Mission Statement

I blog for me. I've said this before in previous blog incarnations, but I've realized that when I said it before it was so much bull dookie. I blogged for attention and approval. I blogged to convince myself and others that I was cool. I blogged to promote myself and to push opinions that were better kept to myself even though at the time I had hubris enough to believe they had to be heard.

Now, I blog for me. To vent, to ramble, to flex my writing muscles so they don't atrophy, to work out ideas and get things out of my system and, hopefully, to have fun doing it. I waited to start blogging again until I was sure I was doing it for the right reasons. All right, yeah, I blog a little bit for audience feedback, because otherwise, why make it public, right? But that's not the point or the purpose, and if it turns out I'm blogging into the wind, I'm going to keep right on blogging.

I'm going to be a dork. I'm going to embrace ordinariness and laud priorities that don't include becoming rich or famous or hip or cool and that do include being truly happy and satisfied with life. I'm going to be long winded, except when I don't feel like it. I'm going to update not because I feel obligated, but because I have something to say. I'm going to be devout, and I'm going to be irreverent. I'm going to talk about God and Jesus and the Bible in quite possibly the same posts that I talk about sexy TV vampires and their sexy six-pack abs. Mostly I'm going to talk about my fiance and our wedding plans and, eventually, our marriage and how much in love I am, and how extremely blessed. I'll talk about our pets. I'll talk about dieting. I'll talk about knitting, and maybe even post pictures. I'll pimp the heck out of my gift baskets. And I'll surely also talk about writing, mostly in the hopes that talking about doing it will make me feel some kind of obligation to actually do it. In short, I'm going to be myself. No posing, no posturing, no pretending to be anything I'm not.

Feel free to comment and share your thoughts or to just say hi. Feel free also to not. If you don't I promise not to pout or become petulantly silent or to start fishing for attention. If you do, I don't promise to respond individually to every single comment, because that just never works out and I would quickly become a liar. Welcome to my space. Just be warned that this is where I let it all hang out.