THE FRIENDLIEST FI PAGES!

Welcome to the NEW Fi Friendly Pages!

There are a few differences so take your time to look around! No longer will you be hit with a 10 paragraphy lengthy wordy piece that you have to wade your way through - as per my dear friend Lee's request - the Home page will be in point form - sound bytes for what has been going on in my life. That way, I can keep you all updated on a weekly basis but then upload to the other pages as I have time.

For example:

Fi is home again and waiting for papers to be served....

May be enough for you if you have been on the phone to me recently and just want to know where I am up to. But if you have NO idea what I am waffling about - click on the Fi Friendly Family page, and you will be able to find out the details of what have been going on...

Which brings me to my next point... given the above "sound byte" you can see that my life has taken the turn that I have been trying to avoid for the past three years. We're moving into a realm of needing be sensitive about what is said. As as result, I have made the choice to lock down the blog for now. I have some international followers who will be very disappointed with this, but given the circumstances that may unfold for the next unknown period of my life, I want to be able to post my thoughts and feelings (this IS after all an online JOURNAL) and share that with my friends and family, without fear of it being used against me. It is going to be a stressful journey and I have come to realise that I am a writer - something I always wanted to be as a kid - but a medium that I am only just coming to discover. And if I am a writer - if that is how I best express myself - it needs to go somewhere and I have always thought that filling notebooks that get thrown out at the end of the day is a waste of effort, money and trees. This journal has two purposes - 1) for me to express myself and 2) to keep me from repeating myself verbally as I continually catch family and friends up on what is going on in my life and therefore dwelling on things that I cannot control... Read it if you wish - don't read it. It is entirely up to you. But if you want to know a little more about me - then here it is...

I know that a couple of blogs have raised concern in the past but please let me reiterate - these are my THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS. Please don't read into them anything that is not explicitly there. I AM NOT in the business of implication. I hate it. Truth is the way I have always tried to operate - despite illness, stigma, confusion and fear. I have always been someone who has taken life at face value and I don't mince words. It is simply not me. So don't look for hidden messages in my writing. It is not there. That might make you feel uncomfortable at times but after 14 years of misdiagnosis and hiding myself away because I feared that the world would react to my illness and not me, it is OVER. This is who I am. I will make NO apologies for it. I never have had. This blog has never been about telling you what you want to hear. It has always been an extension of who I am and what I know.

If I am worried about myself - I won't be blogging it. I will be heading for the local hospital. The last week is case-in-point of that. And you will be able to read about that as I iron out the final kincks of the site and have time to post about it.

I was holding of re-launching the site until I had it perfect but since I have had a couple of emails saying "we've got your invitation but its to your old blog and there's nothing new on it", I have decided that I will relaunch the site now.... The pages down the side index to the left have links embedded in them but when you get to that page, the latest blog will not show... I am still working on that.

But keep your eye on the blog. It may not be updated daily but it will be as I have time...

And as for Uncle Grahame's question? Yes it is free to get a google account. It won't cost you a red cent. Just go to gmail and sign up and then you will have access to your own free gmail account, google docs, picasaweb, blogger (you can create your own blog!) and a host of other great google applications! I love google personally!

So here goes.... crack the champagne bottle over the bow of this site!


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