2008!

Hello and Happy New Year! This is my first post in my first personal, public blog and it is supposed to debut on 1/1/08 and in typical procrastinator fashion, here I sit at 5:15 pm getting it up and running. I have wanted to do a blog for a long time now. I have stumbled across some great blogs over the past year, some by old friends and some by complete strangers, and have been inspired by them all. I haven't really decided what this blog will be, but as I see it now, I think it will be part personal journal, part archive of all things interesting that I encounter and want to remember (and share!), part place to list and review all the books that I read and mostly just a chronicle of who I am and what I'm thinking about that I can refer back to often and enjoy. Or cringe. Whatever the case may be. I like the idea of putting something out there into the world, that others may happen upon and learn something new or interesting. Connect myself, in a way. I think it will be a great way of keeping my friends and family up to date on what I'm doing and who I am. It'll also be a good chance for me to practice my writing skills, which have gotten quite rusty during my 5 1/2 year accounting career. I want to note that doing this blog is a joint New Year's resolution that I've made with my friend Kent. We reconnected at our 10 year high school reunion in June and both expressed our desire to have a personal blog and agreed that we'd each read each other's so that we know we will at least have 1 reader! I will link to Kent's blog once I know where to find it. I wonder if he's procrastinated on this as much as me? ;) So that's it for now. As is, this blog is still in really rough draft format, I will certainly be updating and polishing it as time goes on...and as I figure out how! I will be introducing myself further very soon and giving more details about who I am, where I am, what I do and what my plans are. It feels great to have this first post done and out there, now I can just start posting whatever I see fit!