I have never wrote you before, but I have been following (semi) your blog for almost 10 years. I just worked up a million plus one guts to even write you. Anyhow, I’m just writing possibly because I’m half (mostly…okay all the way) cut, possibly because it’s Christmas eve and I’m fighting with my bf and feel like shit (and believe it or not this is where I turn)…but mostly because you have always been a silent inspiration to me. When I’m having a really shitty time, I turn to your blog. I was “possibly” (I say possibly cuz I have had a bad habit of switching shrinks as soon as I feel they are “on to me”) diagnosed bipolar a few years ago…I just feel like I can relate to a lot of the things you write and it gives me hope. So I just wanna say thanks, for a lot of laughs, and for a lot of hope, and for making me feel not alone when I read your blog even though we are provinces away (Alberta). For making me feel like I have a friend even though I have never met you. Ungh Niel Diamond just came on Songza and now I inexplicably officially feel like a loser! So I will hesitantly press send and hope you don’t read my piece of shit drunk rambling because if we ever do meet…I will never own up to this shit I love your craziness, I love your blog, the entertainment and comfort it had provided me with. Keep on rocking in the free world.

Miss me a little – but not too long, and not with your head held low
Remember the love that we once shared. Miss me – but let me go

For this is a journey that we all must take, and each must go alone
It’s all a part of the Master’s plan, a step on the road to home.”