had had at the “Zest” cafe at Glenelg yesterday, which had been so good, and so somehow “frugality” went out the window.

Somehow my car headed straight towards “Zest” at Glenelg, and a “bought” breakfast.

I found myself sitting at the little outside table and eating a plate full of eggs, bacon, spinach, tomato and mushrooms and my little esky stayed in my car.

To heck with the cost!!

But, to myself, I still needed to rationalise my “spendthrift-ness.”

I would, of course, be saving on car costs for the next 6 months, because I would be going out for very few meals, so that would be a saving.

But weighed against that, there would be increased costs for taxis, even though they would most likely be subsidised.

Why do I need to “justify” myself and thus prove to myself that I am still being frugal????

I need to feel “comfort,” and I should not find it necessary to “justify” myself.

And it is not as if I am binging on CARBS!

Besides, if I BELIEVE that Christ is really coming in the next year or so, then I won’t NEED money any more. 

I don’t have to save for my old age, I AM OLD, and even if Christ doesn’t return in the immediate future, I will be most likely dead before long anyway, and then I WON’T need money. 

And the pension, just keeps coming in and with Darren and “Splitwise,” I can always borrow from him for short-term shortfalls, to pay for any “comfort” spendthrift-ness.

So, Fay Berry, STOP trying to justify your expenditures, Just SPEND it and enjoy your last few years on this planet.

There is something to be said for “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you die!!!” 

BUT, if Christ comes very soon, then you won’t need any material things again, EVER.

So, thus exhorting myself, I allowed myself to really ENJOY my meal.

Yesterday I wrote up Paul Gresham’s exhortation.

I have been thinking about how I have built up my skills in note-taking to quite a remarkable degree.

I think it has also improved my hearing as well.

I remember being worried about my hearing when I was a court reporter, and I went to a hearing specialist and found that I had perfect hearing. 

I had asked him, “Then why do I have such difficulty hearing.” 

His answer, had quite shocked me at the time. He said, “Have you tried liatening?”

He then told me that I had “mother’s syndrome.” 

Mother’s get tired of their children’s constant babbling and simply “tune out,” and it becomes a habit.

So from that time on I began to really “listen.” 

But back to my transcribing skills.

I have tried all sorts of methods.

My first transcribing job was for The Gemmological Association of Australia.

I used Pitman’s Shorthand to transcribe that.

It was a disaster.  It took me way too long to transcribe, days of work, and I could not charge all those hours, so I lost on that one.

Then I remember I did a 3-day conference for the VIP company. 

That one was easy, because I used Mind Mapping as my tool.

There were 20 people at that conference.

I gave each person a number, 1 – 20 and so I was able to identify who was speaking by that means.

Then using mind mapping I reduced the words I needed to write to very little, and I found that I was able to really listen and take in what was being said, and worry at all about the transcribing.

I did this to such a degree that I got wrapped up in the argument and part way through I interjected a comment into the discussion which must NEVER be done, and I had to apologise for doing it.

But they liked my transcription anyway.

This was all before computers, and now in latter years, I can record the whole talk, and have it as a back up to my actual summary which of course is typed in a word processor.

Just a few words here and there and I have the whole talk summarised in a flash.

Of course, if I were inclined to EARN some money, this summarising skill would easily give me an income.

But if I did that, I would be using my precious time on just earning material money, and what value is that to me now?

My time is more valuable to me than any requirement of mere $$$$!!

And talking to you, and preparing for the kingdom, my facebook friends, is certainly of more value to me than money!!