Hiya, I'm Kirsty and welcome to the sabotage show!

HIYA PALS!

My name is Kirsty and I am a self confessed self sabotager. I rarely do the things I am supposed to do, and I often do things I shouldn't really. I take too long to make decisions. I sleep too long and stay up too late. I take on too much at once. I don't try hard enough at things, because whats the point if I am already going to be doing a bad job. Even in the taking of this picture I thought "I SHOULD wait until there is good lighting and I'm wearing day time clothes... that will make for a better introduction picture rather than lamplight and fluffy pyjamas.", but did I listen to me? No. No, I did not.

Here's the thing, I'm going to try this year to be better at not doing the whole self sabotaging thing. I have a bunch of New Years Resolutions that I am going to try to stick to in hope that they will make me a better person or something. What's that I hear you say? "But Kirsty, it's already the end of January, why are you posting about New Years Resolutions now?" Good question, reader. The reason for this is because I don't believe in January. Well, I believe in it as far as yes - I know it exists, but I don't believe it has any power. January is a trial month. February is the real deal. February is when it all begins. I am going to use steemit to share the stories about me trying to stick to my New Years Resolutions, and maybe I'll include some nice pictures and videos of Scotland to keep you interested.

Even that last paragraph was a bit of a self sabotage because it is not why I am writing this post, I am supposed to be #introducingmyself or something right now. I am a 26 year old Scottish human living in Glasgow. I grew up in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. I moved to the mainland in 2009 to go to university. I went to university for six whole months before dropping out because I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (at age 18, below average as usual!). That was okay, I took a few months to come to terms with it and recover from my relapse (I lost the use of my arms and legs, it was a bit of a drag tbh) and then I started back at uni in September 2010. I graduated 4 years later with an MA (Hons) in linguistics. THEN there was a little thing in Scotland called the Scottish Independence Referendum. I worked on the Yes Scotland campaign and put everything I had into trying to secure a Yes vote for Scotland. And we lost. A few years later I worked on another referendum campaign for the European Referendum. I worked with the Stronger In Europe campaign to try to secure Scotland's place in the European Union. AND we lost. Can you say #brexit?

So I am a two time referendum losing, linguistics graduate with a brain disease... what else is interesting about me? Oh! I am a vegan.
"How do you know if someone is vegan?"
"Don't worry they will let you know!"
I went vegan in 2013 and it is one of the best things I have ever done, I couldn't be happier with my decision, and no I have never considered going back on it... also in case you were wondering what would happen if I was stranded on a desert island? I would probably just die. And no I don't miss cheese.

So I am a self righteous, two time referendum losing, linguistics graduate with a brain disease. What else? I am a SPOKEN WORD ARTIST. I write stories and poems and perform them on a stage in front of audiences. What an attention seeker, amirite? I write about politics and pop culture. Once I was in a competition for the BBC and I got to be on the radio or something, and another time I was on BBC News because I wrote a poem that I performed in a video where I was meant to be talking about how great a charity I volunteer for is, but instead I totally sidetracked the video and talked about me. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/disability-37725873/the-poem-sending-shivers-down-spines
I have some other recordings of my poetry on the interwebs but they aren't very good and I am about 2 stone heavier so I won't link them here, feel free to try and find them yourself though. Maybe I will try and get some better footage of my poetry as part of being on this whole steemit thing.

So I am an attention seeking, self righteous, two time referendum losing, linguistics graduate with a brain disease... Pleased to meet you?