Dear Esteemed Reader,
Let me start off by saying that this post is going to be a long one. And before anyone asks, this does not mean all my future posts are going to be fifty-foot-high text walls of doom. With that out of the way, here goes nothing!
Welcome to my first post on this blog. Aaaaaand I’m going to pretend I didn’t just arrange and re-arrange that last sentence three times before writing it down. I’m also going to pretend that I didn’t just count the number of spaces at the end of the previous sentence. Boy… what an awkward start this is turning out to be.
So, I’m going to assume you’ve already read my About page to figure out who I am. If you haven’t yet and are curious, go there first. This post will be here when you come back.
Okay, now you’ve had a chance to read up on the essentials and/or grab yourself a drink, let me get down to brass tacks. I’ll quietly skim past the fact that I’m not sure if I used that particular phrase right and continue my way down the garden path… Yep, I know that one’s usually got negative connotations to it. Don’t care.
So, this is not the first time I’ve really striven to build this blog. It started back in 2007, the year my household at the time decided to step into the world of cable internet. Not that cable was the catalyst… It wasn’t, in fact. That’s just one of those odd things I tend to remember.
That particular blog went on for a while. I blogged far more frequently and was much more comfortable being my weird, naïve, rambly self. I was piggybacking off of a friends domain and happy with the fact I had the ability to write and edit posts to my liking.
Life happened up until 2010 or so, and the urge to blog began to fizzle out. Not because I didn’t want to write, but because I lacked the energy to write. I’d stopped piggybacking off my friend’s domain by then and ended up buying an admittedly expensive domain for the simple fact that the entire thing was both short and contained my entire first name. I also started piggybacking off a different friend’s hosting abilities and paying him to keep the blog up somewhere. I admittedly thought paying yearly for this domain and paying monthly for hosting would help keep the blog spark alive. That worked for a while… until it didn’t.
Fast-forward because rewinding isn’t kind in this case (oh dear… I think I just dated myself!).
Life went on for another nine years. A lot of things happened, some of which I might go into at some point. By 2019, though, the creativity candle had ignited again, yay! The problem then was that life was still blowing a lot more dirt around than I expected.
Sadly, the new blog, whose domain is the same one you’re on presently, didn’t see a whole lot of active writing. I didn’t have the heart to let the domain go, though. So, I didn’t. I let it sit where it was, happily humming away to itself on another friend’s server box. I was, strangely for me, okay with that.
Then, in 2024, the spark came again. Again, the blog had moved hosts. Again, I was paying for said hosting, thinking that it would help me stay motivated enough to keep blogging in spite of the admittedly still very windy conditions.
It didn’t.
You’d think I would have learned the first time. Seriously… does anyone learn the first time? In my experience, it usually doesn’t happen that way unless physical pain in involved. I have a story about that, actually… More on that later.
So, 2024 came and went. A few posts got put up, all of which I recently (okay, as in today) just found floating in the cloud. Hmm, what an interesting play on words.
Life happened some more in 2025, the year I changed my full name and got married and kinda decided to dive into the deep end of the entire existence of everything. By the end of that year, I’d been out of my parents house for over two years, which is honestly still weird thinking about, thanks to time being time. I had a new name, new husband, two new stepsons, moved to a new country…
Life wasn’t just blowing dirt around. It was blowing me around too! My creativity candle not only went out but got lost somewhere among the chaos. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to find it again… until now.
Here we are in May of 2026. My birthday was exactly a week ago. My husband’s birthday was three days ago. Immigration is moving along. Life is still blowing dirt around, though admittedly not quite so much as it has in the past.
Once again, despite the chaos, I have managed to relight the creativity candle, yay!
Furthermore, I seem to have managed to find a way to keep it from completely getting blown out or lost. A lot of things have had to be built and rebuilt from the ground up, absolutely; but in the process of all of that, I seem to finally have been able to build a cute little creativity cottage too! Or is it the creativity cathedral?
Honestly, given the way my brain is, it’s probably both.
Anyway, With all that said, I’m going to close this post here and see where the path takes me next. Thanks for reading!
Take care,
Kira