Off and Running…

My inbox is full of emails with words like “bluehost” and “mojo” and “wordpress”. Apparently that’s because I’m officially a blogger now. I’m also the girl who started using Instagram last year. Late last year and only as a tool to motivate myself to run more: #runtoscotland. Nevermind that I lived an ocean away and that running was only going to get me so far. Along the way I gained followers (just enough to feel that I had an audience, but the kind of audience that you have on one of those small, intimate coffeeshop stages); however, Instagram was always just something for me to look back on as I trained for my marathon.

Enter this blog. I’m on to a new adventure and I know a lot of people will want to follow, if only to live vicariously for a few minutes. And who doesn’t want to live someone else’s life from time to time? So this blog is for you, my soon-to-be-loyal readers (read: mom). Let me whisk you away to a paradise of paella, sangria and sarcasm. But seriously, I’m here to tell the story that pictures alone just can’t provide. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but how do you know what those words are without context? So far, I’ve shared photos on Instagram and Facebook (mostly to show my mom that I am still alive); however, a short caption can only tell so much. So I promise there will be lots of lovely pictures in this blog too; however, there will also be stories, commentary, and fun facts to go with them.

I will close out this first post with my first admission of guilt: I’ve had this site set up since the middle of November. It’s now the middle of January and I finally wrote my first post. To those of you who know me well (and to myself), this is not at all surprising. The whole point of writing a blog is to make your life an open-book to your readers. I’m more of the excerpt-on-the-Barnes-and-Noble-website kind of person, the carefully selected small passage of the story that I choose to share. Or maybe I’m the summary section, full of shallow plotlines and general ideas. Either way, I’m generally firmly shut so this blog will be an adventure in and of itself.  

The first couple of entries will play catch-up for the past two months; however, once I reach present day, I aim to actually keep up with current events. There won’t be a new, exciting post every day. Let’s face it, I’m in a different country but this isn’t a year-long vacation. It’s still a life full of hard work, odd-jobs or quick fixes around the apartment, and worrying about what I want to be when I grow up. I may have traded the snow for sunshine but I haven’t traded reality for fantasy. My feet are still firmly planted in the ground, there’s just no snow around them.

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