First Blog

OK, so I am not really sure how this is supposed to work or if I should even be doing the blog thing. I've got to say, before this week, I had no desire to blog or even care about those who blog. It seemed a bit strange to me, kinda like keeping a diary online. So lets start from the beginning of me changing my mind.

My best friend, Emily, got married this past weekend. I guess she was always the one I called, emailed, or text messaged about every little slightly interesting thing in my life. You know, those things that you have to get off your shoulder. But since she has been on her honeymoon, I feel I should leave her alone with such petty things (though I didn't her actual wedding night, which is when I had my own intervention to prevent any such recurrences, it was sort-of my own come-to-Jesus meeting thing, if you will).

The next person I seek in the event of a tale is my roommate. But sometimes I feel I bombard her with too much of my stories. Besides, she rarely knows the people I tell her about.

And last, but certainly not least (and I know people always say that, but I really do mean that in a nice way) is my college friends. If I deem a story good enough, I will email them about it. But this week, I guess because of the lack of the first road block, I found myself wanting to email them an absurd amount of emails, all very pointless, at that. It took all the self control I had to only email them, either as a group or individually, and I am not even kidding, 17 times, since Sunday.

So that is when I questioned myself about my emailing. I mean, everyone loves to get email, let's admit it. But everyone has a point where they get frustrated. Email is so in your face. It is like saying, "you must read this because I am your friend and I sent this to you." That is really not what I have meant by all the emails. I just really think that some things are too funny to keep to yourself. I want everyone to enjoy the laughter and pleasure I get from them. But email is such a bombarding sort-of way to do it, I began to think of other ways I could share my experiences. But yet let those I love get the OPTION of enjoying them at their own convenience.

So I started thinking, how could I do that? And that is when I remembered Chelsea sharing that she had a blog. So I asked her to re-share it with me. I spent last night checking her blog out, as well as several other people's blogs and realized that it was exactly what I was looking for. I was so excited!

Except for one thing. The fact that everyone, and I mean everyone, seems to be married. Don't get me wrong, I love married people. Really, all my friends are married. But it felt like maybe blogging was something you could only do if you were married. It looks like it is a way for married and busy people to keep in touch. Can a single girl get away with blogging and be taken seriously???

Well, my final deciding factor was that a blogging single woman trumps the annoying obsessive-compulsive emailer. So here I am. Judge if you want. Read if you want. But at least it is because you want. This is where I leave you, for now, on my blogging journey.