My first Shade

Well, welcome!

I’m not so sure why I have decided to start this blogging adventure, likely because sometimes things happen that I just feel the need to tell a lot of people and this seems like a pretty good way to do it. Also to kill time while I’m at work, because even though I should be working.. I’m not – and that’s okay. (well, it’s not okay.. but it’s really okay.)

I should mention now that I do tend to write in the same way that I think, and that happens to be in run-on sentences. So as much as I think that I can’t possibly cram more things into a sentence, I manage to do it. Mostly to the annoyance of those marking or grading my writing, but if you aren’t doing either of those things then just remember to breathe – I can’t be blamed for any passing out because I don’t leave opportunities to pause and inhale.

(breathe here, in case you forgot already)

I don’t think that I am a very interesting person, but I do find myself in interesting situations often – simply because I’ve spend a lot of my life working with the general public. Now, I would say that I am a very gregarious person by nature, so talking to people and being around people is good with me (except shopping, people need to piss off when I’m trying to shop) however, to the delight of the people around me (mostly my Wal*Mart boss Krista) it seems as though the people who are just a little bit left of normal, or just a little bit past the hygiene-practice-renew date manage to find me in a seek-and-destroy type mission. I have gotten quite good at not laughing out loud or smiling at people when they say things to me that inside I just find beyond hilarious, but because of this internalisation of emotions in these situations I fear that one day I will behave very inappropriately when I find myself in another such scenario. (breathe!)

I also really enjoy the blog ‘Hyperbole and a Half’ and the fact that her stories are brilliant, and illustrated with pictures. I am a terrible artist, but maybe that is just part of the fun. So I figure – because I lack all artistic ability, can’t play an instrument, draw or paint, I’m not very good at sports and lead a fairly boring and domesticated life, the answer to the infamous question: “To blog, or not to blog?” (I paraphrased that) the answer is blog!