here we go...

So livejournal isn't doing it for me. It's sort of a trivial difference, I suppose, but somehow a "blog" seems so much more sophisticated than a "livejournal." It's like the difference between a diary and a journal: the first seems so much more gossipy, me-centric, something you'd hide under your bed and hope your brother didn't find; the second sounds like something you'd whip out during your travels in Europe so as to jot down your always-interesting observations, perhaps with the end goal of later collecting your recorded thoughts into an award-winning novel. A blog, then, is the post-journal step: something bigger than yourself, something of import, something that goes beyond the simple recording of thoughts and treads closer to the award-winning novel.

I know. I'm not fooling anyone when I say that a blog is going to be any better written, more important, or somehow more sophisticated than a livejournal, yet I still think it's the next step. It's a move away from the ridiculous "community" of livejournal. I don't want to show up on friends pages, I don't want my words to be something that show up differently depending on who's viewing it. I want this to be my blog; check it if you will; comment if you will (I hope you will); think about it (and tell me what you think about it); take it or leave it.

Sadly, it's still google operated and not nearly as cool as something I own myself, but maybe that will come later. In the meantime, this is where I plan to be writing (when I write:) As for the title, it comes from a thought that was echoed, ironically enough, on the wrapper of the Dove chocolate I just consumed: "happiness is celebrating the little things." I don't imagine that this blog will necessarily be full of little things that should make you, oh remote reader, happy, but it is something that I try to find for myself in life. And as a reflection of life (only, like I said, much more sophisticated:), it seemed like a fitting blog title. But that's enough. More to come...