Oh my goodness. I can't believe I am doing this. Actually typing on a blog. I don't even know if I will continue but I just thought I would kick it off.

I have actually always kind of had a problem with blogs - it started when an ex wrote an untrue history of our breakup on his blog. When I read it I was pissed - like how does he get to put personal stuff - and untrue at that - out there for anyone to read. I guess I missed the point that I could do the same. I started thinking that blogs were like id - like a place where people could just spout, un-edited a lot of stupid crap. I got a funny idea for a blog website called i.d. - internet diary. Id, get it? Then I started realizing that blogs could be really cool - like a place for friends and family to keep up with each other. I also realized that people do actually edit themselves a lot more than I thought.

I have kept a journal since I was 11. My first one was a little Chinese fabric covered blank bookthat I got when my family was on vacation somewhere. Wait, actually I remember before that, having a diary with a lock - maybe in fourth grade? Then when I was in high school the blank book market really exploded and you could get them in all different colors and patterns. I wrote a lot of poetry as a teen and in my early twenties so I have a bunch of those books with "deep" poems in them. I also have a bunch of blank books filled with my journals. My journalling has trailed off since I have been with James. I tell him everything now. Poor thing. For the past years, my journal is in a password protected .doc file on my computer and I write in it about twice a year.

Okay, I think that is good for a first entry. Now I am going to clean my studio and try to get some work done!