Ok so this is my first blog and this is my first post. Has anyone been in the same boat as I have, or did you all know right from the get go, what you were going to say and how you would start your blog?

Geez Louise, I have researched, read blogs, started writing, then quickly erased, and now writing again (which I may erase this too.. stay tuned). So after all that, I decided that I should write about what I am stressing about which is writing the VERY FIRST POST on my blog. I know it shouldn’t be that big of a deal but for me… it is.

My husband has tried to be very helpful as he seems to think I should ‘spill the beans’ about every skeleton in my closet. “That will bring people to your blog” he says to me. “Yes, hunny I am sure it will!” is my reply. It’s not that I don’t agree with him, because I do! I have lots of juicy gossip, crazy stories that would make you gasp out loud or spit out your coffee, but I live in a small city. If you live in a small city and you are reading this, Enough said, right? You already know exactly what I mean.

If you don’t live in a small city,WELL, let me tell you. First, let me start by saying, everyone knows your great great great grandfathers sisters mothers cousins wife.. and it will always end up that you are related somehow, I repeat ALWAYS. When you meet someone who is 50 years or older, the second question they will ask you after asking your name is, “Who is your mother or father and what is their last names and who is their parents?”
Now on the off-chance that you are not originally from this city, after they have asked you these questions and you proceed to tell them that you are not from here, the conversation will be brought to an abrupt awkward halt. In most cases they will not even ask you where you are from or continue any kind of chit-chat.. that convo my dear, is just plain over.

So, that’s just a little glimpse to growing up in a small city. Now onto what would happen if I aired all my dirty laundry on here. It would go something like this:
From the moment I hit “Publish” it would be like a ‘sitting duck’ just waiting for 1 of the 40,000 people who live here to get word of my published blog. Once someone heard of it, it would take all of 10 minutes before they were searching for it. It would then take another ten minutes for it to go viral (and by viral I mean .. in my little city). I would then either receive a text in the next 15 minutes, a phone call, or I would show up for work the next day and have my first client begin to talk to me about what she had heard about me.
Things spread so fast in a small city when you know practically everyone. I swear, people know stuff about me that I don’t even know about me.

Then what would happen is my story would be stretched way out of proportion and the gossip would begin. If I were to liken it to something, I would liken it to the game ‘Telephone‘. Do you remember that game? Where you all sat around in a circle and someone told the first person a secret and by the time it got to the last person it was not even close to what the first person had originally said. Yes, well, imagine playing that game with 40,000 people.
I know you are probably thinking, “Ok you’re not that important, I’m sure not everyone is interested in your life!” True, I am not that important, but in a small city.. Yes, yes my friend, EVERYONE IS INTERESTED IN EVERYONE’S LIFE!!! I know things about people, I shouldn’t even know, and I have never even met them.. and so goes it in my small city.
So that being said and as I bring my DREADED first post to an end. I will eventually end up writing about some ‘skeletons’ because I think ts important to share where we have come from and how we have come through certain situations in our life. I want this blog to be journey for me in my life as I relive past years events and todays treasures, but also maybe, just maybe, I could share an experience with someone who needed to hear what I had to say at that moment. After all, we go through things in life so that we can be better people, but the real joy is when we can help others by sharing our life with them.

Cheers!