Well, I know it’s been a while since my last post, but I have been VERY busy…! And as a comeback, to my blogging life, I’ve decided to list a highlight (that I can remember) from the last 10 years… so, I’m 27 now, so we’ll start when I was 17… here goes!
17 – Diagnosed with a minor heart problem – no biggie. Got my lip pierced, scrotum pierced, and dropped out of school (gee, that was a year to be proud of)
18 – Removed my lip and scrotum piercings, started working as a researcher and began a law degree
19 – FINALLY came out of my shell and the closet (officially)
20 – Diagnosed with a severe heart disease. Moved to London, enjoyed myself, discovered the ‘joy’ of working and making money
21 – Explored New York and LA again. Moved back to Australia (to Brisbane, of all places, ugh!) as health was deteriorating, and entered the recruitment industry
22 – Moved to Sydney, out on my own, no friends, no commitments, no sensibility. Contracted the “Sydney Syndrome” – stayed out all weekend, every weekend… who am I again? Eventually made some ‘friends’
23 – Lost all sense of maturity – disgraceful, but fun – enough said. Made some better friends.
24 – Finally regained some dignity and started settling down. Started studying my pre-med part time, whilst holding down a full time job.
25 – Changed jobs and entered the media world – some would say a career, which it kind of could be, if not for the part time studies continuing… I take the job very seriously and do well, though.
26 – Still working away, making what I can out of the job I’m doing – still studying, struggling under the pressure, but getting there… Finally give up smoking, start going to the gym (albeit a half-arsed effort). Advised by the doctor that I’m stable and have improved – doing really well!
27 – Going to the gym a hell of a lot more. Completed the City2Surf in 99 minutes – not bad for someone with Heart Failure! Work is going fine, moved into a new role, but still with the same company. Great friends around me and doing well with the part time studies. Gee…
Shit – seems like a lot when you look at it like this… But, without it all happening, I wouldn’t be me. I wouldn’t have the friends I’ve found along the way, either!
Well, with that I welcome myself back to my world of blogging.
Enjoy.
Posted by Melly Mel on 26 August, 2008 at 12:19 am
Aaaaah the joys of looking back on one’s life in summation. And how interesting some of the similarities…
16/17 – went from 2 piercings to 8 and transitioned from long distance ed (and living) overseas in Vanuatu to International School in the Philippines…
Start TAFE just to make life “interesting”… LOL
18 – shaved all my hair off and graduated with honours, add two more piercings and constant inferences that I’m a dyke…
19 – move back to Aus, shack up with a bastard and started working for another bastard by the name of Telstra… try to do uni part time at the same time when I am really there for the wrong reasons…
20 – bail on uni and go full time work, OMG money instead of instant noodles and baked beans…! WOOT!
21 – still committed to same bastards but now both full time… add tattoo…
22 – starting to wonder what the hell I am doing…
23 – finally quit one bastard, move back to mum n bro’s place temorarily and persist with the corporate bastard, climbing the Telstra ladder…
24 – spend 10 months recovering financially, spiritually and mentally from aforementioned bastard, try to find myself in being “free” from all commitment… hahaha…! Silly girl…! Very much living the “single” life (n we all know what this is nice language for)…
25 – promoted again to Mobility Specialist for Telstra Country Wide… shack up with another bastard (you recognising a trend here…?)
26 – all shiny and nice, head hunted over to the online sales world, things incredibly challenging but peachy… eventually buy house and commit to mortgage…
27 – quit smoking one month before bastard shows his colours, dumps mortgage on me and then tries to go me for cash payout, wtf am I doing? How obvious does a message have to make itself to be taken on? OK, getting the idea now and singledom is finally good, as is being smoke free…
28 – rapidly approaching in only a month’s time, wow…
Piercings and tattoos, sex, study and international travel… funny measuring sticks aren’t they…
But oh where we would be if we didn’t do these things the way we did em…! 
Posted by ev on 26 August, 2008 at 8:36 am
there was a shell?
Posted by LaLa on 27 August, 2008 at 6:47 am
You’re gay?
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