h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My daughter says sometimes I am like the child and she is like the mother......but I have it on good authority that is how it's supposed to be...roles change...Winter won't last forever...you can always leave a message on my page for me if you need to talk sometimes

Yeah, while me and my daughter are just two rebellious teenagers.

Thank you, Tabitca.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.....
GROWING UP IS OVER-RATED!
I haven't decided what I want to be when (if) I finally grow up
Maybe a farmer.....
lady Karen

Greta, I'm a little late chiming in, but I had to say I love your list for the New Year! I hope I meet Leo too - at least I see him at the multiplex, and sometimes in my dreams at night.

I don't remember my dreams, but now, any girls in them will be Chinese.
Who is this Leo anyway, was he in Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger?

Or is he in Hero?

He is a Jam!?

Welcome back, beanfoto

"Sometimes I think I postponed my puberty and it is hitting me now..."

Oh no, not really. It's much harder to be a grown woman than a teenager.I mean, at sixteen you hurt but you know you've got a whole life and lots more boys ahead of you (I was very ugly so I didn't, but...) At 30... the perspective is different.

Still, I have to say I'm coping fairly well. It's not great, but it's OK. And tomorrow I'll go visit a friend for five days, which is guaranteed to cheer me up.

Greta

I keep telling you that 30 is YOUNG!!!!
Wait until you've had a grandkid, or two, until you start being down about age, you whipper-snapper
lady Karen

Back from NYE celebrations...

I had a great time, and honestly hated to coem back home. Everything seems the same and I'm feeling so down. I think I need a radical change. A new job, a new town, a new perspective. This place is killing me.

I have to gather my courage and make a resolution: I will blow town. I can't stand being here until the summer. I want to be out of here before June, and here's hoping I make it... it's not easy.

But I will try.

Oh dear...
I am so scared of radical changes. I usually rearrange the furniture and get a new haircut and then I tell myself that it's my new and changed life.

We all do that. Clean the house, get a haircut, move stuff around. Last year I experienced several radical changes (no boyfriend, new flat, new job) and now I know I can survive it.

If only just...

I want to be the new girl in town, I want to be fresh and new and I want to start everything from scratch. It's the only way to feel alive again...

I would like to fall in love, of course. I'd like a big torrid love affair with phone calls and letters and kisses and sex in every conceivable place. I'll let that happen, if it does. But not now.

*nods sagely*

Not now.

How to be lucky
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2622567.stm

Thanks pheloxi, I think I'll give it a try!

Like, right now.

Lucky things that have happened to me in 2002:

1) My ballast-disguised-as-boyfriend hit the eject button, thus sparing me the difficulty of making the decision.

2) The guy I started seeing two weeks afterwards did me the same favour, and he also got in the way of me getting it on with my best mate at the time.

3) My best mate and I are currently not speaking much, which gives me a chance to get over him. He's seeing somebody, so he won't miss me.

4) I got a new job.

(Pathetic attempt...)

That's a really interesting news story, pheloxi, but it seems to me as if they're not talking about luck so much as positive thinking. Of course you have a better chance of succeding if you convince yourself that it's possible. If you don't try, you definitely won't succeed!

Greta, my advice would be that you should go ahead and move. Sometimes a change of scenery can do you a lot of good. It doesn't do your state of mind any good if you're always surrounded by reminders of the things that have recently gone wrong. Moving up north and radically changing my lifestyle has worked for me!

Ormondroyd
...my point exactly we all need positive thoughts.

Yup. Going ahead with my plans. I have to blow town, as the Americans say.

I've only just started looking, so I don't expect to be able to move before two or three months. All that matters is that I be out of here before June. I hate everything about this place now. Mind you, moving to Milan isn't exactly going to help shake the memories off (my ex best mate happens to have just moved there, where his girlfriend lives... grrrr), but it might give me a chance to get into the publishing world, finally find a job that I like as opposed to just about tolerate, and start hanging out with guys in bands (I've always been attracted to rock musicians, failed or otherwise... ) And of course, deal with issues in my life.

There has to be a Mr _9 somewhere out there... (any bloke from the so-called New Rock Revolution would do the job, thank you, preferably the recently-discovered, utterly gorgeous drummer from BRMC, Thank you NME, am I going off on one here?)