finally the beginning

First off, I have to say that I'm glad that there is a spellcheck button. So, thank you blogger for thinking of me when you designed your site (years ago).

Secondly, I know I am late the the blog bandwagon, but I've debated my necessity of a blog for quite a while. Who would read it? What would I write? Who cares about what I would write? And so on. So this blog all started because I needed a writing outlet of my own (for whatever reason) and I bought a Vera Bradley journal at BN yesterday. Let me tell you...this journal is wonderful! I've struggled with finding the perfect journal (must be spiral-bound, not too small, not too big, white pages preferably perforated, and a lovely design on the front) for a couple of years (literally), but I could never justify purchasing one at BN because, frankly, the only reason I go there is to buy books...so I feel like I'm cheating if I buy something other than books (to read). Anyhow, I had about 15 minutes after a lesson on tea and a meeting to shop with my new, educator rewards card and I decided to finally be seriously about buying my journal. I walked over to the same wall and section of journals that BN has stocked for years, scanned it, and found the same uninspiring journals that I always see there (maybe that is the underlying reason as to why I've never left with a journal from there)...but as I turned around there. it. was. The most glorious Vera Bradley spiral-bound, white perforated pages, paisley-covered journal! It was instantaneous - I needed it! So I bought it with my new, educator rewards card.

I stared at my new journal all day: I took it to another meeting, left it on my desk to look at while I was working on the computer, took it to another meeting, etc. But the more I think about it...the journal was staring at me! What the heck was I going to write about?! It almost felt like a daunting task to begin writing my thoughts down - and still what would I write about!? So I took it home.

My new journal was inducted into my life under a century tree (our home) by a slobbery greeting from Roxie (our dog). I'm glad I didn't leave my new journal on the table, where I have now discovered that Chuck Norris (our tiny, female cat) had recently "pushed" a small, spiral notepad on the floor only to have Roxie take several pages of her own...and the front and back covers are missing sections. So I left it on my desk in the office.

It didn't sit there unattended long. I figured that I wanted to write in it before I forgot that I bought it. I picked out a green pen that I knew wouldn't bleed through the page (because I hate that), and began to write. Halfway through my 5 pages of writing my hand began to cramp, and I thought to myself "why don't you just put this on a blog instead?, it's a lot faster to type than it is to write, and it is way easier to be discovered and turned into a famous book on a blog than it is to be turned into a famous book by a journal - these days anyway". (not that I think in any way, shape, or form that my writing is "famous book" worthy, but hey, it's happened to quite a few bloggers). I did finish my first journal writing, but I couldn't let the blog idea go. So I went to blogger.com to start my own.

Since I did not have the newest, fastest version of internet explorer blogger.com would not let me create a blog. (i didn't figure out this was the problem until the next day). Here I am world, writing on a blog! Does that mean I'll give up writing in my new VB journal? Eh, we'll see how this turns out. So I'm about to post my first blog!

{FYI - I like punctuation. I generally use it incorrectly. I kinda don't care. My favorite things to use are dot-dot-dot, commas, and parentheses. }