this is my maiden voyage on blogger. i've been blogging on xanga since 2002, but my xanga has long since transformed itself. from inane posts in 2002 that highlighted what i had done, or not done, in a day as a young girl, to pithy and cryptic posts in 2008 that underscore the changes a person goes through in their adult life, that blog has become a place more for poetic and nostalgic writings than opinion and mundane pieces, an unspoken hush cast around its html that, for me at least, makes it a rather sacred place reserved only for what i need to express in a certain way. this place, however, will be where anything and everything goes, a more "grownup" place, if you will. because as much as it's hard to swallow at times, grownup-hood has more than ushered itself in, and that comes with as many responsibilities as it does privileges.
heaven forbid that means that life becomes boring. all it signifies is that those self-same responsibilities that accompany all the good stuff mean that everything is more contrasted, stark, and meaningful. i want to be able to look back on this time in my life, and, whether i laugh or cry at myself or not, see what this person thought, what she loved and hated, what she wanted to change and how she changed it. how her passions developed and took action. a way of keeping tabs, of watching the notches on the doorpost of life to see if it all measures up. because measurements are simply a way of knowing, of tracking, so adjustments can be made.
so on this, my maiden voyage, being grown-up means a facelift, ie this blog. here's to what's in store.
