Hiking at night?!

At first thought, the sound of a night hike during the first week of January sounded like not much good. It sounded cold, snowy, and a bit crazy. The reality of the hike was, it was amazing. It was nothing too hard, but beautiful and very enjoyable. I highly recommend it.


On a different note... I vaguely remember people posting something uber exciting on their 100th post---I am not sure what but, this is my 100th post and it is not exciting. It took me exactly 2 years to get to it ... pretty pathetic ... but I made it.

link...

If I am a link on your blog could you possibly just list my first name. I am not sure what it is, maybe it is just more pleasing to the eye to have two words written, or with just one first name it is hard to remember who I am, but it seems as a single human in the blogging world the list of "blogging buddies" looks something like this---

________ & _________
________ & _________
________ & _________
________ & _________
________ & _________
Julia (my last name)
________ & _________
________ & _________
________ & _________

Trust me I would like it to appear like the rest of those on the list as well, since it doesn't--would you either make someone up or possibly just list my first name?! I try not to worry about things like this too much, but since my blog is not private I am trying to be a little bit more careful. THANKS

The Blog

Not that I need to announce this in any way, shape, or form... because if you are reading this you are full aware, but, my blogging has gone down hill really fast. As a matter of fact I think half of my blogging efforts are me writing about not writing. I so love the blogging idea, in theory, I am just not very good at it. With that in mind...I am going to give it an effort to be better, if for no other reason than that I have never kept a journal for more than a short period of time and am trying to become better at it. As I look at my journals from when I was young, I would write consistently for a good week or even a month and then disappear for a good month, sometimes a year, or maybe two or three. I have the all time worst memory and as I look back on things I have done in life, or try to remember how I felt or what I thought at a certain time, it would be nice to remember, at least a little bit.

Nothing and something-- all at the same time...

I was just thinking about how some people have the ability to blog about nothing at all really, but at the same time, very much so, something. This may not make sense to anyone but me, but I am amazed. More often than not that something is highly entertaining and inspiring. I, the blog reader, thoroughly appreciate and enjoy it. There is a blogging art... I think some are just gifted with it!

J.1.

Alright... so I had great hopes and dreams of this being super exciting and the anticipation high for the big unveiling of the blog but, I have come to realize 2 things

1. I am not a writer. Most people who's blogs are entertaining are super good writers.
2. I am not funny. The rest of the people who's blogs are enteraining are funny. Naturally, humor does not just flow...usually people are laughing at me not with me. And if I try to be funny-- it is that awkward.... should we giggle question-- cause ya know I am trying, it is just not working out.

So, this here blog is my personal attempt to be a better journal keeper. As of right now if anyone really wanted to read anything I have written about my life there would be little to no documentation. I set the goal for J.1. and hope to be successful. The other goal for J.1. was to chop my hair... that is not happening. Bottom line... I am a wimp.

Game on, let the blogging begin.