Let me introduce myself…as it's been a while!
I started this blog way back in….2012….in fact the 12th August 2012 saw my very first post to be precise.
And since then me and my blog have seen some changes, what started out as a blog to chronicle my love of Disney, and specifically my travels to Walt Disney World expanded to include health, well being, more Disney and even a diary covering that period of time between 2020 and 2022 that was a little strange for the world at large.
So who am I now….
Well I am still the same Disney loving gal that I have always been but my real life world has changed. I am now retired (very fortunate to have been able to take this next step in life relatively early!). My kids have now left home and are forging their own way in this world. In the last couple of years my partner in this crazy thing called life, Simon, has also joined me in retirement and we are busy uncovering a new way to live. When I retired from my job as pre-school manager I took on the volunteer role as their committee chairperson and now devote a little of my time (and hopefully knowledge) each year to support them. I continue to co-host the Disney Dream Girls podcast with my bestie, Michelle, and we are now approaching 600 episodes. This does mean that at least once a week I get the chance to have a good ‘waffle on’ about all things Disney. We have an amazing group of friends we call family through our continued Star Wars cosplay shenanigans. My Disney tattoo collection is ever expanding. The non-sporty me has learned to love the gym (and I continually surprise myself at what I am able to do) and I now embrace anything to do with health and wellbeing from eating well to staying active to mindfulness and more. And now with more time on our hands we find that we have the time, resources and inclination to travel a little more…even if that travel is predominantly ‘Disneyfied’!
So with all that in mind I really wanted to take up writing again, to share my thoughts and to journal our adventures. In late August of 2022, after 893 consecutive blog posts, I decided that the world had gotten back to something resembling normal and it was time to stop the daily posts.
Away from the blog I managed to keep the daily momentum of writing going by keeping a personal diary and on occasions dabbled with the odd blog post or two but never regained the consistency I once had.
And while my personal diary provides me with a memory box of daily events it, by its nature, doesn’t stretch my writing muscles.
So I find myself in a qundary; while I have a desire to write more, to chronicle experiences in our life and to wax lyrical about topics I feel passionate about I find that my confidence in my abilities to do so has diminished. I find myself in the classic ‘catch-22’; the less I write the more I want to but the lack of writing has knocked my confidence. I have convinced myself that I have nothing important to share or that no-one is interested in what I have to say…my inner critic has played havoc with my confidence.
But you know what…I don’t care what anyone else thinks, or whether anyone will read this. I am not doing it for an audience I am doing it because I want to and if anyone out there takes an interest then that is a bonus.
So enough waffling on I best get started!
