Those Olden Days
Apr. 26th, 2022 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thirtydreamingcatsonlineWhen I joined Livejournal back in 2004, I was a 31-year-old mother with a child soon to be turning three.
Now here I am on Dreamwidth as an almost 50-year-old, and the child is 20 and in college.
Explanation of my screen name: It's kind of a mix of my past screen names. Because I was too overwhelmed to come up with something new.
Thirty and the Cats is from Thirty Cats, which comes from a novel I wrote back in 1999 or 2000. I've since used that title for various screen names, including my first Livejournal and Instagram.
Dreaming comes from The Dream Games, a novel I wrote in high school and the screen name I used for my second Livejournal.
The Online part comes from my most recently written novel. I wrote it in 2014 so not actually so recent anymore. It's called The Dead are Online
I'm excited to be here...and cautiously hopeful. But a part of me is sad, because I feel I'm trying to recreate the past, and I worry I'll be disappointed.
The past several months I've been reading my LiveJournal along with some of the comments. Out of all the very lovely people I connected with, only one is still in my life...and barely so. I think I have this deep-down fantasy, that they will all come to Dreamwidth, and we'll be reunited. I think it's okay to have these feelings, but I don't want them to get in the way of enjoying new journaling experiences and relationships.
Now here I am on Dreamwidth as an almost 50-year-old, and the child is 20 and in college.
Explanation of my screen name: It's kind of a mix of my past screen names. Because I was too overwhelmed to come up with something new.
Thirty and the Cats is from Thirty Cats, which comes from a novel I wrote back in 1999 or 2000. I've since used that title for various screen names, including my first Livejournal and Instagram.
Dreaming comes from The Dream Games, a novel I wrote in high school and the screen name I used for my second Livejournal.
The Online part comes from my most recently written novel. I wrote it in 2014 so not actually so recent anymore. It's called The Dead are Online
I'm excited to be here...and cautiously hopeful. But a part of me is sad, because I feel I'm trying to recreate the past, and I worry I'll be disappointed.
The past several months I've been reading my LiveJournal along with some of the comments. Out of all the very lovely people I connected with, only one is still in my life...and barely so. I think I have this deep-down fantasy, that they will all come to Dreamwidth, and we'll be reunited. I think it's okay to have these feelings, but I don't want them to get in the way of enjoying new journaling experiences and relationships.
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Date: 2022-04-26 11:41 pm (UTC)Over these last few years quite a lot of people have revisited old stomping grounds, a combination of changed conditions, free time or nostalgia. Some just popped in and out but others have, I think, doubled down on places that gave them some positive vibes during tough times.
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Date: 2022-04-28 12:30 am (UTC)I left a comment on a very old post of one of my favorite people. But it was in 2007. I'm doubting she'll get it...unless she has some kind of notification system.
I love the idea of people returning to their old stomping grounds.
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Date: 2022-04-28 12:56 am (UTC)