We've got to keep going...

I read an article today on CNN.com about how people create blogs and use them as a sort of group therapy. And I thought, yes, as much as my blog is a place to vent and find support when I need it, I don't write here specifically to complain about life (as the article implied most people do).

I'd like to think that my blog is a place to express myself, to recount my day, to think things through when they get to complicated, to meet new people, to post private things, to write stories, to be creative. I try not to be the emo poster, or the poster who writes that everythings swell when really it's not, and I'm certainly not one trying to make everyone like me. I'm just... a normal person writing normal things in a place where I can find them and relive them at my own pace.

I keep a handwritten journal by my bedside, where all the really personal and deep stuff goes. And sometimes, yes, that stuff does make it here. But this is the place where I can be me. I never want this to become a place where you guys are constantly writing, "Oh, Things will be okay! Keep your chin up!" Yes, when I need support I love you guys for what you give, but if you ever see this becoming a whine fest, please yell at me!

In the meantime, Steve is making bread and my belly has a smile 'cause of it! Yay!

Gabb