So, who am I, and why should you care about what I’m thinking? Let’s start with the first question.
Today, late 2022 as I’m fumbling through assembling this online space, I am a 43-year-old divorced woman with two children ages 7 and 9, and in a relationship. Two dogs, one here, the other over the rainbow bridge. I have a job that I love because I work with and for people I love.
I hate to say that’s how I define myself, but they are true statements nonetheless. My brief exposure to online dating taught me that it was ridiculous to list out descriptors and expect anyone to take your word for it. The worst profiles were when someone would say, “I’m funny and sense of humor is important to me,” while not saying or attempting to say one fucking funny thing, nor giving an example of what they think is funny. Don’t say you’re funny. BE funny. And if someone laughs at something you said, then they’ll think you’re funny way more than if you simply promise you are.
But I digress. My point is this: you’ll decide for yourself based on what I share and what you choose to read.
I can tell you that I absolutely love adverbs, run-on sentences, starting sentences with Okay, So, And, and But, while also being a stickler for grammar, none of which makes sense based on what I just said. I also occasionally end sentences with prepositions while be wildly aware of the fact that I am, and it pains me to do so, but if I don’t, it just comes off too douchbagy. I can almost see the diagonal cursive comments of Mrs. Marcus, Mrs. D’Allesio, and Mrs. Orsini beside every paragraph pointing out these errors – each of these memorable high school English teachers desperately working to cut my papers down while my classmates were all increasing their fonts and margins to meet the required page count.
I can tell you that I used to overshare online, but now I’m hoping for some healthy medium between inappropriate and brave, maybe?
I’m redundant. I’ll make the same point a few times in separate entries, maybe even in the same entry.
Okay, now to the second question. Why should you care? This one is much easier.
You shouldn’t.
I’ll say it here, just as I said it in my first entry and my disclaimer page (because I’m a redundant, but you had been forewarned, so it’s fine), I am not the authority on literally anything. I can’t think of one thing. Anything I know anything about, I can also tell you someone I know who knows that thing way better than I do, or can articulate it more clearly than I ever could.
I don’t think I’ll say anything particularly unique, and it is a fact that there is a rather decent percentage of people who will pop onto this site (I have no idea how they got here), and got bored so many paragraphs up that they didn’t get far enough down to know that I’m referencing them.
So here’s how this works, I guess: I’m just going to write about things I’ve just been thinking about, and then you read them, or you don’t, and we’ll all be just fine either way. So come on in! I’m sure I’ve sold this to you and you just can’t wait after that introduction. 🙂 (Oh, I also still like emoticons. Maybe it’s worth while to know that now.)