Welcome to my world...

There are many things in life that it's just shitty to have do or go through on your own.

Moving house is one that springs to mind from my own recent past as I've just moved myself from a beautiful country town within 1 hour of a major city back to the suburbs of a capital city in an entirely different state. I did this as a single individual, although this is not to say that I didn't have help, because I did. I had several wonderful friende near and dear to me helping out along the way but at the end of the day, the vast majority of the time and effort involved fell on me, as well it should have, being my personal choice to move myself georgraphically.

Attending funerals is another really shitty thing to have to do on your own. Depending on your constitution attending weddings and parties can also be a confronting thing to do on your own. And by on your own I am, of course, referring to being in a state of singledom.

I was at a beautiful wedding on the weekend and I realised "You know you're old when..." there are no single men at weddings anymore. Such was my circumstance this past weekend, although I realised I had had make out sessions with more than one no longer single guy in attendance at said wedding. Awkward... nah, actually it wasn't.

Added to those thoughts "You know you're old AND female when..." the person you envy most isn't the bride anymore but the pregnant bridesmaid. Why, hello biological clock, nice to hear from you again, would you mind terribly keeping it down to a low roar?

As I looked around the room at friends I had once been out with regularly on the singles scene before moving to said idyllic country town, I realised that everyone has moved on, moved up, moved away...

Many were married, some raising children, others still expecting babies, several had also moved interstate with their partners. Yet here am I, feeling like I've moved backwards. It's a strategic move slightly backwards in order to launch forwards at a rate of knots but once again, on my own. And I'm largely at peace with that.

Welcome to my blog! In case you hadn't figured it out already, I'm a single woman of a certain age who finds herself reflecting on life in the knowledge that it's far too short to spend it waiting and wishing but rather we should spend it in the pursuit of our own happiness, however that may look.

I am new to blogging so please be kind. Haters need not read on. My aim is really to put personal thoughts and reflections to paper, hopefully with a dash of humour, as I navigate my own specific pathway through life. I'll likely discuss single life, family, friends, babies, exercise, nutrition, dance and trashy television.

I am dancing to my own tune...