#17 Ready, Steady, Go!

Today is the first day of my new life.

My beautiful online shop is open for business., exactly a year after my last hour at my previous job.

So much has happened in that year, I have definitely changed in many ways, and for the better!

I could not have done this without the support of my amazing family and incredible friends but most of all my Giuseppe, who has made my beautiful website.

It was G who really convinced me this would work, when he saw me floundering about and getting disheartened over shop leases.

It has been a great test for him too, he is a web designer but he has built this site from scratch by himself having to learn as he goes along. Being a Virgo means he is a perfectionist and I have to say I am very proud of him because it has been a lot of hard work, done in the evenings and weekends so as not to impact on his actual job. A side project but in no way a little undertaking.

I am very happy with it and I hope you will be too.

I do declare http://www.hatattic.com open for business.

#16 Happy Birthday

Those close to me know that I do not celebrate my birthday. There are specific reasons for this and it is nothing to do with age!

1) I can’t cope with the pressure.

2)I do not like being the centre of attention.

3)If something is going to go wrong it will happen around October the 3rd, that is for certain.

Last year was the worst. After a lovely few days away with G, I actually believed the curse was lifted, I came back to the news that I no longer was welcome at my place of work! The place I had called home for over seventeen years.

Of course a lot has happened in the last twelve months, severe prolonged bouts of Depression, anxiety, panic attacks, hair loss and aging.

But also a lot of positive things have come out of all the raging, hurt and mourning.

I am a different, better version of me. I have used my time well and found my strength.And to celebrate my freedom, my new me and my birthday (why not???) on Monday 6th October 2014  www.hatattic.com will be open for business!

It is actually the anniversary of what turned out to be my last few hours at my previous employment but will now be the start of something new and wonderful.

So please join me on Monday 6th October and celebrate all things good, happy and wholesome!xxx