On blogs and habits...

Edited and Revised: August 13, 2009


So I had a blog in college. I think everyone had a blog in college.

Mine consisted entirely of personal musings and unconscious blabber about anything and everything I found interesting or worthy of note. It led to a ME-IN-TEXT who was woefully too aware of her own thoughts and idiosyncrasies. I even devoted an entire post to a list of the absurdities that made me (at the time) tick. I think that was the beginning of the end.

So my blog died an abrupt death and that was that. Recently I stumbled upon some outstanding fashion, and style blogs constructed by and for people I fully identify with. It makes me wonder if I've chosen the correct path in life (shouldn't I be checking med research blogs HOURLY?), but I refuse to give up on my commitment to never wear anything in public that would make me look either a) incapable of crossing the street by myself or b) so overwhelmed by my chosen long-term career and life plans that I cannot be bothered to put together and drape myself in a collection of items that fit, match/compliment, and make me look like I have some sense of self and a full-length mirror. When I say that I haven't left my home without makeup since '95 I mean it, and nothing is going to change that. My cadaver(s) may not appreciate it, but someone with a pulse will, even if it's just me. In the wake of this newfound style bravado, my new home and new all-in-all life, and a heartfelt missing of my home, family, dogs and general open spaces, I've been inspired to resurrect my own blog in a totally new way (a way that won't make me seem so neurotic and annoying).

My new blog goals are simple:

I miss my family. I miss my friends. And THIS is the next best thing to my sarcasm FIRSTHAND.

I also hope to boast about my most recent and best acquisitions and rail against the retail "man" by punctuating it all with talk of the ridiculous deals I got on them.

So to my family and to my friends... start liking me in text form. Or just start liking me. Or start trying to... please...