I love being able to keep a personal, private diary where no-one can find it.
I have no secrets from my boyfriend.
Well, not many..!
In all honesty, it's great having a completely private secure diary online. I used to do a lot of social networking, well, I still do, but it's not very private and one of my friends actually found she didn't get a job because her future employer found something embarrassing about her (she wouldn't tell me what it was) through a search engine, so she lost the job at the last stage to another candidate.
That scared the life out of me - I'm hoping to get a really good job once I've finished my training so I want my record completely clean.
I share a lot of my diary with my boyfriend, it's hard to keep in touch when you're away from home for a few months at a time, but we share pictures and if either of us goes somewhere or sees a good movie we can write about it and let the other one into our files, but there's plenty of stuff I don't let him see - only silly stuff like dreams and when I've bought another pair of shoes, things like that. And I'd never let on how much I miss him so when I'm going through a bit of a downer, I can write it into my Nutshell and put it away and feel much better without upsetting him or making him feel too important!!
It's great having the chance as well to look back over what I've been doing, so I can see how I'm progressing with training and any time I have an interesting thought with no-one to tell, I stick it in my nutshell for later and share it with someone without having to think 'what was I going to tell you?'.
It's easy to think you'll live forever when you're young.
But now we have a growing family, we realise it's vital to put our affairs in order; if one of us is taken ill, the other will know where everything is and what to do.
But my grandchildren have been interviewing me on their phones and on video, and now they've recorded my memories in a Nutshell - I can't wait to see it.
Lots of things are hard to talk about - at any age.
But now we've recorded our last wishes we can get on with enjoying retirement together, knowing that those left behind will have greater peace of mind.
