Let's try this again...
Last year, almost this exact date as I recall, I told myself I was "Taking Up" blogging for Lent or as we say in the figurative East: "The Great Fast".
Well it's taken two Great Fasts to get to blog post number two, but here I am, and there you are...whipping by in cyberspace and not actually paying attention or reading this whole blog, but who cares? Maybe the third post will come a year from now anyway, so what would be the problem if nobody read this thing anyway?
Well I'm reading it...
I'm reading as I type because this blog may actually be nothing more than my diary told with a little bit of embellishment. Truth be told, if I did put my thoughts in a diary more people would probably read it because it would be the forbidden fruit, wouldn't it? Its therapeutic and relaxing to put your thoughts down, so what do I care if I am the only person that will ever read this thing in any kind of detail?
So where were we?
I'm totally married now, and it is amazing and wonderful and quite unfathomable to the new people I meet because despite the fact that I have a very full and unpatchy beard, strangers seem to think I still look twelve. That's probably not that far off truthful as I distinctly remember shaving when I was 9 or 10 years old so maybe the 12 year old me could have had a nice full beard and still looked like a nice, sweet and angelic little guy.
I almost can't read what I wrote in my last blog entry because the holy mystery that is marriage has completely changed my worldview. In regards to the self-deprecation, I can't believe how mean I was to myself, I mean come on now, did I really believe myself to be an ugly man? Maybe I was just writing for the anonymous keyboards of cyberspace that were sure to call me ugly as sin if I mentioned any notion of being or feeling handsome in any way. Everyone knows that if you can hide behind your screen name and remain slightly anonymous you can say anything you want... Well I'm not ugly, I have come to realize that, I am handsome and desirable and chances are if you think I'm not it just means that you have different taste of perception...anyway, I have an angelically beautiful wife to tell me how to feel about my looks and my personality so I don't need your poor attitude at all.
Its good to be alive today, I'm feeling young, happy, healthy and almost worry free thanks to an active prayer life, a Vitamin B supplement, a wonderful spouse and the music of The Reason, the world's greatest band.
So here I am and there you are, I hope that I don't wait a year to blog at you again.
Mitchell
