To Blog...?

This week I felt like my brain was exploding with thoughts and ideas that I am just dying to throw onto paper (I’m showing my age as a writer, because paper is now computer screen…). I absolutely love the tingling feeling of having the urge to write, and try to pounce on it when it shows up (because it’s fewer and farther between these days than when I was a kid and lived with a pen glued to my hand).  However, if I’m actually going to get writing in 2012, I’m going to have to publish it (because this is the only way I know how to handle information these days – stupid facebook).  So I finally bit the bullet and made my own blog.  WHAT. I know.  I remember my friend Little Eric complaining way back in like 2004 about how this crazy stalker girl “overtly blogged about him” - I asked what the HECK a blog was.  My first reaction when he explained: what a stupid idea; what an attention grubbing weirdo! Back in the day where I actually wrote proper long emails and talked to all my friends on the phone all the time, it did seem completely showboaty, attention-grabby and ridiculous. Eight years later, having these feelings dulled by the facebook era, coupled with feeling the urge to write and knowing how much I enjoy reading my friends’ blogs (all 2 of them) I actually feel like this could be a nice way to stay better connected with friends, near and far.  Of course if the series of (true) stories I’m planning on posting featuring two young, bright, professional 29 year old blondes who fall into ridiculous hijinx including being attempt-punched by random men on the street and being dragged along the ground headfirst by dog leashes on MULTIPLE occasions (that would be my bff Dawn and myself, respectively) ends up with any sort of following - well that would just be a perk!  I realized last week I honestly have enough “crazy sh*t that happens to Dawn and Kristyn” stories to fill a novel.  I hope Dawn doesn’t mind – I forgot to run it by her. Lol.  In addition, I’ve been transcribing my high school diaries (for fear of losing them in a fire, and, admittedly, enjoying revisiting a (different kind of) awesome time in my life) and I swear there’s a Twilight-esque series in there – minus the vampires, but rife with fantastic, gripping teen drama and heart wrenching moments!  So who knows what will fall out of my head, and I can only dream about where it might go. I hope like most New Year-fuelled initiatives this one doesn’t fall by the wayside. And I hope you’ll stay tuned!

Pertinent stats about me:

Name – Kristyn

Age – 29 (and planning on turning 29 again for the next 10 years at least)

Hometown – Scarborough, Ontario

Home – Guelph, Ontario

Significant Other – Jeff.  Boyfriend: Oct 2007 – Oct 2010; Fiance: Oct 2010 – Oct 2011; Husband: Oct 2011 – forever. J

Style notes:

I struggle all the time at work with writing too colloquially and with certain style issues because of how much I enjoy free association writing where the thoughts in my head virtually pour onto the page. It’s not always pretty.  In my head and in conversation, I frequently start sentences with And, But and So. And I like it. So I’m not going to sensor that.  But I hope it doesn’t bug anyone too much (since I’m sure the following of this blog is already in the millions).  Oh that all felt really good.  Also I’m bracket crazy (I freaking love brackets). Disclaimer done (promise)!