In the beginning...

[Taking a deep breath in and exhaling] Ahhhhh......can you smell that people? No? It's only one of the best smells there is. Right up there with fresh cut grass, roses and chlorine (it's a "former lifeguard" thing). It's the smell of a fresh new BLOG!

That's right. This is my first posting. And I feel really weird. Why am I putting my thoughts out there for anyone to read? Or, is that the beauty of it? I'll never meet the people that read my blog. Or will that be my cool "how I met my husband" story?

(At the engagement party I'm addressing a crowd of smiling faces) "Oh, it's a crazy story really. I had nothing to do while I was downloading an episode of South Park onto my iPod so I decided to start a blog. I never thought anyone would read it, let alone respond to it, and then one day I saw a comment from some guy named Kevin..." (beat as I look lovingly at my fiance, Kevin - everyone laughs) "...and I thought his comment was witty so I replied and the rest, as they say, is history." (we kiss and everyone claps...)

...Sorry. Snapping back to reality now. The whole "blogging" phenomenon really is interesting and quite fitting for me. I'm too lazy to write in a journal every night (plus, with all the typing I do all day I swear I've developed early arthritis. If I write for more than 5 minutes at a time my hands start to hurt.) and since I'm sitting at the computer all day - why not? Plus, I'm just the type of person who has enough ego to think that someone else out there would want to spend some of the few precious free minutes of their day reading about what's going on in my little life. I'm the oldest of three children. Enough said.

Let me say right off the bat that my intention for this blog is not to bore everyone (and who exactly is "everyone" again? Oh riiiiiight...me and a guy in China that's reading this) with the mundane details of my life. And it's not to get a pilot order from CBS. It's my attempt to fight the losing battle of me vs. my shrinking brain cells. I used to be smart. But the older I get the less free brain cells I have to devote to remembering the events of my life. So this "Wiary" (Get it? "Web" + "Diary"? I'm sure you're in awe of my inventiveness right now) is just to record the interesting details of my life. On the off chance that random people (or a close circle of friends I let in) are reading this I'll address my blogs to you and not myself. I promise to limit my postings to only the most newsworthy of topics (the definition of "newsworthy" is not up for debate).

So with that I say....enjoy!

(That's it for the first posting. Seriously. I have nothing to interesting to talk about right now.)