The End

I'm writing this on the twenty-ninth of December. It seems silly to make a note of that but bear with me here it becomes wonderfully relevant soon. You see tomorrow is 'Lullaby Lane' which is of course the first day of 'La De Da'. Then on the thirty-first of course it's 'La De Da'. You're probably thinking 'okay awesome plans Camilla...' It's relevant because this is most probably my last blog post that I'm going to do this year. Crazy huh? It's kind of flown by. 

I'm going to do a magic thingamee so this message will be posted on New Years Day which feels like a much better time to post it. Okay well the big thing about this post is that it will be.... wait for it... the last post I make on this blog. 

WHATT???

I think I alluded to this change a little wee while ago. I've decided to start a brand spanking new blog so I won't be gone completely. The New Year seems like an appropriate time to start it. Although I will be writing under an alias... since I really don't want any of my future employers to find my blog and then decide against hiring me based on the random gibberish I wrote when I had just turned sixteen. Now I'm almost nineteen so I'm like a thousand times more mature.... lol jk... NTS I really must stop writing/saying 'lol jk'. At first I said it ironically but now rather awkwardly I say it far too often to be ironic so instead it's part of my daily vocabulary. So that can be one of my new year’s resolutions I guess... 

The new blog site is called 'www.onegirlwho.blogspot.com'. There's nothing there yet so don't bother checking.   I shall be writing my very first post on the first of January if my hangover isn't too bad...In the meantime this blog will go into an archival form (so you can still read all about the trivial musings of a sixteen year old...) 

Whenever something comes to an end I find myself feeling rather nostalgic. I mean this blog has been there for everything over the last few years. I mean there was the awkward 'boy from SMASH club' incident (feel free to review 2009). There was the late 2009 blog deletion incident. It was my first experience with censorship since I happened to be writing about the funny things that teachers did/said... Of course it was blown out of proportion. Some people just see something written vaguely about them and then leap to the worst assumptions. Of course there was the girls from my Economics class incident. Yes they were mentioned as heavy drinkers. But the post was about a realisation that I had because of their discussions! Oh and of course when I awkwardly got rather dark in '09 with my blog post about mock results. Yes, I feel like I've moved past that. Although I stand by everything that I've written on this blog because at that point in time that was what I was thinking/feeling/seeing in the world. But my oh my it has gotten me into some trouble over the years! Oh and I've only mentioned the events that I'm aware of...

There of course were some awesome times. The comments for one. I always enjoy reading them even though most of the time people have commented purely because I bullied them into doing so... For two the followers. I do rather enjoy the odd comments from my random followers aka the people who I haven't forced to follow me... (I sense a theme here). There was fun fact of the day era, then there was the 'after dinner mint' era and most notably the 'three good things era' which I think I may continue with on my new blog since according to PPP classes they're meant to improve my mental health!

And how can I forget the never ending requests for a mention. I, of course replied to these requests by saying 'firstly you have to do something worth mentioning.' I think that's rather poetic and in many ways I feel that it maintained my journalistic integrity. 

I've had some great times with this blog. It all started with a need to record the important things in life and then it ended up making me realize the important things. I know I'll be able to look back at this blog in 10 years or so (provided we don't all get killed by the whole 2012 apocalypse thingamee) and laugh about my own ridiculousness or just skim read over the really boring posts and think to myself 'hmm so that's what I was up to...' I inspired three people to start blogs and actually I would recommend that everyone starts one or at the very least write down what happens every day. When humans developed books then our memory declined. The nature of evolution I guess. So use the books and write down everything that's important to you so you won't forget it. I hate the moment when someone says 'remember when...?' and I'm forced to admit 'no... '

Finally, Thank You! I appreciate every word that you've read. I know/hope that there are many more people who read this blog than the people who have their pictures displayed in the right hand toolbar. I remember the wonderful moment when I stumbled across a rather drunk ex classmate of mine in town who told me 'I love your hair! And the hairdresser told you that you could be a model... I READ IT ON YOUR BLOG'. Honest to God one of the best moments in town. I hope that you've managed to gain something from this blog... Occasionally I do try to be deep and get a point across... although that is late at night most of the time so I usually just end up rambling... like now... Or at the very least I hope that it provided some kind of entertainment for you. Maybe I made you laugh? 

I hope you'll all follow me onto my new blog. It's going to be all about my year without buying any new clothes... Yes a new year’s resolution. Let's see if I manage to improve on this year’s failed effort of 'a photo a day'. Anyway if you pop over onto the new website I'll keep you posted. Oh and it'll be about my baking successes and failures. I'll include lots of pretty pictures with my new camera and of course I'll try to post as often as possible.

Thanks Again. It's been a good run. So now for the last time in 2011....

3 Good Things

*Being told little baby horsie Roman was momentarily on the bit and that he’ll grow into an amazing horse. He is rather gorgeous. We had our very first lesson today and although it was hard work it was rather rewarding. He’s a smart pony.

*Bonding with my Granny over sewing a pair of sand high wasted pants. We’ve really got the perfect team dynamic. She understands the patterns and all of that side of things. Meanwhile I can thread the needle and use the machine. Basically Granny’s the brain and I’m the brawn. As long as I end up with an awesome pair of pants I don’t mind.

*Can I just say... my readers? I never thought that anything I wrote was worth reading so I loathed it... thanks NCEA.... *cough* *cough* But now I know that’s not true and in fact I love writing.

So thank you for helping me to make my last random discovery.