I'm back baby!

So, it's been a little while since I last posted, despite daily twangs of guilt.  I simply have nothing to write about,  I thought blogs were supposed to be for people with cool news to report.  But if I blogged like that this would turn out to be another half assed, half finished project, and I hate those.  Thus, I've decided to use this as maybe a little online diary for the world to read (even though the very vast majority will not).  My life isn't interesting enough to make it anything else.
Thanks for the advice from those of you who left it!  I will take you all up on it and just write.  It turns out that the value of a blog is not found within it's image, but rather its substance?  Who woulda thunk it?  (By the way, I didn't get a little red warning misspell squiggle under the word "thunk", which must mean that it is a real word- who woulda thunk that?)
I've just finished reading Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.  I should probably be a little embarrassed that I've only just read it, as it has become the defaulted "great, life changing, hilarious and utterly sad" book that simply everyone says that I simply must read.  I admit that I find myself shying away from things like that naturally.  Not great things, but things that everyone says I simply must do.  Harry Potter.  That was another one. ( i got a little too attached to the characters and stopped reading them mid series because I couldn't take it when they started dying.  I am such a wuss)  But it really was great, and it really was life changing (kinda, a little) and it was hilarious and it was utterly sad in some parts.  I couldn't help but not love the ending though.  I wont give it away, but to my mind it left something to be desired.  If anyone has read it already, let me know your thoughts on the ending.  Also, let me know what books there are that are great but not necessarily obviously so.  (Not self helpy books though, they're not my bag baby).  I am still trying to revive my poor little brain from years of reruns and no school. 

F$@^ your lame blog

So, after extensive research (and by extensive I mean a cursory browse on the "next blog" icon on the top of my page) I have discovered that there are blogs that are WAY cooler than mine!  Holy obsessed Batman!  I'm not sure if I'm ready to commit to the hours and hours of blogging, which by the way is not simply blogging, it seems to be yet another contest to see how many gimmicks you can possibly fit onto one web page.  Don't get me wrong, some of the blogs were really awesome, and I spent a little too long on some of them probably.  I have to say I did experience a twinge o' jealousy seeing some of the other profiles out there built by people who are far more eclectic and cool than I.  So, I suppose my question would be this; (since apparently changing my font colors isn't going to cut it) how do I create a cool blog?  I would love to be able to say that I am just writing blogs to write, (a minor motivation, since despite my obvious lack of talent I thoroughly enjoy it ;) ) but I confess, I would like some validation from the vast unknown internet populace.  I was excited to see that I had actually gotten some views, until I realized with crushing disappointment  (okay, maybe not crushing, but markedly present) they were all me going back to check out my page to try to figure out how to do anything.  At first I felt rejected and despondent, but then I realized that I wouldn't read my blog, and I forgave the faceless internet strangers.  So I guess maybe I have a choice, I can spend time, and apparently a lot of time jazzying and sexying up my page until I eventually reach enough hits that I'm approached by small businesses to do a little advertising, or I can continue to write my little heart out, and the cool kids out there in cyberspace with 10,000 followers can just be damned.  I wonder what comments I wont get would have said in response to this...

I did figure out two things in my "research" by the way

1.  I don't have to sign my name at the end of each blog, I'm too cool for that now
2.  I don't know what an RSS is, but it's apparently of vital importance

The real first one

This is my very first blog.  I have no idea what would possibly make me think that anyone would ever be interested in my blogs.  I have a very ordinary life, and there is nothing interesting to report, which is why I am such a lame Facebooker.  I never update my status, I never "like" things, I'm really a bit of a ludite.  I prefer old fashioned letters and cards, and I'm too paranoid to put any real information about me on the internet (although, what the heck is anyone going to do with my identity?  Good luck getting any credit sucker!).  So, I have very little reason to blog at all.  There is however, something interesting about the idea of an online diary.  I simply couldn't resist.  Hopefully I will be as diligent as I resolved to be when I first decided to start a blog.  For anyone that happens to stumble on this, I apologize for how simple the appearance is.  I've never been a great marketer of myself.  So if my template bores you, I wont hold it against you if you give up on my blogs immediately.  Perhaps a change of font?  The font choices are rather limited I see, but they do have violet!  
Maybe I should read other blogs so I can get a good idea of what people typically put on blogs. In the meantime I will be satisfied with this post being my very first post, and hope that tomorrow's post will have a little more content!  
-Me