Happy Birthday To Me!
Well, I finally turned thirty today. It seems an awfully long time since I celebrated my twentieth birthday, and so much has happened to me since then. So I thought to myself, what better way to commemorate such a great milestone than with the launch of a new blog?
Firstly, I’d like to thank Dean J Robinson for his Redoable Wordpress theme - which will no doubt be tweaked and hacked to within an inch of it’s life by the time I’ve finished with it!
So who am I then? My name (somewhat obviously) is Paul Enderson, and I live in a town called Harlow, which is in Essex in England. There I enjoy time with my wife Abi and my three daughters, and I love all four of them dearly. I have a supportive family on my wife’s side, and a largely mentally unstable one on mine.
I’m currently a freelance web and graphic designer, and have been since I gave up my last full-time job in September of 2006. My specialist areas are those of usability, standards-compliant coding, and stylish design.
I actively run another blog, dedicated to Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets and their development. I also have a few other projects that are currently bubbling away on the back-burner, or still waiting to see the light of day.
Like pretty much everyone else on the planet, I have shit going on in my life that I’d rather wasn’t happening. For example, I’m currently in the middle of a very long testing process for Huntington’s Disease. Now, I only found out about a year ago that I might be at risk of this, thanks to my aforementioned lunatic relations. It sucks basically.
So, what’s going to be included in this blog? Well, I’d like to think that this will be a place where I can log what’s going on in my life, along with the things that interest and excite me. It should end up being a place for personal reflection, be interesting enough for a complete stranger to read, and offer me a way of recording memories and events that would otherwise be forgotten.
If all that sounds like it might be interesting to you, and you think you can ignore my occasional rants, then by all means stick around and I look forward to your company.
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Happy birthday to you! You are thirty and already got three daughters - wow! I hope that you are not affected by Huntington - that would be the appropriate birtday wish!
Thank you Zep! The appointment for HD testing in on May 9th, and I should get the results 4-6 weeks later (after months and months of waiting around and stressing about it) - so I’ll know one way or the other soon…
Thank you for the warm welcome in your community and God bless you! (Yes, I’m religious, but no I’m fucking liberal - but maybe that helps!)
LOL! At this stage in my life, I’m wise enough to know that religious preference matters very little when put in context with the rest of human life…
Happy Birthday Paul, sounds like for 30 you’re doing pretty well; family, kids and job.. apart from the aforementioned other problems, I hope things turn out well with that!
Hey Chris! Thanks for dropping by…
I’m very thankful for the things I have. It’s taken me a while to get where I am, and a lot of disapointment/hard work/tears along the way - but I wouldn’t have it any other way!
Philosophers have said that what doesn’t destroy you makes you stronger, and I believe that everything that’s happened in my life to date has been for a reason. Of course, when I find out what that reason is I’ll let everybody else know on my blog…
Fingers crossed for the test
Happy late B-Day! And thanks for stopping over at my site too. I look forward to reading your blog as well.
Thanks!
Your blog makes interesting reading! You have a new subscriber…
Crowley - everything crossed, mate… everything!
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Happy Belated birthday, Paul.
I do hope you’ll give this blog another chance, at least for the selfish reasons, as I do enjoy reading your posts and the reader interaction on your blog. It feels like a place for good ol’ friends to get together and talk about things we all have in common.
On the other hand, I too can relate to what you’re going through. The thought of giving up blogging has crossed my mind more than once. But the readers, the interaction keep me going. Also, the blogging is a great learning opportunity for me as well.
All the best to you.