Hello world!

Why bother changing the default title? I think it works quite well, actually.

Where do I start? I’ve never blogged before. I suppose that my first post should make sense of the asinine header I’ve selected. 

My life’s always been a little crazy. In the days before reality TV, my friends would joke around and tell me that my family could be filmed and put on TV. My teen years were insane. One particular friend likened it to a sitcom. I never really understood that. Perhaps a little “Everybody loves Raymond” combined with “Married with Children.” Now that I’m older and married and have my own family, it’s pretty similar to “King of Queens.” The striking similarity that my old life has to my teen life is that it is a tad like a sitcom – just not as funny.

Bad things happen to me. Good things happen to me. Life happens to me. It’s easier to look at the bad times and consider your life a gigantic sitcom, no? One day, it will pick back up and be filled with canned laughter from your studio audience. It can only be awkwardly terrible for only so long.

That’s kind of my view on life.  Only with me, there is never any writer’s strike and there’s never a break. It’s always on, 24/7. It really wouldn’t make Network TV because of my horrible filthy trucker-mouth. I’d have to go on HBO or Showtime. Minimal violence, Adult language.

The issue that I’m going to have with blogging is that there is always a giant back-story. I can never tell anything without going into this overly-long diatribe about what happened to preface my story 10 years ago. Since this blog will be about my family, my friends, my life’s woes and WOO-HOOs, it’s kind of hard to explain with no back-story. Alas, here I go. I’ll keep it brief.

I’m 24. I’m married. I live in a tiny town in New England. I’ve lived within a 10 mile radius of this town for my entire life. I had two kids by the time I was 20. My son is 6, and will be referred to as E. My daughter is 4 and is hereby known as Fi (which is pronounced Fee, for what it’s worth…). My husband and I have been married for almost 2 years. He’s Mr. W. I dont’ think anyone else is worthy of nicknames, but I guess I’ll have to decide that as I go, huh? I have 2 cats, Archie and Gil. We bought our first house in 2006, and we’re just living life.

Thanks for reading the longest “Hello World” entry of all time. I’ll be back when the next episode airs.