After much thought, I have decided that today's post will be my last. As of midnight tonight, Rolling Around In My Head will be no more. I will be closing up shop just shy of having half a million visitors and a good couple of years beyond what I had originally planned. I am not simply stopping. I am deleting the blog. I've seen the 'delete blog' button often over the years and wondered what it would be like to erase so much work with a single click of a button. Well, I'll find that out tonight.
I have very much enjoyed the process of writing this blog and it came to mean so much to me. It reconnected me with my own history and gave me chance for real sober second thought about the occurences in my life. I needed that. I have grown as a result of this process and know that I will, at least in the first few weeks, find it difficult to restrain from writing something here every day.
Many of you I have never met and know only through the blog. Even so, you have become very real to me and I will miss our daily chat.
The thing that makes this difficult to write is that I need it to be believeable because that's the only way of actually tricking you. This of course is the first day of the fourth month and here in Canada, anyways, it's a day where you try to trick someone. So, April Fools Day!
So fare thee well readers!!
(Until tomorrow.)
OMG, you have no idea how badly I was taken in by this!! Yes, you were believable.. TOO believable!
ReplyDeleteSharon
April fool yourself.
ReplyDeleteHad me worried as on occasion I do hit the delete button and start again.
However my todays post is not an Aprils Fools Joke it is a real story of the Adventure we are going through to try and get my real identity back and possibly how far people will go to cover their actions. I hope those who read it will not dismiss it as drivel and be more aware of what can happen to you
so mean.
ReplyDeleteGot me, big time. I'm not sure what it says that I actually felt a sense of panic reading this!
ReplyDeleteSTOP! My heart dropped into my stomach! Haha. You got me Dave! and it's only a little past midnight here in NYC! I have trouble remembering it's April Fools Day! AND Improv Everywhere just got me with their april fools joke too.
ReplyDeleteoh my wordddddddddd. my heart was just about thumping out of my chest and i was *this* close to tears.
ReplyDeletedammit Dave!
I HATE April Fool's Day! I fall for it every single time!!!
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many other things I'll fall for tomorrow.
Sigh.
Glad you're still here.
It's still March 31rst on the west coast. You had me......I'm both annoyed and relieved!
ReplyDeleteThank goodness it was only an April Fools Joke, In a very short time you have become part of my daily routine and I hate having my routine changed.
ReplyDeleteGlad I will be with you tomorrow
Have a great day
Sucked me in!
ReplyDeleteJill
I'm an old woman here (OK not so old but it feels that way most days). My heart can't take it!!! Maybe I am old... I used to see stuff like this coming! Have a great April Fool's Day.
ReplyDeletehahahahahaha, about messed my panties in panic, good one Mr H!!!
ReplyDeleteDave ... Dave ...
ReplyDeleteYou are just mean! LOL!
Ooh - you're evil! I was shocked for a second there.
ReplyDeleteOMG, you got me there Dave. I'm so pleased that it was a joke.
ReplyDeleteBOTH eyebrows raised in horror and then "aaargh!" then "ahhh."
ReplyDeleteNot nice! Too early in the morning for that! Whew, lol.
ReplyDeleteDon't DO that again!
ReplyDeleteplease
Lisa
Not. Cool. LOL
ReplyDelete!!!! I was so upset! I'm so glad you're not deleting your blog!
ReplyDeleteHOLY GUACAMOLE. I was CRYING.
ReplyDeleteSheesh.
YOU SCARED ME!! My 6 year old is totally into april fools this year. she is telling me look at the butterfly! april fools! look! a beetle on your chair! april fools! lol yours was way more believable lol
ReplyDeletenot funny and it serves me right for not being a regular. I hadn't been on for ages and in doing other work I was looking for a past reference to a good web site mentioned before, rather than look through paper piles and was panicking as to when you were going to push the button and wondering about time differences .... I found the ref I hope you feel used!
ReplyDeleteyou're quite the tricky trickster and you got me good. i was feeling such a loss there for a little minute and then huge relief.
ReplyDeletethanks for this blog.
As I started reading, I yelled out loud from my cubicle!!!!!!!! Then I held my breath as I read, hoping but not believing that you were celebrating the day. I had tears of great sadness and tears of great joy within the space of a few moments. Watch out Joe and people at Vita and anyone else in the Dave's world today!!!
ReplyDeleteYou're bad. OMG!
ReplyDeleteI was HORRIFIED at the thought, sadly thinking, "at least there's Youtube." Good job at tricking me! Happy April Fool's Day!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad it was all a dirty, dirty lie!
Dave,
ReplyDeleteYou are killing me (lol). That was a good one. Have blessed day.
Oh Dave. Baaaaaaaaaaad!
ReplyDeleteDave, Dave, quite the trickster!! Had me totally sucked in and very upset as I also begin my working day with your blog and my first coffee. OK, I can laugh now. Too funny...
ReplyDeleteYou are a mean, mean man....I would not know how to start the day without you and coffee. And erasing all of the blogs. How would I train new staff without the story of the couple at the restaurant, the girl with DS in the hotel lobby, the old twat? Just for safety sake I'll be making a file of all the stories.
ReplyDelete(hook, line, and sinker, you had me)
JamieLynn
Ha! I forgot about April Fool's! I read the first two sentences, froze, and started scanning down for the punch line...jeepers you put the heart across me!
ReplyDeleteyes to what everybody else said.
ReplyDeleteMy heart sank, I almost cried, I started to panic. You have become a part of so many people's lives, Dave. My day, and my life, is richer because of you.
Thank you for all that you do, for all you give to so many.
You had me fooled! Glad your not stopping :)
ReplyDeleteOMG, I actually read this last night and you totally suckered me. Funny man!
ReplyDeleteOh I was nearly ill, do not do that again Dave.
ReplyDeleteWell, you got me! I even called my husband over & pointed with a shaking finger to the title of your post. Then I actually read it--whew! That'll learn me!
ReplyDeleteOMG You had me scared! I was wondering, "Stop? Well we all have other obligations, but why in the world DELETE?????"
ReplyDeleteDang! You got me Dave, just in tears here.
ReplyDeleteoooo i am so going to get you back.
Well, I couldn't believe it, and then I did, and now you can see how much your blog means to everyone. Happy Blogging!
ReplyDeleteoh thank goodness!!! hahaha!! You got me good. I'm so so glad you are not deleting your blog.
ReplyDeleteI read the title, and thought "What?", and about 2 seconds later thought "Waaaaaaiit..." I knew you wouldn't do that to all of your loyal readers. Your sense of humour is just one of your many charms. Love it!
ReplyDeleteNot funny.
ReplyDeleteEven though I read this on April 2 and knowing that it was a joke before I read it and so there wasn't even a remote possiblity I would be taken in, it's still not funny.
Never doing this again? Now THAT's something good! :)
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