So another month has come and gone and yet again i've not kept up with my blog.  Bad me.  I'm terrible!  I've not written to my friend currently spending time in maximum security prison since last year either.  Erm...actually i'm thinking that having me on his bad-side might inevitably be a bad thing so I might write to him after I've blogged.  Just in case.  I'm sure he's reformed....but I don't think i'll take that chance!

A friend was texting me last night.  He's a new friend.  A lovely new friend who I really enjoy talking to (he's just as weird as me) and he started freaking me out by texting things about me (like my birth place and shoe size).  Obviously being a reformed stalker, my alarm bells started ringing, but it made me climb on the laptop (well, not literally!) and google myself.  Wow.  I really shouldn't have done that!  There's so much out there about me that I had no idea about!  And sadly I've found i'm not as unique as I hoped I was!  BUT I also found that there are websites that have my handle (aarrbeee) that I've never been on in my life before!  That's just wrong!  I think i'm finally grasping the fear that some of my friends already display in what they have about their lives being an open book for weirdos and axe-murderers and fraudsters alike.  I mean, when I say i'm grasping the fear, i'm kind of just tenderly stroking the fear.  It doesn't scare me and i'll not stop buying things with my cards online and i'll not become a hermit and go deep underground in a bid to avoid all things techno, but I will pause before I spill my inner thoughts and plans and itineraries with the great big world.....hmmm....i'm still doing it on here though so maybe i'll need to work on that.

Anyway, said friend that made me google myself put me in touch with my old myspace account which I hadn't looked at since 2006 or something.  Wow, it was a blast from the past!  I had a mini blog on there before I set up this one and I do have to say that after reading it (and the comments made by complete strangers) that I have a strange gift of storytelling.  One stranger in particular said something along the lines of that my ability to put laughter and entertainment into my real life trials and tribulations was refreshing and amusing.  I think that was a compliment.  Maybe.

I decided after many weeks of ponderment that I would start up a new blog.  One for my work.  So much funny stuff happens to me at my work that it seems wrong to not share them all with the world.  I'm sure I'll be the only one that reads them, but at least i'm making a memory.  I love my job, and although i'll be keeping the other blog anonymous (i'm hoping there will be no links to me), i'm quite excited about keeping a journal about the stuff that happens.  I'm hoping that maybe one day i'll be able to tie some of my amusing customers and fellow colleagues personalities, anecdotes and situations into a new novel (after I finish the one i'm still writing!)

Speaking of writing, still studying for my degree.  I've been passing all my assignments so far and got another one due in a couple weeks.  I'm a little behind with the studying because of recent things happening, but I just need to focus, get my head in the game and get on with it.  I'm such a procrastinator (it's a better word than lazy), but I know i've got the strength somewhere to get through it so I just need to hold onto the end product (the degree) and keep my head down.

Oh oh oh...i've signed myself up to do a sponsored 12 mile walk in June.  My bestie friend is doing it for a local charity that supports her with a medical condition that she has just been diagnosed with so me and her sister have signed up to support her.  I'm going to be raising money for Verity UK, the only charity in the UK that supports and aids women living with PCOS (Poly-cystic Ovarian Syndrome).  I have been living with this condition since I was roughly 16 and it has pretty much ruled my life (and ruined it a little).  If you can find it in your heart to sponsor me, my justgiving page is HERE and I truly would be so incredibly grateful for any contributions you could give me.  I'll be plugging this event nearer the time and probably be giving an update on training for it soon, so keep reading!

It's time for bed now.

Rhona out.

Right now I should be studying the wonderful artistry that is Paul Cezánne and starting on the essay that is due in this week, but I really don't have the energy.  Which is pretty pathetic really because I came in from work tonight, had dinner and watched a bit of the depression that was the nightly news then came upstairs, shoved the PC and laptop on (yes both of them), got changed into my PJ's, plonked myself down on my computer chair and that is where I have been stationed for the past 4 hours.  Pathetic.  Man, I could have done so much more productive things in 4 hours than what I have actually done!  I can't even say that I've done anything at all actually.  I've sat and chatted to a couple people on Facebook, caught up with some TV that I sky+'d and watched the awkward teenager across the street prance around his bedroom like a nancy boy to some kind of music - I hope was a boy-tastic band like the Backstreet Boys or Westlife *RIP* - and now i'm thinking about sub-plots to my novel.  Actually, does it make me sound like a perv the fact that I watched the teenager across the way dancing?!  I feel I have to clarify; I am in an attic conversion with my desk looking out onto the main street.  I have a terrace of houses opposite me and the boy's bedroom is one level down from where i'm sitting so can see, with ease, his whole room.  You see it's actually his parent's fault because they have no curtains in his bedroom (never have for some reason) so the poor coming-of-age lad has no privacy...though i'm sure he doesn't appreciate just how much of his room can be seen.  Not that I've seen anything or even looked into his room at all, apart from that one time when it was instigated by him because he shone one of those red laser thingies into my room when I was having a girl's night in.  So there.  Glad I got that sorted out.