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Last spring I participated in an Onsite visit to a local high school with other educator types to evaluate the quality of services and programming offered to the students at that school. It was sort of a big deal. Lots of administrators and State Department of Education representatives. The nerd in me loved it...even though I consider myself a counselor in teacher's clothing ( more on that later...) At any rate when I was there I was wearing a gorgeous gift from my friend (soul mate) Karrie that caught the attention of one of the participants. It was a silver necklace with a small nest filled with three tiny blue fresh water pearl "eggs". The woman said that she recognized it as her daughter's work. I was thrilled because I wanted to get a tiny version for my daughter. She directed me to Lindsey at Yankee Girl Designs who makes these beautiful things...
Needless to say we e-mailed and she created a beautiful match for our mom-daughter nest necklace set. Lindsey is also a very whitty girl. Her blog had me in stitches and I even made my hubby read her entries. That was my first peek at a blog and I was hooked. Many hours later and after disappearing down the design rabbit hole I was completely hooked. In preparation of counless hours of free time when I finish grad school in May, I decided to build this blog. Maybe when the time is right, I will even let someone see it.

What will be the topic? Hard to say. Lots of fluff, some conviction, occasional rants and many obsessions. This energy has got to be channelled somewhere because the design, travel, entertainment budget is not endless and a girl has just got to create.

Who will want to read it? Harder to say. I have spent countless hours on a school counselor internship discussion board and have been told by my class mates that they enjoy my virtual yammer, look forward to it even. I did find I had to edit many of my thoughts due to sensitive political views so I look forward to "mind dumping". That said, my philosophy has always been to make anything I write, whether a research paper or self reflection to be at least as entertaining as a GQ article. That being my standard, I have already annoyed my target reader- Me. I hate blogs with too many words. I prefer pictures. So note to self..."Be brief".

Dear Hubby will keep an eye on it just to make sure I use spell check. (Sometimes, I may just throw caution to the wind and write with unedited abandon just for the spontaneity of it all.) My lovely sister will probably be my most loyal visitor, whenever my darling niece and nephew allow some surf time. Beyond that I canot say. So here goes nothing.