The light returns from the dark side of the moon...
Hello, my little journal! :-)
Did you think that I abandon you? I did. And I'm sorry. I've been thinking about you a lot lately. I miss the people that you allowed me to meet, the friends I made. I miss the shiny, pretty icons. I miss the unending posts with good conversations!
Why did I leave? I'm trying to remember. I guess it was a combination of life-related things. I got my first job (still have it, actually) and at the time, they were cutting people and cutting hours and I was depressed. I didn't want to get a job only to lose it. (Praise God, I didn't!) I was a full-time college student, (still am) and I had the assorted responsibilities that go along with that. (So not much has changed with me, has it. :-D)
As I was getting busier, I had less time for graphics and icon-making. I loved making icons! It was a great way for me to express myself creatively, and as I don't always think that I'm the most creative of people, it was so nice to have that, even if I was about the only one who knew about it! I think I was hoping that I would be able to return and make icons again, and that just didn't happen. (All of the assorted materials are still sitting around on the computer still, if I should ever get the urge... :-D)
I got a facebook, which I have to say is just not like you at all! I'm friends with friends, but I'm also "friends" with people I've met once in my life, or have never met at all. (Why, you may ask, are you "friends" with that woman you've never met who your parents taught in middle school? And do you really care that she just ate a bagel? My response: I have no idea!) Facebook is nice, though because it allows me to keep in touch with my cousins who are now away at college! (And don't get me started about being addicted to Yoville! Stupid, I know... :-P) However, I've got no "friends" who care in the slightest about Jane Austen! Who can I talk costume drama with? Which brings me back here...
I did join the Jane Austen Society of North America in my absence! I'm an "official" Janeite, if you will. :-D Someday, I would love to go to one of the annual general meetings. *sighs* And I have started trying to make jewelry, which is definitely fun! So I'm not a complete creative failure! :-D
So I'm going to post again. (I AM! Don't look at me like that journal! I forbid you!) Here's hope you let me re-connect with some old friends and make plenty of new ones! :-)
Did you think that I abandon you? I did. And I'm sorry. I've been thinking about you a lot lately. I miss the people that you allowed me to meet, the friends I made. I miss the shiny, pretty icons. I miss the unending posts with good conversations!
Why did I leave? I'm trying to remember. I guess it was a combination of life-related things. I got my first job (still have it, actually) and at the time, they were cutting people and cutting hours and I was depressed. I didn't want to get a job only to lose it. (Praise God, I didn't!) I was a full-time college student, (still am) and I had the assorted responsibilities that go along with that. (So not much has changed with me, has it. :-D)
As I was getting busier, I had less time for graphics and icon-making. I loved making icons! It was a great way for me to express myself creatively, and as I don't always think that I'm the most creative of people, it was so nice to have that, even if I was about the only one who knew about it! I think I was hoping that I would be able to return and make icons again, and that just didn't happen. (All of the assorted materials are still sitting around on the computer still, if I should ever get the urge... :-D)
I got a facebook, which I have to say is just not like you at all! I'm friends with friends, but I'm also "friends" with people I've met once in my life, or have never met at all. (Why, you may ask, are you "friends" with that woman you've never met who your parents taught in middle school? And do you really care that she just ate a bagel? My response: I have no idea!) Facebook is nice, though because it allows me to keep in touch with my cousins who are now away at college! (And don't get me started about being addicted to Yoville! Stupid, I know... :-P) However, I've got no "friends" who care in the slightest about Jane Austen! Who can I talk costume drama with? Which brings me back here...
I did join the Jane Austen Society of North America in my absence! I'm an "official" Janeite, if you will. :-D Someday, I would love to go to one of the annual general meetings. *sighs* And I have started trying to make jewelry, which is definitely fun! So I'm not a complete creative failure! :-D
So I'm going to post again. (I AM! Don't look at me like that journal! I forbid you!) Here's hope you let me re-connect with some old friends and make plenty of new ones! :-)