Just popping in to say hello!

I have tried religiously to journal for years.  I go to the book store, I pick a journal that I fall in love with and go home.  I then write and use ... oh 3-4 pages ... and then put the book away.  Until, that is, my guilt for having shamelessly bought another journal resurfaces and I pick it up and fill another few pages.  The cycle continues.  I'm just bad at it.  But, I have the best of intentions, so that counts for something, right? 

So now, I'm trying to blog.  I've kept a journal through forums that I've been a part of for years and years, and that is feasible for me.  For some reason that works.  Maybe I'm into showmanship, who knows, but the thought that there are people reading what I write some how makes me want to write more. 

Oh to write more ... When I was in high school, two of my closest friends and I wrote a story for a 10th grade English class as a spin off of Harry Potter (that was the assignment, don't sue me JK Rowling).  And that "spinoff" or fanfiction spurned a love of writing in all of us.  Two of the three of us continued this tradition for years, mainly focusing on Pirates of the Caribbean but there were other types of stories that we wrote too.  We even started a book ... though I regret that it hasn't been finished.  And I branched off and wrote stories of my own ... What's in a Name was the first (fanfiction) story that I ever wrote.  But, back on track, for years, I've wanted to write ... just put pen to paper (fingers to keys) and write.  And there are days when I'll get brilliant ideas and I want to pursue them, but they hit when I'm at work or when I'm exhausted or, when I was finishing my MOL, when I should have been studying for the Comps (oops).  And there are other days when my life feels almost hopelessly mundane that any sort of creative thought just escapes me and I become a zombie when I get home.  I eat, I watch TV, play with my guinea pigs, hang out with Dan and I sleep but there's no creativity in it, nothing eeks out of my pores that is remotely creative.

So here we go.  A blog.  May not be overly creative but I want to get back into putting fingers to keys in a way that doesn't just involve emails or work.

I'll do more introductions later.  For now, have a wonderful day!