I have decided to blog

I have decided to start a blog. Well re-start. As you can see I have 13 posts from 2010 when I was in a gender studies class that required weekly blog posts about encountering gender in our daily lives. I am not entirely sure what I am going to write about, but I know that I want to write more. I had a professor in grad school who assigned weekly writing assignments. He did not care what we wrote about, he just cared about the act of writing. Like any activity, if you want to be good at it, you need to practice, and I feel like my writing abilities are not as sharp as they were several years ago. I go back every now and then and read my Master’s thesis and I marvel at the fact that I wrote that. Hence, I now have a blog.

My current obsession of the moment is a book called “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo. Anyone who knows my family, knows that my dad is a “borderline hoarder”. If he ever read this, I am sure he will protest and tell the story of how his step father never let him keep anything and how hurt he is that he does not have every childhood possession, but one step into his house and you will see what I mean. He is not dirty, he is just cluttered and there are boxes and boxes of stuff shoved in every corner of the house. My biggest fear in life is that my house will look like his one day, but even with that fear, I have trouble getting rid of things. I recognize this problem, but I did not know how to solve it. I needed a mindset change. Then I stumbled upon this book. It is pretty short, I read about half of it yesterday, but it is exactly what I need. The stories she tells of past clients speak to me; it is as if she knows my story exactly. Mike already finished the book and he has been ancy to start applying her method to our home. I am half way through the book and I cannot wait to finish it so I can work with Mike to apply this method to our home. She says it will take six months to really complete the tidying process, so our goal is to complete tidying by the end of the year.

Besides, tidying, my wedding is fast approaching. I am currently not feeling the pressure and stress that everyone seems to think I should. I have one friend who said she is not surprised I am so calm because that is just how I am, but it is weird that she is the only one saying that. I like to plan things out so I won’t feel stress with last minute details. I am excited and ready for the day to be here!

I feel like this is a solid first post. I do not want to put too much pressure on myself for a first post. I cannot wait to see what exciting things I have to write about!