NiallOK’s Blog

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It’s been a week since I’ve blogged, and it’ll be a wee while before I get back into the “swing of things” properly again as I’m still finding my feet and getting used to my new temporary surroundings after my relationship/engagement broke up and I left Dundalk for Dublin. I don’t know if I’ll be travelling, I don’t know if I’ll be moving somewhere soon, I don’t really know what’s going to happen.

At the moment, I’ve a couple of possibilities I’m looking at - a couple of options I’m chasing - including a potentially dream-come-true job, which I’m obviously not going to go into detail on right now. Still - right now, I’m in a sort of limbo. Despite getting loads done, I’ve still been doing a lot of sitting around and watching a lot of TV (Scrubs… for example). This will change. I’ll spring into action… soon.

It’s strange to see all your “worldly possessions” crammed into one small space (my folks, who I’m staying with, have one of these - a barbecue house - out in the back garden - and it’s basically been emptied out and then filled with my stuff). I’d never realised just how much I had (4 car loads and 1 Transit van load of furniture, DJ gear, computers & equipment, clothes and other stuff) but neither had I realised just how small a space it would all squash into and just how much of it I’d be considering throwing out.

Life goes on. Blogging will resume as normal (apart from the “Crunchy Links” - can’t be arsed with them any more)… soon.

Happy Paddy’s Weekend to you all.

I went to the Ireland Vs Wales rugby match today - my first time to be in Croke Park for an actual match (the single only other time I was there was for the Billy Joel and Elton John gig - a full decade ago). Was nice to have some father-son time (with my dad) and do something FUN. Pity Ireland lost.

Anyway, doubtless, if you’ve seen my last blog entry, you’ll realise that what I’ve gone through recently (with my four year long relationship with my (now ex-)fiancèe falling to pieces) hasn’t been easy and it’s meant that I’ve pretty much had to go ahead and reinvent myself and decide on creating a whole new life for myself from now on. My ex would probably admit that what I say is true - that the disintegration of our relationship was essentially down to her losing faith, losing respect and just basically not trying any more. So now here I am - starting from scratch again at age 31. Many people would think that’s too bloody hard. To be honest, I did at first - but the hell with it - I said in January that 2008 was going to be MY year… I still say that.

There are a few possibilities that have come up for me. All of them will mean me finding my way one way or another - with a new home, new job and possibly a pretty new location somewhere else in the country. I’m totally open to moving anywhere. For now, I’m in Dublin… and for now, I’m starting fresh;- kick-starting my life with a new way of thinking, a new way of living, and probably (on a smaller, less important scale… sorry…) a new look to my blog… soon… ish. No more “Crunchy Links”. No more bullshit - just straight out writing. Life’s experiences, my thoughts, my words, my pictures… and all that. The way it used to be when I started the blog… only better. I promise.

Thanks to all of you who either posted sympathetic/helpful comments on my last blog entry (seriously - I appreciate it) - and to those of you who wanted to but couldn’t (seriously, I understand), and those of you who spoke to me in person, took me out for lunch, helped me out, etc. etc. (seriously, I’ll never forget ye). It’s been a rough week… just as I knew it would be… and it’s not totally over - I still have to go back there to ‘finish off’ moving out (get the rest of my stuff, basically).

In the words of Coldplay (euch!)… “nobody said it was easy - nobody said it would be so hard - I’m going back to the start”.

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