2/20/10 A New Beginning

So the initial incarnation of me playing with blogs was not effective. I didn't care nearly enough to maintain it, and in fact have recently replaced it by sending myself emails, creating a growing gmail folder called recipes that I'm checking boxes on. So far, nothing too special, but there's time and patience. I'll find something worthwhile eventually.

So try #2 at blogs is to post every Saturday Morning something awesome that makes me happy. I'm writing this down so if I come back to this later and I've wissed (thanks mom) out or given up, I'll have it in writing that I probably knew this was going to happen. Not sure if that should make me feel better or worse, but there it is. Also I don't intend to tell anyone about this blog so there's that too. Why am I writing this then? Hell if I know. I was reading 1000 Awesome Things and it made me think about all the awesome things in my life, and really I've got few complaints in my life.

So for the inaugural post... The Excitement that comes with doing something new

Call me crazy, but it feels good to try something. There's that little bit of unknown, and the expectation of success. They tell you when you're a kid that your life lays ahead of you, and all the opportunities of the world are open if you're blahblablahblahblah, but really they're right at least some of the time. Blahblahblah social rhetoric... I understand that not everyone has the same opportunities, and that there are completely legitimate reasons why the world is unfair. But you do have the chance to do something a little differently. Take a different route to work, try something different for dinner, be a lazy bum and watch a different tv show.

I fall in love with ideas, when I come up with something that seems like a good idea, I'll occasionally get kind of obsessed. It rarely comes out as well as I think it should, because really, what's as good as the things that you can come up with in your head (man is that depressing sounding). It can be big (deciding I wanted a farm with a vineyard after reading Animal Vegetable Miracle) or little (deciding to try and chew my food more often, this has thus far been extremely unsuccessful but totally makes your food taste better); it can be reasonable (the giant ridiculous spreadsheets I make at work because it seems like it'd be easier that way, but really just creates more work. Still less nerdy than Sam's vacation spreadsheet), or completely ridiculous (when I kinda fell in love with haikus, thanks Annalee...); but in this case, it's this blog. This seems like a good idea to me. It'll hopefully make me more thoughtful, and help me appreciate the little things in life.

So here's to you new thing for the day. I hope you stick.