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My blog is one year old today So what’s happened in the past year?

Well, the blog started exactly a year ago (to the minute, I’ve automated the posting of this to be sure ) as [another] attempt at getting a home page going.  I introduced the world to the idea of operation sock, then I proceeded write lots of random drivel and before getting dumped, and going on about shirts and my new flat in a big way. My new commute, lack of friends and lack of girlfriend had me not getting as much sleep as I should and I was constantly bemoaning how tired I was. There was the brief flirtation with online dating and I bought chickens. Who’d have known I’d no longer be in contact with their namesakes a year down the line.

August saw me going out more and more in a desperate attempt to make new friends and generally be around people. It was also the start of my health kick down the gym and some insane purchases for the house. September I was quite quiet about what was going on in my life with a few random posts. It was also the last time I got to see sprog. I still miss her.

October was more upbeat with my sock fettish rekindled and some big nights out planned. I’d started to make friends in Colchester, but I still wasn’t looking after myself. Oh, and the rants about Christmas started… interestingly I then went and bought a shed load of very sharp swords. I discovered my local and finally went to the doctors about my problems sleeping.

November I retreated from the world, left facebook and the online dating sites, got angry and got an iPhone (the two events were unlrelated). I also decided the whole ’smart with shirts’ look wasn’t me and went straight back to black cliche where I’ve kind of stayed. I stayed angry through December and basically shouted a lot about Christmas before keeling over with a seriously bad kidney infection.

January started well, saw the official unveiling of the flat. I was still ranting but I was a much happier bunny. In February I tried a new project over at my somewhere random domain which ultimately died a death but which was borne out of iPhone joy, which I had in great abundance. Pancakes were had and our crush on CBT started. Oh, some 8 months after the idea was first mooted Operation Sock finally went live. Not everything went to plan though.

In March I met up with a whole load of you, went clubbing lots, discovered sedition and calmed down sufficiently to reintegrate myself with the world… or facebook at least. April saw a couple more setbacks, but nothing major, and despite those I was a lot happier. I think the holiday helped. I relaunched somewhere random, got my biting sarcasm back and promptly keeled over with another kidney infection. I also started doing SoTW (Song of The Week) which is something that I’ve been doing with a few friends for a while now.

By May I’d really started to sort things out. My social life was good, I was toying with the idea of doing something funky with my hair and I got told I was being made redundant (not necessarily a bad thing). It’s a bit of an odd month for me so it was nice to be in a good place to start with. Was still devoid of girlfriend, but was having fun at the pub each weekend. d-day passed without incident (and was really quite fun) and I got back in contact with someone who I’d desperately missed for 10 years.

June has been a funny month and I’ve been a bit up and down, although more up than down despite lifes best efforts to derail me. Where I go from here is anyones guess but I’ll do my best to take you all with me.

It’s funny but I can look back on all the posts, no matter how vague, cryptic or random and remember what I was doing, and why I put the post up. I’ve always tried to keep the blog upbeat and happy, or at least that’s what I thought I was doing, but having reread everything in a sitting it’s quite clear, to me at least, when I was really down (which seems to be an awful lot). Becoming single in a strange town put paid to a lot of the ‘happy happy, joy joy’ in the beginning and it’s only really in the past few months that I feel things have started to turn around for me. Hopefully the next year wont be quite the headlong charge into the unknown that this one was. I’m certainly a lot calmer than I used to be (honest). Of course, from your point of view, this might not be a good thing as we’ll be returning more to the random drivel with less of the juicy gossip I’ll endevour to maintain high levels of biting sarcasm (which, ironically, I do better when in a good mood) for your reading pleasure. In the mean time I’ll leave you to speculate about the 90% of my life (yes, really, I’ve left huge chunks out) that I don’t blog about while I go find something banal to write about.

God I’m a miserable bugger