A Fresh Start.

Confession: I have a Livejournal.  Yes.  Yes, I do.  Double confession: it's a paid account.  And there's about 8 years worth of babble in there.  Some of it's good, memorable stuff.  Some of it's pointless nonsense.  But I'm having a hard time letting go of it regardless.  At the same time, I have an aversion to logging in to that account right now that I can't explain.

When I first started that "blog," a lot of my friends were on LJ too.  We kept up with each other there, it was fun!  More recently, they have all shifted away from blogs entirely to the more concise social environments of twitter and Facebook.   While I have "met" a few other LJ users that I still read, for the most part I am out of touch with that whole community.  The whole site is aimed at a younger audience (and really always was!) and I'm finally recognizing that I don't. quite. belong.  

Over the last two years, I've become obsessed with my google reader.  I've been reading all sorts of blogs!  For the first year, a major portion of that reading came from wedding blogs and, to be more specific, weddingbee.  What a lovely community!  I still read regularly even though my wedding was almost a year ago.  Here's the thing though, since my wedding (and the wedding of many other bees), I've started following a number of their personal blogs.  And why not?!  We're all newlyweds, trying to establish our homes and new lives with our husbands.  But see... reading all those blogs (and many others) has given me the itch again.  So many of the women I read are going through similar situations (or completely opposite situations!) and they are so honest and open and I just admire them so much and yes, I do like run-on sentences.  They have given me the itch to write.  I'm not a great writer, I know this.  But I don't care.  It helps with thoughts and plans and life.  I need to purge the brain once in awhile and livejournal just isn't the answer anymore.  :(

So, here I am.  Shiny new blog at hand.  I don't know for sure that I'll ever have any readers, but that's part of the fun too, isn't it?!  To shout out into the void and see if a voice echoes back.

At this point, I'm planning to use this blog as an outlet for random thoughts, random photos, random decorating ideas, random family tidbits or life lessons.  Basically, I'm expecting randomness.  And you, whoever *you* are, should too.

I also need to figure out a way to safely file away my livejournal entries because I just can't let go of stuff like that.  I graduated college with that journal (undergrad and graduate school).  Got my first "real" job, bought a house, and got married with that journal.  I just can't let go of those memories.  But I am very much looking forward to A Fresh Start.