A while ago I was searching for a story from 2007 on the ole blog and besides the usual horrification at the journal-esque writing style, I was appalled at how blatant/transparent I was with the perceived woes in my life in relationships and at work. Like, eek. In two sequential posts, I talked about 1. time spent with people, then 2. spending time with people and not being able to act like myself. A little obvious, Kim? GAH.

Ha, my latest phone update really wanted me to make one of these things

I’ve since, thankfully, (grown up! and) learned to be more nuanced. Hopefully not to the point of vaguebooking, which is annoying and attention-seeking, but to where I can talk about an “issue” and it’s not completely obvious who/what it involves. If I want to get in to specifics, I should talk to a friend, or, hey, write it down in an actual journal (well, notebook). It’s inappropriate to blast the dramz* on the internets.

Although, gosh, sometimes I really want to. I get all fired up and have all these ideas for what I want to say. But I don’t. They just spin and spin in my head until they fade away, get written down, or talked about off the blog. So, thank you if you are talking through things with me “offline,” and apologies for any vagueness in the past!

(And this post is not meant to be vague – I was thinking about this in December when I was looking for that old post, then was talking to my Monday night class about it last month, and it’s just now materializing as a blog post. I’m glad to have a blog that goes back to 2005, because I enjoy documenting my life, but yeah… you can definitely see (I hope?!) some growth in it.)

*not really dramz – I don’t have much going on