The last time I wrote more or less coincides with when things REALLY started to get busy at my job and through a strange turn of events I was turned into Sales Manager, which sucked all creativity out of me for a year. I have now recovered from the stressful demands of that endeavor and am finally getting a hold on other things in my virtual life (read: my life on-line).
Today I finally reached the bottom of my g-mail inbox and it has been a nostalgic and emotional cleansing of sorts.
Why bother organizing my inbox? Well, it's something I started doing with my work e-mail, because without organizing it there was no other way to prioritize what needed to get done and besides, I am a neat organization freak and it just looks awesome now with 0 e-mails and creative folders (i.e. Sister, LOST, Paulpache). Also, when I was sales manager I was receiving well over 100 real e-mails per day and it became an impossible task to keep it ALL under control and now being able to manage my personal e-mail gives me some sense of vindication to say: "See? I can do it all!"
Fortunately, my g-mail is not as full of crap as my yahoo account, as I've been gradually unsubscribing and redirecting newsletters to yahoo over the past couple of months, so getting the bulk CinePlanet, TripAdvisor, Kayak, and LimaYoga e-mails out of my inbox was pretty straightforward.
However, as I've lived far away from family and friends, ended a long-term relationship, made awesome new friends, and started a great new relationship throughout my history on g-mail, this was quite the emotional roller-coaster as I've redirected most of my personal correspondence to g-mail. BTW, g-mail IS my preferred personal e-mail account for correspondence, should you be one of those people who still sends e-mails to my yahoo account.
Like I said earlier, this has been a cleansing of sorts and I recommend going through old correspondence to anyone who is carrying around emotional baggage that they are ready to put down. Some e-mails/chats were hard to look back on, but it is a relief to delete those knowing that I never have to read those words again. And the best part has been looking back on supportive family and friends, watching budding new friendships, and revisiting old pictures/videos of halloween costumes, parties and cute animals :)
I want to thank everyone who's been there for me over the past few years including people who I have been out of touch with (hopefully I've sent this link to most of you). I invite you to leave comments and come back to the blog to see what I'm up to (hopefully I'll be doing something more exciting than organizing my inbox!). For those of you who don't know, I moved from Lima to San Francisco last month and am enjoying some down time while I look for work.
Also, I think I want a new name for the blog...any ideas???
P.S. Kelly, I love that this screen has you saying "stupid huevones." You are a major inspiration for me restarting this blog and let me know if you want me to put a different pic. :P
