Happy New Year everyone! I haven’t written a proper blog post in oooh six months or so - therefore what better time to pick up the writing baton than with a post on the first day of 2012? Well, I suppose six months (or so) earlier would have been better but to be honest with you dear reader i’ve been too busy being depressed and worrying about 101 other things which I have next to no control over.
2012 is therefore (in theory at any rate) the chance to write a new chapter and exorcise some of those demons. 2011 was, barring a few glimmers of light, a pretty dark year for me personally - depression is one hell of a beast to deal with. Some people (who shall remain nameless) went missing and others really stepped up to the plate and helped me through a really difficult time. In fact i’d go as far as to say that 2011 was the most traumatic year of my 31 years on this planet to date. Counselling helped and so did the sage advice of my lovely friends and my wife to who I owe everything. I’m not ‘fixed’ and maybe I never will be but at least i’m on the mend and that’s something to be grateful for.
However i’m not going to dwell on the past in this blog post as 2012 is the year when *finally* things head in an upward trajectory. This is the theory at any rate i’m just hoping now that everything works out in practice. My plan for today is rather sketchy at present but involves reading some more of Armando Iannucci’s excellent ‘The Audacity of Hype: Bewilderment, Sleaze and Other Tales of the 21st Century‘ on my shiny new Kindle, maybe starting on Season 1 of Portlandia, eating a big roast dinner, maybe watching a film or two and err… relaxing.
I leave you with a video for one of my favourite current jams! The Black Keys - Lonely Boy.
