My First Blog

This is my first blog.

It was suggested that I start a blog when I moved from the Midwest to California to chronicle the adventures of a liberal, urban girl from Chicago who moves to conservative, suburban Orange County. That was in November, 2008. I thought about it frequently but took no action. So here we are in March, 2010 and I am blogging.

Sorry to have robbed you all of the tales of my move but truth be told they were not very exciting. My life is not like THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ORANGE COUNTY or THE HILLS. I do intend in future blogs to address life in OC but you will have to wait for that.

The reason I have waited almost a year and a half to fulfill on the idea of a blog is that I have been frozen by fear. I've created a myriad of excuses for not starting a blog. First is was my lack of a personal computer. Then it was lack of an Internet connection at home--though there is a free Internet cafe a block from my house. Even today, with my new laptop and Internet connection, I needed to clean my refrigerator instead of write this blog. Once the fridge was clean the bathtub needed to scrubbed and the living room needed to be dusted. So I sat in my clean apartment and thought to myself, "I am too tired to start this today...I will just wake up early tomorrow and write it." I know myself and tomorrow I will hit the snooze button (again and again) and then rush out of the house to barely make it to work on time. There will always be a reason not to do this. But again the truth is that I am scared. I am terrified to write and share it with everyone. I am petrified that my year plus of blog topics will not be good enough. I am fearful that my ideas, my writing and my life will be judged and I will be thought of badly. And that may happen. But then again someone might get enjoyment from reading my blog, maybe I will say something that will make a difference, maybe I will find my self expression. So I put down the cleaning supplies. Turned off the LAW AND ORDER. And wrote my first blog.

Mostly this blog will be my observations about life, some stories, and a rant or two. A few topics will be how I manage to live in Southern California without owning a car, how too much TV can make a person paranoid and what I know about plastic surgery in Southern California.

Stay tuned and judge way.