A Breath of Fresh Air

Some of you profile-hoppers may have already noticed this, but to those of you who haven't, well, here it is: I have deleted My Point of View.

I'm sorry, guys, I truly am, but it's just so hard to read a comment filled out on my form that reads 'you can be mean'. 'Some pictures are just dreadful'. 'You're rude'. 'You're dull'. 'That's boring'.

I'm not blaming anyone here. If you're one of the people who wrote that, I have nothing against you, I swear. That's your honest opinion, and everyone is entitled to their own thoughts and feelings. That's okay.

But what I am going to do is just take a little break from Blogger. Start up a new photography blog afterwards, maybe. But I have so many other things to do instead. Practise for my midterm exams. Write my novel. Celebrate along with my little brother at his fifth birthday tomorrow. I have a real life, as does everyone with a Blogger account.

So I guess what this leads up to is my very first "goodbye". I love all my Blogger friends, and I won't be gone any longer than a month. Hopefully less. So, well, goodbye.

Good luck.

I'll miss you.

Swirly Girl xx

P.S. If you care to stay in contact, why don't you shoot me an e-mail?

random musings on a friday afternoon

Friday.

The fifth and final day of the school week.

The day you rush home, flop down onto your sofa, and sigh, "It's finally Friday".

After a long, hard week of tests, test revision, and eight homework assignments, there is nothing more I'm looking forward to than the weekend. Anyone else lovin' Fridays at the mo?

As I type, I'm gazing at a wintery gray-and-yellow streaked sunset framing the skeletal silhouettes of a pair of weathered oak trees. A couple of crows are nestled among their boughs, and I can just make out the tangle of a bird's nest tucked up next to the trunk. It is, as is common in south-west Britain, overcast.

But beautiful nevertheless.

As is typical during winter, it's cold. And dark. And wet. But, my friends, not with snow. No, no, no, Mother Nature does not allow any snow to fall around where I live. Instead, it rains.

And rains.

And rains some more.

My First Animated GIFs

Yay! I, too, have learned the art of animated GIFs.

They aren't as good as Speed's, but I tried. :)

cleanse.

Cleanse.

My one little word for 2011.

I will cleanse my body, heart and soul.

I will cleanse my slate and start afresh.

A synonym of cleanse is purify.

I will make sure I am cleansed this 2011.

Winter Wonderland Designs

Yay! The awesome Shadowflower invited me to be admin on her blog Winter Wonderland Designs!!!

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~~Speedy

Oh, hello, 2011

Wow. Can anybody believe that 2010 is drawing to a close? When the clock strikes twelve, a new year will have begun. And with a new year come new resolutions that will (hopefully - no, definitely) make me a better person.

Now, I rarely ever make New Years' resolutions. Cardboard-stiff sentances beginning with "I solemnly swear to/not to do..." aren't really going to do much difference. You'll be so worked up about not breaking those rules - because they are just like a list of rules - that you will be fretting and fussing all year long. You see why I don't do resultions? And with all that other crap, well, you'll just forget it by March.

No. I do goals. Sentences starting with "to acheive this, I should...". No swearing here. Now, I'm not gonna bore you with all 9 goals I have written down in my notebook, but I am going to tell you here and now that to acheive them, I'm not going to go on Blogger every day. Every three or four days, sure. After all, my Dashboard *is* my homepage. But not every day, no.

So, to all those writing down a list of resolutions, good luck. And to all of you, a very happy, sucessful start, middle and end to your 2011.

Happy New Year, guys. :)

don't

I wrote this poem in response to something I read the other day. I hope you like it. :)

you say you're fine
you've never crossed the line
between beauty and disease

but I can see your eyes
all those twisted lies
your bones right under your skin

you're falling apart
and it's breaking my heart
to watch you struggle...

so just lift your head high
and face the sky
promise me to never let go
don't fade away
stay here today
you're nothing but skin and bones...

Eating disorders ARE a disease, and many teenagers are prone to them by peer pressure. Remember that that girl on TV has been airbrushed and modified so far away from her original body, she may as well be a Photoshop-drawn puppet.