So my head has been bits the past two or three weeks but I think it’s not far off being ok now. I’m looking forward to seeing Lis next weekend and having a break from being domestic for a couple of days
Looking for inspiration for something to write about tonight (because I’ve got an itchy blogging muscle) I’ve just had a quick scan of the entries I wrote in November during my first year of blogging and oh-my-god there really was a scary-over-sharey-TMI post. Even my toes cringed. Pleased to say that I won’t be going into that much detail about something like that again.
Saying that, blogging did do some good for me. It gave me some continuity during my nomadic years, and has left me with some awesome friends (did I mention I’m going to see one of them next weekend?) When I’ve been feeling shit I’ve found it can be quite therapeutic to get the crap out of my head and into black and white, even if it’s only to hit the delete button or to lock it up so that only my closest friends can read it (and there’s been times when I’ve been really glad I can do both)…. and even if I don’t lock it there are friends who can read between the lines of babble. There’s probably some psychology in that somewhere.
Of course there’s always music to get lost in… especially when you’re rediscovering old friends in your collection and tracking down that track you’ve always liked from that band. One of them I randomly found in the Boy’s collection…. here’s a vid of it being performed (it shouldn’t auto play so you have a choice whether to watch or not!)
And so I shall hit send on this little bit of self-centredness and go back to stalking people on Facebook….
(ps: I do, indeed, have a pair of big black boots, which I wore when I had long brown hair…. there’s some photos out there somewhere….)
Posted by Nicky on Saturday Dec 15, 2007 Under wtf?
While I have yet to establish the structure/design/momentum for this website, I can still blabber away here. Well at least for a little while.
I’m still playing catchup on blogs and sites that I used to read daily (hurray for rss feed readers, and big fat “huzzah!” for the “mark all read” feature when it tells you you have 900+ unread entries…) and so it was only a few minutes ago that I read Lis’ not-quite-bah-numbug entry about the impending festivities. I even commented! Go me!
Despite having worked somewhere which has been preparing for Christmas since the beginning of October (oh the joys of retail..) I have yet to buy a Christmas card (I keep saying I’ll make them..) and have only purchased my niece’s present and something small for Boy. I was kind of distracted from buying any more after we found out last week that my brother will be spending this Christmas on a warship in the Gulf. There’s so much stuff I want to say to him, but I can’t seem to do so. He flies out on Tuesday and I won’t even be able to hug him before he goes. And I want to.
It’s funny how important such seemingly little things can be, isn’t it?
I guess the other reason that I can’t get my head around it being only 10 days until Christmas is that we haven’t really got anywhere to put up decorations (our living room is still not finished yet, although our woodburner was installed this week!) and the fact that I don’t get a Christmas holiday! It’s amazing how quickly you lose track of time when you don’t have Christmas/Easter/Summer/Half-term holidays to mark the passage of time through the year. Now public holidays seem to pop up out of the blue and booked holidays come much faster – and with a much shorter period of excited anticipation – than ever before.
Or maybe time just seems to move faster the older you get…?
Crap, it’s nearly 1am and I start work in 5 hours. Is there any point going to bed…?
