I used to be an avid blogger.  I’d update at least a couple of times a week, if not once a day.  Blogging was one of those outlets where I could recount my day from start to finish, leave it in the past, and be done with it – therapeutic, for those that need a label.

And then one day, I stopped.

To say I miss it is an understatement.  Aside from being my personal sanctuary from my day to day routine, it kept my writing skills nicely polished and my creative spark….sparking.  So why did I stop blogging?  I started thinking about what had changed in my life around the time my knack for telling the void of the internet exactly what I did for lunch started to wan.  Then it hit me – I started getting out of my apartment.   Meeting new people.  Socializing.  Before I knew it, I had a boyfriend, and the days of nightly blogging came to a crashing halt.

Wow, that makes me sound like I spent the last 24 years of my life as a total loser.

So, I started thinking about it more.   I think the reason I really kept up blogging, even after the majority of my blogger friends grew tired and jumped ship to something far easier and less time consuming, ala Twitter, is because I was lonely.  I mean, exactly what else was I doing with my nights?  I’d work my 12 hour day, come home, eat a Lean Cuisine, blog, go to bed, and start it all over again the next day.  I fell into a habit.  And my entries, well, they more or less reflected that too.  I wasn’t blogging about anything interesting.  I was blogging about my life.  The same day over and over and over…

So here I am starting over with a fancy-pants self hosted blog.  My goal is to talk about things and events that I’m passionate about, and not fall back into the habit of, “Woke up. Went to work. Came home. Going to bed now.”

Most importantly, this is my own little creative space, where I can be me.  Try new things.  I’ve got a few projects I’m eager to get started on that I’m pretty excited about.  Hopefully you’ll stick around to see where things go.  And I promise I’ll worker harder on being interesting.

Oh yeah, and this awesome layout?  Totally coded for me by UnholyKnight. <3 Tell him he did a good job.  And visit his blog.  It’s more interesting than mine.