{"id":1455,"date":"2021-07-24T15:38:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T15:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:23:38","slug":"im-baaaack-well-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/2021\/07\/24\/im-baaaack-well-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Baaaack! Well, Sort Of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Wow&#8230;nearly four months have gone by, four months with me not having anything to ramble about&#8230;.nah, I&#8217;m lying\ud83d\ude02 I actually had a lot to say, but everything was either not working or down, and I had neither the energy nor drive, to fix it. It&#8217;s been a rough couple of months (it always is) travelling through valleys of shadows, darkness &amp; death, soaring above mountains of happiness &amp; euphoric bliss, dropping into gutters, filled with glistening, existential trash&#8230;.up &amp; down, up &amp; down, riding the yoyo of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I wish I could say, that everything is back to normal \ud83d\ude44, but lets face it, normality, belongs out there in the &#8220;Normie&#8221; world. So let me re-phrase that&#8230;.I am returning back to a life with reminders, patterns and routine, mixed with the mood swings, agitated aggression and impulsive decisions lacking any self control. On the subject of impulsivity&#8230; I&#8217;ve been making sort of serious decisions that definitely will impact the rest of my days. I decided to move to a place 2km from the beach, in a small coastal town&#8230;Of course, all decisions were made in true TBI fashion&#8230;impulsive, a little reckless, but with a true spirit and heart. I feel&#8230;I feel that I just need to get away, and this is the only way, I can describe the emotions, churning around in my soul. My youngest daughter moved in with her dad. I realise that at the age of nearly 16, she needs better discipline and structure &#8211; something, I am not equipped to give her&#8230;something that got lost in my make-up as a mother, on that fateful night.  My eldest daughter grew up into a dynamic, kind-hearted woman, and also stayed with her father from the age of 15&#8230;so I guess, he must be doing something right? In order for me not to fuck up her life completely, I need to give her the best&#8230;.and sadly&#8230;the best is to stay in a disciplined environment, normal and with no constant worries about your mother&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I need to force myself to live again. Force myself to fight again, like the warrior, I was in the beginning. I need to literally yank my ass, out of all my comfort zones to place unfamiliar&#8230;where even going to the supermarket, would take me on a new path, with new things to learn, and force me to explore my surroundings. I chose a small town on the coast (the town is 8km&#8217;s in length!), with the closest town nearly 40km&#8217;s away, to compensate for my inability to handle big crowds and noise. I&#8217;m hoping to focus more on my creativity, making stuff and building a life, that&#8217;s got purpose again&#8230;maybe even finding my crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">But for now&#8230;I just had to say : I&#8217;m Back! Woohoo!! I can ramble and rant again! Look out, world! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230;nearly four months have gone by, four months with me not having anything to ramble about&#8230;.nah, I&#8217;m lying\ud83d\ude02 I actually had a lot to say, but everything was either not working or down, and I had neither the energy nor drive, to fix it. It&#8217;s been a rough couple of months (it always is) travelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-princess-ponderings","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblingrabbit.co.za\/di\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}