Reacquaintance

So I figured what better way to restart this blog than to have a catch-up and fill you in with what exactly I've been up to in the last four years. Here is a quick run through of the major events worth mentioning:

1. I got a Master's degree in Clinical Neuroscience. It sounds impressive but it's not because I've forgotten it all.

2. I moved to London properly proper grown-up adult style into a nice flat with nice people and everything (as opposed to the dodgy flat with dodgy landlord next to a dodgy prison that I was in before...different story).

3. I met a potato. So now this tiny potato has been joined by a slightly bigger potato in the quest for potatopia. And the best part is he's got Irish blood. You couldn't write this stuff.

4. Jobs. Oh God, let's not even go there right now. Let's just say I could write solely about job rejections on this blog and have enough material to last me a lifetime (it is a feat of human nature that I still haven't learnt how to write a decent application all these years later).

5. I got Instagram finally! Only a thousand years after everyone else. I've had it for 6 months now and I have 2 photos up. Woohoo! Come follow my barren landscape @ruthosully.

2017

Well.

Four years went pretty quickly didn't it? I only turned around for one minute and before you know it, its four years later and my poor old blog has been well and truly abandoned.

I've been back in Kent visiting my parents lately, after finally accepting that I can't keep using my old bedroom there as a storage unit, so off I trotted to declutter my past from their present.

It was whilst sorting through old notebooks and papers that I came across pages and pages of annotations of the London 2012 Olympics, scribbled down hastily (and illegibly) during those two amazing summer weeks. The point being that I would transform it into a blog post highlighting the best moments, which I never got round to doing. No surprise there, not getting round to things is a regular occurrence in my personal life. 

Written alongside my miniature Olympics dossier, I had a list of other future blog posts which also never got written. Looking over it inspired me to consider starting this blog up again; have a project, do something, and keep a focus. Having done some soul searching lately and acknowledging personal shortcomings, this seems like a reasonable project to pour my efforts into (yes bloggy, I'm using you for personal gain, whilst simultaneously providing myself with a new excuse to procrastinate from a 'Father's Day 2015' scrapbook I haven't finished yet). 

It's good timing really as I have the time and means now to write, which I was lacking when I stopped writing before. I've left my really stressful job and am in the decompression stage as I figure out what to do next. Funnily enough, my "all eggs in one basket" tactic didn't pay off and I didn't get shortlisted for the job I had decided I would get and was *supposed* to start (why does no one else realise how perfect I am? ugh) leaving me in quite the quandary now. 

So yeah, there you go. I'm back. Looking forward to it.