This is how its going to be and you had better like it

So here I am to finally tell you just how this whole website thing works for me. It may work an entirely different way for someone else but in this lies the joy of the internet: it can work any way for anyone. I want to clarify that this is just how I am choosing it to work for me.

My line of logic flows something like the following: I love my Mother and she loves me, I consider us to be close but we have a hard time keeping in touch regularly sometimes. Maybe we are bad at the phone, I don't know. Whatever it is, I would like to keep in touch better with my Mom (and other friends and family) and be better able to share with her all the lovely pictures I take and thusly feel like I was sharing more intimately the mundane details of my life.

I have wanted to start a website for quite a while but just haven't wanted it to be one of these bare-it-all, soul-screaming-in-the-cold-cold-night type deals. I figure, I share things with my website that I would generally show people I know or be comfortable showing people I didn't really know. Then I would by and large avoid all that drama and concentrate on my content. One big thing I want to do is share my love of knitting and keep track of all the things I am working on. Pictures are very important to this endeavor and I have never been a huge picture person but I figure, hell, why not try to ramp up picture taking around here? Never hurt to have some extra memories caught on film.

I've covered knitting, I've covered the pictures, so what's left? Well, 2005 is going to be a big year for me. I made a lot of New Year's resolutions that I am actually sticking to. Amazing? Yes. Totally unheard of? No, but not far from it. I swore that when Mom let me take her old sewing machine home over Thanksgiving break when Dan and I had the car, that I would learn how to use it. I haven't touched it yet but I am taking a beginning quilting class (more on that in a different post) and will eventually have to touch it. Follow me on my perilous journey to the land of sewing machine competence.

A bigger issue for me in 2005, quite possibly the biggest yet, is that I am beginning my journey towards law school. This is something I have wanted to do for a long time, since before undergraduate, and I am actually really excited about the whole process, freak that I am. I am already signed up to take an LSAT prep course to prepare me to take the test in June. I will then prepare and submit applications to schools in the fall for entry in 2006. You can wish me luck but then again, you could just read about it on my website.

Lastly, I have always wanted to stop being afraid of technology. If I have a website, I will be forced to interact with technology and I might learn a few things and I can only see that being a good thing.

I will leave you with some pictures


Pile O'Swatches


We saw the Turning Machine open for The Thermals last Thursday night 1/28/05 at the Open End Gallery at the Fulton Street Collective. Wait, I've been to a collective to see a band that noone's heard of, does that make me an artsy fartsy hipster geek? Don't answer that.


I'm supposed to limit my purchases but I have to buy things for the sewing machine. Surely I can buy its love... Note the size 6 knitting needles that will be used for my ribby cardi.