Now, this is exciting. Forgive me for sounding so childlike and maybe even ridiculous, but I can’t believe that I have had views (ok, a view) from strangers on my first post! I keep checking the stats as if they were stocks and marveling that someone who I don’t even know would read something I wrote! This is amazing to me for several reasons. First, I don’t know how to blog, I have never even read a blog. I don’t even know how to find a blog to read. Therefore, my concept of a blog is limited to suggestions from worldly, albeit much younger relatives and friends that have read my Facebook posts and suggested that I start one. Secondly, although random thoughts pour out of my head like a waterfall, I am severely limited in my typing skills. I use only two fingers, sometimes three, and have to look at the keyboard. I blame this disability on the fact that when I went to high school in the 80’s, I was pressed into taking “honors” classes for the college bound. Clearly my teachers had not counted on my lack of motivation and general lack of interest in academia as a factor when they convinced me to sign up for these intellectual obstacle courses. As I was sleeping through class or just not even showing up ( thank you Tiny!), I was missing out on the much more practical “business classes” that included typing and bookkeeping. I never missed the latter but the former would sure come in handy about now. And finally, my spelling and grammar leave a lot to be desired, (please refer to the sleeping through class reference above) sorry Mrs. Blood (not kidding, actually her name), as some of you, who have actually suffered through this winded, run on sentence, née, paragraph can tell. So, I said all this to say, with absolutely not even one read blog under my belt to compare it with, I will continue on with this self-absorbed virtual diary until I am either A. figuratively tarred and feathered (very real possibility) or B. run out of things to say (don’t count on it). Be forewarned: I am very bipolarish ( I feel OK about using this term as my husband actually is bipolar and he wont mind) about my writing. I will either write several posts in one day, or I might go three days with nothing. I know enough about blogging to know this is not smart, but I never claimed to be smart or a blogger.
Thank you for reading,
Susannah Warner
