Out of the loop

Now that I've discovered how this site works I figure I should write a proper blog. Although I'm still not sure what qualifies as a "proper blog". I fell like I should write something deep and meaningful which will keep people coming back, but I fear that if that is the reason why you're here you are going to be bitterly disappointed. Chances are that I'll write a couple more blogs and then I'll forget to post for a while before totally forgetting about this site all together. I give this whole process from beginning to end about 2 weeks, or a month tops. If that does happen please feel free to send me a text message and abuse me until I post something else.

Anyway, I thought I would give you a brief insight into my weekend. I decided late on Friday night that I was tired of a lot of things in life. The list of things that I was tired of are many and varied and maybe I'll post something about them later on but the one I wanted to mention tonight was my mobile phone.

It seemed that lately much of my life has been ruled by this device. Always waiting for text message from a friend, or sending a text message and hoping for a reply, and feeling naked if I ever left my phone at home or if the battery went flat while I was out. So I decided to turn it off for a day or so.
I should admit that on Saturday morning I did turn it on for a second to send one text message that I really needed to send but otherwise it was off from Friday night until Sunday afternoon. I was amazed at how nice it was knowing that it was off. I knew that I wasn't going to be getting any messages and this meant I could concentrate on all the other things that were running through my mind.

I spent most of Saturday cleaning my house, playing a bit of guitar, and basically just chillin' out. Later that night my head was still buzzing with a bunch of thoughts so I went for a run. It's amazing just how far you can run when you're angry and trying to sort things out. I haven't done a lot of running lately so I'm not especially fit but still ended up running around 10kms or so.

I'm still working though a few things but my phone's back on and I'm back in contact with people. The reason why I turned my phone off wasn't to try and get some sort of attention from my friends or anything like that, but for the record if you're wondering just how long it takes for people to notice that you're not around or answering your phone and for them to actually pay you a visit, in my case it was about a day and a half. Which I thought was pretty cool. I've got good friends.