Let’s Begin

I can’t tell you how many iterations this nebulous idea of mine has seen.

I think I started my first website in sixth grade. My sister had received primo Taylor Swift tickets for her birthday. Neither of us really knew who this gal was, but we did know “You Belong With Me” (and we had ourselves quite a time screaming it at the top of our lungs). At one point Taylor made her way down through the crowd and, because we were impressed enough with her performance thus far, we yanked her over as she walked by and snapped (a horrible) photo together. Anywho, when I went to school the next day, I learned this chick was a BIG deal. Huge. And I was the only one who had a picture with her. BAM! The idea struck me. “I MUST start a blog detailing all the glorious aspects about my life - starting with this picture of me and my good ol’ friend Taylor.”

So I did it. I made a hideous yellow and blue website called thelifeofmeganito, or something like that. I started with a single post about the “best night of my life” - the night I met my idol, Taylor Swift, who I had only discovered 48 hours earlier. Then I waited, with my dad’s neglected DSLR in hand, for these blog worthy moments to keep rolling in. What I didn’t think about was the fact that the life of a depressed thirteen year old child of divorce wasn’t all the glorious. And the blog worthy moments certainly did not appear frequently. Needless to say, I never made more than the one post. I tried to delete the website years later and couldn’t figure it out so it floated out there for a while and would pop up if someone googled my name (which was horrifying to me, so I’d lie to my friends and say someone must be impersonating me… because that’s totally realistic). It’s probably still out there. But so is this story, so whatever! I probably made six or seven more websites with the same idea, including one from my freshman year of college which failed to win me any popularity points in the sorority I reluctantly joined.

And here we are again! I’m not quite sure what this is going to turn into yet. I don’t really have a plan. What I do know is: (1) I need a creative outlet, (2) you can start something just for the heck of it and not have to know where it’s going, (3) I need to spend less time on social media and more time with myself, (4) no matter how many times I tell myself I’ll kick my nightly cannoli habit, I never will, (5) that I’m damn good at shopping, and (6) and I’m probably oversharing. Let’s leave it at that and see what happens shall we?