Greetings and Salutations

Since this is my first visit to this site, as well as my first attempt at blogging, I thought it best to introduce myself and share the slough of selfish reasons for which I chose to create a blog. These selfish reasons are forthcoming; however, first, you have to sit through the traditional nerve-wracking, hair twirling, tongue clicking introductions.

I believe my introduction should go something like this: Hello! I'm a full-grown American adult of the female persuasion, who is loaded down with extra baggage, a demanding career, a husband, and the traditional 2.5 children. I exist in the Mid West, and I'm also a college educated idiot. I enjoy writing mostly as a means to preserve my own sanity. I can't say if my authoring skills are good, bad, or indifferent, but I can say that I'm a blogging virgin, so please be gentle. Now that we have the introduction formality out of the way, let's proceed onward to my selfish reasons.

Selfish reason number one for starting a blog: I require a creative outlet in which to express my dreams, hopes, desires, lusts, pains, tears, joy...blah blah blah. If I have no creative outlet I will explode or implode. Be the result either explosion or implosion--matters not. The end results of not having a creative outlet are frightfully nasty for me and everyone around me.

Second selfish reason for trying my hand at a blog: I require a quiet place to rationalize my ever fleeting thoughts. Quite frankly, the little room inside my twisted brain was getting just a bit too cozy and familiar for me. I feel some times, like a butterfly whose cocoon walls are shrinking in and smothering her to the point of breathlessness and death. This butterfly, I keep routing for her to break free! She needs to spread her wings and fly, baby!

My third, and final, selfish reason for creating a blog: I require a place to achieve reasons one and two listed above; however, this place has to be away from family and far removed from friends. Naturally, I need a place to express myself about anything and everything...a place where no one I actually know would receive offenses. Lord forbid, if I were to ever taint a "real" relationship. Am I right?

I pondered this "blog" word for a while. I tossed the act of "blogging" about like a shark tosses an unlucky surfer. I considered my needs, my requirements, my wants, my sanity...and decided "what the hell, try your paws at a blog". So, here I am. The lady...has been unleashed.