Second First Impression

Did you know that if you write a post and then click the little preview button and find that you aren't happy with the way your post looks, so you click the little back button at the top of your browser, your entire post will be lost forever? It's true. Which is why I'm re-writing my very first post on this stupid blog and I think we can all agree, when you have to completely re-write something, it never seems as good as the original. It's like that Sabrina movie with Harrison Ford. Good, but not as good as the original with Bogart.

Luscious.

Anyhow. Sometimes I write emails to my friends and they're pretty funny. And sometimes I think to myself, "Man, I would love to share this email with others. Many others. People who agree that what I've written is funny. Then we'll laugh and laugh and laugh and maybe writhe on the floor with laughter . . . And I'll have made some new friends."

And lately I've realized that there is a huge blogging community out there, particularly a blogging community of women. These women inspire me. They write about their everyday lives. Sometimes their posts are short, sometimes long, and often they contain photos that plant a wee seed of jealousy deep inside of me because why can't I take photos of mundane things like spoons and herbs and pencils and make them look so marvelously marvelous?

I've been peeping in on this blogging community for a few weeks now and I'm starting to think I want in. I'm not going to tell any of my friends about this blog. Partly because I'm going to weed out things I've written in emails to them and transplant them into this new little garden (is that cheating?) and I don't think they'll want to do any rereading. And partly because I want to make some new friends -- some new connections -- with all these people I find so inspiring.

Here's a list of some of the people I particularly enjoy and who I try to visit a couple times a week (AKA I wile away my work hours, poring through their archives in wonderment at their creativity and originality). I hope these bloggers don't mind me putting them in here, forever implicating them in whatever my babyblog is going to morph into.

http://www.iambossy.com/

http://racheldenbow.blogspot.com/

http://therinrins.typepad.com/our_little_life/

http://thepioneerwoman.com/

http://aarynbelfer.com/

http://beanpaste.blogspot.com/