The intention of remembering

For some reason, I think of great blog ideas while I'm driving to work.  Problem is when I get to work and get ready to write I can't remember what I thought of only 40 minutes back.  Ideas that swirl around my head are food product reviews(lovingWallaby Yogurt), makeup sessions (will post pictures(yay, my love of picture taking will finally have a concrete purpose!) and reviews of a fab session at Sephora with these people!)  Turquoise shadow on my lower lid, what, and other news ideas that I feel compelled to speak about.  My only concern is how to make myself remember my seemingly great ideas when I'm in a space to start writing.  

Many ideas floating through my head.....

• My allergist has all but demanded I return to the candida diet.  I did it once last September and had I not cheated it probably would have had a better effect.  It's hard to change my dietary habits but seeing what white flour and processed sugar are wreaking havoc on my body I know it's the best thing for me to do.  Willpower...willpower.  Never been my strong suit but I can't let something like food win against my health because I wasn't strong enough to treat my body better.  
  
  
• How to keep in touch with childhood friends.  This year, I suffered through the loss of my first best friend ever.  Due to complications from a disease that she was born with ( a disease that led to her mother’s death less than 5 years ago) she passed on in March.  Somehow, after changing churches, changing schools, heading to college and various other reasons she and I fell out of the constant communication we had.  For reasons that I'm sure I'll need to go into later(for sanity purposes) I’m hyperaware of my need to keep in touch with friends that I made when I was in kindergarten.  For 8 years these people and I attended school, church and many extracurricular activities together.  Special people that are a part of my family.  It hurts to remember my friend.  It hurts because all she ever wanted was for all of us to keep in touch.  Whew, just getting that out was emotional enough for me.  I know my heart is telling me to keep writing to get it out in some form of space which will allow me to process and I will, I will.  Just not now...
  
  
• I know I had more but bullet about my friend has winded me.  

I know that if I'm going to have any success with this blogging thang I'm going to have to keep a small pad in my handbag to jot down my ideas. Additionally, I will have to come to terms with emotional parts of my life that I have compartmentalized. Well, this certainly will be some sort of adventure!

I'll have my first picture post coming up soon!  

The restart button-- Why a fresh beginning?

I guess the bug for a post, a blog, a something hits around August.  For some reason, this year, more than ever I feel like I want to have a blog that has continuous posts about something meaningful.  I've found a lot of great information in blogs.  Some of my best makeup advice came from blogs.  Inspiration, frustration, and motivation as well.  I like google reader ;)

A little history....I was never really into blogs before October 2007.  Fresh college graduate with her first job, I spent enough time on the internet browsing through articles, checking facebook(and at that time myspace) without venturing into the world of blogs.  To me, they are all the epitome of emo diary hawkers.  I had tried to have a personal blog in high school and failed--miserably.  I should also add that I can't keep to a paper journal no matter how hard I try.  I'm digressing.

The 3 Main Reasons


Back to October 2007.
A month and a half into my job I was involved in an accident that kept me out of work for 3 months.  Enter recouping at home after tv has long become boring and redundant....I found a beauty blog that became interesting.  So much so that I read all the archives.  Ms. Tia Williams  had intrigued me.  From there I moved to following Ms. Patrice.  Finding this lovely lady was the result of an afternoon clicking spree.  Loving their chic wit and amazing finds in the world I wondered what else was out there.  After getting engaged I found a ton of wedding blogs, SCORE!  I started to think what I could share with the world.  

Since that time I've become friends with an amazing blogger...Ms. Allison Jones.  Seriously, click on her.  She's one of the people that you just know is going to blow up big.  When she does I can say "I knew her when..."  Thanks to this diva of extraordinary proportions I was able to attend some awesome non profit wonders this past year and become introduced to movers/shakers such as her and her.  An amazingly talented friend of mine, Giselle Stern Hernandez hooked me to women who were spilling their lives, emotions, and struggles into the universe to effect change.  Learning more about Echoing Green and Do Something got me to thinking about blogging on my own.

I love food.  Recently, I've been exposed to the multitude of food blogs out there.  Seriously, I had no idea people blogged about food...and HEALTHY food at that.  ::Swoon::  Today, I subscribed to a bunch of healthy food blogs.  I know it's time for me to blog....This weekend I was at a family dinner and an appetizer of amazingness was delivered--calamari covered in a balsamic vinegar reduction with tomatoes.  Sort of a bruschetta calamari.  WHOA!  After taking a bite the first thing I wanted to do was whip out my camera and take a picture to document.  But document it and put it where, for what?  I held back on grabbing my camera for two reasons : a) I didn't have a blog at the time and b) I really don't need my family giving me more weird looks than I already get.  Ya dig?

I know I have something to say, something to add, something to express.  Here's my start to creating a meaningful and lasting mark of my thoughts, beliefs, etc.  Welcome....again ;)  Any ideas you want to hear about--let me know.  I promise to keep it going.