Oh Where, Oh Where...

have I been? Do you really want to ask that totally loaded question?

To summarize...

working my ass off
feeling incomplete
fighting with my husband
and my teenage daughter
wondering where "I" went
freaking out that my son will leave me in only two short years
trying to make it all up on the youngest (poor her)
and did I mention eating everything yummy at midnight?

I have promised to write daily in some fashion since I was 10 years old. I am SO the type of person you would meet and instantly think I have volumes of journals stored on a hand painted shelf
and that I look back at them in some systematic way each and every year.

You would think this, really, but you would be wrong.

I actually have most of the beginnings of the journals I've started since then. They all profess I will scribe daily my most inner thoughts.

Well, here we go AGAIN!

I love to write; and let's face it, this blogging thing is just an amazing way to stick yourself out there and see what happens. It's this exhilerating feeling wondering who, if anyone, will read what you wrote. Will you inspire anyone? Will someone know exactly what you mean? Will you reach someone and help them?

In my mind, I want to have some sort of theme; a schtick for this blog. I guess it started and is named b/c I wanted it to be a place for spouting off about things that were about social justice. But I think I will start off just rambling on about daily life to get in the hang of it.

Knowing myself well enough, it won't be entirely unplanned (I've become increasingly anal as I've aged, sadly- or perhaps...) but no focus only on pressing social matters. I just hope something seems at least a little interesting.

Right now, it is raining outside, Chef Boy is calling in the dog (now wet), I have had 4 beers on a Sunday night (really, quite nice), I'm looking forward to another crazy work week, and I think I will fall asleep to The Big Lebowski.

I hope, I guess, this blog becomes something that really pulls the room together.