The Birth of Blogger # 300,000,001

Apparently, I'm jumping on a bandwagon.  What I thought was a form of communication embraced mostly by Generation Y is apparently far more popular than I had originally gathered.  There are, in total, about 300 million blogs out there, though only 100 million plus are considered currently active... (insert *GASP* here).  In essence, there are almost exactly as many blogs as there are US citizens, and roughly 18,488 times as many blogs as there are Starbucks locations worldwide.  That's a lot of blogging.  

I love communication.  I should, I majored in it.  I love talking, texting, emailing, IMing, calling, and visiting.  If you know me, you are more than well aware that I'm a talker.  There's no getting around it.  When faced with a predicament, I'm not the type to bottle up my thoughts and emotions.  I'm more of a volcano, letting every thought and feeling erupt in an effort to better understand the problem at hand as well as the best way to tackle it.  (Note:  If you're a close friend, insert a HUGE thank you here for putting up with me in said times of crises).

Non-verbal communication can be just as enjoyable.  Admit it:  there are few things as fun as eye-flirting with that good-looking so-and-so across the room.  Holding hands, smiling, hugging, winking... I'm a fan of them all.  But of all forms of communication, I find writing to be by far the most enjoyable, and certainly the most stimulating.  The funny thing is, I'm not even that great at it.  I'm good, but nothing to write home about it (Ha, no pun intended...).  But, there is something about being able to sit back and think about what you're going to say before you actually say it.  Unlike with verbal communication, writing gives you all of the time in the world to properly articulate what it is that you're trying to express.

But blogging?  No.  No way.  I've always silently laughed at my friends who have them. Not in the mean "Ha-Ha!" way, but in the "How-do-you-even-find-the-time-for-that?" and "Do-people-really-care-about-everything-you-have-to-say?" ways.  Yet here I sit, writing my first (of what I can only imagine will be many) entries in my very first blog.  In the end, I'm not doing it for any reason other than to feed my hunger for writing.  And, hopefully, it will offer you a chuckle or two and give you an excuse to take that mental 10 minute vacation you need after hitting that brick wall at work.  

So I guess that's it.  I'm officially a Blogger.  Here goes nothing...