You Gotta Start Somewhere..

Well this is different.

Hello! Hello? I'm not quite sure if one should say hello in this instance. I'm talking to you, although I'm not quite sure who "you" are. Who you are doesn't matter. What matters is that you are taking the time out of your day to read this, for which I am incredibly grateful! And hopeful that you will make it a habit. And unto you, hope giver, I say, "hello".

It has personally been a weird month. I went from being as comfortable as comfortable goes, in a job I've had for two years, in a town I've been in my whole life, and with everything going well. And then I was laid off. I don't talk about it much publicly (i.e. on social media), but its a fact. And it sucked. It made me question what direction my life was going in. In a way, it made me ask myself, "Who am I?" Well I know who I am. I am a somewhat recent college grad doing nothing specific with my degree, yet using the skills I learned almost every day. Could I make better use of those skills living somewhere else? Probably, and I probably will soon. Yet that's the thing, I do not know where I will be in six months. And all of this pondering has lead me here today, to this blog, talking to you. And that excites me. Because for the first time in a long time I'm going to be doing something out of my comfort zone that could either end so poorly, or so so well.

And thus this is my first of hopefully many posts to this blog. A blog where I will talk about things that I am interested in. My passions. Things that excite me, that make me sad, or scared, or hopeful. Things that help make me, me. What are these mysterious things, you ask? They could be movies, or television shows (both of which I love many of). They could be local news stories, or big national headlines. They could even be about the 2015 World Series Champs, the New York Mets! (here's to hoping!) I plan on posting articles with my thoughts on them, or reviews to shows/movies I've watched. I might even write about a book I've read, but that would depend on me finally choosing just one book to read and finishing it before starting another.

I've never blogged before, not even in college. My mother does it, oddly enough. I have friends who do it. And I myself even frequent a couple different blogs daily, and I might even share those with you. So what I am trying to say is, this is different. This is new to me. Getting to write about what I love and am interested in excites me. And makes me nervous. But I enjoy writing, and I know if you are patient with me, and, more importantly, I am patient with myself, that this could be a lot of fun. And who knows? This could one day turn into something more.

So for all the nerds out there who aren't too ashamed to talk about comics, or for those people out there that still enjoy going to the movies, or for those who love reading books, I say to you, "hello".