First Blog. Ever.

Oh, man. I am about to blog. Never, ever would I have believed that I would someday sit down and write a blog. ANY kind of blog. Until recently, I was anti-blog. Truly, I was anti-technology. I refused to blog. I refused to make a space on myspace. I refused to place my face on facebook. I refused to make a peep on twitter.

Then, in March 2007, I took an RN contract position in Bakersfield, CA. My husband and two kids stayed in Ohio while I jaunted off for nearly 4 months. My dad and I drove cross-country to get me to my destination. Along the way, we stopped and touristed and I had some great photos I wanted to share with my loved ones so far away. Email? I spent a weekend in San Francisco and wanted to tell everyone about my trip. Mass email? I made new friends in the ER I worked but was sad that I was only going to see them for the duration of my contract assignment. How to keep up with my new friends? Hmmm...

Many of my new friends had myspace pages. I begrudgingly started a page. I was almost upset at how much easier it was to keep up with my friends, especially when I returned to Ohio. One year later, when we moved to Los Angles for my husband’s first new job assignment, I was glad I had given up on the anti-technology. I started a facebook page and have never regretted it. Now my mother no longer hounds me for photos of the kids (sorry, Mom!). I can keep up with all my old friends and new friends no matter where we go or move. In fact, I still keep in touch, through facebook now, with many of the friends I made in Bakersfield. Instead of feeling disconnected, which is why I was so anti-facebook-myspace-twitter, however you want to look at it, I feel more connected.

We’ve recently welcomed our son Kellen into the world. Unfortunately, I was flat on my back with a complication suffered from the epidural for the entire first week after giving birth. Now I look back, and I can honestly say that facebook (and my beloved iPhone) was one of the things that got me through that nightmare. I was able to share photos of our new little guy with our friends and family. I was able to keep up with what was going on elsewhere with our loved ones and friends. I was able to keep in touch with the outside world during a time in which I couldn’t be a part of it.

So, here I am starting my first blog. No idea how well this will go, but I am so much more open to it as an positive outlet than I was before. What a perfect way to wander with my thoughts as we wander around the world.