Well, this is my first post, and I wanted to introduce myself and my goals in keeping this blog. Even though I have an “about” link, or two of them at this moment (I am still figuring out WordPress), I don’t feel like that page goes far enough in explaining why I wanted to start this blog in the first place.

So here goes:

GOAL #1: I’m an abstract-random thinker, and though it is a struggle for me to nail down a set of routines, I can’t be the only one. Someone somewhere has to relate to me. I spent a lot of years feeling bad about my lack of inherent organizational talent–I still remember my first and fourth grade teachers telling my parents I was smart, but incredibly messy in my desk at school (do they still allow kids to keep things inside their desks?). I always felt like a loser in that department. However, I have now come to think of this propensity to think deeply with scattered outcomes in production as a kind of superpower. I have learned the skills of organization (and am still learning them, to be honest), but how many people struggle with thinking outside the box or letting themselves color outside the lines, or whatever other cliched idiom one can apply to deep thinkers with random patterns of behavior and a lack of routine? Could my new perspective help someone else overcome a sense of inferiority in this regard? I hope so.

GOAL #2: I wanted to show off to someone, or many someones. Yes, you read that right. Even with the gazillions of talented people on the internet, I think I have something to show off. So what’s so great about my talents? Well, I think I’m pretty well-rounded: I crochet, I up-cycle, I read, I perpetually try to lose weight and get fit, I also perpetually check out yummy pictures of food and their corresponding recipes on Pinterest–so I’m sure you can see how my life is a bit of a seesaw there–I garden, I work, I clean, I dabble with poetry…etc., etc. My point is this: I do some cool stuff…and then I do some Pinterest fails, but I always want to share what I’m learning and get pointers on how to improve. Maybe a few people will want to come along for the ride. I’m certainly up for a new adventure!

GOAL #3: While I may have a new perspective in talking myself up a good game, there are still things in my life I’d like to improve. For instance, the giant stack of old sheets and curtains that I’ve been meaning to cut into strips and wind up in a ball to make rag rugs out of, or a smaller, but equally space-hogging stack of old jeans with the same purpose. In short, this blog is meant to keep me on track with projects and home upkeep. Just because I have learned skills of organization and follow through, doesn’t mean I have always committed to them, but I’m looking to change that.

GOAL #4: I want to monetize my blog eventually. There, I said it. Right in the first post–I want to make money off of this thing at some point. So, if I ever get any followers, don’t label me a sellout, as I am being up front from the get go. I’m on a bit of a financial literacy journey as well, and some good advice says we should try to make as much passive income as possible. And while this blog wouldn’t exactly be a passive income–I mean, writing isn’t passive and neither is crafting and attempting to document all of it–it could be a way to bring in extra cash to help with retirement, because let’s be real, working my day job until 65 or 70 doesn’t sound appealing in the least.

GOAL #5: I think I’m a bit of a curator of nostalgia. I hold onto things way too long. I wrote a journal entry a while back that I’ll probably turn into a post at some point about my frustration with my habit of saving things that no longer have any use in my home, and while journaling, I realized I had a good reason for doing so. Therefore, in that sense, this blog will be self exploration and an exercise in forgiveness, or self love, or cherishing a younger self, one who struggled a great deal to get where she is today.

So that’s it. My 5 blogging goals. I hope someone out there relates to them, because…I can’t be the only one, can I?