It's Time, and I'm Finally Ready

So this blog.  It's been quite a long time coming, but it's also extremely new.  A recent history of our journey together...

So this all started about a year ago.  I was feeling frustrated with myself and my surroundings.  I wanted a way to tell people what I was thinking.  I spent hours designing the page itself- I tried different backgrounds, created a header, tried to come up with a witty title, etc. etc.  But when it actually came down to it, I never had the guts to actually write something down.  I couldn't force myself to sit down and write out my thoughts.  With that initial failure, I pushed this blog to the back of my mind and went on with my life.

Too brunette to have the guts to say what I think

Fast forward a year and a half or so.  I'm living at home after my first year away at college.  The adjustment from dorm life has been so much harder than I expected, made even more difficult by the fact that my friends from school, the people I've spent the last nine months sharing every single detail of my life with, are thousands of miles away and spread across the country.

Obviously blondes have more fun.  And now, I'm not afraid to say (write?) what I want

I'm a part time law clerk, part time sales associate at a chain clothing store.  That's where this blog comes into my life again.  I'd always said I would one day start a blog.  I love writing (something I never would have admitted three years ago), and I want to make my mark in the world. This is my first attempt.

Back to my wonderful part time job...I was feeling a little under appreciated and frustrated with folding the same pile of shirts for the four hundredth time when I realized I was writing in my head.  I was literally standing in the front window of the store writing a blog post called "And This Is Why We Go To College" detailing every reason I do not want sales associate to be in my epitaph. My mind instantly flew back to my long forgotten blog.  Maybe, I thought, I should start that up again?

Three days later, and I open my computer to find the link for this very page randomly pop up. Obviously karma or God or Jane Austen is trying to tell me it's time.

So here I am.  I have no idea what direction this blog will go in because I have no idea what direction I'M going in.

But I do know one thing.  I owe it to myself to write it all down.  Starting now.