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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Ressurection


I miss writing. Often I had nothing to say, but just writing something, anything, felt good to me. When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a writer. Quite some years ago I even started writing some books. I never finished them though. I didn't want this blog to be another of those abandoned forgotten writing projects of mine. I knew all along that I would miss it, and so I thought I'd just eventually open up a new blog, but then I think of all the posts and comments left here and would miss the continuity. It's almost been a year since I started this blog and so much has happened, why abandon all of that? A lot of the time I write crap all, just spewing random thoughts out as they enter my head, but to me this was what I needed. It's like a journal or diary where you put all your thoughts, dreams and hopes, and flicking through the archives of this blog are like reading through old journals to me. This is far less private ofcourse, and because of that, so many times there were things I wanted to pour out and always held back.

I started to take medication that had some side effects. One of these was the lack of sleep, the other was how emotional they made me. That's where the problem started. I should never have told anyone about them, because they were used against me (and still are) to an extent. If I get upset about something with someone, I think it gets attributed to the combination of lack of sleep and medication, with no acknowledgement to how I actually feel. I may be expressing my emotions more, but the emotions are still real.

Because of the pent-up emotions, some blogs became more personal, and I guess I should have warned you readers because it rubbed some people up the wrong way. So here it is, I am laying it all on the line. Call it my Disclaimer if you will.

If you come here and read something, and you think I am having a bit of a vent about you, please come to me personally and ask me if that's the case. Don't discuss it amongst yourselves escalating speculation, don't put nasty comments up telling me what an awful person I am, be an adult and just talk to me one on one. I have never deleted anyone's comments here unless they have done a double post (true story, I hate censorship remember) but in the future if anyone posts abusive comments I will delete them. That's not what this place is about. Acknowledge my feelings by speaking to me one on one, or I won't acknowledge yours.

Despite popular belief, the Trust No One post I wrote that started a big huge wave of abuse was not about Emmy. It in fact was not about one particular person at all. This is what you readers need to understand - don't take things I write personally because 99% of the time I am writing in a general sense. If I say men suck, it means just that, men. Not one man, even though I may take examples from what I have experienced recently. If I say trust no one it means just that, no one. I have also (though not here yet) said I think that people suck. Yep, people. A generalisation, not directed at one individual. It's important you make this distinction, otherwise you may as well stop coming to this blog. I will do an I Hate People blog sometime soon I'm sure, so if you can't handle it, don't read the post! The majority of my posts here have always been lighthearted, and I'm not about to get totally serious on you, but hey, this is Mel's Random Ramblings. This is me. Sometimes I like to ramble about things I have noticed in this world I don't like. Most of the time I like to ramble about things I have noticed in this world I do like. There is always good with the bad, positives with the negatives, the yin with the yang. That is life. This blog is where I post about my life, so expect it.

I closed this blog because I was lost in life, I didn't know where to turn, and had discovered my blog was not a place I could escape to as it seemed my negatives were something for people to mock. A lot has happened in my personal life lately dealing with my relationships with several people, including those closest to me, and it's going to take a lot to heal. I'm trying to get past all that though and so I won't discuss that matter further, but thought it fair to tell you why I stopped writing. Hopefully those people would have lost interest in checking this site by now. I used to love seeing my little Site Meter tick up, loved seeing people leave Comments. I guess it was pride. I don't care about that stuff anymore, and will not be advertising this blog like I used to publicly. If you still come here, great, if no one does, well, at least I know I won't have to worry about what I write. When Squash reopened his blog (I'll put a new link up soon) he reminded me how good doing this felt, and so, it's time...

Monday, May 10, 2004

Closing Down


This will be my last blog. My last public one anyway. I think I'll go back to writing something only I can read.

Thursday, May 06, 2004

A long time between drinks


I hate how sometimes there is nothing to do and then things get so busy you can't even update your blog for over a week! I don't even know exactly where the time has gone, all I know is that it has.

The weekend flew! I arrived on Friday night, then on Saturday we had a LAN session at the hall Alex's dad runs, and so the entire day was taken up with that pretty much. We used to try and have one about once a month but haven't had one now in over a year and so I had a great time. On top of getting to play games for the entire day/night I got to catch up with people I haven't seen for absolutely ages like Geoff, Jason, Paul, etc. We got there at about 1pm and didn't get home until about 3:30am, so it was a full-on day. Sunday was therefore really tiring and all I did was drop in to mum and dad's and caught up with Grandma before I came home.

I worked until about 4pm on Monday at which time Jodie and I took a Gov car and drove back to Adelaide. I dropped her off at the hotel and so got to spend a brief amount of time at home that night. Next morning I picked Jodie up and we went to the most pointless training session in the Adelaide office ever. Won't bore you with the details really, but a waste of time nonetheless. We left at about 3:30pm and when we got home I was completely stuffed.

On top of the running back and forth work has just been crazy too. With the end of the financial year coming the work is piling up, so many things to do before the end of June!

I was thinking that I really miss living with someone. Don't get me wrong, ofcourse I miss Ivan but probably more than anything I miss just having someone else there. I mean, I do like being on my own sometimes too, like not having to worry if I'm bothering anyone by blasting my music as I take a shower in the morning and stuff like that, but when it comes to being scared you just think 'I wish someone else was here'. The scary neighbour is the main thing, yes. I was working on the art of avoidance but before I left for Adelaide on Friday I went to put some rubbish in the bin and he was bloody well outside wasn't he? The conversation was actually like a normal neighbourly conversation over the fence and I went inside the house and thought to myself that perhaps I am overreacting as there was nothing creepy about that at all. But as soon as I had finished that thought, lo and behold, a knock was on the door and there he was again being creepy as all hell. He actually started walking in as soon as I opened the door but I stopped that thankfully. My God, why couldn't he leave things in a normal manner?!?

And then the other times you wish someone else was around is like last night when I attempted to watch a movie. I started watching The Butterfly Effect which isn't meant to be scary but is meant to keep you guessing. Did the film-makers tell the composer that it wasn't meant to be a scary movie? I think not! Within the first 7 minutes I had jumped 3 times because of the damn music and was completely freaked out so I had to switch it off, but I really want to see this movie! Guess I'll have to wait until I have time during the day, when it isn't dark. Silly Mel.

In other news, Big Brother is back on which means Big Brother Up Late is there to entertain me during my insomnia, and so the world is good again.