Welcome. My *2010* is HERE.

Hey, reader.

It's the first Monday of the year.

Fifty-one more to go.

(picture found at weheartit.com)

Well, my *2010* is HERE.

(I guess you already new that.)

Let me talk a bit about what's happening-happening.

My name is *Amanda*.

This is my first BLOG ever.

I never really *got* BLOGs or what they meant or

why anyone would want to have one.

With my 25th birthday occurring this past November,

I began to feel an incredible urge...

the need to write

to take pictures

to share

to create

to draw

to paint

to scrap

to explore

to appreciate the world more

to love

to hug

to kiss

to smile

and to laugh,

and even cry, if I needed to

SO HERE I AM!!

Does that make any sense??

No?

Read on. :)

Just a little after my 25th birthday, I *stumbled*

(as I believe we do upon most of life's enchantments)

on this magazine.

I was mesmerized by what I was reading...

I was reading about these women who - some time ago - had felt just what

I was feeling above and did something about it:

made a BLOG.

By reading their BLOGs and clicking on the links

to BLOGs that they loved

and clicking on the links to BLOGs that *those* people loved...

...it's like a never end source of inspiration and motivation.

And there's so many different *kinds* of BLOGs!

There are those by women closer to my age

who are on the verge of or have just gotten married.

They talk about love, life, beauty, art, simple things, and complicated things.

I relate.

Then

there are those BLOGs by women older than me

with children - the most beautiful children,

each and every one of them, that I have ever seen - and a house

and with a husband or without one.

*They* talk about love, life, beauty, art, simple things, and complicated things...

...and...most fantastically...

...I relate.

So, reader.

My *2010* is HERE.

This is *my* BLOG.

However exciting or boring or cool or lame you find it,

HERE it is.

By reading it you'll learn more about me,

and maybe more about *yourself*.

I would tell you

topics I expect to write about,

but how would I know that??

I can speculate and say probably about

love, life, beauty, art, simple things, and complicated things.

I hope you relate.

Super-sincerely,

with a warm and jolly welcome,

*amanda*

P.S. - Okay. See ya!