Oh A Little Nonsense Now And Then...

I have been extremely hesitant to start writing an online blog for the following reasons in no particular order (of which I will not explain nor go into depth about in hopes you'll just continue to wonder):

1) My own self-loathing ridicule and criticism.
2) I care mostly for nonsense.
3) Blogs, in my opinion, are rather self indulgent.
4) I don't like the templates this website offers.

Why I have decided to start this blog:

1) I promised myself I would start doing more creative things and blogging is a cheap and easy outlet. Just like hookers.
2) Bill Bryson and David Sedaris are just too inspiring. Too inspiring...is there such a thing?
3) Blogs, in my opinion, are rather self indulgent.
4) My friends keep telling me I should write. Good thing I didn't listen to them when they told me I should try Meth. (Just kidding.).

My goal for this blog is to look at every day incidences - why certain people choose Equal over Splenda, what affects a driver's decision to let someone else have the right-of-way at a stop sign, noises that make you want to throw yourself into oncoming traffic, etc. - and mold it into a bigger picture worth looking at and thinking about all the while making you laugh (or cry, whichever comes more naturally to you). As aforementioned, I enjoy nonsense and sarcasm so there should be a lot of it in here.

I don't like the use of mold in that last paragraph but it was a better choice than snowball and the shift+F7 function isn't available on Blogspot. Blast.**

Things I will apologize for in advance:

1) My common misuse of words. For example, I really wanted to use the word behest in here somewhere and just couldn't find the right spot, as in "much to my behest"...even though I'm sure that's not the correct usage. However, rather than look it up, I just wanted to guess. But instead, to save myself embarrassment (and more flack from the brother-in-law) I just decided not to use it. I hope you found this explanation useful?

2) The nonsense. Sometimes it literally makes no sense and I sound crazy. But out of crazy comes creativity. Prime example: The Soloist (Jaime Foxx's new movie about a schizophrenic dude who is the best cellist in the world...maybe this means I'm slight autistic)?

3) The fact that I'm blogging. I've caved into one of the popular 21st century vices like Pinkberry, Uggs and drinking Starbucks way too often. Whatever, at least I don't way half of a ton. I've got that going for me.

4) Offending my parents, siblings, friends, etc. through my ignorance / crude language. I try keep up with current events and consider myself somewhat well read and up to date however, after an unfortunate and rather embarrassing discussion with someone about Lebanon, Israel and the Gaza Strip I realized that I am not well read, up to date nor aware of what is going on in the world. This is also the reason I don't work in politics. Oh, and crude language can be very funny when used intermittently.

Anyway, I hope this blog deal goes accordingly...to what I'm not sure but I hope it goes accordingly. A quick shout of thanks to Mike for the title suggestion of this blog, which was an enormous area of stress for me considering the only title I've ever been happy with was one for an English paper Senior year of college that employed the phrase "saucy minx." (And another thank you to the writers of Love Actually who introduced me to that phrase...yea Post-Modernism and Hugh Grant). The "working title" title is literally a working title so if you have a better idea please tell me.












Most of my stories have no conclusive ending but every now and then I'll get it right. Thank you roommate.

So thank you for taking the time to read this blog and happy reading!

- Libby

**This self ridicule is the exact reason why I received B's on most of my written exams in college. More on that later because it's actually a funny story.