It Starts

Well my friends, it seems that the blogging world has managed to rope another one of us in. After being an avid reader of my sister and her friends' blogs, I decided that perhaps I should have one of my own. This I decided yesterday. At around midnight. I am one of those people who, once a project is underway, I have a hard time leaving things unfinished. So, without prior knowledge of how long it can take to design your blog template, I began my blogging journey:

At first it seemed pretty easy since there is the new template design feature; but, I run mozilla on my computer and for some reason it does not like this nifty feature. I played around with the idea of then downloading google chrome on my laptop, but decided against it since, well, its just a little guy and I did not want to run the risk of something bad happening and all of my thesis work going kaput. So, I thought instead I would search for free templates elsewhere. 

After rummaging through what seemed to be thousands of "just okay" templates, I saw one that I could maybe use. Once I saved it, and tried to put in the html codes and all that good stuff, it just wasn't working right...and looked just plain stupid. So, I went on the hunt for another. This one said, "EASY TO USE!," "No codes needed to change the different features!" so I figured I'd giver a go. I saved it, and uploaded it, and BAM! hmmm... not really what I thought it would look like...let's try going back to the site and reading the hints! When I got to the site and tried to implement these so- called hints, things were not matching up. The tab I was supposed to go to does not exist. Now, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that this was possibly a tab in the older version of blogger...but at this point, was not helpful to me. Feeling a little defeated, I thought I would maybe switch computers to see if this template design might work on my dad's computer...

...what do you know?! IT DID!! WOOT! A new surge of energy came over me, and I was off! After possibly 2 more hours of playing around with every feature and background and picture and font and- well, you get the point..I was finally FINISHED! It was now approximately 3:50AM...so, I decided my first blog was going to have to wait.

Now here I sit, at 2:50AM the following day writing my first blog. As I mentioned before, once I start a project, I cannot stop it. I chose to start on a painting for my Aunt's Christmas present, and after fiddling with it for the last couple hours, I am finally happy with it. You will get to see the process in tomorrows blog. I realized it was way late, but, I as determined to get my first blog done before sleep...

So, here it is! My first blog! I hope it was as good for you as it was for me.