This is a Blog Post!

My little sister recently remarked on her blog about how she'd been neglecting updating the thing, especially in regards to an awesome experience that she had in Africa... It made me look at my post history, & realize that I have 3 entries for 2011 and only 1 for 2012. None at all for 2013, & it's almost over. Why is that? Why haven't I been writing about the many adventures that have happened to me in the past 2 years? Grad school played a huge role in that, but I graduated almost a year ago. I can't say that nothing exciting or worth mentioning has happened to me, either, because in the past 2 years I got engaged, married, graduated from my master's program, pregnant, & we moved from Utah to Washington. So, plenty of big lifetime events, but nary a post to be found... Surely I could have come up with a monthly highlight at the very least... But, alas, it seems my writing well has dried up and withered in midday sun. I think the reason why I've seemingly abandoned this form of communication is that... my writing style and the thought process that I put into a blog post has changed. & there was this big part of me that thought that I should try to keep emulating those early entries of 'deep' self-reflection with allusions towards economics, along with a clever quote to start each entry.

Well, here's an idea:

I don't have to do that anymore.

Phew! Glad I finally got myself to accept that! The thing is, I don't have to be the same person now, in late 2013, as I was in Spring 2008. Back then, I was struggling with typical college-woes regarding dating, general communication, and frustration with... um, stuff... Right now, I feel like I have a great, solid life; great husband, good area, no school stress, & a baby girl coming home for Christmas. No one will grade me on any of these posts, & it was silly to have that internal attitude even when I started. I don't even have to do the grammatically correct thing of not starting sentences with "and" or "but". & that's perfectly okay. But there's still the hurdle of all the big events that I missed reliving on here at a date closer to when they happened than this moment. Take a deep breath--- I don't have to write about any of them. Aaaaah.... that feels nice. Playing catch-up is daunting and often tedious, & the number one reason (probably) that I didn't update for so long. Can you blame a girl for not wanting to take time out of wedding planning, honeymooning, and the mad scramble to hopefully actually pass all of her classes and be able to graduate from the most difficult 2.5 year educational experience of her life? Surely not. Besides, most of those feelings and events are documented in less blog-y form, somewhere. So, to conclude: Hello, little blog. I'm sorry we haven't chatted for so long. Hopefully I'll give you better treatment in the future. All I ask is that you don't expect me to behave the same way I did when we first met, because I can't be the same person I was back then, not after all that I've experienced in the meantime. Also, get ready for some arts....