BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / The "Good News" thread

**Posted by Harriet** November 14, 2015 8:15 am

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**Posted by mrshouse** November 14, 2015 9:30 am

Thanks, my friends.
Solar, I didn't know you changed your department, that sounds very good 😊. And now I have a picture in my mind of you with your feet up on the table munching away on doughnuts....

**Posted by besleybean** November 14, 2015 10:47 am

Lovely image and congrats mrshouse. All the best.

**Posted by SolarSystem** November 14, 2015 2:31 pm

mrshouse wrote:
Thanks, my friends.
Solar, I didn't know you changed your department, that sounds very good 😊. And now I have a picture in my mind of you with your feet up on the table munching away on doughnuts....

Not quite. I don't like doughnuts all that much, but replace them with some nice chocolate muffins and you pretty much hit the nail on the head.
But no, it's more work now for me, but also more interesting work, so it's all very fine. I hope it'll be as fine for you, too!

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**Posted by besleybean** November 14, 2015 2:43 pm

I think this board got the beginning of my story: when I received the lovely Sherlock and John statuettes, with my Sherlock special dvd set.
I don't think you got the middle part of the story: in the Summer, sadly Sherlock was brutally attacked and he split into 3 pieces.
Since then, John has been sitting on the dresser, sadly regarding his broken friend.
I am now happy to report that my husband has just glued Sherlock back together, so the boys are once again standing side by side.

**Posted by Yitzock** November 15, 2015 12:11 am

Oh my goodness! I'm glad to hear your little Sherlock got put back together.

**Posted by Zatoichi** November 15, 2015 7:56 am

Me too.. and glad you did´t get a Mary-statuette to comfort John after the Fall..

**Posted by besleybean** November 15, 2015 8:24 am

That, I would never do!
Sherlock and John only, that bond is never to be broken!...in my house at least.

**Posted by Zatoichi** November 15, 2015 12:22 pm

*thumbs up*

**Posted by Lilythiell** November 15, 2015 1:14 pm

Oh, wow, congrats, mrshouse!
All the best in your future job !

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** November 15, 2015 3:07 pm

LOL, Besley!

I've been suffering from stress lately... I blamed my symptoms on allergies (hives and finding it difficult to breathe at night)... And I just found my Mandala drawing book, gosh that thing really helps! It even soothes my OCD.

I think I should make it part of my day, taking an hour of just painting that without having to worry about all the stuff that's filling my head.

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** November 16, 2015 9:42 pm

I had a really good day today!

I only got a few hours of sleep... but a bit of coffee helped me feel better, my makeup skills gave also improved and I managed to look alive.

The job center has sent me to some new coaching thing... so far those things have promised so much, and yet they parked me in front of a computer and forgot I was there... or tried to tell me what colour my CV should be. I have a very professional CV, that's not the problem... but I always show up with a nice attitude... This place is very different. The lady already knew my name after seeing her a week before, I felt welcome and this is actual coaching. There were lots of laughs and I actually got to feel a part of something and that I was valued.

I am almost sad I won't go back before next week. Oh and there's free food!
( I normally hate when people complain about the system... but when you've showed up for weeks somewhere and suddenly get told you were supposed to be done weeks ago, and according to their contract they should have helped me to a find a placement...)

After I met up with my best friend who treated me to dinner and an energy drink; inviting herself back to my flat and we had so much fun! I'm so happy I have her!

I've also been a bit... out of it? For a while since my headphones broke and I could only replace them with some cheap ones... because of my ears I need good quality sound, and I prefer ones that shut other noise out... I've got some OCD and anxiety... and sometimes it's the small things.
Today the pair I hot with my gift card finally came and they're so perfect!!

Aaaaaand just as I got back home after dropping off my friend and put my feet into a foot bath, headphones on... facebook chimed telling me that Denmark will air TAB!

...

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**Posted by Yitzock** November 16, 2015 11:04 pm

That is great news, Phantom! Glad to hear you had a good day.

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** November 20, 2015 2:58 pm

This seems like a silly thing to be happy about... but it's finally cold enough to change from my summer coat (grey trench coat with blue leopard print) into the faux fur coat I got from a lady who was giving away stuff from her sisters home to my aunt after she died... it's dark brown with a faint leopard print too! And dear goodness is it soft and warm!! It feels like you're getting hugged the whole time you wear it!!

