Well... I decided to open a blogger blog today (that's kinda catchy). A big question will come to my wife's mind... "If you already have a Xanga, a MySpace, and Facebook that you don't post on or use, why in the world would you decide to start posting on a blogging site that I can't link to?" Well, considering that she manages my Myspace and Facebook because she opened those accounts for me, I really only ever used Xanga =). But to answer the question, I think I wanted a simple place to just post brain dumps for myself and those interested in reading. There is a certain aura about Xanga and MySpace that you just don't get with simple bloggers. It might be the fact that the age group of people using Xanga is expected to be much younger and it seems like a child's toy more so than a professional blog. I don't intend to use this blog as a profile either where I share my entire life story with the rest of the world: pictures, profiles, friends lists, blog rings, interests, etc... I simply wanted a place to put my thoughts, and I found something like this to be simple enough. It also doesn't have all of the previous 'pseudo-friend' connections that Xanga and MySpace have. So many people just want to have as many friends as possible and if they 'know' you in any way, shape, or form they will add you to their 'friend list'. I think blogging might actually help me to organize my thoughts and maybe get my life more on track.
That being said, onto my first post.
I decided to post today because I'm super excited about moving into our new house! In two hours, I leave work. April is coming to pick me up and we're going to start moving boxes down the street. It's an awesome single family home, 4 bedrooms, 4 rooms downstairs, a basement and an extended 1 car garage. The kitchen is amazingly large and combined with the open style of the family room, and the large opening that we had put in between the kitchen and the dining room, there is so much space and breathing room! I don't want to clutter it with a lot of junk either... just enough to make it functional, which I don't think will be a problem considering the way April and I seem to mesh on things like this well. Although, she was concerned that I would be a 'house nazi' (my words, not hers), and completely take control over where things will go in the house. This isn't the case at all, but I can't blame her for thinking it. On occasion I act like I know everything, and I've always been a rather self-sufficient person, so on instinct and history, I've always tended to do things myself. A lot has changed since I met April and she's taught me (and still teaching me) to be much more considerate. Without her in my life, I'm afraid I really would be a self-centered, lifeless, lame, and lazy guy, doing little with my life.
Speaking of doing little with my life, I've felt invigorated about the recent changes in my life. Since a few weeks before the wedding, I've stopped playing World of Warcraft, and let me tell you, what a change. I find more time to focus on doing things I really enjoy in life like spending a lot more time with April, playing with my dog, 3D modeling and programming research, and just loving life a lot more. It makes me sick every time I look back and realize how much of my life I wasted on that game, and other MMOs in the past. As much as I hate to say it, it's a relief to finally do so. Once I say something like that (or blog it), it feels permanent, like a commitment, and I have never wanted to commit to the fact that I've wasted my life playing MMOs. Don't get me wrong, I'm still a gamer and I think that I always will be, but dedicating that much time to a game is ridiculous.
I seem to have gotten myself into a lot of hypocritical situations lately. Like the situation with my bachelor party, which is still hard to think or talk about. I look at people that play games all the time as losers and for a while there I did it myself.
[Ok, newsflash interruption]
Just as I was writing this post and helping some guys out at work, April called me with the disappointing news that we might not be able to move into our house because of the mortgage company's appraiser. How ironic, that I'm making my first post about being excited to move in and wham, hit with a brick. Luckily it sounds like we'll be able to physically move in, just not settle until a later date, at least I hope that's the case...
Well, I should go, I've been blowing off this stuff at work for long enough now.
