The one where .... I declare my love for the Geek Girls of the world

So I have experienced a little bit of a renaissance with my blog. The reason?

It has no small coincidence that I have recently become enamoured with the IGGPPC (International Geek Girls Pen Pal Club).

So before start banging on about its amazingness, lets kick off with how I heard about the project to begin with. I have been following Geek Girl on FB for a while now, a group that is trying to promote and get girls in to IT. It's a subject I have felt passionately about for a while being a IT trainer and assessor. So one day just flicking thorough my timeline I saw this post.

Well yes and yes.. I signed up for the first round, and then watched as the whole thing EXPLODED over the Internet. I felt like in was in on the inception of something epic. My Twitter page became a place where I could engage with awesome geek girls from across the globe. I felt like I belonged. I found my tribe.

I found that I was spending ridiculous amounts on time watching YouTube videos, reading blog posts, responding to tweets, hanging out on the iggppc forum. I was truly inspired.

So despite a hiatus of many months I decided to resurrect my much neglected blog.

The girls (and a few boys too) are geeks in the truest meaning of the word, they are irrepressibly enthusiastic about the things that they love and love sharing their loves with the world. They are kind, intelligent, sweet, and generally awesome. They don't get bored at my enthusiasm for new episodes of Doctor Who, they know who Tom Hiddleston is and know why I want his babies, they are non judgmental and frankly awesome in all the ways that matter.

So to any fellow geeks out there check out these epic ladies and bask in the wonder.

http://geekgirlpenpals.ning.com/
#IGGPPC
#IGGLES

Laters Geeks x

The One Where... I Return from the Dead

Hello Internet, I've missed you.

So I haven't blogged in a very long time.  A very long time indeed.

I stopped because I had some stuff going on in life and with all of the crump, blogging went by the wayside.  But because I wasn't blogging lots of other stuff ended up there too.  Without the accountability of someone else checking me I fell unceremoniously off the WeightWatchers wagon. Without the ability to vent out in to the depths of the Internet I became very closed off and kept my problems to myself.

OK I know I do not run a popular blog, yes I know people don't actually read it, but it just knowing someone 'could' seriously helped. In lots of ways.

I have had another big change in my life and I have realised that blogging/writing is something I need to do for my piece of mind.  So I am not making any promises, I have done that before, but I am going to try really hard to get back on the blogging wagon again.

I am going to make a few changes and updates to my page, so mysterious reader (I am pretty sure there is only one of you) keep an eye out and I will be back.