Happy Anniversary!!

Happy Annivesary, Farawaysoclose! Here on the one year anniversary of my journal, I have made a lot of observations and decisions about the way I've handled it. If I go back to my first entry, this blog was NEVER intended to be a dumpsite of emotions and pathos that I've turned it into the past six months.

A blog will always be a natural reflection of its author and I sure have had some pathos lately so the change in focus can only be expected. But as I consider what I've put out there for public consumption, I'm not happy with it.

So, I am going to be doing a clean up of it over the next few days. In certain cases, I'm going to transfer it over to another blog that I have which is private and where a lot of these entries SHOULD lie. By Saturday or Sunday, I'd expect a lot of entries to have been either eliminated entirely or edited heavily.

That's not to say there won't be a personal edge or reflection to this blog - there absolutely will be! But to be specific and candid about details..I don't think so. A big part of the reason is - you have to be either IN or OUT. You can't tell the world only 30% of a story and leave out the bits that are deeply private or confidential and then expect everyone to get the point. The truth of a story is usually in its shadows and you leave that out, you've changed the point and purpose entirely. And everyone thinks you're a daft bint so what have you achieved, really? That's actually not a half bad way to live your life, come to think of it never mind managing your blog.

My other reason for returning to the original intent of this blog is, I know I can do better than I've done. I went back and re-read the Epic and I know I can do better as a writer, as a thinking person and really, as just another person placing data on the "series of tubes" that's the internet (more on that in a future blog entry, I'm sure!). This was always supposed to be a daily outlet of the same type of things I'd blether about at a pub, not in pyschotherapy. So, that's the plan.

i sure wish I new some goode gramar tho.

In other news - I'm officially on vacation!! I was able to get a few days approved now that our go-live date has pushed. The new go-live date is November 1st, so the pace will relax substantially. That doesn't mean there won't be some big days coming up but we cannot continue to break our necks and backs and thankfully, the pace of which we've been working has been worked into the new project plan. Now I need to figure out an actual real week off get completely out of town holiday.

Unfortunately, I don't have many plans to do too much. I didn't have time to plan, I just took the days off as a desperate grab to a slippery rope. I'm going to the beach today with some friends and that will be a very very nice getaway. Just not being at work will be all the rest I need, truth be told.