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So the New Year has started.  I'm not really a resolution-y type of person...I mean, if something's not worth doing on say Oct 3, why is it suddenly worth doing on Jan 1???  So, it kinda surprises me that I got this idea to start a blog for the New Year.  Though, because I'm also one of the world's biggest procrastinators, I'm actually not getting around to this until Jan 7.  And I have to admit right off the bat, I really don't have a clue how to do this. I've been tinkering around with the settings on this site, but I think what I really need is a big neon blinking CLUE sign to click on.  But I couldn't find one of those, so I guess I'll learn as I go--I count on you, my friends, to point out to me if something is really sucky.  OK?  Do we have a deal?

OK, then.  Here we go.  I'm not really sure what direction this will take.  I'm a mom, but I don't really want this to be ALL about Momhood, not that there's not enough material there (haha, you moms know what I mean and if you don't, well, really?)   I'm a wife, and yeah, there's material in that too (hopefully my poor husband will understand the occasional rant?).  I've also worked in the Mental Health field for close to 25 years (you know the old "it takes one" adage?), so maybe there's something in that.  I foresee posts (on blogs are they called "posts" or is it more appropriate to say "entries" or does anyone really give a flying crap?) on my various hobbies--cooking is a big one, as most of my facebook friends know from my "guess what I made for supper" posts.  But don't really look for many recipe recipes unless they're links to other sites.  I fly by the seat of my pants when I cook and am very much the add a bit of this, then a bit of that, stir, taste, add more of that, taste, taste some more (this works especially well when adding wine to something!) kind of cook.  I may also write about my other interests such as gardening, hiking, geochaching (where I go by joeyandmaggiesmom--I'm SO original, can you guess the names of my kids?), canning, pole dancing (just seeing if you're paying attention! NO, not really), and a variety of other things that I can't think of right now because it's late and my mind shuts off at a certain time (and by "late" and "a certain time" I mean 10pm--to think, long ago I would just be getting ready to go OUT at that time--20 somethings, don't get old!).  Maybe I'll even learn how not to write run-on sentences with lots of things in parentheses (maybe not).

So, we'll see how this thing goes.  I think Soup describes what I want to do perfectly.  A little of this, a little of that.  Hopefully it doesn't become too boring.  If so add some wine, taste, add a little more, taste....