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Bliss is off to Land of the Queens

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Well, it’s all over… after 1009 days together I am losing my Bliss.

Since she first started talking about a move to ‘that city up north’ it has been almost 4 months… it hardly seems real that we are moving into a new phase and going our separate ways. How funny does this sound? Like we’re breaking up…

I guess we are.

I used to get asked quite regulary if Bliss was my best friend, and insensitive as it sounds I always said no. Bliss and I are friends of a different kind, not exactly kindred spirits but better flatmates because of it I think. We knocked around together comfortably, the length of time it lasted is testament of that, I think it was an opposites ‘attract’ kind of thing! We were together so long we were always invited places together and always spoken of in the same sentence… The odd couple.

I think I am blissfully (excuse the pun) ignorant of how much I am going to miss her. I am not a sentimental type of chick and currently feel reasonably philosophical about the change… I think I am in denial. I believe I am going to miss the sneezing in the morning, the door closing as she leaves the house at 6am, the vacuum cleaning, the ability to excuse eating icecream at any time of the day, and chocolate for that matter.

Of course, I am also going to miss the long chats late in the evening, the single girls lament as we discussed our singular status, I’m going to miss her easy company too. Her wisdom and her amazing insight.

She’s a top chick.

So, here’s to the future!! And free lodging up north… And the best thing is that she will be back here every 8 weeks for work. You just gotta be happy with that…

Is it Really Possible that Anything is Possible?

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I have never been able to decide whether it is my rural background, my upbringing or my personality that has limited me over the years. I expect that a lot of the time it was low self esteem that made it look as though any sort of dream to achieve anything was futile and would only lead to failure and frustration. In fact, I am not even sure that I was any sort of dreamer as a child at all…

What did I want to be when I grew up? A nurse, because Mum was… never a thought given to what a nurse does – eeewwww (no disrespect Jack… in fact, molto respecto… really.)
What was I good at? Ummmmm ….regurgitating useless information…..
What was I encouraged to do? Quick, get a job, somewhere safe… (a bank! GAH!)

The fact is I am a rather creative creature… As a young’n I was encouraged to grow in areas that are less than creative because they were apparently safer… And as such, it is only now that I have been able to look at myself in any kind of creative light! And I’m 36 years old!!!

So now, having been encouraged to grow in one area and learning another I find myself with a unique sort of skill set and it is proving quite exciting to see where it can all go… You see, over the weekend I have been approached by two acquaintances who are interested in having me build websites for them! All this at the same time that I have been building my own, my first one from scratch.

I am far from experienced and have so much to learn but it seems that there are a large number of people in my group of friends who are finding out that the sky is the limit and the only thing that gets in the way is our perception of ourselves and our capabilities…

That and cash…

Accountability as a Kick in the Pants

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I can’t believe how long it has been since I posted… I have been discovering the delights of achieving something with my laptop rather than wiling away the hours reading not only my favourite blogs (see wiblinks) but the blog explosion ones as well.

Today I have achieved rather a lot in that I have spent the whole day and most of the evening tweaking html with a view to finally taking up the offer of free webhosting with my isp. I mentioned a singular girl website in these hallowed pages a month or two back and I am finally getting around to making it happen.

And so, now I allude to the title of this post.

The spur for getting on with the site is that I am meeting Coldie on Monday evening to show her what I have done. She and I are both chick-geeks and have been spending a lot of time talking about all the software we want, all the gear we could use for the projects we have in mind. After a long chat the other day I set us a challenge…

As I have Monday off I suggested that we use the long weekend to get on with the projects we keep talking about and never action and that we meet up in the evening and show off…

So, you understand why I had to get on with it.

AND … when you couple this with a meeting my shutterbug sisters and I convened to strategize about maximising the profit potential of our photos you realise that getting stuff done totally benefits from some outside impetus. Now that I have to pay full fare for a flight home at Christmas every profit option needs to be exhausted and the girls had some great ideas.

So, here it is… 2am… and I feel great for having something to show for my weekend other than a tidy bedroom and clean car!

(Actually… I still don’t have those to show … Ah well… tidy bedrooms are perhaps overrated… or maybe I just need to be accountable to someone for that too… )