In The Beginning

Today is January 10th, 2009 – fifteen days after this blog was officially born.

Gosh, where did I go wrong?!

On January 1st I had so many resolutions on how I could lead a better, more picture-perfect life, and I never even carried out my first one: create a new blog and post at least once every week.

Well, I guess I did create a new blog but that part is pretty pointless if you’re not going to post anything in it.

Ugh. I’m mad at myself. Isn’t there a quote somewhere that goes, “I love the fact that no one has to wait a single moment before they can change the world”? Well, it’s not like I’m expecting this blog to reverse Global Warming or anything, but it would be nice to know that somehow, in a small way, I helped someone out there in a world. Maybe I just brought a much-needed smile to their face or maybe something I wrote triggered something life changing (it could happen!), but that is my goal for this blog (and also to practise my writing skills ).

And also, now that I think about it, it would be nice to finally finish something in my life (I still haven’t finished that scarf I started  knitting when I was nine . . . or pasted anything into that scrapbook that I bought four years ago . . . and there was a time last year when I started making cookies but never actually put all of them into the oven to bake).

Anyways, back to The Beginning (in case you’re interested):

I am and always will be a great fan of the YA author Meg Cabot, so imagine my surprise when I discovered last in December of 2008 that not only did Meg have a website, but a blog too (for some odd reason I didn’t realize back than how many famous people had websites). From then on I started following her blog avidly and I would refresh it every five minutes to see if she had written anything new. She was just so funny and full of life that I wished (and still do) that some of her radiance would rub off on me.

Now, I don’t do that anymore (I promise!), but that’s how this whole blogging business started. One day in the late winter/early spring, she wrote a post centered on her new book, and she posted a list of some of the book bloggers that reviwed it. I clicked on one of the links - The Compulsive Reader - and came face-to-face with my first book blog.

I think my first thought was something along the lines of, “Those are weird ducks” (because the blogger was talking about Lauren Myracle’s new book Peace, Love and Baby Ducks), but my second thought was indeed, “Wow! A book blog! I want to do something like this!” And I did eventually start a book blog, but, long story short, I realized I really wasn’t that into it anymore, and isn’t one of the main goals of life to do things that you enjoy and make you happy? I think I might still post book reviews on this blog, but I’m planning for this blog to be “a little bit of everything” so we’ll see.

P.S. Is anyone else’s computer being a pain? (I’m sorry Toshiba Laptop, but it’s true. You have hurt me in a way that can never be healed. No, an apology will not be accepted.)

Advertisement