VBlue
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« Reply #121 on: November 17, 2014, 04:20:44 PM » |
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Sixteen months on and an afternoon spent catching up on what I have written previously.
Life has taken some very big steps forward.
The Piranah started a midwifery degree at UCLAN in September, selected for one of about twenty-six places from over eight-hundred applicants, and with no medical background. She also had to put in two-hundred hours study to complete an access course as a condition of her offer. Despite initial plans for her to commute, we have moved out of our Kendal home and in with her parents, about ten minutes from Blackpool. She is placed at Blackpool Victoria hospital. We are having our house valued and put on the market, probably after Xmas. It costs me £8.5k a year to keep it on, even after our lodger's income, and we might come out with £40k-£50k equity. A nice deposit to have in three years' time when we plan to buy following The Piranha's completion of her course and subsequent anticipated return to full-time employment.
Jesse is coming up one years old, and Roscoe will be three in a few weeks time. More on these two little rascals in future posts.
I have finally had success moving my career on and I'm going back to financial services, in sales, with a massive amount of confidence and positivity towards the role, the business, and my own ability to succeed.
I have played poker a sum total of once since about last September. Brief Blackpool 'Keystone Cops' trip report on that to follow.
I am still writing for 888, but mainly web content for tournament pages. It isn't fun, I don't enjoy it, but I am rattling off much of the work at a very quick rate and so my hourly has sky-rocketed.
In the last month I have got back on the forums. Well, here anyway. BBP has gone. APAT is deadly. Hendon Mob is a joke.
I've also got back into some wider interest; Jared Tendler's Mental Game podcasts, reading up on poker news, following a few people on Twitter, etc. Really, really up for a game.
I think the Blackpool cash games are there for the taking and have lots to ask the forum before I make a plan to get them with some regularity.
I really have good focus on on an approach to getting back into poker - sats, couple of live tournaments of decent size (if I sat), live cash - certainly no time to devote to getting back into an online grind regularly - or even occasionally at the moment.
Good to be back properly and I hope to have more to write about soon, although initially it won't be very regularly.
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