Obligatory Introduction

I've always thought that creating a blog purely for the purpose of voicing one's thoughts requires a certain amount vanity and egotism that, quite frankly, I do have, but would never want to openly admit. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for family blogs, the type that let out-of-town family and friends keep up with the daily going-ons that happen with your little ones. We have a blog like that (and this is where I don't mention that I have not updated that blog in about a year...). But the kind of personal blog that seems to have a foundation of "I'm an amazing person with amazing thoughts that everyone will want to read" has always been a bit of a turn off for me.

This is where I start getting a little hypocritical. Or a lot.

For a while now I've toyed with the idea of starting this blog, and today I decided to just do it. I love to write, and I think that having a journal-like forum for me to vent my daily/weekly thoughts might be cathartic for me (as it is for a lot of people). Plus, it's been a while since I've been involved in a major writing project, and I feel like in the time off my skills have dwindled. I have ideas for a couple of different projects, but at this point I'm fearful to start them and have them turn out to be, well, crap. So, this is a place for me to not only let it all out, but to practice once again putting thoughts into words into well-formed sentences, and so on. I'm making it public for two reasons, 1) the idea that someone might possibly read this is motivation to keep the writing as high caliber as possible (for me), and 2) because a few people have told me that, for some odd reason, they enjoy my facebook updates, and I'm slightly curious as to whether or not I can still entertain in more than 420 characters.

I'm not promising a whole lot of quality here. And I certainly have no ambition to create a blog that will change the world. But, you know, if it does, I probably won't complain...