What is it, 2003?

Yes, fine, I did it. I'm officially a blogging nerd. I've resisted these things for soooo long because I find blogs to be either a. self-indulgent (see "i'm so lonely I could die" posts or "what a fabulous party! what you can't get in? too bad!" blogs) or b. boring as shit. I don't find myself to be that interesting, let alone most people who blog. Hence why I have never joined the blogosphere.

So, why the sudden change of heart? Well, I'm technically a writer, you see, and people have bugged me for years about not having a blog. Before the whole blogging craze took off people nagged me about not keeping a journal: "A writer who doesn't have a journal?! Blasphemy," they would say. Pish posh. I kept a diary for about 9 months when I was 10 years old. I would write in it like it was going to be kept in a time capsule, and my great-great granddaughter would find it years later, so mostly it would say stuff like "Dear whoever reads this after I am long dead, today I chased this boy around. And then I came home and kissed my Jordan Knight NKOTB pillowcase. The end." Obviously, I stopped writing in it because I ran out of boys to torment, and I just never picked it back up.

Back to the question at hand--why now? The truth is that I'm getting stupider. No joke. I used to work for a newspaper until I lost my job last December, and ever since I have not had a full time writing gig. Sure, I've had odd and end jobs and some freelancing opps, but day-to-day writing? Negative. My old journalism professor kept giving me shit for not writing a book, or at least a stupid blog. So here goes. Frankly, I'm just trying to flex my writing muscles and keep myself from getting even dumber. Plus, I think I have a couple of fairly interesting things to say. Okay, not really, but I DO have a fat cat (that's him in the photo) I will write about, and he's incredibly interesting.

There you have it. I'll try to make this blog as painless as possible, and, honestly I feel like this is so late in the blogging game that it's just sad and lame now, but whatever. Mostly, I'm just gonna post things I find interesting, i.e. food, fashion, movies, pop culture, fat cats, and whatever else the Internet throws my way.

I promise never to write a "woe is me" post. Those are icky.