Hey! Hi!
Oh, you’re not waving at me? No biggie, I’ll just pretend to
wave at someone behind you! Now it’s
totally not awkward!
Is my bright red face giving it away? You mean, I don’t look cool and collected even
though I’m totally panicking inside?
Haha. Ha.
Ha.
Anyway, welcome to this new blogging venture of mine!
That intro? Yes, that’s how I decided to start my blog. I’m terrible at writing intros, so I just
figured I would start out on an awkward note. But this blog won’t be all about how awkward I am. Even though
I could probably do a blog filled with just my awkwardness… no joke.
But I think this blog will be a lot of things… random
stories or life updates, pop culture commentary, incoherent rambling, or really
whatever I’m in the mood to say. I know a lot of blogs that have a specific
theme—crafting, home décor, cooking/baking—but I did that once, and I don’t
think I was terribly good at it. Mostly because I have a lot of really random
things to talk about and my interests jump all over the place. I think most of
the things I say in conversation start with, “So, this is totally random, but…”
I guess that’s a pretty apt description for the direction of my blog. If
“random” can be considered a direction, that is. Which, considering this is my
blog and therefore it goes by my rules, it totally can. North, East, South,
West, and Random. I like it.
So right now, I kind of see this as just a way for me to get
any and all thoughts of mine out in public view. Because that’s totally not
vain. But whatevs. I love writing, and I don’t do it enough, so blogging seems
like a great way to get me started again. Plus, if I ever hope to have a job in
the writing/publishing/editing industry, they like to see some samples of how
awesome I am—I mean, samples of my writing. Ultimately, then, this serves a
variety of purposes for me: to get me back into writing regularly, to give me a
hobby, to connect me with family and friends (and total strangers, if you have
no idea who I am and stumbled across this and haven’t been completely bored and read this far), and to eventually give me
something I can include in a writing sample.
Judging by how I chose to kick off this post, this could be
off to a rocky start. But I hope you’ll bear with me until I find my footing
(or at least bear with me because you’re my family and friends and you love me…
unless you’re a stranger, in which case just pay attention to the stuff not in
these parentheses, you weirdo), and then by that point I hope this blog is so
good that you won’t be able to stop reading and you’ll have to quickly click
away to your email when your boss comes near you because you can’t help but
read it at work. Anyway, I hope that
at the very least, I can be mildly entertaining, or interesting, or both.
…
Um, so I had this whole cute thing I came up with about
“putting my fingers to the keyboard”… you know, instead of “pedal to the medal”
or “pen to paper”? Well, it was cute in my head anyway. But now I can’t figure
out a way to incorporate it into this conclusion in a clever way, so I’ve just
made things super awkward and weird, which is totally me and something I’m
remarkably good at, but still.
Sorry.
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