I think I'll call it 'Missy'. My old one was named Patricia/Patrick. (yes I love naming my things)... and 'Mis' in Danish is the word we use for 'pussycat'

(just to be clear it's a fake fur and the lady who had it before me wore it a lot, though it doesn't show on it)

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** November 27, 2015 10:28 pm

It's so easy to complain about being poor... And honestly, not having any savings and living off benefits is really no fun.

But, this month turned out a lot different from what I feared! I honestly had no idea how I'd manage to stretch the money for the entire month.

Only days after I saw the doctor and was diagnosed with malnutrition (apparently you can only live off pasta with ketchup for so long). I won a £100 gift card that I could use on both fastfood and to replace my headphones that also decided to quit, I also used some for the beauty and health store to get some basic needs things...
I am expecting to get another gift card for that store soon, I earned it by doing surveys online, which was also how I won the big gift card. I'll use that to get some makeup I think, I'm running out on eyeliner, and I need that to look alive when I have to go to job meetings.

I felt pretty 'safe' this last week, so I gave the last of what I owned to the homeless.
Today I opened a liver pate for my lunch that wasn't baked right, I wrote to the company... more because I have the time... they offered to send me £7!

Not bad. I am all in all ending my month with a plus, and I helped someone else who has it worse!

**Posted by Yitzock** November 27, 2015 11:32 pm

I'm glad to hear that you are feeling good about that.

I guess I might as well share my small bit of good news. I'm getting paid for my contributions to our university's newspaper this semester. I'm just waiting for the cheque to arrive in my mailbox. It's small and it's just an honorarium for the semester's writing, but it still feels cool to be getting paid for writing. I never expected that that would happen in my second year of university.

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** November 30, 2015 10:19 pm

That is amazing, well done!! I've always wanted to be paid for my writing!

I have some more good news... My confidence have been the worst for so long. My whole life I've been told I was worthless; I wasn't even good enough for my own mother.

Since I've been unemployed for a while now the jobcenter has sent me to a new place, and at first it seemed great, then I started losing hope... but today I just feel better than I have in a long time. We're a group and the teacher/coach asked a few of us for stories where we ended up doing something you never thought you could do, and what skills you ended up learning you had, and the group was supposed to chip in as well as the teacher.

I got picked and I ended up telling about working as PA to the Irish performers at the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen... how no one told me what the job really was, before I was in it, and I was freaking out. But I ended up doing it so well in the end.
The teacher pulled so many positive skills out of that, so did the others in the group, also adding what they had already felt from me just being around me a few times... the teacher then looked at me (she's also a coach for both bosses and she works for people who want to develop their creative talents) she asked me "You're creative aren't you? What is your's?" I was actually surprised she could tell. I know I might dress a bit 'differently' or something... but I never thought she could just read it on me.

My 'dream' has been to educate myself to become a proper medical secretary (instead of a healthcare service secretary that I'm trained as). She told me something that shocked me "Medical secretary is not good enough for you!" It always felt like the 'ultimate' achievement for me, because I wasn't even sure I could do that... my confidence really holds me back. so I was pretty locked in on that career because at least I know how to be a secretary!

I have a meeting with her tomorrow, it sounds like she has a lot of great ideas for jobs and careers where I can actually fulfill myself, and like she said 'not get bored'.

Not sure if that was because I was wearing one of my Sherlock fan shirts... but she seemed to know I'd get bored unless it was intelligent and smart.

Let's see what happens!

**Posted by Yitzock** November 30, 2015 10:24 pm

That's really cool that you've met someone encouraging and insightful like that. I hope you continue to have good experiences and that this maybe even opens a new door for you that you hadn't considered before.

**Posted by Lilythiell** December 3, 2015 12:37 pm

So. The urge took me to bake yesterday. Came up with that.

Decoration's decent enough, Irather like what I've done -though I'm going to need better tools for that.

**Posted by nakahara** December 3, 2015 1:11 pm

Yum! I would eat them all, immediatelly!