In The Beginning

My life is exciting sometimes, I swear. But today was definitely the most uneventful day of the year.

Yeah, that was a pathetic stab at humor, I know. But pathetic humor is better than no humor. Right? Humor me.

How did 2009 start for me? Let's see. I got up around 10:30 this morning. Okay, that's not quite accurate. I WOKE up around 10:30 this morning. Not too bad, since I didn't get home 'til 4:30. Except then I went back to sleep. I woke up again around eleven and told myself I was awake for real. I didn't feel tired anymore, so I was pretty sure it would work out. But I didn't have much to do, you see, because I am sort of, for the time being, a prisoner in my bedroom. Long story that doesn't fit in here, so I'll skip it, but in any case, I decided I would just close my eyes for a while and daydream. You know, imagine myself into a life I really want to be living. That lasted around four seconds before I found myself waking up yet again, an hour later. I went through that cycle a few times before I finally turned on my computer around two-thirty. Yahoo, MSN, MySpace, and Skype, I can stay awake for.

Things I intended to do today: pay some bills, do some laundry, clean up a little, install my new printer, get some writing done for Large In Charge, work on the manuscript I am editing, have dinner, play Scrabble, and start a blog. What I did: went to Pizza Hut and had dinner (while I finished reading the January issue of Cosmo and not while I edited the manuscript, contrary to my plan), played Scrabble (while I ate chips and salsa, Hershey's Candy Cane Kisses, and chicken noodle soup, also contrary to my plan), and started a blog.

But I didn't cry today, so I will consider today a day of good beginnings. I have embarked upon the adventure of a new year with, so far, no tragedies. And I started a blog.

My mind, not so differently from anyone else's, I suppose, works in deliciously random ways. We'll see what tomorrow brings.