Time for a change ...
I have overhauled my LJ page.
Out with the purple. Out with the Slytherin header (for now). Out with the main icon (though I'm keeping it as another possibility) ... and probably, in about another hour or two, an overhaul of my icons in general.
Was going to wait until I was done with the icon meme for that, but here's the deal. I need alot of overhaul on my life, especially that which upsets me.
Since cutting my hair isn't really a healthy option, leaving the state isn't an option (love my daughter too much), and it's not mature to go burn everything ever associated with my ex (not to mention the things that I enjoy that I would lose by doing such a drastic thing) ... overhauling my LJ seemed the most mature AND productive thing I could do that could fulfill the "scrap it and start over" need that I sometimes have.
Probably not terribly exciting for others, people get facelifts to their journals all the time ... but I don't. I usually think and ponder and angst forever before changing ... and then a year later, I end up back at purple with my Slytherin header all over again.
But I just need to overhaul it so I can reclaim it so that I can feel SAFE in my own space again. Through no fault of anyone else's, I haven't felt safe here. And that, my friends, has SUCKED massively, considering all the different things that I have shared here over the years, both publicly and semi-privately.
So, here goes ... I reclaim my journal in the name of ME!
-DL-
Out with the purple. Out with the Slytherin header (for now). Out with the main icon (though I'm keeping it as another possibility) ... and probably, in about another hour or two, an overhaul of my icons in general.
Was going to wait until I was done with the icon meme for that, but here's the deal. I need alot of overhaul on my life, especially that which upsets me.
Since cutting my hair isn't really a healthy option, leaving the state isn't an option (love my daughter too much), and it's not mature to go burn everything ever associated with my ex (not to mention the things that I enjoy that I would lose by doing such a drastic thing) ... overhauling my LJ seemed the most mature AND productive thing I could do that could fulfill the "scrap it and start over" need that I sometimes have.
Probably not terribly exciting for others, people get facelifts to their journals all the time ... but I don't. I usually think and ponder and angst forever before changing ... and then a year later, I end up back at purple with my Slytherin header all over again.
But I just need to overhaul it so I can reclaim it so that I can feel SAFE in my own space again. Through no fault of anyone else's, I haven't felt safe here. And that, my friends, has SUCKED massively, considering all the different things that I have shared here over the years, both publicly and semi-privately.
So, here goes ... I reclaim my journal in the name of ME!
-DL-