So they say that blogs are going the way of the dinosaur, or, more aptly, the way of the flip phone.  I still unabashedly use a flip phone, so  I guess that it is fitting that I would also decide to start a new blog.

Why am I starting a new blog?  I already have one, why would I need another?

1 - Because I like to find ways to waste time that I can disguise as looking productive.

2 - Because my other blog is a private family journal.  I don't do the whole scrapbooking thing, and I am terrible at keeping my picture albums up to date, so that blog is my way of documenting my family before too much time slips away and I forget everything.  I always find it so sad when I try to talk to my husband's mother about him when he was growing up because she doesn't remember much and she didn't document it.  Granted, she had six kids in about a 10 year span.  That would make finding time to document a challenge, and the remembering part would be a blur for anyone.  But I vowed that when my kids grew up they would have a record of what they did and who they were as babies and children. Anyway, my point is that my other blog has a definite purpose and sometimes I want to write something that doesn't conform to that purpose.

3 - Maybe this is is my unconscious attempt to try and make my little mark on the world.

4 - I have attempted many times to keep a regular personal journal, and have failed every time.  I am hoping that this might be a more appealing way to keep myself writing down my observations, experiences, thoughts, and feelings.

5 - Because writing makes me happy.  I have always loved writing and have even had times in  my life when I thought that maybe I would be a Writer.  I have even been told a time or two that I don't stink at it  (I was going to say "suck" but then remembered that we have outlawed that word in our house and I must set the example!) (And if you read my blog you will find that I have never met a parentheses that I didn't like.)
I am currently in the middle of reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. In the book the author begins a blog as part of year-long project to achieve optimal happiness.  Reading this spurred on my decision. I have thought for a while that I might like to have a second blog.  But I worried that it might seem vain of me to think that anyone might actually want to read what I have to say.  Well, this book is helping me to realize that I should do things that make me happy for ME, not because of what other people think.  If I am happier, then I will be better equipped to make those around me happier as well. So I am starting this blog because it makes ME happy to do so, even if no one else ever reads anything I write on here.

6 - So that I can stop littering Facebook with long-winded posts that no one on there cares about.  Now I can put them here instead!

7 - New year, new blog.

Basically, this blog will be for whatever I feel like writing about.  Just like life, the focus will be varied.  Sometimes it may seem to go on forever, and sometimes it may be over too quickly.  Sometimes I may post every day; sometimes I may not have much to say for a while.  Sometimes it will be succinct; sometimes my focus may ramble.  This is my place to write what I feel like, when I feel like it. 

Sometimes when I write I find myself with a certain audience in mind and I try to slant my words to please that audience.  My goal with this blog is to not have an audience in mind other than myself.  I feel that this will allow me to be the most honest in my writing and to more truly represent Life as I Know It.