Last night I read some old donnaville blog entries from 2005. That was a couple months prior to getting laid off… the first time. Prior to re-branding myself a Sales professional. Reading the entries, I was surprised at how fun, happy and silly I sounded. Things sure did change that January. And I can hardly believe it was 5 years ago. 5 years!
At any rate, I have a ton of things on my plate today. And I don’t know where to start. I guess I should just stop thinking and just do it.
I remember that as a very trying time for myself as well.
We all grow through it, should you choose to look at that way. Myself? I grew larger around the middle, more comforted by alcohol and increasingly disillusioned with society.
From what you had let on during that time… You were going through a VERY tough time. I couldn’t imagine it- then or now.
For me, now looking back. it seems to me that that Sept – Dec 2005 period for me was the last bit of innocence I experienced, I guess. And then I got a wake up call that resulted in adulthood.
Welcome to the I-hate-the-00-decade club. I went through a couple of layoffs…I had to relocate from Texas to South Carolina and then to freaking North Dakota in order to find work. On top of that there was
the 9-11 trauma and its aftermath and then the election a pseudo-American Marxist President. I underwent THREE angioplasties and had stents placed in two major coronary arteries, and two close family members took their own lives. Life can be a bitch, no doubt about it. You just have to roll with the punches and find the bright side (and there is one, no matter what happens).
It’s true about that period in my life; I don’t need whips and chains for my BDSM sessions anymore…I just have the dominatrix read aloud entries from my old blog.
The pain is exquisite.
You have definitely matured during this time. I remember when I first started reading your blog you were pretty care free and crazy. By no means are you boring today, just more reserved with expressing those inner-Donna feelings on your blog.