A More Exciting Life

It’s been far too long since my first post. How did this happen? Well, I sort of panicked, thinking ‘oh no, now the blog is live, I’m going to have to do something!’ and then of course froze and did nothing. Hence a little cooling down period. Or should I say thawing period, allowing myself to return to a temperature in which I can function. I do have an excuse of being unwell over the last few days so I couldn’t have gone out last weekend anyway, but that’s just really lame. I shouldn’t even have mentioned it. I’m happy to report though that immediately after posting my first blog post, I seemed to develop an ‘excitement awareness’ and started coming up with ideas of what to do and even started a list. An idea of a holiday I’ve been wanting to go on for a few years now sprang to mind and I started looking into it. In fact, booking it was going be my task for the first week. What happened? My recurring health problems held me back. But then another thought came to mind. What if I use...

Welcome to my blog! My name is Paula and this blog is about making my life more exciting. The sad truth is that my life is currently so uneventful and boring that I’m about to fall asleep just thinking about it. It never used to be quite this bad. And now that I’m fast approaching my mid-forties and going through a midlife crisis, I’m starting to panic that I’m wasting my life away, that I’m running out of time, that I won’t be able to do for long what young people are able to do (such as going on a beach holiday and looking hot and sexy in a bikini. I can only see myself looking unattractive in a one-piece with orange peel skin. Helen Mirren eased the panic only momentarily). I realise that my thoughts aren’t perhaps very rational but it doesn’t change the fact that I’m not doing much with my life at the moment and that if things continue the way they are, I’m going to be very disappointed with myself on my death bed, looking back and regretting that I didn’t live life to the fu...