Here I go again on my own!

Greetings, reader--so glad you stumbled upon my newest blogging endeavor. I'm not sure how you did it, but I'm impressed, and I'm flattered.

Previous to this I had a blog entitled Just a Seminary Wife, which was mainly about living on a seminary campus with my grad student husband, Aaron, and all of the excellent seminary adventures we embarked upon. I realized as I published posts though that I have a lot more interests that I'd love to explore by utilizing this fine medium but wasn't sure how they were all that relevant to seminary lifestyle; so the more I tried to force the posts in that blog to stick within a particular niche in my life, the less I desired to write in general. Then I got a full-time job, experimented with other blogs, then moved off-campus anyway. 

So here we are. 

My name is Christie, and I, at this present time, work in the office of a therapeutic day school and clinic while my husband Aaron is in his 2nd year of a Master of Divinity program. We live in Chicagoland by way of the Pittsburgh area of Pennsylvania, and I'm learning to love all of my little communities here, including my immediate neighborhood, my church, and the campus where I still participate in wifey things. 

In this silly little blog, I hope to do the following (and you are welcome to yell at me if later posts are lacking in any of these things):

• Write creatively, intentionally, and regularly: Writing is a skill I have always dabbled in, and it is the skill I have in which I am most confident; it would be a shame to let myself get out of practice, and keeping this practice public will keep me more accountable. I hope.
• Share interesting things with you: I pretty much love everything, but sadly I don't take the time to research in depth the things I'm interested in. I'm convinced that I'll write better if I read and study more often, and the more I devote my time to this, the more interesting my posts will turn out to be.
• To share bits of my life...: I have a problem, though it may be minor (correct me if I'm wrong), with being a closed book, in a sense. If I think something that is happening or has happened in my life that I think will be uplifting to others, then I want to be more willing to share it.
• ...but not for a minute take myself too seriously: I reeeeaaallllyyy hope to develop more of a sense of humor in my writing. 
• Finally, to address the fact that there are a lack of blogs out there devoted to desert-wandering scaly anteaters and breakfast foods: Consider this sad sorry situation rectified.

Did you make it through all of that? You're certainly a trooper.  :)

Until next time, crazy kids!