A big welcome and hello to those of you who have come through to my blog from the Today Tonight website after the story they ran tonight discussing fat fashions.
I cover a number of topics on this blog, including fat fashion and fat acceptance. However most of the blogging that I do on fat fashion and fat acceptance is over at Axis of Fat. In fact there is a whole group of Australian people who blog over there on the issues they face finding clothes, dealing with society’s discrimination against fat people and other topics of interested.
Please check out the Axis of Fat and also take a look around my site. Once again, welcome and thanks for checking this place out!
I’ve not been blogging recently as I’ve been struggling to find reasons to. Normally something would make me outraged and I would blog about it. Then I started to post Excel stuff in order to share what I know about Excel. I got stuck after a while and that fell away as well.
Blogging is a really interesting thing to try and do on a regular basis. It takes a lot of hard work to come up with good topics to talk about regularly. One thing I have learnt is that I really need to blog about the things that interest me most. Talking about things that really get me revved up (so to speak) will help me to blog more regularly.
I keep saying that I need to work on a new blog layout, but I think I’d be better off working on what sort of content I want first. Then the layout can be done.
I’ve moved the blog this evening to a subdirectory of my website. You’ll now find my blog at http://www.nicholasperkins.com/blog/. For the next month or so you will be automatically redirected, so please update your bookmarks/delicious tags/etc. The RSS feed is still located at http://feeds.feedburner.com/NicholasPerkins so if you have subscribed (and there are more of you there than I remember last time I checked – welcome!) you need do nothing but wait for the next glorious installment.
So why did I move my blog to the new address? Well there are some big changes coming to my life over the next six months or so, and I’m welcoming them with open arms. I don’t want to reveal too much at the moment as things are only in the early stages of formation. I have a lot of ideas going on in my head, I’m about to reach 30, and it’s darn well time I acted on some of them.
On the ‘now’ front, I’ve been feverishly working on a couple of secret projects of the last month or so. One is something that I can never ever tell you about. Sorry but I would be killed (or sued) if I broke the Non-Disclosure Agreement on that one. The other one is still super secret, but I can reveal all soon. Let’s just say that I’ve finally (90%) finished a project that has been outstanding for a while, and my wife is very pleased. Stay tuned for more there.
I best get back to work. I’ve just had another request come in via Windows Live Messenger.
This is my first post over at the new blog Axis of Fat, which is bring run by Natalie and her friends. You should check it out, or not.
Axis of Fat is an idea of my wife. It’s something that Natalie and some of her some of her friends thought was a good idea – a place to blog about being fancy in the world while being fat. Fat and fancy is possible, and I’m sure you will hear them talk all about it.
I’m sure there will be a lot of talk of fashions and styling, where to find good clothes, stores that look after fat people instead of treating us like leapers. So why am I here, blogging on Axis of Fat? It doesn’t seme a very manly thing to do?
I think fat men of Australia, and the WORLDDDDDDDD need a voice. We need good clothes, not the dodgy off-cuts that are thrown to us by Lowes and Lowes. Why should I be grateful to find a pair of pants that fit when they make me look hideous? I also think there are many fat men out there who, despite seeming very jovial and laughing off the jibes from their “mates”, are feeling lost and alone in a world where thin is beautiful and considered normal.
I’ve been through depression, the name calling, the school yard taunts, the art of hiding what I eat from people because of the shame. I’ve lived for years and years doubting that I’m a decent person because I’m fat. I’ve wondered, “Why me?” and tried all of the diets that I could get my hands on. I’ve had “caring and thoughtful” family members, friends, work colleagues, internet folk, doctors and people I don’t even know suggest that I need to lose a “little” weight.
No wonder I felt alone.
I exercise when I can (heck, who’s ever perfect on that score) and I eat the best food I can find for my mouth. I eat when I want, what I want, when my body tells me to have it. I don’t sit down to a tub of lard and think, “oh boy, I’m going to put on 10 kilos today so that I can have society taunt me”. I think, “I’m hungry and I feel like a Caesar Salad today” or “Darn, I’m late for work – Macca’s will just have to do”.
If I can let one man know that being fat does not mean you are worthless; that being a kind human being is more important than being a particular shape; that health is possible at EVERY AND ANY size; that being yourself and just going out there and doing whatever it is you want is your RIGHT, not your DREAM, then I’ve done something good.
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This year I’ve decided to enter the 2009 Bridge to Brisbane. I’ll be walking 10km on August 31 30 (thanks, Natalie!) with a team of people to get some fresh air and exercise. I’m really looking forward to it.
I’ve decided that to make it something extra special, I’m going to try and raise some money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. My wife, Natalie, is a Type 1 diabetic and I see each and every day how this affects her. It’s the time it takes to monitor her sugar levels, the sugar lows and highs (both can be dangerous) and anything I can do to help raise funding to assist in the fight against this I will do. Almost anything. If you are serious and have enough cash, ask – you never know.
If you visit this fundraising page you not will be helping me, you’ll be helping my wife and others like her. So if any of my blog posts have ever spoken to you, or if you just want to help a good cause and feel warm and fuzzy for a moment, please give whatever you can.
I have decided to aim for Target 1000 – $1000.00 from you, me and others will help the foundation fund research into cures and treatments for this disease. I’ll be bringing you regular updates on my training progress between now and August 30, with regular reminders of the fundraising drive. I’ll also bring you how we are progressing towards Target 1000.
