June 6, 2012

You put your new blog in, you take your old blog out...

You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around.

Sorry, I digress.

I am refraining from starting this post with something along the lines of "I'm back!" because, lets face it, once you look back on the eight years (The years, where have they gone!?!) of your blog archives and you see upwards of nine posts with that title, or some variation thereof, you realize "I'm back!" really means: "I'm here for a short period of time while my ego gets the best of me!" or "I'll be updating this again since I'm low on friends and don't get out much!"

I've got more fake post titles along these lines but I'm assuming you understand by now that I am here for an uncertain length of time and I don't want to make a showy debut because that will only heighten the embarrassment when I stop posting in a month.

Now, on to my showy debut.

"So, eight years of archives?" you say.
"Where are they?" you say.

I removed them. They're mostly from the year I spent in Germany and the end of college. Believe it or not the things you write and do when you're 20 are a little embarrassing 7 years later. Shocking, I know.

Anyhow, I'm thinking it might be fun to revise the good ones and re-post them as a sort of trip down memory lane that only I will find memorable. Honestly, I'm not trying to "Eternal Sunshine" my life, I just wanted to give this blog a fresh start. I don't want it judged for the nude photos it took before being crowned Miss America, like Vanessa Williams. Not that this blog, or the author, ever posed nude. Or was ever awarded any measure of honor.

Now I've lost my train of thought... Ah yes, this is a blog, I am feeding my ego by posting here. Surely you want more information which brings me to a segment I will call:

"Questions my nonexistent readers, aka the voices in my head, have."


Here we go:

Q: If you're not drinking too much beer and slacking off in college whatever will you write about?
A: I'm not really sure yet. I've been feeling like I want to get back into writing for a while now, but I'm only interested if there is glory involved. Clearly this blog is where the glory comes in.

Q: Now that you've put your big-girl pants on and have a job when will you find time to post?
A: I'm really wearing more what I would call big-girl capris since I'm only sort of acting like an adult. I don't work on Fridays and I work from home, so actually let us call them big-girl pajama pants. All that to say: it is my goal to at least post on Fridays when I'm not working. And to hopefully post a little bit during pajama-clad downtime Monday through Thursday.

Q: Shouldn't you wrap this blog post up because the chances of someone reading a long post without any pictures are pretty slim?
A: Yep.

And that's what it's all about! (Hopefully you also still have the hokey pokey stuck in your head, if not then you likely read that last line with the wrong em-phasis.)

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