I would never consider myself a "good writer" by any means; my arsenal of vocabulary words is rather limited, yet I somehow use up too many words to explain myself. "Economy with words," as my 10th grade English teacher put it, was never my strong point.
So I apologize for my wordiness in advanced to anyone reading this. Hell, if you've made it this far I applaud you!
...But then maybe you're just like me and like to read about other people's lives, finding even the most mundane of topics extremely interesting. I don't mean this sarcastically nor as an insult! I genuinely just love to hear about what others are doing. It's like when you meet up with a friend and want to hear about how they've been. If anyone out there is reading this, I'd like to think of you as friends, and I hope you'd think of me like yours.
And so why am I creating this blog? Surely, I, more so than the rest of the world, lead the most boring of lives!! But I guess everyone always thinks themselves boring - when I find them rather interesting! (IMO, it's those who so desperately try to sound interesting that are in the most danger of being boring.) ANYWAY. Back on track. "Why am I creating this blog?" Mainly because I have always liked keeping a record of my life.
As a kid I always kept a journal. I would write things in it like how the boy I liked talked to me that day and other such nonsense. Rather boring stuff, but I guess it could be quite entertaining if you were trying to blackmail me. Then came the popularity of online blogs. I used to keep a livejournal when I was a teenager under the pen name "gumi_s." It was pretty much the same sort of junk I'd write in my childhood journals only it was public! And I actually had a small group of readers that consisted of close friends and fans of my deviantart account (initially, I was known as "Gucchama" then later "neo-mero" there).
Even though I've used blogs in the past, I was never really good at updating them. I'm still not quite used to the idea of all the posts being public. I had always kept journals for myself, so I could look back and see what I've accomplished and how I've grown. I wanted to be a witness to my own life. And then at 16 years old, I met Jon. We started dating when I was 17 and I guess he became my new life witness. After the first few "honeymoon" years of our relationship I saw less and less need to document everything. Probably within the last 5 years or so, I've become even worse at keeping a record, as I've completely stopped writing journals and don't even take photos. Furthermore, my memory is becoming fuzzy as I get older. I mean, I'm only 24 right now, but my memory for things was so much better when I was 20! And certainly I can't trust Jon to remember things, since he has a worse memory than I do!
So, here's the TLDR: I'm writing this to create a record for myself to see how I grow as a person and document my life. And if anyone else happens to stumble across this and find any of it useful or entertaining, then I'm happy to help!
