Resurrection of a journal

I’ve moved my content over from Wordpress to Substack. I suspect I need to trawl through a good 140+ posts and reload images because I’m seeing some display issues. To be honest, it wouldn’t surprise me if Substack is inadvertently loading images from Wordpress like a shitty late 1990s hotlinker.

It’s interesting; when I moved my online journal from LiveJournal to Blogger, and then from Blogger to Wordpress, each time I’ve culled my past posts. Unsurprisingly, I’ve started doing the same with this move. There’s the odd post that I’ve rethought and now I’m older I’m not seeing it as cringe as such, but I am seeing that I’ve grown up a bit.

I went to therapy in 2023, and as a part of that, I did some old school pen and paper journaling. It helped me solidify my thoughts, and process everything that came to the surface. There’s a fair bit to now transfer to online.

I’m inevitably going to write about being diagnosed ADHD at the age of 45, and the barnacles that diagnosis chipped off my soul. The revelation that is ADHD medication. My Dad’s slow deterioration from Parkinson’s and his eventual death. My becoming post menopausal at (probably) 43. Oh, and coming out to my husband as both demisexual and bisexual.

Yeah, it’s been a lot.