What;s a few more days to friends like us!

Evening All,

What a roller coaster the past few weeks have been.

I've sat down a few times to write a blog & let you all know what's going on...yet .somehow the words get as far as my fingertips, but something in my head won't let them hit the keys...all those cliches," if it sounds too good to be true, that's usually because it is". "be careful what you wish for ", keep my fingertips paralysed...."say nothing, not yet" my fingers subliminally obeying my head & not my heart.

It's not just the blog, I'm struggling with...it's Twitter & Facebook too. I think I've just wrapped myself in a big, big blanket of bubble wrap, those thousands of air bubbles protecting me from myself, from possible disappointment...Just a few more days I promise....then I will tell you all.

We've come so far together from my first blogs when I invited you to sit beside me in my little van as I made my way around Dublin, delivering my delicious salads & sandwiches to shops and told you my stories...You have been such good company, I really want to make you proud. I want you to feel part of my success, I want you cheer & yell from the sideline "we knew she could do it." I don't want to let you down.

So just few more days...

I promise.

Shirley x

Karma...please (you owe me!)

         

Untitled

There is a Forbidden Fruit

Of that you may be sure

It grows on many different trees

Something that you will want terribly bad

That always evades you. And you say

If I had that I would be fulfilled.

And you never know all the time

About the invisible Guardian Angel....

 Then some unlucky day all incidents

.....Co-ordinate into a perfect moment

You get what you want whatever it is

And are cast down into Eternal Torment.

I know what I am talking about.



                                         -Patrick Kavanagh

This is one of my favorite poems, by Patrick Kavanagh. The past two weeks have been mental beyond belief. The last blog I wrote was about our crowd funding initiative that we were about to launch with @LinkedFinance. I knew then that I was heading into a scary, scary time. Putting yourself out there ain't easy, even for an open book like me.But then so many other things started to happen as soon as I started the crowd funding, it felt like all the planets were aligning, opportunity, after opportunity, coming our way...could it really all be happening..

I'm writing this with less than three hours to go & we are just over 70% funded. My nerves are in shreds. I refer to the untitlled poem above, as I cannot help but feel what is going on in the poem, is happening to me in reverse . That if my funding comes it it will be the first step of a series of incidents that do indeed "co-ordinate into a perfect moment, that I will get what I want"...

There is such an exciting things happening in the next few weeks for us, I daren't utter it yet...but hey I promise to reveal all in due course...but first I need to hit that target & then maybe, just maybe I'll start to believe....in karma..

89% funded....two hours to go.

Wish me luck.

Shirley