Welcome home

After spending the greater part of my young adulthood making dumb mistakes and not going anywhere, I thought to myself "If I haven't at least learned something from this, then the whole last five years have been a complete write off."

(Of course, it never even crossed my mind to take active steps to change my circumstances. And it's such a mark of the indie/hipster kid that we look back with self pity and resign ourselves to our under-achieving ways, where we can mull over the reasons for our mediocrity, rather than getting up off of our Belle & Sebastian-listening behinds and doing something about it.

For example, after wordily proclaiming to anyone who would listen that 2010 was going to be the greatest fricken year of my life, and that everything was going to turn around and my life was going to be filled with extraordinary people, fulfilled potential and a general air of brilliance. After all of those positive thoughts and words came gushing out of me like I was some lame character out of 7th Heaven or something, the closest I came to anything resembling an actual plan to change my life was to start a new blog. Not only that, but a blog which would serve to reflect on the crapness of my world and justify (to myself at least) my lameness by explaining how it was all serving to make me into a less whiney, lame human being, whereby cleverly avoiding any actual action.)

So.. this is my new blog. Here you can read about the mess I make of my life and experience that feeling of superiority you get when you see someone really well-dressed fall over in public.

xoxo.

Mel.



P.S. Things can only go uphill from here.