Wow. It'll soon be two years since I blogged. That's pretty useless of me. I got pretty bored with doing it after Naomi moved in with me as there really wasn't a point to it any more and the post in remembrance of Chloe seemed like a good place to stop. So I did. Then, last night I was in the bath and got to thinking, as you do. Well, as I do maybe you do too. Naomi was only saying yesterday that I spend about half an hour just sat in the bath before I even think about going on to do anything.
Just as an aside this is going to be stream of thought and I'm not even looking at my paragraphs or sentence length so just ignore the rules of English for a few minutes, I don't think that's a very hard thing to do on the internet.
So, as I was saying; I was in the bath and I thought about my blog and how I don't use it and how I'd like to. Basically my idea was to explain it. Start from the beginning and write the story of my life from the point of meeting my wife. Heaven knows there's a lot of stuff about that time that can't be explained enough to satisfy either of us but I thought it'd be nice to have a straight forward record of it all. Kind of like using my blog posts as notes to put together the story. I don't know whether I'll get around to doing that or if I still actually want to but it set me off on a nostalgic trip down internet memory lane and that is going to be the subject of this post.
While looking for some of our old profiles to get, 'in the mood' as it were I stumbled upon something which actually hit me quite hard;
We met through faceparty; a social networking site which helped start the trend of online dating as a serious option for meeting people rather than a way for geeks to get together. Recently, however (I don't know how recently but pretty recently) faceparty has been taken over by a new company and unused or unwanted profiles have been deleted with no notification of their owners. This includes the profile of my wife and me. Btw, yes, I did say 'unwanted' as, apparently, the new owners opted to just not purchase some of the profiles. Hm.
Now some people reading may think it's not really important but I'm sure many people who started relationships in a more traditional way would feel that tiny pang of loss when the restaurant they had their first date in was closed. It's kind of like that.
I could get indignant and say, "How could they take something so important to me without even the courtesy of letting me know!?" But, really, I don't care. I'm more aware of how important now is than anything past could be. I'm still in the relationship that started on FP and I'm planning on being in it for the rest of my life.
I was going on to say more but I've just started writing all the stuff I was going to write if I wrote the whole story and after doing this much I feel like I'd quite like to so I'm going to save it.
I'll be back with more. At least until I get bored.
^_^