Guess You Just Had To Be There

Why am I here?  Not why am I here in New York, silly?  But why am I here writing on the world wide web?  One, I am slightly a theatrical person. (I prefer the word theatrical over dramatic.  Though my family has called me dramatic, and now my husband way to easily follows suit.  I am simply expressive about life, and feel that everything I express is simply the way it needs to be expressed. Anything less would not give justice to my feelings.)  Blogging somewhat provides a stage for your average everyday writer,  whether I have an audience or not. Two, I feel that this is a way to provide some discipline to a very undisciplined writer.  I thought that majoring in creative writing would FORCE me to write and to put things out in a timely matter.  Instead of going to grad school, I got married and realized that grad school really had to take a back seat to many things going on in my life at the time.  I figured I needed to not be forced into the discipline of writing, but just do it, because I loved to.  That has worked out to some degree, but I have fluctuated between writing prolifically and not even picking up a pen to such great extremes that I was starting to go crazy. Three, I love life, and have so many amazing things happen around me, I just can’t think of a better way to share these things, then to blog about them.  Four, I often tell people “I am going to blog about that,”  when they proceed to do something crazy or tell me an off-the-wall kind of story.  I need to have more power behind this previously empty threat! Five, I just recently moved to New York City, and am experiencing so many new and fun things, I need an outlet and a way to remember when, for example, seeing a rat running around was a new experience for me. (More on this later.)  So here, I am blogging about my life, not sure if any one is listening, but a girl has got to start somewhere.