All you need to know....

....about me. For the now. Obviously, you will learn more later.

These are the facts:
1. <-----This is me. I'm 25 years, 4 months, and 15 days old. Today. I do not think I am a very funny person. (although, i do have a sense of humor) But I am right all the time. (ask my roommate!)

2. I have one younger brother. He's smarter than me. He's figuring out how to cure cancer. (No, really. He is. He told me.)

3. I was an art major. I take pictures. Someday I'd like to take pictures and get paid for them. (most of the pictures in my blog have been taken by me......unless they're of me. then they were probably taken by a friend. such as the one posted to the left).

4. I live in Montana. I moved here to be a ski bum last winter. I liked it here. I made friends. I did fun things. I didn't leave. (...at least not yet...)

5. I don't have a job....currently. Being that I am a self-proclaimed ski bum (let me clarify here: i snowboard. but i did start out skiing. i skied for 14 years before i switched.....i still call it skiing. deal with it.) it kind of comes with the territory. That is not to say that I haven't had a job since I got here. I've had 3 actually (though, i don't really count one of them. my last one was by far the best job i've ever had. wanna know what it was? i was a zip-line guide. yeah. jealous? you should be. basically, i did this all day ------------------->
AND got paid. i was outside all the time, and in between tours i got an hour break in which i didn't have to clock out. sweetest gig on the mountain FO'-SHO'! also: i'm on youtube.......but it's not a very good video of me...) Anyway I only have a job when the mountain is open. Right now: the mountain is NOT open. (you can still go up there, of course. the mountain itself is not closed, just everything on the mountain is closed........except the front desk)

6. I have two fish.

<------ Mr. T

Dahlia ------>

i got Dahlia two days ago. she hasn't eaten any food. she'll swim to the food like she's hungry, but then snubs it. since i'm pretty sure females don't have a special brand of Beta food they like to eat...i'm hoping that she'll eat when she gets hungry enough. unless anyone else knows something i don't........

7. I like to be active......snowboard. (i just bought a new one!) hike. camp. backpack. play sports. (i was totally a jock in high school) exercise. kayak.........basically anything outdoorsy, and I'm there.

8. I can't decide which season I like best, and it bothers me. I feel like it's a cop-out saying "all of them." But it's true!
Fall = leaves changing colors, snuggling in cozy blankets listening to the wind and the rain, wearing layers (i LOVE layers!....and snuggling)
Winter = snowboarding. 'nuff said.
Spring = things starting to turn green again, bright blue skies, spring rains (which mean puddle jumping!), flowers
Summer = warm nights, skirts & tank tops, dinner outside, camping/hiking/swimming in the lake

9. I LOVE dressing up. Not dressing up like putting on a pretty dress and being all fancy (which i also do like). But, in this case I mean like dressing up like C-O-S-T-U-M-E dressing up.

picture 1:
Vegas party.

picture 2:
Disco party.

10. I like randomness. Platypus.

Starting a "Blog"? How to be successful:

Ha. Like I really know.

Starting a blog is such an awkward thing. You can't really just jump right into it.

FIRST (after figuring out how to set it up....at least far enough for you to actually post your blogs, which I think I have done) you have to decide what kind of blog you want: serious, humorous, cynical, one chronicling your life events and daily thoughts, a social commentary on what's happening around the world, etc. (i see this one as being slightly cynical, self deprecating, hopefully sometimes humorous, but also a little serious at times, but definitely not boring......ok.....probably a little bit. but I'll try to keep it at a minimum.)

NEXT you have to make it known in your FIRST blog what your intent is. Your mission. Your goal. How you are going to (single-handedly, of course) change the world with your blog. (which, at the moment, i have no idea what that is. no. thats a lie. i do have the goal of becoming a better and *slightly* more creative writer.....though i'm still set in the old-fashion ways of thinking that in order to be a successful writer you must use a pen and paper, and that blogging on the internet is NOT going to make me a better writer.....but we are in the 21st century now, so what the hey, right?)

THEN you have to talk about yourself (because what's the point of blogging if you don't tell, nay, SHOW everybody just how awesomely-rad you are? Right?) Also, who wants to read a blog about someone nobody knows about? BOOOORRRIIIIINNNGGG. (i think I'll wait on this section though. i don't want to dilute my awesome-ness by making it share with my first post on the What, Where, Why's of my first blog. my awesome-ness deserves its OWN blog. yeah. i said it.)

FINALLY you need to get a cult following (the number of people reading your blog directly correlates with how cool/awesome/popular you are....and the reason you have a blog is so that other people can also comment you how cool/awesome/popular you are......even though you already knew that) My problem is that since I am so deeply ashamed that I'm actually succumbing to the ways of blogging, I am going to vehemently deny, deny, deny having one....which will result in finding it difficult to create a following. (catch-22, eh?)

All that being said, where do I start now? Generally the beginning is a good idea. But, being as that was a loooong time ago and would take too much time (as well as be slightly boring for most).....I won't start there.

Another good place to start (I think, anyway) is with the question "Why?"......so maybe I'll start with that:

Why have I decided to jumped on the blogging bandwagon?
Answer: I've been putting it off thinking I was too good for such a narcissistic waste of time. I mean, really, 1) I already know how awesome I am, why do I have to blog about it and make other people tell me as well? 2) I have a life. Blogging is for the pathetic loser with no job who just sits on the couch all day with nothing to do but play around on the internet checking facebook every 10 minutes to see if anybody has posted anything new on my wall yet (which they haven't). And 3) being that I have a life, I am much too busy doing things to blog about them.

Then I thought about it and realized.....what am I thinking?! I don't have a life. Or a job (at the moment, anyway). As much as I actually do go out and do stuff, I also spend a lot of time sitting on the couch (or at the table) checking my facebook every 10 minutes to see if anyone has posted anything new on my wall (which, generally, they haven't). And as for not needing people to tell me how awesome I am.....uhh....hello!? Who doesn't like being told by everybody how awesome they are (no matter how much they already know that as a fact)?! Nobody, thats who!

So.....that brings us to here. With me. Starting a blog. So. What the hell. All the cool kids are doing it, right? We'll see where it goes.



....now if only I could figure out how this thing works.....

EDIT: I actually tried to start a blog about a year ago, but lost interest. I erased what I wrote in the blog because I thought it was stupid.....but I can't figure out how to erase the post. So now I'm stuck with this blemish. Is there anyway to completely eradicate old posts?? Please help. Thank you.