Whohooo!
10,000 posts of tears, laughter, courage, support and fun. 
And I got the snipe!
We have been approved a 3 bed unit, just out of Warragul .......... Didn't get a chance to do what you suggested, must have been your lovely vibes, Cat.
Fantastic news Cuddlybunny! You must feel so relieved. Now you can focus on packing and getting ready to move because the hard part is over.
Been packing for a while now.
Been chucking, but, going to have to chuck even more, but that isn't a bad thing, I think I have been holding on to "stuff" for far too long.
Hardest part, I think, is going to be the move, and the 1.5 - 2 hour drive from here with two yowling cats *sigh*
Mahogany gets very vocal when in the carrier and the car, she hates it, Lucy panicks, thinks she is being taken to be dumped again. I keep telling her she is with us for life, but she can't help stressing. Might try a blanket over the carriers and see if that helps, probably won't though, might have to drive with looooouuuud music 
Hi folks, I am back but dealing with stuff here. Will come in soon and write a proper post.
Keep well all.
Hi Everyone.
Good work on the weight loss cat. I've been trying to lose weight for some time now but have had no luck. I bought myself a treadmill after what's his name left and have began joggin on and off. This year I've made a real effort to get up at 6 on the days I work and do 5kms of interval work......jog for a bit, walk for a bit, jog for a bit. Anyhow I've been doing really well with my committment to it and I really enjoy doing it too except now I have developed painful shin splints. I'm going to have to give it a break for a while so I can recover properly, but I'm really pooped off. I've bought another yoga and pilates dvd so I'll try that instead. Can't even just walk as that aggravates it. 
I'm spewing. So no weight loss here, despite the committment, but improved muscle tone and a reduction in my blood pressure which has improved my mild renal failure, which as I type this I remember was my goal in the first place.....so hey, WINNER!
my2, I live in Yarragon and work in Warragul. How weird would it be if we crossed paths and didn't even know. I'll be checking all the new butts in town out now to see if I can detect and orange knickers. 
I'm going to do the universe thing to, as nobody has come falling in love with me yet either and I'm getting a bit sick of waiting. 
Cuddly I don't envy you having to drive so far with a yowling kitty! Maybe a sedative from Mr Vet might help? For the kitty, not you LOL!
One of my cats is a yowler in the car. The vet is only 10 mins away but oh my it makes me crazy. If I turn the music up loud I feel guilty. So I turn it off and just murmer 'it's ok kitty, it's ok'. I seriously think a one off sedative might be worthwhile!
Cyn congrats on getting fit and good luck with finding your prince! He is out there somewhere.
Mrs Braff are you OK?
Toon - yes he's a scummer to put it mildly.
Clair I have read your thread about wanting to restore a WWW1 relatives grave.I guess you could look at the problem from a Buddhist perspective. Attachments cause suffering. Why hold onto something (doll collection) that causes suffering i.e worry? What is more important to you? What would give the most happiness to others?
Respect and honoring our ancestors is considered very important in Buddhism.
"According to the Buddhist point of view, nonattachment is exactly the opposite of separation. You need two things in order to have attachment: the thing youโre attaching to, and the person whoโs attaching. In nonattachment, on the other hand, thereโs unity. Thereโs unity because thereโs nothing to attach to. If you have unified with the whole universe, thereโs nothing outside of you, so the notion of attachment becomes absurd. Who will attach to what?"
Because we think we have intrinsic existence within our skin, and what's outside our skin is "everything else," that we go through life grabbing for one thing after another to make us feel safe, or to make us happy.
We "pursue" happiness because we think it comes outside of ourselves. But it's also because we think things are outside of ourselves that we are stressed about them and worry about them. Whatever can be found can also be lost.
There's nothing wrong with striving to accomplish something, or making friends, or loving your spouse and children. The Buddha himself, after all, spent his life after his enlightenment associating with people, and teaching them. Non-attachment does not require extreme asceticism or shunning human contact. Non-attachment comes from the wisdom that nothing is truly separate."
If you give your doll collection away, you are not giving away the joy or pleasure they gave you. That is within you. It doesn't 'go' with the dolls. You can always re-visit the good feelings associated with the dolls whenever you want to. You don't need the dolls to trigger those feelings. The dolls themselves do not have that power.
When my kids turned 21 I gave them 90% of all my photo's of them as children and teenagers. I presented them in beautiful photo albums for them to keep. Some people were horrified I gave 'my' photo's 'away'. But as I explained to them, I belive these photo's belong to my kids. It's a record of their life. I don't need the photo's to bring me happiness lol. I have all the memories within me. How can giving 'away' my photo's cause separation from the memories of my children when they were little?
That is non attachment. It's actually very free-ing. You might even feel the weight of burden lft from your shoulderswhen you sell the doll collection. It will feel like moving forward.
