Once upon a time, I had a blog.

I called it One Stop Weird Shoppe, based on a message I inadvertently sent to a manager at my old paper.

One Stop Weird Shoppe is still out there, but I can't resurrect it, or find a way to add it to my Google account.

But I'm fine with that. My last post to that blog was in June 2007, practically a lifetime ago, and so much has happened since then.

When I wrote that last entry, my husband and I were living in a one-bedroom apartment in Southern California (with two cats). We were working at a newspaper. And I was crazily unhappy with things.

As of the start of this new blog, my husband and I are living in a three-bedroom house in Kansas City (with three cats and a dog). I'm working for a company that writes educational materials for insurance licensees and my husband is working as a medical assistant in a doctor's office. And, though there are ebbs and flows, I'm generally pretty happy with things. (And when I'm not happy, I still try to acknowledge how ridiculous it is to be unhappy WHEN I ACTUALLY HAVE A PRETTY FREAKING AWESOME LIFE.)

So, new blog for a new life.

And here's hoping that I can keep up this "blog entry a day" for the whole month. To be honest, I don't hold out much hope for myself. The only things I do every single day are

• Drink Diet Coke.
• Facebook.
• Make stupid jokes.