One small step for man...

one giant leap for me! "A blog?", chortled my husband, Scott, when I first announced my intention a couple of weeks ago. As Scott well knows, I'm the queen of great ideas...a small fraction of which generally come to fruition. But since cold and dreary Winter descended upon us a month or so ago in northwestern Ohio, I had been amusing myself at night by reading dozens of really cool blogs I had found in cyberspace, on topics that interest me...food, home and fashion design, travel, tips for frugal living and, goodness, just life in general. And, so...another "great idea" of mine was born!

I truly don't expect that anyone will ever read this (particularly given the fact I used the word Ohio in the title, since our state is known for being such a hotbed of excitement and cutting-edge trends). But, nonetheless, I'm determined to try and write this as if I have fans galore. In fact, I'm not at all keen on having any followers...I have quite happily let My Space, Facebook, Twitter, etc. totally pass me by without jumping on the bandwagon of such social networking. Bottom line, I've just never really wanted to share my life online, much less did I think anyone would ever really be interested in knowing about it.

Nonetheless, after greedily scouring some of the truly fabulous blogs that are out there, I was inspired to try my hand at this. This should give me the opportunity, generally, to try and hone my writing skills...something I've been wanting to do forever. This will (hopefully) force me to write regularly, and give me a chance to see if I can actually produce something in writing that is halfway witty and interesting...again, a lifelong dream (or, perhaps, nightmare...guess that remains to be seen). If nothing else, I suppose this gives me a place to rant and rave about anything that happens to set me off when I've had one drink too many and feel like venting! Or even when I haven't been drinking and something totally pisses me off...which seems to happen all too often. And, if nothing, nothing else, this will give me the chance to learn how on earth to upload photos from my camera to the computer and beyond...something I have absolutely no clue how to do but figure I should probably master, since I live in this century and all...

So, now that I've committed to this, what on earth will I be writing about? I shared this blog idea with friends the other night, lamenting the fact that all the best food, travel, and just generally cool-topic blogs of course shoot straight out of places like New York, San Francisco, Seattle or, at the very least, Cleveland. The best blogs, if any blogs, do certainly not generate from our small midwestern city. But feeling fearless, I announced my intent to write about my life here...our lives here.

Although we occasionally bemoan our bad luck and/or poor choice in not living somewhere much more hip, the reality is that our lives here are full of such humour and wit, such interesting people and happenings, such passion for the small and simple pleasures in life, as well as the larger and more extravagent ones. Also, I believe, that we actually eat, shop, decorate, travel and live with the best of them! So, throwdown to the big-city folks...just watch us go!! (Of course, the most interesting thing I did today was bake a bundt cake, but turns out it's totally worth writing about...so more on that later).

Since I just threw this blog up online on impulse, and I'm totally not computer-savvy, I have no idea what the lay-out will look like till I do a couple of posts and get my I.T. guy (okay, my husband) to help. Perhaps, once Scott gets in the game, we'll even have photos! In the meantime, I'm simply looking forward to where this goes from here...