My First Blog Post

I decided that it would be fitting to first post about my first post. This is a pivotal moment in my life after all. Not to mention the irony with which this entire post will be dripping.

This importance of this blog is multi-fold. First off, I don't tend to journal. That means I will become a more reflective person. That also means all of you will reap the benefits of learning what God is teaching me. You will also be able to follow my each and every action, as I intend to blog minute to minute updates (I'm just kidding, but hopefully that will encourage you to read it more often?). Secondly, I will be able to communicate with you in a one-way manner. In other words, if I say something controversial or argumentative, nobody will be able to disagree with me -- at least not to my knowledge. Also, it will encourage me to be a more interesting person. As of right now, I have nothing to blog about except this blog post. Hopefully something will happen in the near future, or these next few posts will quickly move past ironic to ridiculous and redundant. Lastly, I can be open and honest with people. I don't generally have a problem with that as most of you know. However, it has proven difficult for me to be open and honest with myself. This will serve as an opportunity for me to share with all of you, and in turn, with myself.

Now that you know all of the objectives of this blog, I would like to share with you a resume of sorts. I don't expect you to read my blog until you are assured of my blogging skills and qualifications. They are as follows:

• I am friends with Paul Page. He has instilled in me a wisdom beyond my years. I intend to apply this to each and every post that I author, so as not to damage his name in any way.
• I am a published writer. In the 8th grade, one of my poems was printed in a monthly newsletter for the Kansas State Department of Education. Upon reviewing it this summer, I have decided that I will not share it... yet. Until you all need a good laugh. At me.
• I am not married. While that doesn't automatically relieve my name from an association of boring persons, it greatly diminishes the chances of my name being translated in such a way.
  
• I have blonde hair. This is grounds for many embarrassing comments made by me, but more often towards me. I am more than willing to all share these, so as to tarnish the names of those who have wronged me in this manner.
• My emotions are transient. I tend to be dramatic, and controversy is always interesting. Why else do any of us watch reality television? Or court TV? Or the news? Please refrain from these mundane forms of entertainment and choose to devote your free time to reading all about MY life. Your time is better used in this manner.
• I know all my friends' secrets.
• I am an avid music listener, movie watcher, book reader. I can enlighten you on the latest hits, I can update you on the new releases, AND I can notify you of the most recent blockbusters. I have many talents.

If all of these are not reason enough to continue reading, at least give me a second chance and wait to decide until the second post. After all, Jesus gives second chances, so should you.