There are certain people I don't care to see again

Am I the only one on facebook that doesn't want to be found by every random person? I know it is suppose to be about connecting with people, and keeping in touch, but I really don't want some people to find me. And those I don't know, why do I want them to find me and view my profile?

Today I thought I would double check the privacy settings on my facebook, and I found that my settings had changed so that EVERYONE could search for me and view my profile. Ok, I am ok about people wanting to message me if they need to get a hold of me, you know friends of friends that I may actually know, but quite frankly there are some people I don't want to find me.

My change in settings explained why the last few days I have been getting random friend requests from people. Apparently I am not longer invisible to the random group of facebookers- well not any more suckers!

I have always had this rule when it has come to facebook: I will only add you as a friend if you:

(1) I actually speak to you. I know lots of people, but it doesn't mean I want to keep in touch, or actually communicate with them; and

(2) I actually like you.

I am getting really frustrated with these random people that keep trying to add me just because we happen to know the same people. If I wanted you as my friend I would have added you. I have no idea who some of these people are, and some I know of, but nothing more. So I don't know why they would think I would want them to be my friend.

That and there are certain people I am happy never to see again. When I first got an account I hadn't really changed many settings, so I was getting friend requests as a result of, I am guessing, those stupid friend suggestions things. Unless for some reason people just randomly like to search for people on a daily basis //sarcasm//. Low and behold, a few girls from my graduating class wanted to add me. These are the very same people that hated me at school, and made my life hell. And for some reason they wanted to friend me.

That is what baffles me. Why all these people, that won't or don't talk to me, still want to be friends on facebook? I don't know how this works. I think this 'having to friend everyone' attitude is strange. Who cares if you have 500 friends, I bet half of them don't care what happened during your week. They just know you, so add you.

So obviously the definition of friend has changed to anyone I know or may know? Gee how things have changed.

Does anyone else feel this way or am I just the only crazy?

Thank God I've Graduated

Everywhere I go over the last two weeks I'm hearing about finals for the year. It's crazy it's that time of year all ready. People are studying like crazy, doing exams and looking forward to the break, and actual sleep. All this talk has made me so thankful I have graduated. No more stressing about study, exams or results, or my GPA. Not to rub it in for all those still studying, but it is a great feeling.

Every now and then I still get this panicked feeling. I feel like I should be studying, reading something, or just plain doing some uni work. This feeling would get especially bad when I was playing games. But then I would have to remind myself that “it's ok, you've graduated remember!”. And I graduated over 6 months ago! But I had been studying for 4 years, straight from high school, so habits are a bit hard to break.

I did a little research to find out if I could put a number on how many people are actually studying for finals this week, but alas, I could not find an amount to quote. But I assure you, there are heaps in the same boat as you. During my research I found an article about getting through exams. I had to laugh a little at one of her “study skill tips”:

Exercise.

Now she may have a fair point, but I know when I was studying this was the last thing on my mind when I was worried about passing. Her point is that exercise allows a stress relief, but I am thinking I would just be stressing the whole time that I wasn't studying. It could just be me though.

But for all those studying, good luck! It will all be over soon … Now I am going to enjoy surfing the web and playing games … Just think that will be you in a few days, so don't hate me!

Getting started

I have restarted this first post about 10 or so times. I keep changing my mind about what I want the first post to be about. Did I want it witty? interesting? funny? I don't know. All I know is I want this blog to ACTUALLY be interesting to read.

I have read blogs in the past that are boring. It is almost like a diary of events. In some cases this really works. But it depends on what exactly the diary is depicting. The day to day of an interesting or unusual job? Yeah, I can get into that. The crazy life of a mother with 10 kids, who is witty? Yes, that could be interesting. A crazy old cat woman? I could definitely read this. But the boring 'I went to the shop and bought milk' blogs don't do it for me.

So hopefully I can make this interesting for you; I don't want to be in the milk buying blogs- my life is already depressing.

Recently I gave up working in PR to pursue a writing career. Well ... not really a career at the moment, more a poor starving artist, but luckily I'm married so money is not my problem any more. So at this stage just trying to get started. And hopefully the finished product won't suck too much. I mean ideally I would like to be published one day.

So back to the drawing- I mean writing - board (if the thing exists), and I will check in again just so I don't go crazy working from home ... without people or talking for 12 hours ... not knowing anyone ... I think I might be a crazy cat lady ... Yum, peanut butter ... ...