Facebook

Facebook has been around for what? Two, Three, Five years?  I don't know.  Nor can I remember much now what it was like before Facebook.  It's like..email has been around for what 10-15 years?  And can anyone remember what we did before email?  Same goes for the Internet.  What did we do before the www?

Anyway, I don't know what your thoughts are about Facebook?  Mine tend to change from one month to the next.  At the moment, I'm really rather tired of it.  Do not see the appeal.  Do not see why everyone needs to be in everyone's business, nor do I really know why you think I'm interested in what you ate 5 minutes ago, or that you have a doctors appointment. 

What I do like is the photo's and the ability to catch up with people I haven't spoken to in ages.  But then, that's what email is there for too. 

Then there is twitter.  I've got a twitter account. Not that I use it much.  If ever.  That to me is more pointless than Facebook.  I'm sorry but I really don't get it. 

Ask me again, in a month or so from now how i feel about Facebook.  Chances are I may think its great again, or I'm loving some game or something I've discovered on there.  Or I'm bored with the usual 'stuff' I do online and have reverted back to FB. 

People watch you like a hawk.  If i don't post something on my profile page for a few days I get people texting or emailing me asking me if everything is ok.  I promise you, if I've not posted on Facebook for a while. it doesn't mean something is wrong. I just don't have anything worthwhile to say.  If something is wrong with me, wrong enough to be concerned about, you will know.

What are your thoughts about it?  Tell me. 

Bx

Following

So the cool thing about blogging...I don't know if its this blog in particular, or all blogs, is that you can track hits and the whereabouts of those hits to your page.  So far, I've had an incredible 15 page views (not mine coz I've had mine discounted) and all the hits are from South Africa and New Zealand...so, a wild guess here would be that Mommykins and either brother or sis-in-law  in NZ have had a peek. 
My point is, if you've come here and if you've been interested, please do 'follow' the blog.  Only coz I think that would be really cool and I would feel ever so popular! And coz I would know who you are too :)

I debated for a few days about whether I was going to advertise this page or not.  Then asked myself what was the point in having a blog and not sharing it with anyone.  I'm not exactly shouting it from the rooftops...nor will I...at least not for now, but if you have happened across this page, it's because you were looking at my info page on Facebook.  That thought in itself makes me feel somewhat happy coz someone out there was bothered enough to look. 

Oh these little things we need to make us feel better about ourselves...

Bx

Fool

So its April 1st.  I remember back (way back) when this date used to cause me slight giddiness when thinking of the tricks I could play on my friends.  I also remember once how a school mate of mine, offered me a sandwich during lunch break which had plastic as the filling.  I wonder if she still remembers that?

Anyway, April 1st 2011 and I spent the day at home.  Friday day off, always a good thing, but the day was another grey one - with intermittent showers - and I didn't do anything special with it.  My daughter is the one in a giddy mood today. Probably because she and her boyfriend are celebrating their 1st anniversary.  Scary that, how times flies.

I have no words of profoundness tonight.  I'll be heading off soon to my usual evening hang out (those that know me well will know what that is) but just wanted to write something as it has been a few days.  Perhaps I shouldn't be putting pressure on myself to write something all the time (I do think about it a lot since I set this up) but rather just write when I have something important to say.  Yes, perhaps I will do that.

Anyway, Happy April Fools day :)

Bx

Spring

So today is Monday. Weekend over and the start of another week at that wonderful place called work.  Yeah, I'm obviously taking the piss.....

For the first time this year, I took off my coat on my way home.  These are good times.  There is nothing more amazing (well there probably is...but you get my meaning) than that feeling you get when you realise the summer is on its way and the blossoms start appearing.  When Spring has sprung.  Being a safa, I'm usually one of the last people at work that will comment on the good weather, usually, I'm the one pulling my face and telling them they are all mad when they say its spring.  But, today, I had to agree.  However, as this is Manchester, the sun will probably disappear tomorrow and the usual grey and wet, that is Manchester as we know and sometimes love it, will return.  I'll let you know how that goes.

So anyway, there is a lot I want to say here....though, I'm not so sure how or where to start.  Let me just say that my head is in a completely wrong place at the moment.  Where that place is, I do not know, but its a dark and morbid place and I would very much like for it to come back up for air.  How do you pull your head out of the mire?

I've no idea.  I'm hoping doing this blog will help.

Oh...also the fact that I've been reading a book by a guy in the London Ambulance Service that used to blog everything he did and clearly got a bit of a fan club.  Yes, I'm reading the book, not the blog...so I'm guessing he must have got quite a bit of attention. 

Bx

And so it starts

Ive written, on and off for quiet a few years, but not so much in the last few, and to be honest, I do miss it.  For me, there has never been anything more therapeutic than writing my feelings, my ideas, my thoughts down and reading them back to myself.  Nothing has ever been able to put things into perspective more quickly for me than that, so I do wonder sometimes, why I haven't written in so long, nor why I didn't miss it more than I did?

I've done the odd page or two on the website.  A few years ago i wrote my own website which was also all about me, but was focused around a particular time in my life.  I kept that page up for 2 years and ended it when I moved to the UK.  I revisited it in 2008 and started another, but sadly, didn't stick to it.  I don't know if i will stick to this either, but I guess, time will tell.

So, this is where it all starts again.  I'll try to add to it regularly, and hopefully get totally into it and hopefully, you, the reader, will come back and enjoy and comment.

We'll see

Bx

p.s....here are the links to the websites I was referring to.  Read at your own risk.
My first one: A Journey
my second one: A Journal